Things that make you go Ahhh ****

[Gargamel]

I've had this type of thread do very well on other forums, hopefully it'll work out here. It's kinda like the "tell us what your doing" thread, A place to post/gripe without needing to start a whole new thread.

Things that make me go ahhh ****

My frist CTD, probably from saving to close to a merchy, As I exited I told myself i coulda just paused it....

Forgetting to check the GWX harbor maps for defenses when leaving a new base.

[Alpha Von Burg]

One thing that made me go "AHHH", was when a friendly surfaced vessel ran over me.

[Flaxpants]

My graphics card died on me last week, so I had a big Aaaah **** moment.:wah:

[krashkart]

Ahhh **** moments:

-When I'm on a particularly good patrol and I suddenly realize that Monday morning (IRL) is just around the corner. :cry:

-My pinky finger malfunctioned while evading escorts and hit the "S" key instead of "Z". :damn:

-Evading Gibraltar patrols: diving too deep and realizing that the only way to keep from sinking to my death is to make lots of noise with the engines. (Ahead Slow or better) :damn::damn:

-Firing an easy spread into a docked battlecruiser, only to realize afterward that the depth settings sent all four eels into the sub nets. :wah:




-Waking up with my face on the keyboard: Priceless! :yeah:
^^ (No blackmail pics available, sorry :03:)

[KptLtHansDampf]

I got a literal "ah ****"-moment several weeks ago.
Went to the toilet, forgot to pause the game, came back and seen two hurricanes happily strafing my boat with machine gun fire. No casualities, damage was minimal, but lesson learned:
"Never get out of the boat. Absolutely goddamn right!" (Willard, Apocalypse Now)

[Jimbuna]

When I run out of beer in mid patrol.

[nikbear]

Having a really great patrol,sinking 4 ships in convoy,evading escorts,.....then being chucked out of game because my anti-virus suite decides that it needs to scan my H/D!!!!Ahhhhh S******:wah::wah::wah::damn:

[Missing Name]

Evading destroyers. It's all going well, and then you accidentally hit "Full speed ahead," giving away your position. Ahhhhhhh s- sorry, heck.

[Hans Uberman]

When you're doing all the typical things to reduce CTD, and yet somehow you end up redoing that patrol for the 5th time...

When I run out of beer in mid patrol.
This is why we need a mod that lets us board merchant vessels and take their cargo. One of them has to have some ale on board, and we'll sink their entire convoy until we find it! Somebody get to work on this "Avast!" mod, and pronto!

[Herr-Berbunch]

When you load up your patrol, go make your cup of tea (or fetch your beer), load the dishwasher, tidy your computer desk, and look up to see the red line disappear and the magic words "Not so long ago..." fade in, and stay, stay, stay, stay, stay - CTD.

Ahhh ****ake mushrooms :wah:

[nikbear]

When you load up your patrol, go make your cup of tea (or fetch your beer), load the dishwasher, tidy your computer desk, and look up to see the red line disappear and the magic words "Not so long ago..." fade in, and stay, stay, stay, stay, stay - CTD.

Ahhh ****ake mushrooms :wah:

God thats a soul destroyer that one:cry:

[Deep-Six]

Having a perfectly lined up shot on a passenger liner and forgot to set the eels to impact instead of magnetic.

I reserve the right to add more moments to this thread.

[Hans Uberman]

Having a perfectly lined up shot on a passenger liner and forgot to set the eels to impact instead of magnetic.
or when you have the torpedo set to magnetic, change to impact and in your haste, you forget to adjust the depth. It hurts seeing all those torpedoes fly less than a meter from their target. :(

[krashkart]

When I run out of beer in mid patrol.

This is why we need a mod that lets us board merchant vessels and take their cargo. One of them has to have some ale on board, and we'll sink their entire convoy until we find it! Somebody get to work on this "Avast!" mod, and pronto!

We need a mod that will order a case of our favorite brew from the nearest store when we begin to run low, with a precision airdrop option for those living out in the boonies. :DL

[Jimbuna]

Having loaded up the patrol then went to the loo until to realise after sitting down one has forgotten to wipe ones bottom :oops:

[the.terrabyte.pirate]

Loading a game. Setting the Kiel canal waypoints. Leaving the computer for a few minutes. Returning to discover you've set the Kiel canal inbound rather than the Kiel canal outbound waypoints, and your navigator has run your boat across the harbour and beached her on the opposite bank.

Ahhhhhh ****!

[reignofdeath]

Possibly when I have a perfect salvo shot lined up on a nice heavy ship (Say a large merchant, basically in excess of 10 tons) and have double checked depth, impact or magnetic, and spread over 5 times to make sure theyre right only to fire and hear my tubes open and watch two valuable kriegsmarine resources swim harmlessly by the target :( Very saddening, and embarassing :oops:

[Gargamel]

Loading a game. Setting the Kiel canal waypoints. Leaving the computer for a few minutes. Returning to discover you've set the Kiel canal inbound rather than the Kiel canal outbound waypoints, and your navigator has run your boat across the harbour and beached her on the opposite bank.

Ahhhhhh ****!

Kaleun screams "Bernard!"

navigator turns around and says, "Hey, your name's bernard too!"

[Gargamel]

One MEASLY French neutral tanker...... and look what happened!!!!

25NOV39 OBERLEUTNANT Z. S.
05SEP40 KAPITÄNLEUTNANT
11NOV40 OBERLEUTNANT Z. S.

[Arael]

Lining up a long distance shot on a micro-convoy (two ships in a line) that's running with lights out in the middle of the ocean. Fire a torpedo at the trailing tanker. It hits, but the stupid ship won't go down. Put a good 10 shells into the thing before it sinks. Go to the map.. and a green sunk symbol appears. Run up to the other ship, and see a Brazilian flag flying. Screw you, Brazil. If you're neutral, light up your ship!

[Hans Uberman]

Put a good 10 shells into the thing before it sinks. Go to the map.. and a green sunk symbol appears. Run up to the other ship, and see a Brazilian flag flying. Screw you, Brazil. If you're neutral, light up your ship!
Oh that's just how they got rid of their criminals in those days...

Also discovering that you've mix up Columbia and Venezuela's flags, while one is neutral... Grrrr

[krashkart]

Being sunk by a neutral. :oops:

[U777]

Having an entire torpedo load out that are duds.

[Gargamel]

Encountering 2 large convoys in one week. trying to drift quietly into the first one, having the lead DD pick you up and force you deep, missing all the good targets. Then while trying to sprint ahead of the 2nd one in thivk fog, you practically crash into the flower escort, at 400m. You fire off a snapshot at it before he can bring his guns to bear, sinking him. Guess the cat's outa that bag too now.

[Gerald]

When the flight is delayed on departure, :damn:

[Zajc3w]

when running at periscope depth, silent running turned on and motors set to 50rpm and DDs hear me from about 4km. Happens three times in a row last night. First when aproaching dunkirk haurbor, second on dover and third in french canal hunting for convoy. All torps missed, first time i´try to evade-lack of air killed my crew.... And it´s november 1939

[Jimbuna]

When you stop a ship in the water and the flyboys show up and steal your kill.

[GT182]

When your computer's motherboard chits to bed on you and you lose everything..... that's the worst Ahhhhh @#*& there is. I'm just recovering from that ordeal.

[Herr-Berbunch]

When you first start playing, before knowing any better, and you pull alongside a merchant pumping round after round into it... only to see it spectacularly explode and take out your deck crew and damage your boot! :nope:

[Gargamel]

When you first start playing, before knowing any better, and you pull alongside a merchant pumping round after round into it... only to see it spectacularly explode and take out your deck crew and damage your boot! :nope:

Just did that last night in bad weather, and I knew better!

[Jimbuna]

When you first start playing, before knowing any better, and you pull alongside a merchant pumping round after round into it... only to see it spectacularly explode and take out your deck crew and damage your boot! :nope:

Early lesson....don't go alongside, the games doesn't allow any interraction between sub and boat, so no need :doh:

[desirableroasted]

Plotting a course through the Hebrides strait and forgetting to zoom in enough to avoid that little island south of Stornoway and west of Loch Ewe.

I've put three boats ashore there.

[Gargamel]

Early lesson....don't go alongside, the games doesn't allow any interraction between sub and boat, so no need :doh:

Have to see it to kill it. bad weather........

[Arael]

Driving a Hipper in the fog, my Radar spots a convoy. I use the Radar to close to viewing distance with a medium freighter. I open up on the ship with the dual 8" guns in A turret. The freighter takes several hits, then a hit on the bow causes it to explode. The dreaded "you sunk" screen pops up. The explosion from a 5,000 ton freighter completely destroyed my 17,000 cruiser. I was not happy.

[Gargamel]

11 torps fired, 2 ships sunk for 7k tons, and they're both neutral. Friggin Brazil nuts running darkened near Gibraltar.... sigh :nope:

[Herr-Berbunch]

Plotting a course through the Hebrides strait and forgetting to zoom in enough to avoid that little island south of Stornoway and west of Loch Ewe.

I've put three boats ashore there.

You're supposed to learn from your mistakes :har:

Or were you in Astute? :rotfl2:

[the.terrabyte.pirate]

Receiving a contact report nearby.

Plotting an intercept.

Arriving and submerging. Listening on the hydrophones.

Listening for two hours.

Realising that the contact was heading north west, while you've plotted it heading north east.

Banging head on desk. :damn:

[desirableroasted]

You're supposed to learn from your mistakes :har:

Or were you in Astute? :rotfl2:

Well, I have learned... just took some time.

[nikbear]

When you have to go through the old rigmarole of having to load everything again cause your puter doesn't like certain mods!!!!!!:wah:
Bloody heap of junk!:nope::damn::dead:

[Paulie76]

When you install a "realistic" hull strength mod that apparently doesn't want to play nice with your other mods, load up your career that you saved during heavy seas and are met 10 seconds later with "abandon boat?"

[Missing Name]

Forgetting to reload a torpedo before intercepting a convoy. (If I tell them to load automatically, they load the wrong torps!)

[U777]

I had an issue where all torpedoes were duds no matter how they were used. Took a break from the game (hence my absence from the forums) then reinstalled it and everything is fine now.

[Gargamel]

Dont know which is worse:

After finishing a good patrol of the western approaches (10 ships, 88k tons, good average size, nothing special, just lucky), encountering a darkened ore carrier of the Coast of 'England'.

So thinking A) Ireland is England, and B) It must be enemy cause it's darkened!

Unlucky Irish Sailors..... :nope:

[the.terrabyte.pirate]

Encountering a convoy with two torps left. Lining up a shot on two troop carriers, under the first mast to "guarantee" an eventual sinking.

Watching helplessly as they bob decks awash in the ocean for two days without sinking.

:damn:

[Svendog]

Changing my torpedo loadout while in base, only to find, when I encounter my first target of the patrol, that I've got the default loadout on board. "Bernard!" :damn:

[Volk2]

Completely forgetting about coastal artillery... This is the effect:

http://i51.tinypic.com/2lcurfc.jpg

My first death from a long time, and on the first patrol :wah:

[flag4]

...configuring www.AlacrityPC.com (http://www.AlacrityPC.com) for SH3/SHCommander...

bit of a head cruncher for me - but when it works = :DL

[Jimbuna]

...configuring www.AlacrityPC.com (http://www.AlacrityPC.com) for SH3/SHCommander...

bit of a head cruncher for me - but when it works = :DL

Yeah...I read the other thread :DL

[Arael]

Starting up the game, loading a save at sea, waiting 5 minutes for everything to load up, start driving around, and having the game crash so hard I have to hard restart my computer.

[ReFaN]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jfot0p2jfo&feature=related



Aww Balls..

[Gargamel]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jfot0p2jfo&feature=related



Aww Balls..

Can't figure out why he'd waste time to line up a shot when he could be going for flank and crash diving. And dang it seems like that boat was really moving.

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

Trying to beak through the minefield off the east coast of England, raising the scope only to see a mine chain only a few feet from your boat! Major oh s*** moment.:nope:

[Jimbuna]

Trying to beak through the minefield off the east coast of England, raising the scope only to see a mine chain only a few feet from your boat! Major oh s*** moment.:nope:

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/1309/seagullmine.jpg

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

Bernard!!! Did you put the fake crab on the periscope again!!!

[Gargamel]

Lazy kaleuns!

Successful attack on a convoy, after tracking them for a day, took out 3 ships for about 8tons each, able to slip away undetected, but having noticed some of the ships were damaged, and recently.

Seeing the destroyer that was trying to catch up to the convoy from about 30k back, but not avoiding him, and having him find us...... doh!

[kk20]

forgetting to put lazy watch officer on deck. Oh FFS GET OUT OF YOUR BUNK!

[j_evans]

My biggest ahhh moment was player silent II vs a friend on destroyer commander he detected me and was running in to attack I had a straight shot and fired at about 500 meters hit him and he sank on top of me.

Silent Hunter III ahhh is usually firing at a damaged target and finding that I haven't add enough to the draft to allow for how much of the ship has sunk by and having the torpedo skim off the bottom of the hull rather than exploding nicely under it

[Patkins1983]

Best moment for me has to be while sailing in the atlantic in the Bismark.

I'm moving the crew around due to fatigue when I see a little cinematic screen appear which looks a lot like an aircraft attack.

Definitely an oh bugger moment, bombs bang slap in the middle of the ship, several crew dead and some major damage.

Only downside to playing WSM3.0 is the crews inability to spot aircraft, still don't know what attacked me to this day but I quickly made for home after that attack.

[Kapt Z]

Intercepting a convoy just as I know it was time to go to bed.:damn:

I knew I would rush the approach/evasion and that has already cost me my last career.

Back to the empty sea of my last save.....:nope:

[Canovaro]

Closing in on a merchant then blow ballast en send men to the deck gun only to find out that the wheather just changed to just bad enough to not being able to men the deck gun.

:damn:

[Subhuman230]

I was blown up by a battleship a battleship!!!!!!what the hell is that not overkill?!?!:damn::wah:

[Obltn Strand]

Three approaches against a convoy during same night. All thwarted by escorts before making to reasonable (3000m) firing distance from the convoy.

F:damn:kin' radar.:down:

[Tonga]

Installed War Ace Campaign 4.1 on a fresh install of SH3 and after 45 minutes of troubleshooting because of the loading screens and main menu not showing up I now managed to leave the submarine pen in Kiel only to encounter some unspecified but well-reproducible CTD shortly after turning NE on the Kieler Förde. Every time I try this again...

C :damn:
T :damn:
D :damn:

[Falkirion]

I was blown up by a battleship a battleship!!!!!!what the hell is that not overkill?!?!:damn::wah:
LOL Subhuman. I had the same experience. I crippled the Rodney with a well placed eel into her engines. Figuring her guns to be dead I surfaced and fired off a farewell spread of two more. She was listing starboard at the time, I figured her 16" guns couldn't get me. How wrong I was. Copped a salvo into my boat and survived barely. My damage control team worked a miracle to get my boat back to France.

[Missing Name]

Forgetting to shift around your crew, forgetting them in the torpedo room for a day and finding them exhausted when you need them the most.

[Tonga]

Three approaches against a convoy during same night. All thwarted by escorts before making to reasonable (3000m) firing distance from the convoy.

F:damn:kin' radar.:down:


Well, at least you had some ships in your sight... :/
I just found a C2 Cargo, single ship, no escorts whatsoever. First thought: easy prey, take him.
Calculated an interception course, got my boat aligned at periscope depth, stopped and waited. He took his time, but since patience usually pays off... Then, while I was taking some last measurements to cross-check with my earlier calculations and refine my torpedo solution, the ship literally disappeared :o in my periscope sight as if it had suddenly been sucked by an invisible fog cloud. So much for the easy prey... :hmmm:

[kk20]

small convoy of tankers, light wind, darkness, 2 destroyers, 4 eels left and a full magazine of 105mm . Kill the destroyers, catch up to the tankers. 15ms wind. aaaaaaaaargh.

Follow them for a day.

15ms wind. aaaaaaaaaaargh bloody atlantic.

[Gargamel]

Dear Mom,

Setting sail today on a brand new VIIc. Hopefully all goes we........


http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/456/sh3img241120102342730.png

2 Careers ended in one day.....

[kk20]

did your watch officer go for a crafty smoke in the torpedo room?

[Gargamel]

Nope, first convoy encountered of first patrol of a new career. I had enough time to get the screen shot before the next round killed me. Had to surface after 3 wasserbomben (boom boom hoochie woochie) knocked me around real hard. Thought they were supposed to let you surrender.

[frau kaleun]

Thought they were supposed to let you surrender.

The game doesn't - if the boat dies, you die.

But SH3 Commander will let you alter the record outside the game:

As Silent Hunter III does not support surrendering within careers, SH3 Commander gives you the ability to mark "Lost at sea" careers as "Surrendered at sea" if you were surfaced with crew on the bridge when your U-boat was destroyed.

I have never done this but I assume it's among the options you would be able to choose from in the "Status" line on the right side of the Commander interface, once your career has ended and provided the circumstances were as decribed above. If you click on the text in the status line and there are options available they should appear for you to choose from.

[CherryHarbey]

The game doesn't - if the boat dies, you die.

But SH3 Commander will let you alter the record outside the game:



I have never done this but I assume it's among the options you would be able to choose from in the "Status" line on the right side of the Commander interface, once your career has ended and provided the circumstances were as decribed above. If you click on the text in the status line and there are options available they should appear for you to choose from.

Yep, it is exactly like that. You have to amend your patrol log too as it will have the whole crew listed as dead.

[Missing Name]

Ran into a torpedo net.

Found out I had missed the gap by a few meters.

[flag4]

Families.

[Arael]

Crawling along at 90 meters in a damaged Type IX-B when a depth charge explodes near enough to cause the 3 stern compartments to start flooding.

[Gargamel]

Trying to operate near the arctic circle in Mid June 1944. 4 hours of "dark"?! Cmon....... Just enough time to recharge the batteries, but not enough to do a speed run on both props while it's still "dark" out to evade air patrols.

[Victor Schutze]

Crash dive to 70 meters, then bang the u-boot on the sea floor: shallow waters.:doh:

[Missing Name]

Underestimating the abilities of a single Swordfish.

Watch officer, 3 FlaK gunners dead.

[OSU]

Underestimating the abilities of a single Swordfish.

Watch officer, 3 FlaK gunners dead.

I feel your pain on that one. I had a really nice watch officer and something like 7 people die because of just one of those damned biplanes.

As for mine, watching a destroyer lay a string of depth charges right next to your boat as you're lowering your periscope. Not a good feeling at all.

[VONHARRIS]

Underestimating the abilities of a single Swordfish.

Watch officer, 3 FlaK gunners dead.

This is really ugly.
I really go nuts when I see a well aimed impact torpedo hit the hull of a ship and it does not explode.

[Obersteuermann]

Finding a virtually unescorted convoy in the Channel, only for a squadron of He111s to appear and sink the big ones before I could get in range!

[CherryHarbey]

Having a relatively simple career in the Black Sea sinking naive Russians and then having some idiot at BDU send you into the puddle in the North that leads up to Rostov. Career over in water barely deep enough to sink in.

[NightCrawler]

Finding a virtually unescorted convoy in the Channel, only for a squadron of He111s to appear and sink the big ones before I could get in range!

U know there is a gass-paddle to step on it.. LMAO!!!
or radio them with "KEEP THE DAMN HANDS OF THEM, THERE ARE ALL MINE"...

[Gargamel]

B17 raids at the beginning of each patrol. Almost lost the Hipper on the last one.

[Gargamel]

Seeing the RN has started dropping "No Loitering" Buoys to deter you from waiting for that small merchy to sink!!

SINK ALREADY DAMMIT! YOUR NOT GETTING ANOTHER EEL!! THEY ARENT CHEAP!

[Lord_magerius]

The last time I played I had my biggest aaaah **** moment, thought it was more of a

**** ******* **** ******* thing why the **** did you do that. What a ******* **** ******* **** **** ****** with asparagus!

Manually set up a shot which had taken me nearly an hour real time because of poor weather conditions, finally had it lined up perfectly. Wiping the sweat from my brow, I gently press the fire button...

Then notice I'd selected one of the stern tubes at some point during my calculations :damn:

[GT182]

How about sinking a bunch of large merchants and tankers in BF17, then save for the night. Come back the next day to load up and continue, only to get that GD message that there's a problem with SHIII and it will have to shut down. You know that pop up and what it says. Happened 3 times in a row in trying for 15 minutes to load that last save. So it's ahhhh CRAP and delete the save. All those ships sunk are lost..... but going back and trying again with the save before it, the sim works fine. Now it's, ahhhhh that's better, campaign saved. :yeah:

[eBeaker]

At the beginning of my raid on the Freetown harbor, I was having a good time sneaking by two asw ships lacking sonar, despite the very shallow water I had to go through. At one point, I noticed a ship moving fast turning towards me, giving me just enough time to ask 'where did that destroyer come from?!' just before it ran me over.

After looking and seeing that, miracle of miracles, I had very minor damage, I went into the external view to see how far away the destroyer was, I saw it heading away, it's bow sticking out of the water. It's like the impact had torn the back half of the hull away and the back half was scooping up the Atlantic before stopping and sliding under.

[Gargamel]

Having to avoid Convoys in early '45 cause your low on torps, and you'll never get enough ships out of the convoy to make the ASW risk worth it.

[Jack Cutter]

Sinking 28,208 tons of merchant shipping after spending a month at sea, not able to make any worthwhile contacts.

Returning to port with a smile on your face, only to realize that 28,208 tons was NEUTRAL shipping. :damn:

[DeepFried]

I just had an ah s*** moment, unlucky patrol got bombed and strafed twice just on the way to the patrol zone, then spent an age chasing a hydrophone contact which turned out to be Dutch, setup an intercept on another medium target and used a load of fuel but he just vanished. Down to 50% fuel so I started to head back, finally got lucky and practically ran into a c2 at night, gave him two sweet hits below the chimney stack but he wouldn't go down so I had to give him the third tube as well... Anyway, feeling satisfied and tired after a 3hr Patrol plotted a course back and time compressed it right up to the docks, left to go the the bath room, came back and my boat was sunk with all hands in the harbour to a collision! And with no save either.

[Hanomag]

That ol' sinking feeling...

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c93/MakoStreak/DeepestDive-1.jpg


Unbelievably.. we bottomed and I survived? :up:



Ok wheres the keep back 200 meters bumper sticker??


http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c93/MakoStreak/WTF-1.jpg

Somehow I wound up on the Russian front after this "Lorient brushing incident"...:nope:

[Jimbuna]

LOL :DL

[Obltn Strand]

Kiel canal outbound, "when near land" TC was accidentaly set to 4.

Circum navigating Denmark wastes precious type IIA fuel:nope:

[VONHARRIS]

To use 60 105mm rounds to sink a filthy coastal freighter!

Edit : The next ship I found was a passenger/cargo. She went down with 5 rounds.
The gun crew was the same.

[desirableroasted]

Edit : The next ship I found was a passenger/cargo. She went down with 5 rounds.
The gun crew was the same.

The only P/C loaded with a cargo of lead, then. Because I swear all the rest are loaded with ping-pong balls.

[Lord_magerius]

That ol' sinking feeling...

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c93/MakoStreak/DeepestDive-1.jpg

Unbelievably.. we bottomed and I survived? :up:


Best feeling in the world when you survive that :yeah:

"Approaching crush depth.... Passing crush depth.... ok, um Kaleun we are 200m past crush depth :doh:... :D"

[Gargamel]

The only P/C loaded with a cargo of lead, then. Because I swear all the rest are loaded with ping-pong balls.

I had one that was half cork, and Half Lead. 1 shot from the gun split her in half, aft sank link a rock, front half, well, never sank.

Argggg.... can't find the screen shot!

[Jimbuna]

BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!! http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

[Missing Name]

All of this in the same patrol:

1. Spending a day tracking a ship, only to find out it was only a neutral tramp steamer.

2. Intercepting 3 convoys in a week, yet having to break off because the weather won't even let you see the Black Swan 200 meters away.

Netted 11,000 on that patrol.

[jangles]

Firing two torps at a destroyer , then realising I'd forgotten to check the depth.

"depth under keel is 22m..."

Oh sh** :wah:

[Gargamel]

Finding a "convoy" of 3 14kt Auxiliary Cruisers and 1 ASW Escort.

Firing an air torp at the ASW rather than electric by mistake. Winning the turning battle you just got into with the destroyer, firing off the stern torp, and as soon as it hits, CTD.


NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[VONHARRIS]

Finding a "convoy" of 3 14kt Auxiliary Cruisers and 1 ASW Escort.

Firing an air torp at the ASW rather than electric by mistake. Winning the turning battle you just got into with the destroyer, firing off the stern torp, and as soon as it hits, CTD.


NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

That has happened to me as well. Was the ASW escort a V&W destroyer?

Now , I am returning to La Spezia after a succesful patrol (80K) with TC 1024 and I get a death screen that my sub was destroyed by collision with some uncharted small island while on open seas! I haven't saved the patrol either.

[Gargamel]

That has happened to me as well. Was the ASW escort a V&W destroyer?

Why yes it was. I like to play DiD, but this was a Force Majeur, so I kept reloading till I sunk that DD again. Took me a couple loads to do it since apaprently my weps officer can't hit a high speed moving target. Learned I gotta lead it a little. Guess the time difference between when I hit fire and when it goes is enough for a DD @ 20kts @ 3.5km to be overshot.

[VONHARRIS]

@Gargamel
I guess this happened around late 1939 mid 1940 somewhere off the Northern Ireland.

If so , then this is certainly a bug.

[Missing Name]

Getting pinged by an armed tugboat, keeping you at only 8x speed despite the fact that Bob doesn't even have depth charges. (Got out of that by ramming the tuggy.)

[Gargamel]

@Gargamel
I guess this happened around late 1939 mid 1940 somewhere off the Northern Ireland.

If so , then this is certainly a bug.

Yeah it was off Ireland! But I did sink the guy and get the cruisers.


EDIT: Now that I look at it.... It was actually due west of Scapa flow, and Due North of Stornoway, AM3476, 8 November, '39. So if anybodies in the area then, easy 30kt there.

[Gargamel]

When BDU has never kept in you in port more than 12 days, and you return to base March 6, eager and ready to invade norway in early april. You launch from the pier....... and you notice it's April 18th!!...... DOH!!! Darn you slow refitters!!! :nope::nope::down::nope::nope:

[Missing Name]

Loading acoustic torpedoes in base, deciding to quit the game and reload the save point.

The torpedoes have switched to the default loading, but you're still down 1000 renown.

[desirableroasted]

apaprently my weps officer can't hit a high speed moving target. Learned I gotta lead it a little. Guess the time difference between when I hit fire and when it goes is enough for a DD @ 20kts @ 3.5km to be overshot.

At that distance and speed, and given that you are, after all, running a pretty heavy program, a half-second's hesitation can ruin your shot. The AI could be ahead of you a few seconds, or behind you -- and then, a shot at that distance is not always that easy to sight.

[Gargamel]

Getting bored, ordering a crash dive for S&G's (just to keep the crew sharp ya know), tabbing over to another screen and forgetting that your running deep at flank. Coming back 20 minutes later, finding your batteries nearly drained, surfacing and having the watch see a hunter killer group 5 minutes later.

[JJOM]

The damned anti-submarine nets existing in some harbours...:damn::damn:

But.. thinking about it... I never thought about torpeed them...:hmmm::hmmm:

:haha::haha:


Greets,

[VONHARRIS]

The damned anti-submarine nets existing in some harbours...:damn::damn:

But.. thinking about it... I never thought about torpeed them...:hmmm::hmmm:

:haha::haha:


Greets,

You can't. The torps will not explode.
Besides , there are and mines over these nets

[Gerald]

Yes, in some cases, there are mines over these nets, but not always, but you are absolutely right that some nets, preventing eels to come up and hit the target

[Jimbuna]

Mines and nets are distinctly SEPARATE entities....your best chance of keeping clear of a net with an eel is to set the depth of the eel to 'zero' which IMHO is unrealistic.

[kroll688]

Setting up a long shot on fast tanker in manual, then after firing notice I didn't flip the switch back from input mode and the TDC did not have any of the info. Could not have missed worse.

[Tripitaka]

Convoys that "disappear"!! :hmmm:

I shadowed a 15 ship convoy on my way back to Wilhelmshaven in Der Kannal on my last patrol. It ran NNW into the large "bay" between Exmouth and Portland - 0500Hrs approx, Heavy Seas, Visibility Shyte - but they were there!!!!

Battery low - 10% - Surface the Boat and . . . . .

No Convoy???????

Periscope Depth to check Sonar

No Convoy!!!!! :damn:

Not the first time either . . . .

[Gerald]

Yes, they have a way point...

[VONHARRIS]

Mines and nets are distinctly SEPARATE entities....your best chance of keeping clear of a net with an eel is to set the depth of the eel to 'zero' which IMHO is unrealistic.

I agree. I have done it once and I saw the torpedo flying out of the water like a leaping salmon.

[STEED]

Worst form of CTD after sinking an aircraft carrier. :damn:

Or

When you have no option but to re-install the game.

[VONHARRIS]

Losing a 100k patrol because of power failure.

I must buy an UPS urgently!

[Gargamel]

Losing a 100k patrol because of power failure.

I must buy an UPS urgently!

I save frequently, I usually end up with 12 saves or so per patrol, just in case of CTD's. Most times after a major combat. I play DiD, but CTD's and force majeurs don't count as dead! Ended up replaying an encounter like 5 times once to get the results of the first time! I CTD'd just after on the first one, luckily the previous save was about 2 hours (game time) before the encounter, so It's wasnt a major issue recreating it.

[Jimbuna]

I save frequently, I usually end up with 12 saves or so per patrol, just in case of CTD's. Most times after a major combat. I play DiD, but CTD's and force majeurs don't count as dead! Ended up replaying an encounter like 5 times once to get the results of the first time! I CTD'd just after on the first one, luckily the previous save was about 2 hours (game time) before the encounter, so It's wasnt a major issue recreating it.

Which is precisely one of the benefits of performing multiple saves http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

[Missing Name]

Thinking you had successfully evaded convoy escorts, but the second you surface and start getting outta dodge, they come back and blow everything off of your conning tower.

[VONHARRIS]

Things got even worse now.
The power failure torpedoed and sunk my graphics card (Nvidia Geforce 7600 GT).
Now I don't have my desktop gaming machine to play SH3.
I post this from my laptop.
New card is to come in on Tuesday - if the BdU allows it.

[Jimbuna]

What card are you replacing it with?

[VONHARRIS]

What card are you replacing it with?

I don't know yet. The shop will open on Tuesday.
I think something similar to the lost one as I was satisfied by its performance. The only game I play on my PC is SH3.

Any suggestions?

[Jimbuna]

I don't know yet. The shop will open on Tuesday.
I think something similar to the lost one as I was satisfied by its performance. The only game I play on my PC is SH3.

Any suggestions?

Not really, it depends on what you want to do with it and what you want to pay.

My 32bit system is running a Nvidia 7800GS and the 64bit system an ATI Radeon HD 5750

[the.terrabyte.pirate]

1940 in U-13, my trusty IID.

Out from my first patrol from Lorient. New flotilla, new home port. Time to make a name for myself.

While heading up the west coast of GB, a convoy appears as a radio contact. It's a little far off, but I figure "What the heck" and plot an intercept course. It's a long shot, over 250 km away, but the intercept point is on the path I'm already travelling.

Gun the diesels to ahead full. Bad weather is slowing us down. High wind, torrential rain. Cautiously on 128x tc.

Suddenly it's BANG... taking damage. Depth charges in the water. Hull damaged. Bow torpedo tubes damaged.

I crash dive, but the depth charges blow me to pieces. Not before my sonar guy picks up the sounds of the convoy's merchants at close range.

The lead escort of the convoy ran straight over the top of me in the darkness. Not a peep from my watch crew.

Positive: I know my intercept method works. I found the needle in the haystack. It's like shooting an arrow from the sky with a bullet, firing from over your shoulder while using the reflection from a mirror.

Negative: Ah S**T! There is no way any of my future intercepts will be this accurate, and all I have to show for it is a sunk boat and a dead crew.

I normally play DID, but the situation sucked so badly I've decided to reload from Lorient and start the patrol again. It wasn't my mistake. It wasn't even bad luck. It was a fluke that I'll be damned if I'll accept as a legit death. It's the equivalent of the computer crashing.

[stokeyblokey]

1940 in U-13, my trusty IID.

Out from my first patrol from Lorient...Suddenly it's BANG... taking damage. Depth charges in the water. Hull damaged. Bow torpedo tubes damaged...

I feel your pain, I have even had the watch crew miss a DD directly astern until it rammed me into an early grave and this was in good weather and visibility...and nothing on hydrophones when surfacing minutes before, of course, due to the so-and-so being in my baffles.

