GXW is giving me a beating!
 

For the first time in SHIII, I am REALLY afraid of attacking a convoy.

For the first time in SHIII, I really feel the danger of staying on the surface.

Been air attacked 8 times in the last 48 hours, when leaving off Bergen and passing over England. Not only one airplane, but each wave with at least 4.

Even schorkelling its dangerous. I have been attacked 3 times while in TC 128.

I detected a convoy, but constant air attacks never gave me the opportunity to reach the area. I'm already at 70% hull, and only sank one DD (testing my new Falke torpedo, hehehe - Sweet Vengeance!!!)

I didn't want to be transferred to Penang (I "own" a IXD2), so I left Lorient and now my base is Bergen. Wondering if that was a smart move, as now I'm near the big action, and in Feb/44. Ouch!!!

Another day I found a convoy with 7 DDs. I tried to attack, and learned a lesson. Died.

I restarted the career, because I was not used to GWX. But from now on, I will play Dead-is-Dead.

My excuse is that it's difficult to understand the new reality when you play from Day 1 with vanilla SHIII, then upgrade to Rub, then TGW, and when you face GWX - WOW!

Thanks for the dev team of GWX for bringing a more realistic environment to my simulation!

PS: By the way, what TC do you recommend to use in GWX, and in 44?

I haven't reached 44 yet. But I think the lower the TC, the better the chances not to be caught with your pants down. Good luck! :rock:

GWX will kill you so fast you will not see it. :dead:

I love this mod and I am addictive to it, pass me more GWX. Yea the good stuff.

That's good to hear rfunes :yep:
I've just read another thread which refers to GWX as 'eye candy' :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Eye candy :mad:

How dare they, put them up against the wall and give them a good soaking with a high powered water gun.

Eye candy, yeah... :rotfl:

Tell this to my u-boat repair team. They are working like crazy. :rock:

Now it's clear that those Flaks (and the deck gun) in GWX '44 are 100% useless. If you have a situation that you really need them, enjoy. It will be the last... :lol:

For my next patrol, I will use the SH3 Commander "remove deck gun" option. That is, if I survive this one... :o

Obviously a user of one of the other errr mods :lol:

Eye candy????
Tell that to my 5 dead Kaleuns:nope:

where exactly is this post?

I'd rather not say mate, I'll obviously get accused of being biased :lol: But a search should find it easy enough (tis a curent thread) :up:

EYE CANDY? I have the perfect punishment for such a comment:

SHIII Vanilla - Scapa Flow run in '42
THEN
GWX - Scapa Flow run, same year.

Yeah...its just 'eye candy'

Most people don't know it, but theres some serious convoy action in the Indian ocean in GWX.

LOL, eye candy.

I'm with rfunes on this. I just (and I mean only just by the skin of my teeth), finished my first Bergen patrol in early '43. From about 100km off the Norway coast I was detecting radar signals of aircraft and DD's. One lucky night I picked up a task force and managed to sink HMS Victorious:arrgh!:, but from then on my trip was aircarft nightmare. I think I managed to spend about 2-3 hours per day game time on the surface on my way to patrol grid AM47.

As I got to within 80km of my patrol area two Sunderlands jumped me and knocked outboth periscopes, my radar, radio and radar detector. There was also a whole stack of hull damage and batteries etc. were out for a while, so the damage control was a world of pain for about half an hour real time.

After spending the next 6 hours underwater U754 limped back home by going way north of Torshaven and back to Bergen with only two more ships sunk and 6 torps in the boat.

Love this game and GWX has just made it ever more fun than ever.

Some nice convoy tonnage sailing regularly out of Os too :arrgh!: