I have absolutely failed.
 

First GWX career. 2nd patrol. U-51.

I sank over 10K tons of shipping.

Patrolled AN52 for 24 hours.

Returned to entrance of Kiel Canal.

RAN AGROUND ON SEPT. 2, 1939.

Career over.
:nope:

That is why I still go around the long way via the Skagerrak. I won't risk the canal. Heard too many stories similar to yours.

I agree, I never take the Canal for the same reason. The added benefit to taking the long route is there is usually something to shoot at in GRID AN and AM :salute:

I hit the edge of the canal while in Time Compression. Ruined my day. I'll just cheat and load an earlier save

I just warp back when I get to the start point. Saves the trouble.

I always take the Canal. Plot my own waypoints. Take my time. Enjoy the sights. Never a problem. Unlike real life time compression makes the long way easier and faster. In real life the Canal was built to save time and fuel. That's the way I play it.

I also stay in my assigned grid the entire patrol. The '24' hours thing is a game mechanism left over from the way they originallly planned it. Most unrealistic.

I do the same. However, if there's a contact report really close to the grid I'm in, I'll send a status report to BDU, and wait for their reply before exiting. I like to pretend that they're giving me temporary clearance. I won't go farther than 20 km or so from the assigned grid.

I find I am "pretending" a lot with this game. I think this is a sign of insanity. :haha:

More on topic, I just loaded up SH on my home computer (I have this crappy laptop when I'm at college) and installed GWX. Loading up Kiel was amazing. There are so many sights, sounds, and life that just blew me away. I can't even load stock Kiel on my laptop :nope: Long story short, I sailed out of there at ahead-slow sans time compression, just taking in the new environment.

Yeah, I must be insane. :har:

Yes. I think you are a bit crazy.

I "pretend" too. You can have infinite fun doing that with the subsims.

Kiel in GWX is awesome. I like the Kiel Canal. I ran into my first minefield on my first patrol. Out near Dover. I lived to run aground. :shifty:

Time Compression is a must for me. I couldn't ever complete a patrol even from Bergen to AF87 without time compression.

I didn't mean to say I won't leave the grid for something like that. If I get a contact I can reasonably reach, of course I'll go after it. Also if I go a whole week with no sightings I pretend to send a request in for a change of grid, and then roll a six-sided die. On a '1' I got reassigned, and then roll for direction and distance in grids. After two weeks I get a change on a '1' or '2'. As it happens I once reassigned myself to an even worse grid...:dead:

I've never claimed to be sane, so you're in good (or bad) company.

Believe it or not, some others are even better, at least in that regard. LSH3 and WAC both have the real bridges over the canal.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...ostcount=10299
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...ostcount=10316

Still, GWX has the best balance between cool things to see and great gameplay.

:hmmm: Have those in my GWX install :rotfl2:

I have never used the canal. Never thought a IX would make it through...

The Bismark makes it thru on a couple of occasions.
Have taken my IX that way many a time.
The pre plotted patterns make that simple

The preplotted course is what ran me aground.

I know, but unlike you I'm not a tease. :O:

That's why I never use it.

That, and I like to do my own plotting.