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nightdagger
12-24-06, 09:04 PM
Guess where BdU sent me to patrol? AM95. For those of you without a map handy, that's in the Irish sea, equidistant from the outlets. Seriously, once I got a coastal merchant, there were hourly air patrols, plus around 5 destroyers (I sunk 2) and Elco boats. I thought Donitz wanted the u-boats to survive.

peterloo
12-24-06, 09:45 PM
Yep. You can oppose its orders if u thinks that he had gone MAD

Your career won't END if you oppose Bdu orders in SH3. Opposing them will only decrease the renown you got in that particular patrol.

Also, you may use SH3 commander to change the patrol grid

Kpt. Lehmann
12-24-06, 10:05 PM
Yep. You can oppose its orders if u thinks that he had gone MAD

Your career won't END if you oppose Bdu orders in SH3. Opposing them will only decrease the renown you got in that particular patrol.

Also, you may use SH3 commander to change the patrol grid

Believe it or not (if you are playing using the GWX mod) your patrol grids are historically correct... even the ones in shallow water.

AVGWarhawk
12-24-06, 10:17 PM
Yep. You can oppose its orders if u thinks that he had gone MAD

Your career won't END if you oppose Bdu orders in SH3. Opposing them will only decrease the renown you got in that particular patrol.

Also, you may use SH3 commander to change the patrol grid

Believe it or not (if you are playing using the GWX mod) your patrol grids are historically correct... even the ones in shallow water.

NO MAN.....SHALLOW WATERS=DEATH! I'M NOT GOING AND THAT IS FINAL!

Letum
12-24-06, 11:43 PM
Yep. You can oppose its orders if u thinks that he had gone MAD

Your career won't END if you oppose Bdu orders in SH3. Opposing them will only decrease the renown you got in that particular patrol.

Also, you may use SH3 commander to change the patrol grid
Believe it or not (if you are playing using the GWX mod) your patrol grids are historically correct... even the ones in shallow water.
Not allways! I got send to a shallow water grid neer scapa flow. That would have been fine....but I was in a Type IXC :doh:
Bdu would never send a IX to coastal wayers like that in '42

The Munster
12-25-06, 02:06 AM
Guess where BdU sent me to patrol? AM95. For those of you without a map handy, that's in the Irish sea, equidistant from the outlets. Seriously, once I got a coastal merchant, there were hourly air patrols, plus around 5 destroyers (I sunk 2) and Elco boats. I thought Donitz wanted the u-boats to survive.

nightdagger, you should kick off a 'the worst Grid I was assigned to and why' thread. Mine was at the Isle of Man [can't remember the number now as it was with GW] = horrible experience !

Jimbuna
12-25-06, 06:24 AM
Can't remember my grid number either...but it was in mainland Spain :oops: :damn:

Hylander_1314
12-25-06, 11:54 AM
Worst one, area around the Thames Estuary, in a IXC...........

Talk about being a sitting duck! I think the civilian population were firing potato guns at us too!

Safe-Keeper
12-25-06, 02:07 PM
Worst one here was off of Scottland. 500 metres from shore I spotted a horde of screaming men in kilts wielding longswords running into the water for my boat. I crash-dived and they went after me and almost managed to slice open my pressure hull.

They at last gave up on me when we had submerged all the way down to 300 metres.

Seriously, though, the worst one was the one that required me to go from La Spezia almost all the way to Gibraltar. Needless to say they took me down:cry:.

Jimbuna
12-25-06, 03:20 PM
Worst one here was off of Scottland. 500 metres from shore I spotted a horde of screaming men in kilts wielding longswords running into the water for my boat. I crash-dived and they went after me and almost managed to slice open my pressure hull.

They at last gave up on me when we had submerged all the way down to 300 metres.

:rotfl: :rotfl: PRICELESS:rotfl: :rotfl:

gdogghenrikson
12-25-06, 05:34 PM
Guess where BdU sent me to patrol? AM95. For those of you without a map handy, that's in the Irish sea, equidistant from the outlets. Seriously, once I got a coastal merchant, there were hourly air patrols, plus around 5 destroyers (I sunk 2) and Elco boats. I thought Donitz wanted the u-boats to survive.


well that is a great area to patrol early in the war!

DCdodger
12-26-06, 12:48 PM
That Dönitz is a dungbrain. Since the US entered the war he keeps sending me over the atlantic pond with my VIIC boat. If i travel "1/3 fahrt voraus" i have just enough fuel to complete the patrol and reach a milkcow. (strange... if i visit a cow before completing my mission, the orders disappear.)

The best grid was CA28 (NY). When submerged to PD i had about 2-3 metres under my keel. And the place was swarming with destroyers and those annoying speedboats. But the destroyers seemed deaf and blind. Sank a merchant and 2 of the destroyers and sneaked away unharmed.

Jimbuna
12-26-06, 01:03 PM
That Dönitz is a dungbrain. Since the US entered the war he keeps sending me over the atlantic pond with my VIIC boat. If i travel "1/3 fahrt voraus" i have just enough fuel to complete the patrol and reach a milkcow. (strange... if i visit a cow before completing my mission, the orders disappear.)

The best grid was CA28 (NY). When submerged to PD i had about 2-3 metres under my keel. And the place was swarming with destroyers and those annoying speedboats. But the destroyers seemed deaf and blind. Sank a merchant and 2 of the destroyers and sneaked away unharmed.

After leaving a milchcow you will get a 'NULL' patrol grid :yep: I just continue to where I was ordered to go prior to 'docking' :up:

Paajtor
12-26-06, 06:37 PM
I'm playing from Bergen '42, and my 1st and 2nd patrol both send me to AJ-38, which is just S of Greenland. That's a long journey, for a typeVIIC, with not much room for side-quests.
So I used SH3Commander, to give me a - still historical - different grid, and I picked AE-63 :D That's halfway between Norway and Iceland. It covers the Murmansk-England route, but it's known for it's very unpredictable weather, and on top of that enemy task-forces are always around the corner.
And it's just within the reach of the Allied air-coverage.
Love it!

Can't remember my grid number either...but it was in mainland Spain :oops: :damn: Ahh, I remember this bug...just after SH3 was released, right?

Jimbuna
12-26-06, 07:54 PM
I'm not 100%...but I think it was something like CG38 or 62 :hmm:

irish1958
12-27-06, 12:11 PM
Yep. You can oppose its orders if u thinks that he had gone MAD

Your career won't END if you oppose Bdu orders in SH3. Opposing them will only decrease the renown you got in that particular patrol.

Also, you may use SH3 commander to change the patrol grid
Believe it or not (if you are playing using the GWX mod) your patrol grids are historically correct... even the ones in shallow water.
NO MAN.....SHALLOW WATERS=DEATH! I'M NOT GOING AND THAT IS FINAL! Attention: New Orders KptLt AVGWarhawk you are to report immediately to Rustov on the Don and lead a group of three commandos to Moscow to assassinate Comrad Stalin. Do not return unless you are successful. BDU (That will teach you to ******* with BDU!!)

elite_hunter_sh3
12-27-06, 12:21 PM
Yep. You can oppose its orders if u thinks that he had gone MAD

Your career won't END if you oppose Bdu orders in SH3. Opposing them will only decrease the renown you got in that particular patrol.

Also, you may use SH3 commander to change the patrol grid
Believe it or not (if you are playing using the GWX mod) your patrol grids are historically correct... even the ones in shallow water.
NO MAN.....SHALLOW WATERS=DEATH! I'M NOT GOING AND THAT IS FINAL! Attention: New Orders KptLt AVGWarhawk you are to report immediately to Rustov on the Don and lead a group of three commandos to Moscow to assassinate Comrad Stalin. Do not return unless you are successful. BDU (That will teach you to ******* with BDU!!)
LMFAO
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:: rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

that was priceless :up:

mookiemookie
12-27-06, 12:30 PM
Yep. You can oppose its orders if u thinks that he had gone MAD

Your career won't END if you oppose Bdu orders in SH3. Opposing them will only decrease the renown you got in that particular patrol.

Also, you may use SH3 commander to change the patrol grid
Believe it or not (if you are playing using the GWX mod) your patrol grids are historically correct... even the ones in shallow water.
NO MAN.....SHALLOW WATERS=DEATH! I'M NOT GOING AND THAT IS FINAL! Attention: New Orders KptLt AVGWarhawk you are to report immediately to Rustov on the Don and lead a group of three commandos to Moscow to assassinate Comrad Stalin. Do not return unless you are successful. BDU (That will teach you to ******* with BDU!!)

Your equipment loadout for your mission is as follows:

One (1) Luger with two (2) bullets. One for Comrade Stalin, and one for yourself after your mission is accomplished. You really don't ******* with BdU :arrgh!:

Best patrol grid = most any of the eastern AM grids you're assigned. The Irish channel is TEEMING with tonnage. Of course there's the small matter of DD and Elco patrols, not to mention the hourly plane patrols. But hey, nobody said war was easy!

Actually, I like the grids around the mouth of Gibraltar as well. If you stay far enough back from the straight itself, all you have to contend with is the planes. It's a nice bottleneck so you know you'll have a shot at anything that comes in or goes out.

AVGWarhawk
12-27-06, 01:01 PM
I'm going to Brazil!!!!!:up: Say goodbye to your u-boat and the crew you all paid to train! We will be basking in the sun on the beaches drinking pina coladas with little paper umbrellas in them:D. We will be fishing in the shallows there for fish and crabs. Over and out!

Biggles
12-27-06, 03:50 PM
I thought Donitz wanted the u-boats to survive.


well the brits don't!:up:

plastik
12-27-06, 06:05 PM
I'm not 100%...but I think it was something like CG38 or 62 :hmm:

that was CG32 for me!! :o
( http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=102199 )

Jimbuna
12-27-06, 07:17 PM
I'm not 100%...but I think it was something like CG38 or 62 :hmm:

that was CG32 for me!! :o
( http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=102199 )

So it was you I met in that supermarket in Barcelona :rotfl: