Hi, I just acquired Silent Hunter 3 recently...I was looking for something on the lines of "Aces of the Deep" and boy, I'm glad I wasn't disappointed. Good to see that there's such an active community supporting this great game, esp. the GreyWolves mod, I love that one.
Now, it is time for me to brag (of course i'm the braggart n00b, so sue me) :
Patrol 1 : Uneventful (just like my first one in Aces of the Deep) , didn't sink a ship, and almost accidently torpedoed a neutral norwegian (thank god it missed
)
(next one is sorta big , pardon me, im sure u've had better exploits than this one, esp. one of u kaleuns who saved the bismarck...nice story)
Patrol 2 : Assigned a patrol area right next to Scapa Flow. Decided to prove Gunther prien wasn't the only big fish. I attempted to sneak in at night, detected by a destroyer (of course I was surfaced, wat kind of nutcase would do that
). Quickly dove to periscope depth, torpedoed him, but he survived
.
Now, I came to my senses and went in submerged towards scapa flow, I picked up a C2 Merchant on the way (luckily only one torp to kill him). Now, comes the interesting part... although on my nav map, there was a region that appeared to be watery...and I was TC'ing my way to glory all the while....I noticed my sub had come to a standstill
. Then , I looked at the external view, and I found a wrecked german ship blockin the way
. Strangely, my Type II-A didn't take any damage (is this a bug gentlemen/ladies? ).
Usin the external view, I manually steered my way out of the mess, and I found a berthed tribal destroyer (i was looking for a King George actually). Torpedoed him, and he refused to sink, cause the sea level was too low (oh well, atleast my NA reported she's going down
). That was my last torp, and I decided to go back the way I had come.
Patrol 3 : (Since patrol 2 bored you, i shall keep this short)
1 tramp trawler, 1 Large cargo and 1 large merchant. Again, the large cargo refused to sink, cause the sea lvl was sort of low ( I was somewhere off dover , and he took 3 of my torpedoes
) . Got lucky with the large merchant though, direct hit on the bow and he went up in a series of explosions
(But I thought the spot under the engine was the weak one? Pls clarify this for me ppl)
Anyway, 17000 tonnage in that patrol (not bad for a type II-A I guess
) . Went back via the Kiel Canal (I don't know if this route was introduced by the Grey wolves mod , if so, thank you).
Well, it's been an interesting 1939 so far, and I look forward to your expert advice, so I can single handedly do a Pearl Harbour using a sub :rotfl:.
P.S : I noticed that the type II sub is true to its name (i.e a coastal sub), cos it didn't go too far on my first patrol when i was at "Ahead Standard" speed (or watever u call it, middle position of the telegraph). I managed to stretch the range by goin at Ahead 3rd in Patrol 2 (but the trip was booooring, even with TC). So, pls tell me, wat should be the optimum cruisin speed for such a tiny evil sub?