How Far Have You Made It Thru The War?

[sharkbit]

How late into the war have you played a career?

Not necessarily in a single career though.

I play DiD, but I don't start back in 1939. I start my next career the month after being sunk/retired. I want to try and experience the entire war.

Myself, I am currently in November 1943.

:)

[Sailor Steve]

Ever since SH1 I've been in the habit of running several side-by-side careers, one in each flotilla. And, like you, if one dies or retires a new one takes his place, starting in the same month. That said, every time a new mod comes out I feel compelled to start all over again using it.

So, in five years of playing this game, I've never made it past mid-1940 - not from dying, but from starting over every few months.

[maillemaker]

I made it to the war end once, but I was not playing DiD then.

Steve

[KL-alfman]

I play DiD, but I don't start back in 1939. I start my next career the month after being sunk/retired. I want to try and experience the entire war.
:)


same for me
myself I'm currently in October 1942 (amidst the 4th patrol of this career in a VIIC)

[Paul Riley]

In an old stock career I managed to reach August 1942 after 19 patrols.I had to abandon the career though in order to play the much superior GWX3.
I am currently in a new campaign and the date is 4th November 1939 :yep:

I also play at 92% realism and employ D.I.D,and that truly means dead is DEAD!,no reloads for me.

[Vipper]

I do start where i did sink or near it, if i was unlucky and got killed, let's say, 25 jan i start new career 1. feb. . It is my third career now (such a shame) and 3rd Kaleun, 12, feb. 1940.

I do so cause i want to see all those changes that happens through the war.

Oh, and each time i get newest ship available...

[Damo]

I made it to 1942, May I think, but that was when I first installed GWX without playing DiD. Since then I've made numerous gaffs when installing new mods that have resulted in unloadable saves so I just go back to the beginning again. In DiD I've got as far as late '41 but then the New Interiors came out and I was compelled to start over again.

At the moment, after a complete rework of my mods (due to many being combined by our talented modders), I'm sitting on a stable install with no saving/loading problems and I'm on my first war patrol in Sept '39 after temporarily transferring to 1st Flotilla from the 7th/13th in U-53. I'm going to stick with this one and should I lose the boat I'll start a new career just after the loss. I too want to see the war out, regardless of how many hapless crew members I take down with me.

:arrgh!:

[sidslotm]

I don't think I have ever made it throught the war, about mid 43 is my limit, I tend to get to cocky and then caught out. I have a brand new tactic though that seems to work quite well, basically it works like this, cowardice:D

So Oct 43 and I'm in with a chance. Now I only pick off the stragglers and the lame, blast them with torps and get home. If it's raining and visibility is down, say 900 meters, wait it out. load up with homing torps if you have the renown, especially the rear tubes for the flowers, mine a type VIIC, tweaked to 300 meters depth with GWX3.0 on boarb with FM Interiors, brilliant.

http://sidslotm.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!6CDF5D0C0F0864E6!226.entry

good hunting

[Randomizer]

I generally start careers in 1944 and survival is tough with a green crew. Made it to 1945 a couple of times but only once ended the war while at sea with a career that started in August '44.

[Gilbou]

Almost made it to 1942 once. Never passed 1941 until now.
Playing at > 90 % realism.

[timmy41]

I just began playing only a few weeks ago, and havent had many opportunities to play. Im going to play such that if i die ill just go to a previous save, because for my first go through I want to experience the whole war and mess around a bit. currently its november 1939, and im finishing my second patrol. 5 torps left, sunk 42k tons, at full realism minus the targeting solution, although im doing manual targeting for lone merchants until i get the hang of it.

[Jimbuna]

I do 45 regularly but generally with a blank campaign file whilst testing something I'm working on http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/whistle.gif

[timmy41]

I do 45 regularly but generally with a blank campaign file whilst testing something I'm working on http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/whistle.gif
you tease!

[Jimbuna]

you tease!]


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[Kapt Z]

Never made it past late '42. I use SHCommander 'random career length' so my kaleuns rarely make it to their 6th patrol(often much shorter) before they're beached.

Right now I'm trying to see if I can get a boat all the way through with multiple kaleuns in command. U-207 is presently at sea summer '42 under her third commander since Sept '40.

Real world committments have kept me busy so I haven't had a chance to play SH3 since Nov '09.:nope:

[Reinhard Dietz]

I can't remember how far I've made it into the war; I haven't been in the position to play a good dedicated campaign for several years. My current commander's going to make it, one way or the other, to the surrender in May of 1945 after having gone to sea in September 1939. I think they call it Contractual Immortality (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ContractualImmortality).

DID as a policy was something I swore off in the Aces of the Deep era, so I'll do what is necessary to keep the current man (and his crew, etc) alive, whether that means a dozen reloads of a single torpedo shot against an aggressive destroyer or outright hacking of renown counts to pay for an RWR or homing torpedoes the instant they're available.

It ain't necessarily honest, but hey, I want to see the end of the war in stock before I put GWX3 in.

[Jimbuna]

SINK EM ALL!! http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

[RConch]

I have made it to Spring 1942 on GWX.
I start every career in August 1939 with the hope of going all the way thru to 1945.
It is what keeps the game so fresh for me, the challenge of DID is the only way to play.
If I was to always get thru, it would never be as exciting.:yep:

[Paul Riley]

I have made it to Spring 1942 on GWX.
I start every career in August 1939 with the hope of going all the way thru to 1945.
It is what keeps the game so fresh for me, the challenge of DID is the only way to play.
If I was to always get thru, it would never be as exciting.:yep:

I agree 100% ! .D.I.D adds a new level of tension to the game,even more so as you start getting attached to your UBoat and crew.
D.I.D is the only law out there,ignore it at your peril.

[flag4]

I agree 100% ! .D.I.D adds a new level of tension to the game,even more so as you start getting attached to your UBoat and crew.
D.I.D is the only law out there,ignore it at your peril.

...i hate it i hate it i hate it!! :yep:

this crew i have now are getting very experienced - and its taken ages to get them there. i am at present in BF15 (1941 July) approaching a convoy. i am trying to be reeaally reeaally careful with them, as on my last patrol i lost three good crew on the bridge during an attack...it was my fault, i was careless and reckless: not so now!

careful planning - night attacks, long range eel shots - get the hell out of there!! (use external camera to see the pretty lights!)

[Dimitrius07]

I could survive the war on 100% realism sh3 vanila without to much trouble, but in GWX is harder. I remember my surrender in late 1943, when the task force simply gang my @ss :D.
The last log:
chief - Kapitän we taking damage battery down to 25%
Me -
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e162/BinoChrist/FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUU.jpg
ok, blow ballast
chief - wooot :o but... but we can`t surrender sir, we don`t have this option in the game.
Me - You filthy noob :stare: as soon as we reach surface i will exit the game and use commander options. Now Surface the damn boat.
chief - but we can`t surrender..... we are the master race :88)
me - Just shut up
--------------------
GOOD STUFF :yeah:

[Snestorm]

Longest D.i.D. Carreer ended in december 1944. Type IXB. AM52.

[KL-alfman]

Longest D.i.D. Carreer ended in december 1944. Type IXB. AM52.


chances to survive until the end of war in a type IX aren't as big as in a type VII, I heard.

[Snestorm]

chances to survive until the end of war in a type IX aren't as big as in a type VII, I heard.

"Uboat sunk by pressure."
Hunter Killer Group.
Tryed to max out my depth.
At 182 Meters "pop went the uboat".
(Bad dice roll).

I think the IXB is highly survivable.
In a IXC things get real scarey with aircraft.

[Wulfmann]

Before Gray Wolves, any version, I never finished live careers because I was always stopping and rebuilding the game.
Since all GW I have finished
1 1944-45 career
2 1943-45 careers (one GWX2 the other GWX3)
1 GWX3 1939-45 career.

The hardest was the GWX2 43-45 one because I tripled the escorts for every convoy (some would be ringed 3 deep).
And, that was when I still had a spine and attacked convoys with a vengeance.
The other GWX3 43-45 had more escorts but not as many as in the GWX2.

The 39-45 whole war career was modified GWX3 but besides making all AS vessels 3 crew rated or higher I did not add near as many escorts.
My original thought was putting in what they really had but then in reality I would have help with wolf pack mates and we don't have that in SH3 so I backed down which gives me a better chance now.

Also from mid 43 I stay away from convoys except for long range latter torpedo shots and as soon as I fire I am about face at 60% and if I get a lucky hit I am somewhere away from the fish track.

I play 100% DID no excuses even unfair ones (war was not fair).

If it were easy I would have gotten bored and not be playing it (Like SH4)

GWX3 makes the sim no doubt.

Wulfmann

[Jimbuna]

SINK EM ALL!! http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

[Iranon]

I got up to 1944 before, but with copious reloads.

Currently I'm playing Playing GWX3 at 100% DiD and got to late 1940. With 1M tons of sunk allied shipping, I'm wondering how long until I can't rack up ludicrous tonnage any more.
I really want to ride this career home: sunk the Hood in Scapa Flow, bagged the Nelson in Gibraltar, sank more passenger liners than should exist in port raids (including a nail-biting episode in Dover where I missed the sub net on the way in and finding the way out with a dozen ships on my tail was a little tricky. No more port raids in a type IX!).

[Krieg87]

I played GWX year(s) back, but my PC screwed up, so I recently got back to it and started a new campaign
So far... see below, wish me luck its still early :D

[Jimbuna]

I played GWX year(s) back, but my PC screwed up, so I recently got back to it and started a new campaign
So far... see below, wish me luck its still early :D

Welcome back to the GWXperience http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

[HW3]

Currently playing WaW IV with GWX 3.0. I have made it from August 1939 to March 1944. I am using a type IXC.
Wish me luck.

[Jimbuna]

Good luck http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

[Sonoboy]

I am currently working on my first DiD career. It is also my first career playing at 100% with no external cam. It is September 1940 now, with 336k tons sunk.

Before this, I have made no attempt to do a complete career.

[Paul Riley]

Good luck with your DID career,its the only way to play :up: