First patrol completed ^-^

[Herazio]

Grusse !

I've completed the naval academy and have done my first patrol succesfully ! Since I remembered some stuff of SH II I didn't need to learn too much of that. However my first patrol I've encountered 3 warships which I all sank and 3 merchants. For me this is very good since in Silent Hunter II I never even got a torpedo hit :P. But it's all more easy now I suppose. Anyhow

U-73 U-Flotilla Wegener (1939) Signing Off.

Good hunting !

[Kruger]

Welcome Herr Herazio !! We're proud of you, let us know of your deeds in the future. Have you tried yet one of the mods NYGM or GW ? What realism settings are you playing with ? Feel free to ask anything...we try to help each other as much as we can, and there are many special people around here.

[stabiz]

Very good, indeed! In my first patrol I sank Dover or Calais and blew up some sardins.

[NeonSamurai]

Congrats :)

This forum is also full of helpfull tips, links, and guides for playing too :)

[P_Funk]

Yeah there is a crapload of stuff that the Stock tutorials don't cover.

Try this: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=88961
and this: http://www.paulwasserman.net/SHIII/

That ought to get your printer crying ink.:up:

[Dowly]

Congratulations of your first combat patrol! :up:

Hopefully you enjoy your stay here at the SubSim. :yep:

[Rose]

Congrats on a successful 1st patrol! I sure as hell didn't sink 6 ships in my first go. Welcome to the forum, and we look forward to helping you out and answering any questions in the future :D.

[Herazio]

Thank you all for the kind replies. I've read the manuals of how to intercept a ship and such which is very handy when I get a report from BdU and such and manual targetting which is very handy for when I put my realism higher. Till now my realism settings are on normal. And I do not use any mod except for SH III Commander cause I finally know what it's for. I wanted to download the Grey Wolves mod but that was way too big. We have a limited amount of Download Space (Telenet Belgium tsk) but hey. For the rest I'm in the midst of my Second patrol to AN11. Let's see what we can find there :).

Thank you all !

Bryan,

[mortakos]

try searching near britain you can find large convoys sometimes;)

[stabiz]

. I wanted to download the Grey Wolves mod but that was way too big. We have a limited amount of Download Space (Telenet Belgium tsk) but hey.

I think its possible to get on on a cd.

[Firebird]

Hey, another belgian :). Well, 9 more days 'till you can download again :p

Hf!
Birdy.

[galahad]

Well done Herazio!

I just completed my first patrol tonight as well.

6 merchants and one warship on the bottom, I found a big convoy with lots of tankers in it, and managed to sink a T3, T2 some cargo's before I ran out of torpedoes. Then I attacked the Corvette coming at me with my deck gun, sustaining some damage, but no casualties. I was able to sink 2 more small cargo ships before I ran out of 88 shells too. Then it was back to base.

Not to bad for a first patrol eh?
I'm only using the patched vanilla atm, with 79% realism.