In my early IIA days I was around 60 meters depth
I knew there where mines and received damage
I looked external. I hit the chain where the mine was attached to
so it seems to me that the chains can do damage too

Basically anything can damage your boat in SH3 including the seafloor:yep:

You mean you could actually SEE the mine and the chain via external view? I'm asking because when my sub took damage I checked via the ext. view to understand what happened, but nothing was in sight underwater.

What version of the game are you playing ? :hmm:
If it's vanilla then you can see for one hell of a distance....but if it's TGW or GWX you need to tweak the water clarity/density with SH3 CMdr up to 20 :arrgh!:

GWX.

Then use SH3 Cmdr to change the water to 20 (18 is default setting) :up: :arrgh!:

this is important

if you HIT the mine and goes BOOM
the mine dissapears and you cant see anything underwater
you m8 still see the white splash on the surface.

also if you know there are mines in the area..just pop up the Observation scope a bit so you can see in front of you (submerged)

I hit a mine outside of Wilemshaven on my first patrol.

Talk about baptism of fire, someone could have warned me! :D

We were warning you telepathetcally:up:

Nice advice. Are late war equipements (sonar) any useful in mine detection? Sorry if it's a stupid question, but it's my first campaign and I'm in april 40 ....

Your in a 1940's submersible not a Los Angeles Class :lol: ....So I guess the answers gotta be no :arrgh!:

Nope, Sonar doesnt detect mines,
sonar has been made to calculate the distance of the Sub toward the Ship, its made if you play high realism to set the torpedo.

It easier to know where mines have been placed to avoid damages.
*English nort/east coast: lots of mines
*Enlgish channel: Mines at the north and south entrance and a couple of fields in the middle
*Enemy Harbour entrances are always Mined and Subnets
*Friendly harbours have also a couple of mines at the entrance
and there are some more but I cannot think of any

Well heres a surprise i was cruising about 250 km of the nw of scotland in open seas i was in map mode(f5) then skipped to external view to admire my U-baoats paint job that i had just put on and was taking some piccys.
Then all of a sudden all my forward crew were dead all my aft crew were dead someof my Watch crew were injured no mines in sight or ships or planes or sub nets nada suddenly lost 70% of my crew and my hull went from 100% to 67%.
Was very weird was still playing so i stopped my boat and spent 20 minutes external to see if there was anything near or far away that could have done it and hit the sonar room and nada near me either seems like a glitch to me.....:down: