I'm going to make sure that one of my crewmen is named "Kraut" Mueller just to test the AI. :cool:

If you are refering to SH3, try this!

1.Go to Data\Cfg
2.Open "Sim.cfg" in notepad.
3.Set the "Sonar Detection time" to something from 15-5.
4.Set the "Hydrophone Noise factor" to 0.3
5.Save the Changes.

And ready are the "Expert Destroyers". :know:

Bungo Pete rules ^^

http://www.krueger83.de/attack1.jpg

http://www.krueger83.de/attack2.jpg

http://www.krueger83.de/attack3.jpg

http://www.krueger83.de/anvesieren.jpg

http://www.krueger83.de/attack4.jpg

http://www.krueger83.de/attack7.jpg

http://www.krueger83.de/attack5.jpg

http://www.krueger83.de/attack6.jpg

Somehow I like third picture in CptnNemos post. Hope we'll see something like that in SHIV.

-RC-

I have been in the conning tower of the USS Drum (Gato)
It is very small. 5 or 6 men in there, not on my watch....


JIM

I watched the movie the other day on vhs, and its classic hollywood.

The sub is entirely too spacious, and the active sonar pings whenver they were submerged was driving me nuts.

Run Solent, Run Deep.
 

Read the book!
Ten times better than the movie...

U.S. boats had active sonar, I think it was just mentioned in another thread that the Japanese pinged constantly, which helped the subs know where they were, and I think that the interiors were real.

I could easily be wrong on all three points, though. :lost:

By Hollywood standards, they took considerable pains to make it accurate. They hired a World War II skipper (Rear Admiral Rob Roy MacGregor - no really, that's his name!) as the official technical adviser and seems like there were actually several submariners involved in some capacity (and of course the book was written by a submariner). They probably took some Hollywood license with the technical details here and there for the sake of establishing atmosphere for the viewer, but overall I think it's amazingly well done.

ive acutally read a number of Edward Beach's books. The active sonar pings bugged me because it was seemingly whenever they were submerged. Thats a classical hollywood gimmick to add mood or atmosphere. Thats how i interpetted it anyway. its like whenver you see a sub in any old movie, what do you hear? *ping* *ping *ping* even when theres nothing around. Call it a pet peeve, but that grates on me. The sub was too spacious in the galley/crew mess. The conning tower and control room seemed semi accurate, but the crew mess was waaaaaaayyyy too big.

Yeah, but you gotta put the camera somewhere.;)

One thing I noticed in watching the movie is that you only hear the pinging when there are enemy ships about - so it seems like the intention was to portray the constant active ping employed by the Japanese (not the sub pinging).

[OT edit: Also - I noticed that Clark Gable has a very noticeable tremor in most of his scenes... Does anybody know if he had Parkinson's?]

Bungo certainly does rule:yep: got this one on DVD awhile back.

I've often posted on how much bigger and more habitable (user friendly?) US fleet boats were than u-boats, but upon watching it again last night I got quite a shock. I was watching one of the scenes with Gable and Lancaster together and I suddenly realized that they weren't in the control room in that scene; they were in the CONNING TOWER! Six men on regular watch plus the skipper and the XO...in the conning tower! In Das Boot there was barely room for the captain and his 1WO! Of course their attack scope was powered and had a seat, but still...:o

I got a chance to see the Pampanito in San Fransisco Bay a few years back. A Balao class fleet submarine. Unfortunately they were renovating the conning tower and I could not get in to see it. But the web site has some great shots of the conning tower.

http://www.maritime.org/tour/tctvr.htm


After seeing the pictures of the conning tower, I just have to go back and see her again. While the boat interior appears to be big, you realy have to visit a fleet boat and tour it to get to see how cramped the thing would be to live in for 3 months at a strech with about 80 other guys.

Anyways back to Run Silent, Run Deep. I have convinced my wife to order one less chick flick from Net Flix this week and replace it with this one! :D