A quick intro (if nobody minds)

[SaywyerAWR]

Pardon the new guy, but I just wanted to take a second to introduce myself: probably for the best you guys know what you just let on here, lol.

I have to admit I've known about this place for some time, but haven't had any reason to join really. Well, I finally got off my lazy transom (pardon the horrible analogy...but get used to them, they're more common that dud Mk14s in '42 with me...) and got Silent Hunter 4...a game Ive wanted ever since it came out in '07...and I suppose that's as good a reason as any to finally join the ranks here!

I've always been a bit of a history Nerd, so if I go off on a tangent, feel free to shout at me. Also, do us all a favor and don't let me anywhere near the helm whilst unattended. At least, that is, if you want the boat back in the same shape is was when you left it! If anybody need me, I'll be aboard U.S.S. Lionfish, probably chasing after my version of the white whale...a certain 60,000+ton battleship.

also, if you don't hear from me for a while, Alert the Falcon: I've probably steamed face first in to a sandbar or something. (should probably warn you about the bad jokes too...)

[Torplexed]

Welcome to Subsim. History Nerds always welcome.

[GoldenRivet]

Welcome aboard

You can bunk with bernard.

I have a feeling you'll fit right in with this crew

[Aktungbby]

SawyerAWR! Going off on history nerd tangents and bad jokes are expressly not allowed at ; you are advised to BEWARE! of course that could just be construed as high praise from Seize Her

[SaywyerAWR]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

Welcome aboard

You can bunk with bernard.

I have a feeling you'll fit right in with this crew

why, because of the history nerd part or the regularly breaking the boat part?

for the record I try not to use the USS Growler as a role model, but lets just say I've hit my fair share of seamounts and reefs in the few days I've been playing. If its any consolation the IJN seem to have helmsmen just as drunk and *challenged* (COUGH) as me...I just watched a Kuma class T-bone a Fubuki a while ago. still annoyed I didn't have any ready tubes then, I could have seriously had some fun...

EDIT: at least I think it was a Fubuki: I was too busy laughing to tell!

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by SaywyerAWR

the regularly breaking the boat part?

He has known about this place for a while

[Eichhörnchen]

Welcome to SubSim, buddy

[fireftr18]

Welcome aboard SaywyerAWR!

Ignore Acktungbby, everyone else does. Especially when he goes off on his history nerd tangents and bad jokes.

We're all history nerds here, so we like the tangents and will join in. We're all full of bad jokes, just check out the joke thread.

Forget Wolferz's oar, I'm the unofficial, self appointed assigner of jobs around here. Grab a large scoop shovel, the bilge needs some cleaning.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by fireftr18

Ignore Acktungbby, everyone else does. Especially when he goes off on his history nerd tangents and bad jokes.

Forget Wolferz's oar, I'm the unofficial, self appointed assigner of jobs around here. Grab a large scoop shovel, the bilge needs some cleaning.

U IDIOT! We can't forget Wolferz's oar!!! The Bilge 's vessel is the trireme U-REEKHA We gotta have rowers! (The bilge-post #1336)

Originally Posted by me

We'll recruit new bilgerats for the lower deck rowing positions- about 150 for daylong outings up to 300 Kilometers at a comfortable 7+ knots!

As I recall I put you in charge of the catapault's rockpile so U could 'blow up something'...and just for the history tangent, so poor bottom-deck rower-recruit SawyerAWR knows what he's in for...on a really bad bad day: I give you the greatest Sea battle in recorded history!! YUP! the one that ended a war and put 'paid' to an empire. 405 BC, at Aegospotami: the Spartans, having been horrifically slaughtered the year before at Arginusae losing 70 ships to the Athenian's 25, managed somehow to suck it up and completely annihilated the Athenians, capturing 150 of 170 ships and executing the Athenian 3,000 sailors, mostly proud upper-class Athenian rowers-there were no slave rowers on warships; that's Hollywood crapl "Fearing the retribution that the victorious Spartans might take on them, the Athenians resolved to hold out from the siege, but their cause was hopeless. Without a fleet to import grain from the Black Sea, Athens was on the verge of starvation, and the city surrendered in March 404 BC. The walls of the city were demolished, and a pro-Spartan government was established. The Spartan victory at Aegospotami marked the end of 27 years of war, placing Sparta in a position of complete dominance throughout the Greek world and establishing a political order that would last for more than thirty years." So row well SawyerAWR! edit: fixed