What kind of subsim skipper are you?

[meduza]

HARDCORE SUBSIM SKIPPER

No doubt about it, you are hardcore. You are the kind of subsim player who pins up the Kriegsmarine gridmap on your wall, you use a redlamp when playing at night, your wife lets you know her mother is visiting by shouting "Alarm!" and you didn't know--or care--that Silent Hunter III has a save game feature. You cut your teeth plotting attacks in Gato, sank 28,000 tons in your first Aces of the Deep patrol, and played Dangerous Waters at 100% realism. You scoff at wannabes who whine about some niggling detail in a subsim but use the red triangle-infested auto TDC and auto-map updates. You never, ever, use anything but full realism.
You are the "sim" in Subsim.

[Highbury]

ROLE-PLAYING SUBSIM SKIPPER

Your taste in sub and naval games runs the gamut from Grey Wolf to Silent Hunter 4. You have tried them all, at varying realism options. You're a lit-tle old-er than the typical subsim skipper, and probably remember using a tape cassette player to load programs onto your Radio Shack TRS-80. (Or perhaps you're wise beyond your years.) Your primary joy is using your imagination to put yourself into the game. You are able to overlook little details like the crew appearing instantly on the bridge, or wonky AI: to you, these are easily worked into the story as a crew who are really light on their feet, and frigates that have green skippers. The game platform gets you halfway there, your imagination does the rest. You spend lots of time setting up your crew management so it's just right and may even talk to them. You relish managing support and logistics in games like Pacific Storm, Navy Field, and Silent War.

It even knows about my old TRS-80 and CLOAD cassettes! Witchcraft!!

[Weiss Pinguin]

HARDCORE SUBSIM SKIPPER

No doubt about it, you are hardcore. You are the kind of subsim player who pins up the Kriegsmarine gridmap on your wall, you use a redlamp when playing at night, your wife lets you know her mother is visiting by shouting "Alarm!" and you didn't know--or care--that Silent Hunter III has a save game feature. You cut your teeth plotting attacks in Gato, sank 28,000 tons in your first Aces of the Deep patrol, and played Dangerous Waters at 100% realism. You scoff at wannabes who whine about some niggling detail in a subsim but use the red triangle-infested auto TDC and auto-map updates. You never, ever, use anything but full realism.

You are the "sim" in Subsim.

True about DW, but when it comes to Silent Hunter I think I'm more on the casual end of the scale

The questions were fun though!

[Kaye T. Bai]

I was pleased with my results. I certainly am a NUKE SUBSIM SKIPPER. SSNs FTW! Nothing like wireguiding an ADCAP onto a sorry sucker.

NUKE SUBSIM SKIPPER


"Periscopes are for wimps. Let's face it, any snapperhead can bring a WWII subsim to periscope depth, lock onto the red triangle and plug away. Real men never get closer than 8000 yards to their target. Your subsim of choice is made by a company in Waterford, Conn. You thrive on complex Target-Motion Analysis equations, deciphering broadband contacts, and gauging ESM signal strength. You are paler than Siberian stripper and proud of it. You long for the day you can take your Seawolf class nuke into an online game against a whole fleet of Type VIICs. One ADCAP equals 'make my day'."

[scorpiondown]

STRATEGIC SUBSIM SKIPPER
For you, Silent Hunter 4 is just Battleship with shiny, moving pieces. You see the big picture, you think long term, and you are indifferent to political consequences. They would not have put you in charge of a $2 billion attack sub if they didn't want you to use it. You learned that back in Red Storm Rising and you never forgot. You prefer handling large scale operations like Fleet Command and Fighting Steel. Half your time is spent setting up mind-numbingly complex battle plans, with 8 layers of contingencies. You pray for the day Sonalysts will release a ballistic missile sub. With nukes. Every day is a good day for the other side to die. Your motto is "Be my friend or be a mushroom cloud."

Love those mushroom clouds!!! "where,s Major Kong?"
YEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAWWWWWW!!!!
(BEST movie EVER!!!!)

[mauser_792]

HARDCORE SUBSIM SKIPPER

[STEED]

HARDCORE SUBSIM SKIPPER
No doubt about it, you are hardcore. You are the kind of subsim player who pins up the Kriegsmarine gridmap on your wall, you use a redlamp when playing at night, your wife lets you know her mother is visiting by shouting "Alarm!" and you didn't know--or care--that Silent Hunter III has a save game feature. You cut your teeth plotting attacks in Gato, sank 28,000 tons in your first Aces of the Deep patrol, and played Dangerous Waters at 100% realism. You scoff at wannabes who whine about some niggling detail in a subsim but use the red triangle-infested auto TDC and auto-map updates. You never, ever, use anything but full realism.

You are the "sim" in Subsim.

I'm not to sure as I have been known to do a Wolf from the Star Trek film First Contact, out of ells no ammo half the crew slaughtered U-Boat about to go up in smoke. Perhaps today is a good day to die...RAMMING SPEED! Straight at a escort destroyer.

[Elektroniikka-Asentaja]

CASUAL SUBSIM SKIPPER
You fell in love with Aces of the Deep. Your playing style is relaxed, more for fun than historical accuracy. You always play Sub Command or Dangerous Waters from the NavMap (rightclick is your friend), if you ever ventured to play them at all. Probably you prefer WWII subsims like Silent Hunter 3, SH4 and Aces. You may try the manual TDC, but you prefer to leave the auto map contacts on, (blank maps scare you). Even though you know submarine skippers missed targets occasionally in real life, you cannot resist reloading a mission to take another shot at a 10,000-tonne troopship that got away. One ship, one torpedo, finished off with the deck gun--that's the creed you live by

I'd say this is scary, how did they know all that?

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Elektroniikka-Asentaja

I'd say this is scary, how did they know all that?

We can look back through your computer and see everything you do. If you wear headphones we know everything you think.

[19Herr_Rapp86]

HARDCORE SUBSIM SKIPPER
No doubt about it, you are hardcore. You are the kind of subsim player who pins up the Kriegsmarine gridmap on your wall (I do have one actually) [IMG] [/IMG] you use a redlamp when playing at night (I have to get a new one, the bulb blew! And blue for battlestations ), your wife lets you know her mother is visiting by shouting "Alarm!" and you didn't know--or care--that Silent Hunter III has a save game feature. You cut your teeth plotting attacks in Gato, sank 28,000 tons in your first Aces of the Deep patrol, and played Dangerous Waters at 100% realism. You scoff at wannabes who whine about some niggling detail in a subsim but use the red triangle-infested auto TDC and auto-map updates. You never, ever, use anything but full realism.

You are the "sim" in Subsim.

[S-13]

NUKE SUBSIM SKIPPER

Which is fairly accurate, except I wouldn't be carrying Ballistic Missiles, I'd be a Nuclear Attack vessel, like the K-162 fast and deadly.

[FlaGuitars]

Hardcore SubSim Skipper.

[Raptor22ADF]

HARDCORE SUBSIM SKIPPER No doubt about it, you are hardcore. You are the kind of subsim player who pins up the Kriegsmarine gridmap on your wall, you use a redlamp when playing at night, your wife lets you know her mother is visiting by shouting "Alarm!" and you didn't know--or care--that Silent Hunter III has a save game feature. You cut your teeth plotting attacks in Gato, sank 28,000 tons in your first Aces of the Deep patrol, and played Dangerous Waters at 100% realism. You scoff at wannabes who whine about some niggling detail in a subsim but use the red triangle-infested auto TDC and auto-map updates. You never, ever, use anything but full realism.

Gato I played, but not the other ones. SH4 w/U-Boat for me.

[kartengruppe]

see my collection...
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Nr. 1190G - Quadratkarte
Nordblatt - KAP FARVEL BIS NOWAJA SEMLJA
1:3.500.000, 1943, Klasse N-8l.I, 125 x 40,5 cm

Nr. 1864G N-Blatt - Quadratkarte
DIE NORDSEE (with Scapa Flow)
1:600.000, 1940 (su modello 1937), 86 x 139 cm

Nr. 1926G - Quadratkarte
Ägäisches Meer, Südlicher Teil (with Kreta)
1:600.000, 1942 VI, 78 x 110 cm

[Sailor Steve]

Overkill. A simple link would have sufficed.