Safe-Keeper
10-02-06, 06:11 PM
I suppose it's a bit cold-hearted of me to speak like this of the simulated bombing of the same downtown where I go to school and hang out with friends, but just to witness a city bombing run again I started a career in Bergen in January '45 with the Grey Wolves mod installed, knowing I was in for a flight of B-24s. It was in the dead of night, and wintertime made for an extra dark setting.
As they approached, I decided I'd hit '.' to have the camera track one of the bombers. It made for perhaps the most spectacular experience I've had with Silent Hunter III ever.
First, there was just the drone of aircraft engines and the hard-to-make out hulls of the plane I focused on and his wingmen. Then, I could make out trees below and eventually, up ahead, two light-houses and a pair of plumes of self-illuminated smoke (...don't ask). Then the yellow lights off the city came into view... And then all Hell broke loose.
Suddenly there were plumes of search-lights below and thunderclaps from the German flak. Without warning, suddenly the underside of the plane I track glows bright, lit up by the search-lights of a ship below.
Then, lines of bomb explosions in water and scattered explosions as the anchored ships go up in flames. As the flight leaves the city behind, not only do the lights of the many buildings light up the night - there's also the fires and explosions from the burning vessels (and the fire in one of the bombers' tail section. Get the extinguisher, your pistol, and your parachute, Doyle).
In summary: The plane getting lit up, the sight of the little city below, the burning ships, the burning plane - the only things that put a dampener on the experience were the lag and the fact that it was, after all, my hometown getting blasted to shreds.
Give it a try:o.
As they approached, I decided I'd hit '.' to have the camera track one of the bombers. It made for perhaps the most spectacular experience I've had with Silent Hunter III ever.
First, there was just the drone of aircraft engines and the hard-to-make out hulls of the plane I focused on and his wingmen. Then, I could make out trees below and eventually, up ahead, two light-houses and a pair of plumes of self-illuminated smoke (...don't ask). Then the yellow lights off the city came into view... And then all Hell broke loose.
Suddenly there were plumes of search-lights below and thunderclaps from the German flak. Without warning, suddenly the underside of the plane I track glows bright, lit up by the search-lights of a ship below.
Then, lines of bomb explosions in water and scattered explosions as the anchored ships go up in flames. As the flight leaves the city behind, not only do the lights of the many buildings light up the night - there's also the fires and explosions from the burning vessels (and the fire in one of the bombers' tail section. Get the extinguisher, your pistol, and your parachute, Doyle).
In summary: The plane getting lit up, the sight of the little city below, the burning ships, the burning plane - the only things that put a dampener on the experience were the lag and the fact that it was, after all, my hometown getting blasted to shreds.
Give it a try:o.