Originally Posted by Toshan

Before i tell you of MY first patrol with GWX i want you to know that i haven't played this game for almost a year. So i'm re-learning everything (though i can't say it's much to re-learn since i hadn't played for a long time before i stopped).

So anyway, I'm heading out of Wilhelmshaven (at night) hoping that this first patrol with GWX will be a succesful one. Shortly after ordering "Ahead standard" i hear the sound of airplanes and after that something that i think are explosions. I assume that the airplanes are attacking the harbor (but now that i think about it, has the war started when you begin in 1939?) and ask my navigator for depth under the keel. The answer is 35 meters. "Then i can safely go down to 12 meters", i think. And at first there are no problems. But after a couple of hundred meters i hear that sound of metal grinding against the ocean floor. Then there start coming in reports of torpedo room damage, heavy flooding and basically damage all over the boat. 2 crew members are also killed instantly. I quickly order the boat to surface. But this doesn't help at all, instead the depth meter sinks to 15 meters (don't know why. I don't think i could sink much more) and nothing happens. The last things that goes through my mind before the boat is destroyed is: "I shouldn't have painted that giant 13 on the conning tower".

Originally Posted by A Very Super Market

Playing GWX is real joy, and I'd like to thank the creators for making such an awesome mod for my favorite game. Still, I find it rather strange that I can sail past the british coast surfaced and running into fishing boats but not getting bombed to bits. Maybe its just that its only 1939.


So anyways, after a shakedown cruise from Konigsberg (which is an absolute pain to get out of) I was tranferred to Kiel (thankfully) in 7th flotilla. Since I started before the war began, I quickly ran over and parked myself in Scapa Flow, thinking I could snag a Battleship or two. There weren't any there, and I left time compression on too long so the destroyers quickly obliterated my painfully obvious U-boat. :\

Scratch that, new plan. I went over to Poland, and parked myself there to wait for some unfortunate ship to sail over the horizon. This time, some Polish destroyers sank me. I was dissapointed to die, but it was better than stock SH3 with no defence whatsoever for most navies

After these two humbling experiences, I decided to actually do my job and patrol square AM 53, going through the canal and cutting straight to the English coast to get a few free gun kills from some unsuspecting fisherman. They're probably high command officers in disguise anyways! Sadly, before I could perform my destruction of evil trawlers, a destroyer spotted me. I instinctively dived, hoping to escape my previous fates. BOOM.. I hit a mine :doh:

I really need to get better at this game....