Favorite submarine
 

Childish perhaps, but I want to know what's your favorite submarine to play with in Silent Hunter 3 is. Where do people like to hunt the most? Do you like to travel across the Atlantic to the US in a big IX class submarine or do you like to hunt in the shallow waters between the British isles in a type II for example?

The reason why I ask this is because I want some more ideas on how to play the game and what people enjoy doing within the game.

I tried something new today which was very fun! In mid 1940 with my VIIc I attacked a HUGE convoy with only one destroyer escort:D. I attacked the convoy at night several times. But one day I "forgot" about the destroyer and he detected me. I tried running away facing my "butt" torpedo at him. BOOM and he was going down. Lucky shot! Later I gunned the entire convoy down with my 88 (had to leave two ships after running out of ammo and they recieved air cover early the next morning):arrgh!:! That was fun!

Now YOU tell me what you like to do:O:!

(If a similar topic exist please direct me, and sorry for my bad English)

I usually hunt just north of Ireland in AM52/AM53 early in the war. It's February 1940, and I'm just leaving from Wilhelmshaven for the 2nd Flotilla in a VIIB. Patrol number five.

I've only just discovered the delights of GWX and 100% realism, charting, plotting and intercepting targets properly. I also added a DiD rule to the game. Determined to survive the whole of the war with no reloads, this is where most of my fun is coming from.

I'm not sure what I'll be doing next. Probably looking for better hunting grounds as non stop Large Merchant/Medium Cargo/Coastal Vessel is getting a bit tedious. Some tankers would be nice, but I wonder if these are more prevelant later in the war.

Other than that, I have been offered the IX but turned it down in favour of keeping the VIIB.

For your game, how about a GWX3 DiD at 100%? Unless you do this already, or something harder :sunny: in which case I don't have any other suggestions. Med Flotilla maybe?

-Edit - VIIB not VIIC.

Hey and thanks for your reply.

I recently downloaded GWX3 too and it's just brilliant. You could say I play with 100% realism but I like external camera like when I'm depth charged. I've never actually tried patrolling in the Med. Maybe that's fun too:salute:

The large convoys come from the west. I guess there's not much life in the Med.

I prefer the Type IX due to it's high torpedo capacity and huge diesel tank it can take me anywhere I want...so it works for me =P.

The Med is fun...if you can stand having only 5 torpedos and nothing more D=, also nights are pitch black in there.

One of each. Multiple careers, played simultaneously.:sunny:

My favourite boat is the IX, I like to travel far and wide during the hunt.

I'm curently driving a XXIII out of Bergen and picking the juciest target in the convoys I encounter with my very limited eel capacity http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...ies/pirate.gif

I'm all about waiting in grid BF 13 for a convoy to troll through in my Type VIIB. I'm sure there were good real life reasons to switch to the VIIC, but in game, not really, unless porcupine conning towers are your thing. Since I don't engage planes anyway, the VIIB gives better performance for less renown. Unless, of course, you VIIC types know something I don't.

The VIIB is decent at anything I want it to do. Only thing I'd ask of it is higher torp capacity, but you can't have everything. It's a solid boat. I'll stick with it for now.

Nice:up:

Do you even notice any difference between VIIB and VIIC?

Type VII.... where's my "kiss love hug" smiley?! Oh well, this will have to do:
:rock:TYPE VII:rock:
And please don't tell Doenitz about it but I sink only warships :haha:. Which means I usually troll around Scapa, Iceland and the Med.

type VII, no doubt
Subs are like women, some are new, some are easy, most are beautiful... but there's allways that one that gets your heart no matter how much better are out there and thats the VII:salute:
Dates are short with her and dangerous, but so much more interesting, just like my real life love (not a sub)

And my favourite hunting grounds are south west of Ireland and near the gibraltar on the atlantic side. There be ye olde convoy routes there:arrgh!:

Type IX! A big lady that if treated nicely will reward you. :up:

oh man convoys with 1 escort, how i miss them!
also merchants without guns...

my fave has got to be the VIIB that angular bow, the sweeping saddletanks that silky riveted hull......

Ahem...

er yeah my fave defo, you do fall in love with the boats, and the VIIB is what i love the C is nice but i don't like the bow.

Well it looks like many people like the VIIB :DL. I forgot to mention the IX/D2 which is a biiig ship. And there is one IX/D2 resting in the fjord just outside my house. Hehe

Type IXb,c,d2.... of course.. :up:

Viib...:DL Learn how to use it. its a nice machine.

That's very cool that you have such access to a piece of history like that. Is it resting literally in the fjord, underwater, or is it a museum ship?

The closest WW2 submarine to me is hundreds of miles way. I'm happy to have visited two, though, in my day.

The submarine left for Japan in late 1945. It had blueprints of late nazi weapons like the Me262 and the V2 rocket. It also had several containers of floating mercury. Just outside Bergen at a place called Fedje the U-boat was sunk by a British submarine. Today it rests below the surface at a depth of 250 meters. The inhabitants of Fedje want the submarine raised because the floating mercury is leaking from the wreck.

They plan to raise the sub next year and I'm really looking forward to post some pictures here on this forum:up:. That's about all I know. :smug:

And by the way, the submarine is the only one in WWII to be sunk by another submarine while both were underwater. The British really had one lucky shot :rock:

Oh, THAT Type IX! I remember reading about it elsewhere in the forum. Be sure to take as many pics as you can for those of us who can't be there in person. :D

Raising the boat, on it's own, is something of a historical event. It'll be cool for you to be there when it happens. Are they planning on making it a museum or anything once it's raised?

The ship is blasted in half but I think they will put things like the periscope and the conning tower at a museum in Bergen :yeah:

Look at this picture
http://www.nmf.no/images/u864_kystverket_620b.JPG

And here is a sonar image of the wreck
http://www.johnelkington.com/weblog/U864.jpg

Cool!