Most stupid thing I have done in SH3 - Page 4

08-07-06, 12:07 PM

One time bernard thought he'd say hi to an american merchant armed with a gun by shoot a torpedo across her bow at one meter and impact mode.... apparently he fired a perfect shot and HIT the american merchant... decided to say hi by firing on U-123 who crash dived after giving bernard to the americans...:rotfl:

*note this was before america declared war*

WilhelmSchulz. · 08-07-06, 01:42 PM

While raiding NY I ran into a Elco and I took him out with my flack guns. But little did I know that he had called in a frend, a Somers DD. I crash dived in 18m of waters. I died.

KeybdFlyer · 08-07-06, 02:10 PM

I don't know the origin of the SH3 Bernard, but I'm REALLY enjoying all these tales of woe caused by him, or blamed on him anyway, lol. My ex-wife's "boyfriend" is called Bernard and I get a deep sense of satisfaction and an inner glow each time one of you slags him off big time, HA HA HA HA HA

bigboywooly · 08-07-06, 03:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KeybdFlyer

I don't know the origin of the SH3 Bernard, but I'm REALLY enjoying all these tales of woe caused by him, or blamed on him anyway, lol. My ex-wife's "boyfriend" is called Bernard and I get a deep sense of satisfaction and an inner glow each time one of you slags him off big time, HA HA HA HA HA

:rotfl: :rotfl:

Deimos01 · 08-07-06, 04:52 PM

Dont know if this counts as stupid or just bad luck. Attacked a convoy at night. Sank one large tanker and damaged a couple merchies. Went to about 50m to reload tubes while the Escorts hammered away at me. Now keep in mind, I try not to use the map view when evading escorts but prefere instead to stay in the control room and have my sonarman keep me informed. I was taking a swirl on the hydrophones myself, Escorts are close but not too close, then ..... blammo! "Whe're taking damage sir!" Batteries shot, electric engines down, flooding in 3 compartments. I sank to the bottom where I made enough noise that the Escorts pounded me into oblivion. All the while going WTF??? Just before the screen of death I checked the outside view, and sure enough, I had managed to manuver myself around and ram right into the sinking tanker.

TarJak · 08-07-06, 10:54 PM

My most recent debacle was a daylight surface run in Sept 1939 through the channel. About an hour and half from Dover the balloon went up (GER Invades POL etc etc.), and half the british fleet is sitting just outside Dover. I didn't see the green go red until it was too late!

Fat Produce · 08-07-06, 10:59 PM

I was showing a my cousin the Silent Hunter III so he could possibly get into the game. I was playing the Bismark mission and i was at periscope depth for about 10 minutes. I proceded to show him the basic method of setting up my attack run and was telling him about what was happening on the surface above me. I explained to him that we had to protect the Bismark and sink the British Capital ships. So I perfectly lined up my shots and fired 4 torps at a straggling battleship. All 4 hit. I yelled out, "Take that Churchill!" However my estatic feelings were squandered when my cousin said, "You're German right?" I said, "Well yeah." And i looked at external view (for the first time in the mission) and found that the battleship that I had torpedoed and sunk was the Bismark. lol

U-104 · 08-08-06, 12:18 AM

:rotfl::rotfl:

SteamWake · 08-08-06, 03:12 PM

Had to add this one. Happend just last night...

Ordering "Crash Dive" in 20 meters of water...

enaceo · 08-08-06, 03:28 PM

Got 2 more tails here,just happened a few hours ago.
First-I was attacking Hartlepool in early 39' after a fruitless patrol in GW.
As you proably know ,like in NYGM ,there's a lonely Large Cargo ship there ,sitting a few meters outside port,pefectly sitting there for a broad-side

So,i went in un-detected,silent-running at about 2 knots,periscope depth.I got within about 4k meters and started making measurments in the TDC.Got ship type(Gee I wonder if that's a little tanker or tramp steamer -hmm...) ,range ,speed(that was also hard he was going so fast I barely got lock on him

)bla bla bla.Set torp to impact,3 meters straight for the front cargo hold since she carried ammo and blowing that up would result in a nice coulourfull and noisy explosion.So,torp fired,bang direct hit-but no big boom.After the boom,all the lights in the harbour lit up onto my surrouding area(note that it was night).Ok,so,I had 2 electric torps in the 4th and 3rd tube,so i fired them both at the same time ,a little degrees off one from the other.Then i went to the exterior view and followed the torps on their way.One bounced off the hull and the other one blew up the rear-cargo hold,and the ship started sinking.So,i just sat there waiting for it to sink.Made TC 32x and just waited .The ship was slowly sinking,and suddenly "SIR WE HAVE CRICIAL FLOODING!" "WE'RE TAKING DAMAGE!" MEDIIIIIIC!".I pressed f12 to see the exact position of my ship-I thought we were being DC'd or something...anyway-so i pressed f12 and to my surprise the camera was moved above the sinking cargo.I pressed it about 5 more times because I thought it was a bug or something,then i looked under the ship and surprise-I had forgotten to go to full stop and my coning-tower had a close-up meeting with the ship...

I managed to get out with 56 percent hull and about 10 dead crew-men...
And the second "tail" -happened on a rather old patrol -I was crusing twards my assigned patrol sector -AM23 .When somewhere in the middle of the AN area (between England and Norway) ,while changing my crew's positions a bit-suddenly-BANG CRASH CRASH SCREETCH CRACK I was so scared-thought that an english DD had fired on us .Out of reflex-I pressed crash-dive,and remember d to late that depth under keel was about 30 meters...Turns out I had collided with a neutral merchant my crew had neglected to report.

KeybdFlyer · 08-08-06, 05:34 PM

Submarine Seamanship 101: Don't hit "D" when at TC 512. Your reactions just aren't that good.

I don't think I need to say more.

rcs929 · 08-08-06, 07:04 PM

I once torpedoed a ship in a convoy then decided to get moving away from the shooting area. I set a new course to travel under the convoy then ordered flank speed and a depth of 30 or 40 meters to avoid ship's keels. I get a gut feeling that I should change course because the danger of ramming a sinking ship while it's on it's way to the bottom. I do nothing because ships don't sink that fast, right? The gut feeling is strong & I still do nothing. Not long after we ram something I assume (no external camera) taking massive damage & flooding then the death screen.

A 1st patrol in a career I had played was Nov. '39 north of England returning home I decided to confidently fight it out with a plane, it drops a bomb on each side of the sub causing fatal flooding. I no longer fight planes after that incident.

I had read about the exploits of others fighting it out with Elco boats. I decided I was going to try my hand at it & have some fun. We are firing away all the while the Elco is machine gunning and speeding towards us. My flak gunner, deckgun crew and IWO is killed by machine gun fire. The IWO had been with me for 10+ patrols with watchman, flak & deckgun qualifications. Flakgunner and deckcrew had qualifications as well. I no longer engage Elco boats after that.

Lil Kaleun · 08-09-06, 05:24 AM

I don't know if it's strange or not, but still I haven't done anything more stupid... yet.

It was my 7th or 8th patrol, maybe later. I don't know exactly. Year 1943. I transferred to the 10th Flotilla. First patrol beginning in La Spezia. On my way to the patrol sector I had to survive the Gibraltar Strait.
When I was in the middle of it, at the depth of about 20 m, I started to run out of oxygen. I ordered periscope depth and took a look around if there's any warship in the eyesight (hydro detected lots of them, but I hoped they're far enough to leave us alone, so we'd surface and catch some fresh air before submerging again). That was the day I met Bernard - still I don't know why I let him operate the hydrophone. He noticed all the warships but one V&W destroyer.
It was daytime, so they couldn't miss our periscope from a 200 m distance, especially when they were just trying to ram us at full speed.
Maybe it wasn't the best place to crash-dive, but I saw no other solution. And then... Well, that nervous habit of hitting wrong keys in hard situations was the last thing I needed.

Has anyone here ever managed to survive without the conning tower?...

(I tried Gibraltar once again and everything was OK, so in a few days I'll try Scapa Flow. Possibly after that one I'll have to write sth again in this thread... )

Ulic · 08-10-06, 08:50 AM

I guess Bernard must be working with Ubisoft. Must be him who decided to use the Enter key to fire a torpedo. Cost me a lot of torpedoes that one.

08-10-06, 10:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ulic

I guess Bernard must be working with Ubisoft. Must be him who decided to use the Enter key to fire a torpedo. Cost me a lot of torpedoes that one.

Yea I used to do that before I get GW... (they changed it so you have to hold control and press enter to fire a torpedo from the keyboard...) saved berlin alot of cash

08-07-06, 01:42 PM	#47
WilhelmSchulz. The Old Man Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Virgina Beach Posts: 1,301 Downloads: 17 Uploads: 0	While raiding NY I ran into a Elco and I took him out with my flack guns. But little did I know that he had called in a frend, a Somers DD. I crash dived in 18m of waters. I died. __________________ "Some ships are designed to sink… others require our assistance."

08-07-06, 10:59 PM	#52
Fat Produce Watch Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 19 Downloads: 28 Uploads: 0	My story I was showing a my cousin the Silent Hunter III so he could possibly get into the game. I was playing the Bismark mission and i was at periscope depth for about 10 minutes. I proceded to show him the basic method of setting up my attack run and was telling him about what was happening on the surface above me. I explained to him that we had to protect the Bismark and sink the British Capital ships. So I perfectly lined up my shots and fired 4 torps at a straggling battleship. All 4 hit. I yelled out, "Take that Churchill!" However my estatic feelings were squandered when my cousin said, "You're German right?" I said, "Well yeah." And i looked at external view (for the first time in the mission) and found that the battleship that I had torpedoed and sunk was the Bismark. lol __________________

08-08-06, 12:18 AM	#53
U-104 Grey Wolf Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: United States Posts: 797 Downloads: 187 Uploads: 0	:rotfl::rotfl: __________________ My heart is steadfast, O God. I will sing and make music with all my soul. Ps. 108:1 Survival of the fittest does not explain arrival of the fittest. we live in a single spoken sentence.. "God said, let there be"

08-08-06, 03:28 PM	#55
enaceo XO Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 401 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Got 2 more tails here,just happened a few hours ago. First-I was attacking Hartlepool in early 39' after a fruitless patrol in GW. As you proably know ,like in NYGM ,there's a lonely Large Cargo ship there ,sitting a few meters outside port,pefectly sitting there for a broad-side So,i went in un-detected,silent-running at about 2 knots,periscope depth.I got within about 4k meters and started making measurments in the TDC.Got ship type(Gee I wonder if that's a little tanker or tramp steamer -hmm...) ,range ,speed(that was also hard he was going so fast I barely got lock on him )bla bla bla.Set torp to impact,3 meters straight for the front cargo hold since she carried ammo and blowing that up would result in a nice coulourfull and noisy explosion.So,torp fired,bang direct hit-but no big boom.After the boom,all the lights in the harbour lit up onto my surrouding area(note that it was night).Ok,so,I had 2 electric torps in the 4th and 3rd tube,so i fired them both at the same time ,a little degrees off one from the other.Then i went to the exterior view and followed the torps on their way.One bounced off the hull and the other one blew up the rear-cargo hold,and the ship started sinking.So,i just sat there waiting for it to sink.Made TC 32x and just waited .The ship was slowly sinking,and suddenly "SIR WE HAVE CRICIAL FLOODING!" "WE'RE TAKING DAMAGE!" MEDIIIIIIC!".I pressed f12 to see the exact position of my ship-I thought we were being DC'd or something...anyway-so i pressed f12 and to my surprise the camera was moved above the sinking cargo.I pressed it about 5 more times because I thought it was a bug or something,then i looked under the ship and surprise-I had forgotten to go to full stop and my coning-tower had a close-up meeting with the ship... I managed to get out with 56 percent hull and about 10 dead crew-men... And the second "tail" -happened on a rather old patrol -I was crusing twards my assigned patrol sector -AM23 .When somewhere in the middle of the AN area (between England and Norway) ,while changing my crew's positions a bit-suddenly-BANG CRASH CRASH SCREETCH CRACK I was so scared-thought that an english DD had fired on us .Out of reflex-I pressed crash-dive,and remember d to late that depth under keel was about 30 meters...Turns out I had collided with a neutral merchant my crew had neglected to report. __________________ Came back after a long time ...ahoy mates!

08-09-06, 05:24 AM	#58
Lil Kaleun Swabbie Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Poland Posts: 12 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I don't know if it's strange or not, but still I haven't done anything more stupid... yet. It was my 7th or 8th patrol, maybe later. I don't know exactly. Year 1943. I transferred to the 10th Flotilla. First patrol beginning in La Spezia. On my way to the patrol sector I had to survive the Gibraltar Strait. When I was in the middle of it, at the depth of about 20 m, I started to run out of oxygen. I ordered periscope depth and took a look around if there's any warship in the eyesight (hydro detected lots of them, but I hoped they're far enough to leave us alone, so we'd surface and catch some fresh air before submerging again). That was the day I met Bernard - still I don't know why I let him operate the hydrophone. He noticed all the warships but one V&W destroyer. It was daytime, so they couldn't miss our periscope from a 200 m distance, especially when they were just trying to ram us at full speed. Maybe it wasn't the best place to crash-dive, but I saw no other solution. And then... Well, that nervous habit of hitting wrong keys in hard situations was the last thing I needed. Has anyone here ever managed to survive without the conning tower?... (I tried Gibraltar once again and everything was OK, so in a few days I'll try Scapa Flow. Possibly after that one I'll have to write sth again in this thread... ) __________________ "If you survive the extraordinary things, it will often be the little things that will kill you." Last edited by Lil Kaleun; 08-09-06 at 07:05 AM.

08-07-06, 12:07 PM	#46
Rilder Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	One time bernard thought he'd say hi to an american merchant armed with a gun by shoot a torpedo across her bow at one meter and impact mode.... apparently he fired a perfect shot and HIT the american merchant... decided to say hi by firing on U-123 who crash dived after giving bernard to the americans...:rotfl: note this was before america declared war

08-07-06, 02:10 PM	#48
KeybdFlyer 中国水兵 Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 272 Downloads: 162 Uploads: 0	I don't know the origin of the SH3 Bernard, but I'm REALLY enjoying all these tales of woe caused by him, or blamed on him anyway, lol. My ex-wife's "boyfriend" is called Bernard and I get a deep sense of satisfaction and an inner glow each time one of you slags him off big time, HA HA HA HA HA

08-07-06, 04:52 PM	#50
Deimos01 Frogman Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: St louis Posts: 304 Downloads: 18 Uploads: 0	Dont know if this counts as stupid or just bad luck. Attacked a convoy at night. Sank one large tanker and damaged a couple merchies. Went to about 50m to reload tubes while the Escorts hammered away at me. Now keep in mind, I try not to use the map view when evading escorts but prefere instead to stay in the control room and have my sonarman keep me informed. I was taking a swirl on the hydrophones myself, Escorts are close but not too close, then ..... blammo! "Whe're taking damage sir!" Batteries shot, electric engines down, flooding in 3 compartments. I sank to the bottom where I made enough noise that the Escorts pounded me into oblivion. All the while going WTF??? Just before the screen of death I checked the outside view, and sure enough, I had managed to manuver myself around and ram right into the sinking tanker.

08-07-06, 10:54 PM	#51
TarJak Fleet Admiral Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 17,052 Downloads: 150 Uploads: 8	My most recent debacle was a daylight surface run in Sept 1939 through the channel. About an hour and half from Dover the balloon went up (GER Invades POL etc etc.), and half the british fleet is sitting just outside Dover. I didn't see the green go red until it was too late!

08-08-06, 03:12 PM	#54
SteamWake Rear Admiral Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 13,224 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Had to add this one. Happend just last night... Ordering "Crash Dive" in 20 meters of water...

08-08-06, 05:34 PM	#56
KeybdFlyer 中国水兵 Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 272 Downloads: 162 Uploads: 0	Submarine Seamanship 101: Don't hit "D" when at TC 512. Your reactions just aren't that good. I don't think I need to say more.

08-08-06, 07:04 PM	#57
rcs929 Sailor man Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: landlocked USA Posts: 44 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I once torpedoed a ship in a convoy then decided to get moving away from the shooting area. I set a new course to travel under the convoy then ordered flank speed and a depth of 30 or 40 meters to avoid ship's keels. I get a gut feeling that I should change course because the danger of ramming a sinking ship while it's on it's way to the bottom. I do nothing because ships don't sink that fast, right? The gut feeling is strong & I still do nothing. Not long after we ram something I assume (no external camera) taking massive damage & flooding then the death screen. A 1st patrol in a career I had played was Nov. '39 north of England returning home I decided to confidently fight it out with a plane, it drops a bomb on each side of the sub causing fatal flooding. I no longer fight planes after that incident. I had read about the exploits of others fighting it out with Elco boats. I decided I was going to try my hand at it & have some fun. We are firing away all the while the Elco is machine gunning and speeding towards us. My flak gunner, deckgun crew and IWO is killed by machine gun fire. The IWO had been with me for 10+ patrols with watchman, flak & deckgun qualifications. Flakgunner and deckcrew had qualifications as well. I no longer engage Elco boats after that.

08-10-06, 08:50 AM	#59
Ulic Watch Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 16 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I guess Bernard must be working with Ubisoft. Must be him who decided to use the Enter key to fire a torpedo. Cost me a lot of torpedoes that one.