Final career: before i take a little break.

[Ducimus]

I think im going to start one more career, before i give SH3 a rest for a little while. While i havent finished my current one (hes not dead yet, no matter how hard i try to get those damn destroyers to pummel me) , im already wondering about the next one

So if anyones been following my long winded SH3 career shenanigans, my question to you is, should i start from the beginning in an IXB or VIIB?

Oh.. yeah.. my goal..... ....


"One Miiilllllion tons"


One million tons or until i die, whichever comes first. Considering i play with manual targeting enabled (no silver bullets), and from 42-44 have accumulated only 500K tons in an IXC, this might be a plausable challlenge.

[Keelbuster]

Har! Nice. You know how I feel - VIIB. And don't worry; you can still drumbeat. My little bandit just sunk about 150k in the carribean and near Grand banks during 3 patrols using the Milkcow that's around there in 42. We just got back to Lorient - half a year later. Things have changed now...was almost sunk in biscay by a surprise air attack in overcast weather. Boys were back just time for christmas and I promptly transferred to bergen to wait for the schnorkel. Anyway that's a bit OT. Get the VIIB. Get yer Million tons. It's possible if you start at the beginning of the war (i'm at 850 now, patrol 21, jan 43). If you start in 41/42, it could be a real challenge.

[Ducimus]

Current career its like june of 44, so i got from then to may of 45 to think about it. Personnaly im really leaning on an IXB because of the range and torpedo load, but that dark grey, sleek, VIIB with the net cutter has alot of style . (whats more, look at the readme in my modded files in the mod forum and you'll see what im atracted to it. Ive done alot of work on it, and despite my modding, i still have been using an IXC simply because it has more fuel, and yet theres that VIIB with that stylish netcutter..... .)

Your right though, milk cows would solve some of my fuel woes :P

[andy_311]

I just finished a Career in an IXB (silly me changed it from an IXC) and loved it I lasted all the way to May 18th 45,
Nine days after the war ended I liked it that much when the 2nd Flottila becomes operational am putting my Transfer in.

[HEMISENT]

Finishing a career. Now that brings back memories.

[JScones]

Originally Posted by HEMISENT

Finishing a career. Now that brings back memories.

:rotfl: :rotfl:

So now is not the time to say that I've fully rewritten the randomised events feature??



Just kidding!

[JScones]

Ducimus, you in a VIIB? "I'd like to see that".

[Zyco]

VIIB

[Umfuld]

That Dr. Evil thing made me chuckle.

Good luck in your attempt.

[HEMISENT]

Originally Posted by JScones

:rotfl: :rotfl:

So now is not the time to say that I've fully rewritten the randomised events feature??



Just kidding!

[STEED]

Flip a coin

[CB..]

i dunno Ducimus either sounds good!! but what ever way any one looks at it it says every thing any one needs to know about realism in SH3!!! (there 'aint any!) if even a hard core guy like your self can reasonably expect to reach a million tons in a career-with manual targeting etc etc---arghhh!!

once i get to the top of the historical tonnage Aces board- i lose interest right away-- i hope you make it if only to prove that the realism debate is null and void--
we should be struggling to reach 100,000 tons at the end of a career let alone a million---a large percentage of u-boat commanders never sank anything at all--

after thought---- can't help but think it might be more fun if you went for a entirely non realism soloution to the tonnage issue and vastly reduced the maximum range for the torpedoes-- making any attack over 1000 metres impossible..something along those lines would bring some fun back into the game perhaps--this would force you into some sort of conflict with the DD's and reduce the opportunity for multiple "strafing" strikes on convoys?

reckon the tonnage issue is in the end the main "realism" issue--reduce the tonnage scores achieved by the average player to something akin to those achieved over-all (not just on specific succesful patrols- yes we all know on occasion high tonnage was achieved in a single patrol)

but how much more involving would the game be if we were really struggling to get above half way up the aces tonnage board in the game---regardless of how this was actually achieved in game---heck give the merchants armour--reduce the range/explosive capacity of the torps
anything really---if the DD's can't do their job properly we'll have to find another way--worth a thought if your close to giving it a rest altogether what harm could come of it?

me i just edited the campaign so i get stuck with the type II right thro the war-- me thinks i might try the torp range reduction idea to see if that helps--

[Ducimus]

Personnaly, one reason im gonig for a "1 million ton" career, is primarly to demonstrate to myself, once and for all, that all im really playing, is an interactive screen saver. I should be struggeling for 100K.
Instead the real struggle is 100M, and that is mostly a test on my ablity to find shipping and send it to the bottom in the most EFFIECENT manner possible. If i accomlish this, i have a feeling i will be througly digusted and cured of the sub bug for a little while.


Right now torn betwen starting
- U-107, an IXB
- U-46 , an VIIB
- U-69, one of the first VIIC's.


An IX boat early war on a convoy is great fun, mass carnage, i know this much If i go with an IXB, im going to raise my tonnage bar, ill expect more then 1 million .

[lonehawknz]

IXB's in 1940 are the SH3 equivalent of paradise.

Lazily swinging up to the surface and lascerating dozy medium destroyers whose crew AI's are all still crap at the beginning of the war, using the 10.5cm gun at long range, is a true joy...

(I use the UZO to range-find for the gun)

[CB..]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Personnaly, one reason im gonig for a "1 million ton" career, is primarly to demonstrate to myself, once and for all, that all im really playing, is an interactive screen saver. I should be struggeling for 100K.
Instead the real struggle is 100M, and that is mostly a test on my ablity to find shipping and send it to the bottom in the most EFFIECENT manner possible. If i accomlish this, i have a feeling i will be througly digusted and cured of the sub bug for a little while.

yup i feel pretty much the same way---that and the mindless and completely un-realistic realism debates that we allways get sucked into just kills my enthusiasm completely--who cares if the sonar on a Hunt II destroyer is accuratley set up and implemented if im getting 300,000 tons a year in game--it's mad hell even using the type II i'm still wiping the floor with the historical aces--and if that's realism then im donald duck (quack)