Careers "completed" by getting killed during war: 18 :lol:

Careers really completed (war ends and I'm still alive): 0 (in words zero, nada, nothing, nicht eine einzige) :-?

But my current career is at Jan. 1944, so I'm still hoping to get this one finished this time...

Happy hunting!:arrgh!:

Still on my first career. Completed 16 patrols and its almost 1942. Getting ready to try a Type IID career.

I got to the 2nd last month of the war in my 100% Career, Then I got destroyed by a Rocket plane squad...ugh, my new Type XXI too. :damn: :damn:

Salut!

I have played 8 careers.....Got killed 8 times......I am now playing my 9th careers and it is the longest one I ever managed to do. I am on my way back to Lorient completing my 13th patrol with no torp left and hull damaged to 70% no more Flak guns! Carrer started in 01 August 1940 today 28th June 1942;;; 98o kms from Lorient! :rock:

Happy hunting to all !

It's so easy to complete a career. Just use SHIII Commander to set the days in between patrols to 999

:smug:

Or commence a career using SH3 Commander in April 45 :oops:

Late January 1945......31st mission........crossed the million ton line if i make it home. Been playing since feb of 06 and play dead is dead, this is as close to ending the war as i've ever come but i know its because with 44 i gave up attacking convoys lol. 2.0 has to wait 1.03 still in action.,

I can't count the number of careers I've done... and every single one of them has been at the bottom of the ocean since 1939 or 1940.:nope:

I`m in my 2nd career, SH Commander ended my first. I play DiD, and so far I`ve made it to Aug. 1942 GWX 1.03, plus 1.03 expansion. Puts:)

i'm about to start #13, sometime tomorrow night. been conscious since around 0830hrs yesterday:88) :doh:

I have completed two carrers starting at 1939, but i have got a lot of incompleted, abandoned, deleted, formated (etc.) carrers. Right now I´m trying to complete my third carrer and i'm just at my second patrol :D

Haven't completed a Career yet, too busy testing GWX, think I'll add JC Wolfs Mod on Monday, get the men ready and the 'Sub Ship Shape' then launch a Career on Christmas Day. I know the men won't want to sail on Xmas day but 'C'est la Guerre' and besides, the Gogglebox will have nowt but a load of drivel on as per usual :rotfl:

I remember when SH3 released, a lot of people started kinda arcadish play, me, too, staying mostly in the map screen (because that's only where you can go higher time compression), some people even complained max TC value of 1024 so changed to 2048 (especially to go to the pacific). With stock game and automap, WE and uber deck gun, I could sometimes exterminate a mid-size whole convoy with only 1 submarine :rotfl: That kind of playing style usually took 2 - 5 hours for 1 patrol. It's not realistic at all but it's got its own funness. As a submarine shooter, SH3 is a very well done game! I think it was the success factor of SH3 as business then.

Then many mods, Rub and post Rubs like IUB, many were usually forcused on realistic or historical simulation. Then after some quiet months then post Rub "super mod" period began. NYGM and GWX arrived and got major. By then many "experienced" or "hardcore" and players and with a lot of mods started playing in less and less time compression. Aparently now 1 patrol takes much much longer real world time than before... in my case 1 patrol became 4 hours to 1 month. Shadowing covoy, manual tageting with harder AI enemies, less contacts etc all contributed longer "boring" real world hours :rotfl:We're so sadistic that we're making our sim more and more boring and harder in normal sense. I've once succeed in Gibraltar single mission under NYGM of some version, it took me 16 hours to get pass the narrow path alive.

I remember a couple of guys were doing no time compression patrol. One guy was even running his computer 24 hours and doing his "shift" of an 8 hour. (I belive it's the stock version; there wasn't many mod then - there wasn't even SH3 mod forum existed here) I remember we called him crazy with strange respect :rotfl: I don't remember he even managed to get his patrol grid...

Still in first career
 

Here it is Apr 1940, and Kapitan Bruderhase and his stalwart crew is still surviving. We are currently off the eastern coast o England, and due to the length days, reasonable weather and full moon, it has been necessary run more submerged during the night due to a couple of pesky aircrafe, and their buddys with the DD service.
Playing stock SHIII, realism 80%. with map up dates. Between my manual targetting skills or lack thereof, about four duds we have sunk four ships. 1st Flot and recent upgrade to Type IID.
Eventually I will install GWX, but as I now I have enough of a challenge, plus I'm not sure if my modest computer can do justice to GWX. It struggles with SHIV.

Hope all have a Merry Christmas and the Happiest of New Years - keep up the good hunting

Brer Rabbit :up:

second patrol with gwx2...

First patrol was easy, now on to BE31, and past scopa flow.

All going fine.

Gonna start a diary about our boat.. and DID.

You should have had an "Zero" option because I've been playing this game since it came out and I've NEVER completed a career. I keep getting gakked in '43!!

I have owned this game since the day it was released and ive never finished a full career (1939 - 1945) :o:oops:. The furtherist i got was late 1944 and got my first type XXI went out on a patrol, i knew i wasn't far of from finally completing SH3 then the unthinkable happened. That canal you can take in the MED I decided to go through that with my xxi, when i got a nasty PC crash it just locked up so i restarted only to find my saved career was missing.:damn:

That carreer took me ages, ive never really gotten over it:rotfl:Now im trying to repeat it but without the crash and Dead is dead option. I reckon i'll complete a career in about a year from now:roll: As long as i dont get sunk...

10 patrols at least ?
Out of the hundreds of careers I've started.. I have by those standards completed ZERO.:nope:

Maybe 3-4 different careers over the almost 2 years I've been playing. Thing is, I've never actually taken one past June 1940, as for one reason or another, mainly new GW installs, I've had to start new careers. That's playing something like 12 hours a week, but I do have it happen now and then when RL interferes that I don't play for 4-6 weeks.

Yes!

Just took my 24th patrol to War's end (My 13th in the realm of GWX).

I tell you, GWX2 has made the ASW lots better than in previous releases. But once I have access to acoustic homing torps, I worry a lot less about singular ASW encounters.

But, wow, I really turn into a coward around mid-1944. For whatever reason, that's when all my tricks seem to stop working.