Topic: Anyone playing Silent Hunter III?

[Commander La'ra]

Man, since I selected the 7th Flotilla at the start, I began my career of destruction in a Type VII.  I was really excited about the old-school campaign and hadn't bothered to do any of the single missions, so the Type VII was the only type of boat I've driven.  I always enjoyed the Type II's, but literally forgot about all the other boats on the game since I'm happy with my 'ol' reliable' U-47.

So, when Carney mentioned the Type IID, I loaded up a new career and picked 1st Flotilla.  Man do those things feel claustrophobic! I love that the captain's bunk is seperated from the control center by a mere curtain, and that the officers are jammed in so close it's hard to appreciate the hardware.

They even remembered that the conning tower on Type II's were free flood, and thus, you cannot climb up into them.  That's awesome!

[J. Carney]

Man, since I selected the 7th Flotilla at the start, I began my career of destruction in a Type VII.  I was really excited about the old-school campaign and hadn't bothered to do any of the single missions, so the Type VII was the only type of boat I've driven.  I always enjoyed the Type II's, but literally forgot about all the other boats on the game since I'm happy with my 'ol' reliable' U-47.

So, when Carney mentioned the Type IID, I loaded up a new career and picked 1st Flotilla.  Man do those things feel claustrophobic! I love that the captain's bunk is seperated from the control center by a mere curtain, and that the officers are jammed in so close it's hard to appreciate the hardware.

They even remembered that the conning tower on Type II's were free flood, and thus, you cannot climb up into them.  That's awesome!

I LOVE the IID's.

They have more gas than me after Mexican food.
They can change direction faster than Kerry's opinion.
They go down faster than a drunk sorority girl at a party.

The only drawback is NO DECK GUN. If you had a good 88mm, you could average 3 or 4 ships per patrol instead of 1 or 2.  Even with just a twin 40mm, you could sink a lot of the coastal merchies, trawlers and tugboats that you encounter!

Too bad that you can't make a 'custom varriant' on that game... I'd have a IID that would rock, ESPECIALLY after the introduction of the FAT's and Homing torps. 3 FATS for convoy duty and a pair of homers for pesky escorts- THAT would be the ticket, especially if I could put a twin 30mm oon there to hose those darn trawlers with.

[Dracho]

First Cruise, first kill.. 6300 ton cargo ship 

[manitoba1073]

another 2 freighters sent to the bottom   

[manitoba1073]

oh yeah im also finding it much more easier to mod too.
http://forums.ubi.com/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=400102&f=9091085392&m=9141098692
http://dhost.info/seeadler/
http://www.subsim.com/ssr/tip_sh3.html
http://www.subsim.com/subsim_files/patches.html#sh3_360map
http://www.subsim.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=30513
http://forums.ubi.com/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=400102&f=857101043&m=3021013792

just a few things i found so far

[manitoba1073]

whoowee

[Dracho]

I found what must have been a 10,000 ton cargo ship last night and pumped 4 torps into her (2 spares were duds).. Wench was sitting low in the water  churning 0 knots.  I finally gave up and went back to port when the plane and destroyer she must have called in arrived.  The hateful abomination never did sink.

[Dracho]

Would you fellow captains care for a little... contest?

We pick a class of ship and the first captain back with a periscope shot and cruise summary verifying the kill wins?

What would be first?  And should it only be warships, or maybe start with an 8,000 ton merchant vessel?

[manitoba1073]

sounds good to me, lol   which one be it,    my vote  is for the illustrious class carrier.

[Dracho]

Well, I was thinking we'd start small and work up to the Prime targets.  If you go straight for the top, it's not as much fun..

[Jack Morris]

Regardless of playing a German based sub sim, I might add that the Kreigsmarine had more honor than other branches of the service. The reason for unrestricted warfare? Well, duh, they used to help the wounded and made sure the ships were evacuated before sinking them, until somebody radioed their position, or worse took a shot at them, screw that, I'd be hitting them from under the water too!

[J. Carney]

Regardless of playing a German based sub sim, I might add that the Kreigsmarine had more honor than other branches of the service. The reason for unrestricted warfare? Well, duh, they used to help the wounded and made sure the ships were evacuated before sinking them, until somebody radioed their position, or worse took a shot at them, screw that, I'd be hitting them from under the water too!

No joke. The guys at BdU were hardly the monsters that they are portrayed to be by some. Karl Donitz hated Hitler and the Nazis. IIRC, he was in (alibeit distantly) on one or two of the plots to kill him.

Donitz also advocated picking up survivors not until attacks became common, but until Hitler told him to do it 'or else.' By that time, of course... everyone knew what 'or else' meant.

Even then, he never went as far as Nimitz and ordered the shooting of survivors in the water.

[J. Carney]

AS for the contest, you name the ship... and I'll be on the lookout.

BTW has anyone else tried a port infiltration? I haven't since I went into the Firth of Forth (pre-patch) but I still wasn't seeing warships in the ports, and some posts on the UBI boards are saying htat they are there.

[Dracho]

With the patch, sink a ship within 1-2 grids of England, and you'll find a warship.. and an airplane.. and a...

[J. Carney]

With the patch, sink a ship within 1-2 grids of England, and you'll find a warship.. and an airplane.. and a...

ROFFL... I noticed that the frequency of DD's and air assets were increased dramatically after the patch.

Whati want is to start seeing cruiser or better hulls in the ports.

I worked DAMN hard to get into Scapa Flow, and all I got a shot at was the patroling Hunt I's and I was in there for TWO DAYS!!!

[Musashi NCC-BR549]

Is this a killer game OR WHAT!

Ran through the channel last night ....... lotsa badguys ........ very spooky ....  smoked a couple of tincans that got too close.

Later that same mission, I hid deep and then popped up to periscope depth in the middle of a convoy SW of Ireland ....  2 fat tankers in the middle of the pack .... I shot torpedoes in all directions, dived below 60, and ran a parallel course inside the convoy to keep the tincans away and reloaded all tubes .... then popped up and did it again  (it's tougher to hit 'em the second pass... they zig-zag on ya) ....... Anyway, I hit 4 or 5 ships total ..... I ended up sinking only one stinking tanker (3 fish).... mauled the other tanker .... pooped my diaper when I cut it a little close and dived under a damaged ship   .... (8% damage and a nasty bump on the head) .... God, that was fun!

Next time, I'll go for cripples ONLY on the second pass.  

Hugs and kisses,

UnderseeMush

[oldmanken]

This is what I like about SH3...it brings the fun back into the sim genre.  It's exciting and nerve racking at the same time and I love it.  I really look forward to any expansions they plan, be it either a pacific based one, or allowing control of destroyers and corvettes (ala Destroyer Command, yet not sh*tty).

I'm a big fan of the IL-2 Sturmovik series of flight sims, but that design team can learn a few things concerning fun and atmosphere from the SH3 crew.

[Grim]

Just got my student loan in after being broke for ages, seriously tempted to get this game

[Jack Morris]

Get it Grim, I've seen previews, and I used to play SH2 and it was badarse to say the least. NONE of the SFC games could touch their graphics engines. Some of the coolest graphics I saw was when fighters had radar and attacked my boat at night while I was on the surface, all I could hear was the ack-ack-ack of my gunners with their AA guns and lighting up the gun towers and sky!

[Dracho]

I had one last fish left when I fired this shot on the way back to Germany.  It's a 5000 ton C2 cargo ship, and it must have been a perfect hit, as it broke the keel..