SH3 Tonnage Kings
 

Just out of curiosity I was wondering what everybody's best career has been in total tonnage sunk ??.

I'm probably a long way off some of you hardcore guys but I've been playing the game steadily since 2005 and never been able to rack up the tonnage I used to get in good old aces of the deep. I got a few careers over a million tons in aces but the best I have got with SH3 is about 476000 tons not including warships which was a career over 16 patrols from Aug39-Feb43.

I guess it depends on the realism you play the game as if its lower I guess your tonnage will be higher speaking for myself I always play at 84%, I still prefer the external view makes the game for fun plus the AI torpedo calculations which is cheating a bit but I also follow the rules of war no sinking neutrals ect..

Anyway just curious, id like to know if anybody has sunk a million at 100% realism ?

Cheers
Eastwa

Many years ago a thread similar to this was one of the reasons I left the Ubisoft forums. I'm older and calmer now. It was called something like 'The Million-Tonner's Club".

Part of the problem is that anyone can rack up huge scores by playing the stock game at the easiest level. I joked back then that playing Sid Meier's Pirates I turned the entire Spanish Main into the English Main - on Level 3. On Level 4 I couldn't survive the first week. :dead:

Even with a good realism mod you can set the game to the easy levels and gather tonnages that make the best real kaleuns look like rank amateurs. That is fun for some. For me it's a waste of time. I don't use manual targeting and my best single-patrol tonnage score is still about 25,000, and that was exceptional. I usually consider myself lucky if I get half that in a patrol. Of course I also play in a manner that gives me the occasional empty patrol - 0 tons. :sunny:

Don't worry I have a had more than a few patrols with the big bagle as well.

I was just interested to see how everybody else goes with SH3 tonnage wise, as I said before just curious especially with the Aces vs SH3 comparison.

Cheers
Eastwa

...ditto:sunny:

Last night I almost had a battleship in my sight! I got a sound contact northwest of Scapa Flow in my little Type IIA; weather was awful, poor visibility, light rain and choppy seas. I was heading north and I heard it move at medium speed, maybe 10-12 knots at about 150 degrees. Surfaced and headed flank speed south to intercept and then dove after 25 minutes, now it was moving away from me with a destroyer escort.

I think it was a bogue escort carrier group patrolling the coastline, damn shame I couldnt keep up with it in the weather, it's early 1940 so no chance of radar, i was ready to make a dash into her path and fire a salvo but i couldnt even see her shadow

I believe the thread was about your highest scores, not your frustrations over the one that got away.