SH3 and GW questions/musings........

[Karl-Heinz Jaeger]

Got sunk on my last patrol, which incidentally was my first career patrol using the Grey Wolves mod. I feel like such a wally but I headed into Scapa flow on intelligence from BdU(Sh3 Gen) that there was a Battleship and an Auxy cruiser at port there. I snuck in through the eastern entrance, having to all stop and bottom my boat several times due to roving patrols, got in close, upped the scope and.......nothing except a line of three Tribal DD's, and a lot closer to land a Troop Transport and Small Tanker. Nice enough targets in the open sea and would have been fair game otherwise, but not in Scapa Flow so I decided to egress safely out through the western exit and on to my patrol grid.


So there I am, holding steady at PD, at all stop when I decide to plot a course for my helmsman to follow. No sooner had I plotted the course than the game automatically orders ahead standard, thereby alerting the patrols to my presence. "We may have been detected, Herr Kaleun" comes the warning too late, so I immediately slow down to 2 knots and attempt to throw them off. No sooner have we straightened up on course than PING! PING!, and they have a sensor lock. Verdammt! Ahead flank, hard to port ,secure from silent routine I order. No use and before long our hydroman reports depth charges in the water. But wait, we catch a break. The extreme shallow water in Scapa Flow saves us from certain annihilation, and the depth charges settle harmlessly on the bottom having failed to reach the depth they have been set to explode. What a stroke of luck! So we were safe, for a while. We managed to get out into slightly deeper waters but had to come up for air eventually which is when the plane spotted us, called in his buddies who in turn ripped us open at a measly 30 meters. U-51 was forced to surface, having lost all her diesel and with many heavily flooded compartments straight into a POW camp for the rest of the war.


I had never encountered that before, the depth charges failing to explode in shallow waters and was wondering if this was modelled in the stock game or was this part of the awesome Grey wolves mod?? Another thing I noticed was that the water seems to be a lot choppier during the day than at night, despite the wind speed and direction remaining constant. Now in reality, during the day when the sun is shining and warming the sea, the particles of water move faster over each other and therefore there is more....."give" for want of a better word than at night. Again my question is does anyone know if this is part of the stock game or part of the GW mod? I've only noticed this since installing GW, and I was quite please when I worked out what was happening.