Topic: Anyone playing Silent Hunter III?

[J. Carney]

Has anyone else tried the starburst shells yet?

I did, hoping to set a takner afire after I ran out of other shells...

it don't work.

[The Bar-Abbas Anomaly]

Greatest.... Patrol....  EVER!


OK, ok.... I know what you're saying.  How good could it have been?  Well, on the surface (no pun) I didn't come home with 70,000 tonnes under my belt, but let me tell you why it was GREAT!

First, after one successful foray into the English Channel (no kills, but I did come home alive), the High Command decided to send me on three consecutive patrols either into or through the Channel.... On the third trip out I said "Screw this!  I'm goin' over the top!"  and sailed north around Scotland.  I bagged a couple of strays up there, came down between Ireland & Wales hiding from a couple of DDs & Patrol Craft and eventually outran a DD to my final patrol grid during which time I find out afterwards that my flak gunner bagged a pair of Hurricanes and I never realized.  That'll teach 'em!

Anywho, in my patrol grid I find a costal merchie and sink her with my deck gun & little effort, however it seems that the V&W DD I had been running from finally caught up with me.  I fire a dozen shells at her (of which most landed, I think) before submerging and playing cat-and-mouse for the next 45 minutes.  I wiffed on 7 or 8 torps (that 'spread' function is really cool!  It lets you miss with four torpedoes at once!) at which time I was thinking that this was a silly game and I was ready for bed.  Since I was outta torps, and I knew (thought) I was faster than her, I decided to surface and run for it while blasting her with my deck gun.

Well, part one went well enough, as I managed to surface and put the damage control team about fixing the deck gun damaged by the depth charges I had taken while the DD began raining fresh death upon us, and I started running....

The next couple of minutes are a little fuzzy, as everything seemed to be going really, REALLY fast (no, time compression was off!) but somehow this V&W starts CLOSING on me, rather than receding....  I dunno.  Engine damage?  I didn't have time to check.  I turned the boat and started screaming "RELOAD FASTER, YOU %$@#&-in' $#@^*& &^#@$%'s!!!"  Then she rammed me!  The B/!!!

...But, because of my hard turn it was only a glancing blow, and she scraped up along my side with the sound of metal-on-metal. 

Wondering why we weren't all dead yet, I grabbed my deck gunner, threw him into the drink and took his seat and started blasting the sucker at 4 metres....  I got off at least six shots before I realized that I STILL wasn't dead.

The a funny thing happened....  The DD, which was scraping my port side all to hell as she passed me stopped passing me.... Almost like she had come to a complete stop.  I hit her with four more shells before I realized....  SHE WAS GOING UNDER!!!

Take THAT you Capitalist PIGS!  Yeah, there's more where THAT came from!!!  I threw a couple more shells at her.

So I was down to 29% hull integrity, 0 torps and about 19 shells.  I formed the repair detail, and turned the boat towards the only remaining contact on my map.  It turned out to be a C2 cargo ship and I crossed her path about 1/2 hour later.  Most of my serious damage had been repaired so I closed and emptied my remaining 19 AP & HE shells into her belly.

Nothin'.  I had to finish her off with ~380 rounds from my 20mm AA gun!

Net:  About 25,000 tonnes & 2 aircraft.  One crewman dead (flak gunner from the aircraft bombardment - same way I lost my first one!).  I got a promotion.


Go me!!!

[Commander La'ra]

All I gotta say is....

...scratch one cruiser!  Scapa Flow isn't always empty!

[Brush Wolf]

I stopped into the local computer shop before work on Friday to price out a DVD-ROM drive. Boy have they come down in price, he quoted me $50.00 for a DVD-ROM and for only $8.00 more I am looking at a DVD burner. With luck I will terrorizing the Atlantic by the end of April or early May.

[manitoba1073]

looks like i wasnt the only one to stop at scapa flow.  lol u guys will love these pixs.  the only prob is i still have to get out alive.  but i will be offline for a few days too, due to i got my new house and get to move in today. 

[manitoba1073]

and more pixs   

[manitoba1073]

also i gave u guys a +1  la'ra  dracho and pope.  u guys are doing great too   

[J. Carney]

All I gotta say is....

...scratch one cruiser!  Scapa Flow isn't always empty!

You dirty bastage... ... +1 to you, you sneaky SOB!

Great kill. I'm going to play 'biker dude' this weekend, so i can't play but after finals are over in a couple of weeks I'll be back deep in it and trying for a shot at Gibralter and the Med Sqdn.

