Sinking after just leaving port!!

[The_Yugster]

Another stupid noob problem!!

Im useing the Rub45 mod with the port trafic mod as well......
Ive tride twice now to leav port when sudenly abit of a way out theres an explosion and i take on masive floding and sink!!

Theres no sing of enamy aircraft or ships!!
Could I be hitting mines?
If so how do you know were they are and how to go round them?
Or is it a bug?

[panthercules]

Another stupid noob problem!!

Im useing the Rub45 mod with the port trafic mod as well......
Ive tride twice now to leav port when sudenly abit of a way out theres an explosion and i take on masive floding and sink!!

Theres no sing of enamy aircraft or ships!!
Could I be hitting mines?
If so how do you know were they are and how to go round them?
Or is it a bug?

Almost certainly you are running into a mine - generally, these mods that add minefields to friendly ports also provide you with an escorting destroyer/patrol boat of some kind which, if you follow it out of the harbor, will get you safely past the minefields - this is kinda fun the first couple of times, but does tend to get old after a while depending on which port you are in and how long it takes you to get past the minefields - many of these port traffic mods have versions or mini-mods that remove the minefields from friendly ports, in case you'd rather not bother with them

[HEMISENT]

U Boat + Minefield = BOOM!!! :help:

[xptical]

Can anyone confirm if this is also in IUB? Are there maps of the fields? How do you know which ship is the escort?

[Marhkimov]

Mines are also in IUB. It is a feature of the Harbor Traffic mod, which uses mines at the base entrances.

[captainclasp]

As soon as you start the patrol your bridge crew usually notes a ship spotted - the very first ship you see is your guide - usually a trawler of some sort. Follow it - and you should avoid the mines with no problem. Good Hunting.

CC

[ref]

As soon as you start the patrol your bridge crew usually notes a ship spotted - the very first ship you see is your guide - usually a trawler of some sort. Follow it - and you should avoid the mines with no problem. Good Hunting.

CC

First time I load Harbour Traffic I was plotting a course out off port in the nav screen when I hear a crash sound, when I reach the bridge I saw I was ramming it. :rotfl: :rotfl:

Since then I always leave port at less than 5 knts.

[Sailor Steve]

Lock your UZO onto the escort. Match his speed. When he turns don't bother to follow him manually; wait until you are directly astern of him and hit the '+/=' key. That way you will follow his path exactly and always be the same distance behind him.

[Marhkimov]

Yeah, espeacially when I found a spam smiley. I felt it would fit me quite nicely. :D

[Sturm]

Harbours aren't the only place where you can hit those things. It was pure good luck that I didn't hit this sucker with my brand new XXI, which was already attacked by aircraft and also depth charged and rammed by destroyer in heavy fog.

http://koti.mbnet.fi/sh3/images/SH3Img@26-1-2006_23.17.41_953.jpg

http://koti.mbnet.fi/sh3/images/SH3Img@26-1-2006_23.18.22_15.jpg

[The_Yugster]

Yeah if your useing RUB you can see the escort ship on the map, as its the only ship that has an outline on the map its hard to miss!!

BTW were abouts is that? looks like those islands abouve Norway didunt know the map gose up that far?

[Sturm]

No, they are Faeroe Islands.

[Sailor Steve]

http://koti.mbnet.fi/sh3/images/SH3Img@26-1-2006_23.18.22_15.jpg

This shows the passage between the Faroes and Scotland. It was mined by the British in 1940-41. If you are using RUB then the mines are there, placed originally by me for the Ops Mod, later corrected and updated by Teddy Bar for RUB and his new mod.

Use the mission editor to look at the map and you'll see where all the mines are.

[billk1]

Where do I get this Harbor Traffic mod?

Thanks,
Bill

[GT182]

Go here billk..... http://u-boot.realsimulation.com/ then click on SHIII Downloads on the left. Then click I Understand and Agree in the next screen and go to Silent Hunter 3 Mods (General Section). HT 1.47 is the latest one. There is one for RUB and a Standalone version.

[Mike 'Red Ocktober' Hense]

yeah... that sounds like fun... the possibility of getting killed by a mine...

and i especially like the solution one of the skippers came up with about following a merchant out of port... and even more like the need to tag along and follow a slow one through a minefield into an allied anchorage...

... i hope this is also modelled in, which one is it, Harbor Mod or RUB???


i knew i've been missing something,but i haven't had much free time lately to go hunting in SH3... as soon as i get some though, i'm gonna get these modes and have a lil excitment...

good thread...

--Mike

[billk1]

Thanks GT182 doe the info.

Billk

[GT182]

HT 1.47 has mines and subnets in it too. I've hit the nets going out of Lorient twice now, not realizing what was causing damage and the sub sinking.... all crew dead. They are not where you expect them to be.

And don't get in a big hurry and use TS over 8. That will surely do you in from hittng a mine or net, if you come out of the channel and turn right to head west. ;) Best to head south for 20 kms or so and then go around the island before heading west.