My weekend with GWX

[q65]

I had the whole weekend to myself. Kids were off to their moms and I didnt have to drag anyone to hockey or basketball. 2 Full days of hunting merchants. I fired up the game early Saturday morning. I waited. I sailed up the East coast of England nothing. I kept the the TC low as I was in no rush. I did manage to see alot of planes. I dived at dawn and surfaced at dusk. I went up and over England and down the
Western approaches. Nothing. Last night I finally got to my patrol Zone. I seen nothing. My 2 days of glorious free merchant sinking is over and I believe I'm as frustrated as a real uboat captain. That is immersion
Not all was lost I did manage to read the DaVinci Code.

[robbo180265]

Oh boy! I've had times like that, but it must hurt so much more when you've been looking forward to playing the game for a while. Of course the other extreme is when your late for work and a juicy merchant comes along.........

[Corsair]

Amazing how in this game the best targets always show up when it's time to save because you have something else urgent to do...:D

[Brag]

Do you dive and listen for contacts?

[CruiseTorpedo]

I like to patrol around the western approaches durring the day at periscope depth going ahead slow maybe 3-4 knots. You'll pick up a lot of traffic this way as you can hear better than you can see most of the time with a good officer. I like having a high ranking guy in there trained to use the equipment. WIth the green bar nearly all the way across you'll pick up contacts at very long range! Dont forget to upgrade your hydrophones early on too, 300 renown very well spent!

[q65]

I would dive every 8 hrs (game time) or so. Go to periscope depth or 25m and listen. I could turn up the volumn and not hear "Turn it down Dad". This is the second patrol with this boat so my crew is still green. The first patrol I ran out of Torps on the eastern coast before I arrived at my patrol grid. (Trying the manual targeting and I"m as green as my crew). I'm in Dec39 in a VII.
I just found it funny that even though I didnt see anything I still enjoyed the game for the immersion. What other game out there can you play all weekend and do nothing and still enjoy it.

[Tiny]

I remember when I for some reason went up the whole Norwegian coast to find nothing...oh yes a GERMAN ore ship GRR :ping: ...:o ...:stare: ...:arrgh!: ...:damn:

[Linavitch]

Commiserations my friend.
Having to read The Da Vinci Code is no way to spend a weekend.:down:;)

[Penelope_Grey]

I normally run submerged during the day, whatever the weather. Then its recharging on the surface at night.

[badaboom]

Do you play SHIII on a laptop? I do and it's a great way to enjoy other forms of media while still continuing a mission.:up:

[minute]

Same here, november 1939, not much to do in the north sea east of Britain, so I raided some ports. Went into Lerwick sub base, found an anchored DD and armed trawler, they are now sleeping with the fishes. There was also a lone sub (S-class?) in dock but 3 torps kept bouncing off him and exploded hitting the concrete walls... I damaged it (heavy listing on bow) but didn't get it reported as sunk.

Went out of Lerwick, after three more days of patrols I got bored again so went into Hartlepool. I didn't even have to sneak in at night - attack started 9:00 am. Just one DD patrol that I sunk at the second torp and one armed trawler that my brave gunner blew to pieces within several well placed rounds. So free hunting now in the port, no subnets, no mines, 3 small and 2 medium merchants stationary waiting to be picked up. It's 11:00 am and two are down now and I'm waiting for flooding on the other three to do its damage before deciding who gets the last two eels..

So be brave early in the war, later it won't be so easy. Otherwise in patrols I dive regularly, stop all engines and make a 360 scan listening to sonar at max level myself, I often pick up things that the AI would not pick up... I found this way a large polish merchant fleeing to Britain and a couple of small british merchants. And a lot of neutrals (norwegian, sweedish), those really piss me off - you end up chasing them up for hours to get in visual range just to find out they're off limits...

Now if only those pesky Hurricanes would stop harrasing me durring the day, I lost two brave seamen to their machineguns...