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Hi all!
I think it is time to share our stupid stories... Like crash diving in ports, blowing up tanks under surface ships and etc.
When I started playing SHIII, I sank my boat dozens of times when I crashed to pier when returning from patrol.:oops:
Sir Big Jugs
08-02-06, 09:59 AM
When I started playing SHIII, I sank my boat dozens of times when I crashed to pier when returning from patrol.:oops:
And then you told Bernard to clean his glasses?;)
HunterICX
08-02-06, 10:03 AM
No Brewster,
Dowly kicked bernhard out of his boat...and since then Bernard is screwing us up....he's an nightmare to have in ur Uboat while shaddowing an Convoy...especially when you pull the safety off ur Torpedo Launch controlls
Sir Big Jugs
08-02-06, 10:05 AM
No Brewster,
Dowly kicked bernhard out of his boat...and since then Bernard is screwing us up....he's an nightmare to have in ur Uboat while shaddowing an Convoy...especially when you pull the safety off ur Torpedo Launch controlls
Yours must be a FORGERY!
Bernard is in my boat, and though he dies every time he still is there!!!
HunterICX
08-02-06, 10:12 AM
Brewster,
Dowly is an nice guy, but believe me
He could have an Secret German Lab, where he cloned Bernhard 100 Times and he spread them out with just one goal
''One Bernhard on Each U Boat, To Screw them all!''
(Lord of the Rings Background Music)
JSalinger
08-02-06, 10:49 AM
Could be worse...Bernard got onto my U-70 on my first career, and somehow managed to persuade the chief to let him near the surfacing controls...he surfaced us right in the middle of a British task force! Here we are, in the middle of the Med, grid CG-something, and we're stalking two British battleships (I was in my trusty IXB with six tubes, was going to put three torpedoes into each battleship), then all of a sudden, we break surface, and my IWO starts yelling "Warship spotted, close, moving fast!" I get up to the bridge, and the next thing i see is two BBs, six DDs, a CL, and a trio of MTBs. I yell down, "BERNARD!!!" and then we all got blasted to smithereens. :(
Now, the moment I see Bernard, I'm going to pop him in the back of the head with my Luger. If it weren't for his stupidity, I would've racked up 82,000 tons in a matter of minutes (probably would've been able to sink the light cruiser too).
::takes out baseball bat:: Die Bernard! Die!
Sailor Steve
08-02-06, 10:49 AM
Hi all!
I think it is time to share our stupid stories... Like crash diving in ports, blowing up tanks under surface ships and etc.
Welcome aboard; but if you're going to ask something like that shouldn't you start with one of your own (especially when you said "our" stupid stories)?
slow_n_ez
08-02-06, 11:04 AM
Mine was just recently ... My flak gunners were having a ball dropping constant incomming Sunderland search planes .. every so often that little screen poped up saying " Aircraft spotted sir " which I always clicked " attack " or whatever it says ..
I was down below of course checking for any damage when I got that warning screen and didn't bother to read it.. Just clicked to have them attack it.... heard my deck gun going off and run up to the deck to see a destoyer bearing down on me about 2000 meters away firing like mad with my deck gunners all dead and one flak gunner wounded and about 30 % hull damage ..... I at least got away after a crash dive and some quick turns and decoys launched ............
Well, its surfacing incident with me also: stupid B. suggested surfacing in the middle of some port in England at dawn (after I fired all my fish into two T2s and two C2s) to finish rest of docked ships with a deck gun.... But I was almost instantly hit hard by shore turrets... Almost got killed, but managed to get out (H.I. <50%)...
Although my crew is always checked for Bernard,he somehow managed to slip in some time ago...i let him in charge of the command-room after i had just raided a port in England.Looks like Bernard had no ideea of the sub-nets in the area,and when he hit them he thought that a warship had fired on us ,and,he decided to crash-dive ,but he neglected to ask for the depth under the keel ,that was about 20 m ,so you might imagine what the result was.After we managed to get home,bernard took a long walk off a short pier.
CptGrayWolf
08-02-06, 12:41 PM
Mine must be firing topedos at nothing. I keep hiting the Enter key to get out of time compression:oops: .
This is the way it's done in CAOD (still the best U-boat sim to date).
So I can imagine what this would be like in real life:
-Nice calm sea, in the middle of the Atlantic, all is quite-
Kaleun: ''Fire a torpedo.''
WO: ''Sir?''
Kaleun: '' yes, fire a torpedo now. ''
WO: '' But...errr...ok...''
forget i was diving untill its too late > (
So is Bernard our Davy Jones? Our Flying Dutchman, demon from the depths?Evil Curse???
Sir Big Jugs
08-02-06, 01:55 PM
playing silent hunter 3.
http://kwacky.blogspot.com/uploaded_images/ban_him-774450.jpg
Took on a Battleship on the surface:damn: Never again.
playing silent hunter 3.
http://kwacky.blogspot.com/uploaded_images/ban_him-774450.jpg
Should've been "Scuttle him" or something like that:D
SteamWake
08-02-06, 03:18 PM
Dumbest thing Ive done is to launch hot torpedoes by pressing enter (3 times)before leaving dock.
kiwi_2005
08-02-06, 03:40 PM
Went on a patrol, 1941 and sunk 7 merchants came back a happy kapitan only to look at my score screen and realised all 7 were friendies! :o
Oooops!
bigboywooly
08-02-06, 03:43 PM
Went on a patrol, 1941 and sunk 7 merchants came back a happy kapitan only to look at my score screen and realised all 7 were friendies! :o
Oooops!
:oops: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
Jager Kapitan
08-02-06, 03:48 PM
I was in Dover, and was between a pier and a hard place, the entire fleet there was going nuts, but.....amazingly, that contact report i sent went through, and out of nowhere, the luftwaffe shows up...at this point, i have been depthcharged with the destroyer 5m above me... so i decide "The Royal Navy is concerned with the Luftwaffe, so ill do a 180 and surface and go flank." Of course, when i blew ballast, the 2 cruisers, 2 destroyers and anything else with something that goes boom aimed at me. To top it off, the Luftwaffe destroyed the Liner i was aming for......:damn:
Brewtality
08-02-06, 05:14 PM
playing silent hunter 3.
keelhaul this fella pls :)
i had one torpedo left and a damaged tanker falling behind a convoy wich i was patiently waiting for the convoy to leave behind when my cat decided to take a walk over my keyboard.... and released the torpedo towards absolutely nothing :S
theluckyone17
08-02-06, 05:57 PM
Snuck into Lock Ewe in really bad weather... you know the type. Heavy rain & fog. I dont' remember the waves being really bad, probably because I'm in a harbor (at least they modeled that). It was also at night, so visibility was horrible.
I sighted this tanker just at the edge of my view range. Fired off one torpedo and dropped the 'scope (I'm being careful, since it's my first time in a harbor. Don't wanna mess this up :roll:).
Bang. No "torpedo impact" from the crew :hmm:.
Fire off torp #2. Bang. Again, no torpedo imact notification.:stare:
#3. Bang. :doh:
#4. Bang. :nope:
Got out the external camera, then moved closer to the tanker. Hidden by the darkness and bad weather was one of those concrete docks. :damn:
I gave up and went back to port.
Patboot
08-02-06, 06:08 PM
Booking along at 17knts attacking a Coastie doing 4.
Fired a fish, then turned a bit.
I had forgotten to re-select the right tube.
Bernard had loaded a Zaunkonig II into the #3 tube.
No, you cannot out run or out turn those things.
Hmm ok the most stupidist thing i have done...well it was when the game was first released.. i did manage to sink myself with an acoustic :oops: never happened again ;)
JSalinger
08-02-06, 09:41 PM
Steed, your Bernard had you take on a battleship with a deck gun?! :-? Okay, your Bernard makes mine look like a nuclear physicist...
Ducimus
08-02-06, 10:17 PM
Stupidist thing ive ever done, was start a patrol, plot my course all the way to my patrol grid in the caribean, order ahead slow, scramble up to the the bridge, thinking to myself, "enjoy the view, its going to be a long time before i see port again". So there i sit, trying to enjoy the moment like one might have done back then when i normaly just TC myself out in map view, and then.....
***CRASH****
I ran my boat aground leaving lorient docks. I had forgotten to tell the navigator to follow the course i had plotted.
Sailor Steve
08-03-06, 10:39 AM
At the Academy. Gunnery Training. Firing at a merchant, 200 meters range, when he blew up, taking me and three of the Kriegsmarine's top instructors with him.
The Munster
08-03-06, 04:46 PM
Just started my second patrol leaving Willhelmslaven when my friends called so to impress them, I 'crash-dived' in the Harbour so they could hear the 'bells', 'whistles' and general kafuffle only to hit the bottom of the sea-bed with an almighty bang and the 'we're taking damage sir' whilst the Band on the quayside played merrily away. Needless to say, with a red face, I tried to talk my way out of this embarassing situation !
Safe-Keeper
08-03-06, 05:08 PM
When I started playing SHIII, I sank my boat dozens of times when I crashed to pier when returning from patrol.:oops:
Not to mention leaving for patrol.
God, the annoyance before they patched the map to include those port drawings.
That band's incredible, by the way. Keeps on playing even while being blasted by heavy bombers. Amazing.
When I started playing SHIII, I sank my boat dozens of times when I crashed to pier when returning from patrol.:oops:
Not to mention leaving for patrol.
God, the annoyance before they patched the map to include those port drawings.
That band's incredible, by the way. Keeps on playing even while being blasted by heavy bombers. Amazing.
Hmm... The band´s from Titanic, the watch crew is from Titanic (not reporting icebergs). I wonder if anything else is from Titanic. :hmm:
mountainmanUK
08-03-06, 05:53 PM
Not really silly, but had a weird experience today, while playing the "Scapa Flow" Mission.
Snuck into the basin OK, past most of the waiting escorts, when I got spotted by a Hunt 1 DD that I'd missed. I played "cat & mouse" with him for about 10 minutes, suffering only a little repairable damage, when the rest of his buddies arrived. 3 flowers, 2 Armed Trawlers, and the Hunt 1.!!!:o
Next thing I know, all hell has broken out above the waves, while I keep popping my scope up for a look (I was playing 100% real, with no external camera). I fired a couple of hopeful torps in the general direction of the DD, but missed. Then I started hearing big explosions. Thinking I was about to be blasted out of existence, I stuck up the scope for another last look at what was going on, and guess what........the DD has only been blasting away at me with his guns, but his aim is totally crap, and he's only succeeeded in hitting 2 of the Flowers and both armed Trawlers, that were circling round me!!!!:lol: They were burning like November 5th!!
I think he must have been firing at roughly where my scope had popped up, but his gunners needed a LOT more Training!!!
I bet the Admiral was p*ssed when he got back in!!!
(btw.....I finally got rammed by the last of the Flowers and won a nice shiny Black screen with lovely orange writing!!!:down: )
cheers
Bernard just loves to play with my ballast tanks. More than once he surfaced me under a marauding DD. A few times he brought me up in the middle of an attack by B-24s and Sunderlands. Once he brought me up dead center of a TF of 4 cruisers and a Bogue. Most of them I can walk away from, but the TF one killed me, but not before I got a lucky torp hit off on the Bogue:) Don't know if it sank or not, since I got killed before it told me, but it was listing.
-Qairyl
dark_wolf
08-04-06, 01:42 AM
After a successful mission I decided it was time to go back to port. I was able to avoid allied cruisers and destroyers on my way back...but just when I was about to enter the harbour (I used accelerated time :damn:) I crashed my boat to shore only a few kilometers from port :damn:
U-snafu
08-04-06, 02:10 AM
Was finishing up a succesful (i.e.lucky) patrol (with GW+Uwac) in norway and was in the fijords near narvik. taskforces and troopship convoys had been coming and going there for the last few days and i was out of torps. noticed a small TF of german destroyers shelling it out with an english TF including a fiji cruiser.
Bernard figured our little sub wouldn't draw to much attention next to our surface brethen so he popped us up and went to the deck gun to get us into some coordinated fleet action. didn't help that he popped us up between the two lines.:doh: next thing i know, bernard is happily leading the gun crew in shelling a already damaged german dd while the whole english TF turns their guns un us:damn: . a short while later were on the bottom of the fijord (external cam shows us resting close by the german dd we finished off ) with massive flooding, no engine, and no compressed air.
I play dead is dead and bernard has never let me get past "the happy times" yet:cry:.
dark_wolf
08-04-06, 02:22 AM
I play dead is dead and bernard has never let me get past "the happy times" yet:cry:.
Heh with Bernard...there's no happy time :D
My crew have gotten together and voted to load bernard into the torp tudes and fire him at the first contact we receive ( enemy, neutral or allied ) :rotfl:
Early '40,nice weather, detected convoi, nailed the 3 DD/DE's, decided to have some fun with gunning, surfaced, "Warship spotted!", got hits by light cruiser on range 500 in engine compartment and central, sunk like stone, have been dead
I really enjoy my deck gun, and if I may say so, im pretty darn good with it. I take on the ships one size down fromt the destroyers with it, by blasting their forward turrets off at about 4k out. However, my downfall was that I forgot all about the fact that they can still ram you, and they still have machine guns and depth charges. So im merrily blasting away at my second corvette (Ah, theres the name of em), while the first one is charging full speed into my conning tower. Ouch...
SteamWake
08-04-06, 01:43 PM
Heh I read this and thought of this thread.
From the records of the capture of U977
After loading provisions, celebrating May Day, and holding a flag ceremony for Hitler’s reported death, U-977 left Kristiansand on her first and last war patrol 2 May 1945 at 2200. Using her Schnorchel 3 to 4 hours each night she proceeded submerged along the Norwegian coast. On 7 May the observation periscope was damaged due to its being left up while diving. :doh:
You can read more about the one and only patrol of U-977 here
http://www.uboatarchive.net/U-977INT.htm
spork542
08-05-06, 02:15 PM
Hm, most stupid thing I have done?:hmm: Probably running out of fuel in the middle of the atlantic. Of course, that was the end of that career.:D
snuck into Scapa Flow past the patroling DD's and found a nice Revenge class BB and got all 5 torps into her and then silently made my way back out all the while with a smug smile when I got to the entrance again all of a sudden I'm taking damage and have broached the surface, turns out there is a net there :oops: somehow I'd snuck past it on the way in and was oblivious of it until it was to late, those lighthouse thingies armed are they :hmm: cause I was shelled and then one of the outside DD's come boiling in and wham I was reading the dead screen.
bigboywooly
08-06-06, 04:40 AM
those lighthouse thingies armed are they :hmm: cause I was shelled and then one of the outside DD's come boiling in and wham I was reading the dead screen.
No its not the lighthouses that shelled but the coastal bunkers :yep:
Nasty things
One time bernard thought he'd say hi to an american merchant armed with a gun by shoot a torpedo across her bow at one meter and impact mode.... apparently he fired a perfect shot and HIT the american merchant... decided to say hi by firing on U-123 who crash dived after giving bernard to the americans...:rotfl:
*note this was before america declared war*
WilhelmSchulz.
08-07-06, 01:42 PM
While raiding NY I ran into a Elco and I took him out with my flack guns. But little did I know that he had called in a frend, a Somers DD. I crash dived in 18m of waters. I died. :oops:
KeybdFlyer
08-07-06, 02:10 PM
I don't know the origin of the SH3 Bernard, but I'm REALLY enjoying all these tales of woe caused by him, or blamed on him anyway, lol. My ex-wife's "boyfriend" is called Bernard and I get a deep sense of satisfaction and an inner glow each time one of you slags him off big time, HA HA HA HA HA
bigboywooly
08-07-06, 03:43 PM
I don't know the origin of the SH3 Bernard, but I'm REALLY enjoying all these tales of woe caused by him, or blamed on him anyway, lol. My ex-wife's "boyfriend" is called Bernard and I get a deep sense of satisfaction and an inner glow each time one of you slags him off big time, HA HA HA HA HA
:rotfl: :rotfl:
Deimos01
08-07-06, 04:52 PM
Dont know if this counts as stupid or just bad luck. Attacked a convoy at night. Sank one large tanker and damaged a couple merchies. Went to about 50m to reload tubes while the Escorts hammered away at me. Now keep in mind, I try not to use the map view when evading escorts but prefere instead to stay in the control room and have my sonarman keep me informed. I was taking a swirl on the hydrophones myself, Escorts are close but not too close, then ..... blammo! "Whe're taking damage sir!" Batteries shot, electric engines down, flooding in 3 compartments. I sank to the bottom where I made enough noise that the Escorts pounded me into oblivion. All the while going WTF??? Just before the screen of death I checked the outside view, and sure enough, I had managed to manuver myself around and ram right into the sinking tanker. :dead:
My most recent debacle was a daylight surface run in Sept 1939 through the channel. About an hour and half from Dover the balloon went up (GER Invades POL etc etc.), and half the british fleet is sitting just outside Dover. I didn't see the green go red until it was too late!
Fat Produce
08-07-06, 10:59 PM
I was showing a my cousin the Silent Hunter III so he could possibly get into the game. I was playing the Bismark mission and i was at periscope depth for about 10 minutes. I proceded to show him the basic method of setting up my attack run and was telling him about what was happening on the surface above me. I explained to him that we had to protect the Bismark and sink the British Capital ships. So I perfectly lined up my shots and fired 4 torps at a straggling battleship. All 4 hit. I yelled out, "Take that Churchill!" However my estatic feelings were squandered when my cousin said, "You're German right?" I said, "Well yeah." And i looked at external view (for the first time in the mission) and found that the battleship that I had torpedoed and sunk was the Bismark. lol
SteamWake
08-08-06, 03:12 PM
Had to add this one. Happend just last night...
Ordering "Crash Dive" in 20 meters of water... :dead:
Got 2 more tails here,just happened a few hours ago.
First-I was attacking Hartlepool in early 39' after a fruitless patrol in GW.
As you proably know ,like in NYGM ,there's a lonely Large Cargo ship there ,sitting a few meters outside port,pefectly sitting there for a broad-side:arrgh!:
So,i went in un-detected,silent-running at about 2 knots,periscope depth.I got within about 4k meters and started making measurments in the TDC.Got ship type(Gee I wonder if that's a little tanker or tramp steamer -hmm...) ,range ,speed(that was also hard he was going so fast I barely got lock on him:D )bla bla bla.Set torp to impact,3 meters straight for the front cargo hold since she carried ammo and blowing that up would result in a nice coulourfull and noisy explosion.So,torp fired,bang direct hit-but no big boom.After the boom,all the lights in the harbour lit up onto my surrouding area(note that it was night).Ok,so,I had 2 electric torps in the 4th and 3rd tube,so i fired them both at the same time ,a little degrees off one from the other.Then i went to the exterior view and followed the torps on their way.One bounced off the hull and the other one blew up the rear-cargo hold,and the ship started sinking.So,i just sat there waiting for it to sink.Made TC 32x and just waited .The ship was slowly sinking,and suddenly "SIR WE HAVE CRICIAL FLOODING!" "WE'RE TAKING DAMAGE!" MEDIIIIIIC!".I pressed f12 to see the exact position of my ship-I thought we were being DC'd or something...anyway-so i pressed f12 and to my surprise the camera was moved above the sinking cargo.I pressed it about 5 more times because I thought it was a bug or something,then i looked under the ship and surprise-I had forgotten to go to full stop and my coning-tower had a close-up meeting with the ship...:damn: I managed to get out with 56 percent hull and about 10 dead crew-men...
And the second "tail" -happened on a rather old patrol -I was crusing twards my assigned patrol sector -AM23 .When somewhere in the middle of the AN area (between England and Norway) ,while changing my crew's positions a bit-suddenly-BANG CRASH CRASH SCREETCH CRACK I was so scared-thought that an english DD had fired on us .Out of reflex-I pressed crash-dive,and remember d to late that depth under keel was about 30 meters...Turns out I had collided with a neutral merchant my crew had neglected to report.:ping:
KeybdFlyer
08-08-06, 05:34 PM
Submarine Seamanship 101: Don't hit "D" when at TC 512. Your reactions just aren't that good. :oops: I don't think I need to say more. :damn:
I once torpedoed a ship in a convoy then decided to get moving away from the shooting area. I set a new course to travel under the convoy then ordered flank speed and a depth of 30 or 40 meters to avoid ship's keels. I get a gut feeling that I should change course because the danger of ramming a sinking ship while it's on it's way to the bottom. I do nothing because ships don't sink that fast, right? The gut feeling is strong & I still do nothing. Not long after we ram something I assume (no external camera) taking massive damage & flooding then the death screen.
A 1st patrol in a career I had played was Nov. '39 north of England returning home I decided to confidently fight it out with a plane, it drops a bomb on each side of the sub causing fatal flooding. I no longer fight planes after that incident.
I had read about the exploits of others fighting it out with Elco boats. I decided I was going to try my hand at it & have some fun. We are firing away all the while the Elco is machine gunning and speeding towards us. My flak gunner, deckgun crew and IWO is killed by machine gun fire. The IWO had been with me for 10+ patrols with watchman, flak & deckgun qualifications. Flakgunner and deckcrew had qualifications as well. I no longer engage Elco boats after that.
Lil Kaleun
08-09-06, 05:24 AM
I don't know if it's strange or not, but still I haven't done anything more stupid... yet.
It was my 7th or 8th patrol, maybe later. I don't know exactly. Year 1943. I transferred to the 10th Flotilla. First patrol beginning in La Spezia. On my way to the patrol sector I had to survive the Gibraltar Strait.
When I was in the middle of it, at the depth of about 20 m, I started to run out of oxygen. I ordered periscope depth and took a look around if there's any warship in the eyesight (hydro detected lots of them, but I hoped they're far enough to leave us alone, so we'd surface and catch some fresh air before submerging again). That was the day I met Bernard - still I don't know why I let him operate the hydrophone. He noticed all the warships but one V&W destroyer.
It was daytime, so they couldn't miss our periscope from a 200 m distance, especially when they were just trying to ram us at full speed.
Maybe it wasn't the best place to crash-dive, but I saw no other solution. And then... Well, that nervous habit of hitting wrong keys in hard situations was the last thing I needed.
Has anyone here ever managed to survive without the conning tower?... :smug:
(I tried Gibraltar once again and everything was OK, so in a few days I'll try Scapa Flow. Possibly after that one I'll have to write sth again in this thread... )
I guess Bernard must be working with Ubisoft. Must be him who decided to use the Enter key to fire a torpedo. Cost me a lot of torpedoes that one.
I guess Bernard must be working with Ubisoft. Must be him who decided to use the Enter key to fire a torpedo. Cost me a lot of torpedoes that one.
Yea I used to do that before I get GW... (they changed it so you have to hold control and press enter to fire a torpedo from the keyboard...) saved berlin alot of cash :)
SteamWake
08-10-06, 01:51 PM
I guess Bernard must be working with Ubisoft. Must be him who decided to use the Enter key to fire a torpedo. Cost me a lot of torpedoes that one.
One of the first "mods" I did (before GW) was to change that key setting.
I mean cmon fire torpedo key right next to one of the most used keys in the game (time compression).
In an earlier post I mentioned I fired off three torps while still in the mooring trying to get the full screen view ( Keypad delete/. key)
TC at 1024 returning port and crashing in some unknown object and destroying sub and crew. Happened more than once.... very dumb. But also leaving port with TC at 8 and sub being destroyed. Found out I kept plotting a course right into Lorient's minefields. :roll: Dumber.
And worst of all... being in a big hurry to install a cool mod only to lose the whole career.... I was at sea. :damn: Dumb was the first time I did that and lost 24 patrols in a very good career. Second time was dumber, but I lost only 14. :damn: :damn:
Redwine
08-10-06, 06:33 PM
I sunk the Hospital Ship.... :damn: , when attempt to play the next patrol i have a "die" sentence in the campaign.
I cant remember when i sunk it, may be into a night attack or with a missed homing torp... :hmm:
THE_MASK
08-10-06, 06:37 PM
Why did i go thru the channel . How many times have i been told by BDU not to do it .
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/4883/sh3img108200615566308zo7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
I guess Bernard must be working with Ubisoft. Must be him who decided to use the Enter key to fire a torpedo. Cost me a lot of torpedoes that one.
One of the first "mods" I did (before GW) was to change that key setting.
I mean cmon fire torpedo key right next to one of the most used keys in the game (time compression).
In an earlier post I mentioned I fired off three torps while still in the mooring trying to get the full screen view ( Keypad delete/. key)
You know the funny thing was back when I was playing vanilla I sunk at least 5 ships just by accidently hitting the enter key......:hmm:
So I was a green captain out on my first patrol. Sunny skies, smooth sailing, so I left Bernard in charge. We come up on a lone merchant, and decide to take him out the deck gun. Bernard manuevers alongside: me -> || <- merch and sinks him. The explosion sinks me too.
Sailor Steve
08-16-06, 06:51 PM
Yep, done that one too.
Welcome aboard, Kaleun stars.:sunny:
Well, when I first started making vids from SH3 I had assigned the "v" button to fraps. Its safe to say I crashdived alot back then. :cry:
Sailor Steve
08-16-06, 06:56 PM
I once tried to take a screenshot but hit 'Shift F11' instead of 'Control F11'. Talk about slow FPS-it turned into a photo album. I had to Alt-Tab out of the game and figure out how to make it stop, then I ended up with about 50 screenshots in my folder, all of them taken 1/10 second apart.:damn: :rotfl:
Marriott
08-16-06, 07:38 PM
going throught english channel (a big no-no anyway) and getting attacked by 3 or 4 warships, so instinctively i press crash dive. In about 20 metres of water.
I was rammed by a completely lone C3 in the middle of the sea. On the surface after 10 min of trailing it.... It can happen:rock:
I got greedy last night and went after a convoy in Feb43 :damn: dive plane smashed could only travel in a strait line, those destroyers never had it so easy. I should had settled on the two ships I found but no I had to chase that convoy. The times I have done that.:damn: :damn: :damn:
Tronics
08-18-06, 11:09 AM
I keep managing to hit the seawalls that stick out into the Kiel canal.
I know where they are, and each time I get near there I manage to be afk just long enough for the boat to slam into it bow first and then slide down the wall.
First time I played SH3 I messed with the rudder controls and proceeded to christen U-50 by grinding her hull down the side of the Kiel docks as nurses dropped flowers and the band played. :arrgh!:
Accidently sank a blockade runner in port via the badly placed enter button, I eventually pried the numpad enter off of the keyboard.
When I first started playing SH3 I would get incredibly high tonnage values (80k a patrol) because I abide by the doctrine of 'unrestricted submarine warfare' and sink everything that I could find (except axis boats) departing/returning from Kiel.
More recently:
I hit the damn seawall in the Kiel Canal again, this time at night...:damn:
Collided with a returning U-boat leaving Wilemshaven in a storm at night...
Almost rammed by a cargo vessel in a convoy because I was too concerned with getting a dead set 1 shot kill with the forward tubes that I forgot I was WITHIN the convoy and that there was a ship line behind me.
Crash Dived to avoid enemy planes leaving Lorient in a 1944 campaign....in 16 meter water.
Midnight Templar
08-18-06, 08:27 PM
When I started playing I had no idea lock-on inputed everything in the TDC, so I made random guesses and shot my torpedos at a random spot in the path of a ship and hoped it hit.
I felt like the coolest person on earth whenever I sank something :cool:
I'm also very clumsy when it comes to hotkeys, so I always end up shooting torpedos at nothing and stuff like that.
Safe-Keeper
08-18-06, 10:16 PM
Edit the basic.cfg file. The hot-key for torpedo-firing is in there someplace.
Oh my God, Bernard is in the Romanian Dev Team!
http://www.silenthunteriii.com/uk/dev_team.php:o
So I was entering that infamous "mini-English Channel" between England/Scottland and Ireland, and one of those cute little Armed Trawlers spotted me. I was outrunning it easy as Heck, and pretty soon lost it in the fog (it was also dark and rainy and altogether quite terrible vision-wise).
Some time later I spotted a medium-sized merchant. I decided to attack it, and shortly after I spot a search-light behind me. The merchant is partially in-between me and it, so I can't identify the new ship with the UZO, but I assume it's my friend the armed ex-fishing boat again. I decide to give up the attack on the merchant - the water's shallow and a trawler's just not worth scrapping with. I go to flank speed away from there and switch to the map, setting time compression to maximum.
Shortly after I'm dead from artillery fire, ramming, and depth-charges. It was not my friend the trawler in the fog. It was ein Verdamte Zestörer:damn:!
Remember, kids: Destroyers and trawlers may have the same search-lights, but one's significantly faster and stronger than the other:lol:!
Did the classic "Crash-Dive-in-shallow-water" today.
After that Bernard was standing next to me when chasing 2 merchants. When I spotted the US flag Bernard whispered in my ear that they were enemies so I fired some torps. After seeing 2 green "ship-sunk" marks on my map I compared the current date and the date when America entered the war :oops:
Patboot
08-22-06, 07:39 PM
Who says Blackout dicipline isn't required?
I was motoring to close in on a small canvoy, still about 6km away.
Bright clear calm night, lookout calling contacts as they close. Me clicking "Maintain orders".... We've got time for a quick smoke, right?
One of those contacts was a verry annoyed V&W.
From astern. At 36 kts.
At least we went quick, and didn't have to sink 1000m.
Max Peck
08-22-06, 10:32 PM
Who says Blackout dicipline isn't required?
I was motoring to close in on a small canvoy, still about 6km away.
Bright clear calm night, lookout calling contacts as they close. Me clicking "Maintain orders".... We've got time for a quick smoke, right?
One of those contacts was a verry annoyed V&W.
From astern. At 36 kts.
At least we went quick, and didn't have to sink 1000m.
Boy, they must have been ardent non smokers:lol:
SubConscious
08-23-06, 02:39 PM
It was about midnight (real and game time) June 1940 and I have a C2 crippled and listing, but it refuses to sink. So I bring the boat in close on her starboard side and open up with the deck gun.
Suddenly my watchman starts yelling that we're under attack. I take a quick look around, but there isn't anything in the vicinity, so I figure that it's lack of caffiene on his part and content myself with blasting away at this stubborn C2.
The watchmen yells out again that we're under attack, and I continue to ignore him. "Must be a bug", says I. He continues to yell, and I ignore him. Thought I heard a big splash behind us, but figured that was just an errant wave.
Finally the C2 settles by the stern to reveal a destroyer bearing down straight at us, searchlight blinding. I know that I'm dead to rights, so I order the deck gun crew to fire. They take out the destroyer's searchlight on the first round and the forward battery on the second. I start to think "Hey, I just might pull this off and surive!" when I realized that my boat wasn't moving and that despite not having any forward armament, a destroyer bearing down at 34 knots can still be dangerous. :oops:
Rammed. Sunk. Kaput.
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