just because I'm paranoid, does'nt mean their not out to get me!

[johnm]

Just started a new patrol - AM68!!!! - south of stranraer and Belfast, Isle of Man!

As my VIIB is NOT armourplated, nor fitted with 2 88cm deckguns and 3 20cm flakguns, I think this patrol is, to say the least, a fraction dodgy.


wish me luck fellow kaleuns, valhalla - here I come!

[mapuc]

If you should die during this patrol, some Valkyrian will come and take you to valhalla.

Markus

[johnm]

west of Orkneys- still drinking schnapps. No targets yet.

[Chock]

Oooops! Puts you pretty close to Derby House:

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/exhibitions/boa/derbyhouse.asp

But it didn't actually start operations until 1941, so you might be alright, otherwise, being close to there is probably not a great idea for a German submarine. You could always paint your sub yellow and pretend to be The Beatles, they did take a detour to Hamburg early in their career, so you'd have a good cover story.

:rotfl:

[johnm]

Not a bad cover story.

I've always fancied playing air guitar. If I stood on the foredeck, playing a beatles' medley, do you think I could get as far as the mersey (and more importantly for my iron cross, out again)?

meanwhile, I've got a full load of torpedoes, 20mm and 8.8cm ammo to give (free of charge) to the britisher merchant marine!

come and get it boys!

:arrgh!::hmm:

[Telgriff]

I'm hoping you're on the patrol sometime before '41. Or things will get substantially dodgy for you :-?

[Iron Budokan]

Take comfort. If you're using GWX they ARE out to get you. :lol:

[johnm]

before 1941. U-52 left Wilhelmshaven 26/7/1940. I'll mention our destination to the crew sometime, before we get there, maybe.

[mapuc]

I will prey that you don't have any Bernard among your crewmember. If you do I feel sorry for you.

RIP

Markus

[johan_d]

Well, actually, the reason DD's exist, is to get you.. so 1+1 is 2 I think. You are somewhere, looking for a prey, and they are doing the same, 24hrs, 7 days a week. To get you is their main purpose.:know:

[Canovaro]

Oooops! Puts you pretty close to Derby House:

http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/exhibitions/boa/derbyhouse.asp

But it didn't actually start operations until 1941, so you might be alright, otherwise, being close to there is probably not a great idea for a German submarine. You could always paint your sub yellow and pretend to be The Beatles, they did take a detour to Hamburg early in their career, so you'd have a good cover story.

:rotfl:

:rotfl:

[Engel der Vernichtung]

Well, actually, the reason DD's exist, is to get you.. so 1+1 is 2 I think. You are somewhere, looking for a prey, and they are doing the same, 24hrs, 7 days a week. To get you is their main purpose.:know:

Almost; the DD's mission, is to protect the convoy. From the DD's point of view, if they exhaust all their DCs trying to kill you, but in so doing allow one of your friends into the convoy, they've failed, even if they kill you. If they drive you off, OTOH, takes much less time and DCs, and they can get back on station guarding the convoy and on to their true mission.

[johnm]

I survived! here is a patrol report:-

Dear fellow Kaleuns

U-52, KapitanLeutnant Helmut Imbusch of the 2nd Flotilla left Wilhelmshaven at: July 26, 1940, 23:39

Mission Orders: Patrol grid AM68

Reports of two convoys west of Orkneys, I was over 9 hours away, running with a 15m gale, heavy rain and medium fog.
Report of convoy south of the Western Isles, I trailed it and closed. Only coastal merchants guarded by V&W destroyers.
Decided not to attack as depth less than 50 metres. Turned south. A few hours later while travelling at 256x, we were jumped by a destroyer. I later realised that the convoy had changed course to head south. This destroyer was probably an outside picket.

I dived as fast as I could, taking damage in several compartments. We quickly repaired the damage then went silent and managed to slip away, helped by the weather which was still bad.

we spotted a tanker in grid 64 and sank it with one torpedo and gunfire. This was identified as S.S. Tarlac (Patapsco Class Tanker) of 3959 tons.

We made our way to grid 68, travelling at periscope depth during the day surfacing at night to recharge batteries. As we were passing grid 65, we picked up sounds from a warship, travelling east to west. It would pass astern of us by less than 3k. I decided to attack using a type II from my stern tube. It hit and the warship, now identified as an Admirable Class Minesweeper of only 540 tons slowed down. I decided to put another torpedo into it, in case it called up assistance. This I did, too quickly as it happened because she sank just as I fired it.

We continued to grid AM68 with no further scares.

Because the Isle of Man is in the centre of AM68, I decided to do a square patrol around the isle rather than a more normal zig-zag. On the first leg another report of a convoy apparently coming north from Liverpool, past Blackpool. Normally I get no reports of convoys close enough to attack but under these conditions when I would have preferred singletons, I get nothing but convoys.

Half way across AM68, the convoy had turned west and would pass within 7k of me, in broad daylight and a depth of about 35m. My reaction was - 'walk on by'.
I then had to watch a convoy of coastal merchants saunders past within spitting distance. Oh to be a registered kami-kazi!

We finished the patrol of AM68 and I decided to sail southwest, north of Anglesey, across towards Dublin, hug the Irish coast and out using St George's channel. How are the cocky kaleuns given a taste of failure! About midway between Isle of Man and Anglesey, sonar reports warship closing. I track its course. At first it appears to being passing far to the north of me but then it swung round and described a broad circle around me. Before I knew what was happening, it spiraled inwards homing right on to me. I dived as deep as I could, about 80m and went silent. It then made about a dozen attacks, right on the button. My only bit of luck was that it started dropping the tin-cans too early and the last drop was the only ones getting close.

Each time he attacked, I went to flank and used 5/10 degrees of port or starboard to try to slip by. Finally he made three runs with dropping any. I realised he was out of depth charges and would probaly run dummy attacks until a colleague turns up with more depth charges.

I decided to try to torpedo him. After he finished an attack, I rose to periscope level, Trying to be head-on to him. I'd set the depth to 4.5m before hand and fired the torpedo as soon as I was in position. Unfortunately he was within 300m, so the torpedo sailed on. As the deckgun was still undamaged, I surfaced, dragged the watch officer out of his bunk and sent him on deck, ordering the guns crew to both guns with the deck gun openning fire on the nearest visible target. We then got hammered. My gun crew were rubbish, while his was scoring massive hits. Finally, I manned the deckgun myself and managed to destroy his gun (he turned out ot be another Admirable Class Minesweeper again of only 540 tons). I left the 88 gun's crew to finish him off, while I hit him with the twin-barreled flak gun. Down he went, off we went southwest, licking our wounds, periscope depth during daylight, surface during darkness. To add icing to the cake, we found a C" Cargo - M/V Elg of 4175 tons in sector AM92. One torpedo finished her.

Following several warship scares, we finally docked at Brest, with only 47.5 % Integrity on 10 Aug 1940 at 2135

Patrol results Crew losses: 0, Ships sunk: 4, Aircraft destroyed: 0, Patrol tonnage: 9214 tons


God may smile on the righteous, but we survived anyway!

[johnm]

However Windows XP had other ideas.

Having docked at Brest, I was required to return to Lorient. Easy, I thought, cahnge Null to BF14, whip out there, patrol and then return to Lorient.

No chance. I load the SH3 commander, change the grid, start up SH3, click our little wolf, click the start video, wait forever for GWX to load, select the current career and start a new patrol. Bingo!

BUT: SH3 loads, I go to the main map, it loads the game, and crash! black screen and the stupidly irritating message: Silent Hunter has found a problem, were sorry but if you have any data it's gone! click ok and bye!

This happened again and again. I tried restarting windows (usually fixes it) no go. In the end in desperation I delete the career and start another one at the same time (Oct 1940). No good. It still crashes --- arghhh!

Any ideas???? anybody?????:down::damn:

[johan_d]

[aaa]

HZGNO IQXGO MOLXT EEZSB BOEVC QSKQ

[johnm]

[AAA]

:cry:TCZNA EKUMS VKECE NULYJ UKTGR GXQGX LFWQN BFURN PU

[johan_d]

Llhbn Eokys Udpvc Qugbg Nyeql Uxhr

[johnm]

Sorry - using default start (AAA) unable to decode.

result: POTCC NMZGO GUOPY YSUUD BGTNG HEAH

please retransmit when next surfacing to call Bdu

[johnm]

Seriously friends, I've got a problem.

As stated previously, when I tried to do a quick patrol Brest to Lorient, I reported that SH3 crashed with the annoying message about Silent hunter has a problem and will have to close. Despite several retries, this kept happening.

I deleted the career and created another starting at the same time, flotilla and Lorient. Unfortunately the same thing keeps happening. Regardless of whether I start with SH commander or GWX SHIII, the same thing happens.

I start SHIII, select the career, go to briefing room and click on the patrol. Start loading the patrol, then black screen, long wait and the silly message from windows appears: Silent hunter has a problem and will have to close.

The debug info is unhelpful as well.

All it gives is the Appname and version etc:

Appname SH3.exe Appver 1.4.0.1 Modname sh3.exe
Modver 1.4.0.1 offset 000b9844

Can anybody help????

I've had this happening a dozen or more times. Usually a restart cures it, but not this time!

[johan_d]

HZGNS LUGYT MTJDM JBIJP HDKYN SWXPZ UQEUX REZ

I had this problem too, and it went worse, sh3 wouldnt start due d3d9 error.. final result was I had to reinstall XP an SH.. :damn:

Now it works fina again.

Me thinks something screwed up badly, but the error reports doesnt lead us to nowhere.

You can look into your XP logbook to see is there is an log on the crash, with the c000000x error. That can be of some help.:-?

[johnm]

NIFNM KLGRH MNLSU KZSYB APLBX TXGRX ATHBZ JZVNX RSJOV GITXH VQRXC RMQHY JMNTV FFVRO COZJX FJXRS WCWBB SIFNQ KWURU YZTWN GSTMN WQZPQ PJUHL EHBSZ TSNYC BMHPO SJPWR CMNWH RCDXP OAGFC TIJXQ YVXSZ GMFNG LK

I'm still trying to run GWX but it takes so long to get the point where it fails, so I start screaming after the first three or four tries

I'm not ready to do a complete reinstall yet!