Hi, my name is José, 51, and i was born in spain. I'm living now in Germany for more than 40 years. First in Duesseldorf and now since 6 years in Augsburg.
I earn my money as technical supporter for video surveillance and IP cameras. I'm married and have a 15years old son.

I started subsimming with the c64, followed by Amiga and PC.

My hobbies are soccer (Had to stop it last year, because of damaged knee), fantasy books and my pc. I forget sommething.... wait...hmmm.... ah yeah....my wife and the kid.

I'm also a big fan of EA's Football manager, for which a modded and designed the last years the german kits for a fansite.

I startet modding for silent hunter with SH4 and i hope to get time and patience to mod some little things in SH5.

Cheers.

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i'm the guy in the red shirt

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This is the original tower from DAS BOOT

Tim here, I'm 29, living in Manchester, UK, a physics postgrad. Kinda crazy that this is my first post here, really. I've been on the ubi forums for a long time too, long-time follower of the SH series as well as Il-2 and other flight sims. Don't have SH5 yet, but can't wait to get my hands on it. I like all kinds of games from simulations to shooters, my favourite ever game is probably Dwarf Fortress, however.

When I'm not gaming I like to play piano, walk up hills (and back down them), or listen to electro/industrial music and drinking copious amounts of tea and coffee.

Since I don't have it I was going to stay out of this thread, but I had to say:

WELCOME ABOARD, dagamecat!:sunny:

My name is Neil from south Louisiana. I'm in helicopter flight school currently working on my instrument rating. I've been hooked on subsims since I first picked of AoD way back in the early-mid 90s. I've been part of subsim and WPL since SH2 and DC way back in 2000.

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Hi, my name is Simon from New Zealand. In the winter I am an avalanche forecast at a ski area in the South Island and in the summer I study insects.

Have been eager U-boat people for many years now. Have been playing SH series since number 3. My foremost intense is the Type VIIC’s U-boats.

For the last few years I have been working on a 1:43 scale drawing of Type VIIC/41. You can see some of my work with the links below.

http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/6...riscope.th.jpg http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/1331/step3ce.th.jpg http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/4539/bowsection.th.jpg http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/2858/new1z.th.jpg

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/8205/poster1ea6.jpg
Here is an older version of my poster at 1:60 scale.

Hi, I am from the middle of nowhere and I have been facinated by Submarines all my life,built models,read das boot, got the directors cut of Das Boot, and am always finding out interesting things about them. Playing SH from the get go, however I do bore myself with FPS and RTS games from time to time. I am looking froward to SH 5 with the same intensity as I did when I first played the series. Neve modded, always realism:salute:

Hey all! I'm Matt, I'm 47 and live in Ft Worth Tx.

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I've learned tons over the last few years here on Subsim, just haven't posted much. I was a career Paramedic in a large metro area here in Texas for over 15 years. in 2007 I was diagnosed with MS, and turned my long time hobby of photography into a side line job. Being disabled, I have a lot of time to be active on the web and play my favorite video games. I'm into sims, flightsims, subsims etc. and I also like FPS and some war strategy games like COH.

I've played all of the Silent Hunter games, and just got SH5 about an hour ago. I've always been amazed at the talent of the modders here, and if I haven't said it before, Thank You Guys for all the excellent work you do!! I can't wait to see what happens when you modders get started with SHV, I'm sure it'll be awesome!

UberMatz

Well, for those who don't know me (I'd been away from subsim for a year) -
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Hey everyone, name's George, I'm 25 (going on 26) and live in Waterloo, Canada, though I'm originally from Russia. By occupation, I'm a PhD student in linguistics/communication design, part-time writing teacher and research consultant. My first simulation game was Silent Service 2 that I played on an old Atari PC with my dad back in the early 90s (he'd be the captain, I'd be the XO/navigator). My dad soon stopped playing games and I'd forgotten about subs for quite a while, but in the late 90s I got into simulation and strategy games with quite a passion - been a worshipper (ahem, hardcore player) of Falcon 4.0 for the past 11 years, as well as many other flight sim titles. But my childhood memories of SS2 persisted, and as soon as I saw preview shots of Silent Hunter III, I knew that was the game for me. I've been at Subsim since shortly after SHIIIs release, and got surprisingly wrapped up in the community. I was a minor (but hopefully useful) helper in creating many old mods for SHIII/IV, and some of my work can still be found in some of the current mods for both games (which I'm quite proud of).

I left subsim for about a year due to some rough times and a little too much stress in my life, but SH5 brought me back here. I need to be around.

Otherwise, I got a whole range of interests. I dabble in video editing, design and even music. On the latter, I'm an obsessive listener and am particularly bent on hoarding a collection of King Crimson and Robert Fripp soundscape records, which I listen to for a very large portion of my free time :88)

Happy to be back at subsim and hi to everyone that I haven't had a chance to talk to in the past year :DL

Hey, its JohnnyMacintosh here.. and Im 15 (Youngest person here? Lol):woot:
My dad got me into Silent Hunter back when Silent Hunter II came out, and ive been a fan ever since. I also played a little bit of Destroyer Command, and it was decent.. I'm a major hockey fan, (Go Calgary Flames! Yeah!) and im a pretty good goaltender. Seeing a tanker blow up clean in half always puts a smile on my face.. :D So I say lets get out there and sink! sink! sink!

My name's Brandt--born and raised in Indiana, but have lived in London, New York, and Miami. The first PC I bought was an "Aptiva" with a 2GB HDD. I bought one game, Mech Warrior 2, and have been hooked on pc games ever since. Mostly I'm interested in military simulations. Spend some time in the Jane's titles, my favorite being Longbow 2, then moved on to Falcon 4, and got in real deep. Actually flew a few hundred hours with a F16 pilot online, going through a rigorous training curriculum. Then to IL2, and the beginning of my now obssesive interest in World War II. After IL2 I went back to jets, with LOMAC--particularly Flaming Cliffs with its ground-breaking flight model for the Su-25. I wrote a few reviews and articles for the long gone (I think?) combatsim.com site.

Most recently I helped beta test, and proof-read the 500+ page manual for DCS: Blackshark--a KA-50 helo sim from Eagle Dynamics.

As far as the sub sims--I picked up SH3 and never looked back.

http://www.happycritter.com/bogey/im...andt_small.jpg

I'm Martijn, 33, single, and one son. I am a .NET developer (mostly, I do other languages too), and run two business, one which publishes it's own software to consumer and business market, and the other is which I do most of the work for as of late (bigger freelance webdevelopment projects). I also developed and host a CMS for websites, which is mostly used by freelance friends of mine (designers).

I got introduced to the SH-series at version 3, but I remember playing submarine sims for much longer (although I can't remember the titles). In the past I favored FPS games (played world leagues/tournaments), but the past 5-6 years I rather play RTS and sims because of the slower pace. When SH4 was released I started work on the freely available mod-tool S3D (signature), which has become very popular. It took almost 2 years to make, so I must admit I enjoy that SH5 comes with good modding tools, because I did not see me do it again for SH5 ;) I will not purchase SH5 for a while, because I have very little free time but I will at some point probably. In the little free time I have left I rather play in my 5-man band (I'm the guy on the right, chewing on the pick :O:):

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I enjoyed reading your bio. Very cool man.

Geez, Skwas! All this time and I never knew that you played too! Got any links to your stuff? Videos? Go to General Topics and post them so I can see and hear. That's what I do.:rock::sunny:

Pleased to meet you All,

My name is Rob, 46, from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Journeyman Sheet Metal Mechanic, Bachelor of Medical Science, nub rock drummer extraordinaire.

The book Run Silent Run Deep is to blame for all of this :yep:

I've been into video/PC games of all genres since the days of the first machines. Silent Service and SS2 got me into sub sims. First PC was a 386 and I played Red Baron and Wolfpack on that. 486 followed with Aces of the Pacific/ over Europe, and Aces of the Deep! Played that sucker for years :rock:

I've owned all of the Silent Hunter games, including as of today and despite my misgivings about the DRM, SH5. Have friends over every other Saturday for IL2 flight-night. Also do Falcon 4.

Girlfriend likes WoW so play that too.

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Hehe, we compose dutch music though, so you won't understand the lyrics. I only have old recordings right now (over a year old) except for one song. Currently we are in the studio (since a few months) for higher quality and some rearrangements.

Here's some songs: http://www.vlucht13.nl/muziek/


In two weeks we play in a contest for the new 'National dutch song for Amsterdam harbor' (8 finalists from 200 applicants), it's the first song on that page. It's not really our style, but the free advertising is great...

Damn, now you can see other photo's too (and I was trying to hide) :D

:rock: Me like!

No time to listen to all, but I picked up a bit of the first three. Will listen to the whole thing tomorrow.

Man, you really do look a lot like IIWO from Das Boot. That sig isn't lying :haha:

Ok since i've been around here for 5 years i guess it's time lol. My name is Corey, I'm 33 (in two weeks), and im an alcoholic.. oh wait that was a flashback.

Umm let's see, I live in the Greater New Orleans area.. and I'm a:
Licensed Electrician
Amature programmer (C, C++, C#)
Guitar playing Metal head (see below)
Sim nut since the late 80's (flying, racing, subbing). You name it, i've probably played it.

Various Air combat videos i made:
http://www.youtube.com/user/JG52Gutted

My music page:
http://www.myspace.com/miserysinphony


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Martyn, 28, living in middle England. Happily married, no kids (yet). Qualified aero engineer, but ended up working in IT. No, I don't understand either. :hmmm:

Long time gamer, starting out on a Spectrum then an Amiga. SH3 was my first proper subsim, and despite spending more hours on that game than possibly any other, I never managed to play a career beyond 1940. Consequently, I never received a real good depth charging, and also never died. Hurrah! I'm simply a victim of my own self-inflicted insistence to do things properly and avoid cutting corners, so it takes me forever to make one patrol. Then, with each incarnation of GWX I restarted my career, before 1941 ever came into view. :doh: I skipped SH4 completely - my old PC wouldn't have coped.

Primarily a flight simmer, I use FSX at the moment. Currently hauling freight around Australia with Air Hauler. Used to play IL-2 online in a squadron for many years before moving onto more relaxed flying duties, not involving gunfire (yes, I'm an old man now). Real planes have propellers, btw ;) Also play strategy games and action/adventure/RPG types. Recently got back into playing Oblivion and chanced across links to realism mods in another thread on this board yesterday - fancy that! :D Alas, soon it shall be abandoned once again when SH5 arrives...

I play guitar, although somewhat poorly (who can find time to practise with so many games to play???), so in an undignified effort to boost my ego I picked up a second-hand PS3 with Guitar Hero so now I can really rock :cool: (or so I pretend!). Can't condone consoles otherwise - they're for girls:yeah: (just kidding). Like to listen to Dream Theater, Metallica, Symphony X, Iron Maiden, and loads more besides. Distorted guitar makes the world go round :up: That, and a good cup of tea, of course.

I tend to drift to and from communities such as this one. I get too involved in reading all the threads and end up spending no time playing the games I'm reading about. So I drift away and get playing ... but then the desire to learn about mods brings me back, and I end up modding & reading forums till the cows come home, and actually stop playing again. It's a difficult struggle we face in life, isn't it...? ;)

@skwasjer:

Okay. VLUCHT13 RULES !!
:rock:

Edit: My word, these guys are good.