It's 1945 for me and I am ripping the guts out of the Australian convoys in my big IXD2 beast. :D

I had it on my hard drive but it is off now (SHIV) butit could be back on in two or three months, but the damage control on SH4 is very bad!!! so for now SHIII gets a :up: and SHIV gets a :down: I bet in six months SHIV will look much better and with some great mods. But for now SHIII is the best.:D And also I like the looks of Libtery ships, C2,C3,T3and T2 tankers much better looking ships, then those jap cargo jobs.

I've also decided to shelf SH4 for a while and come back to SH3. The biggest reason is that my hardware is just not good enoughf or SH4. I've tried to tweak the settings and its no use. Even at min settings it's chunk city. But I think the game is BEAUTIFUL. Some day when I have a new computer, and a few new SH4 patches, I'll play it hard. That leads to my second major cluster of issues - buggy damage control and TDC. For me it's all about torpedo firing solutions, and getting tarnished and half-sunk. I don't want to fight bugs in the TDC, and if a broken damage model is going to send me to the surface, or the seafloor, arbitrarily, then I can't hack it. On the other hand, the point Ducimus made about a serious damage model is appealing. Maybe in a future patch...

Anyhow, right now I'm in the Maldives in an IXC and as happy as can be. GWX forever!

Hm, they take 30-40 seconds to dive, but you must put the crew on battle stations.;)