View Full Version : Gastronomic Celebration of First Sinking
To many people, this might seem a bit odd!
I have a few careers in SHIII: some have ended quickly and tragically, others have lasted a little longer before being aborted (for one reason or another) - but all without any success whatsoever. Recently I downloaded GWX, and determined that this time I would launch a successful career. So last weekend I sailed from Wilhelmshaven, on 1st September 1939, in my Type VIIA, bound for the Atlantic south-west of Ireland.
En route, I was doing some thinking - which I have time to do as I cruise at only x64. I decided that when I sank my first enemy ship, I would celebrate. This being a German boat, I would celebrate in the German style - with German food and drink. Amazingly, although the town I live in in Wales is quite small, it actually posesses TWO German supermarkets. So, off I went and bought the necessary items (strictly German only), and put them aside in the fridge - NOT to be touched until I made my first sinking.
After a fruitless search of my assigned reference area, I decided to return home via the north of Scotland. I was about 100km off the north-west coast of Ireland when my watch-officer spotted a ship - a small freighter, as it turned out - AND it was flying the Britsh "Red Duster". I'm happy to report that, after making a bit of a hash of it at first in the rough seas, I successfully put a torpedo into the port side of the freighter in a daylight surface attack (it was too rough to use a periscope). About twenty minutes later, at 1613 on 12 September 1939, it sank.
Great! Crack open the food and beer! Sausages, of course - bockwurst, bierwurst, and fleischwurst. Cheese - Austrian smoked (Ok, because Anschluss is in being) and Bavarian smoked. German rye bread. Some German chocolate, made by J.D.Gross of Neckarsulm. Could not get sauerkraut, so I got German pickled red cabbage instead. And, last but definitely not least, a couple of bottles of German beer - Spaten (from Munich) and Steinhauser. Then I told Neuss to switch on the gramaphone, to play popular German music of 1937-39 (dont know who made that download available - a bunch of files, one for each year from about 1937 to 1945 - but they get my heartfelt thanks. It is SUPERB! So atmospheric!) I then laid back on the Captain'd bed - and spent the next hour or so stuffing my face, quaffing German booze and getting off on 1930s German music. Well worth the wait!
I realise this is all a bit weird, but this game does illicit some strange behaviour. This I know....for I have read the posts on this forum!
Kuckoo
Sailor Steve
08-14-08, 04:26 PM
And all the posts were lying. It's an evil conspiracy started years ago, carefully planned and executed, just so someday we would lure poor unsuspecting Kuckoo into revealing his perversions; so we could point at you and say "Look at the weirdo" and laugh.
:rotfl:
Actually that's a pretty cool way to celebrate. I guess with SH4 the first sinking needs a hamburger and a Coke.
Oh, and WELCOME ABOARD!:sunny:
Don't even joke about that, Steve! It's taken me years of conselling to recover after watching The Truman Show - and I thought I was better now!
Actually, between you and me, in SH4 you might have the better of it - at least to some extent. The sausages were really nice, as was the chocolate and the cheese. And the beer was wonderful, especially the Spaten. I did not go a bundle on the pickled cabbage though. And the rye bread was like chewing furniture - bargain furniture at that!
I've never been to Germany, and I'm tempted to go. If so, I will go for the people, the scenery and the beer.....not so much for the bread!
Spaten beer and hamburgers, though, seems like a marriage made in heaven!
Kuckoo
Hamburger and Coke?
No wonder I stick to the Kriegsmarine. It isn't worth winning a war for hamburger and Coke.
Give me some blutwurst or an eisbein anytime.
Which brings some memories:
After working for an extended period of time in an Islamic country, I was hungry for pork. So in my best German, I ordered an eisenbein. The buxom German waitress looked at me as if I was crazy. I then realized I had ordered an iron leg.
irish1958
08-14-08, 05:12 PM
Hamburger and Coke?
No wonder I stick to the Kriegsmarine. It isn't worth winning a war for hamburger and Coke.
Give me some blutwurst or an eisbein anytime.
Which brings some memories:
After working for an extended period of time in an Islamic country, I was hungry for pork. So in my best German, I ordered an eisenbein. The buxom German waitress looked at me as if I was crazy. I then realized I had ordered an iron leg.
I didn't order it, but I have been in some restaurants that served me an iron leg and called it "roast pork.":x
Ping Panther
08-14-08, 05:24 PM
Congrats Kuckoo!
Welcome to the SH forums.
That is not at all odd around here!
What would have been odd would have been for you to say you couldn't wait to celebrate Oktoberfest, so you ran right out and made a Germanic feast of it all a full month and more ahead of the actual festival dates. :p :rotfl:
Your SH3 ship sinking celebrations come first... then the rest of Germany can celebrate with you as well, it just may take a longer patrol. :up:
To many people, this might seem a bit odd!
I have a few careers in SHIII: some have ended quickly and tragically, others have lasted a little longer before being aborted (for one reason or another) - but all without any success whatsoever. Recently I downloaded GWX, and determined that this time I would launch a successful career. So last weekend I sailed from Wilhelmshaven, on 1st September 1939, in my Type VIIA, bound for the Atlantic south-west of Ireland.
En route, I was doing some thinking - which I have time to do as I cruise at only x64. I decided that when I sank my first enemy ship, I would celebrate. This being a German boat, I would celebrate in the German style - with German food and drink. Amazingly, although the town I live in in Wales is quite small, it actually posesses TWO German supermarkets. So, off I went and bought the necessary items (strictly German only), and put them aside in the fridge - NOT to be touched until I made my first sinking.
After a fruitless search of my assigned reference area, I decided to return home via the north of Scotland. I was about 100km off the north-west coast of Ireland when my watch-officer spotted a ship - a small freighter, as it turned out - AND it was flying the Britsh "Red Duster". I'm happy to report that, after making a bit of a hash of it at first in the rough seas, I successfully put a torpedo into the port side of the freighter in a daylight surface attack (it was too rough to use a periscope). About twenty minutes later, at 1613 on 12 September 1939, it sank.
Great! Crack open the food and beer! Sausages, of course - bockwurst, bierwurst, and fleischwurst. Cheese - Austrian smoked (Ok, because Anschluss is in being) and Bavarian smoked. German rye bread. Some German chocolate, made by J.D.Gross of Neckarsulm. Could not get sauerkraut, so I got German pickled red cabbage instead. And, last but definitely not least, a couple of bottles of German beer - Spaten (from Munich) and Steinhauser. Then I told Neuss to switch on the gramaphone, to play popular German music of 1937-39 (dont know who made that download available - a bunch of files, one for each year from about 1937 to 1945 - but they get my heartfelt thanks. It is SUPERB! So atmospheric!) I then laid back on the Captain'd bed - and spent the next hour or so stuffing my face, quaffing German booze and getting off on 1930s German music. Well worth the wait!
I realise this is all a bit weird, but this game does illicit some strange behaviour. This I know....for I have read the posts on this forum!
Kuckoo
Did you have a knockwurst with a painting in it? :p
Thanks for the congratulations.
The thing is I decided that, whilst a full-blown picnic would be too much every time I sink something, it would not be out of order to enjoy a German beer. Of course, having waited for ages to sink one little boat after spending hour after hour chasing sightings all over the North Sea in a Type IIA which turned out to be Danish trawlers, within ten hours of game-time I found and sank another British cargo ship. Within two hours of that sinking, I found a British coastal freighter, and sunk it within seventy minutes of sighting it. Three sinkings within twelve hours! By now I am very happy - in more ways than one - and have decided I had better abandon the beer-celebration thing before I become an alcoholic!
Having said that, it would not be out of order to celebrate with food and booze again should I be based in another country (France would be good). How much I eat depends on the success of the glorious German armed forces. And I intend to drink bitter with roast beef & Yorkshire pudding and bourbon with hamburger before this war is finished!
Kuckoo
Yobert,
It took me a while, but I think I got there.
They don't inflict BBC's high-brow 1980s humour on the poor population of Sweden, do they? What can you all have possibly done to deserve such a thing?
Kuckoo
GoldenRivet
08-14-08, 06:03 PM
request permission to join your crew as your first officer! <peeks around you at the table and licks lips>
i know where the tommies are hiding their ships herr kaleun... :yep:
<peeks again>
Schöneboom
08-15-08, 12:16 AM
Guten Abend, Kuckoo,
I wouldn't mind some rotkohl (red cabbage) right now, I like it much more than sauerkraut! It's not easy to find ready-made, but the recipe's fairly simple.
Mensch, I should've eaten hours ago!
Tchuss,
Wayne
Stingray67
08-15-08, 12:25 AM
Yobert,
They don't inflict BBC's high-brow 1980s humour on the poor population of Sweden, do they? What can you all have possibly done to deserve such a thing?
Kuckoo
They do, Kuckoo, they do!
As to what we have done to deserve this I couldn't tell you.
But there have been a lot of reruns of that particular show...and Benny Hill ran a lot too.
Congrats on the patrol and the sinking. A well deserved celebration. :D
Mittelwaechter
08-15-08, 05:55 AM
Great story, Kuckoo!
Love the idea.
Must have been a LIDL supermarket - according to the chocolate.
Kielhauler1961
08-15-08, 06:21 AM
What, no bananas! Nobody on my boat seems to eat them. They're still swinging from the overhad pipes in the control room when we gat back!
Sailor Steve
08-15-08, 07:11 AM
Of course, having waited for ages to sink one little boat after spending hour after hour chasing sightings all over the North Sea in a Type IIA which turned out to be Danish trawlers...
I once put in my hand-written log that there were more Norwegian merchants in the North Sea than there were British ships in the entire North Atlantic! Of course it doesn't help when they send you to patrol the wrong coast.
To Sailor Steve:
Interesting point about the Norwegian merchants. Available information in places such as uboat.net would show that, during the winter of 1939-40, the neutral Scandanavian merchants took at least as much as a hammering from U-boats as the British. According to uboat.net, of the 58 merchants hit in January 1940, only 14 were British: of the rest, 18 were Norwegian, 9 Swedish, 6 Danish, 5 Greek, 3 French and one each from Holland, Latvia and Finland - all neutral except the three French ships. Some neutral ships were sank in convoy, but most were independents. Ironically, most of the British ships were lost to mines, not a specific attack. And all of the leading Kaleuns were involved: Kretschmer, Schepke, Luth - they were all at it. So it came as some surprise to discover that the SHIII game-play actually penalises the sinking of neutral shipping. The BdU didn't seem to mind!
Kuckoo
To Mittelwaechter:
Well spotted on the LIDL chocolate! After that, I drove to the other end of town and cleared out ALDI!
To Stingray67:
Benny Hill did indeed run a lot - usually in no particular direction, while being chased by an usual gethering of scantily-clad female police officers, traffic wardens and nurses. Never did understand that. Had it been me I would have given up after fifty yards and let myself be caught!
Kuckoo
Sailor Steve
08-15-08, 05:15 PM
So it came as some surprise to discover that the SHIII game-play actually penalises the sinking of neutral shipping. The BdU didn't seem to mind!
It has also been pointed out that when neutrals are travelling in a convoy they should be fair game. A long time ago I went into Data/CFG/Basic and changed my Neutral rating from '-1' to '0'. That way I don't get any renown for sinking them, but I don't lose any either.
Orion2012
08-15-08, 06:50 PM
So it came as some surprise to discover that the SHIII game-play actually penalises the sinking of neutral shipping. The BdU didn't seem to mind! It has also been pointed out that when neutrals are travelling in a convoy they should be fair game. A long time ago I went into Data/CFG/Basic and changed my Neutral rating from '-1' to '0'. That way I don't get any renown for sinking them, but I don't lose any either.
What an excellent idea!!
I'm tired of being penalized for that stray fish from my salvo accidentally sinks a neutral..
I agree. That's a great idea.
What program do I need to open and amend the .cfg file?
Ideally, I would like a system that said:
a) ALL neutrals in a British-escorted convoy are fair game, adding to "reknown".
b) "Independent" neutral merchants clearly trading with Britain are legimate targets, adding to "reknown".
c) All US merchants prior to 11 December 1941 are a total "no-no", deducting from reknown , except those in British convoys, as above.
Is it possible to amend the game to do this?
Kuckoo
Kielhauler1961
08-16-08, 06:41 AM
As regards sinking "neutrals", just wait 'til late '42. By then Germany was at war with everyone and you can sink anything that comes along. Kpt. Peter Cremer took a long time to live down his "mistake".
ECAaxel
08-16-08, 04:37 PM
To many people, this might seem a bit odd!
I have a few careers in SHIII: some have ended quickly and tragically, others have lasted a little longer before being aborted (for one reason or another) - but all without any success whatsoever. Recently I downloaded GWX, and determined that this time I would launch a successful career. So last weekend I sailed from Wilhelmshaven, on 1st September 1939, in my Type VIIA, bound for the Atlantic south-west of Ireland.
En route, I was doing some thinking - which I have time to do as I cruise at only x64. I decided that when I sank my first enemy ship, I would celebrate. This being a German boat, I would celebrate in the German style - with German food and drink. Amazingly, although the town I live in in Wales is quite small, it actually posesses TWO German supermarkets. So, off I went and bought the necessary items (strictly German only), and put them aside in the fridge - NOT to be touched until I made my first sinking.
After a fruitless search of my assigned reference area, I decided to return home via the north of Scotland. I was about 100km off the north-west coast of Ireland when my watch-officer spotted a ship - a small freighter, as it turned out - AND it was flying the Britsh "Red Duster". I'm happy to report that, after making a bit of a hash of it at first in the rough seas, I successfully put a torpedo into the port side of the freighter in a daylight surface attack (it was too rough to use a periscope). About twenty minutes later, at 1613 on 12 September 1939, it sank.
Great! Crack open the food and beer! Sausages, of course - bockwurst, bierwurst, and fleischwurst. Cheese - Austrian smoked (Ok, because Anschluss is in being) and Bavarian smoked. German rye bread. Some German chocolate, made by J.D.Gross of Neckarsulm. Could not get sauerkraut, so I got German pickled red cabbage instead. And, last but definitely not least, a couple of bottles of German beer - Spaten (from Munich) and Steinhauser. Then I told Neuss to switch on the gramaphone, to play popular German music of 1937-39 (dont know who made that download available - a bunch of files, one for each year from about 1937 to 1945 - but they get my heartfelt thanks. It is SUPERB! So atmospheric!) I then laid back on the Captain'd bed - and spent the next hour or so stuffing my face, quaffing German booze and getting off on 1930s German music. Well worth the wait!
I realise this is all a bit weird, but this game does illicit some strange behaviour. This I know....for I have read the posts on this forum!
Kuckoo
Did you have a knockwurst with a painting in it? :p
'Allo 'Allo?
Shoopzee
08-17-08, 06:53 PM
The sausages were really nice, as was the chocolate and the cheese. And the beer was wonderful, especially the Spaten. I did not go a bundle on the pickled cabbage though
try frying the cabbage with oil, onions, and perhaps garlic if you like. Don't eat it raw out of the bottle. Also good with dumplings and roasted Swine, and some rich gravy from the swine fat!!:p
I never have been a big fan of cabbage and so, although I didn't like it much, it was better than I feared it might be. I evidently made the mistake of eating it cold from the bottle. Never thought of frying it. The roasted swine with dumplins and gravy sounds great but, before the crew gets that, I think we need to sink a battleship!
To ECAxel: " 'Allo, 'Allo?" .......Oh yes, I'm afraid so!
vBulletin® v3.8.11, Copyright ©2000-2025, vBulletin Solutions Inc.