sailed underneath a sinking tanker, you guessed it - i went down with it the wreck bad timing or what.:-?

when i first started playing SH3, got into position to attack a convoy during the day, made sure everything was set up perfectly: AOB, distance to target, torpedo settings checked and counterchecked and tubes open...But i hadn't realized in the F6 screen that torpedo V would fire straight astern. :damn: This threw me off so completely that I misfired on all of my other shots!:oops:

Destroyers counterattack. I dive deep and get depth charged. Run out of options so surface to try desperation torpedo shot. Was running silent so no tubes reloaded. Sitting duck. Dead duck.

Decided to search for help in a SH3 Forum and found you guys here at subsim. :up:
Am no longer an embarassment to the Kriegsmarine.:know:

Attacked a convoy in the channel that separates the Hebrides and Scotland. The water is only about 50m deep there. It wasn't so much the depth charges that got me at first...it was grounding myself in about 20 m of water, tearing out the bottom of my boat. The DD's just finished what the bottom started.

Man that was bad... :nope:

Wasn't in a career, but the first time I played the 'Bismarck' scenario I decided to take a look around and surfaced right next to Rodney.:dead:

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Who the hell put the deaf guy at the sonar station?????????????:o

Back in stock SH3 I torpedoed a C2 but she didn't go down. I surfaced at 0 knots about 50 m from the C2 and banged away at it with my flak guns (I was out of deck gun ammo.) Had a great time watching the cargo boxes explode and what not and raking the bridge with gunfire. What fun.

But while I was enjoying myself a DD came up from the other side of the C2 (which I couldn't see because I was on the opposite side). The DD steamed around the bow of the C2. My watch officer calls out that he sees a ship. No sh*t, Sherlock. The DD opens fire, blows my conning tower away and I plummet to crush depth.

Lesson learned: Watch the horizon.

There's a sonar station?????????????:damn: SHII's scenarios always started you far enough away that surfacing was the best option. Why would I think SHIII should be any different?

I forget the game running at Tc in an artic patrol when i return to home after several minutes i found my boat in the Ice cap :damn: .

i did some screenshots because is a place rarely visited :doh: i preffer caribbean patrols.

Der Kanal... Dumbest thing ever.

The second dumbest was launching a spread of 4 steam torpedoes set to _fast_ at a convoy 6 kms away.

It's early 1943 and after watching "Casablanca" I decide to raid the port. Got in with no problems and used up all my available topedeos. . .

But wait! I have spares on the deck! So, being the fine commander that I am I surface next to a hulk (thanks to me) to reload.

Mistake. :roll: :roll: :roll:

I know....I've still got the screenshots somewhere :rotfl:

Tried surfacing on 1024 TC but hit the "D" button by mistake :nope:

oh crab (lol?):rotfl:

Not exactly a 'bad idea' per se, but . . .

Got ash-canned like no tomorrow: every compartment flooding to some degree.

Assigned damage control, shuffled crew around to the worst ones, then went back to the hydrophones, trying to manuever into the escorts blind spots.

Went, "WTF!?" when I heard the frantic cry of 'we are diving too deep Sir!'

Yep . . .

You guessed it . . .

Was still in silent running.

::sighs::