From "The Other Side"

Henry Wood · 03-21-09, 01:51 PM

Hi all,

After a thread about Flower Class Corvettes the other day - I never ever found the pics yet, were they published? - I'm in the middle of watching the movie "The Cruel Sea" once again, which to me, gives about the only decent fictional representation of the Battle Of The Atlantic (and a Gibralter escort run) from the point of view of the "other side", i.e. the British, from my usual standpoint of a U-boat commander in the Kriegsmarine.

It's unusual watching the battle from the other side, especially the likes of the scene where the corvette Captain (played by Jack Hawkins) continues his pursuit of a suspected U-boat right through a line of floating survivors from a torpedoed ship and drops depth charges amongst them. There are very loud and scurrilous cries from his own crew because of this action, which I believe was based on a true incident during the war.

I find I want to change hats! I want to don a R.N. Captain's hat and go hunting the scoundrels (which has been me for the past few years!) and dish out some well deserved punishment to them (me!) for what they have done.

The only problem is, I believe, there is absolutely no surface ship replica game to come anywhere near to the same standard of SHIII? I do own Destroyer Command but never played it much because there is not *that* immersion factor so apparent in SHIII. If only someone could invent a game called "The Cruel Sea", taking place on a Flower Class Corvette, and including No. 1 Officers rubbing their hands over "snorkers", and also having the very same immersion factor of SHIII, that would indeed be heaven.

Meanwhile, I have just recharged my beer glass so shall go back to "The Cruel Sea" and check for comments later.

03-21-09, 01:51 PM	#1
Henry Wood Sparky Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: UK Posts: 150 Downloads: 57 Uploads: 0	From "The Other Side" Hi all, After a thread about Flower Class Corvettes the other day - I never ever found the pics yet, were they published? - I'm in the middle of watching the movie "The Cruel Sea" once again, which to me, gives about the only decent fictional representation of the Battle Of The Atlantic (and a Gibralter escort run) from the point of view of the "other side", i.e. the British, from my usual standpoint of a U-boat commander in the Kriegsmarine. It's unusual watching the battle from the other side, especially the likes of the scene where the corvette Captain (played by Jack Hawkins) continues his pursuit of a suspected U-boat right through a line of floating survivors from a torpedoed ship and drops depth charges amongst them. There are very loud and scurrilous cries from his own crew because of this action, which I believe was based on a true incident during the war. I find I want to change hats! I want to don a R.N. Captain's hat and go hunting the scoundrels (which has been me for the past few years!) and dish out some well deserved punishment to them (me!) for what they have done. The only problem is, I believe, there is absolutely no surface ship replica game to come anywhere near to the same standard of SHIII? I do own Destroyer Command but never played it much because there is not that immersion factor so apparent in SHIII. If only someone could invent a game called "The Cruel Sea", taking place on a Flower Class Corvette, and including No. 1 Officers rubbing their hands over "snorkers", and also having the very same immersion factor of SHIII, that would indeed be heaven. Meanwhile, I have just recharged my beer glass so shall go back to "The Cruel Sea" and check for comments later.