naval acadamy - flak artillery test?
 

Ive had sh3 since launch but until now havent really bothered with the whole naval academy bit... thinking this should be a breeze having already had many successful careers i dived right in... and well now im stuck!

Things were going well until i got to the flak artillery test, how on earth does anyone survive this???

After a few minutes even with some frantic manouvering i still end up with most of my flak crew dead and a sinking boat- this is just too hard, with the whole point of the excercise being to shoot down the planes is seems a bit silly that the only way to even survive is to dive and hide until the planes get bored and go away.

has anyone else managed to complete this test... if so how is it done?

-ive survived to the end of the war in my career and never faced andyhing this darn hard!

For the sake of a few hundred renown starting points...why not just skip it and get straight into a career ? :hmm:

I did all the training missions before starting to play "for real". I don't remember the enemy aircraft shooting at us at all, but it's been a while since I did it.

Since this is merely training, and the "reward" is a few hundred renown points, put the difficulty level to 0%. Once you've completed all the training scenarios, then you can increase your realism settings to whatever you want!
I don't recall the planes shooting at me. dropping bombs or anything else, all the times I went in there just to pass some time. Nor do I remember taking any damage to my sub. That would be like deck gun practice where the targets shoot back and try to sink you.
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I had the planes shooting at me several times, I could hear the bullets plinking in to the tower, but they never inflicted any damage and certainly no casuallities among the crew, that's some strange training there.
I just run at flank speed straight ahead and have my guys shoot the planes. If I do the shooting myself I can probably get some Swordfishes but can forget the faster Hurricanes, manning the AA gun is not my job as Kaleun anyway.

I remember it being a bitch to shoot down the airplanes. But don't remember the airplanes doing any shooting or bombing. :o

I had a hell of a time trying to shoot them down too; mouse control too sensitive and jerky.
Out of frustration, I assigned the task to a crewmember who shot them all down in fairly quick order.

ahh, problem solved, well sort of, its NYGM2.4s fault, as it gives planes the ability to use their cannons/machine guns which they didnt in stock sh3, which explains why i get shot to pieces!

nevermind, ive gotten back into to my career anyway so i`ll just have to live without completing the academy bit.

Oh, yeah, I forgot. Do the acadamy before you install any mods; ships are much harder to sink after and planes can shoot back.

Or alternately, go into the proper file and just give yourself 1500 renown. Do I remember which is the proper file, after almost a year of not playing? Of course not; but I know there is one.:cool:

My Documents/SH3/data/cfg/Careers/Your Kaleun Name/Patrols_0 :up:

Running GWX check all realistic's and limited's. Right away; ahead slow,decks awash (7meters), order any targets, short range (500 meters), first pass reverse back slow. I lost my flak gunner and the rounds where pinging off the hull, second pass decks where awash and I used the nav map for direction then hit the "B" key to target the aircraft. Got them all 1cas. and repair the damage. Newbie saying thank you to Neal for the 2007 Sub Almanac, the GWX Devo. team and the entire SubSim community for making a decent SubSim GREAT:up:

PS Did it about 3hrs. ago Brouse

This traning mission is easy!

Go to My Documents/SH3/Data/Cfg/Your Kaleun/Naval Academy.Open this file with Wordpad.For the result of each exam type "True",for each rank and total rank - "10000".Save the file and now you have "Excellent" result for every exam in Naval Academy.

Worst ever
 

I have done the Flak training several times on different mulitloads but my GWX2 trial was murder. I normally avoid one or two planes shooting at me but ten...
I tried editing the .log file but the scores wouldn't take until I went into the course and then bailed out. I could then go into the .log and edit the score. When I went back into the game I had Excelent results. I still can't get it to give me the renoun for any of the courses. I even tried editing the .cfg for my current career. I guess the teacher wasn't to keen on me trying to skip class.

Ive done all the academy again since installing GWX 2.0 and ive found it a lot more realistic and challenging, as regards to the flak exam, engage all closing targets close range, close up your damage control team and have plenty of reserve flak gunners at the ready, as long as you keep on top of repairs you should achieve an excellent pass mark.