Need Some advice for Potentially my last U-boat career

[Kaptain Schlag]

Hey everyone, I'm going off to college in a few weeks without access to a desktop, however I really want to partake in a great SH3 career experience. I have not made it past 1941 in any full career, and ideally would like to partake in some late war survival as well as explore the globe. I simply ask, what starting date and what theater should I choose for potentially my last career for at least 6 months possibly forever.

thanks for any input

[sublynx]

Originally Posted by Kaptain Schlag

Hey everyone, I'm going off to college in a few weeks without access to a desktop, however I really want to partake in a great SH3 career experience. I have not made it past 1941 in any full career, and ideally would like to partake in some late war survival as well as explore the globe. I simply ask, what starting date and what theater should I choose for potentially my last career for at least 6 months possibly forever.

thanks for any input

Well, first I'd like to remind you of a Bart Simpson quote: "Stay at school, otherwise you have go to work, man". On a bit more serious note, buy a cheap laptop with a 512 MB graphics card and it will run SH3+GWX. It's easy to carry one to college and back. When your back at your desktop after college you can then run the laptop beside your game and sling bull here in the forums while stalking that convoy

However, to your question, where to survive and see the globe - I think the Indian ocean might offer you both. I understand the Indian Ocean has somewhat less convoys and more single shipping and less airplanes - that's a ticket to becoming a celebrated war veteran, not just a name in a memorial, and that's where Wolfgang Lüth got his Knight's cross late in war. You can also mod GWX so that it only loads traffic in the Indian Ocean, so that you'll have more valuable game time and less waiting.

Choose 33rd Flottille, U-862, type IXD2. Starting date May 1944.

[Jimbuna]

^ Sound advice

[Kaptain Schlag]

Thanks for the advice. As I do have time to run a slight longer career provided I spend more time on it, would it be worth running a career in the Atlantic from say 1943 or so, just to experience the hard times in the Atlantic too?

As to the advice on staying in school, sound advice, I go to the University of Michigan, and am certainly not ready to enter the work force in the capacity I would like to.

[sublynx]

Originally Posted by Kaptain Schlag

Thanks for the advice. As I do have time to run a slight longer career provided I spend more time on it, would it be worth running a career in the Atlantic from say 1943 or so, just to experience the hard times in the Atlantic too?

I have once struggled almost through 1943 just to get DC'd dead in November 1943. Never got the chance to experience patrolling with a snorchel equipped boat or a better radar warning apparatus. 1943 was definitely an experience - a bad one, but if you have enough time, go for it. If you use a slow TC, 128, you'll experience the change from being the hunter to being the hunted. The airplanes fly in like wasps to a rotten piece of meat. I hate 1943 - but I do miss the challenge and the nervousness of surfacing a boat, knowing that there might be an airplane over me, that I just couldn't see, however hard I did try to spot it in the observation periscope.

[maillemaker]

Well, I don't know what kind of time you have available to dedicate to a career, but I've never had a "quick" SH3 career.

I've made it as far as 1943.

Steve

[Miltiades]

Does it gradually become harder towards 1943?
Or are you thrown into it?

[STEED]

Jan 42 IXC

Sail over to the Caribbean and sink US Tankers, easy to start with but latter on them damn blimps are a pain and the escorts have learnt there lesson by June 42.

[TheFizz77]

Hey Kaptain Schlag, GO BLUE!!!!!!

[sublynx]

Originally Posted by Miltiades

Does it gradually become harder towards 1943?
Or are you thrown into it?

If your lucky, you'll experience it as a sudden shock, just like it was historically, black May of 1943 - over 40 U-boats lost in one month. But it depends a lot on your orders and luck. If you patrol distant areas with lots of single traffic with no air cover and then suddenly in mid 1943 get orders to patrol the Western Approaches near air bases with lots of convoy traffic, it can feel quite sudden. At least that is what I felt at the time.

[scottj63]

as a person who grew up in Michigan, LETS GO BLUE.........

secondly education is very overrated. I never had education and I make 6 figures a year, true I get shot at (and hit a couple times) lol. Ok, stay in school don't be like me.

My daughters always gave me flak about them being in college. They would always hit me with "Daddy, you never went to school and look how much money you make" and I told them "Yes, you are right, and me and your mom are divorced and I have been "dead" making this money, so keep your asses in school so you dont ever have to do this also". My oldest now works for the government and my baby is a senior this year.

Scottj63

[Miltiades]

Originally Posted by sublynx

If your lucky, you'll experience it as a sudden shock, just like it was historically, black May of 1943 - over 40 U-boats lost in one month. But it depends a lot on your orders and luck. If you patrol distant areas with lots of single traffic with no air cover and then suddenly in mid 1943 get orders to patrol the Western Approaches near air bases with lots of convoy traffic, it can feel quite sudden. At least that is what I felt at the time.

Same story for the Mediterranean?

[sublynx]

Originally Posted by Miltiades

Same story for the Mediterranean?

I would think the Mediterranean is tougher than the Atlantic all the time, more air planes, smaller convoys, shallow waters, but I wouldn't know because I haven't played a campaign there yet.

[Kaptain Schlag]

GO BLUE FIZZ and scottj!

scottj- luckily I would never serve in the military
A. because im staying in school
B. because my vision isn't good enough, lol--if there was a draft it might be a different story.

thanks for serving! and while I might be out of place talking as if Im out of college, its nice to see other parents holding their kids to high standards, unlike many.