SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - Utter Noob...Help

Welcome to Subsim Herr Kaleun! Unfortunately for you it seems BDU wants you to head out to sea immidiately, here are your orders...

If your looking to go for fully manual TDC, I would recomend using OLC's GUI and environment mod when your ready. It realy adds an extra level to playing SHIII, you feel a real sense of achievement after you sink a ship!

A few tips:

Avoid the English Channel like a plague, go around the northern side of the UK and if your feeling daring go raid Scapa Flow and bag the fatherland some warships!
Avoid engaging in shallow waters, even unarmed merchants pose a threat in that they can call in support from near by destroyers operating outside visual range!
Remember to check your baffles every so often. If your not sure, your baffle is the area where your sonar can not detect ships, namely the rear of your sub when your engines are running. You can either stop and listen carefully, or change your bearing to have a peak without slowing.
Do NOT, I repeat DO NOT use magnetic fish until about '41. My experiances with magnetic fuses are not good, they detonate far too easily, even in calm waters. Stick with contact settings!
If you find you can't find convoys, every few hours submerge to about 40m or something and manualy scan your hydrophone for contacts. Your sonarman seems to wear earplugs when at his station, he doesn't pick up much until its rather close!
Don't use GWX v2.0 to start with. Instead play stock SHIII for a few weeks to familiarise yourself with the game. This way you will truely enjoy GWX, and appreciate the tremendous amount of work thats gone into this truely SUPER mod.
Watch out for anyone making mistakes in your crew, and pray to god his name isn't Bernard!
Enjoy SHIII and your stay at Subsim
Finally........BE MORE AGGRESIVE! :up: