Air attack
 

Just picking up SH3 after a long absense due to PC v little kids....

But I'm finding from 1943 the air attacks are a sad affair. In one engagement I was attacked by 14 Sunderlands and shot everyone down with no damage to my boat.

Is there anyone else getting this stupid problem. The planes are like lemmings and just dive shoot at me and then pull up into impossible climbs. Also the Wellingtons flew over me the other night, 10 in all and everyone kept going even though I shot one down....

This just seems to be the one weak spot in the game. In all my reading you'd generally find single planes on patrol not whole squadrons in the same sector... :hmm:

Don't bank on it I have lost my bridge crew all dead and AA Gunners all dead. :cry:

It's a problem in the stock game; too many planes and too hard to shoot down. The "Airpower Mod" reportedly reduced the number of planes and made them harder to kill. It's included in RUB. I don't know if it works, as I've only been attacked once in the last several months of play; but, as that was by a single Hurricane it may work.

And here's the proof

http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/712...mage0023ma.jpg

:o

Aww you just need some paint, maybe a little duct tape and you'll be A-OK. :rotfl:

My whole bridge was smashed I think I need a bit more than Duct Tape :dead:

Just go to. ubisoft silent hunter lll data. cfg. airstrikes. Look for logic between air sessions=15 Change this to =25. This will cut down on the constant air attacks in 1943.


WAW
Viktor Vogel
U-588

First time I tried playing in 1943 I got my but kicked by air attacks. 8 people dead and no patrol to speak of since I had to return back to port immediatly.

Don't have the stock game though... maybe you need to mod it with RUB or NYGM or something. Once you do that enemy planes are to be feared.

Guys it was late 1944 that screenshot :up:

Ow.

want to take on the RAF try grid DG31 26/04/44 encountered all types of planes Avengers,b-24s,p-38s,PBYs shot 4 down damaged quite a few and then ran out of ammo,
another thing I just want to know I thought aircraft could not attack you in the middle of the night( 0300Hrs)boy was I wrong.

RADAR :cry:

My one is =10

Got attacked in January 1943 by single Catalina - all hands lost.
She was like thunderbolt...

Reset Done had one encounter 5 aircraft 2 shot down the other 3 broak off that's better :up:

isnt the massive aircraft in 43 realistic I thought the Allie counter attack ( black may) included all these plains they put out on the ocean to help crush the U-boat. ( my info is from the book Iron coffins it seemed like you couldnt surface for more than a few hours in certain areas) I dunno I kinda like it myself.

Yes, this is true many large airbases opened up in 1943, to fight the u-boats. All this reset is doing is cut down on the time between air attacks,and not send quite as many aircraft against you. it just helps you get more prepared to defend against them when you surface, instead of getting jumped all at once.

WAW
Viktor Vogel
U-588

We have a great disparity with being able to sail up and down the English East Coast with reasonable impunity and yet in some areas have medium/large bombers turn up in a convoy procession as if they were hiding around the corner pouncing on you virtually minutes after surfacing and at night.

You are correct that there should be an ever present air presense, it is just that at the moment it really is two extremes that do not reflect the reality of the situation.

Does anybody have the links to the NYGM or RUB patches that can improve gameplay and add the realistic edge to the game.

Cheers