you know you've played too much SH3 when...

[thelawon]

You see a serious news article, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/business/global/13ship.html
and all you can think about is the lack of escorts!

[Leg]

Contact report: huge convoy sighted between Indonesia and Singapore, no escort, preparing to attack at night... :arrgh!::arrgh!::har::har::har:

[Bent Periscope]

How many torpedos will each 300,000 tonner require? I'll be happy to sink just one since I'll be able to pass Kptlt. Kretschmer as the Top Ace and wipe that silly smirk off his face.

Can't wait 'til the frauleins see me with the Knights Cross with Oak leaves, Crossed swords and Diamonds.

BP

[Jaman]

You hear an old telephone ringing and you shout "ALAAAAARM!!!"

Sorry, but that scene still makes me laugh when i see it. :haha:

[Packerton]

Whenever I see a ship in Harbour here in St Johns ingoing/outgoing I imput a torpedo solution in my mind. :arrgh!:

[TarJak]

Too much SH3 is not enough!:haha:

[Task Force]

When you see a plane fly over and think ALARM!!!:yep:

[Paul Riley]

Your girlfriend is in the shower and you think your UBoat is taking major flooding,so you rush for your toolkit and burst in on her screaming "secure that flooding,quickly chief,quickly!" while menacingly brandishing your wrench :o

[GoldenRivet]

Contact report: huge convoy sighted between Indonesia and Singapore, no escort, preparing to attack at night... :arrgh!::arrgh!::har::har::har:

noted

Night be damned... I'm commencing my attack NOW

[Kubryk]

You hear an old telephone ringing and you shout "ALAAAAARM!!!"

Sorry, but that scene still makes me laugh when i see it. :haha:
What's the source of that scene?

On-topic: there's is something wrong here, when I looked at photos of those juicy merchants all I could think of was how many torps and where to aim :)

[Contact]

You have SH3 sickness when you see a ship at sea and you think: If only I had a submarine and a few torps I would like to give a try in RL practice :haha:

I ussually think of that when I spot a ship sunbathing in a beach, hehe

[RoaldLarsen]

I'm sorry. I reject the premise in the title. There is no such thing as too much SH3.

[Paul Riley]

You wake up in the morning still half asleep,and can hear the birds outside your window.You think to yourself "finally,we are close to land,and that means home" :sunny:

[Kapitan_Phillips]

You have SH3 sickness when you see a ship at sea and you think: If only I had a submarine and a few torps I would like to give a try in RL practice :haha:

I ussually think of that when I spot a ship sunbathing in a beach, hehe


Guilty of that. I actually make a targeting solution. There were a couple of juicy oil tankers chugging past the bay here in Wales.

They werent even zigzagging :arrgh!:

[onelifecrisis]

lol @ OP :lol:

From the article:

Hundreds of cargo ships — some up to 300,000 tons...
:o

[Jimbuna]

Nearly 4% of the total world's fleet lying idol and not a U-boat in sight :o

[papa_smurf]

How many can I sink with my deck gun:hmmm:

[Sgtmonkeynads]

If you went back in time and told one of the old salts that we had 300,000 tonners, do you think they would even believe you?

We could hit them all at once and take them as prize ships. Imagine the look on the port official at Wilhelmshaven when we report in with our booty, not to mention the WWII U-boat in the lead. :yeah:

[Bronzewing]

You know, given all the fuss about piracy we were getting last year they probably SHOULD start escorting the stupid things! LOL

[={FH}=Paddy]

When i get home after a long days work and drive down to my apartment by the sea here in Dublin bay, i check out all the idling ships in the bay either waiting to enter Dublin port or taking sanctuary from impending bad weather, and always try to guesstimate their tonnage.

Once this is done I then remind myself that it would be too shallow for a feasible attack, too close to land for comfort and then I consider again; hmmm, Irish navy is hardly worth worrying about. So its upstairs and load up SH3!!


Still never enough SH3 can be had in my books though!

[BulSoldier]

Well i was on a ship 3 years ago for a practice and every time i was on my watch on the bridge, especially at night i was just wondering how anyone could have seen small stiking out of the water steel tube (periscope).

And the other thing is whenever we came across another ship i just made some guesses for a solution.(on radar however it is quite easy, seeing the ships speed ,course and our bearing to it :))

[Bronzewing]

When i get home after a long days work and drive down to my apartment by the sea here in Dublin bay, i check out all the idling ships in the bay either waiting to enter Dublin port or taking sanctuary from impending bad weather, and always try to guesstimate their tonnage.

Once this is done I then remind myself that it would be too shallow for a feasible attack, too close to land for comfort and then I consider again; hmmm, Irish navy is hardly worth worrying about. So its upstairs and load up SH3!!


Still never enough SH3 can be had in my books though!

Republic of Ireland was neutral in ww2 anyway, so it wouldn't have mattered, none of thsoe ships would count! ;)

[mr chris]

Was wondering around Limassol the other day when seeing this made me think the same thing. :arrgh!:
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa286/MrChris99/157-2.jpg

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa286/MrChris99/155-2.jpg

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa286/MrChris99/156-2.jpg

[Jimbuna]

That last shot shows the early formation of a convoy :DL

[BulSoldier]

And from your position, oh the magnetic pistol would really prove itself useful ! :up:

[Bent Periscope]

My kids practice & play soccer near a small airport. My two-year old son and I always see who can spot planes first. Then I time the planes to see if I could have dived before they were over me.

My wife wonders why my son yells "Alarm" rather than "airplane" whenever he sees one.

BP

[Jimbuna]

Doenitz would be proud of such offspring :DL

[Leg]

Schiff gesichtet!!!!!

[={FH}=Paddy]

@ Bronzewing (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/member.php?u=240951) - good point, still worth calculating distance, speed and AOB all the same!!

@ Bent Periscope - that cracks me up!! Alllaaaaaarrrrmmmmm! Spitfeur!:woot:

[squadldr76]

Some of you seem surprised at the size of some of these tankers. There are, in fact, at least 4 ULCC's that sport a DWT of at LEAST 500,000 tons. :o:doh::88)

It staggers me when I sit down and compare numbers from WW2 to modern capability.

[Sgtmonkeynads]

I'm from Montana. I have seen the Atlantic once and the Pacific once. The biggest boat around here is probably my friends bass boat.
So yes, the thought of a 500,000 ton ship blows my mind.
I am now very jealous of ALL you guys that live near the ocean.

[Damo]

Back on topic..

You know when you've played too much SH3 when, at the very moment of orgasmic peak with your girlfriend/wife you completely ruin the moment by screaming

LOS!!!!!!!!!

:D

[Paul Riley]

@Damo

And if its a premature explosion?
Or a dud? ;)

[Damo]

@Damo

And if its a premature explosion?
Or a dud? ;)

Well, then you still ruin the moment, just not the same moment she was thinking of....

:har:

[Paul Riley]

Your girlfriend farts next to you in bed,you roll away from her and mumble to yourself "chief,we had better throw that food overboard now,its making me want to puke",while trying to hold back your supper
:har:

[TigerShark808]

Whenever I see a ship in Harbour here in St Johns ingoing/outgoing I imput a torpedo solution in my mind. :arrgh!:


LOL :haha:

I do this also when taking my lunch breaks @ Pier 39 (SF)
Its nice to hear actually..I thought I was going nuts.

[TigerShark808]

When your at work one day and see a fire estinquisher mounted side ways on the wall and think to yourself " That looks so much like a torpedo"

[commandosolo2009]

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/05/13/business/13ship01-600.jpg

this is an orgasm to any WW2-era sub skipper. :rotfl2::arrgh!:

[Jimbuna]

When your at work one day and see a fire estinquisher mounted side ways on the wall and think to yourself " That looks so much like a torpedo"

I'm like that when I look downward whilst in the urinal :DL

[Gargamel]

I'm like that when I look downward whilst in the urinal :DL

Does it look like it.... or does it function like an early war model?

[desirableroasted]

Does it look like it.... or does it function like an early war model?


"...after Norway, but the depth keeping problems were never solved..."

[Jimbuna]

LOL....only Mrs Buna can testify to that :DL