Player Medals
 

Hi

I'm new to subsim games and I thought I'd start off with a vanilla playthrough of a Silent Hunter 3 career, before either trying the GWX mod or UBOAT.

I've been doing pretty well and I managed to win the Iron Cross first and second class, and the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds.

Then I appeared to hit a wall because even though I'm sinking loads more tonnage than I did at the beginning of my career, the last three medals in the tray are yet to be awarded.


So I wondered... Are these medals just related to amount of tonnage sank or is there a particular milestone you have to reach or other criteria that needs to be met to be awarded the remaining three medals?

Also, in the historic mission mode I met the first mission objective, avoided being sank by the destroyers, and managed to return to a friendly base, but when I pressed escape the only option available was to abandon mission? And in the mission select screen there is no indication that I have completed that mission (I thought it might show a tick or something?) Is that right?

Cheers,

Ollie

Welcome aboard!
 

ollyfitz!:Kaleun_Salute:

Not sure why you were not able to end the mission normally. But for medals, tonnage is by far the most important criteria. You will get a small bonus for arriving at the designated patrol area, but the most important thing is to sink ships - preferably valuable ones. You can check data/cfg/basic.cfg to see how many points are needed for the different medals.