You know you've spent too long in type IX's when

[Ducimus]

You know you've spent too long in type IX's when you...



habitually look at the "local time" to see when the sun will rise.

think of a single merchant as an opportunity to use your stern tubes.

try to use your stern tubes before your bow tubes.

find yourself constantly micomanaging your torpedo expenditure.

find yourself constantly and habitually monitoring your fuel consumption.

have done patrols to any grid that starts with "GR"

know exactly where Durban and Columbo are without having to look at a map.

think of Saint Helena and immedialy a cruiser comes to mind.

crack a smile at the word, "Curacao"

know where the productive spots in the carribean are by memory.

can guess by memory how many days it takes to cross the atlantic

have ever felt compelled to increase time compression to 2048 because your patrol grid is often 25 days away with relatively nothing in between.

you think of a good career game as having your number of patrols in the single digits, but having days at sea in the triple digits.

have nearly memorized the uboat numbers that were historically type9 uboats. So when reading WW2 literature, can guess the boat type purely by its number. For example, you know by memory U-65 was an IXB and U-66 was an IXC.

last but not least.....

post threads like this on subsim because your enroute to your patrol area, and even with 2048 TC, have about 20-25 minute wait before you get near your theater of operations. (not that i am right now, but ive done so numberous times in the past)

[Zinmar]

Sadly I know what you mean. But I just can't give them up no matter their faults.

[Letum]

You know you've spent too long in type IX's when you...

Actually grow a beard whilst playing

Get annoyed that a convoy has interrupted your cup of tea / book

Start including imaginary crew in your patrol reports

Hesitate to crash dive because that aeroplane might mean you don't have to suffer the return voyage

Let a cargo ship pass you because you might see a BIG cargo ship in a few weeks

last but not least.....

Start believing that you use less fuel submerged ;)

[danlisa]

...When you can't stay in a type 7 longer than 2 wks.....:rotfl:

Welcome back to the 'good' side.:up:

[Ducimus]

You know you've spent too long in type IX's when you...

Actually grow a beard whilst playing

Get annoyed that a convoy has interrupted your cup of tea / book

Start including imaginary crew in your patrol reports

Hesitate to crash dive because that aeroplane might mean you don't have to suffer the return voyage

Let a cargo ship pass you because you might see a BIG cargo ship in a few weeks

last but not least.....

Start believing that you use less fuel submerged ;)


LOL, i am guilty of all of the above. Althoguh growing a beard isnt intentional. I have this thing, i spent 7 years in the service and had to shave EVERY day. Now since i dont have to, ill shave like once a week, or whenever i feel like it out of spite. Im such the rebel. lol.


...When you can't stay in a type 7 longer than 2 wks.....:rotfl:

Welcome back to the 'good' side.:up:

Bloody phsycic! I just decided about 10 mins ago my next career game will be U-103.


One more....

You know you've spent too long in type IX's when


You can navigate out of lorient harbors defenses, by memory, without the need for a map.

[danlisa]

Bloody phsycic! I just decided about 10 mins ago my next career game will be U-103

You can't have that boat it's mine:o

It's currently on patrol in DT66 and a convoy report has just come in, so you'll have to wait.:rotfl:

[Ducimus]

*cries*

Nooooo... i put all this work into an IXB (see my flavoured thead, up to version 4 now), got the emblem, i even edited crew caps ( or was going to) to have the emblem as well.

Only other boat i was thinking about was U-110, although i liked u-103 more. EIther that or U-65, but i dont think id like starting THAT early in the war. :roll:


*sniffles*

[LeafsFan]

That St. Helena crack sounds interesting.

HB

[AVGWarhawk]

I just started using the IXB and I like it A LOT. She be a pig but she's my pig:yep:

[mookiemookie]

My two cents:

...when you start cutting the mold off of your bread instead of pitching it to buy another loaf

...you yell at the wife for not logging the weight of the food supplies used in cooking dinner

[danlisa]

*cries*

Nooooo... i put all this work into an IXB (see my flavoured thead, up to version 4 now), got the emblem, i even edited crew caps ( or was going to) to have the emblem as well.

Only other boat i was thinking about was U-110, although i liked u-103 more. EIther that or U-65, but i dont think id like starting THAT early in the war. :roll:


*sniffles*

:rotfl: Hopefully she'll be re-built in time for your patrol date. I'm :dead: :rotfl:

You must have jinxed it.:x

Oh well <sigh> might have more luck in a D2 anyhow.

[WilhelmSchulz.]

I sank a Fishing baot off Curaco with a fish once.:rotfl:

The Tea and book thing all the time.

The stern tube thing, yep.
:roll:

[Ducimus]

:rotfl: Hopefully she'll be re-built in time for your patrol date. I'm :dead: :rotfl:

You must have jinxed it.:x

Oh well <sigh> might have more luck in a D2 anyhow.

How could i have jinxed it? I have the luck of the irish! Shells, Tin'cans, hell even merchants sinking on top of me haven't touched me yet! If anything, im probably a good luck charm. :roll:

Of course i know your just saying all this, and your still running around in U-103 somewhere. ;) No way your career ended THAT fast. ;)

[danlisa]

lol :p

[Ducimus]

Truthfully, id like to do U-64, even though it's life was short lived. Because it was the first IX uboat of the war. (IXa aside) I think that symbolic. I also think my last type9 career should be the first one that appears in SH3. Would take me a LONG time to complete too. Only reason i don't try that is a silly one.

I don't have its insigna.
http://www.uboataces.com/emblems/64.jpg
Id try and import it, but any job id do would be super amatuerish and it would look like crap. So ive limited my boat selection to insigna's in existance.

[azn_132]

I beeen usin the IXB for a long time but thinkin to switch to IXC when I get more renown. U-666 I dont know why I pick this number for my Uboat also my emblem is U-552's emblem.

[danlisa]

Is that the best copy you have?

[Ducimus]

Is that the best copy you have?

Best i could find. It was used on U-64, and U-154.
http://www.uboataces.com/ref-insignia.shtml
http://www.uboataces.com/emblems/154.jpg

I saw a larger one in an online book once, but forgot where i found it. If your thinking about tinkering with it so i stay away from your boat, make the background transparent, and the acutal decal white instead of black, as i tend to use darker sub skins.

Might be easier if i just chose another boat though.

[danlisa]

:damn: There's no enough detail/res to work with.:nope:

[Ducimus]

Awesome insigna though eh? A flippered cow belching and farting torpedo's. :D
edit: i might have that online book saved at home on my hard drive, ill see if i can find it later.

[LeafsFan]

Anyone want to fill me in on St. Helena??

HB

[Ducimus]

Anyone want to fill me in on St. Helena??

HB

Depending on the mod, theres cruiser parked there. I think its a Fiji or a Dido, i forget which. Don't go to far inside the harbor though or your liable to discover a mine the hardway. On the plus side, usually only an armed trawler patrols the place. Makes a nice little stop over when enroute to the GR grids.

[johan_d]

well, independed of any boat, when I am to long at sea, when going to bed I still see everything wobbling for my eyes.. real life effect of waves.

[Tigrone]

Cupid's arrows are deadly.

http://mysite.verizon.net/res7kxfm/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/wirfahrengegenengland396.mp3

http://www.uboataces.com/emblems/38.jpg

[stabiz]

I would love to ausblasen my VIIC right between Ducimus and Danlisa, do a 360 around them, and then crash dive. Need for elegance! Need for agility! Need for female shapes! Need for VIIC!

[Ducimus]

Your boat woudln't have enough fuel to reach us to begin with, or at the least, not enough to get back to port . :lol:

[stabiz]

:rotfl:What would you hang on your wall, a Monet or a pig?

Seriously, I love all U-Boats, even the duck, but you guys are REALLY in love with your IX`s.

[AVGWarhawk]

Yeah, my IXB is a fuel hog. I have to really watch it. She is a big fat beautiful pig but I love her anyway:smug:

[Letum]

Your boat woudln't have enough fuel to reach us to begin with, or at the least, not enough to get back to port . :lol:

Bernard is a good swimmer and we have a toe rope for him to hold.

All early war* u-boats had a crude mast and sail in case of fuel emergencies as well. :doh:

* not sure about late/mid war

[stabiz]

:rotfl:Imagine sailing in the Bay of Biscay post -43!

[Ducimus]

:
Seriously, I love all U-Boats, even the duck, but you guys are REALLY in love with your IX`s.

I like all boats but the type II and XXI, so i guess that sort of narrows it down. Why is the type9 such a favorite? I've never been able to figure it out. I think its how the game ends up being played out. A career game in a type9 just feels different. You seem to have more clearly defined objectives or milestones to gauge your progress or success.

[stabiz]

I have to modify my statement, I love all boats except the XXI. Forgot about the hippo.

[Letum]

The only thing I like about the XXI are it's hydrophioned and 50m torpedo release.
Hitting 6 ships in a task force without useing homeing torps and with out going above 40m gives me a buzz

[Ducimus]

Heres some pictures out of an online book i D/L ages ago:

First since Danlisa beat me to U-103 (even though he claims he was sunk, but really isnt :roll:) , heres some pictures for him i saw in this book.
http://www.ducimus.net/sh3/u103.jpg

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Just linking this one because it skews the page too much:
http://www.ducimus.net/sh3/u103a.jpg

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http://www.ducimus.net/sh3/u103b.jpg


A couple Pictures of U-154's conning tower
http://www.ducimus.net/sh3/u-154a.jpg
http://www.ducimus.net/sh3/u-154b.jpg


EDIT: Changing this bit:
Lastly, maybe this picture is workable to extract the emblem if someone else wants to use it for their own boat.. I'm gonna drop the notion of U-64 and go with U-I dont know anymore instead. :88)
http://www.ducimus.net/sh3/u64.jpg



Oh yes.. how could i forget.....








http://www.ducimus.net/sh3/sea_cow.jpg