Hi and welcome to Subsim ( should really put that in notepad and paste :rotfl: )

Any way you can use this site

http://www.ubootwaffe.net/quadrant.cgi

To convert the long\lat to grid squares if you want

Enjoy your stay Kpt

Thanks for being so welcoming everyone. However, the notion that things will get harder and I won't be singing couldn't be more true. Had a blackout during the load of my 4th sortie - all the save files are corrupted and so are any new ones. Back to the reinstallation for me. :damn:

Is the game historic? In regards to the idea that if a convoy passes Portsmouth on a certain date, will it be there if you start over? I loved being in that convoy, and would kill (torpedo in fact) to do it again.

Thanks again everyone, I never expected such a warm welcome :up:

And I think that this might be very helpful tool, thank you very much indeed. Some say that those reports are for eyecandy, some not. I wonder if they do mean anything. Maybe that could be my contribution to these forums, by spending a whole sortie following radio message locations....

Welcome from me too,I would just like to say any patrol you come back from is a good one.:up:

Yes, it is as historic as the GWX team could make it. You will often find ships spawning back at certain ports. Not to often as each patrol will really take on a life of its own and you will find yourself not repeating things....with exception of dying:smug:

Corruption.....rule of thumb. Do not save while warships are present. Do not save in port. Do not save submerged. It does not always mess things up but there is a greater chance it will corrupt your current career.

90 000 tonnage?:o

You had a great patrol. Period.


.....or not....well my record for one patrol is 66532 tons, where I sunk 12 ships. By the sound of it you sunk 4.......I kneel for you, my master.....


http://accel3.mettre-put-idata.over-...0311-36_1_.jpg

pfffh, best pic I got...bloody waste of time....:shifty:

oh, and welcome to Subsim!:up:

Welcome to the forum..

I look at it this way..any partrol that you get out of harbor,sink at least 1 ship and get back in at least somewhat one piece is a good patrol.Especially during the later years.

Tonnage tracking is overrated anyway as the game allows for far higher tonnage amounts sunk per patrol even with the mods than what was historically done by the real captains.

Okay..... I got a message stating that *Insert ship name here because I don't remember the name* was seen at such and such coordinates... and it gave a longitude and latitude.. I happend to be near there and headed in that direction. When I got there.. there was nothing so I headed in the ships reported direction and lo and behold.. there it was. I sunk it.. it showed up as the ship from the report.

There have been other times when task forces were reported or single ships were reported in this manner that seemed to help me zero in on targets as well.

I havn't had this happen recently cuz I'm been on a 1x mission and I'm nowhere near the Atlantic yet :arrgh!:

I'll start a new career and go out again when I get time and see if I get any reports near me so I can duplicate the results.

Prior to these encounters, I had just assumed that the map and the messages were eye candy.. but now I'm not so sure.