On patrol again after a long shore leave
 

I've been on SH3 hiatus since November. With the combination of retiring a long-running career, getting a new job in the real world, and recieving Rome Total War for Christmas (appearantly I'm a sucker for work-in-progress games), I haven't been on patrol for a while.

While fighting my way through the forests of Germania I realized that I really missed being out at sea. I was enjoying RTW, but it didn't engross me the way SH3 did. I missed the cat-and-mouse, hunter-into-hunted. I wanted SH3's smaller focus, with the almost role-playing like aspects of getting to know and develop the crew. In RTW I never worried about throwing thousands of troops into a potentially suicidal fight; in SH3 I feel concern for my sailors' well-being, and feel like I'm taking real risks when I attack a heavily defended convoy.

So I put out to sea again, in a brand new IXC. It's now Operation Drumbeat, and I'm off Nova Scotia having just sunk a pair of tramp steamers. Happy times! :up:

:up: Good hunting. I am off to Operation Drumbeat myself after upgrading from a IXB to a IXC.

Welcome back Alan :up:

I hope you're here to stay up to SHIV :rock:

At Christmans I bought a present for myself. I was Civilization IV, my favourite series. I have not yet opened it....

Welcome back..........I have been between patrols playing RTW Barbarian Invasion.

I've had a few months of my life stolen by RTW. Moved on to SH3 now, that is until MTW2 comes out later.

You care about your crew? :doh: What´s the point? They never get wounded/die, either all survive or all die. :yep:

But seriously, the crew members should get wounded more often.

Good to have you back, Herr Kaleun! Good hunting! :up: