GWX3 8/39-5/45 100%, completed whole war!!!
 

I did it, I finally did it.
Since GW first came out, the real SH3 as far as I am concerned, I have managed to complete 2 1943 begun careers one in GWX2 and one in GWX3gold. I had only once started a beginning of war career that got me into 1944 and being over confident I tore into a convoy in September 1944 and died on mission 34.
I did 1943 careers a lot because I could get there from the beginning but not much further so needed to learn the end better hence many 43 lives.

This time, I found the secret. be a girly man, a wuz a puz a well, actually the secret was not attacking convoys after may 1943.
I also switched from my usual TypeVIIC at the end of 1941 to a TypeIXC because I had done a major Pauchenschlag edit of the RND and SCR mis files and wanted to get the real feel for it having just read the book Operation Drumbeat.
My big edit made me feel like I was living that book and I decided when 1943 came along I would not switch back to the 7c but patrol the south Atlantic and even into the Indian Ocean but with the less maneuverable and more vulnerable to DC attack 9C I only attacked convoys with long range out side the screen attacks.

I fought it out on the surface against armed merchant ship against my better judgment and lost my prime watch officer and 3 other men.
My war total was less than my one million plus in the 9/39-9/44 career with this career at 686,116 tons including 119 merchant ships 7DD types and one battleship for 127 ships sunk.

As we near SH5 had I not completed a total war career (I have played 100% for 4 years now) I would have been disappointed had I not done so at least this once.

Still, almost like in real life, you survive but there is no fanfare, no victory slaute just it is over.

If I get this far again I will transfer to Bergen so I can finally get a XXI.
I was at Trondheim so it was not available there, darn

Wulfmann

congrats!

I'm going for broke in my current campaign, in a type IXB from the start of the war. Doing pretty well so far in December 1939

Congratulations, thats no small feat.

Throw your chest out and hold your head high! That's great, Wulfmann. Well done. :salute: I've been at this damn game (GAME!!??) just about the same length of time as yourself and have never made it past early 1944 - you have my admiration sir! (Same to anyone else who's made it to war's end!)

Congratulations Kaleun http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...s/thumbsup.gif

Reaching wars end alive in GWX3.0 especially is quite an acheivement http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...ies/pirate.gif

Wulfmann, I salute you :salute:
I have never had your good fortune.
Sooner or later my luck runs out:arrgh!:

Congratulations!

Well done!

I had some very close calls that in career's past ended them but no matter how well you play this bad luck can and often does intervene.

One area that has doomed me in the past is getting radar warnings and watching to see how often they are reported as a means of determining distance.
This being with rainy weather!!
In this career I was caught by a Frigate who was literally on my 180.
Normally I dive and normally I die.
However, because i have died so often I cranked it up to emergency and since he was kind enough to be exactly on my 180 I got the biggest career saving break by taking him out with a , well not a down the throat shot so must be an out the butt shot:rotfl2:

In truth what made the difference is the extended visual range. before that frigate would have been under 300 meters before I would have known it and could not fire at that close a range.

Another time I was caught on the surface by two big bombers and my engines would not start. I had them on emergency but just sat there. Severe damage caused my boat to dive or I would have been done for and I was able to reverse the plunge at 200 meters with enough damage control.

I had over 28K renown saved up for a XXI but never used it as one has to be based at Bergen to buy one.
Oh well, maybe I will start a 1944 career and change the price from 20K to 500 and see what they are like

Only someone that plats GWX3Gold at 100% (No eye of God either) would understand why posting this at all means something.

Wulfmann

:salute:

Congratahoochies, Wulfman :D:salute::D:salute:

It's mid 1941 for me and I play at around 71% or so
While I sip on Stiegl made in Austira I salute you!

Basically I have external view, 'auction veiw" and help in torp calucations.

goodspeed.
I've upgraded to type VIIC

Man the rails. Attention to port. S A L U T E ! ! !
Well done. Outstanding job.
The furthest I ever got was December 1944 in a IXB.
Crash dived for aircraft in AM52. Then a bunch of DDs showed up.
After a couple of hours, of not being able to shake them, I decided to go deeper.
At 182 meters, pop went the uboat.

You'll get that XXI, Wulfmann. You've earned it !

Good job!:sunny:

I doubt that I will ever go from the beginning to the end of the war - partly because I keep starting over every time a new mod comes out that changes the look of the harbors, but mainly because I use SH3Cdr's 'Realistic Career Length' function, which forces retirement after a year or two at sea.

Same here - reinstall with the layest update and start all over again from fresh.
I don't expect another GWX mod and I am happy with my mods so I can sit back and sail into oblivion and might even reach 45.
If SHV does not rock my boat I've always got SH3 to fall back on:hmmm:

One hell of an achievment:salute::salute::salute: Savour the moment:yeah::03: