How close to death have you been?
 

I was just fartin around with SH3 yesterday and loaded the training convoy mission. I took out the lead Hunt DD and the C2. I surfaced to go head-to-head with the armed trawler. That wasn't such a good idea. GWX turns off the Hull Integrity stat, but I turned it back on. I lost three sailors and two were wounded. I had a whopping 3% health left after that encouter. I just used my deck gun on the armed trawler. After taking him out, I gunned down the remaining merchants. After that I made a beeline towards Kiel. Here are a few shots of the aftermath.

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:huh: OMG!

You got some issues there bud:o. Look at the brightside, if you make it back to port the months it will take to repair.....man good times to be had for a long time:up:

You certainly didn't do anything by 'halfs' :arrgh!:

pffft...to make things really challenging, I usually HEAD OUT on patrol with 3% hull integrity...:rock:


Seriously though, WOW!!!:o:o:o

You do look like a holy mackerel.
I had an encounter with an armed tug West of Scotland. It killed two of my men before we cleared the decks and dived. Had 17% hull integrety on return to Willi.

Those armed tugs are bastards!

worst ive had is 16% hull 10 crew members dead one diesiel and my batterys gone no periscopes AA gun a kinda spaghetti and i still whacked a large tanker on the way home to Willi:doh: using my uzo and deck gun oh and i had 2 torps left....

I wasn't even paying attention to my hull integrity during the battle. When I finally noticed it, I steered away at flank speed. I had disabled him and his main armament, but not the smaller guns. Lucky for me, I had put enough holes into him that he sank a bit after I got out of his smaller gun range.

Lucky shot so to speak:up:

Ah, it´s time for my Valletta story again. :rotfl:

Cant remember the details too good anymore, but here it goes:

WaW patrol, Adolf Bummer Jr. (or II), with having a poor patrol I messaged BdU and asked permission to go and photograph the port of Valletta in Malta island. BdU granted the permission and off I went. To cut the story short, it was stormy weather, I was 2km from the port when I was detected by the port DD´s (5 DDs & 1 Torpedo boat). The water was very shallow, ~25 meters. I went full speed ahead while I was DC´d by almost 180 charges in total. It took 1½ hours realtime to reach the deeper waters that were ~100km away from the port.

Results: Heavy flooding, 2 crewmen dead, periscopes destroyed and some other minor things I can remember atm. But I gotta say, that has been the only time I was really afraid while playing SHIII, my hands shook everytime a DC exploded nearby.

This was played out on GW 1.1. Copied from my SH3 Commander Personnel File:

Patrol Dates Ships Sunk (Merchant/Warship) Tonnage (Merchant/Warship) Comments
6 31AUG40 - 10SEP40 (11 days) 5 (1/4) 20625 (6450/14175) U-Boat damaged (H.I. 1.01%)

Yes, that's right. 1% integrity. It was a while ago but I recall it being a convoy defended by a few cruisers and tons of smaller escorts i.e. corvettes and frigates. Something possessed me to surface and man the guns for most of the engagement :arrgh!:

In keeping with the spirit of realism, once I returned to base I declared my trusty U-54 "written off" and purchased a new submarine.

:doh: 1% im surprised the flooding didnt get ya must have had more holes than swiss cheese

I'm a careful laddy....my worst is 30.71%......

I've gotten quite liberal with assigning repair qualifications, so I'm pretty good at plugging the holes. Our boat was held together with duct tape; my boys made me proud that day. All hands were lost four patrols later :nope: War is hell.

Murphy's law you get thru that one pure as hell patrol and then a few later poof ur dead:damn: