BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!! http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...ies/pirate.gif

Just a question from me. What if the weather is perfectly calm, no waves etc and the uboat is going deck's awash. Wouldn't it make it more stable as a shooting platform than if it would be fully surfaced? In real life I mean, I doubt it's possible in SH3.

It MAY make it a little bit more stable but not enough to make a huge difference.

What it definitely would do though is slow the boat down and make it easier to hit.

Oh well. ALAAARM then! :rotfl2:

Always the best policy :DL

Amen, brother! :salute:

Something that really irked me about the stock game was the ridiculous aerial routines. For the first nearly four years of the war, Coastal Command suffered from a paucity of ASW capable aircraft, as Arthur "Bomber" Harris hoarded every large plane for his blindly zealous prosecution of the bombing campaign against Germany, hoping to prove that strategic bombing could win the war cheaply. Although he was a Brit, he was akin to Goering in his single mindedness that "Everything which flies belongs to me [Goering]." Similarly, Harris refused to release a relatively small number of four engined bombers, or even twin engined bombers which would have proved instrumental in protecting shipping from the U-boats. It wasn't even because the ASW weapons were not that efficient; even the presence of a plane would force a U-boat to dive and render it incapable of offensive action. Harris simply refused to allocate a suitable number of such planes for Coastal Command. If anyone should have been cashiered, it should have been him, not Stuffy Dowding of Fighter Command.

To see whole squadrons of Hurricanes [d'uh, a fighter plane] or Sunderlands attack a single contact was so FUBAR. The relative scarcity of such patrol planes meant they had to be spread out in order to maximize the size of ocean they could colletively patrol. There was no way they could bring such a large number of planes together so quickly as we see them in the game. GWX has done a good job of restoring the depiction of aerial patrols to more reasonable levels.

Historical is the only way to play for me. If I want an arcade game I'll get an Xbox.

But...but...on my last patrol I sank twelve million trillion gazillion tons! Aren't you happy for me? Don't you want to join my new "Gazillion tons plus a thousand billion planes shot down" club?

[edit] I thought it was funny that when I played Sid Meiers Pirates! I turned the entire Spanish Main into the English Main.

On level Three.

On level Four I couldn't survive a week without my crew mutinying and marooning me on the proverbial desert island.

Ha! I had that game but never played. In fact, I still have it. It came as part of a collection, "Best of Microprose" including Clash of Steel. In spite of the graphics of the time, those were the days! The gaming industry was able to introduce fresh ideas. Nowadays there is so much dreck on the market and serious simmers like us are crying out for a serious, realistic sim.

This aircraft cost me 15% hull, so it is 'risky' in most cases
 

I had the old version, at the same time I had is Silent Service. But in this case i meant the new version. I don't play many games that aren't sims, but I liked the original so much I had to have the new one as well.

According to what you guys have said, I feel pretty lucky seeing as I haven't had any planes run on me yet.

But if anyone is into statistics, you know all this is doing is statistically making the percentage that I'll be sunk by one before I retire higher, in which case, I'm not looking foward too. :oops:

I only ever have seamen on flak and deck but sometimes you just get naturals at it.

I would replace my seamen to PO, in flak gun and DG

If only to speed up the reload times.

Yes, perhaps there is a merit in it, but their qualification as gunner increases in my experience

If your using Commander you can set youe own loading times, regardless of what rank the crew are.

in my opinion, the best way to find out is to read the literature - the real life experience, the history books.

there are always exceptions though, as in the case of U615 and her Commander at the time, Ralph Kapitsky.

(..have just finished reading Silent Hunters by Theodore P Savas. it is a truely awsome battle to the death between U615 and the american airforce. i have never read anything like it, the sheer bravery of all concerned - boat and plane crews. i was literally biting my nails - it is hard to believe that that kind of battle went on. the men on both sides slogged it out, blood and guts, gave all they had - truely awsome, really!!..)

That particular sailor got a double promotion to PO. Already on our way up to Narvik we ran into 3 swordfish and he dispatched them with ease. I can tell some of the other crew are getting interested and have been taking the flak training course in hopes of getting their own shiny RK.