icebergs...

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

well i make this thread becouse i still havnt found any iceberg... :cry:

so i want to ask everyone where you saw an iceberg and on what date (is you had)


all help is welcome

[GoldenRivet]

encountered a huge ice berg in the central BC grids... think it might have been January some time dont recall the year.

[codmander]

never seen one owned game since release:cry:

[Telgriff]

All I can say is, look north. Greenland, near the whaling stations. I found mine by hydrophone, identified as a single merchant, stationary. They're out there.

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

what do you mean with whaling stations ?

[Kingcobra24]

well i make this thread becouse i still havnt found any iceberg... :cry:

so i want to ask everyone where you saw an iceberg and on what date (is you had)


all help is welcome

You'll only see the icebergs if you're using one of the supermods, such as GWX, etc. If you're just using a vanilla install of SH3 with minor mods, you won't get icebergs in the campaign. You WILL see some on single missions, however.
:lurk:

[Telgriff]

what do you mean with whaling stations ?

Check far north on the map, there is a couple of places identified as whaling stations, usually in allied control....

hang on. You are running GWX arent you?

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

GWX and WAC

[Telgriff]

GWX and WAC

Ok, well look up at the north of the map, there should be a whaling station or two (I am in 1940 at the moment), I essentially went to within about 100kms of the whaling station closest to England, then began heading roughly south west via greenland onto the Halifax convoy route, hydrophone picked up the iceberg contact just south of Greenland. If I could find an online version of the map with grid refs i could give you the grid ref it was in!

[rb4door]

can someone in the know post up a pic of the chart within the game and circle the likely areas to see a 'berg?

I am also very keen to see one :yep:

[Kpt. Lehmann]

As far as I know, GWX is the only mod that fixes the icebergs. IIRC they had spawning problems... and definately had no functional propulsion.

Thanks to Ref, Cdre Gibs, and Rubini we fixed 'em.

[rb4door]

anyone have any screen shots of bergs to wet my appetite?

[CNemo]

This is from when GWX first came out:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=102469&highlight=bernard+iceberg.

Have fun!

[azn_132]

Watch one of Stabiz's vids cuz one of his vids show icebergs, forgot the name of it tho.

[TarJak]

Been using GWX since it was released and still only seen IB's in a mission never in a campaign game. That's why I'm sailing out of Bergen at the moment.

[Jimbuna]

Been using GWX since it was released and still only seen IB's in a mission never in a campaign game. That's why I'm sailing out of Bergen at the moment.
It might be worth payrolling in grid AJ ;)

[TarJak]

Thanks Jim I'll take a look around up there. Got waylaid badly by huge quantities of aircraft on patrol one out of Bergen. Playing GWX 1.03 in early '43. Still I managed to bag HMS Victorious so it wasn't all bad.

[Jimbuna]

Don't forget to take your favourite bottle along.......to go with the ice :D :()1:

[TarJak]

Ice in red wine? Never! Though I may take a few slabs (24 bottle cases) of beer with me for the trip.... hic...:dead:

[melnibonian]

I caught an iceberg on the radar once in mid-43 off the coast of Halifax. It was a foggy day and the radar show a target. I follow it only to find out in the last possible moment that it's an iceberg. Thankfully we avoided Titanic, although we did get really close :yep: :|\\ :|\\

[STEED]

Here is a iceberg for you all.

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/5078/3a2dq.jpg

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

thanks for all the usefull information guy's :up:

i hope to find one this year. (in september i got my game 2 years)

[bruschi sauro]

Never see :shifty:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

is that GWX or WAC ?

[Crazy Ian]

Are there dinosaurs inside? http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0073260/

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: that would be fun

[Telgriff]

Here is a iceberg for you all.



Nice berg Steed, mine was a little ice cube in comparison.

[Jimbuna]

Please don't compare sizes gentlemen :nope: We have a few female kaleuns who visit us :oops:
:rotfl: :rotfl:

[TarJak]

Been hanging around AJ for a while, Feb '43 and still haven't seen one. I'll keep looking though!:o

[melnibonian]

Been hanging around AJ for a while, Feb '43 and still haven't seen one. I'll keep looking though!:o
Usually you can find them off the coast of Canada (Halifax) and between Canada and Iceland and around Greenland in March-April.

[TarJak]

Thanks. I'll have to crank up a IX career and take a cruise over there to see if I can find one. I've tended to stay in the sun recently so feel like a winter holiday cahsing icebergs.

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

still havnt found one eather... (probaly becouse i like to stay near scapa flow).

someone mentioned somthing like a whale factory (or somthing like that) but i didnt found it

[TarJak]

I think he meant Jan Mayen whaling station which is marked that way in GWX 1.03 but I'm not sure if it's marked in stock or other mods.

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

i play stock (patched up to 1.4b) WAC and GWX :rock: il check it right away

[Jimbuna]

In GWX it is called Batvika Whaling Station (German map) :arrgh!:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

thanks for the information mates :up:

[Jimbuna]

My mistake.....Batvika Whaling Station is in fact what other people call Jan Mayen Island. :oops:
Bear Island is on the map but it is just a land mass, there is no port there :up:

[Dowly]

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/3102/underwatericeberg6rz.jpg

;)

[danurve]

Dowley; cool screen. Looks like the boat found some huge ice-cream cones :cool:

Just for conversation, and I don't mean to hijack a thread, but what is the facination with ice-bergs beyond a cool eye-candy appeal? To me it is like the interest of wanting to sail into NY to scope the statue of liberty. To be fair I guess maybe if you've seen these things up close then there isn't a high appeal to see them in a game.

[Kpt. Lehmann]

....and I don't mean to hijack a thread, but what is the facination with ice-bergs beyond a cool eye-candy appeal? To me it is like the interest of wanting to sail into NY to scope the statue of liberty. To be fair I guess maybe if you've seen these things up close then there isn't a high appeal to see them in a game.

For the same reason we put new ships, aircraft, 3D objects, realistic graphics, improved sound, biologicals, corrected player U-boat 3D models and everything else we did.

Part of realism is presenting a realistic, living world.

That means having icebergs in the ocean.:88)

Before GWX they were unavailable as well, due to being broken.

[emtmedic005]

Yeah i was bored and didnt want to do a paper so i created a crazy SP mission.

It included 5 liners, 10 tank transports, 3 Aircraft Carriers and a few Didos.
And it had a whole bunch of Massive Icebergs ansd some smaller ones. I had all the ships running at Flank Speeds, heading towards the icebergs. I dived down and went below the icebergs, safely away from any sinking ships. It was fun to watch as the ships scrambled to evade the icebergs. Some of the liners hit the bergs and the other ships, i got bored with that so i went to PD and sank sank the warships and finished the rest with the deck gun, then i dived and started ramming the ice berg and sank haha

[bigboywooly]

Do your paper

:rotfl:

[emtmedic005]

:hmm::hmm::hmm:

But i dont want tooooo,
its soo boring, its on PTSD in Vietnam Vets and IRaq and Afghanistan Vets and how the Current Admiinstrration has failed them.

I spent many hours reading BRITISH reports on PTSD, like hours, im soooo bored. hahaha

[mr chris]

Someone mention iceburgs?
http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/4871/iceza9gg2.jpg

[Jimbuna]

Brill shot Chris....me likes :rock:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

Someone mention iceburgs?
http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/4871/iceza9gg2.jpg

:o where to be spotted and what year ?

i guess im obsessed by those icebergs :hmm:

[danurve]

....and I don't mean to hijack a thread, but what is the facination with ice-bergs beyond a cool eye-candy appeal? To me it is like the interest of wanting to sail into NY to scope the statue of liberty. To be fair I guess maybe if you've seen these things up close then there isn't a high appeal to see them in a game.

For the same reason we put new ships, aircraft, 3D objects, realistic graphics, improved sound, biologicals, corrected player U-boat 3D models and everything else we did.

Part of realism is presenting a realistic, living world.

That means having icebergs in the ocean.:88)

Before GWX they were unavailable as well, due to being broken.

I guess that all sounds ok, I mean it is good to have such details where someone would enjoy seeing them. I would say that is where plenty of memory and a good graphics card pays off.

[Kpt. Lehmann]

....and I don't mean to hijack a thread, but what is the facination with ice-bergs beyond a cool eye-candy appeal? To me it is like the interest of wanting to sail into NY to scope the statue of liberty. To be fair I guess maybe if you've seen these things up close then there isn't a high appeal to see them in a game.

For the same reason we put new ships, aircraft, 3D objects, realistic graphics, improved sound, biologicals, corrected player U-boat 3D models and everything else we did.

Part of realism is presenting a realistic, living world.

That means having icebergs in the ocean.:88)

Before GWX they were unavailable as well, due to being broken.

I guess that all sounds ok, I mean it is good to have such details where someone would enjoy seeing them. I would say that is where plenty of memory and a good graphics card pays off.

Yeah! Kind of like any other mod that has large campaign files... where the creators might have bothered to add anything interesting.

Go hijack some other thread. Your cheap shots are getting on my nurve.

[Telgriff]

Someone mention iceburgs?

:o where to be spotted and what year ?

i guess im obsessed by those icebergs :hmm:

LOL yeah you are. It does add some major realism to see them though. Should see if they make decent cover aswell...theres a thought. :hmm:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

LOL yeah you are.

i knew it :huh:...
but they are fun

[Telgriff]

LOL yeah you are.
i knew it :huh:...
but they are fun

Telgriffice? :o

[Sneaky_Pete]

Actually, I just ran across an Iceberg today. Reported as a "slow moving merchant!". :o Grid AF19 I believe. Using GWX too. Pretty neat seeing that berg. Had to show the wife and kids. Be careful navigating too. There's just as much iceberg underwater as there's up top. :up: Started a new career too. Sept 39.

[ReM]

Isn't it so that you can reach the ice shelf in SH III if you travel far enough north?

If I am not mistaken I remember someone (I think it was Beery) reaching the ice shelf and posting pics of it....

That would be one big iceberg...

[Jimbuna]

I think you eventually reach what is best described as a huge land mass akin to a brick wall :hmm:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

LOL yeah you are.
i knew it :huh:...
but they are fun

Telgriffice? :o


whoops...:o srry

[Reverie]

I would think icebergs are the last things you would want to see, because of their hazard to shipping....unless you're out of torpedoes, have plenty of fuel, and....what was it ? a few slabs ? :D
Reverie

[TarJak]

I always travel with a few slabs of Becks under my bunk. Have a look under yours. The ice is good for keeping the beer in the esky at the right temerature. (Esky is Australian for cooler see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esky )

[Jimbuna]

http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/8641/iceberg1bh7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/6470/iceberg8ml2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/5690/iceberg10yu5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[rb4door]

awesome shots there jimbuna

I cant find any bergs damnit :damn:

[Jimbuna]

Cheers :up:
It took me quite a while :yep:
Thanks to the fix in GWX they're no longer broken :rock:

[mr chris]

Got a Gird reff Jim?;)

[Umfuld]

Is this an iceberg then?

http://usera.imagecave.com/33433/SHIII/Ice1.PNG

I mean, not sure what else it could be, just looks a lot different than Jimbuna's.

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

i guess its just a piece of land

[Jimbuna]

Sorry, but it looks like a land mass here :yep:

[Umfuld]

I guess it is. All that fuel wasted in my iceberg trek. :nope:

[Kptlt. Siegmann]

http://www.isaf.us/photos/iceshelf1.jpghttp://www.isaf.us/photos/iceshelf2.jpg

Umfuld, you reached the ice shelf (I assume you went North and not South, otherwise you ran into Antarctica:lol:) Not much to it, icebergs are way better. Interesting that there are seagulls hanging around this far North.

[Jimbuna]

http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/1497/iceberg2co8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Telgriff]

:o Where did you see that monster of a berg?

[Jimbuna]

Atlantic Ocean....don't have the grid at hand but game is saved :arrgh!:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

:shifty: lucky ppl... most already have seen an iceberg...

can there be a iceberg mod that gets more in-game icebergs ?:hmm:

[Jimbuna]

Yeah....GWX v1.04 :arrgh!: :lol:

[AdlerGrosmann]

What the hel...iceberg? Where are you gonna find an iceberg in Sh3.:hmm:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

What the hel...iceberg? Where are you gonna find an iceberg in Sh3.:hmm:

with LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG searching. i did 2 years on it :dead:

[AdlerGrosmann]

Where'd you find it?

[StarFox]

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/will107/Screenshot_990.jpg

managed to find some floating in the North Atlantic.

they are pretty hit or miss to find, so if you see any its more luck and good timing then anything

[mowgli99]

my screenie got deleted but i made a post awhile back. I saw mine just north of the outside of the AF sector. not to far from land either. It came as an unknown sound contact and as i went to ship cam...a big iceberg. Its weird because i was stalking a convoy at the time. Now i need dolphins. Off to spain.

[Jimbuna]

my screenie got deleted but i made a post awhile back. I saw mine just north of the outside of the AF sector. not to far from land either. It came as an unknown sound contact and as i went to ship cam...a big iceberg. Its weird because i was stalking a convoy at the time. Now i need dolphins. Off to spain.

They're quick little buggers, so keep a watchful eye ;)

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/4613/dolphinqr1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[BelegDraug]

Just like Telgriff said... I get one with hydrophone as a single merchant, slow... I was in some winter month, near "Greenland" (or "Gröenland", don't know). It was just an iceberg... I like to find it, even when it takes me out of m course for a while... Seeya!

[AdlerGrosmann]

In the Atlantic,sure have I been there lots of times...but never ran into one.Iceberg's are sneaky to sink your sub rather than a boat if you're not paying any attention to the hydrophone or whatever else..Just have your WO say "Iceberg spotted!"

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

In the Atlantic,sure have I been there lots of times...but never ran into one.Iceberg's are sneaky to sink your sub rather than a boat if you're not paying any attention to the hydrophone or whatever else..Just have your WO say "Iceberg spotted!"

HAHAHAHAHA! i rammed a iceberg once. i survived that. but then the unbelievable happened. the iceberg rammed me :o

[Reverie]

Icebergs are an interesting novelty; just make certain you are awake when you are cruising in those Arctic regions.

My first iceberg I never saw. One morning I awoke to find my monitor reporting my career ended due to collision. The area was adjacent to Iceland (ironic), one hundred kilometers from anywhere.

My second iceberg I nearly missed. A month of real time later, heading for the same area, I turned in and, as is not unusual, let the boat run through my sleep. I awoke to the hoopla of massive damage and slow sinking, half of my crew wounded or dead. We managed to save the boat, and with if I remember 12% hull integrity I was ready to acquiesce to my attacker. We had no choice but to pop to the surface, and scanning the horizon...I see my first iceberg. My only regret is giving up the career, rather than trying my luck getting back to port.

If you really want to see one you should be be running with GWX. You should be in the Arctic region; I experienced mine in Spring, think it was 1940.
If you Time-Compress for travel you may be speeding by them without knowing it.
I would prefer you discover them spontaneously, like Easter Eggs in Flight Simulator. But if you can't wait, run with SH3Commander, and after you're some distance from Port, Stop, Save, Exit, Rollback SH3C's Mod files, and set your Time Compression Near Land to "One". Then ReStart, and Time-Compress your way all you want through the Arctic. Given that you have enough fuel, and you stay away from the Mainlands, any proximity to a land mass will slow the sim to Real-Time One. Scanning the area around your boat in relatively clear weather should produce a lumbering iceberg "just passing through".
Reverie

[spork542]

I've seen some just outside Trondheim.

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Just encountered over the last two days of testing... Icebergs in TWO's!!! :D This was in Career mode... Grids AJ and BC... encountered total of four.

One went below 200 meters depth. (The one with the flat top.)

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f117/KptLehmann/I14.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f117/KptLehmann/I1.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f117/KptLehmann/I2.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f117/KptLehmann/I5.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f117/KptLehmann/I3.jpg

[Kpt. Lehmann]

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f117/KptLehmann/I7.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f117/KptLehmann/I8.jpg

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f117/KptLehmann/I10.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f117/KptLehmann/I11.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f117/KptLehmann/I12.jpg

[Lafferty]

I have hit one once man i was mad i had a good patrol.

[AdlerGrosmann]

Looked in AD,found one..they have more stealth than a boat!