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02-17-11, 02:43 PM
I just have to tell everyone about what happened last night. It was so completely awful that it has to be shared. Here's a little background info:
I just installed GWX after a couple months of playing a vanilla copy of SH3. I felt rather experienced in the environment and even though I have never used manual targeting I felt comfortable with the game and, especially early in the war, that I could survive out there in the cold north Atlantic.
I fired up my shiny new copy of SH3 with GWX and prepared to do battle. I saw the huge array of new single missions in the game and instead of starting a new campaign I decided to try my hand at one of them. Because I have never used the type XXI very extensively, I guess not many had the time to, I decided to play an XXI mission where a nearby port is being attacked by a large armada of allied ships. I pulled out of base in my awesomely huge and quick XXI. As I neared the port under attack, a couple miles to the Northwest of my position, I saw smoke on the horizon so I went to periscope depth to check it out. As I got closer I saw it was a German ship I realized the attacking armada was much farther out, as it was my only contact on my hydrophones and quickly surfaced. What I didn't realize is that in the half hour or so I approached this vessel to see what nation it was fight for I had entered into an area under heavy allied air cover. As soon as I surfaced I received word of airplane spotted. I wasn't quite used to any serious alarm due to enemy aircraft at this point in my career as a sub captain, for one because I was more used to playing in about 1940 where it was less of a threat overall, and I was used to stock SH3 where in 1944 I could routinely shoot down many allied planes without a single damaging blow sustained. Needless to say, I wasn't worried and this was a big mistake. I was quickly pounced on by 5 or so enemy bombers, I'm guessing B-24s although by the time the bombs started dropping I was diving and out of there. The first salvo of allied bombs destroyed my conning tower and my watchman, as well as flak gunners. The second hit in the aft, the third in the bow, and so on. In one pass my boat was as crippled. Flooding in three compartments, port diesel damaged, only managing 6 knots and slowing at flank speed. I was sinking fast so I thought well I have to surface this boat to even save any men. I surfaced and luckily, no planes were to be found. With damage control going into overdrive we managed to stop the flooding and pressed on. I wanted to hit this incoming barrage of allied warships with all this boat still had. I finally saw the first sign of smoke on the horizon again, this time clearly allied warships. I gave the order to dive to periscope depth and prepared for an assault on the assaulter. To my dismay, the earlier flooding had apparently crippled my boat to an extent I had not realized, as we continued dropping past 20 meters as ordered, only I didn't realize this. I didn't realize anything until I heard a horrible crunching sound as the bow of this magnificent boat came crashing into the ground of the shallow bay. 5 seconds later it was all over. All hands lost, not a single torpedo fired, and one sad embarrassed captain going down with his ship, all 40 meters. Terrible.
I just installed GWX after a couple months of playing a vanilla copy of SH3. I felt rather experienced in the environment and even though I have never used manual targeting I felt comfortable with the game and, especially early in the war, that I could survive out there in the cold north Atlantic.
I fired up my shiny new copy of SH3 with GWX and prepared to do battle. I saw the huge array of new single missions in the game and instead of starting a new campaign I decided to try my hand at one of them. Because I have never used the type XXI very extensively, I guess not many had the time to, I decided to play an XXI mission where a nearby port is being attacked by a large armada of allied ships. I pulled out of base in my awesomely huge and quick XXI. As I neared the port under attack, a couple miles to the Northwest of my position, I saw smoke on the horizon so I went to periscope depth to check it out. As I got closer I saw it was a German ship I realized the attacking armada was much farther out, as it was my only contact on my hydrophones and quickly surfaced. What I didn't realize is that in the half hour or so I approached this vessel to see what nation it was fight for I had entered into an area under heavy allied air cover. As soon as I surfaced I received word of airplane spotted. I wasn't quite used to any serious alarm due to enemy aircraft at this point in my career as a sub captain, for one because I was more used to playing in about 1940 where it was less of a threat overall, and I was used to stock SH3 where in 1944 I could routinely shoot down many allied planes without a single damaging blow sustained. Needless to say, I wasn't worried and this was a big mistake. I was quickly pounced on by 5 or so enemy bombers, I'm guessing B-24s although by the time the bombs started dropping I was diving and out of there. The first salvo of allied bombs destroyed my conning tower and my watchman, as well as flak gunners. The second hit in the aft, the third in the bow, and so on. In one pass my boat was as crippled. Flooding in three compartments, port diesel damaged, only managing 6 knots and slowing at flank speed. I was sinking fast so I thought well I have to surface this boat to even save any men. I surfaced and luckily, no planes were to be found. With damage control going into overdrive we managed to stop the flooding and pressed on. I wanted to hit this incoming barrage of allied warships with all this boat still had. I finally saw the first sign of smoke on the horizon again, this time clearly allied warships. I gave the order to dive to periscope depth and prepared for an assault on the assaulter. To my dismay, the earlier flooding had apparently crippled my boat to an extent I had not realized, as we continued dropping past 20 meters as ordered, only I didn't realize this. I didn't realize anything until I heard a horrible crunching sound as the bow of this magnificent boat came crashing into the ground of the shallow bay. 5 seconds later it was all over. All hands lost, not a single torpedo fired, and one sad embarrassed captain going down with his ship, all 40 meters. Terrible.