A quick intro (if nobody minds)

[SaywyerAWR]

Pardon the new guy, but I just wanted to take a second to introduce myself: probably for the best you guys know what you just let on here, lol.

I have to admit I've known about this place for some time, but haven't had any reason to join really. Well, I finally got off my lazy transom (pardon the horrible analogy...but get used to them, they're more common that dud Mk14s in '42 with me...) and got Silent Hunter 4...a game Ive wanted ever since it came out in '07...and I suppose that's as good a reason as any to finally join the ranks here!

I've always been a bit of a history Nerd, so if I go off on a tangent, feel free to shout at me. Also, do us all a favor and don't let me anywhere near the helm whilst unattended. At least, that is, if you want the boat back in the same shape is was when you left it! If anybody need me, I'll be aboard U.S.S. Lionfish, probably chasing after my version of the white whale...a certain 60,000+ton battleship.

also, if you don't hear from me for a while, Alert the Falcon: I've probably steamed face first in to a sandbar or something. (should probably warn you about the bad jokes too...)

[Torplexed]

Welcome to Subsim. History Nerds always welcome. :sunny:

[GoldenRivet]

Welcome aboard

You can bunk with bernard.

I have a feeling you'll fit right in with this crew

[Aktungbby]

SawyerAWR!:Kaleun_Salute: Going off on history nerd tangents and bad jokes are expressly not allowed at :subsim:; you are advised to BEWARE! :stare: :huh::()1: of course that could just be construed as high praise from Seize Her:hmph:

[SaywyerAWR]

Welcome aboard

You can bunk with bernard.

I have a feeling you'll fit right in with this crew

why, because of the history nerd part or the regularly breaking the boat part?:haha:

for the record I try not to use the USS Growler as a role model, but lets just say I've hit my fair share of seamounts and reefs in the few days I've been playing. If its any consolation the IJN seem to have helmsmen just as drunk and *challenged* (COUGH) as me...I just watched a Kuma class T-bone a Fubuki a while ago. still annoyed I didn't have any ready tubes then, I could have seriously had some fun...

EDIT: at least I think it was a Fubuki: I was too busy laughing to tell!

[GoldenRivet]

the regularly breaking the boat part?:haha:


He has known about this place for a while :haha:

[Eichhörnchen]

Welcome to SubSim, buddy:)

[HW3]

Welcome Aboard!

[Wolferz]

Welcome to the boat.:salute:

A few words of warning...

Don't mind the squirrel, he's harmless except when hungry.

Put in an immediate request for a different rack...

Bernard's place is called "Chicago" for a good reason.:huh:

Get your gear stowed and grab an oar.

SURPRISE!
You can't possibly break what's already broken.:03::O::haha:

[Jimbuna]

Welcome to SubSim :sunny:

[Commander Wallace]

Welcome to Subsim :)

[THEBERBSTER]

A Warm Welcome To The Subsim Community > SaywyerAWR:subsim:
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[Gargamel]

Welcome aboard....

And if you want a giggle, do a little search here on bernard. It'll go waaaaay back, but it's worth it.

[August]

Welcome! :salute:

[Rhodes]

Welcome aboard! :Kaleun_Salute:
Don't touch Jimbuna beer stash and watch out for the Ferret and the Squirl!
Neal is the High Father and the rest of us are just :woot::-j

[Highbury]

Hello and Welcome Aboard! :salute:

[GoldenRivet]

Bernard's place is called "Chicago" for a good reason.:huh:




Hahahahaha

:rotfl2::rotfl2:

[u crank]

Welcome to SubSim SaywyerAWR . :salute:

[SaywyerAWR]

Thanks all for the warm Welcome. Technically my name should be "Sawyer" but that's what I get for not spell checking (and yes I did only just notice this today...I blame the fact that my allergies are starting their twice-yearly run me over cycle...)

In other news, I finally got my first kill in SH4: 21 missed torpedoes later, I finally smacked one into a medium composite and finished it off with the deck gun. Oy, this is gonna be interesting.

[fireftr18]

Welcome aboard SaywyerAWR! :salute:

Ignore Acktungbby, everyone else does. Especially when he goes off on his history nerd tangents and bad jokes. :haha:

We're all history nerds here, so we like the tangents and will join in. We're all full of bad jokes, just check out the joke thread. :up:

Forget Wolferz's oar, I'm the unofficial, self appointed assigner of jobs around here. Grab a large scoop shovel, the bilge needs some cleaning. :88)

[Aktungbby]

Ignore Acktungbby, everyone else does. Especially when he goes off on his history nerd tangents and bad jokes. :haha:

Forget Wolferz's oar, I'm the unofficial, self appointed assigner of jobs around here. Grab a large scoop shovel, the bilge needs some cleaning. :88)
U IDIOT!:haha: We can't forget Wolferz's oar!!!:oops: The Bilge 's vessel is the trireme U-REEKHA We gotta have rowers! (The bilge-post #1336) We'll recruit new bilgerats for the lower deck rowing positions- about 150 for daylong outings up to 300 Kilometers at a comfortable 7+ knots!
As I recall I put you in charge of the catapault's rockpile so U could 'blow up something'...and just for the history tangent, so poor bottom-deck rower-recruit SawyerAWR knows what he's in for...on a really bad bad day: I give you the greatest Sea battle in recorded history!!:rock: YUP! the one that ended a war and put 'paid' to an empire. 405 BC, at Aegospotami (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegospotami): the Spartans, having been horrifically slaughtered the year before at Arginusae losing 70 ships to the Athenian's 25, managed somehow to suck it up and completely annihilated the Athenians, capturing 150 of 170 ships and executing the Athenian 3,000 sailors, mostly proud upper-class Athenian rowers-there were no slave rowers on warships; that's Hollywood crapl:know: "Fearing the retribution that the victorious Spartans might take on them, the Athenians resolved to hold out from the siege, but their cause was hopeless. Without a fleet to import grain from the Black Sea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea), Athens was on the verge of starvation, and the city surrendered in March 404 BC. The walls of the city were demolished, and a pro-Spartan government was established. The Spartan victory at Aegospotami marked the end of 27 years of war, placing Sparta in a position of complete dominance throughout the Greek world and establishing a political order that would last for more than thirty years." So row well SawyerAWR! :O: edit: fixed :up:

[Sailor Steve]

Technically my name should be "Sawyer" but that's what I get for not spell checking (and yes I did only just notice this today...I blame the fact that my allergies are starting their twice-yearly run me over cycle...)
Ask Neal to fix it. Neal can fix anything. :sunny:

[Wolferz]

Tom Sawyer didn't like school either.:know:

[SaywyerAWR]

Wolferz, is it bad that my mother actually named me after Tom Sawyer? Mark Twain is her favorite author...I'm just glad she didn't name me Huck! :har:

[mapuc]

Like History, what time period is your favorite ?

Mine is The American civil War, WWII and a little of Europe 1900 to about 1950/1960 And what I can find to read.

Some month ago I heard the story about Rome very interesting.

Right now I'm reading and watching videos about WWI.

Markus

[SaywyerAWR]

Markus, for me its "Modern" Military history: personally I define that as the Boer War forward just for conveniences' sake. Now that doesn't mean thats the only thing I like: I love naval history, and the Civil war is pretty interesting to me too (especially the Naval side of it) but mostly its 20th century and later.

Oh, and industrial history: especially railroads, trains, planes, ships, you name it!