Any way to begin a mission in open ocean, instead of way upstream?
 

Honest, I searched as well as I could before asking, but when I set up my searches, I seem to get either zero hits or about 6 million......
Some of the home ports are wa-a-a-a-a-y up a convoluted narrow passage, and regardless of how many deck watch crew or speed or anything else I can think of, I can't use time compression to get out to sea much faster than just leaving TC=1.
I've tried 4 or five of the ways out of Bergen, and each time, it takes some considerable distance at lawn-chair-and-cigar-with-sunglasses speed to get to where I can open 'er up. Not that many enemy aircraft seem to make incursions into our bases, and damn few battleships try sneaking up the inlets.....
So is there a way I can begin a patrol (in a career) having already gotten out into open sea? As it is, the first thing I do once I make open water is to do a "save game" at that point, naming it "omw AN12" (whatever my patrol zone is) so I have a place to go back to if I get dead soon after I pull away from the coast.
Lorient (or St. Nazaire?) or one of the other French coast bases is nearly as bad. I should probably not be so impatient to take on ships with my faulty torpedoes and crew who can't pull a gun trigger if it's raining outside <sniffle!>
Thanks,
-- Zygoma --
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May the number of your submarine's surface operations exceed your dives by exactly one at the end of your career.

with SH3 commander you have the option to start at sea. Also there is an all weather guns mod which I like to use but not when its very unrealistic to do so.

Andwii,
I've been putting off wiping and re-installing Windoze XP Pro (32) on my "real" machine long enough, until I could make sure I'd properly saved all my SH3 and Eve logs and data. Because of the problems I'd been having, I haven't put in any of the enhancements for SH3 yet except for the 1.4-DVD update.
Time to bite the bullet....err, warhead.....I s'pose, and avail myself of some of the cool add-ons that seemingly everyone else is using.
I'll be interested to see if I can run GWX under one directory, and some of the other acronym-laden versions separately so I can try out different versions.
Good to know there *is* a way to do what I want -- thanks very much for the quick response.
Cheers,
-- Zygoma --
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May all your submarine's surface operations exceed your dives by exactly one at the end of your career.

Sorta like I learned in ground school for private pilot: "Take-offs are optional; landings are mandatory."

MultiSH3 will let you run several installations of the game separately from each other, so you can try all the supermods.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=1869