[Commander La'ra]

+1 Manitoba for the kill and the great pics.  I'd heard that there were heavies in Scapa occasionally on the Subsim forums, and I was hoping for a carrier or a BB myself. Cruiser was enough to make me cheer and holler and worry my neighbors though.

Thanks, Carney!  Getting in there was nailbiting.  I submerged just outside the little group of islands, went to silent-running and crawled into the main channel at three knots.  Took an hour since all the patrolling destroyers and corvettes were close enough to limit the use of time compression.  By the point that I was almost in (game time is was over about 9-10 hours, I think, could be less or more) my O2 was almost gone, and I ducked into that little channel west of the main one (the one with two exits into the main bay that, incidentally, is blocked by torpedo nets), surfaced, recharged and opened the hatches to let some fresh air in.  When I found the torpedo nets (thankfully before hitting them), I realized I'd have to go out into the main channel to finish the penetration (Heh Heh).  So I submerged again and spent another few hours game time creeping into the harbor itself.

I almost had a terrible moment of dissapointment when all I saw was buildings and lighthouses, but I noticed the cruiser sitting out in the bay....if it'd been nighttime (the sun had come up) I doubt I would've seen her.  Approached to about 1,000 yards and fired 2 impact detonated torpedos, aiming for just under her forward turrets and her smokestack, but the Brits have sharp lookouts and saw my fish coming their way.  They cranked up to nine knots, the two torps missed, and I fired the other two.  Both hit her in the stern, and she went down fast.

I don't know how the corvettes didn't find me, though I did stay quiet as a mouse.  I crept out the same way I came in, and it took just as long, though since I went out through the west, I managed to get clear of the islands without surfacing to ventilate.

I don't even want to think about what good ol' U-47 smelled like after all that.

[Just plain old Punisher]

Activate Kalvin Klein CK-SUB

[Jack Morris]

Ya'll are having WAY TOO MUCH FUN! WTG on the killer patrols, and penetrating Scapa Flow when capital ships are in the are!

[Dracho]

Sunset for the HMS C-3   

[Dracho]

Hmm... btw guys..82573 ton patrol   

[Commander La'ra]

Kick ass, Dracho! +1!

Were all those tankers single targets?

[Dracho]

No, the early ships were all singles that fell to my deck gun.  The tankers and the troop ship were in a convoy I ran smack into the middle of while trying to see what was in the straight of Gibralter.  The last C-2 was a straggler I found on the way out.  The 2 small merchants in CG95 were morons that ran in front of torpedo shots at a second troopship, which escaped due to a pesky Tribal class DD.

[Commander La'ra]

Here's the patrol results of my intrustion into Scapa Flow.  Not my best patrol, but one of my officers got the German Cross in Gold so it wasn't too bad.  Would've had another C3 on there, but two of my torpedos dudded and the third only alerted him to my presence.  He was armed, and since it was so story I'd ended up at 400 meters just so I could see him.  Can you say crash dive?

The last pic is from my current effort.  Thought it looked cool.

[The Bar-Abbas Anomaly]

 

How does one migrate the external reserve torpedoes into the launch tubes?


Also, when using the periscope or UZO, what is the little 'check' box next to the 'X' on the scratch pad in the top right for?  The 'X' erases the contact, but the check don't seem to do nuthin'....

[J. Carney]

How does one migrate the external reserve torpedoes into the launch tubes?


Also, when using the periscope or UZO, what is the little 'check' box next to the 'X' on the scratch pad in the top right for?  The 'X' erases the contact, but the check don't seem to do nuthin'....

You have to load them into the internal stores first. You just need enough guysin the torpedo room of your choice, then drop and drag.


No clue on the check box, unless it's for identification purposes.

[Dracho]

Click "I" to bring up the weapons management screen.  Grab an external torp and drop it on an internal reserve slot and it will mvoe into the cue.  As Carney said, make sure you have enough guys in the torpedo room to move it.  Putting the mouse over it should tell you how long.  If it always says "in Cue" manually move more guys to the torpedo room.


I think the check is for manually sending information to the TDC when using manual torpedo firing?  Is that the one you mean?

[The Bar-Abbas Anomaly]

 

Manually send the info to the TDC?  Yeah, that might be it....  I'm not ready for manual targeting yet, so it always appears that the info on the scratch-pad comes from the TDC when I ask the weapons officer for a solution, not the other way around.

'Nuther question about torpeD'ohs, as well....  Is there a shortcut to swap your entire load-out to a different model prior to a mission, or must you select the tube, double-click on the torpedo type you want and then click 'yes' for each one by hand?

...And while I'm askin', is there a shortcut for WE functions like Identify Target & Gimme a Solution, or are they always three-click processes as well?