Malfunction?
 

I have just started playing SH3 with GWX and something went badly wrong on my 1st patrol.

I was returning to Wilhelmshaven and when I was about 20km(?) away suddenly there was huge damage and my boat flooded and sank.

Was this likely to be a malfuntion or is there minefields I was unaware of?

There are minefields and sub nets guarding the entrance to Wilhelmshaven. There is a pulldown chart on the map page that shows the position of the minefields and nets for all the friendly harbors. Be careful, there are Allied minefields around Helgoland also.

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Ok that is good to know.

Thanks.

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It's been done once or twice before. :up:

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I played the stock game about a year or two ago but not for very long. It was only recently I reinstalled it with GWX and SH commander and I am impressed at how good it is. Anyway I have since lost another boat on the 1st patrol. There wasn't much happening so I decided it might be a good idea to have drill. I ordered the boat to dive and the boat ended up getting damaged very quickly and then destroyed before I could react. Is it normal for the boat to be crushed at such a shallow depth? It can't have been much more than 40m.

That depends on if the boat had received damage before or not. Were you in shallow water, in a mine field, near a sub net, bombed by an unseen enemy bomber, shelled from a shore installation. As you can see, it could have been any number of things that caused it. It is rare but, it can happen.

Did you order a crash dive in shallow water?

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Yes, some of those are indeed possible. I am sure it was my error as opposed to a defect in the boat.

I would very much appreciate if someone could clarify which ships I am not allowed to attack because I found all the messages that came through confusing when the war began.

I headed north through the Irish sea and managed to sink a couple of warships and a small coastal cargo vessel. I wasn't sure if I was supposed to attack the cargo ship but decided to sink it anyway.

So can I attack all British shipping other than passenger ships?

thanks.