To help stop so many of these "interesting" encounters I have used SHC3.2 to modify the Time Compression settings so when something is detected (if they detect it that is!) TC drops straight to 1x instead of 8x - that gives you a bit more of a fighting chance :D

[Gargamel]

I dunno TBP....... that's sounds liek DiD to me :O:.

I almost got ran over once by what I think was a lone DD, sunk him with a stern shot before he could turn on me, < 500m before i saw him. I assume he was alone, never saw anybody else, but I did hightail it outa there.

[Schwieger]

Harbour raiding. Enough said.

[Missing Name]

An unaware destroyer is on a course to pass directly overhead. You are silent, so you can't maneuver without giving away your position. It almost seems like you avoided him... random PING.

[Gargamel]

Losing the second drive, after a first one had failed, in a 3 drive RAID 5. I had just sat down to start to the repair process, upgrading to a 2 TB R5, when I lost the array. Luckily I had backed up "my Documents", so I kept all that goodness, but didnt get to backing up my downloads sections, so GWX reinstall here I come!

[hampster]

1st Patrol the war just started. Still amazed that the Kriegsmarine has entrusted me with a Uboot. But time to wreck havok on the English shipping. My type II decides to find its prey the old fashioned way. Sail around randomly til we blunder into an Englishman. Finally a merchie, its night Im going to sail up to his side and sink him. That plan in mind as we get close. I decide to check who he is exactly. Up go my binocs. His flag is orangish red with a white circle in the middle. Turn to my watch officer "who the hell are those guys?!?" He doesnt answer just stares at me creepily. Note to self dump the watch officer shoreside asap. Deciding not to engage we go on a merry tour of the north sea once more. Finally a week into the patrol we come across an english merchant. Still baffled by the whole concept of the fire control comp. I give him 10 degrees of lead and fire. The torps wake heads straight for the boiler room. Scratch one merchie I think. "Klang!" says the torp as it bounce off the side. The merchie panics. A dud? well lets try that again fire 2. "Klang!" another dud from 2 90degree angle shots. The merchie is running zigzagging and more then likely changing his drawers. Spend the next 30 minutes working into a firing position with the same result. If we make it back to shore Im going to have a few choice things to say to the torpedo people. another 30minutes and another dud.:damn: At periscope depth weighing my options with my last shot, here comes the cavalry. Warship inbound and fast, that merchie must be screaming for someone to save him. Another spot of bad luck, he zigs when he should have zagged and im now 100 meters of his portside, going the same course. Up goes the periscope again, only this time Im looking at a destroyer, from the side, who is going slow. Forget the merchie, fire! torpedo sails true and breaks the destroyers back. Now on to the merchie. Only to realize I just fired my last torp and then get to watch the luckiest merchie in history sail off into the sunset. I head back to port with 1200tons of V&W only

[Stargazer]

My recent 'Ahh ****' moment.


Coming home to Kiel after a very successful dip in the North Sea. Previous mission had been a total dud so was thrilled to have sunk three ships and head home again.

I'm getting into the narrow(ish) bit and I'm staring at the Nav map. TC comes off and I get a 'Ship spotted' message. It's a neutral so I think nothing more of it.

I put TC back to 32 and then think, I wonder what neutral it is. So I go back to realtime and hit F4 to go t the Bridge.

And then I discover that only a tiny handful of ships will go evasive if they sense a collision. Immediatly to Port, I see a hunking great passenger ship coming directly intomy path from alongside.

I'm screaming for emergency reverse but it's too late.

I don't know if any of you have seen the film Galaxy Quest. If oyu have, you know that bit where they're leaving spacedock and scrape the ship against the side and just how cringe-worthy that metal against metal scraping noise is...

It was just like that. After I stopped clenching and the passenger ship had finished peeling the paint of my hull, I ordered full stop. Googled the flag and found out that Estonia had no qualms about bumping German military vessels out of their way in 1940.

Suffice it to say that I now spend a lot more time on the Bridge when coming into port or I zoom in closer on the Nav Map.

Luckily I didn't take any damage. But lessons have been learned.

[Lord_magerius]

Just had two in one patrol :cry: First I encountered 4 duds and 3 eels exploding prematurely which was rather annoying since I'd plonked myself in the middle of a large convoy. The second part was coming into port, I had it lined up perfectly to head straight into the pen. Feeling pleased with myself with such brilliance, I decided to pan around quickly a couple of times. Of course I did turn sticky keys off... Oh fu... Tried getting back into SH but it crashed. 4 hours wasted :damn:

[hampster]

6th patrol I was assigned AN26 for the second time in a row, completed my orders and found 1 ship which I sank. It was just raining and vis was 400 at the most. So I decide to head south for better weather. I get down to Southend at 8pm. It is dark and vis is still crap so I get a bright idea. Run in on the surface and sink everything I can see. Bar running into a destroyer literally it should go good. I use 2 torps to sink a coastal merchant 20 miles out. I get into Southend. Nothing is there. There is some burning oil and some buildings on fire. I zoom in to see the cause of fire ashore, and 1km inland is the front end of a C2:o Some bad mojo went down here. 3 other ships are burning and 2 are sunk. I guess someone else got here first. So I decide to head to the entrance of the Channel.

I get to the mouth of the channel. Contact report. So I plot an intercept, I should meet this ship in an hour and a half. So an hour and a half later. Sonar contact Frachter Bearing 30 and closing. 90. His course is generally SW and Im coming around to north so I order SW. 170. Ill head on this course for a minute, buy then I should have the data for my usual 500 yard portside shot. Bearing 175 now as my ship hits SW. Bearing 180, hes getting loud, really loud. I set my aft tube for a 400 yard run Ill get him as soon as he comes out of the fog with a straight aft shot. Up goes my periscope, this will be sweet. Whats this? seas must be really rough its just foam, and the fog must have closed in to pea soup as all I can see is grey. Wait, this could be horrible. My fears confirmed and I look as high as the scope will go and see the bow of a ship. Ahead flank! Hard port!Dive!Belay that! as I realize my tail will swing into his path.Just the turn not the Dive! Mommy! A scream of metal. Banging. more metal scraping. A jolt as he brushes my tower out of the way. A minute later we are all still alive. Amazingly we just traded paint. The extent of the damage is a few dents and our Schweinchen must be repainted.:stare: Reckless sailor is going to have to pay for ramming me. periscope depth. ahead full. I will put some eels up his rear. Fire one. Klang! a dud! Open 3, wait. He stopped and Im headed at him full speed ahead. Engines stop! Emergency reverse! Where the hell did this guy get his sailing license? A surprise egg? I manage to stop 50ft from his stern. He is noticeably settling aft. I motor up his starboard side and surface I want this fool to know whats coming. 90 off his starboard I put 2 torps into him. No fires, he just settles a little faster. Im about out of forward eels, so I will do a 180 and put the stern tube into him. 4 minutes later that manuever complete. Im just about to shout fire when he turns turtle. Good riddance. 1 front tube left,3 rear, 3 ships sunk a week into this patrol that is just storming.

[Gargamel]

Waiting for a 3x1tb Raid 5 drive to format.

[Tripitaka]

Rubber Torpedoes!!!!

Otherwise known as TII (G7e)

Gods-Damned pieces of Bernard-inspired cr*p

If'n I wanted to bounce something long and slim off of the side of a ship I'd chuck a Nerf at 'em, OK? :damn:

GAH!!!

[Iranon]

I can take unsuccessful attacks. I can take torpedo duds. What I can't take is having my perfectly lined up eel detonate 1m under the keel of the target splitting it in half while getting the message 'Torpedo war Fehlzünder' and being denied any credit. Especially not when it happens 3 times in a patrol. ARGH.

[desirableroasted]

I can take unsuccessful attacks. I can take torpedo duds. What I can't take is having my perfectly lined up eel detonate 1m under the keel of the target splitting it in half while getting the message 'Torpedo war Fehlzünder' and being denied any credit. Especially not when it happens 3 times in a patrol. ARGH.

That seems very odd. I sometimes get the "torpedo missed" message when it has exploded just on the other side of the ship, but my clock and intuition tell me it is a hit. And it always is.

Could this be a mod problem? Someone else was in here the other day saying he split Passenger/Cargos in two, and both halves stay floating.

[Iranon]

I don't have any gameplay mods apart from GWX... eye candy and interface shouldn't affect it.

This is something else. I have noticed that Passenger/Cargo ships tend to stay afloat after taking a ridiculous beating, so much that emptying flak into them until they blow up almost seems more practical than using real weaponry.
I haven't checked whether this is justified by the nature of their usual cargo, but I doubt it.

However, the ships I was complaining about sank just fine within a minute and were of different types, two destroyers and a light tanker. I observed their sinking through the scope, never got any credit.

[VONHARRIS]

1 .Having lined up a 3 torpedo spread against a Southampton CL and watch two of them bounce off and only one explode.

Fortunately , I fired and the fourth tube aimed at her magazines and sunk her.

2. Having intercepted a large convoy and preparing firing solution and watch them starting zigzaging and changing course. (october 1939). I let them pass.

These two incidents happened in the same patrol.

[Jimbuna]

1 .Having lined up a 3 torpedo spread against a Southampton CL and watch two of them bounce off and only one explode.

Fortunately , I fired and the fourth tube aimed at her magazines and sunk her.

2. Having intercepted a large convoy and preparing firing solution and watch them starting zigzaging and changing course. (october 1939). I let them pass.

These two incidents happened in the same patrol.

BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!! http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

[VONHARRIS]

BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!! http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

Not this time , Jimbuna.
The odds were against me , I was risking to be exposed to enemy DDs passing close enough.
Sinking one ship doesn't equal the lives of 47 men.

[Fader_Berg]

I know I shouldn't enter the channel, but I'm the kind of guy that always have to learn the hard way. While going to a patrol grid just off south west of britain, I had to take the shortcut. In a very dense fog, I ran into the sight of a wonderful destroyer.
I spent three live hours, trying to evade that destroyer and an other one which came along for the party, amongst an ASW Trawler. My type II took quite a beating, but I did manage to escape some kilometer away while they where bombing else where. It did look promesing indeed...

I was planning to do some crew management but "accidentally" ordered back full. The crew didn't hasitate... neither did the destroyers.

[Matte Black]

Deleting a save without realising that it's going to delete all subsequent saves as well. Did that last night. Ooops.

[Gargamel]

I know I shouldn't enter the channel, but I'm the kind of guy that always have to learn the hard way. While going to a patrol grid just off south west of britain, I had to take the shortcut. In a very dense fog, I ran into the sight of a wonderful destroyer.
I spent three live hours, trying to evade that destroyer and an other one which came along for the party, amongst an ASW Trawler. My type II took quite a beating, but I did manage to escape some kilometer away while they where bombing else where. It did look promesing indeed...

I was planning to do some crew management but "accidentally" ordered back full. The crew didn't hasitate... neither did the destroyers.

Ouch. But what was BDU thinking sending a II to the atlantic side of the Isles? North atlantic ok, bu the SW side? I would have encountered engine trouble shortly after leaving port, not sure how that wrench ended up in there.

[stokeyblokey]

...falling asleep at the keyboard and pressing D whilst TC is set to 256 :nope:

[VONHARRIS]

Ouch. But what was BDU thinking sending a II to the atlantic side of the Isles? North atlantic ok, bu the SW side? I would have encountered engine trouble shortly after leaving port, not sure how that wrench ended up in there.

Never!! Always obey the orders given! :salute:

Besides , you never know who is amongst your crew.

[Weiss Pinguin]

I remember one time when I picked off all the escorts for a convoy, and was on my third attack. Daytime, on the surface, running behind the convoy using the deck. Just finished off another ship when
CTD http://i544.photobucket.com/albums/hh323/quantumpenguin/smiley_panic.gif

[Fader_Berg]

Ouch. But what was BDU thinking sending a II to the atlantic side of the Isles? North atlantic ok, bu the SW side? I would have encountered engine trouble shortly after leaving port, not sure how that wrench ended up in there.

AM97, maybe it can be considered west of britain. Well, Type II rocks and I guess BDU knows it.

[the.terrabyte.pirate]

Third Patrol out of Lorient. Type IID (Slow and short range). First two were to patrol around the AM grid. They were pleasant cruises, and I ran out of eels both times before reaching my assigned grid. Short and sweet.

Patrol 3, assigned to DT 59. DT 59!!!!!? WTF is that? Oh, right in the middle of the Atlantic! About 50,000 miles away! A type IID is a COASTAL boat dammit. What are they doing sending me all the way out there? It'll take me 12.5 days just to get there. There's nothing out there but water!

If I have enough fuel after my 24 hour patrol I'll swing past Gibralter... if the crew haven't died of old age by then.

BDU must hate me! :wah:

[VONHARRIS]

Third Patrol out of Lorient. Type IID (Slow and short range). First two were to patrol around the AM grid. They were pleasant cruises, and I ran out of eels both times before reaching my assigned grid. Short and sweet.

Patrol 3, assigned to DT 59. DT 59!!!!!? WTF is that? Oh, right in the middle of the Atlantic! About 50,000 miles away! A type IID is a COASTAL boat dammit. What are they doing sending me all the way out there? It'll take me 12.5 days just to get there. There's nothing out there but water!

If I have enough fuel after my 24 hour patrol I'll swing past Gibralter... if the crew haven't died of old age by then.

BDU must hate me! :wah:

No problem :D
I am heading to DT 34 with my U-522 IXC. Perhaps I will meet you on the way. I am now in BF 77.
I can assist you with fuel or supplies.

Good luck.

[Stargazer]

Went from "Ahh F@#*" to Ahh YEAH!" last night.

February '42: BdU have sent me on my first proper transatlantic run, I'm right up on the north shore of Trinidad and Tobago. Nothing happening so I decide to go do some hellraising at Port of Spain.

I lay waste to over 30,000 tonnes of stationary Allied shipping when my hydrophone operator says that we have a warship bearing down on us.

I'm in a patch of water that's shallower than a bowl of cornflakes and now I have the mobile Depth Charge salesman with 300 examples of his product to pitch to me, steaming up at warp5.

I can't even save all my progress over the last couple of hours because I've been warned about saving underwater causing crashes and to surface would be a bit like streaking through a lion enclosure with 8Kilos of uncooked steak nailed to my head!

I creep reeeeaaally slooooooowly westward avoiding detection when suddenly, whammo! Someone in the galley must have farted or something because my stealth meter went redder than an angry traffic light!

So much for the anti sonar coating I paid for!

And then my loyal and 75% reliable weapons officer, when I say take a chance on Tube1, just starts banginig on about not having a solution.

So I then have to dodge three more rounds of DC's before I stick the scope up and take a pot shot at something I figured was too close and too well armoured to survive one of my attacks.

But, no! Thing went up like Marilyn Monroes skirt on a gusty afternoon! The ship sank into four feet of water and I ran out of the area faster than than a whippet wearing a Saturn-V rocket.

All's hell that ends well... Might make that the motto for my boat!

Rob.

[ediko]

Loading times..... those make me go the way you're topic is name. I make some sandwiches and tea , sometimes even manage to take a shower before it loads. And to add to my misery - patrolling for some weeks only to find 2 pt boats. Months of boredom in-game. Yeah I know it was boring like this in RL as well, but you know... I have been watching TV while playing the game more than sinking ships.

But when you finally get a contact it feels rewarding, unless that contact is a convoy which you are trying to get closer to only to get noticed by a DD escort and launch a whole salvo of torpedoes which miss as usually or even worse- go dud. Turn around dive deep and enjoy the firecrackers from you're helm for another hour or so. Ehh... I like playing on weekends more :rotfl2:

[Theusje]

First post here.

Shadowed a convoy and went ahead of it. Tried to approach it from the side but was not patient enough or I miscalculated and an escort noticed my periscope, I was idle btw. So when trying to identify the ships I noticed some ship very closely to me.

It was a Black Swan class, oooh S, went to periscope view, it was going straight towards me and was only 800m away, ooooh F, I noticed that we were lined up perfect and deiced to fire a torpedo at 700m.

Now after an hour ingame and realtime to get her rid of me and the convoy is 10km away. And now my hydrophoneman says he hears a second contact, close range and moving in fast; OOHHH F

and now I'm taking a break.

[desirableroasted]

First post here.

It was a Black Swan class,

a.k.a. the Green Hornet We Can Do This All Day We Don't Need to Go Home for Dinner We Can Stay Up All Damn Night class.

[Missing Name]

a.k.a. the Green Hornet We Can Do This All Day We Don't Need to Go Home for Dinner We Can Stay Up All Damn Night class.

That's a great name. They really are annoying.

[VONHARRIS]

I agree. I hate these Black Swan escorts. I also hate the torpedo boats which are immune to anything a U boat has to fire.

You really don't want to engage one of these with guns.

[Stargazer]

My crew and I have never been great at anti-aircraft fire. We give it a go but always end up going inside after a few attempts and diving for cover before everyone shows up for the party.

I was surfaced and doing an extended patrol not far from Trinidad and Tobago when someone called out they'd seen a plane. It was a B24.

I have a quite a lot fo heavy-bomber experience so I know that lining up a bomb run on a target is a long methodical process of calculating speed, distance and altitude and that by the time they've got themselves all lined up to get me, I can have them as a smouldering wreckage, falling out of the sky.

I've got my two best gunners in their positions and we're blasting away when... hold on... what's it doing? Is it diving at me?

Whoaa *#*@&£*^#*%*, it's diving at us. Dive the boat! DIVE DAMMIT! DIVE!!!! Diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive!

Then there was a monumental amount of noise and the two gunners were killed and my boat began leaking from all over the place and everything was broken and I was now sinking fast.

Stopped the leak and pumped the water out with just 15m's underneath me to crush depth.

But did I feel like a mug when I rocked up in Lorient a week and half later with unservicable torpedo tubes, broken sonar, broken radar, broken hydrophone, broken radio, broken persicopes, broken flak guns, broken deck gun, hull integrity of about 40% and a pipe in the command room that hadn't stopped spraying water over everyone since the initial attack.

From now on, I'll just hide. My days of thinking "I'll get the plane, how hard can it be" are over.

But since when do Liberator's do dive bombing?! I mean proper dive bombing... And flaming precise at that! It's a heavy for goodness sake! I could probably handle it if it had been an A26 but a B24?!

C'mon. Seriously?

[Jimbuna]

I agree. I hate these Black Swan escorts. I also hate the torpedo boats which are immune to anything a U boat has to fire.

You really don't want to engage one of these with guns.

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[Hottentot]

Hmm, let's see. Night surface attack. Thinking I have passed the escorts and have a clear shot at the convoy. Find a target, perfect angle, not too far away. Start measuring the distance. Set AOB. Measure speed. Make some corrections to torpedos. Almost ready to fire...

BANG!! Out of nowhere comes an escort and starts firing from point blank range. Well, actually it didn't come out of nowhere. The thing is that my wonderful crew thought it was more pleasant to admire the moon than to alert me to the fact that we have a freaking destroyer charging towards us. I mean, deck full of people (officer included) and it never crossed anyone's mind to let the others know that we're going to die?

Another thing I love is the game's occasional amnesia. Sometimes when I have identified a few targets from the convoy and take aim at the first one, the game has suddenly forgotten the class of the ship and calls it just "cargo" or "tanker" again. So it doesn't let me measure the distance either. Which is, uh, quite an important part of firing solution.

Well fine. Take recognition manual again. Browse trough the pages. Slowly. Watch the target pass the point where I intended to send a few eels at him. Browse some more. No, it's not a coastal merchant or a sloop, it's a bloody tanker! Here, I found it!

...Nevermind, it's 2km away already.

SH3 is a weird game. Everytime I quit playing it I hate it for just the things like these. Everytime I swear I'll bury the disc to the ground and never dig it up again. And every time I'll come back to hate the same things. It's a marvelous sim.

[Pappy55]

I think my all time number 1 was just after release when I was out in the Atlantic and had a convoy contact very very close to me close to me. I though sweet ahead flank..

Got to the intercept point where I should of made visual contact.. Hydrophone guy was calling out contacts like mad, so I went to the bridge to see the weather had turned poor. viability was not great and it was night.

I was thinking I should be able to see them by now surely..

I could even hear them when suddenly...

"SHIP SPOTTED BEARING 090"

3 seconds later I was T-Boned by a C3 Cargo...

The rest is history..

Can anyone else admit they were sunk by an unarmed merchant ship?

[Missing Name]

...nope. If I get sunk, it's usually because I piss off the escorts.

Speaking of which, you take hit a cruiser in a convoy. Ok, escorts going the other way... time to take another shot at the big guy. Up scope... CHRIST! There's another escort you misidentified as a merchant on the 'phone! And Humphreys isn't happy in the SLIGHTEST and has just spotted your scope.

[Mike Abberton]

Another thing I love is the game's occasional amnesia. Sometimes when I have identified a few targets from the convoy and take aim at the first one, the game has suddenly forgotten the class of the ship and calls it just "cargo" or "tanker" again. So it doesn't let me measure the distance either. Which is, uh, quite an important part of firing solution.

Well fine. Take recognition manual again. Browse trough the pages. Slowly. Watch the target pass the point where I intended to send a few eels at him. Browse some more. No, it's not a coastal merchant or a sloop, it's a bloody tanker! Here, I found it!

...Nevermind, it's 2km away already.



I've found that the recognition manual is one of the few things that actually works while the game is paused. Unless it has something to do with my realism settings, you can probably pause, reset the target type, unpause, and confirm the range without losing the target.

Mike

[VONHARRIS]

SH3 is a weird game. Everytime I quit playing it I hate it for just the things like these. Everytime I swear I'll bury the disc to the ground and never dig it up again. And every time I'll come back to hate the same things. It's a marvelous sim.

Very well stated. I agree totaly.

[Gereke]

First post here, so since I'm not full of questions I'll join the fireside and spin yarns of misfortune (or near misfortune).

Dark and stormy night somewhere out in the Atlantic. On the surface looking for a convoy I KNOW is there, and fairly close due to a hydrophone check I had done recently. Visibility is about zero, but I'm determined to sink something as it had been a very slow patrol....

Out of the darkness at point blank range I spot a DD coming straight at me. I crank it to all ahead flank and hard to port. The DD passes right behind me, narrowly missing a collision. It then disappeared into the darkness and I never heard a peep out of it. It must not have spotted me in the dark swells!

