What Kaleun do you choose to play

[von Kinderei]

in your SHIII service do you choose an actual U-Boot Kaleun and if so why OR do you use your own name or made up name :06:


While we're here if you choose an actual Kaleun do you also use the same U-Boot number he was most succesful with :06:

As for me I have 2 careers goin'

Engelbert Endass is one in U-Boot 46 because he was a Top U-Boot Ace :rock:

And the other career is Gerhard Remus because he was born the same day as me and I use U-Boot U-566 :yep:

[Gargamel]

I just keep hitting the randomize button in SHC till infind one I like.

[andwii]

ya what he said.

For awhile I was using a real name of a nazi

Rochus Misch

He is still alive, I got autographed pics, and he is the last person to see hitler alive, and the last survivor of the bunker.

[Randomizer]

I randomize captain's names using SH3 Commander like Gargamel or just use my own, sometimes Germanized a bit (K instead of C for example). I never use a real U-Boat captain's name (or Fleet Boat skipper in SH4 either).

Before I start a career I will go to U-Boat.net and find a boat that was historically active in the month the career will start. Generally it will have had no success, there are a lot of boats of all three types that meet that criteria.

My current career Type VII is U-743 that sailed from Bergen on 21 August 1944 and sunk sometime in September. Her real life captain was former 2WO of U-333 under KL Peter Cramer and he commissioned U-743 after leaving Cremer's boat in France and was killed on his first patrol as captain.

[Sailor Steve]

I also let SH3 Commander give me a randomized name. I do make sure that the last name starts with a letter correlated to the number of my career, as I usually have several going at once. I also use Commander for names in SH4 and AOTD.

I would never use a real Kaleun's name for my career, as I consider that an offense, especially if I get him killed. :dead:

[frau kaleun]

I also let Commander give me a randomized name, altho I will keep hitting the button until it pops up something that I like. One thing that always gets my attention, though, is when I get a name that means nothing to me in terms of connection to a real person, but the picture assigned to the career is immediately recognizable as Topp or Prien or one of the other well-known aces.

I have never had the random function pull up a combination from the database that resulted in the name of a real life commander who was already known to me. But... by letting Commander generate random crew names from the database of real first and last names of u-boat men, I once had Otto Kretschmer serving under me as a bootsmann. THAT definitely caught my eye when I was reviewing my crew! :haha:

[Sailor Steve]

"Excuse me, but I couldn't help noticing..."

"No relation, Herr Kaleun!"




I did once have a Bernard Baltz in my crew. I started a thread just to show it to Brag.

[USS Drum]

You can enter your own name.

[prowler3]

My own name...I'm old and I like beer so...it makes it easy :har:

[Sailor Steve]

Yeah, but 'Kaleun Sailor Steve' looks kind of lame. I did once use the German transliteration of my own name, since we were German many centuries ago: Stefan Brodfeldt.

[The Dean]

Kaleun Hans Gruber, currently hiding from a couple of Black Swans :salute:

[Sepp von Ch.]

I use (here on subsim and in SH3 Commander) my "U-Boat nickname" - Josef (or Sepp) von Posorschitz:salute:

[sublynx]

I let SH3Commander randomize mine.

[Hinrich Schwab]

I either randomize or use "Heinrich Schwab". My real name is WAY to English and the Aces should be left alone. Erich Topp or Silent Otto, I am not.

[Jimbuna]

I let SH3 Commander randomize mine.

[max-peck]

Been working my way through physicists recently - don't know why.

Past Kaleuns include Max Planck and Karl Heisenberg (Werner Heisenberg is too long to fit into the name box in SHCommander :DL)

My current commander is Niels Bohr

[Herr-Berbunch]

I too let Commander choose a random name, and also click through till I find one I like.

This makes a refreshing change as I always seem to be different to everyone else, but not with this. :D

[Hans Uberman]

I simply got my name from a German scientist in the old LucasArts game "Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis". The other name is partially inspired by the second "Hellboy" film.

[Jimbuna]

I simply got my name from a German scientist in the old LucasArts game "Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis". The other name is partially inspired by the second "Hellboy" film.

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

[1480]

Being a child of heavy metal from the early eighties till present I use the name the name Udo Meine in tribute to Accept and the Scorpions. :rock:

[Hanomag]

I use my avatar picture and use my name ... Hanomag ..'natch.. :up: