My interest in subs is from the fact I will be in the navy in 6th months, and started playing silent hunter II, just to see what its like.

I've jumped from FalconAF into SHIII... go figure!:roll:
I'm still devoted to Falcon as much as to SHIII though! I think some of us just love sims... maybe is the feeling that if at some point, IRL, you face a SIMILAR situation... you might be able to at least understand what's going on... I don't know... but there's something keeping me away from senseless bloody reasonless shooters... (though I may play'em once in a while)
So... that's me!

Indeed, i was a fanatic il2fb + pacific fighters player.
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Got problems with my eyes.

Since then i only do play sh3, 4 and red orchestra.

It will be my age i think.

I'm a long-time flight simmer, since I entered my teens. Had various games on the Amiga; anyone remember Reach for the Skies, Knights of the Sky, and Gunship 2000 (I think it was)? Outstanding games for their time.

Later the same thing on the PC, mostly IL-2:FB + all expansions, also a little MSFS, Falcon 4, and various others. The more depth the better. I've flown IL-2 online for years now, but it's so hard to get a rewarding experience these days. In our squad alone we don't have enough people to make it interesting enough (even though we regularly had 12 pilots online at once), and on public servers there are too many 'Quake'-style players who just rush to get kills no matter the cost. Attempts at organising inter-squad co-ops became too awkward with endless small problems that interrupted the flow. I spent more time watching the briefing screen than flying. So in the end I couldn't be bothered with it all.

I've been playing SH3 off and on since its release day, mostly the stock version because I hoped to finish my career (or be sunk) before finally installing GWX. But several months back my save files became a little messed up, so rather than trying to rescue it I installed GWX 1.03 (and soon after 2.0) and haven't looked back since. It's now a year since I last touched IL-2... I find it rather shocking actually! Time flies...

SH3 is just one of those enthralling single-player games, the likes of which you don't see very often now. So hard to get a good, and long-lasting experience out of any single-player game these days. Strategy games are the only ones that tend to offer it. Online simming depended on too many things coming together, which seldom happened and killed the fun of it in the end. IL-2 hardly has a good single-player mode either. I'll go back to flying once the new Battle of Britain: Storm of War is released, but SH3 will be one of my top 2 games for years to come - it's also the second most faithful thing to me after my wife :D

My interest in the navy is from playing SH and Dangerous Waters :D

My first gae was probably Super Mario, but I followed the loose path of FS 3.0 -> FS 98 -> FS 2004, CFS 2 and 3, with a hearty bit of Operation Flashpoint in between (lotsa planes there :D) - and... all of a sudden, Dangerous Waters. Lead me here, eventually.

My Dad was an infantryman in the Pacific in WWII, and one of my uncles was shot down in a bomber in Europe in WWII. Two of my other uncles were submariners just after WWII.

So basically I was always fascinated by WWII.

My first subsim, and just about my first video game was Silent Service 2 on my IBM PCjr. I drove my roommate in colleg crazy with the sound the engines made at hight time compression.

I was a tanker in the 1988 to 1996, and WWII submarine tactics are a lot like the defensive tactics we trained to use against the Soviets.

http://www.61shap.com/pilots/Paajtor/PF/R5-1a.gif

I come from Il2/ForgottenBattles....still a proud member of the 61ShAP (Russian ground-attack squadron, flying Il2's as in history).

I got SH3 when it was released, just like many other pilots from my squad...been in and out ever since.:up:

Joystick is collecting dust for now :(

I initially started with other sim games: Aces over Europe, Pacific etc., FS9,FS2000 ,CFS, IL2, Jane's Fighter Anthology. I also have FPS games like COD, 1,2; MOHAA (ALL), H & D 1,2. I still have and still run on my older P3-500, AOD, SH2. Now I only play SH3. I sort of wish you could invent a game that would incorporate the strategy game of Sh3 and a FPS like MOHAA. For example, in the Norway campaign of MOH, you have to blow up a u-boat in the pen ( sacrilige!). Would't it be better that when you finally enter the boat you sail away on a mission?:yep:

Oh yeah. I was one of the original Air Warriors, wayyy back in the late 80's. I played off and on since then, until '97 or so when I finally got a bit bored with it all (and the carebear arenas where the kiddies can have their endless furballs). Always liked subsimming tho, ever since the original Silent Hunter.

I on the contrary was not a sim-head at all, yes I had played some flightsims but mostly turn-based strategy.

I did have a lot of interest for wwII but was at first mostly interested in landbased stuff from playing wargames like Squad Leader with my dad

then the PC came along and it was panzer general II and others then Combat Missions...that still totally rocks btw

then a friend installed his sh3 on my PC so he could play it, his pc being beyond sad performance-wise. He IS a complete sim-head going for full realism and such, so i ended up XO-ing and assisting with target calculations and such...

he visited this site for some mods

then a year later I found the SH3 DVD in a secondhand store for E 2,- and bought it, then, knowing that mods were essential, I visited this site for mods...signed up and found GWX, downloaded and installed it, sank HMS Hood on my first patrol...and got hooked :rock:

yes, i wanna be a pilot, still play flight sim and such
i guess if it's in a fluid, I like it!

Before SH3 was SH2, & before that the biggest ever was EAW (European Air Wars), later I tried but just couldn't get into TK's other games, Strike Fighters etc, even tried IL2, BOB2 and others. If EAW2 came out it would be a close tie with SH3 probably!:yep:

I have a similar history to KeptinCranky. My background is turn-based wargames, starting in the glory days of Avalon Hill and SPI in the 70s. Squad Leader was a biggie for me, and too many other games to count. My dad was in the Navy in WWII, and the WWII era has always been my passion (yes, passion is the right word, strange as it may sound.)

So my main focus has always been computer turn-based games like Uncommon Valor and Battles in Normandy, along with the Combat Mission series (what an amazing set of games). SH3 was a bit of an odd turn for me game-wise, but I did my master's thesis on the problems with the US Mark XIV torpedo, so I was interested in sub warfare. And now I'm completely hooked on SH3/GWX. Takes up most of my computer gaming time these days! I have IL2-1946, and that's fun for a break, but it hasn't hooked me the way that SH3 has.

I've been holding off on SH4 because of hardware constraints (anyone know if it'll run at all decently with only 1 Gb of RAM?)