[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Angelo Cire

I've only played it so far as a sink-fest, and while it's awesome as that, I don't use a high realism setting because that seems to make it nearly impossible if you insist on attacking everyone.

That's cool. I play at higher realism levels because I've been playing one form of subsim or other for 26 years. After awhile you start looking for something different. Just keep playing the way that makes you happy.

I just wanted to know how others played the game so I could try out whatever sounds interesting. Like for instance, do people go hunting specifically for convoys or capital ships, track enemy subs, etc.

I go to my assigned grid and stay there, sometimes sinking a few ships, sometimes never seeing one for an entire patrol. If I get a report of a convoy nearby, or heading my way, I'll go after it, but for the most part I just take what comes along.

I haven't tried playing it as a true sub sim, mainly just because in '39 there aren't many allied ports to refuel at, and they keep sending me to the BF grid, departing out of Kiel.

BF is an easy journey if you don't travel faster than the second speed setting. In a type VII this should be about 7 knots, and leave you plenty of fuel for a round trip journey at that speed plus weeks of patrol time. While on patrol only cruise at the first speed setting (4 knots) unless you're chasing something.

I played the single mission of attacking the group of 3 battleships, and that was a blast, full realism and all, but that was vanilla, not GWX, and I heard that GWX improves the AI to specifically prevent subs from slipping past forward escorts undetected so easily. Which realism settings do you guys play SHIII with?

I keep the AI and physical realism settings (fuel, torpedoes, reload etc) on, but use the WE assistance because I'm too lazy to learn manual targeting. I also use external views because I like looking at all the pretty ships and the sights around the harbors.