Wonderful patrol grid

[nightdagger]

Guess where BdU sent me to patrol? AM95. For those of you without a map handy, that's in the Irish sea, equidistant from the outlets. Seriously, once I got a coastal merchant, there were hourly air patrols, plus around 5 destroyers (I sunk 2) and Elco boats. I thought Donitz wanted the u-boats to survive.

[peterloo]

Yep. You can oppose its orders if u thinks that he had gone MAD

Your career won't END if you oppose Bdu orders in SH3. Opposing them will only decrease the renown you got in that particular patrol.

Also, you may use SH3 commander to change the patrol grid

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Originally Posted by peterloo

Yep. You can oppose its orders if u thinks that he had gone MAD

Your career won't END if you oppose Bdu orders in SH3. Opposing them will only decrease the renown you got in that particular patrol.

Also, you may use SH3 commander to change the patrol grid

Believe it or not (if you are playing using the GWX mod) your patrol grids are historically correct... even the ones in shallow water.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Kpt. Lehmann

Believe it or not (if you are playing using the GWX mod) your patrol grids are historically correct... even the ones in shallow water.

NO MAN.....SHALLOW WATERS=DEATH! I'M NOT GOING AND THAT IS FINAL!

[irish1958]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

NO MAN.....SHALLOW WATERS=DEATH! I'M NOT GOING AND THAT IS FINAL!

Attention: New Orders KptLt AVGWarhawk you are to report immediately to Rustov on the Don and lead a group of three commandos to Moscow to assassinate Comrad Stalin. Do not return unless you are successful. BDU (That will teach you to ******* with BDU!!)

[elite_hunter_sh3]

Originally Posted by irish1958

Attention: New Orders KptLt AVGWarhawk you are to report immediately to Rustov on the Don and lead a group of three commandos to Moscow to assassinate Comrad Stalin. Do not return unless you are successful. BDU (That will teach you to ******* with BDU!!)

LMFAO
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:: rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

that was priceless

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by irish1958

Attention: New Orders KptLt AVGWarhawk you are to report immediately to Rustov on the Don and lead a group of three commandos to Moscow to assassinate Comrad Stalin. Do not return unless you are successful. BDU (That will teach you to ******* with BDU!!)

Your equipment loadout for your mission is as follows:

One (1) Luger with two (2) bullets. One for Comrade Stalin, and one for yourself after your mission is accomplished. You really don't ******* with BdU

Best patrol grid = most any of the eastern AM grids you're assigned. The Irish channel is TEEMING with tonnage. Of course there's the small matter of DD and Elco patrols, not to mention the hourly plane patrols. But hey, nobody said war was easy!

Actually, I like the grids around the mouth of Gibraltar as well. If you stay far enough back from the straight itself, all you have to contend with is the planes. It's a nice bottleneck so you know you'll have a shot at anything that comes in or goes out.

[Letum]

Originally Posted by Kpt. Lehmann

Believe it or not (if you are playing using the GWX mod) your patrol grids are historically correct... even the ones in shallow water.

Not allways! I got send to a shallow water grid neer scapa flow. That would have been fine....but I was in a Type IXC
Bdu would never send a IX to coastal wayers like that in '42

[The Munster]

Originally Posted by nightdagger

Guess where BdU sent me to patrol? AM95. For those of you without a map handy, that's in the Irish sea, equidistant from the outlets. Seriously, once I got a coastal merchant, there were hourly air patrols, plus around 5 destroyers (I sunk 2) and Elco boats. I thought Donitz wanted the u-boats to survive.

nightdagger, you should kick off a 'the worst Grid I was assigned to and why' thread. Mine was at the Isle of Man [can't remember the number now as it was with GW] = horrible experience !

[Jimbuna]

Can't remember my grid number either...but it was in mainland Spain

[Hylander_1314]

Worst one, area around the Thames Estuary, in a IXC...........

Talk about being a sitting duck! I think the civilian population were firing potato guns at us too!

[Safe-Keeper]

Worst one here was off of Scottland. 500 metres from shore I spotted a horde of screaming men in kilts wielding longswords running into the water for my boat. I crash-dived and they went after me and almost managed to slice open my pressure hull.

They at last gave up on me when we had submerged all the way down to 300 metres.

Seriously, though, the worst one was the one that required me to go from La Spezia almost all the way to Gibraltar. Needless to say they took me down.

[Jimbuna]

Worst one here was off of Scottland. 500 metres from shore I spotted a horde of screaming men in kilts wielding longswords running into the water for my boat. I crash-dived and they went after me and almost managed to slice open my pressure hull.

They at last gave up on me when we had submerged all the way down to 300 metres.

:rotfl: :rotfl: PRICELESS:rotfl: :rotfl:

[Paajtor]

I'm playing from Bergen '42, and my 1st and 2nd patrol both send me to AJ-38, which is just S of Greenland. That's a long journey, for a typeVIIC, with not much room for side-quests.
So I used SH3Commander, to give me a - still historical - different grid, and I picked AE-63 That's halfway between Norway and Iceland. It covers the Murmansk-England route, but it's known for it's very unpredictable weather, and on top of that enemy task-forces are always around the corner.
And it's just within the reach of the Allied air-coverage.
Love it!

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Can't remember my grid number either...but it was in mainland Spain

Ahh, I remember this bug...just after SH3 was released, right?

[Jimbuna]

I'm not 100%...but I think it was something like CG38 or 62 :hmm: