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How did you get into submarines?
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Father & grandfather were merchant seamen in WW2 & WW1 respectively. Grew up watching Enemy Below & all sub movies. Joined USN in '72 trying to be a sub sonarman but they had too many of them & not enough tin-can sonarmen. Worked out for the best as I visited 23 countries on 4 continents, sailed 4 of the 5 oceans & 6 of the 7 seas. Made it around the world the hard way, going as far west as East Africa, then doing it again the opposite way. Served 6 years aboard 2 Destroyer Escorts, USS Schofield(DEG-3) & USS Elmer Montgomery(DE-1082). In 6 years found 7 confirmed Russian boats(2 Novembers, 2 Echo 2s, 2 Foxtrots & 1 Yankee Boomer). Actually had a guy from one of the Foxtrots I found tow my car home from Burbank airport to Pasadena some 23 years later.
Started with AOD & Silent Hunter 1 and have been playing ever since. |
Happy to make this thread my first post after months of lurking :D.
I've always been a flight sim fan and aviation nut, but I first got into subbing with the C64/128 Silent Service. Fast forward 15yrs or so and I bought Dangerous Waters for a bit of a change. I loved the strategy, planning, and well.... the brain work it took to engage targets and avoid detection while only using instruments; flying blind in essence :). Saw that SH3 was out when I visited this site for some DW info and decided to grab it. Upon first loading it up I've been hooked and then some! I never play without my Ti-83, notepad, ruler, compass, and protractor. Immersion is a dangerous drug :rock: . Fin. |
"How did you get into U-boats (everyone please post)"
start from main menu, press single player, saved career, load game 'before mission', click on the map, press continue, wait for it to load. and thats how i get into my u-boat :-j oh and my fifth grade teacher was a sonar man in a sub for the US navy in the Cold War. |
How did you get into submarines?
Welcome aboard, Gargoyle!
I hope you'll enjoy the game and this site. :up: |
1. Saw Das Boot.
2. Bought Silent Hunter 1. :|\ |
Well,
I rode three boats in the ought and seventies, 571 boat - Nautilus(SSN), 659 boat- Will Rogers and the 633 boat- Casimir Pulaski(SSBNs). Navy Nuke trained.
I have bought all sub games for the Mac since they came out, in fact, one of the first games for the old 'skinny' Mac of ought and 84 was a sub game. It's sad that there has not been anything out for a long time now. It's interestng to see how many folks got into it from watching Das Boot. The greatest Sub Flick of all time! It took me a time to find the German, with subtitles, version, but it is, in my opinion, much better than the dubbed version. DaNuke |
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How did I come to like u-boat games? No clue. I'm "just interested in them". I guess it's genetical, part of my maritime Norwegian genes;). |
Das Boot. I love all submarine movies, even the ****ty ones.
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Folks bought a farmhouse in upstate NY in the mid 60's. 150 years old with all the furniture still in it. I must have been 7 or 8. I was small enough to crawl up into the attic and discovered a stack of old magazines....in German! They covered WWI and seemed to be written for Germans living in the US. You guessed it, they had many images of U-Boats and I couldn't stop looking at them. Still have the magazines. Dad told me about the USS Ling in New Jersey and I begged him to take me.
That's all it took...... anything to do with subs and U-Boats specifically was for me. I'll have to find the magazines and scan a few of the pages.....it's good stuff and maybe somebody with more knowledge could let me know about the content. Chupacabras |
I have been interested in military history and models since my childhood and ships in particular. I guess it comes from hearing stories and seeing items from the battle of Narvik not far from where I live. The German surface fleet also was based in my area at one time and there were U-boat based here as well which raided the Murmansk convoys.
In 1996 I bought my first computer for my studies. At the same time I found a copy of Command: Aces of the Deep in the bargain bin. I passed my exams that year, but only because of intense reading the last couple of weeks:know: Since then I have played the Silent Hunter series and the modern sonalysts sims. |
Great grandfather was a traller skipper, then in WW1 they turned his ship into a mine layer, had three family members loose thier lives in a lifeboat disaster, loved SH2 so got SH3 you could say the sea is in the blood, so thats why i served 6 years in the air force.:damn:
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I love military history in general so I'm always intrigued by new things that I haven't yet explored. My sub origin is much more mundane than most.
I was readingthrough my latest copy of PC Gamer and came accross a preview of a very interesting new subsim. It was called SH3 and I was intrigued to begin with.:rock: Then a month or two later there was the full on review and I imediately searched out the closest copy. I tend to trust PC gamer reviews and they gave SH3 a very very good review. So before I could scrape together the necessary funds to purchase the game ($70!!!) I went to the library and got every sub book I could find and just started reading. It just got out of hand from there.:|\\ |
I'm big into military history and theres something about combat at sea, I think it's the extremes of it. Seems as though every experience is different. Had an Uncle that was on a sub in the eighties.
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Going to the mall arcade in late 60's and playing the quarter machine for hours... every 10 ships you sunk you got a free game .... you looked thru a periscope to target the ships ..... bad thing about then .. they didn't provide chairs so after about 2 or 3 hours standing there it was time to go .............
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