No idea where I am :-)

[vanjast]

RealNav on... hit foul weather west of Stavanger, went around the Shetlands and heading down towards St. Kilda...

Haven't seen a blink of stars or sunlight for the past 1400Km..(6 game days) just rain, sleet and heavy seas.

I estimate that I'm just north of Carloway (Outer Hebrides) Having closely missed Rona, I think it is - couldn't see it... Slowed my TC (16x) and sounded my way through with Depth Under Keel coming up to 25m.

All I had to do was shunt my sub up a beach on my first patrol :wah:
Visibility is zip most of the time - and every now and then, the watch tells me they can see fog :har: I just bang my head against the periscope shell.

Navigating to 6 hourly waypoints at max TC=128... but hell's I could be just south of the Faroe Islands the way things are going :arrgh!:

[Jimbuna]

http://s28.postimg.org/yw6hoozmh/CRYSTA_12_1.gif (http://postimage.org/)

[banryu79]

RealNav on... hit foul weather west of Stavanger, went around the Shetlands and heading down towards St. Kilda...

Haven't seen a blink of stars or sunlight for the past 1400Km..(6 game days) just rain, sleet and heavy seas.

I estimate that I'm just north of Carloway (Outer Hebrides) Having closely missed Rona, I think it is - couldn't see it... Slowed my TC (16x) and sounded my way through with Depth Under Keel coming up to 25m.

All I had to do was shunt my sub up a beach on my first patrol :wah:
Visibility is zip most of the time - and every now and then, the watch tells me they can see fog :har: I just bang my head against the periscope shell.

Navigating to 6 hourly waypoints at max TC=128... but hell's I could be just south of the Faroe Islands the way things are going :arrgh!:
This is... awsome! In someway, at least. :O:

[flag4]

RealNav on... hit foul weather west of Stavanger, went around the Shetlands and heading down towards St. Kilda...

Haven't seen a blink of stars or sunlight for the past 1400Km..(6 game days) just rain, sleet and heavy seas.

I estimate that I'm just north of Carloway (Outer Hebrides) Having closely missed Rona, I think it is - couldn't see it... Slowed my TC (16x) and sounded my way through with Depth Under Keel coming up to 25m.

All I had to do was shunt my sub up a beach on my first patrol :wah:
Visibility is zip most of the time - and every now and then, the watch tells me they can see fog :har: I just bang my head against the periscope shell.

Navigating to 6 hourly waypoints at max TC=128... but hell's I could be just south of the Faroe Islands the way things are going :arrgh!:

...the beautiful game. marvellous. im envious. how real can it get?

[maillemaker]

Real navigation is probably a step I will never take.

Steve

[vanjast]

Here's my daily weather...
Every couple of waypoints I do sound check - I have a contact and we're on the chase. Doing a 30 minute surface speed burst and will sound it again

Range estimate around 15-20km (Sound still faint on hyrdophone)
Speed estimate before ID around 4-8 knots (34rpm)

http://www.ephotobay.com/image/onthehunt.jpg (http://www.ephotobay.com/share/onthehunt.html)

[vanjast]

Lost contact .. :wah: (just disappeared from 360 sonar scan - could be the hyperspacing ships thing)
Also just missed a task force going south.. but we have instructions to leave military targets alone :hmmm:

Anyway about to round St Kilda on the final course to the patrol grid - weather is still lousy.. but my depth sounding starting to give me deep water, so it looks like I'm on track
This is still a very estimated position, but I'm using all the 'clues' I can :arrgh!:
This pic was taken at my 6 hour waypoint save... I'm already starting the next waypoint at 06:00.
http://www.ephotobay.com/image/stkilda.jpg (http://www.ephotobay.com/share/stkilda.html)

[vanjast]

Real navigation is probably a step I will never take.
It's not that difficult, and after playing with it you'll facepalm yourself :D, that you didn't use it before....

Gotta go to family supper but will come back later with a simplified explanation.
:up:

[Aktungbby]

http://s28.postimg.org/yw6hoozmh/CRYSTA_12_1.gif (http://postimage.org/)

Yup! time for a little DEAD RECKONING Here!:O:

[maillemaker]

It's not that difficult, and after playing with it you'll facepalm yourself :D, that you didn't use it before....

I'm sure it is, the idea of doing it just holds no appeal for me. I'm not interested in celestial navigation of my uboat. I want to plot a series of waypoints for a course and have my uboat magically go there. I only pop into the game when we have a contact. Especially with external views disabled, most of the eye candy of the game is gone. It's all about pressing contacts, making attacks, and evasion until I'm out of fish or too damaged to continue, then return to port.

Steve

[vanjast]

I'm sure it is, the idea of doing it just holds no appeal for me. I'm not interested in celestial navigation of my uboat.
Back again...

OK, no problem.... if/when you get bored and want to take it to a 'new level', you know where it's at... :salute:
Gotta go sailing...

[Tupolev]

@vanjast - OK I'm game. I'm always on the lookout for more realism.

Does it require a whole new GUI though?

The

[vanjast]

The weather clears after 8 days of junk, and within 12 hours we have a convoy..

http://www.ephotobay.com/image/convoy.jpg (http://www.ephotobay.com/share/convoy.html)

I know I'm in the Western approaches area... Full of BDU 'aggression'
get into position ahead and beam direct into the convoy aiming to slip quietly past the front guy, only to find that the little horror has asdic.

Dive deep and come up within the convoy.. with the pesky mosquito hounding me. Got one hit from 90 degree shot - not sure which ship.
http://www.ephotobay.com/image/mosquitopest.jpg (http://www.ephotobay.com/share/mosquitopest.html)

Mannn.. there is no shaking this pest.. doesn't he want to go play somewhere else ??
Did a classic Das Boot crash dive here...
http://www.ephotobay.com/image/hmmm-problem.jpg (http://www.ephotobay.com/share/hmmm-problem.html)

He's not good with the DCs though.. I still do not have a scratch
:arrgh!:

[vanjast]

Does it require a whole new GUI though?

Not if you're prepared to install in manually.

Find the older RealNav mod and the manual installation method is in the documents.
Explains what changes are made.

Depending on your screen vertical resolution though, you might have to rescale the sextant (the draggable one).
With the one that exists in the obs-scope (later NYGM wide screen), you can copy the reticule image files into your scope images - might still require scaling.

:)

[vanjast]

Game crashed before I could save this.. Was giving the escort the slip... and kaboom - Errr.. SH3 now refuses to work !!! :wah:

I guessed the speed (no time for fancy calculations) and just fired 5 torps at 5 targets.. 2 hits ??
I was an idiot.. the last 3 torps I forgot to set the TDC back to auto... :)

http://www.ephotobay.com/image/gamecrash.jpg (http://www.ephotobay.com/share/gamecrash.html)

[banryu79]

Large Cargo 15K tons... Large My-God-Tanker 25K tons!?! :o
You can really encounter these kind of... Queens?
Mee too, slurp slurp, I want them on my scope!!!
:Kaleun_Salivating:

[desirableroasted]

Large Cargo 15K tons... Large My-God-Tanker 25K tons!?! :o
You can really encounter these kind of... Queens?
Mee too, slurp slurp, I want them on my scope!!!
:Kaleun_Salivating:
They don't exist in the game or realistic mods.

[banryu79]

They don't exist in the game or realistic mods.
Noooo! Me sad now.
:Kaleun_Crying:

[vanjast]

I was just as surprised with the high tonnage numbers.. I was expecting around 7K each.

Possibly an error in the ship cfg files.. I'll look at this... they were big ships though, and I didn't ID them.. just 'los' ed at them.
:arrgh!:

[vanjast]

Restart at last save.. and 'TC down the road'.
Actually missed the convoy, but picked it up behind me and back-tracked.
This wasn't that bad as it put me in position for a night surface attack.

First night attack in about two years I think.. got the speed right, miss-judged my range so fired two torps (testing) at long range... no result from those, I've turned down the convoy tack to recharge torps.

At about 01:00 I turned in again for a 2nd, closer attack.. only to find the convoy had changed course from approx 125 to 60.. so the chase began.
Fairly calm seas and running at 10 knots. Only half a moon was out, but this still worried me.

An escort appeared out of nowhere on bearing 290, so I changed course to put her at 250. It was close and if I reduce speed it would catch me, or at speed it'll see my wake in the moonlight.
This was a catch 22 - so I decided to persevere.. and held my rudder at 1 degree port, which slowly brought me around to the front row - the front escort still someway out.

Beam down the front row I placed the ships at 330.. rechecked speeds, AOB's and courses. Some 4000m out the watch finds another escort bearing down on us at 310... Bugger... I turn starboard to go wide again. I might be forced into the front escort.

Deciding to chance it I then place a 3 degree port rudder, but watching the new escort for any signs of 'aggression'. Nothing happens and I eventually have the ships at 330 again.

Now it's time.. placing the ships at 350.. I go straight into the front row at an AOB of approx 60 degrees - If I've made any calculation mistakes all my torps should still hit at this angle, as the ships now cover a large area of 4 ship lengths - this is a 'barn door'. Closest ship is about 2500m.

3 torps into the front row, and the last at a tanker in the second row. Turn and leave the crime scene. 6 torps and one ship sunk - must have been many duds

I didn't get a torp hit report nor a shreaking torpedo room, but the furthest ship was hit.
http://www.ephotobay.com/image/farhit.jpg (http://www.ephotobay.com/share/farhit.html)

[vanjast]

So Herr Kaleuns... I couldn't understand how a perfect line-up would result in one-in-four torpedoes hitting.. again ??

http://www.ephotobay.com/image/oneinfour.jpg (http://www.ephotobay.com/share/oneinfour.html)

I damaged this ship and it stopped dead in it's tracks but didn't sink... so avoided the escorts and came around again..

I crept up to this stationary ship and set the TDC all to 'zero' - it was point blank. Shot off my last front eel .. and waited.. and waited :o
As I suspected the torpedoes have a problem... spun the boat around and let go with a stern torpedo.

There was an explosion off to the one side and a split second later another on the ship... luckily Heinz the photographer was on the bridge to photograph both events.

This is for BDU.. the first torpedo went absolutely wide,.. scheizens!! I cannot believe it.. and detonated far away...

http://www.ephotobay.com/image/skewtorp.jpg (http://www.ephotobay.com/share/skewtorp.html)

This put us in a dangerous situation with 2 escorts on our trail... we were lucky to escape by cunning and good seamanship of the crew!!

http://www.ephotobay.com/image/hunters.jpg (http://www.ephotobay.com/share/hunters.html)

:arrgh!:

[JeromeHeretic]

It's not that difficult...
:up:

For me it's not difficult if i'm somewhere between 5 deg N and 80 deg N.
But i'm lost on south hemisphere, because i know navigate only by Polaris and time.

BTW: Once i was lost in storm as you and i was searching Canarian Islands, because i badly needed refuel from Corrientes in Las Palmas.
I was zig-zaging sea about four days and set my course only from differencies in depth measuring. I missed islands a few times, so bad wather was. But everything finish good. You can imagine how lucky i was when seen light of lighthouse through the rain...
It was quite challenging experience :-)