What are you doing?
 

Just spent 3 hrs real time at 58ft depth off Truk. Overhead 3minesweepers and a DD. So I was 'all stop' & 'creep' along at 1 knot until they gave up
It occured to me what otheres do in the long hours without a contact or enroute to patrol.. At any given time there must be dozens of us submariners in the pacific, given all the different time zones. I mostly read and glance at the nav map every minute or so. Go make a brew(UK) or eat a choc bar!!

Steinbeck.......:D

I think you meant this one to be in the general SHIV forum. :hmm:

I listen to one of the many radio mods, or webcasts of old time radio (like this: http://www.otrnow.com/otrnow/index.htm ), or recordings that I've collected. My favorite is the Fibber McGee and Molly show!

Otherwise I am often forced to do work while it sails on. I don't have a lot of free time :dead:

Multi-tasking
 

I usually play while watching television (usually History or Military Channel), and put on headphones whenever I need to jump into real time. I also save the game after every successful engagement in case I screw up running at high time compression.

When dodging escorts, I avoid running at time compression rates higher than 8x - the DD's seem to "suddenly" locate me at higher rates (known bug), so I set the laptop next to me and monitor the situation from the external camera or tactical map while I slip away below the thermal layer at 2 knots.

My other strategy is to conserve torpedoes - if the ratio of escorts to frieghters is low, ( example 4 escorts for 10 freighters) I'll hunt the escorts then surface in the middle of the convoy and sink them at close range with my deck gun. Usually I'll sink the lead escort first, drop two decoys, turn in the direction of the convoy, and naill the two side escorts with the stern tubes as they steam towards me at full speed. As the frieghters panic, the rear escort usually comes right up the middle of the convoy and straight at my periscope. When it's all over, I've sunk an entire convoy with 4-6 torpedoes and I don't have to wait around for the escorts to go away.

.................................................. .................................................. ......Yes Yes, wrong forum, but I have to plead being sleepy(very) due to drugs for an allergic reaction yesterday. I'm covered in big red blotches which itch like crazy

steinbeck :oops:

I have been collecting old radio programs for close to 25 years now.

I also listen to them. I use to have piles of cassettes and CD's but then my girlfriend gave me this new fangled thingy call ipod. Sheesh I can store thousands of my programs on there.

Good to meet another OTR fan :up:

Is that a typo?

Three minesweepers and one DD overhead and you are at 58 feet?

Man you gots a pair and they is big!!:rock:

A very new OTR fan! I got into it thanks to SH4 radio mods, and now I can't get enough of it :D It's really nice, especially since I haven't watched TV in a good 7 years now. I found everything that I thought was missing from modern TV in old-time radio :up:

I too abandoned TV 9 years ago. I don't even own one although I grew up in a home during the 60s when we had one in every room. There are so many other and better forms of entertainment and information. Although I'm not an OTR fan, I do have about 80 WWI erra cylindrical Edison records and a phonograph to play them. It's even more of a culture shock than radio.

My SH cruises between contacts are usually spent reading.
-Pv-

I've considered trying to play SH4 in "windowed mode" so as to do some other things instead of beating my time compression button madly. :)

i um un ur secund c0mp un ur inturnatz posting on ur furomz

i can haz mark 14s?

:rotfl: You need a funny picture of a cat to go with that post.

Back on topic, Radio mods are the bees knees:up:

I make my crew do push-ups for giving me the STINKEYE after repeat orders to halt all STINKEYE.

They keep giving me the STINKEYE.

They must really love doing push-ups.

Chuckleheads.

Last night after a successfull convoy busting mission I was DC'd for about 4 hours of real time (damnit) so I plugged in my portable DVD player and started watching some episodes of M*A*S*H to pass the time. Put the headphones on every once in a while and see if anyone is screaming.