Is this considered a good sortie?
 

Hey guys,

I just got Silent Hunter III this Christmas, but have only been able to start playing this morning. I started with a type VIIB in 1939, using the GWX(?) pack. For my first sortie of the game, I found a convoy south of Portsmouth and began my attack. I came out of it having sunk a total of 90 000 tonnes, including the battleship HMS Nelson, and 3 Pyro Ammunition Carriers (great explosions). The hardest part was deciding which crew members recieved the assorted 43 medals!

I have played Silent Hunter II, but I've never got anything like that. Is a result like this unusual, or has anyone else ever recieved sunk such a surprising amount? :-?

P.S: Whenever you recieve a mesage containing latitude and longitude coordinates, how does one find this location? I know SH II has a lat,long mous position, but SH II dosent. Could I possibly get some help on that?

Hi mate, and welcome to subsim!:up: Looks like you had a great patrol! I would say that its unusual, since GWX is way harder than stock & GW 1.1a.
The lat/long is just eye-candy, IIRC. It is just a part of the radio messages that you shouldnt pay attention to!:yep:

Thanks very much, Seth. It is plain to the eye that you know a lot about SHIII. I was wondering if you could answer just three more questions. 1. My computer handles the game pretty okay, despite the 64mb graphics card. However, the 1000x time compression things is really jittery and laggy. It happens sometimes and others not. Do you know how to fix that, or lessen it?

2. Is it possible to take screenshots of things without fraps? Does Print Screen go into a folder or something?

And 3. I would imagine you've been playing for a while. Whats your best sortie, and kill? I bet a few aircraft carriers have copped it. And whats your best tip.

Thanks again.

Welcome to SubSim! (Man, I have typed that many times today, whats happening?)

People are being attracted to the best Uboat simulation out, thats what :up:

I`ll have a go at the first one. The reason time compression makes the game laggy, is your hardware (to some extent). It is mostly having its way with your cpu and ram, since speeding things up makes the computer work with lots of little things at the increasing speed. The faster your cpu and ram is, the more you can crank up tc without too much of the lagging.

It is possible to take screenshots without fraps, but I`m not sure how, since I use fraps. Someone will come along shortly anyway. :up:

I agree with Stabiz on the hardware issue, mate! He knows what he's talking about! (Check out his Excellent movies, btw!!):yep:
The screenshots: I use Fraps or simply Ctrl + F11. The images are stored in my SHIII folder (dont know why with Ctrl + F11, but for Fraps i have directed them there.)

I dont remember what my best sortie was, because i have played SHIII so long that i cant even remember my first patrol. But i dont think it have been over 60000 tons.
Edit: best tip: Take your time, dont rush anything. Learn the DD's movements around the convoy, watch out for sudden course changes. Try to forsee where the convoy is heading, run silent & deep, and try to get to periscope depth after the first escort have passed you. If you get inside the convoy, you can do alot of picking before the escorts get a hold of you. But beware for those armed merchants..
Hope this helps a bit, mate! :rock:

a few patrols more, and you will not sing anymore, thats for sure!

That's a great patrol!! I'm sure you got a couple of medals for that one! After a few more you will find out how lucky you were, and you will be wish for more patrols like your first.

Actually, If you pop open the map that comes with SH III in the DVD case, it has the longitude latitude lines on it. I've followed those radio messages to their coordinates when they were nearby and found exactly what they are describing on several occasions. I think there's more to them than just eye candy.

Congrats on that patrol !! Sounds like you had a stunning one ! I've never come close to that !!

well done m8 on your patrol that was stunning. but i agree with the guys here even on vanilla 90k tonnage is hard to come by. on gwx from what ive heard that kind of patrol will not happen everyday and you will realise that after some more patrols :D

Welcome aboard kaleun :arrgh!:

A very promising start indeed :up:

:o Cool! have to try that, mate!

Welcome to SubSim:up:

That was one hell of a patrol. Wondeful results. Well done:D :up:

To answer your question about where to look for potential kills check this thread http://www.communitymanuals.com/shii...unting_Grounds and as always

Good Luck and Good Hunting:up:

Could you give one or two examples ? :hmm:

To put things into perspective my vert first patrol (stock SH3) with my IID yielded 5000 tons:oops: and on my GWX career my first patrol on VIIB yielded a bit less than 20000 tons.:p :D :D You did well:yep: :up:

Great patrol. What realism are you playing? Very soon just surviving will be considered a good patrol;). Welcome aboard!:lurk:

It will get harder mate as the Allies get more proficient and incorporate technological improvements to their ASW equipment :yep:

Enjoy the happy times while you can :up:

SINK EM ALL!! :arrgh!:

I play GWX @ 100 % realism and DiD. I usually between 15.000 and 30.000 each patrol. Somtimes a little more, somtimes less. Since i play DiD i'm a bit more carefull.

So regardless of youre realism settings 90K is a hell of score.

My best score with Vanilla Sh3 was around 115K with a 7c and realism around 85% or so.

Grtz Tijn

Welcome aboard...enjoy the forum. A finer bunch of submariners you'll be hard-pressed to find anywhere else but here!!!:rock::up:
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