gord96
03-04-09, 04:05 PM
Hey guys. I had an idea and just thought I would run it by you. I was thinking of making a website/forum where members of subsim will engage in a running campaign together. This is just a little side project for fun and will in no way become your primary career.
Basically everyone will start in Sept 39. We will probably base out of Wilhelmshaven as we all want to be in the same flotilla. Everyone will take a historically accurate boat and go out on patrol. When you finish your patrol you will return and post your patrol log. You will then have to wait for the next month until you can go out again. If your boat is damaged you may have to wait to go out again.
The forum will have different sub-forums. Like a pub for chit chat between patrols, a radio room where you can send transmissions while out at sea. The campagin will be D.I.D. If you die, you can start a new career as a different captain. There could be some good drama if one member doesnt come back.
I am still just working out the details and will put together the site. The biggest question would be for how long would a person have to finish a patrol. 2 weeks? 1 week? Obviously some guys would do the whole patrol on one or two nights. I was think 2 weeks to let everyone do one patrol. Then we will advance the month and the captains that are able will go out again. Like I said, if your sub took some crazy damage you may have to sit out a month.
This would just be for fun. We would use GWX 3.0. As we would need to advance the campaign every week or so we will allow the use of the "return to base" feature if you find yourself out in the Atlantic when the week is up. Of course some of our big IX boats could go out for longer. With SH3 Commander we could set it up so no matter when you return, we can always set a date to go out again that would make sense in the campaign. The captains back early can sit in the pub and talk. :)
Anyways lots of details to work out but just thought I would see if there is any interest.
Basically everyone will start in Sept 39. We will probably base out of Wilhelmshaven as we all want to be in the same flotilla. Everyone will take a historically accurate boat and go out on patrol. When you finish your patrol you will return and post your patrol log. You will then have to wait for the next month until you can go out again. If your boat is damaged you may have to wait to go out again.
The forum will have different sub-forums. Like a pub for chit chat between patrols, a radio room where you can send transmissions while out at sea. The campagin will be D.I.D. If you die, you can start a new career as a different captain. There could be some good drama if one member doesnt come back.
I am still just working out the details and will put together the site. The biggest question would be for how long would a person have to finish a patrol. 2 weeks? 1 week? Obviously some guys would do the whole patrol on one or two nights. I was think 2 weeks to let everyone do one patrol. Then we will advance the month and the captains that are able will go out again. Like I said, if your sub took some crazy damage you may have to sit out a month.
This would just be for fun. We would use GWX 3.0. As we would need to advance the campaign every week or so we will allow the use of the "return to base" feature if you find yourself out in the Atlantic when the week is up. Of course some of our big IX boats could go out for longer. With SH3 Commander we could set it up so no matter when you return, we can always set a date to go out again that would make sense in the campaign. The captains back early can sit in the pub and talk. :)
Anyways lots of details to work out but just thought I would see if there is any interest.