The War Claims Another Kaleun
 

U-19.
Sixth War Patrol.
I had decided to do just one more patrol in the North Sea before upgrading to a bigger boat.
That's not gonna happen now.

I must have hit a mine, or collided with another ship, east of Heligoland.

As you can see, it killed 5 men and wrecked the whole front of the boat.

http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/3461/damaged.jpg

The repair team worked strenuously, but there was no way they were ever going to keep ahead of that amount of flooding.

So it's goodbye to Oberleutnant Vasili Zaitsev and the men of the U-19.
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/1584/career.jpg

Career highlights include a 'Golden Patrol'
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=167747

and surviving a night surface attack on a Southampton Class Cruiser
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...postcount=7756

Goodbye U-19. :salute:
http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/5...ixatsunset.jpg

A new career beckons. I have decided to go from one extreme to another.
Gimme the biggest boat you got.

Awwwww Hugs hunni! ((hugs))

all the best wiv yr new career - how did u get that printed career summary - is that from SH3 commander??

i've seen a few people use it - looks IMMENSE! :rock:

WHAT is the view from the membership about when a kaleun bites the dust - is one allowed a re-load or is that it, you :dead: then your career is over and you H.A.V.E. to re-start? :hmmm:
:up::down:

There is no general 'view' as such - everybody plays the way they want, which is as it should be.

Many of us do prefer DID (Dead Is Dead) careers, but there's no shame in reloading if you like what you're doing. Ever since SH1 I've always run multiple side-by-side careers, one from each command. If one dies or retires I start a replacement career from that month.

Oh yes. SH3 Commander. Don't leave port without it.
Whether you are running a modded game, or stock SH3, you seriously need this. It adds so much to the game, I couldn't imagine SH3 without it.

Steve - Can you actually SELECT this from within SH3?

many condolences to the family of your brave men:wah:

With GWX, yes. Any month of the war.

Chances are good it was a mine, as the British laid mines in those waters.

Stay well away from Helgoland!

I play dead is dead, myself. My goal is to make it through the entire war. So I always start over in 1939.

Steve

sincere condolences, sergei! :nope:

Hope you will fare better in the next one...

Whew!
That little thing realy racked up some tonnage!

Shame she couldn't have retired as a school boat.
Farvel U19.

I'm just the opposite. No real captain ever did that (everybody get's promoted sooner or later, either to a flotilla or training command) so I use Commander's 'Realistic Career Length' function. I guess I was spoiled by AOD and SH1, since they both did this.

But that's just me.:sunny:

I always start over in 1939 too!

My goal is to make it through 1939. :O: