Malfunction?

[Captain Fail]

I have just started playing SH3 with GWX and something went badly wrong on my 1st patrol.

I was returning to Wilhelmshaven and when I was about 20km(?) away suddenly there was huge damage and my boat flooded and sank.

Was this likely to be a malfuntion or is there minefields I was unaware of?

[HW3]

There are minefields and sub nets guarding the entrance to Wilhelmshaven. There is a pulldown chart on the map page that shows the position of the minefields and nets for all the friendly harbors. Be careful, there are Allied minefields around Helgoland also.

:salute:

[Captain Fail]

Ok that is good to know.

Thanks.

[Jimbuna]

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[Stryck_9]

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[Herr-Berbunch]

It's been done once or twice before. :up:

[Red Heat]

:har: this just struck me hard possibly the best reply ever

Jimbuna and Steve are the worst replays ever in the good sense of course! :haha:

[Sailor Steve]

Jimbuna and Steve are the worst replays ever in the good sense of course! :haha:
Why would say a thing like that? :stare: What did I ever do to you? Well, besides that? And that other thing? That wasn't my fault. Well, it was, but I didn't really mean it. And you can't blame me for the...oh, never mind. Some days I just can't win. :O:

[Red Heat]

I love a good laugh... :D

[Jimbuna]

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[Captain Fail]

I played the stock game about a year or two ago but not for very long. It was only recently I reinstalled it with GWX and SH commander and I am impressed at how good it is. Anyway I have since lost another boat on the 1st patrol. There wasn't much happening so I decided it might be a good idea to have drill. I ordered the boat to dive and the boat ended up getting damaged very quickly and then destroyed before I could react. Is it normal for the boat to be crushed at such a shallow depth? It can't have been much more than 40m.

[HW3]

That depends on if the boat had received damage before or not. Were you in shallow water, in a mine field, near a sub net, bombed by an unseen enemy bomber, shelled from a shore installation. As you can see, it could have been any number of things that caused it. It is rare but, it can happen.

[Jimbuna]

Did you order a crash dive in shallow water?

[Gargamel]

Did you order a crash dive in shallow water?

This

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[Captain Fail]

Yes, some of those are indeed possible. I am sure it was my error as opposed to a defect in the boat.

I would very much appreciate if someone could clarify which ships I am not allowed to attack because I found all the messages that came through confusing when the war began.

I headed north through the Irish sea and managed to sink a couple of warships and a small coastal cargo vessel. I wasn't sure if I was supposed to attack the cargo ship but decided to sink it anyway.

So can I attack all British shipping other than passenger ships?

thanks.

[Gargamel]

Check the flags pull down tab in the scope. Ingame you can attack anything flying a flag you are at war with.

Hospital ships are always off limits. The radio messages are just for immersion, for the most part.

[U-SERB]

In game, sure you can attack all ships from British, Poland and France and other countries which declare war to Germany....
But, that is not historically true. There was a lot of restrictions for German U-boat at the beginning of the war...

It's Pandora's box so, its better to sink all enemies than to follow BDU rules...

Personally, I prefer campaign in '43, 44 and '45 when you haven't that restrictions and when is bloody hard to sink anything....