Sounds like You should not try sound commands for SH3. At least my missus would not approve me yelling "Crash dive! Depth 165!" in the living room. :hmmm:

You should see the looks I get at work! I have set the crash dive as my smart-phone alarm tone. Nothing gets my colleagues in the refinery control center snapping around than:

ALAAAAAARRRRRMMMM !!!!!

hehehehe

AD

Well it will be Monday before I can get back to my patrol. Am posting from my phone at work. Long shifts on the weekends.

Have installed HSIE's hardcode fixes. Just had four out of four torpedoes FAIL to detonate. Mixed magnetic detonator / impact fuses. One was premature detonation.

BdU will be hearing about this. Good convoy intercept near Gibralter ruined by useless weapons. Sank two stragglers with deck gun. Frequent allied air patrols noted west of Gibralter.

Well I tried hugging the coastline over shallow water, to run ahead of the convoy before it entered the Gibralter defence lines... and got close enough to see a dramatic view of them closing ranks to fit through the bottleneck just before dawn.

I'd run out of space to try and get ahead of them.

About then, I was spotted by a Black Swan who came at me with guns blazing and I was forced to charge right at him to make it to nearby deeper water and put on some speed in preparation to get deep fast. His gunfire was at first a bit wild... so I held on and waited to crash dive at the last second. I held my nerve till he was about 2000 meters away...

I slid right under him, went to silent running, and changed direction a bit. I pulled it off quickly enough that his barrage of depth charges was just enough off target to not cause any damage. They were close enough to shake the boat and deafen my crew though.

Nearly within sight of Gibralter, I sunk a small merchant, and the Tommies patrolling beyond him, called in the whole British navy and at least one Hudson and Kingfisher.

I had backed away after sinking the small merchant and those guys depth-bombed the crap out of where I had been.

At length we got away and we held our breath for a long time getting through the Straits of Gibralter at night. We did hear three separate hunter-killer patrol lines which sublynx mentioned earlier, but managed to give them all the slip.

After finally surfacing, enemy aircraft hounded us almost as far as Algiers. I guess they were upset about the destroyer I sunk not long after surfacing.

Finally we reached LaSpezia which seemed a bit like a ghost town. There were ships and subs there but no people.

Now the part that really burns. I had thought that HSIE's hardcode fixes treated re-supply ships like U-tankers... but I was wrong. When I refueld at the Bessel in Spain... my crew lost all of their benefits / medals from the patrol we ended at the Bessel. Also, upon arrival at LaSepzia... the same thing happened again. That just isn't acceptable. SO what I am going to do, is to load a previous save and swim back through the Straits with U-205... back to St. Nazaire... without actually docking at LaSpezia. I'll request a transfer to the 29th Flotilla from St. Nazaire... and just let it "teleport" me to LaSpezia when the time comes.

I've 'done my time' in the Straits now. It will only get more difficult there as the war goes on.

Grrrrr.

Now I have to explain to the crew why we have to go back through the Straits.

....or maybe I could just go there and they won't notice.