i decided to take a day to relax and try the installation... even though i was sure i was in for many minutes of frustrations and errors before i could actually begin to relax...
boy, was i wrong... the install was easier than the download (i got it from the ftp site, one file at a time), and i embarked on a new career (the current one being lost to the install i think, but no mind, it was well worth it), departing a harbor with many ships either docked or moving about, as well as a few planes flying past overhead... there were even a few subs in the harbor... neat, ehh
but i was soon to find, that wasn't the best of it all... later i tried out a few single missions (never played much of em before), and after surviving a nasty encounted with a destroyer, i surfaced my type XXI and noticed that i had ineed taken some battle damage... the sail and mid deck hull were blacked with burn marks... cooool...
but it was not untill i tried out the Scapa Flow single mission that the depth of the work that went into this mod really start to really become absolutely apparent... i entered the southeastern approach at about 18:50 Grenwich, putting away at full speed on the surface, when i saw something that i couldn't quite make out... i ordered a starshell up (reckless i know), only to see a couple of sunken hulks dead ahead, immediately blocking my course...
all back emergency... hard left rudder i shouted (no really, i did yell this out
), and soon the sub came to a stop... i sat there a while looking around... this was sooooo coooool...
i navigated a course around and in between the sunken vessels, and continued through the narrow inlet, and then up towards the Flow... a few minutes later one of the lookouts picked up a visual on a surface ship... a small merchant... it looked like it was on the surface, helpless and sitting there asking to be sunk... so, i called the deck gun crew out, lofted another starshell, and proceeded to open fire on my first catch...
then suddenly i noticed another flare heading skyward... somone else was interested in seeing, i didn't fire those... then another starshell popped up... not wanting to be noticed, i signaled the dive and went down to periscope depth...
did the small ship radio someone... did the British lookouts on shore notice the fireworks i had so stupidly started... i duuno, but whichever, i realized that i was now being hunted...
... and after all, isn't that what it's all about
GREAT WORK GREY WOLVES TEAM... BIG THANKS TO ALL INVOLVED...
NOW THIS IS A REAL WWII SUB ADVENTURE
--Mike