I love the new Belchen supply ship!

[Canovaro]

I do. It really makes the earlier patrols a lot more fun because now you can patrol the northern waters and go all the way to the Canadian en US coast in your type VIIb/c.
And visit New York before the US become hostile (dec 41).

I have a lot of fun patrolling against the Nothern convoys, best career so far!
Thanks GWX modders :up::up::up:

[SmokinTep]

It does make it easier not having to worry about fuel as much.

[Jimbuna]

Belchen http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/thumbsup.gif

http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/8580/belchen5zt4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Canovaro]

That's right, you will not always be the only one refuelling! :cool:

[Jimbuna]

Just make sure you get there first or all the girlie mags will have been snaffled http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/4030/winkbigid2zj6.gif

[Mackem]

Im currently lying off the coast of canada and have ran out of deck gun ammo and only have 2 torpedos left (after a run in with an unescorted convoy :D). Can the belchan resupply my ammo and how do i get it to do that? Playing GWX 2.0

[Antiacus]

I'm kind of wondering how this works too. I'm using GWX2.0 and SH3 Commander. Also, does this count as another mission?

[Tessa]

When you dock with it it'll resupply you with both fuel and ordnance. It'll also end your current patrol, and create a new patrol with a patrol grid of NULL and destination of your home port.

[sabretwo]

When you dock with it it'll resupply you with both fuel and ordnance. It'll also end your current patrol, and create a new patrol with a patrol grid of NULL and destination of your home port.

But warning, it will cost you whatever time you would normally be in port between patrols. Three weeks to resupply your boat! (I know its a stock issue...too bad it can't be fixed for a more realistic resupply period.)

[KptLt Lindemann]

But warning, it will cost you whatever time you would normally be in port between patrols. Three weeks to resupply your boat! (I know its a stock issue...too bad it can't be fixed for a more realistic resupply period.)


You can use SH3Cmdr to adjust time between patrols.

[Sailor Steve]

But warning, it will cost you whatever time you would normally be in port between patrols. Three weeks to resupply your boat! (I know its a stock issue...too bad it can't be fixed for a more realistic resupply period.)


You can use SH3Cmdr to adjust time between patrols.
Not quite true...but even better! SH3 Commander automatically sets the time between patrols to one day plus a day for each point of damage repaired, any time you're at a supply ship or milk cow. I'm not sure, but I think it also does it at friendly ports.

[Canovaro]

There's also the old "SH3patrol" tool that gives you a new patrol grid instead of "NULL".
I don't know if you can change the numbers spend in port for the belchen supply ship, since that one is new in GWX 2.0.

[Jimbuna]

But warning, it will cost you whatever time you would normally be in port between patrols. Three weeks to resupply your boat! (I know its a stock issue...too bad it can't be fixed for a more realistic resupply period.)


You can use SH3Cmdr to adjust time between patrols.
Not quite true...but even better! SH3 Commander automatically sets the time between patrols to one day plus a day for each point of damage repaired, any time you're at a supply ship or milk cow. I'm not sure, but I think it also does it at friendly ports.

Correctomundo http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/thumbsup.gif

[Sailor Steve]

Thank you, Fonzie.

[Jimbuna]

Your welcome. I learned that from Kpt. Lehmann.

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/452/thefonzeoj2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Sub mariner]

I go there so mutch i only return to base 1/3 patrols!

[Alpha Von Burg]

The first time I dock at at the Belchen supply ship, it was sunset, the fog was thick, the clouds are low and the rain was heavy. When I set my eyes in the ship, it looked abandoned, like a ghost ship.

[Sailor Steve]

Two-and-a-half-year necro. Not a record, but close.

[Jimbuna]

Two-and-a-half-year necro. Not a record, but close.


LOL :DL

http://www.feebleminds-gifs.com/zombie-rising.gif

[Tessa]

But warning, it will cost you whatever time you would normally be in port between patrols. Three weeks to resupply your boat! (I know its a stock issue...too bad it can't be fixed for a more realistic resupply period.)

To be more realistic it should actually take longer to ressuply at a milk cow (unless its fuel only), transferring torpedos at sea was a very risky and time consuming process. If conditions were bad you were pretty much SoL and would've had to wait for the storm to pass. Trying to move a volatile warhead between two moving boats on North Atlantic currents wasn't an easy operation; in a u-boat pen or dockyard you're pretty much immobile and can be resupply in a factory assembly line manner.

Until the French ports become available the supply ships serve as my home base as their positions are perfect for either US raiding or mediterranean (before La Spezia/Salamis is available). Last patrol after expending all torpedos/ammo I had to dodge 3 outbound conveys from Halifax just to get to the supply ship, one of them I just had rotten luck and ran perfectly perpendicular into one and the escort saw me long enough before I could dive that he made life miserable for a few hours in the (relatively) shallow water in that area.

[Mowgli]

I finally got to visit Belchen during a patrol that started off as the pits. I chased a convoy that I never found and sank nothing until I came across a 110 ton trawler and decided to sink it with gunfire to exercise my gun crew.

They were pathetic and in the end I think the poor little vessel just died of boredom. In despair I continued west and then bingo, with nothing in sight I dived and listened at the hydrophone. Just as well I did because I picked up a fast moving vessel. Turned out to be a 25,000 ton troop ship that was crossing my bows. Flank speed and just enough time to fire four T1 Eels before it zoomed past at 21 knots. Not even sure how many hit but up it went (with LOTS of lifeboats afterwards).

Then I noticed for the first time Belchen on the chart and thought why not top up and go to Canada and see what is there. So pulled up alongside, refuelled and rearmed and away I went.

Now some questions. On passage to Canada I came across a convoy and had a chance to target a heavy cargo and fired off two eels (both dud) but if I did, I had five escorts make my life hell for three hours and took quite a bit of damage before escaping.

After repairs I noticed that my fuel was REALLY low which meant I had to head back to Belchen (where I am now) to refuel. The question is can you lose fuel when attacked.

Other question. I saw in the convoy a tanker that was burning, I then saw on my chart a type IX submarine that was astern of the convoy. Other than in harbour I have never come across another Uboat. Clearly from the burning tanker it must have attacked the convoy. Does this happen?

Long story short. I am having dinner this evening with the skipper of the supply boat and will sail back to Canada at dawn.

[Shkval]

They were pathetic and in the end I think the poor little vessel just died of boredom.
:up::har:

[CaliEs]

http://img.xrmb2.net/images/828314.jpeg

[Sailor Steve]

Now we have another two-year necro???

[NightCrawler]

It will messed up the credit, medals and next patrol is 0, so you miss grid patrol credit...

i always use slow ahead 3knots under water and 7knots surface, dive at day and charge at night, you will see you save huge on diesel, example if i start sailing from wilhelmhaven and my patrol grid is CG85, i could reach with VII u boot all the way to Ivory coast and heading back to Wilhelmshaven without re-fueling in portugal or spain...

same thing if i change home-base from Wilhelmshaven to Brest.....

I learned my lesson with using "re-supply" options...

but it's up to you...

[CaliEs]

http://img.xrmb2.net/images/500677.jpeg

[CCIP]

Now we have another two-year necro???

Now this thread is really going for the record :D

[Jimbuna]

http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/9940/oldmummyhead.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/543/oldmummyhead.jpg/)

[Gargamel]

I didn't even account for a necro-necro in my scoring system.


This is new territory.

[Jimbuna]

I didn't even account for a necro-necro in my scoring system.


This is new territory.

Indeed

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[Qitbuqa]

Why are you surprised? People here are constantly "advised" to check for existing threads before posting new ones, so the guy just took an existing one and posted in it. :D

[Sailor Steve]

I'm not surprised at all. I just find it funny when people dig up four-year-old threads to make a comment. I'm not criticizing at all, just teasing. It's not nearly as bad as when someone does it to make a joke, nor as good as when someone does it to ask a question.

[Gargamel]

It was a valid necro. On topic etc.... Just a rare double necro.

[Night60700]

After repairs I noticed that my fuel was REALLY low which meant I had to head back to Belchen (where I am now) to refuel. The question is can you lose fuel when attacked.

Other question. I saw in the convoy a tanker that was burning, I then saw on my chart a type IX submarine that was astern of the convoy. Other than in harbour I have never come across another Uboat. Clearly from the burning tanker it must have attacked the convoy. Does this happen?

I can't seem to answer your question. But what I can do it point out your questions and hope they get answered. But a question outright from me. What mod is this refueling ship under? GWX? And if so are helpful ally AI (as stated in Mowgli's question) also in GWX?

[sublynx]

There are AI allies in the air and surface - planes, ships and u-boats and they will shoot if they stumble on the enemy. However there are no allies that submerge.

[Night60700]

There are AI allies in the air and surface - planes, ships and u-boats and they will shoot if they stumble on the enemy. However there are no allies that submerge.

Is this in the base game or just GWX?

[Jimbuna]

Both.

[szwajkiewicz]

This is gonna be like reviving an Egyptian mummy, but let's give it a try. (last post 2012, thread started 2008)

I am new to GWX3.0. So the status is like that: It's 1939 and I am stationary at 0kts very close to Belchen resupply ship - less than a cable away. How do I resupply - refuel, load torpedoes and ammo? Is there a key combination that triggers the resupplying process? Or should I take a certain position - e.g. port side, less than 20yds away?

[sublynx]

Hit esc, then dock at Belchen, like it was a port, not a ship.

[tomfon]

Two-and-a-half-year necro. Not a record, but close.

Now we have another two-year necro???

Now this thread is really going for the record :D


And that is almost 31/2 years necro.:sunny:

Please, tell me that it finally made it... Is it a record??? :rotfl2:

:()1:

[danasan]

Made a bookmark to reanimate it in 2020!

[fitzcarraldo]

SH3 is alive! 2006-2016! Ten years!

New players are discovering this legend.

Fitzcarraldo :salute:

[tomfon]

Made a bookmark to reanimate it in 2020!

I think it should be merged with The last one to post wins! (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=180368&page=509) thread.:rotfl2:

[szwajkiewicz]

Hit esc, then dock at Belchen, like it was a port, not a ship.

Thanks for quick reply!

SH3 is alive! 2006-2016! Ten years!

New players are discovering this legend.

Considering the fact that one of my favourite flight simulators is a 1988 vintage Microprose F19 Stealth Fighter, ten years doesn't seem so much...
Actually I preferred to buy SH3 to SH5, because of hardware constraints. It works smoothly on my machine and this makes playing SH3 very enjoyable.

[gazpode_l]

This is gonna be like reviving an Egyptian mummy, but let's give it a try. (last post 2012, thread started 2008)

I am new to GWX3.0. So the status is like that: It's 1939 and I am stationary at 0kts very close to Belchen resupply ship - less than a cable away. How do I resupply - refuel, load torpedoes and ammo? Is there a key combination that triggers the resupplying process? Or should I take a certain position - e.g. port side, less than 20yds away?


It doesn't look like anyone's actually answered your question such was the excitement of this topic being revived. I think the best thing to do is to press escape, and then "end patrol" and I think it should allow you to click on the words "DOCK AT:" (presented either before or after clicking end patrol)

I've not done this myself but I'm sure one of the other kaleun's here will confirm the correctness of this!

[Reed1941]

It doesn't look like anyone's actually answered your question such was the excitement of this topic being revived. I think the best thing to do is to press escape, and then "end patrol" and I think it should allow you to click on the words "DOCK AT:" (presented either before or after clicking end patrol)

I've not done this myself but I'm sure one of the other kaleun's here will confirm the correctness of this!

Yup, you're right. Better still if you have H.sie's hardcode fix, then you won't lose your assigned grid, tonnage and rewards. And will spend a less time docked too.

[scbw]

Yup, you're right. Better still if you have H.sie's hardcode fix, then you won't lose your assigned grid, tonnage and rewards. And will spend a less time docked too.

I believe this only applies to U-Tankers, and only if you don't choose the option to dock when you exit patrol.

[Reed1941]

I believe this only applies to U-Tankers, and only if you don't choose the option to dock when you exit patrol.

It works for supply ships as well if you rename them in the campaign files, e.g. Brake, you rename U-Brake, then it works.

And yes, in GWX all you have to do is click "end patrol" and then "Dock at". I don't remember if it have to be in fair weather for this to work, though.

Regards,

Reed

[scbw]

It works for supply ships as well if you rename them in the campaign files, e.g. Brake, you rename U-Brake, then it works.

Awesome! I had no idea it was that simple.

[Reed1941]

Awesome! I had no idea it was that simple.

Yuo, it is that simple. Just remember, of course, to backup your files, in case something goes wrong.

Regards,

Reed

[Hausverkur]

Very nice indeed.

[Aktungbby]

Hausverkur!:Kaleun_Salute:

[Mad Mardigan]

:Kaleun_Cheers:



Hausverkur! :Kaleun_Salute:

[Jimbuna]

Very nice indeed.

Welcome :Kaleun_Salute:

[Mister_M]

Funny to read the previous messages of this thread... :D