This is True i swear!!!

[sonicninja]

I thought it is worth mentioning that as a serving submariner in the Royal Navy there is actually about 12 of us on my submarine that play SH3 + GWX whilst at sea on a long boring patrol, we have the ability (thanks to the weapon engineers onboard) to actually set up wolfpacks via LAN and laptops.

What is frustrating is when you are stood down on watch at sea and just about to engage a convoy and you actually have to go on watch and miss out on the action :timeout:

Funny really how simulation can be better that than reality, ive been playing SH3 for about 4 years and every boat i have served on in the Royal Navy has its hard core German U-Boat Captains onboard.

Anyway, thought it was worth a mention, im fairly sure other Navys have the same, thats why submariners become submariners, because we love being below the waves and having the ability to outsmart skimmers with our stealth and somewhat pirate tactics :arrgh!:

[Jimbuna]

That is very interesting to learn :up:

Best wishes to you and your shipmates...enjoy the GWXperience :arrgh!:

[Herr-Berbunch]

I've only knowingly met a submariner once, in Salalah just after 9/11.

The fact that he had come from 'somewhere off Canada' and arrived in Oman was a bit disconcerting, and couple that with the fact he carried a dosimeter I really didn't want his job!!!! :doh:

[Cybermat47]

Cool!


Join the Royal Navy! You can play Silent Hunter III for free!

[Red Heat]

Cool!

Join the Royal Navy! You can play Silent Hunter III for free!

:haha:

[TwoGamers]

I'd become a submariner when i 'grow up', or the correct title 'Maritime Warfare Officer Submariner' but I find I'm just not adventorous enough. ill stick to playing SH3

[Ray Nicholls]

I thought it is worth mentioning that as a serving submariner in the Royal Navy there is actually about 12 of us on my submarine that play SH3 + GWX whilst at sea on a long boring patrol, we have the ability (thanks to the weapon engineers onboard) to actually set up wolfpacks via LAN and laptops.

What is frustrating is when you are stood down on watch at sea and just about to engage a convoy and you actually have to go on watch and miss out on the action :timeout:

Funny really how simulation can be better that than reality, ive been playing SH3 for about 4 years and every boat i have served on in the Royal Navy has its hard core German U-Boat Captains onboard.

Anyway, thought it was worth a mention, im fairly sure other Navys have the same, thats why submariners become submariners, because we love being below the waves and having the ability to outsmart skimmers with our stealth and somewhat pirate tactics :arrgh!:

Hi,
you're lucky to have the space to play,on the "Andrew & Reso" we didn't have such luxuries as space.Have a safe journey.
Ray

[sublynx]

What is frustrating is when you are stood down on watch at sea and just about to engage a convoy and you actually have to go on watch and miss out on the action :timeout:

Funny really how simulation can be better that than reality, ive been playing SH3 for about 4 years and every boat i have served on in the Royal Navy has its hard core German U-Boat Captains onboard.


That's ironic in a peculiar way :) It reminds me of a Finnish fighter pilot ace from World War II who had read Baron von Richthofen's book about WW I fighter piloting as a youngster and eventually ended up in air war himself and then after the war being read himself by young would-be-aviators and aces.

Let's hope that you and your crewmates won't have to use your convoy hunting skills in a real situation!

[U-SERB]

Funny really how simulation can be better that than reality, ive been playing SH3 for about 4 years and every boat i have served on in the Royal Navy has its hard core German U-Boat Captains onboard.



This is not surprising me at all... Living on big island, all around you are seas, oceans, naval power through the centuries, a lot of shis, SUBS...

What surprises me is that in Serbia also have a lot hard core German U-boat captains. :rock:

PS.
We don't even have a sea, nor any subs! :rotfl2:
I think its same situation in Hungary, Czech Republic, etc... :har:

[Laufen zum Ziel]

Nice post.

[Cpt Geir]

When I was a kid, i designed my own submarine. Had the plans and everything, but never got it to real life. And I tried to get into the navy, but ended up in the army instead, probably because of bad hearing on the left ear. But I have met a retired u-boat captain once, and THAT was an interesting experience having a chat with one that have lots of experience and in-depth knowledge about how things works. Like navy-seals dropping in the water and crawling thru the torpedo-tubes, or how the chemistry about too much CO2 leads too and how they circulate the air and stuff like that. He tried once to bind a line from the left to the right wall in the submarine once when they where submerged, and when they where heading to the surface the line just snapped.

You guy in the first post is really lucky to be serving in a submarine, that must be a wet dream! :D Have fun! :D:yeah:

[Cybermat47]

that must be a wet dream!

I see what you did there!:rotfl2::haha::har::rotfl2::haha::har::rotfl 2:

[TheDude107]

I can believe it. Sounds cool to be able to play a LAN game to begin with. Let alone playing while on an actual sub :D. Reminds me of playing ARMA with clan mates overseas or stationed at a base in their home country.

Seems like alot of people dreamed of being in a sub. I kind of just stumbled into SH3 after it came out. To be honest the thought of being underwater creeps me out a bit. I could have tried for a job on a sub but never went into the Navy.

If I did enlist it was a toss up between "Fire Controlman", a person who operates a weapon system on a ship. And my first choice was being a "Damage Controlman", basicly a firefighter on a ship.

Thats what is funny to me. I am afraid of deep water but my first job choice for a surface ship was to be the person trying to seal up a flooded compartment. I'm sure damage controlmen always make it out of a sinking ship /heavy sarcasm :har:

[sonicninja]

i would say that for 90% of the time we are on patrol it is possibly the most boring part of life as a submariner unless you are lucky enough to stumble across another submarine or a skimmer but alot of the time we are hidden away from everything so we remain a "stealth weapon".
On an 8 week patrol i will average the following:-

Watch 20 -25 movies,
Cycle 1200 miles on an excercise bike in the fwd escape compartment,
Have 12 showers,
Read at least 4 books,
Eat 96 Sausages,
Complete about 30 SH3 Patrols,
Watch Das Boot (Directors Cut) at least 8 times,
Smoke no cigarettes,
Drink no beer,
Make no phonecalls,
Recieve no emails,
Read no newspapers,
Write no letters,
Have 1 shave,
No sex,

As you can see its an amazing life (not), give me SH3/GWX at home in the dining room with a pack of tobacco and a pint of beer any day of the year
:yeah:

[Herr-Berbunch]

I'd do without sex for 96 sausages, where do I sign. :03:

I'd prefer more showers though.

[TheDude107]

i would say that for 90% of the time we are on patrol it is possibly the most boring part of life as a submariner unless you are lucky enough to stumble across another submarine or a skimmer but alot of the time we are hidden away from everything so we remain a "stealth weapon".
On an 8 week patrol i will average the following:-

As you can see its an amazing life (not), give me SH3/GWX at home in the dining room with a pack of tobacco and a pint of beer any day of the year
:yeah:

Must be a blast when you get back to the shore though.

What happens when you find another sub that is part of your own Navy, war games until you think the other guy is serious? :haha:

[Nobon]

Oh, but you at least get some good money I presume :D

And waiting 8 weeks to go ashore in -uniform-, can have its advantages in the first few nights onshore :D

8 weeks of undisturbed time for writing novels, reading, training my body with 'inmate training', and playing SH3, 8 weeks peace, what I got money for,
then going ashore dressed up as the finest of the navy, :D and -immediately- set foot into a bar, with local chicks, and party with them for like three days :D

Then with the buddies,

then with girlfriend(s)

then with family.

Go on some hiking,

then back to the sub :D

and no cash problems.

Well, I COULD get used to it... Sounds like a nice life-frequency even if it means serios work sometimes.

How long are your free time when you arent in the sub?

[sonicninja]

The best "Runs Ashore" i have ever been on after a patrol have all been in America, they love the military over there and we are always very well looked after with plenty of beer and various other activities :up:

The worse Run Ashore i have ever had is in Brest, France, they hate the British and especially the Royal Navy over there, which is strange seeing as we liberated thier Country along with all the other Allied Nationalitys, but I did enjoy visiting Doenitz's submarine pens in Brest which still stand in all thier Glory.

[Jimbuna]

The worse Run Ashore i have ever had is in Brest, France, they hate the British and especially the Royal Navy over there, which is strange seeing as we liberated thier Country along with all the other Allied Nationalitys, but I did enjoy visiting Doenitz's submarine pens in Brest which still stand in all thier Glory.

Reminds me of this ooooold joke:

An elderly British gentleman of 83 arrived in Paris by plane.

At the French immigration desk, the man took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry-on bag.

"You have been to France before, Monsieur?" the Immigration officer asked, sarcastically.

The elderly gentleman admitted he had been to France previously.

"Then you should know well enough to have your passport ready."

The British gentleman says, "The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it."

"Impossible. The British always have to show their passports on arrival in France!"

The elderly gentleman gave the French Immigration Officer a long hard look.

Then he quietly explained;

"Well, the last time I was here, I came ashore on Juno Beach on D-Day in June 1944, and I couldn't find any Frenchmen to show it to."

[sonicninja]

:har: That's brilliant Jimbuna, i will be passing that one round the squadron and the Dockyard on Monday for sure!!!

[Jimbuna]

:har: That's brilliant Jimbuna, i will be passing that one round the squadron and the Dockyard on Monday for sure!!!

Rgr that matey http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/thumbsup.gif

[Nobon]

Nice one :D


Well, about the weird hatred from most of the french:

Do you know the sentence? :
"You saved hes life. Hes never going to forgive you this..."

If someone owes too mutch to someone, its rapidly descend to secret hatred.
The overall gallic pride of France is smashed with military boots, when british helped them so mutch in the early years of the war,
and then this pride is burned to ashes when brits helped them with their own spilled blood, to free France from the occupation....

As arch enemies in history, France never have done such thing to Britain...
Thats why were they totally embarassed when practically brits saved their country. France gives too mutch to pride, while Britain usually thinks forward in hard politics... And usually uses plain friendship, as a fine political move.
Now France owes them, and USA for like two hundreds of years XD


Now I can understand, why they hate their saviors :D
Once a mighty militaristic country, descended into the "saved nations" category.

By the way I have nothing against the French :D this is only an interesting social reaction they produce...

[Herr-Berbunch]

CDG was so embarrassed he kicked the SOE agents out within 24 hours of his 'triumphant' return, no thanks, no parade, no tea and medals, no humility.

A cause for resentment I believe.

[Nobon]

Good ol' tall Charlie ^^