Read "Submarine!" by Ed. Beech and then read "Iron Coffins" for a comparison. Both started about the same time and had very similar experiences. A great comparison. Will also help with your tatics.

I also read a story about the American submariner who after WWII took command of the I400 for testing and sailed it to Hawaii. The american crews had to work next to the Japanese sailors to learn how operate the boat. How scarry would that be.

"You pull lever GI and boat dive, sure, you go ahead and try, Japanese boat dive fast, you see" :o

It was also very interesting when he was talking with the Japanese Sub commanders and they were swaping war stories. It was always in terms of "us" and "them". "Us" meant submarines and "Them" meant surface vessles regardless of nationality.:yep:

I had a teacher from Trinidad&Tobago at school, she was awesome. At the time, she did something I had never seen before, she brought her 2 year old daughter to school, from then on she brought her everyday. In all my years as a student (15), I had never seen a teachers child at school ^^

I get the impression she just thought it was normal and didn't even ask :p Thats NZ of back then for you, if you did something unexpected, people just accepted it.

Great story in there DavyJones, interesting little snap of life in the carribean. NZ had 500,000 US serviceman here during WW2.... we had a population of about 1.5 million ^^ My Grandfather said resentment was common to that fact while on duty in Europe. The boys just wanted to come home and fight the Japanese, rather than have all these 'yanks' here shagging their girlfriends. England of course wasn't interested, thus the titanic shift in NZ foreign defence policy from that time on. Thus the new relationship with the US was born, a country that actually shared the same ocean! Well, got along until the US got pissy about our non-nuclear legislation anyway :88)

Hello Capn_Sinky, an articulate audience welcomes you :lol:

I like sub games because of the sneakyness.

You can't wade in, a-guns a-blazin. You have to plan and wait. Picking the best time to strike. I find sub games much more mentally stimulating (which does not take much with my mind :88) )

I also like the weaknesses of subs once the moment of surprise is gone.

I also like the solo type play although that really should not be incorporated in SH3 due to the wolf-packs.

I don't have a problem playing the Germans. It is a simulation of history. I find the prospect of killing British no more or less abhorrent than killing Japanese. I would not like to kill either in real life.

I guess my "attitude" mimics many of the real life Kregsmarine in that there was nothing personal, just a duty to do.

And, of course, I never forget it is just a frickin game

Greek here!!!:) That's the Maleme Airfield, present day Chania. The fiersiest battles in Crete were fought there. My grandfather (from my father's side) also took part in the battle, after the capitulation of the main Greek Army fighting the Italians in Albania, when Germans invaded Greece from the NE borders with Bulgaria and Jugoslavia. In fact he came across many German columns on his way back to Athens (and later by boat smuggled to Crete and after the fall of the island to Egypt). He told me that the Germans really respected them and in fact they were given orders not to take Greek prisoners as a token of respect from Hitler in the way they fought (and humiliated) Mussolini. He was later incarserated by the English in Egypt (made a force march through the desert and send to prison camp in Libya) after the Greek Army of Middle East mutinied near the end of the war, in regard of political issues conserning the resime Greece should have after the liberation.

Wow, AckbarGulag nice to know you met one of us in NZ. I played cricket once with a group from NZ a long time ago. Nice chaps.:up: