First GWX patrol

[peterloo]

Originally Posted by Toshan

Before i tell you of MY first patrol with GWX i want you to know that i haven't played this game for almost a year. So i'm re-learning everything (though i can't say it's much to re-learn since i hadn't played for a long time before i stopped).

So anyway, I'm heading out of Wilhelmshaven (at night) hoping that this first patrol with GWX will be a succesful one. Shortly after ordering "Ahead standard" i hear the sound of airplanes and after that something that i think are explosions. I assume that the airplanes are attacking the harbor (but now that i think about it, has the war started when you begin in 1939?) and ask my navigator for depth under the keel. The answer is 35 meters. "Then i can safely go down to 12 meters", i think. And at first there are no problems. But after a couple of hundred meters i hear that sound of metal grinding against the ocean floor. Then there start coming in reports of torpedo room damage, heavy flooding and basically damage all over the boat. 2 crew members are also killed instantly. I quickly order the boat to surface. But this doesn't help at all, instead the depth meter sinks to 15 meters (don't know why. I don't think i could sink much more) and nothing happens. The last things that goes through my mind before the boat is destroyed is: "I shouldn't have painted that giant 13 on the conning tower".

Mines and subnets are included in GWX. Apparently you have struck mines. Everytime you plot a way out of your base in the navigation room, go to top left corner of your screen. There should be several sheets which can be dragged out. One of them concerns the friendly minefield protecting the harbour. Study it and avoid the mines. (you can sail your boats above the subnets --- they only deter submerged submarines)

[Red Heat]

Originally Posted by A Very Super Market

Playing GWX is real joy, and I'd like to thank the creators for making such an awesome mod for my favorite game. Still, I find it rather strange that I can sail past the british coast surfaced and running into fishing boats but not getting bombed to bits. Maybe its just that its only 1939.


So anyways, after a shakedown cruise from Konigsberg (which is an absolute pain to get out of) I was tranferred to Kiel (thankfully) in 7th flotilla. Since I started before the war began, I quickly ran over and parked myself in Scapa Flow, thinking I could snag a Battleship or two. There weren't any there, and I left time compression on too long so the destroyers quickly obliterated my painfully obvious U-boat. :\

Scratch that, new plan. I went over to Poland, and parked myself there to wait for some unfortunate ship to sail over the horizon. This time, some Polish destroyers sank me. I was dissapointed to die, but it was better than stock SH3 with no defence whatsoever for most navies

After these two humbling experiences, I decided to actually do my job and patrol square AM 53, going through the canal and cutting straight to the English coast to get a few free gun kills from some unsuspecting fisherman. They're probably high command officers in disguise anyways! Sadly, before I could perform my destruction of evil trawlers, a destroyer spotted me. I instinctively dived, hoping to escape my previous fates. BOOM.. I hit a mine

I really need to get better at this game....

Welcome to the wolfpack...
About the game...take your time, try to understand the "U-boat weapon" and be confortable operating and giving orders in the right timmings, and finaly learn with errors and experience and read the Subsim forum...and learn!