New Install - Mod Recommendations
 

After a couple of years of being away I got the bug to play SHIII, last night so I spent a bit of time getting it all set up and running on my windows 7 machine.

At the moment I have a clean install, patched to 1.4 b and GWX 3.0 Gold installed and am about to set out on the training cruises because I hardly remember my way around the boat anymore.

My question is beyond what I have installed, what "must have" mods would you recommend? (FYI - using a scale of Easy = 1 Complete Realism =5, I will probably be steering my install towards a 3 difficulty level)

Thanks very much

Steve

That's a bit more specific than I care to get, seeing how different people's ideas on "realistic" can get. Also people's ideas on "must haves" can vary quite a bit as well.

Instead I will just refer you to this thread, and perhaps you can choose what you think will work best for you.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=170090

The only real "must haves" are JSGME, which lets you take mods back out if you don't like them, and SH3 Commander, which does for your career what GWX does for your game.

Thanks very much, I had forgotten about the mod enabler and will definitely pick up commander.

As to my question about must haves I fully appreciate the subjectivity of it. There is simply so much available to try I don't know where to even begin. I'm completely up for opinions, there are no wrong answers.

GWX 3.0
GWX 3 Wil, St Naz and Schluese and other units - Bigboywooly
Community Units
Das Boot Officers - AIL
Small Moon - AIL
Das Boot Sound Mod SH3
DBSM SH3 Speech Fix
Ultimate Aircraft Sounds
Spirit of Machines - Einbecker
Torpedo Fire (German) v1.02 - Ktl_KUrtz
No Rank Or Medals On Crew - Dertien
Remove GWX Compass - ichso
Simfeeling 6-Dials Mod - FLB_ U-999
Brown-Grey Nav Map
Assisted Plotting Mod
English-To-German Names - Phoenix3000
Historically Accurate U-Boat Emblems - Conus
Halo Not Visible Through Body - Anvart
New Compass Graphics U-505 - Hitman
Port People - Pascal
My Favorite Uniforms - New Uniforms and Das Boot Clothes
Realistic Blueprint Damage Screens - Pascal
Remove Station Labels
SH3 Color Icons - Capt. Teach
Waterstream+Exhaust Kombimod v2.3 - Rubini/Racerboy/h.sie
Modified Searchlight Beams - OLC
U-Boat Bases Map with New St. Nazaire - meduza
Lifeboats & Debris v4 - Rubini/Privateer
Open Hatch v3.09 - Diving Duck
Open Hatch Conning Deck Cam Fix - Diving Duck
Conning Tower Open Hatch - Lucagaeta
Open Hatch for Type II - postalbyke
SH4 Maptools for SH3 - Racerboy (aka TheDarkWraith)
Head 04 Fix - Anvart
SH3 Officer Faces
Aces' Modified Headphones
Alex Do-24
Aces' Crew On Deck Stand Alone GWX
Aces' Radio Room Postcards
A to I class Destroyers
J to Z class Destroyers
SH5 Water for GWX 0.9 20 Km -
TMTv2+ThomsensShips v4.4 for GWX3+Xtra ships
GWX DFa Flags and Pennants 2010 - Anvart
FM30_UpDown - Anvart
FM New Interior - FlakMonkey
FM NI Fix for FM30 UpDown - FlakMonkey
Clearsky Clouds - Rubini
Aces Multimod Compatability Fix v1.3 release - Aces
SH4 Effects for SH3 - Racerboy/TheDarkWraith
Torpedo Damage Final -
Tuddley's Barracks Screen
h.sie's Colored Hull Integrity Indicator
Ricks GWX Rec Manual Final
Aces' St. Nazair Super Pens v5.1 GWX
Wooden_Lifeboats_Mod-1.1 - Iambecomelife
Decks Awash + Fuel Economy - Wreford-Brown
Extras for Wilhelmshaven Campaign - Wreford-Brown
Type IIa Tuneup Dark
VIIB Early War Skin -
New Freecam Mod - Asanovic7
No Continuous 'Ship Spotted'
Seabed Repair Mod
Searchlights Removed -
Sober's 3D Waves - Sober
Type IIa Flags & Pennants - Anvart
Type VIIa Features - Wreford-Brown
Type IIb AI Camo - Sean (changed to IIA)
Cameras
Commands_en
Dials
EngNames.cfg

Tools
SH3 Commander - JScones
SH3 Weather - Sqweetis
SH3 Contacts - Nicolás

Plus my own set of saved cfg files, just to make it easy.

I,as with everyone else here, have lots of mods for various reasons but 2 I would not be without are
1. Hitmans optics..have not found anything I like better
2. Das boot music (which adds the movie music to each scenario..as in the chase when about to track and attack a target..class mod)

Also really like
SeaWolf U-57 Blue Water Green Underwater



Others I have in the game are:

GWX - Integrated Orders
GWX - Open Hatch Mod
GWX - Contact Color
Sliding Stations Panel
Umark
WB's Mission Orders v1.2
GWX - Main movie - 'Das Boot'
Radio Deutschland
WB's Mid-Patrol Radio Orders GWX (SH3 Cmdr) v1.0
LifeBoats&Debris_v4
pascal_damageScreen
Dasboot improve Officer icons by Dimitrius07
Authentic_Off_Faces #2
DAS BOOT Music
GWX3.0 All_Weather_Guns
Konvoymap_v1
SeaWolf U-57 Screens
SeaWolf Integrated Orders Toolbars
SeaWolf S.Cut Bar
SeaWolf Map Tools
Hitman Optics for GWX3 v.1
SeaWolf U-57 Blue Water Green Underwater 10Km V1
U-Boat Navigation Map Package