Next oh @$%@#$ happened while doing a patrol in my WarshipMod career. I'm patrolling the waters just North of Ireland in my Deutchland, looking for a convoy to ransack. It's early evening in perfect weather and flat seas. One of my watchmen calls out a contact and I grab my binoculars to have a peek. I see a Tribal Class DD heading towards me, and I think "Oh boy, easy kill!" However before committing my guns I decide to scan more to see if there was anything else worthy of note. Scan a few degrees behind the Tribal and suddenly spot HMS HOOD just as it fires it's forward batteries at me "OH ****!!"

Barely made it out of that one alive. Had to limp back to Wilhemshaven to explain why my ship was full of holes.

[Jimbuna]

http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/welcome.gif

[gazpode_l]

When you are just getting to the intercept point when you are told to pack it all away as it's 1:45am RL Time!!! WHY NOW does it have to get exciting??? :damn::damn:

Played for 3hrs tonight with sod all - then when it time to goto bed ready for RL job in morning I stumble across what could be a convoy! :nope::shifty:

[Gargamel]

When you are just getting to the intercept point when you are told to pack it all away as it's 1:45am RL Time!!! WHY NOW does it have to get exciting??? :damn::damn:

Played for 3hrs tonight with sod all - then when it time to goto bed ready for RL job in morning I stumble across what could be a convoy! :nope::shifty:


Pause, and leave running.

[Walruss]

Best one for me was the first time I installed GWX Wilhelmshaven port mod... loved the look, only thing that puzzeled me was the locks... but I sat and watched, and as i approached an open one, from about 60 meters away it started to lose. Bugger that I thought, and ordered the hem 'Full speed ahead, and damn the giant moving slabs of concrete!'

I doubt my exec was surprised when the gates closed around the sub just behind the conning tower, and the next order was abandon ship. First patrol out, in that new career too... Feeling historical I abandoned it entirely - I figure poor Oberlt.z.s. Klaus is now swapping the decks of an aging collier somewhere dangerous these days...

On that note: Wouldn't it be nice if you could signal the control box to those tings? I always wind up playing around for a few minutes waiting for the gate to bloody open... be nice if I could radio ahead as i left the sub pen for them to be ready for me...

[frau kaleun]

My first full patrol after finally getting a setup where I could use the new Willy mod... oh, I got out of there okay, but the way back in... oy.

I misjudged the timing on the outer gate and thought I could just squeak through but I was too far away when I started forward and it started to close and caught us just aft of the conning tower I think. When I realized what was happening I'd ordered all ahead flank hoping I could get just enough of a burst of speed to clear it and then order full stop to avoid ramming the gate at the other end.

No such luck. Terrible creaking and scraping and then crushing metal noises and then damage reports and then the horrible, horrible screams of my men... I switched to the ship cam and got a brief glimpse of my boat, the entire stern up ON TOP of the closed gates and the bow clearly rammed into the bottom of the channel, just before the OMG LULZ UR ALL DEAD screen came up. After seeing the mess I'd got us in all I could do was laugh. :haha:

God, I wish I'd been able to get a screenshot.

[Gargamel]

My first full patrol after finally getting a setup where I could use the new Willy mod... oh, I got out of there okay, but the way back in... oy.

I misjudged the timing on the outer gate and thought I could just squeak through but I was too far away when I started forward and it started to close and caught us just aft of the conning tower I think. When I realized what was happening I'd ordered all ahead flank hoping I could get just enough of a burst of speed to clear it and then order full stop to avoid ramming the gate at the other end.

No such luck. Terrible creaking and scraping and then crushing metal noises and then damage reports and then the horrible, horrible screams of my men... I switched to the ship cam and got a brief glimpse of my boat, the entire stern up ON TOP of the closed gates and the bow clearly rammed into the bottom of the channel, just before the OMG LULZ UR ALL DEAD screen came up. After seeing the mess I'd got us in all I could do was laugh. :haha:

God, I wish I'd been able to get a screenshot.

So I guess those gate operators are real sadists eh?

[frau kaleun]

So I guess those gate operators are real sadists eh?

Yes, but at least they make the locks run on time. :O:

"Ve haf a shkedyul! Zere vill be no changes in ze shkedyul!"

[Lord_magerius]

Installed the same mod the other day. Leaving port, completely forgot about it, set a course on the navigation map and CRUNCH! :nope:

[Missing Name]

You spent a bit plotting an intercept of a fast-moving convoy. NWN... okay. Your estimated time to contact is about 10 hours away... fine. You get there and notice that you misread the report, which actually said NNW. Whoops... you can't find it again. :damn:

[frau kaleun]

Installed the same mod the other day. Leaving port, completely forgot about it, set a course on the navigation map and CRUNCH! :nope:

Been there, done that.

The real killer is all the extra eye candy, makes me want to put 'er on auto-pilot and go to the external cam and look around. Oh hey look there's a thing over there moving around behind that other thing and ooooh look at that and wow, what is--

"Das boot ist beschädigt, Herr Kaleun!"

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c32/LanisWatkins/fuuuuuu.jpg

The one that really gets me though is when I get through the first gate and I'm sitting there waiting for the second one to open, which it seems will NEVER happen, so I decide to go explore the dockside and see what everyone's up to. And then I come back to the bridge or shipcam to see that the gate has in fact opened while was I was off rubbernecking and is now closing again. :damn: :O:

[Pappy55]

I did an all time classic tonight.. i forgot there was only 22m ish depth under keel and when an ASW spotted my scope I orded crashdive..

I was lucky only to get away with minor dents in the hull and light damage that was repaired as fast as it was broke..

I did manage to get back to perriscope depth and "snap shoot" the aft torpedo and blew him out the water..:arrgh!:

Half a bottle of beer for everyone :D

[Gereke]

Leaving the game open with a current patrol paused because it was bed time (well way past bed time actually haha). Was half way through a nail biting and exciting engagement in my current career as a Type 1936A Zerstorer skipper.

Get up this morning and windows had updated and restarted my computer. :damn:

[Jimbuna]

Leaving the game open with a current patrol paused because it was bed time (well way past bed time actually haha). Was half way through a nail biting and exciting engagement in my current career as a Type 1936A Zerstorer skipper.

Get up this morning and windows had updated and restarted my computer. :damn:

Yep....been there and bloody annoying :yep:

[Pappy55]

Leaving the game open with a current patrol paused because it was bed time (well way past bed time actually haha). Was half way through a nail biting and exciting engagement in my current career as a Type 1936A Zerstorer skipper.

Get up this morning and windows had updated and restarted my computer. :damn:

This children is why we turn off auto update in windows..:|\\

[Gargamel]

This children is why we turn off auto update in windows..:|\\

Or we just save on a regular basis. I usually end up with 20-30 saves per patrol, and wherever I can load one, it's usually not too far from the beginning of whatever cool thing I was doing when it CTD'd.

[Missing Name]

Yeah, that's annoying as hell. It didn't restart, but it minimized SH3 every five minutes telling me to restart.

[the.terrabyte.pirate]

Heavy seas. Granville Freighter. 1 eel left.

Perfect solution. 400m distance. 90 degree AOB. Depth set to 2.5 meters, running for impact under the fore mast, to ensure the boat and eel don't miss each other due to the swell.

Watching the eel hit the ship on the downswell, and looking at a brilliant looking hole in the freighters side ABOVE the waterline. Mast and cargo blown to smithereens.

Watching that ship sail merrily away without even a reduction in speed.

****! ****! ****! :damn:

[Jimbuna]

BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!! http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

[the.terrabyte.pirate]

BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!! http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

With no eels, and the flak gun unusable due to the sea state, I'm unsure what else I could have done.

Ramming? :damn:

Piracy?:arrgh!:

A strongly worded letter of protest? :hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

With no eels, and the flak gun unusable due to the sea state, I'm unsure what else I could have done.

Ramming? :damn:

Piracy?:arrgh!:

A strongly worded letter of protest? :hmmm:

Throw cookies overbaked scones if necessary but don't concede http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

[eryan762mm]

being harrassed by a destroyer in Scapa Flow, in 18m water, having taken shelter under a nearby tanker i spend the next 30 mins popping up my periscope to setup a shot against said destroyer...i have one eel left, stern tube, i wait for the perfect moment when he's 90...i hit fire...wait? wheres the wake? ****! he was in front of me when i shot instead of behind me...luckily i made it out..thank you damage team

[Schwieger]

Don't you just love it when BdU gives you orders to patrol a grid right at the mouth of the English Channel?

[Missing Name]

Don't you just love it when BdU gives you orders to patrol a grid right at the mouth of the English Channel?

Actually, I do.

[kapuhy]

My most recent Ahhh **** moment:

After a week of storms weather finally calms down. Several hours later I have a contact report which, after intercepting it, turns out to be a T3 tanker. I went down to PD close to its predicted path, waited a bit and surfaced just as the target was passing by. Then...

"Man the deck gun!"
"We can't, the sea is too rough"
"Wha... navigator, wind speed?"
"8 m/s"

:damn:

[Walruss]

7 dud torps, 4 magnetic 3 impact. Yay me.

[Patkins1983]

The weather can really suck, duds are annoying and always happen when you least want em to.

Just had a quality 'oh S$$t' encounter.

I decided to have fun with the Warship Mod and design a single mission...
Bismark Vs 3 BB a few cruisers and plenty of DD.

Imagine my surprise when I try it out and two groups have spawned.

Couldn't think of a good plan so headed straight for them and went out all guns blazing.

Next time i will script Nelsons, I have sank them with a 105mm before :)

[Jimbuna]

Always the fearless http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

[SinkingFeeling]

Creeping past Scapa Flow on the 9th of September 1939, the hydrophone operator didn't bother to mention about the HMS Hood and two Renown class BB's cruising up alongside me until they were less than 500 metres away! I tried a snap shot with my two remaining torpedos, but I guess they heard my screaming at the operator, as the Hood easily dodged them and went on its merry way.
If only the surrounding destroyer escort had been so nice as well.
An hour later I was a thin sheet of metal on the bottom...

[Walruss]

that just happened to me last night too :P
Scapa's very shallow.

[Gargamel]

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/5091/sh3img26220110591404.png

I think thats the first time I've been upset about being in almost perfect position to intercept a convoy. Was on a speed run back from Rockall, heading home to Lorient.


EDIT:

Annnnnnnnnnnd..... They found me.... sigh.... like 8 tankers and 4 -5 large merchants int his one too... AND IM IN PERFECT POSITION! :wah::wah:

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/1585/sh3img26220111812810.png

[Bakkels]

:damn: That's why when I'm all out of torpedo's, I go straight home and ignore all contacts.

[Gargamel]

:damn: That's why when I'm all out of torpedo's, I go straight home and ignore all contacts.

Thats what I was trying to do!

[frau kaleun]

Thats what I was trying to do!

Sometimes the best stuff just sails right into your path and you can't help it. Sucks when you're on the way home with no ammo.

If nothing else I try to do the "realistic" thing and send a contact report.

[Jimbuna]

Sometimes the best stuff just sails right into your path and you can't help it. Sucks when you're on the way home with no ammo.

If nothing else I try to do the "realistic" thing and send a contact report.

May you be recognised.......or blessed :DL

[Gargamel]

yet again, screwing up setting my Patrol grid in SHC. AM39 wtf.... I better start checking this stuff better....

[Gargamel]

Too tired for this....

Tried to surface attack in bad weather, just close enough to fire off a salvo, and sink, a Large merchant. Good tonnage. Not sure why it was the lead corner of the convoy, but oh well.

Tried to escape on the surface. Almost made it. Could see the search lights in the fog looking for me. Thought I was clear, when all of a sudden, 3-4 starshells go off over my head.

http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/6328/fuuuuu1.jpg



So I Crash dive, intendeing to go deep, but then I immediately told the crew to go to 220m. Oops, well the dive of Doom doesn't always happen, maybe I'll get lucky.

Now I got at least 2 Black swans peppering me with wasserbomben, and I'm having to throttle between slow and 1/3 just to maintain depth, so I'm bouncing between 240 and 220m right now.

Too tired.

Pause. Bed time.

[Bakkels]

BdU sending me to patrol AN18 in mid 1940 made me go Ahhhhhh!
After I enthusiastically set course from Wilhelmshaven I set TC to 1024. Upon reaching AN18 (righ off the Scottish Coast; that should have made me think...) I drop out of TC to find myself in the middle of a huge minefield. Like I said, should have thought of that when they assigned me there but luckily I didn't hit anything. Strangely didn't find a single ship.

Then when traveling to another grid I get a message saying The Netherlands (my country irl) has fallen into German hands. Ok we're playing a U-boat sim from an Axis perspective but still, sad news. I hadn't gotten this message in earlier careers.

.... which isn't that much of a surprise considering the Netherlands were invaded on may 10th and it only took the Germans five days to annex it... :nope:
But why do they have to rub it in! lol

[Gargamel]

I drop out of TC to find myself in the middle of a huge minefield.................... Strangely didn't find a single ship.

I wonder why that would be strange.... :hmmm:

[Bakkels]

lol. You're right. I wasn't clear; I patrolled the entire grid (Only the more southern ares of the grid had mines) and didn't find a single ship. Nor in the adjacent grid.

[Gargamel]

2 Sept, 1939.

AN12, right on the prime meridian.

I have seen more tonnage over the last 5 days than most Kaleuns would see in a career. I just know that tomorrow morning it's all going to disappear. This duck has had over 100k tons in it's sights already. With careful target selection, I could have had >25k. In a type II. I know there's going to be nothing but destroyers tomorrow.

[Gargamel]

Yup... nothing.... I did find a 12k large merchant on the evening of the 2nd. Followed it till just after midnight, then sank it at 0204. Had to alter the log to read 0214 since the attack orders went out at 0212....... "whistles innocently"

[ediko]

Got into a convoy almost perfectly :smug: Suddenly some destroyers decided to drop depth charges at me, well before evading I decided to launch a salvo, maybe I'd get lucky and hit something. The depth charges hit my coning tower perfectly, everything destroyed, all the scopes, radar warning, flak's everything... :damn: I turned my tail , launched one circling torpedo at the convoy and went to 230m.

After the torpedo circled and missed a whale factory, some troop ships and tankers it decided to hit a 2kT Nipiwan tanker, well at least it sunk it. Going back to base was fun, no radar warning and the watch crew refused to go up and watch for ships. I hate going blind....

[Obltn Strand]

The depth charges hit my coning tower perfectly, everything destroyed, all the scopes, radar warning, flak's everything...
Going back to base was fun, no radar warning and the watch crew refused to go up and watch for ships. I hate going blind....

I had a similar experience. And every time I surfaced the automatic watch crew died, some exposure:nope:

[ediko]

I had a similar experience. And every time I surfaced the automatic watch crew died, some exposure:nope:
Weird, mine just stayed in the boat, no one died in that patrol. The sub did however look abandoned from the outside and strangely I still got those "Ship spotted" messages that ask for your command, oh and the UZO was usable, not like it's useful in 1943.

Now that I think about it, if they couldn't go up to watch ships, how did they get out of the sub in base? Did it get cut open ? Well maybe they used the back up exits, but still how is it possible to maneuver in the port while being inside?

[VONHARRIS]

I was in a similar situation in a IXD2 in the middle of Indian Ocean trying to make it to Penang. Never did.


still how is it possible to maneuver in the port while being inside?
:yeah: That's easy. You are one the best Kaluens in the KM. You can do it by heart.:up:

[Gargamel]

The Kiel Kanal.


I really do appreciate you GWX guys coding that in there. I really do. It saves me 2-3 days of travel time, only takes 12 hours now.

But Real time.... I have it maxed to 64x near land, and my watch crew freaking out every time a squirrel runs along the shore.... sigh......

[VONHARRIS]

After sinking a merchant , I returned to my initial course , and set TC to 128. Too bad , as I went right into the sinking vessel.
I will never do this again.

[kapuhy]

Now that I think about it, if they couldn't go up to watch ships, how did they get out of the sub in base? Did it get cut open ? Well maybe they used the back up exits, but still how is it possible to maneuver in the port while being inside?

They could just have been towed or cut the hatch open when they were near port and safe.

After sinking a merchant , I returned to my initial course , and set TC to 128. Too bad , as I went right into the sinking vessel.

I did something similar in torpedo training - passed over sinking ship on time compression only to have it explode on its way down.

---------

And from current patrol: I've met most resilient Small Tanker ever:

- first attack on convoy, I hit him with magnetic torpedo. It slows down but doesn't sink
- second attack, I fire another torpedo that misses (heavy seas, passed under him without detonating). Then a destroyer drives me away.
- meantime, weather clears and sun rises. I regain contact and attack now lonely ship. While setting up a shot, I see another smoke behind it. Destroyer! I fire quickly and dive with shells flying over my head. Before the periscope goes under, I hear explosion and see big column of smoke rising over the water...
- after being depth-charged several times, I evade the destroyer and rise to PD once again... hey, what's this smoke? You've got to be kidding me... but no, the tanker is still there, plodding happily at 0,9 knots. He just won't give up.

[Gargamel]

Bad weather + IIa.

These things don't have the speed to chase down contacts as they blow by you in the North Sea in rough seas.

[gazpode_l]

When playing through an entire evening session with no chance for a save-game due to running submerged as in contact with aircraft....

Got back to surface, was :yawn: and about to quit anyway...just one last look at the map and then I will save............ CTD!!!!!! :damn::stare::o

[Johnfb]

When playing through an entire evening session with no chance for a save-game due to running submerged as in contact with aircraft....

Got back to surface, was :yawn: and about to quit anyway...just one last look at the map and then I will save............ CTD!!!!!! :damn::stare::o

I feel your pain, dude...:damn: :salute:

[gazpode_l]

I feel your pain, dude...:damn: :salute:

Cheers hun ;)

[Missing Name]

Crappy graphics cards.

[Leutnant77]

Watching my torpedoes bounce off hull of ships because I missed a step in my targeting:damn:

[Gargamel]

Watching my torpedoes bounce off hull of ships because I missed a step in my targeting:damn:

Would that be the proper use of the ONOFF switch?

(Sigh... sounds better when you spell it out, out loud. ie "Did you check the O N O F F Switch?")

[Leutnant77]

Wouldn't matter much, I'm a Polish U-Boat captain, serves me right.

[Luno]

Well, I'm having a pretty frustrating first career myself.

On my first patrol, I made absolutely no contacts. On my second, The game CTD'd after I reached my patrol grid, and I had to start back at port. :88)

I received a contact report along the way my second time through, and I decided to pursue.

It took at least a day of chasing at full ahead (9 kts in heavy seas) as well as periodic diving to take a listen with the hydrophones. I made contact sometime at night. I finally set up my attack position, but the heavy seas were driving me crazy - I marked the ship (coastal merchant) but the periscope kept unlocking as I tried to make a range estimation. It took several minutes to get a reading that I was satisfied with. After doing it once, I realized I wasn't going to make the attack, so I took two more readings to figure out where he was going and how fast.

Then I accidentally erased some markings that I needed :damn:

I used what I had, and recommenced chasing with periodic listening. By the time I was ahead of his path, it was at least noon. I made contact, but the seas were still heavy and range was a pain to determine, again. It took me two attempts to get a speed estimation due to the periscope unlocking...

So finally, I'm in the perfect position, I set up my torpedoes for 000 gyro deflection, and I'm going to hit him 90 degrees on his port, 800 meters away. Perfect.

I check the torps one more time. Ok, good.

Check the ship - he's gone past my firing point and is now 20 degrees off my bow...GRRRRR! I decide to fire anyway...I've waited too long for this...Miss.:damn::damn:

Now he sees me and starts zig-zagging. At this point I'm incredibly frustrated - all this time chasing, and now he's getting away... I line up a shot from his stern in a vain attempt to catch him in the between zig-zag. Miss ... :dead:

Screw it - I'm going home...

Day ends with 2 torps on nothing, out of 5 total, and I have no deck or flack gun to annoy him with...

I have another contact report though - wish me luck!

[desirableroasted]

Spending two whole weeks on station in AN52, all the while cursing BdU for sending me to a shallow, mine-sown, plane-ridden, ASW-infested tonnage desert, where I saw five merchants (sank them all, though, but for a paltry 16K).

Then suddenly noticing my orders say "AM52."

After I threw the boat's cat overboard, and then shot the cook, for good measure, and using language I cannot repeat on a public forum, I am taking us and our 9 remaining torpedoes to AM52.

And, if anyone gripes, just remember how fast the cat sank.

[desirableroasted]

Well, I'm having a pretty frustrating first career myself.

On my first patrol, I made absolutely no contacts. On my second, The game CTD'd after I reached my patrol grid, and I had to start back at port. :88)

I received a contact report along the way my second time through, and I decided to pursue.

It took at least a day of chasing at full ahead (9 kts in heavy seas) as well as periodic diving to take a listen with the hydrophones. I made contact sometime at night. I finally set up my attack position, but the heavy seas were driving me crazy - I marked the ship (coastal merchant) but the periscope kept unlocking as I tried to make a range estimation. It took several minutes to get a reading that I was satisfied with. After doing it once, I realized I wasn't going to make the attack, so I took two more readings to figure out where he was going and how fast.

Then I accidentally erased some markings that I needed :damn:

I used what I had, and recommenced chasing with periodic listening. By the time I was ahead of his path, it was at least noon. I made contact, but the seas were still heavy and range was a pain to determine, again. It took me two attempts to get a speed estimation due to the periscope unlocking...

So finally, I'm in the perfect position, I set up my torpedoes for 000 gyro deflection, and I'm going to hit him 90 degrees on his port, 800 meters away. Perfect.

I check the torps one more time. Ok, good.

Check the ship - he's gone past my firing point and is now 20 degrees off my bow...GRRRRR! I decide to fire anyway...I've waited too long for this...Miss.:damn::damn:

Now he sees me and starts zig-zagging. At this point I'm incredibly frustrated - all this time chasing, and now he's getting away... I line up a shot from his stern in a vain attempt to catch him in the between zig-zag. Miss ... :dead:

Screw it - I'm going home...

Day ends with 2 torps on nothing, out of 5 total, and I have no deck or flack gun to annoy him with...

I have another contact report though - wish me luck!

Well, you have learned more hard lessons in your first career than a lot of people, and you aren't sunk, so I would call it a success.


Choose your attacks carefully. BdU might give you a contact 50 km away, doing 9 knts, moving away from you -- no use bothering with that. Use one of the intercept models to decide if it is worth the chase.
Have your torp (and backup torp) settings ready long before the target is in shooting position. Have your tubes open. And have a Plan B -- for example, a hard turn to starboard, full speed, to bring a magnetic to bear as the target passes you.

Good hunting!

[gi_dan2987]

Commander, U-51 reporting.
Date: 9FEB1940
Location: Wilhelmshaven
Patrols Complete: 3
Gross Tonnage: 21,000 tons
Boat: VIIB

Ahoy Grey Wolves. I just installed GWX3 Gold and I absolutely love it. I must say I'm enjoying my time much better than SH4 with RFB installed. I have to gripe about a few things.

So patrol number two was spent patrolling within the vicinity of the Rockall Bank. I had been at sea with nothing but the sweet drone of the Gramophone playing my swing and jazz tunes. So I drop to 30 meters for a hydrophone check. Bingo! Contact, Merchant bearing 90 and closing, slow speed! I started using Nefeleodamon's 4 bearing hydrophone tactic to begin getting a track on this fat lady. I observe for an hour and a half, taking 30 minute readings and gathering an excellent course. There was a bit of an Atlantic gale ripping through the area, so I knew I wouldn't have to worry about being spotted. I ran ahead flank to the intercept point and dropped to periscope depth. She's moving along her merry way, and finally when I hear the sonarman call out the right bearing I let fly with 3 evenly spaced fish in her direction. All my math was checked and double checked, so no problem right? Wrong. All three missed! The storm had changed her course and speed along with side tacking from the wind drift :damn: I guess when you're not using homing torps, you just fire that spread and cross your fingers.

Patrol three was a bit more exciting. I infiltrated convoy CU coming from Halifax. By that time I only had two fore torps remaining after successful run ins earlier in the day with a medium cargo and great lakes steamer. I gathered some quick info, and let fly. Both fish struck home as I was on my way to the deep in silent running. After being DC'ed by the escorts for about 2 hours, I managed to silently slip away at a nerve racking depth of 200 meters.:o Well then to my horror, I messed up on the target I hit. I didn't properly ID it, and ended up sending a neutral large freighter to the bottom. All the renown I had gathered by my earlier sinkings had now been eliminated :damn: looks like im not gonna be making those trans-atlantic runs in an IXB anytime soon :nope: All is fair in love and war. Back at Wilhelmshaven sipping beer and securing provisions. Just got orders for my 4th war patrol........................

Stay frosty gents
-Commander, U-51

[aj906]

In the Western Approaches moving out into the Atlantic having spent five days in the wading pool that is the Celtic Sea in double digit depths sweating bullets when I run into a thinly (well, for 1942, anyway) escorted large convoy. Sneak in under the cover of darkness and see a large tanker and a whale factory ship. All four forward tubes in my VIIB flooded, calculations made... two in the nose of the factory ship and one in the mid-ships and engine room of the tanker. BOOM!.....BOOM! Whale ship sleeps with the fishes... BOOM!-KABOOM!!!! The tanker blows apart... Job done.

Order 40 metres depth to run under the ships for my escape. The minute the crew acknowledge the order...CTD.

Nice....REAL effing nice!
:damn:

[Soviet Creeper]

Well, I was chasing a sonar contact in the night during a heavy storm, turns out it was a very large merchant. Its 1939, so I man the deck gun, pull up right next to him and fire a round into his engine room.


Turns out, he was a Q-ship, and right when I fired he gave me both barrels, killing the gunners, and crippling my submarine. I dont think I would of been able to dive, so later while I was trying to go home some planes finished the job with a few well placed bombs.

It was a sad day.

[Jimbuna]

BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!! http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

[Hari123]

The sound, when the impact igniter fails and the torpedo sinks to the deep ._.

[Vipre]

Attempting to clean up some excess saves, not catching the warning about the effect on everything after resulting in deleting your in patrol save during the best patrol of your career so far, and having to start over from port.

Quite a bit more than four * were used but important new player lesson learned.

[Maceaciadh]

shooting down a plane only for it to crash into you and destroy your uboat :(

[allievo]

shooting down a plane only for it to crash into you and destroy your uboat :(

That's why my favourite counter-measure against aircraft is crash dive.

[Maceaciadh]

That's why my favourite counter-measure against aircraft is crash dive.

was reloading my externals and i dont like to dive while i am doing it

[allievo]

was reloading my externals and i dont like to dive while i am doing it
Then you had a really unlucky day. I've never been attacked during external reloading. Did you do it by day or at night? Anyway, it's to be regretted that you managed to shoot the aircraft down and still didn't make it.

[jreid666]

Sitting at periscope depth in the middle of a convoy when a dead merchant drifts into me. Bye bye cruel world. Saved the 6 destroyers a job though.

Or more recently, trailing a wounded Revenge class (wounded it with two shots, one was very lucky after missing a large merchant, and broke its rudder so it left the convoy) firing off my last torpedo at him, surely a kill shot then...................McAfee decides its time to reboot after doing a damned upgrade. Nearly threw the rig out the window, till i realised i was in the basement.

[Jimbuna]

Sitting at periscope depth in the middle of a convoy when a dead merchant drifts into me. Bye bye cruel world. Saved the 6 destroyers a job though.

Or more recently, trailing a wounded Revenge class (wounded it with two shots, one was very lucky after missing a large merchant, and broke its rudder so it left the convoy) firing off my last torpedo at him, surely a kill shot then...................McAfee decides its time to reboot after doing a damned upgrade. Nearly threw the rig out the window, till i realised i was in the basement.

LOL :)

[flag4]

then...................McAfee decides its time to reboot after doing a damned upgrade. Nearly threw the rig out the window, till i realised i was in the basement.

love it..:up:

[jimmyjam25]

Having a really great patrol,sinking 4 ships in convoy,evading escorts,.....then being chucked out of game because my anti-virus suite decides that it needs to scan my H/D!!!!Ahhhhh S******:wah::wah::wah::damn:

Amen to that! I actually deleted my McAffee security scan program due to this problem. It always seems to happen at the worst times! :Kaleun_Mad:

[vezina99]

I'm in my second campaign after my first ended abruptly on my first encounter with an escorted convoy. My sixth patrol had me hunting off of the eastern coast of England, AN55 or so.

Getting my first contact from BdU, I race my Type IIA to intercept and find a medium merchant (one of the MFM types) steaming along completely darkened in the night and bearing northeast in a general path to Norway. Being a night attack, I get in very close for an easy shot. First torpedo off and a direct hit to the stern! Now, the wait to see the impact of the hit. After several minutes, it seems that the hit was not critical, and that the ship will just continue on its path...

Very well, the U-24 lines up for another shot and puts another eel in the water. Everything looks good, until the event camera shows the G7e running a good 4 or so meters under the ship. :shifty: Well, they've been warning me about that since the beginning, so it was bound to happen eventually. Fire off another, and I overshoot.

That's all I've got loaded, so I have to chase this lucky bastard for 20 minutes while my crew gets me reloaded. They finally get a G7a loaded and I quickly send it out...and overshoot again! By this point, as I'm calling this ship multiple names, none of which are probably its actual name, I realize that the merchant has been flooding from the original hit and has slowed down considerably from the speed I was using. Well, no wonder! Freaking noob mistake! :damn:

One shot left...one G7e, and I am NOT letting this Brit walk away from this. I fire it impact-trigger dead center this time because of the ship's new horribly slow speed. Everything on the TDC looks good...perfect. PERFECT. I switch to external camera to watch that sweet water jet and my payback for making me waste my entire payload.

CLANK

... :nope:

I turn the boat home, and not 5 minutes into my anguish-ridden trip home, two more merchants are spotted by my bridge crew. So here I am, a lonely grey wolf, surrounded by sheep... with no teeth to bite. :cry:

[Maceaciadh]

One shot left...one G7e, and I am NOT letting this Brit walk away from this. I fire it impact-trigger dead center this time because of the ship's new horribly slow speed. Everything on the TDC looks good...perfect. PERFECT. I switch to external camera to watch that sweet water jet and my payback for making me waste my entire payload.

CLANK

... :nope:

I turn the boat home, and not 5 minutes into my anguish-ridden trip home, two more merchants are spotted by my bridge crew. So here I am, a lonely grey wolf, surrounded by sheep... with no teeth to bite. :cry:

i feel for you man, there has been many a time when i have shot off many torpedo's at a single high tonnage ship only for constant failures to be incurred. best advice i can give is upgrade to a VII and use the deck gun. can be risky against armed ships but you soon learn how to wield it well and it becomes a great way to take down ships without wasting precious eels. also always always use deck gun ammo first because you never know when you may get good weather again

[allievo]

I realize that the merchant has been flooding from the original hit and has slowed down considerably from the speed I was using. Well, no wonder! Freaking noob mistake! :damn:
After a hit always wait for at least 10-15 minutes to see if your target lost speed. If yes, she'll almost certainly go down. If not or even sail faster, you'll need to send her another eel. In GWX it's not the explosion but the flooding that kills. Bigger ships generally sink more slowly and sometimes require hours to get beneath the waves.

[u35_captain]

My "Oh s**t" moments all tend to involve Sunderlands.

I don't fear Royal Navy Destroyers so much. Well, if I get them alone. If there's four of them up there, I'm in for a bad day. But the Sunderlands...

Sailing back into Lorient, less than an hour from base, and a dozen of the damned things appear out of nowhere. And I'm in shallow water. So it becomes a matter of maneuvering fiercely while trying to get under. It's not that they're heavily armed - they are - and it's not that they appear in large numbers - they do.

It's that even the B-24 Liberators take a while to get there and can't seem to hit me. The Sunderlands, on the other hand, sneak up on me repeatedly. And are *accurate*. Have yet to escape them with less than 10% damage.

[Laufen zum Ziel]

Came home expecting to finish a patrol. Found my monitor missing. My wife's monitor went bad so she took mine and won't allow me to play SHIII on ger PC.:down:

[VONHARRIS]

Came home expecting to finish a patrol. Found my monitor missing. My wife's monitor went bad so she took mine and won't allow me to play SHIII on ger PC.:down:

Now , this is bad.
You should set a rule in the house as I have: NOONE and I mean no one shall ever touch my PC under any circumstances.

[jreid666]

Came home expecting to finish a patrol. Found my monitor missing. My wife's monitor went bad so she took mine and won't allow me to play SHIII on ger PC.http://www.subsim.com/radioroom//images/smilies/thumbsdown.gif

Now thats bad. Should "requisition" her pc for the war effort:arrgh!:

[Jimbuna]

Came home expecting to finish a patrol. Found my monitor missing. My wife's monitor went bad so she took mine and won't allow me to play SHIII on ger PC.:down:

One way ticket to the eastern front is in order I reckon :)