Kaleuns, Report to the Personnel Office [Archive]

TFatseas

09-13-08, 06:57 PM

Reporting in!

Hmm.... what to say? Well...

I always had a thing for the military, and expesically WWII.

I have played Slient Hunter for a while now,(Back to the days of SHII, boy was I out of my league back then!) so naturally I gravitated towards these boards. And I have played SHIII for a few years now. Still playing, still learning.

I do hope that I will make my stay here a good one!

Brag

09-13-08, 07:35 PM

Welcome TFastseas!
You are already making a difference. :D

Torp III

09-13-08, 08:40 PM

:damn: Bernard is 2 years older than I am!(subsim years) So what does that make me

Jr. ?

Task Force

09-13-08, 09:09 PM

I always have been intrested in U-Boats. And still play SH3. I like SH3 because of many reasons but there is one main one. In early war it is easy and as the war goes on, it gets harder. and getting back to base alive is a constant struggle.;) Untill SH4 gets a GWX makeover, Im sticking to sh3.

Erich dem Roten

09-13-08, 10:14 PM

I'm sure some of you have seen me around, I tend to ask silly questions. The last "sim" I played was Silent Service II when I was maybe 14 (my first was Wolfpack)...so when I saw screen shots of SH3 I was completely blown away by the advanced graphics...I had thought submarine sims were dead, victims of a niche genre. I bought it along with SH4 (which I've played maybe 15 seconds total...everyone said SH3 was better so that's where I started and that's where I stay) and couldn't be happier with it.

I'm still getting used to this game, so you can probably look forward to more questions from me. My knowledge of subs is very small; I spent nearly all my time reading about the land wars of WWII. I'm trying to remedy that, but I'm also a full time college student, so finding time to tackle books isn't as easy as it used to be.

Brer Rabbit

09-13-08, 10:35 PM

Like many other subsimmers, I cut my teeth on Silent Service II. For many years I missed playing Subsim, when I tried 688I, which led me to Silent Hunter III and IV. I have been playing SH3 for a year now. Still working on my first career in the stock version, but since moving to GWX in April, I have had little time to go back. I am on my third patrol of my third career in GWX. I am still in 1939.

My desktop has trouble running SH4, and my lap top is too busy with the challenge of the Battle of the Atlantic, take more than a cursory look at SH4. I read the mail almost daily here, and enjoy the commentary, advice, and historical perspectives found here.

Good luck to all you Kaluens in your efforts for the Father Land.

"Puuuleezze don't throw me into the briar patch!"

Laufen zum Ziel

09-13-08, 11:04 PM

Not much to say. Will always play SH3 (GWX) till my fingers fall off.

Thought I would try my hand at writing SCI-FI. No talent & gave
up after 5 pages.

My life is this forum, SH3, and my Silent Hunter Addict web site.

Welcome aboard everyone.

Wolfehunter

09-13-08, 11:13 PM

nikbear

09-14-08, 02:46 AM

drussxx

09-14-08, 09:23 AM

cut my teeth on the old sh2 games. i have been using sh3 since it came out and i am still learning. admittedly at first i played it in easy.now using GWX i,play it in a more realistic mode. it drives my wife crazy the hours i spend on it.recently been given an ultimatum. her or SH3. i asked if i could take the dog with me. :rotfl: .

Rhodes

09-14-08, 10:54 AM

My taste for sub games began with the old 688 (I), with put a terrible (in that time) virus on my dad PC, an old 386!!! Then it was Th 688 hunter killer game and SH2 and so on.
In subs and military about them was Das Boot and the fact of having a German branch in my family! And by liking history, military history etc etc...

Today, I think that I should have gone to the navy and to the sub service of the Portuguese navy...

von Kinderei

09-14-08, 11:27 AM

I started my under water career in the old Intellivision's Sub Hunt and then Nintendo's Silent Service ... :know: so thats been some time ago ... huh :hmm:

I've only been here a little while and though I haven't contributed to the modding community YOU guy's that do have made my simming expierence much, MUCH better and I salute you all !

THANK YOU :up:

Brag

09-14-08, 11:53 AM

As a teenager I used to prowl used bookstores and buy every U-boat book I could get my hands on. Later, my passion changed to sailboats. These interests merged when SHII came out and me and my laptop lived on a 40 foot wooden sloop. When aboard, SHII would be switched on and I played at TCx1 day and night. The realism was terrific and I was hooked. By the time SHIII came out, I had sold my boat and went into writing full time. Some of you enjoy the Balz stories I post here weekly and a number of subsimers have read my espionage thriller Kingmaker. The camaraderie I have found here is terrific, that's why this is my second home--well, err, okay, I'll confess, my home.

cody6

09-14-08, 12:03 PM

Hmm,former military person,former charter pilot(float planes).Got into the original SH then SH2 & now SH3.l've been interested in sub's since I was a kid,many,many years ago.By the way when is Bernard going to be shipped to the eastern front,where he can terrorize the ruskies? :D Cody

SandyCaesar

09-14-08, 12:21 PM

Ah...what can I say? Civilian with an interest in this sort of thing. Due to a faulty video card, I've had to spend a lot of time with my U-Boat tied up at dockside:nope:, instead going out on patrols with nucs (which don't seem to affected by that damn Foxconn).

In other words: see the guy in the band, when you're pulling away? Yeah, that's me.

Happy hunting, fellow Kaleuns.

ECAaxel

09-14-08, 04:36 PM

Hi i'm ECAaxel

I'm a member of the Air Training Corps in England, mainly into flying; however, since i was 6 i've wanted to play a game where i controlled a submarine. Then i found SH4 played an entire career on it, then switched to SH3.
Still into flying though and waiting for the day when IL2 multiplayer has the ability to connect to SH multiplayer.:arrgh!:

Also a member of the Justflight Forums :up:

Oh and Welcome to anyone just joining us. :up:

headcase

09-14-08, 08:04 PM

The rest of you, old salts, no excuse for slacking.

But slacking is what I do best! Some might even call it my profession.

skookum

09-14-08, 08:27 PM

Skookum here,

After deserting my fellow Kaleuns and joining the US Navy, I've returned as a double agent. Just kidding, your military secrets are safe with me...:|\\

Anyways, Silent Hunter 3 and 4 are both great games. But without the Subsim community, thier greatness would be diminished...greatly.

Ahoy mateys.

Blacklight

09-14-08, 10:37 PM

*salutes !*
I'm the resident nerd. I tend read and watch a LOT of Sci-Fi and Fantasy stuff. I collect board games (Real gamers games, not that crap like Uno and Monopoly) and board war games. I also collect and play pencil and paper role playing games. I have over 500 games stuffed in my walk in closet here. I also collect vintage computer games (thank you dosbox and MAME:rock: ). I also collect and read comic books and graphic novels. I'm totally not a war or history buff, but hardcore, complex, military sims scratch my itch for a more strategic style of gaming. My favorite games are (in this order): City of Heroes, Silent Hunter III, Dangerous Waters, Sub Command, Harpoon III Advanced Naval Warfare, Neverwinter Nights, The Operational Art Of War III, Orbiter, and 688i Hunterkiller. When caught playing a game on my computer, it's bound to be one of these on this list. I've been playing the Sonalyst subsims since 688i HK was first released. :up:

I also play guitar and keyboard. I've been in several punk, industrial, and noise bands. I currently am working on reccording a couple of audio projects right now with a couple of friends. I'm also enjoy circut bending (taking battery operated gadgets that make sounds like toys and such and short circuiting them to make them into experimental (non)musical? instruments. :D

andym

09-15-08, 09:55 AM

I started with SH2 and needed more realism,spent some dosh on a new LAppy and IT WOULDNT HANDLE SH3!!!!!HAppily i waited and was rewarded by greatful parents with a new Alienware Area 51 laptop.I have SH3 & 4 also just installed GWX and am soooooo blown away with the Improvement,love the lit up ships and harbour traffic.Only 1 niggle and its minute,id like the small line in the sub graphic to show the direction of travel.I am an Ex Royal Navy Medic(Corpsman for the Colonials and "Sani" for Our Teutonic freinds)Although i never saw any seatime in my 8 odd years.I also set up a website for Serving and Ex RN/RM personell,a kind of cyber Messdeck.(link is on my sig LOL)

HuskerNlincoln

09-15-08, 10:19 AM

Well, I was I very young when I was born, but from that time on I have grown....make since?

Acutally, I'm not sure how this all started, built models as a kid, always fascinated with the events and machines of WWII, then in the 80's got into computers. 90's go into building computers, building them, them started building gaming rigs and selling them on ebay, or freinds. I always am trying to tweak them, over clock them, update them in an effort to have the latest and greatest. Firm fan of Nvidia and AMD. Never had any formal training in it, just trial and error, got a part time job for a while as a tech as a result.

Loved IL2, Janes WWII Fighters, and of course Medal of Honor, then I found SHIII. Played it for a couple years, loved the graphics, and a great excuse to upgrade my rig. Downside was that I could never ever hunt down or take part in major battles. Stop playing for awhile as life had priority, but always lurked around the boards, then learned about all the mods GWX and here I am again.

All of you have been amazing, all the mods, the support, truly impressive.

I have no desire to move to SHIV, just deeper into SHIII, and become a more effect capt.

recently married, and she has been fantastic about it, so I limit the playing time, dont want to push it.

Little does she know if she was to ever go away for the weekend, she'd come home to find me in the office at my computer sitting in my soiled underwear, unshaven, with a steel bucket that had been used as a toilet, picked eggs everywhere, the stench of oil and diesel in the air and me babbling to myself in a coma like state about being depth charged!:doh:

Hylander_1314

09-16-08, 12:55 AM

Started back in the old SHI days on a Packard Bell 486 DX2. Passed on SHII as I'm an offline simmer. Not enough time for online play.

Got SHIII when it came out, and have played it off and on between flight sims over the years. Have always liked the GWX mods for it, as they add so much to it.

Also have the latest incarnation with U-Boat add-on, and like that one with the mods too.

Bosje

09-16-08, 02:05 AM

Bosje reporting:

Always had a thing for naval history, SH1 and 2 kept me off the streets a long time and with SH3 and the GWXperience, things got out of hand. Reading more and more books on the subject and started writing my own bits.

This community is the greatest that i know of, online.

Still alive in 1943 and still writing :)

If I ever lose interest, it will not be anywhere in the near future, but it's so immersive that I tend to stop playing for a bit every time I see something about the nazi regime. Funny how the mind works.

Salute and happy hunting, officers

STEED

09-16-08, 05:26 AM

Steed, we know you. No need to report.

Just as well I'm still reading your kinky second book Brag. Its heck of a read. :D :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

von hally

09-16-08, 06:04 AM

Von Hally reporting for duty!!!!

always had a love of ww2 games.

stumbled upon sh3...thought id give it a try.....wow.

that was three years ago now.
never looked at another game since....it would feel like i was cheating on her.

found this wonderful forum.....and gwx.....and i'm still genuinely amazed at the game i now play.

after all the mods etc.....its the game ubisoft should have released.

i try to tell people about the wonders that you guys have created...free out of your love of the game.....but they just dont get it

sh3 till i die:rock:

Kptlt. Neuerburg

09-16-08, 10:52 AM

Kptlt. Hellmut Neuerburg reporting in as ordered,
My time with subsims I have to admit has been not as long as would of liked as I have played only SH3 and SH4 and the U-Boat add on. I was a member of the US Navy for a period of time. Sadly I was "seperated", from the Navy due to a medical condition that would not of premitted me to stay. I did last half way through training. I am giving some of you people a bit of advise if you do plan on joining the US Navy DON'T GO TO SHIP 17!!!!! WHICH IS SEPERATIONS!!!!:cry: Trust me if you have a problem try to deal with it for as long as possable and try to stay out of seps. If you thought it could it get boring on a U-Boat well this I'm afraid is far more boring.

Sailor Steve

09-16-08, 02:08 PM

Steed, we know you. No need to report.

Just as well I'm still reading your kinky second book Brag. Its heck of a read. :D :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
@ Brag: Steed never has a need to do any of the silly things he does. But, as we can see, he does them anyway.

geosub1978

09-17-08, 07:12 AM

I play SHIII since the releazing date having achieved a topscore of 160.000tons with my beloved U 124 with realism all the way up to 100%. Limiting factors which prevent me from playing SH3 and reading submarine history are two:

1. My wife

2. Real submarines

The thing that I mostly enjoy is practicing plot, appoach and attack procedures that I have learned by using my BRC and IS-WAS. The core things for SH3 are:

ANY supermod with SH3 Commander and SH3Gen plus:

1. Adding ships to campaign files.

2. Any interface that makes things easier, as in real life Captain has 30 men helping him while in SH3 you are all alone.(New Optics for NYGM 3.0 1.1 (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=141925) :sunny:)
3. Res fix (1360x1024 in 17'' 4/3 screen) :sunny: .

4. Realistic submarine and enemy sensors.

I always try to combine the best of them so I have a very mixed version of SH3.

What I do to add real submarine atmosphere to SH3:

1. When the scope is down I shwift to the 3D connig tower or CIC room or operate the sonar manually.

2. Carefull procceding from depth to PD by using SONAR and Periscope to the last meters.

3. When attacking I keep periscope low and never more than 10-15 seconds exposed.

4. Open Hatch, Corrected diving angles.

5. Good sounds

6. I always moore my submarine to the dock when coming back from the patrol.

From this step I want to say a big THANK YOU
to the moders of this forum! :rock::rock::rock:

Seaveins

09-18-08, 11:25 AM

Reporting from the DC area: I come and go from this forum as RL dictates. I have been playing since the original SH. History of the battle for the North Atlantic has always been of interest to me. I really enjoy the posts here and bought a new computer specifically to play GWX (it does other work at times). Hope to see you over the waves.

Brag

09-20-08, 08:29 AM

Hi Seaveins! :D

Good to see another DC area Kaleun.

For your info, I'm having a signing at the Borders bookstore in Silver Spring on October 18

Iron Budokan

10-05-08, 02:20 PM

I've been playing subsims for a long time now. The first one was Silent Service II and I fell in love with 'em. Then I played Aces of the Deep and figured sub sims could never get any better than that. And then SH3 came out and I haven't stopped playing since.

When I'm not commanding a sub I'm a writer and father to two little boys who also like sub sims. (Mom tolerates our mania, lol, she's good that way!)

Kipparikalle

10-06-08, 01:47 AM

I have played SH3 GWX for God knows how long.
When I'm not playing, I'm probaly reading some books, biking, or just doing some random stuff

Keel Basa

10-06-08, 06:17 PM

Siara

10-07-08, 05:06 AM

SH II, SH III, and IV- (not so often).
Life long sufering West Ham fan- if i get frustrated by the antics on the pitch /most times/ im on the river bank catching some real torpedos.

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Keel Basa

10-07-08, 10:42 AM

I hear there are more entertaining teams in N London...well, one anyway...

*Regrettably, cannot find Arsenal-themed smiley*

Brag

10-07-08, 02:11 PM

Just joined TODAY, life-long WW2 buff (from videogames to hardcore history), writer and unemployed journalist. Pleased to meet you. Hope you guess my (OK, OK, quit hitting!)

Hello, everyone. :arrgh!:

We always welcome writers suffering their romantic stage in life :|\\

Keel Basa

10-07-08, 03:54 PM

Just joined TODAY, life-long WW2 buff (from videogames to hardcore history), writer and unemployed journalist. Pleased to meet you. Hope you guess my (OK, OK, quit hitting!)

Hello, everyone. :arrgh!:
We always welcome writers suffering their romantic stage in life :|\\
Hah. I'm not sure "romantic" is quite the word, but thanks much for the welcome. :ping: