Topic: Anyone playing Silent Hunter III? (Read 76030 times)

Brush Wolf · « **Reply #320 on:** June 14, 2005, 01:49:52 am »

Here is a sad, sad sight. Notice the 10:41 message and the dress of my watch officer.

For anyone that doesn't know that is the submariner's dream the T3 tanker which I just torpedoed with my last torpedo. I followed him for awhile in the vain hope that the weather would moderate so I could man the deck gun and finish him off. I did end up with my first 50k patrol though.

Commander La'ra · « **Reply #321 on:** June 14, 2005, 09:26:13 am »

Nice patrol, Brush Wolf. +1.

Jack Morris · « **Reply #322 on:** June 14, 2005, 11:03:35 am »

plus 1 Brush! Wow, only Jan 1940 and you are already in a type VIIB? I did not get mine until after my 5th patrol, but then again I came up empty on one of them before I got a decent boat as they sent my ex-dugout canoe to the furthest point it could go with only a lil bit of fuel to spare not once, but twice!

Currently in Scapa Flow in a heavy, heavy storm and I put a torp into an aux. cruiser and am waiting for the weather to clear so that I can look for a cpaital ship before going merchant hunting elsewhere (If I can make it out of Scapa Flow alive as the destroyers are KILLER on patch 3).

Side note: How do you people take photos of your screenshots and save them and then post them here? Maybe I can find that Illustrious class CV and take a photo of her getting slammed by a full spread of torps.

Dracho · « **Reply #323 on:** June 14, 2005, 11:10:34 am »

I press PrintScrn, then open MS Paint and press ctrl-v to paste. Then, crop and save as a .jpg

Inquiry · « **Reply #324 on:** June 14, 2005, 01:52:11 pm »

Demo. Is there one?

Jack Morris · « **Reply #325 on:** June 14, 2005, 03:14:37 pm »

Not as far as I can tell Inquiry, but take it for what it is worth, it is simply STUNNING in detail. I do get bored with it sometimes, but it is not the games fault, it's just that you can literally spend 1-2 hours real time doing a patrol, or in my case at Scapa Flow, a lot more time as weather is a beetch right now and I'm NOT leaving without bagging something!

I'm already looking at buying Pacific Fighters from Ubisoft as I'm a naval warfare fan, and it would give me a break from a frustrating patrol.

Brush Wolf · « **Reply #326 on:** June 14, 2005, 03:31:24 pm »

I was very lucky on my first three patrols Jack, nice targets including C2's and a small tanker. That torpedo shot was a real bummer as it took a lot of work to get into position as my last torp was in the stern tube. My next patrol is back up to the Scapa Flow region in AN26 so repeating my be a problem.

IAF Lyrkiller · « **Reply #327 on:** June 15, 2005, 12:37:32 am »

You guys make me sick.

i guess i am going to have to start over and hit Scapa flow tonight.

I have had only one patrol even close to 50K.GGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jack Morris · « **Reply #328 on:** June 16, 2005, 09:11:23 am »

Just be careful Cayne, I do not know how the AI was on patch one or two, but on three those enemy escorts DO NOT PLAY. I somehow managed to find 2 aux CAs and the Illustrious and they found me so I parked just below the surface by an aux CA (the other one is torpedoed but the ship only went down so far as the water is not deep) and the planes keep coming and the escorts are there just waiting for me to make a move. Too bad they put my stern torps out of action, there is a V&W destroyer parked to my rear going 2 frigging knots! I might start a new campaign though as I'm kind of bogged down in the Flow.

Oh yeah, if you can, enter Scapa from the right hand side, south has too many DDs patrolling and the water is not deep in some places, also use the weather for entering and exiting, storms are perfect but you will have to hang tight in the Flow until it clears. I've also noticed the Brit fleet always tends to hang out in the same area in the Flow.

Brush Wolf · « **Reply #329 on:** June 19, 2005, 04:29:43 pm »

This ship must have been loaded with wood. In the first picture I had already shot two torpedoes with the second being a dud so I had surfaced so I could keep up with him. I then ran flank speed to get back into position and the next torpedo was another dud! Ok, we have two more torpedoes so this isn't over yet so I swing around and race back into a firing position and this one, number four hits home and he was still afloat although some of his deck cargo had started burning. I decide to pace him for awhile to see if the damage was fatal and after an hour I am getting pissed so I go and put my last fish into him resulting in the rather pleasing result in the third and forth pictures.

Commander La'ra · « **Reply #330 on:** June 20, 2005, 06:01:10 am »

C2's have a tendency to do that. I take 'em out with the deck gun if I can. I've had better luck with them lately after someone on the Subsim forum posted that they were weaker in the aft...been aiming just behind the bridge superstructure with magnetic detonated torpedos set about a meter below their keel.

