GWX - What's Your Best Career So Far?

[Mowinz]

Hi Folks!
this one
I started on October 1939 so I could use an IXB. Heading out to sea on my 4th patrol I collided with a jetty getting out of dock because my crew was drunk. Repairs are done and I'm in the middle of my 5th patrol tthus far.

I unchecked realistic career length in SH3 Comm. and I'm trying to go the distance with this career. DiD of course. Right now it's summer of 1940 and I know it's going to get tougher.

What's been your best so far?

It would be cool to make all the way through '45 but I know this is unlikely...but I feel confident! Especially now that the crew is sober again.

Any long distance runners out there make it all the way?

Cheers

[Penelope_Grey]

Well my brother managed to go coast to coast on the first Grey Wolves... I managed as far as 1942 in Base game.... Thus far... on GWX 1.03 I have reached mid 1941... most of my other careers have ended round about early 1941 as I just was too sloppy, but I think I learnt my lesson there.

[papa_smurf]

On stock SH3 my best career is from sep 39 to aug 42, never got any further as it got TOO tough - too much air/naval cover

I have noticed the longer a carrer is, I tend to get more sloppy and take more risk. Anyone esle noticed this?

[CapZap1970]

I made it to 1942, then got misserably sunk...
CapZap

[Thniper]

I think the career length mainly depends on ...

1. your luck!!! (you won't survive if you're not lucky with air attacks)
2. the realism setting you use for the game
3. your general experience with sub sims
4. your mental and physical state (a drunk kaleun will never live long, except for Brag, maybe )

Well, I wasn't lucky enough so far. I always get killed by aircraft.
My longest career lasted till the end of 1941, where I was attacked by an aircraft and torn to pieces.
The really bad thing was that I was already returning to home port (less than 30 km to go).

Thniper

[Schöneboom]

My best career is the only one I'm running at present! 2. Flottille, from Sept. '39. I'm on my 3rd patrol right now (Holiday season -- I'm giving the Tommies a break on Christmas). Total tonnage puts me in the #1 spot. But Prien still gets all the attention because of his Scapa stunt! Bah!

[GoldenRivet]

I have survived the stock campaign with great ease many times, but GWX... so far my best on 100% realism was:

1st Flotilla
U-90

Kaptlt. Jon Wintergarten

Awards:
Knights cross with Golden Oak Leaves Swords and Diamonds
German Cross
Iron cross, first class
Iron cross, Second class
U-Boat war badge
U-boat front clasp

Span of career:
September 1, 1939 - October 14, 1943

Fate:
After evading nearly three hours of depth charge and hedge hog attacks the boat was damaged too seriously and the crew scuttled the U-boat in grid CG72.

Sinkings:
86 merchants and 23 warships, including the U.S.S. Prince William for a career total of 728,968 tons. U-90 also claimed one aircraft shot down.

[Brag]

My present career, GWX 74% realism (I keep map updates, weapons officer and outside view for screenies) I play DID --So far, 17 patrols. Started Sept 39 it is now May 1942.

Got severely mauled on three patrols. The odds of making it to the end are slim.

[Swat]

My best carrer is in progress right now.I've played the stock game and made it somewhere to November 41,then I reinstalled the system and thought I'll start the new one,but due to the lack of time - did not.App.year later in the winter (that's what I say - SH is an ideal winter season game) I've installed SH3 again and discovered spectacular GWX.....and I have more time as well.So now I'm in November 1940 on my 7th patrol,which is my first patrol from Lorient,which I was transfered from Wilhelmshaven by BDU to.

U-107
I don`t remember the exact details, but i made 4 patrols
11 ships sunk for total of 48.130 ton. 1 warship damage for a total of 25.000 ton

Sunk aprox 450 km from vigo by the depth chargers from 3 British destroyers

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

im somwhere in june 1941
still doing surfaced DG attacks on convoys. i only dive for the big BB's

Kapitänleutenant KJM (Kaleun Jochen Mohr)

Beförderungen:
25DEZ35 SEEKADETT
01DEZ36 FÄHNRICH Z. S.
01MAI38 OBERFÄHNRICH Z. S.
01OKT38 LEUTNANT Z. S.
04JUN40 OBERLEUTNANT Z. S.
10AUG40 KAPITÄNLEUTNANT

Medaillen:
16JUN40 EISERNES KREUZ ZWEITER KLASSE
26JUN40 EISERNES KREUZ ERSTER KLASSE
10AUG40 RITTERKREUZ
21SEP40 RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB
11OKT40 RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB UND SCHWERTERN
11OKT40 RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB, SCHWERTERN UND BRILLANTEN
01DEZ40 RITTERKREUZ MIT GOLDENEM EICHENLAUB, SCHWERTERN UND BRILLANTEN

Versetzungen:
10APR39 U-Boot Flottille Weddigen (Kommandantenausbildung)
02JUN40 1. U-Flottille (6 feindfahrten)
08AUG40 2. U-Flottille (3 feindfahrten)
26FEB41 7./13. U-Flottille (10 feindfahrten)

18 feindfahrten (89 tage)
554 (365/189) 2261408 (1789681/471727)
10 abgeschossene flugzeuge
122 besatzungsverluste

[WolfOfCampscapel]

554 ships?!? 30 per patrol?

Yikes

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

Originally Posted by WolfOfCampscapel

554 ships?!? 30 per patrol?

Yikes

1 patrol even 74
if you want il upload my SH3commander loggs

[Reverie]

Best patrol was in a Type II during the end of '40 in the North Sea: one small merchant sunk, one airplane shot down, 15% hull integrity after being mauled by a destroyer, three wounded crewmen, one dead officer, but we brought the boat back home to Kiel...through the canal. I think SH3Commander retired me after that.
Reverie

[Canovaro]

best career in stock 100%: oktober 1939 till mid 1943.

best career in gwx 100%: ended in february 1943 after 14 patrols, can't remember when it started, but it wasn't in 1939.
After attacking and leaving a convoy I got too deep (220) at 1 kts and I couldn't get up without making noise. When I desperately tried to raise, I alarmed a dd. It was a awful dilemma and I hesitated too much in getting above the maximum diving depth.
-crush-



I've only got 4 careers so far. I play sh3 for half a year now.