I have never finished a campaign

Mowgli · 01-22-06, 06:44 PM

I just realised I have never finished a campaign. Although I do not play on 100% realism I do play dead is dead and take my missions seriously. In other words I stop and listen every couple of game time hours and this can add to a transit to patrol area.

I am currently serving aboard a VIIC operating out of St Nazaire in 43 and just love the dash to deep water because of enemy aircraft.

I understand the end of hostilities is disappointing.

CCIP · 01-22-06, 06:47 PM

I've finished several campaigns, all of them at the bottom of the sea before 1944 :rotfl: (well, one I did squeeze all the way to January of that year)

Also, I just realized that I've never used a Schnorchel in combat, and only used acoustic torpedoes once. As for the XXI - for making movies about it flying exclusively.

I'm still trying. Going by the DiD principle is hard.

Ducimus · 01-22-06, 06:56 PM

Heres what i do. I play DiD, but the next skipper i make, i create him at around the same time period that my previous one died. So i just pick up where i left off with a new skipper and new crew.

Aruond may/june of 43 is when things start getting REAL hairy. By 1944, i could sense the desperation that the german navy probably felt. The farther i went into the war, the more time i spent underwater. Surfacing is just too risky sometimes, even without the airpower mod.

The snorkel Is NOT the cure all. Even with the snorkel visiblity fix, certain aircraft have Radar that can detect you. Sunderlands come to mind. That 0.03 cm radar is your worst nightmare. Leaving the observation periscope up while snorkeling, i sometimes see planes circling, but having no real firm contact they go away. Othertimes im bumped right out of time compression only to find a sunderland has parked a depthcharge on my wintergarden!

Snorkling is risky, because your chance to detect them is even less. Sometimes i think its better to just recharge on the surface because at least then you ahvea fighting chance.

CCIP · 01-22-06, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Ducimus

Heres what i do. I play DiD, but the next skipper i make, i create him at around the same time period that my previous one died. So i just pick up where i left off with a new skipper and new crew.

That's what I've been doing, although in the period that I lost a favorite skipper of mine, I managed to forget everything and simply decided to start over... and then WaW got me involved really heavily and it became hard to play in time periods outside of the timeframe that their campaign is in (it is a different ball game between, say, 1939 vs. 1943).

I've re-started from late 1942 and successfully lost my career on the first patrol yesterday

Oh boy. 1943, here I come again...

gdogghenrikson · 01-23-06, 01:06 AM

I have played all the way through 2 campaigns (39-45) I think DID is alittle over rated but I am playing that way now

Inajira · 01-23-06, 06:19 AM

I am currently doing my first DiD game, started beginning of the war and now in Oct 1940. Still a long way to go, but have completed about 10 patrols. Fortunately allied aircraft are not that deadly (YET!!) but I have had a few hair raisers with DDs, particularly last mission when some inattentiveness during high TC had some DDs on me from time to time. Fortunately it gave me some opportunities to get my evasion tactics improved. Also there is nothing more heart-pounding than those depth charges exploding overhead and thinking "if they take me out, this really is it!.

Well my best officer has earned an Iron Cross 1st class, and even some petty officers have Iron Cross 2nd classes. Last partol was most successful with about 41,000 tonnage taken (94% realism), and the patrol previous I managed to score a hit on the broadside of a small merchant from 4127m away! Staggering! Which reminds me to check if the officer got a medal for that! On the whole very engrossing! Campaigns beat single missions anytime!

The Avon Lady · 01-23-06, 07:16 AM

I have started 3 campaigns and finished none.

First campaign started afer purchasing SH3.

2nd campaign started after I joined WaW. No more time for 1st campaign.

3rd and current campaign is also with WaW, as I got sunk in my 2nd campaign.

DiD? I prefer DoD - Do Or Die!

Chardok · 01-23-06, 09:54 AM

Quick question:

Okay, well, let me start by saying I always play DiD, and I die a LOT. It took me a long time to figure out how to avoid even blind and stupid corvette DC.

1st patrol, and I've downed about 18k tons of filthy british steel. (RAR!) the thing is, I started this career in 1940 with the 2nd flotilla, and was issued a type IXB right off the bat. That just seems a bit early for such an awesome boat. how historically accurate is that? Picking off convoys from around 3Km is par for the course with this boat, and it just seems a bit on the easy-ish side. Advice? (Try to avoid comments like "Enjoy it while it lasts!" :|\ )

The Avon Lady · 01-23-06, 10:13 AM

Advice: install SH3 Commander and the RUb Mod for more historically realistic date dependent sub and technologies availabilities.

Inajira · 01-23-06, 10:19 AM

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That just seems a bit early for such an awesome boat.

What month did you start with your Type IX? I got mine around Aug 1940 which was not so far off considering that her real-life namesake (U-108) arrived Oct 1940. Oh, and she survived the war (well okay sort of, she was bombed in '44 and dredged up again

), which bodes well indeed

Chardok · 01-23-06, 12:06 PM

I'm at work right now, and can't remember rightly when my campaign started. I want to say very early on in 1940. May, perhaps? I use RuB and SHIII cmdr....I thought it might be a bit wonky, as the game seems a bit more...unstable when using these mods. Not unplayable, mind you, but a bit more crash-prone.

Update: My brother just emailed me from home to advise that my frigging boat is resting comfortably at the bottom of the mid-atlantic ridge.

I'm going to liberate his arms when I get home.

fargel · 01-23-06, 03:43 PM

I started 4 campaigns and never finished one. However, the one I am working on started on Sept 8 1939 and now is April 27th 1945. My campaign is about to end, sigh

StarTrekMike · 01-23-06, 08:14 PM

I am still on my first round...I gotta finish it so I can restart with a different boat...I am gonna try to stick with a type II for a little longer.

Mike

elite_hunter_sh3 · 01-23-06, 08:30 PM

i am playing on 70-80 % and i plan to finish in 45 i dont care if i get away by a hair or by a mile i pan on finishing at 45 then on my last patrol i will go out on a blaze of glory and sink as much ships i can find and go kamakazie in halifax

kiwi_2005 · 01-24-06, 01:12 AM

Ive never finsihed a Campaign yet either, the longest campaign ive had was 17 patrols and it was only mid 1943. I love starting a new campaign and taking the IIA out.

01-22-06, 06:44 PM	#1
Mowgli Sparks Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: South Wales Posts: 248 Downloads: 158 Uploads: 0	I have never finished a campaign I just realised I have never finished a campaign. Although I do not play on 100% realism I do play dead is dead and take my missions seriously. In other words I stop and listen every couple of game time hours and this can add to a transit to patrol area. I am currently serving aboard a VIIC operating out of St Nazaire in 43 and just love the dash to deep water because of enemy aircraft. I understand the end of hostilities is disappointing. __________________ Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

01-22-06, 06:47 PM	#2
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	I've finished several campaigns, all of them at the bottom of the sea before 1944 :rotfl: (well, one I did squeeze all the way to January of that year) Also, I just realized that I've never used a Schnorchel in combat, and only used acoustic torpedoes once. As for the XXI - for making movies about it flying exclusively. I'm still trying. Going by the DiD principle is hard. __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

01-23-06, 01:06 AM	#5
gdogghenrikson Grey Wolf Join Date: May 2005 Location: USA Posts: 978 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	I have played all the way through 2 campaigns (39-45) I think DID is alittle over rated but I am playing that way now __________________ And when you loose control, you'll reap the harvest you have sown.

01-23-06, 06:19 AM	#6
Inajira Loader Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Johannesburg, South Africa Posts: 90 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I am currently doing my first DiD game, started beginning of the war and now in Oct 1940. Still a long way to go, but have completed about 10 patrols. Fortunately allied aircraft are not that deadly (YET!!) but I have had a few hair raisers with DDs, particularly last mission when some inattentiveness during high TC had some DDs on me from time to time. Fortunately it gave me some opportunities to get my evasion tactics improved. Also there is nothing more heart-pounding than those depth charges exploding overhead and thinking "if they take me out, this really is it!. Well my best officer has earned an Iron Cross 1st class, and even some petty officers have Iron Cross 2nd classes. Last partol was most successful with about 41,000 tonnage taken (94% realism), and the patrol previous I managed to score a hit on the broadside of a small merchant from 4127m away! Staggering! Which reminds me to check if the officer got a medal for that! On the whole very engrossing! Campaigns beat single missions anytime! __________________ ---- Lt(sr) Wolfgang Schmidt U-108 Der Lechtturm 94% Realism, DiD Career: 13 Patrols Fate: Sunk Dec 1941 in the North Atlantic, W of Gibraltar by depth charges from a British destroyer. All hands lost. "Torpedo treffer!"

01-23-06, 07:16 AM	#7
The Avon Lady Über Mom Join Date: May 2005 Location: Jerusalem, Israel Posts: 6,147 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	I have started 3 campaigns and finished none. First campaign started afer purchasing SH3. 2nd campaign started after I joined WaW. No more time for 1st campaign. 3rd and current campaign is also with WaW, as I got sunk in my 2nd campaign. DiD? I prefer DoD - Do Or Die! __________________ "Victory will come to us from the wombs of our women." - Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria, Speech before the UN, 1974

01-22-06, 06:56 PM	#3
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	Heres what i do. I play DiD, but the next skipper i make, i create him at around the same time period that my previous one died. So i just pick up where i left off with a new skipper and new crew. Aruond may/june of 43 is when things start getting REAL hairy. By 1944, i could sense the desperation that the german navy probably felt. The farther i went into the war, the more time i spent underwater. Surfacing is just too risky sometimes, even without the airpower mod. The snorkel Is NOT the cure all. Even with the snorkel visiblity fix, certain aircraft have Radar that can detect you. Sunderlands come to mind. That 0.03 cm radar is your worst nightmare. Leaving the observation periscope up while snorkeling, i sometimes see planes circling, but having no real firm contact they go away. Othertimes im bumped right out of time compression only to find a sunderland has parked a depthcharge on my wintergarden! Snorkling is risky, because your chance to detect them is even less. Sometimes i think its better to just recharge on the surface because at least then you ahvea fighting chance.

01-23-06, 09:54 AM	#8
Chardok Watch Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 26 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Quick question: Okay, well, let me start by saying I always play DiD, and I die a LOT. It took me a long time to figure out how to avoid even blind and stupid corvette DC. 1st patrol, and I've downed about 18k tons of filthy british steel. (RAR!) the thing is, I started this career in 1940 with the 2nd flotilla, and was issued a type IXB right off the bat. That just seems a bit early for such an awesome boat. how historically accurate is that? Picking off convoys from around 3Km is par for the course with this boat, and it just seems a bit on the easy-ish side. Advice? (Try to avoid comments like "Enjoy it while it lasts!" :\|\ ) __________________ I\'ve done far worse than kill you, Admiral. I\'ve hurt you. -Khan Noonien Singh

01-23-06, 10:13 AM	#9
The Avon Lady Über Mom Join Date: May 2005 Location: Jerusalem, Israel Posts: 6,147 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Advice: install SH3 Commander and the RUb Mod for more historically realistic date dependent sub and technologies availabilities. __________________ "Victory will come to us from the wombs of our women." - Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria, Speech before the UN, 1974

01-23-06, 12:06 PM	#11
Chardok Watch Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 26 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I'm at work right now, and can't remember rightly when my campaign started. I want to say very early on in 1940. May, perhaps? I use RuB and SHIII cmdr....I thought it might be a bit wonky, as the game seems a bit more...unstable when using these mods. Not unplayable, mind you, but a bit more crash-prone. Update: My brother just emailed me from home to advise that my frigging boat is resting comfortably at the bottom of the mid-atlantic ridge. I'm going to liberate his arms when I get home. __________________ I\'ve done far worse than kill you, Admiral. I\'ve hurt you. -Khan Noonien Singh

01-23-06, 03:43 PM	#12
fargel Watch Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Naramata, BC, Canada Posts: 27 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I started 4 campaigns and never finished one. However, the one I am working on started on Sept 8 1939 and now is April 27th 1945. My campaign is about to end, sigh __________________ \"Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, and brains saves both.\" Erwin Rommel

01-23-06, 08:14 PM	#13
StarTrekMike Navy Dude Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Made in Vermont Posts: 178 Downloads: 137 Uploads: 0	I have to finish I am still on my first round...I gotta finish it so I can restart with a different boat...I am gonna try to stick with a type II for a little longer. Mike __________________ I think we lost em...hey whats that pinging sound?

01-23-06, 08:30 PM	#14
elite_hunter_sh3 The Old Man Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,376 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	i am playing on 70-80 % and i plan to finish in 45 i dont care if i get away by a hair or by a mile i pan on finishing at 45 then on my last patrol i will go out on a blaze of glory and sink as much ships i can find and go kamakazie in halifax

01-24-06, 01:12 AM	#15
kiwi_2005 Eternal Patrol Join Date: May 2004 Location: Aeoteroa Posts: 7,382 Downloads: 223 Uploads: 1	Ive never finsihed a Campaign yet either, the longest campaign ive had was 17 patrols and it was only mid 1943. I love starting a new campaign and taking the IIA out. __________________ RIP kiwi_2005 Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.