Still takes two torpedos most of the time though, which puzzles me. I can sink a much bigger C3 with a single torp consistently.

Brush Wolf · « **Reply #331 on:** June 20, 2005, 03:35:47 pm »

I like to use the deck gun on them myself however, the union rules stop them from manning the damn thing in winds much over 10 knots. Yet they will manhandle a two ton torpedo out of the external storage in a 50 knot gale, go figure. Speaking of gales I got into my first convoy in one on a dark, dark moonless night.

The Bar-Abbas Anomaly · « **Reply #332 on:** June 20, 2005, 09:45:53 pm »

Quote from: Brush Wolf on June 20, 2005, 03:35:47 pm

I like to use the deck gun on them myself however, the union rules stop them from manning the damn thing in winds much over 10 knots. Yet they will manhandle a two ton torpedo out of the external storage in a 50 knot gale, go figure. Speaking of gales I got into my first convoy in one on a dark, dark moonless night.

Obviously, deck gunners belong to a better union than torpedomen....

manitoba1073 · « **Reply #333 on:** June 20, 2005, 10:36:03 pm »

i dont know my damn tropedoe men must be in the same union as ur deckgunners cause i cant get them to bring in my external torps.

Brush Wolf · « **Reply #334 on:** June 21, 2005, 04:22:21 am »

Quote from: manitoba1073 on June 20, 2005, 10:36:03 pm

i dont know my damn tropedoe men must be in the same union as ur deckgunners cause i cant get them to bring in my external torps.

Make sure that you have enough men in the torpedo room that the external torpedo is for. Then bring up the weapons management screen and drag the external torp into an empty slot.

Jack Morris · « **Reply #335 on:** June 21, 2005, 04:53:17 pm »

Yeah, I find that strange too, they load in any weather, but no deck gun.

BTW, I had a beautiful cruise through Scapa in my new career, there were the aux CAs as expected, entered from the right flawlessly, and the DDs and Flower corvette were WAY far from the course, matter of fact, one DD parked nearby at 0 knots after searching so I greeted it with a torpedo, it missed, but the sucker exploded right below it! It got to 15 knots then settled by the stern. I would have bagged 2 aux CAs and a DD plus merchants on the way in except I did not pay attention to flooding in my stern torpedo room.

I have also noticed that if you do NOT achieve your primary and secondary goals, you only bag 100 or more points vs 500, no matter if you hit ships along the way.

2 things I dislike about SH3 vs SH2, crew management (is for the birds, not a daring C.O. like me) and in SH2 if you went full or flank for too long, your diesels could become damaged and need repairs. Damage to engines VERY bad for subs says Miyagi.

All in all a very outstanding game though.

J.C. before it took me the 5 patrols to get my 7 boat, this time 6, even though I sank more ships, but they are smoking crack if they think I'm going to try to take a dugout to AN16 in a dugout canoe in the early year of the war, that's for the type 7 boats!

J. Carney · « **Reply #336 on:** June 21, 2005, 05:11:41 pm »

Quote from: Jack Morris on June 21, 2005, 04:53:17 pm

J.C. before it took me the 5 patrols to get my 7 boat, this time 6, even though I sank more ships, but they are smoking crack if they think I'm going to try to take a dugout to AN16 in a dugout canoe in the early year of the war, that's for the type 7 boats!

LOL... my first foray into AN16 was a pre-patch trip in a IID. Luckilly all that was there when I got in was a tug. On the way out, I decided to make it not there any more. Had it been an AuxCruiser, I'd have probably spent therest of the war chilling in a prison camp in Scotland.

manitoba1073 · « **Reply #337 on:** June 21, 2005, 10:32:16 pm »

Quote from: Brush Wolf on June 21, 2005, 04:22:21 am

Quote from: manitoba1073 on June 20, 2005, 10:36:03 pm
i dont know my damn tropedoe men must be in the same union as ur deckgunners cause i cant get them to bring in my external torps.

Make sure that you have enough men in the torpedo room that the external torpedo is for. Then bring up the weapons management screen and drag the external torp into an empty slot.

i have more than enough crew.

Jack Morris · « **Reply #338 on:** June 22, 2005, 07:19:15 am »

If you are in a 7 boat, I ALWAYS max out the crew forward and put an officer in charge as well, I've had it almost to full green status! A word of warning, it takes a while, and the crew does get tired easily with torps work for some reason.

Brush Wolf · « **Reply #339 on:** June 22, 2005, 03:36:52 pm »

You also have to drag the external torpedo to an empty slot at the same end of the boat.

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