Operation Cerber (GWX)

[Rose]

Oh... my... God...

This has to be one of the single most amazing things I have ever seen in SH3, and maybe even in any computer game. For those of you who don't know, Operation Cerber is a Single Mission in GWX. Basically, it pits the Scharnhorst, Gniesenau, and Prinz Eugen and their destroyer and Schnellboot escorts, versus a group of Brit destroyers. The player u-boat is in the middle (a bit closer to the Brit DDs), but I don't do any work, I just like watching the INTENSE action .

When I say intense, I mean intense. It really gives you a taste of GWX's new gun settings (I forget the name). The two groups are a couple kilometers apart when the fun begins, and all hell breaks loose. You see flashes on the horizen coming from the BBs, but no sound, almost like a surreal dream. All of a sudden there is a resounding BOOM BOOM CRASH BOOM, as the flurry of shells come raining down on the little British tin cans. The DDs fire back with all they have, and soon the sky is full of yellow shells zipping accross the sky, almost like little fire-flies. Plumes of water rise on all sides, and there is the occasional CRUNCH as a 16 inch shell gets acquainted with a Town destroyer.

I zoom out and all I can see are two sets of white lights flashing on the horizon, one from the Brits and the other from the Germans. I am too far away to hear anything; it almost looks as if they are just signalling each other in Morse code with giant flashlights. The occasional ball of orange light mixes in with the white lights of the firing guns.

And then I am awakened from this beauty by a CRASH TO DESKTOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!AAAARGHHHHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHH THIS GAME IS SO BUGGY AND I WANT TO HIT SOMETHING REALLY REALLY REALLY HARD!

So then I reload the mission and I begin to watch the exchange when ANOTHER CTD HAPPENS!!!

So, I am going to blame it on a buggy game, and reload for a THIRD time. If it happens again, I am going to start to ask for suggestions and help. I am using GWX and SH3 Cmdr 2.7. I rollback Cmdr after every play.

I suggest this wonderful mission to EVERYONE who has GWX -- to anyone who doesn't, I strongly recommend getting it! Kudos to whoever made the mission.

Cheers,
Rose