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Originally Posted by Pappy55

Just wondering how we all got into Sub Sims?

My Interest is because of my farther a WWII Veteran. He served on HMS Inconstant (Destroyer)

I was always interested in history, and military history. (I didn't realize the latter went back as far as it did, until I found some reports I had written for school when I was very young. Things like "Major Battles of WWII" and "Military Conquests of the Roman Empire" so I guess it was always there. )

My dad was also a WWII vet altho he served in the Army (ETO) so it was not the naval side of things I heard the most about growing up. But I'm sure that fueled my interest in military history in general and WWII in particular. Or maybe I just liked the stories because they 'clicked' with something in me that was still coming into fruition.

I was his little miracle as in only 28, I’m actually honoured to have a farther who served in combat in WWII.

Well, you got me beat. I'm almost 20 years older than you and I thought *I* was a miracle baby, lol.

Saddest part is my dad is now in a care home with Dementia and dosent really know me anymore.

That is rough. We are going through the same thing with my mother now, in the last six weeks she has gone from hospital to nursing home to the hospital again. We thought something was 'off' for the last couple of years but sadly she had pretty much pushed my sister and I out of her life long before the illness set in, and the people who were around her every day insisted there was no problem and she refused to go to a doctor for anything else that came up. So it wasn't until she fell and ended up in the ER that the dementia was diagnosed.

Originally Posted by krashkart

I got into sub games because I like sneaking around and blowing things up. Submarine games are perfect for that... until I get caught.

I think that's part of the reason I like them too, the only other game I ever played with any regularity was Wolverine's Revenge and my favorite part was the "stealth" level where you had to sneak up behind, like, ten different guards and cut their throats before anyone knew you were there. I used to just play that bit over and over again.

It's entirely possible that I have, uh, issues. Or something.

Anyway, I got into WWII naval history and then SH3 because I saw Das Boot and fell in love with it and became fascinated by u-boats and the Battle of the Atlantic, which fit nicely into my existing interests. It took me a while to get SH3 even after I knew it existed, but then eventually I couldn't resist especially when I saw that it was an older game and therefore relatively cheap and something I could run without major hardware upgrades.

I've said before that another reason I think the game appeals to me is that it has a nice mix of the things I like from 1) first person shooter games and 2) strategy games, but not so much of either that I get bored/frustrated the way I usually do with those other genres.

I like the combat elements of FPS, but doing nothing but running around shooting off weapons at a constant stream of enemies (especially when it involves repeating the same basic scenarios over and over again) gets really boring after a while.

And I like elements of strategy/tactics or whatever you want to call it, but... I don't want to command a whole army, or oversee an entire campaign, or build an empire. That's too much like work, lol.

SH3 gives me a little of both - I have command of my boat, but I'm not running the whole German naval campaign. I get to hunt down and shoot at enemies, but it usually involves giving serious thought to how best to go about it. And it's not like going back and starting a new career in 1939 means I'm just repeating the same predictable 'Level 1' scenario all over again.