Last Mission, Last Thread, Last Time Playing SH3

[predavolk]

Well, it's gotten to that time. SH3 was supposed to be a quick and simple little diversion that I finally picked up last spring. I like sub sims, but I'm not an addict. However, this game (especially with GWX) surprised me and has kept me playing since March. Since then, it's eaten up a LOT of my free time. In WinXP, it's my top icon (meaning most time). But the time has come for me to put it aside. Briefly, it has become somewhat repetitive, and is only challenging if I impose crippling limits on myself.

I'll post the full details in my 100K thread, but in a nutshell, I just returned to port on Dec 31, 1944 with a 63K ton patrol. My goal was to break 2,000,000 tons in my career, and I'm at 1,999,955 tons!! Ironically, I let a coastal tanker go by unmolested on Christmas Day, 1944. But having gotten back to base, I have time for at least one more big mission. What's more, I have 4,000 renown and 6 homing torps. So I can buy at least 4 more homing torps- maybe more - for a total of 10+ homing torps!

This means I can go out with a real BANG!!! I plan on taking on either a large convoy or a large escort group. One thing I haven't done in my career is sunk a battleship or carrier, so the latter is a real possibility. Given the end of the war in March, I MIGHT have time for two quick missions.

SO, I AM LOOKING FOR SUGGESTIONS (AROUND UK) FOR GOING OUT WITH A BANG. Heck, I'm even thinking of raiding Scapa again! Let's make this last one memorable, eh?

In the meantime, I want to thank everyone for all of your hints, tips, and general encouragement. This is a great community. From Jimbuna's first welcoming advice to the last post to my 100K thread, I've really enjoyed it. I would love to stay and post, and might come back some time, but I really have too many other things on my spare-time to-do-list to keep giving this side-hobby more time. I generally hate dramatic good-bye posts, but I just wanted to let all the regulars here now that I really appreciated their contributions. And of course, a HUGE thanks to the forum host!

So, with that said, it's time to get out there at least one more time and BE AGGRESSIVE!!!

[Task Force]

Best way to go out with a bang! hit a mine.:rotfl: I still got 5 more years of war to go.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Task Force

Best way to go out with a bang! hit a mine.:rotfl: I still got 5 more years of war to go.

Just what I was thinking. Find a task force with a couple of battleships, surface and challenge them to a gun duel. Go out with a bang for sure.

[Task Force]

Fight planes on the surface.:hmm: surface raid a harbor.

[Patboot]

Nuclear torpedoes.

[floundericiousWA]

See if you can battle your way into Portland or Scapa Flow in 1943 and yank the hairs out of their noses ;-)

[Jimbuna]

Kind words mate....and very much appreciated

Lie off the entrance to the Bristol Channel and catch a Med convoy (they often have a BB in their midst).....or you could always play the ace and try the GWX2.1 spysat mod

Either way....you take care and I hope to cross your course again in the not too distant future.

Spectemur Agendo

[Kipparikalle]

Best way to go with a bang:


Do not waste torpedoes, go under an ammunination ship, launch a torpedo but keep the torpedotube closed so it wont go.


Detonate

[Task Force]

Sink a frendly ship in the middle of a frendly harbor. You should have 9+ guns fireing at ya.

[predavolk]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Lie off the entrance to the Bristol Channel and catch a Med convoy (they often have a BB in their midst

I seem to have been misunderstood. I'm not looking to literally go out in an explosion, I want to do some massive damage to the ENEMY. So something like jimbuna's suggestion (helpful to the end, eh jimbuna?). Remember, I'll have 10+ homing torps, so I should be able to take on big convoys, harbors, and/or task force groups. I'm just trying to decide which one to get. All I need is 45 tons (that's 45, not 45K). The rest is about doing as much damage as I can, and with any luck, taking out a capital ship. By going out with a bang, I meant going out with a lot of bang's to the enemy in a way that would normally be suicidal (especially in 1945) but that's possible in a XXI armed to the teeth!

E.g., I know there are guides to where the big ships are in 1939-1943, anything for 1945?

[Task Force]

The best way is to finish campagine.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by predavolk

I seem to have been misunderstood...By going out with a bang, I meant going out with a lot of bang's to the enemy...

No, you weren't misunderstood. We all knew exactly what you meant. It's just that with a phrase like "going out with a bang", anyone with a wicked sense of humor (which seems to be a great majority of us here) just had to give a 'backwards' solution.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by predavolk

I seem to have been misunderstood. I'm not looking to literally go out in an explosion, I want to do some massive damage to the ENEMY. So something like jimbuna's suggestion (helpful to the end, eh jimbuna?). Remember, I'll have 10+ homing torps, so I should be able to take on big convoys, harbors, and/or task force groups. I'm just trying to decide which one to get. All I need is 45 tons (that's 45, not 45K). The rest is about doing as much damage as I can, and with any luck, taking out a capital ship. By going out with a bang, I meant going out with a lot of bang's to the enemy in a way that would normally be suicidal (especially in 1945) but that's possible in a XXI armed to the teeth!

E.g., I know there are guides to where the big ships are in 1939-1943, anything for 1945?

Rgr that matey....the Med convoys usually have a BB more often than not