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[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Contact

Too late for warnings already, but I saw what u mean

Found in youtube a trailer of SH2, was watching it with one eye closed and hands on my face :rotfl:

Actually a video doesn't tell you anything about that particular game. SH2 was buggy, but it got fixed. The graphics were pretty good for the time, and it had multiplayer with Destroyer Command so you could have guys trying to attack convoys and guys running the escorts trying to sink the u-boats. All-in-all it wasn't a bad game; it's only real problem was the campaign, which was nothing more than a bunch of scripted missions with no replay value at all. No actual career, and no variety.

[NealT]

EXCEPT that it led to a lot of people giving them a lot of feedback which in turn led to SH3...a much better product. Therefore, it had a lot of value...

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by NealT

EXCEPT that it led to a lot of people giving them a lot of feedback which in turn led to SH3...a much better product. Therefore, it had a lot of value...

taken in that context I agree....a forerunner if you like.

"and guys running the escorts trying to sink the u-boats."

Cooool, I would like to try it myself

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Contact

"and guys running the escorts trying to sink the u-boats."

Cooool, I would like to try it myself

You and me both....a chance to play Walker or Macintyre

[GoldenRivet]

man looking up videos of SH2... that brought back some memories of playing that old thing.

still have the disc and case, might even have the book around here somewhere.

[Paul Riley]

LMFAO!
I still can't help laughing at the "sh..sh..sh..SHIP SPOTTED" tale.Tell me,how did you know they had spotted you? :rotfl:

Originally Posted by jimbuna

You and me both....a chance to play Walker or Macintyre

Hehe, Don't know who they are but I bet it has something familiar to famous Tom and Jerry right ?

I always thought it was impossible to make playable destroyers and u-boats together in the game but now.. ?
How come this feature never got into SH3 ? :hmm:

[kgsuarez]

Originally Posted by Contact

Hehe, Don't know who they are but I bet it has something familiar to famous Tom and Jerry right ?

I always thought it was impossible to make playable destroyers and u-boats together in the game but now.. ?
How come this feature never got into SH3 ? :hmm:

Walker and Macintyre were destroyer captains (or something like that) in WWII. They were famous for being very skilled at killing U-boats using some kind of tag-team tactic. IE: Since a DD will lose contact with a U-boat when making attack runs, they basically used one DD for attacking and the other DD would stand back and listen for the sub. A lot of the aces were lost to this kind of tactic. Otto Kretschmer's U-99 was captured using this tactic I believe. Or at least by one of these two commanders.

Anyway, yes it's possible to have DDs against U-boats in multiplayer. In Dangerous Waters there are many platforms to choose from (Helos, DDs, subs, planes). The SH2/DC combo was really neat and I had a lot of fun back in those days. But it was not without it's problems.

Do you guys remember the never ending dispute of headhunting?

For those of you who don't know, back in those days DD players hated getting fired at. All they wanted to do was ping us the whole game, dropping their bombs, while we crawled in the deep waiting to die.

I'm guilty of it on several occasions. I remember one game in particular where a DD was coming strait at me (no zig-zaging) before I even got close enough to shoot at the convoy. What was I supposed to do? Just dive and spend the whole game trying to evade his wabos and never get a shot in? Ugh, no thank you. So I sat there at PD (scope fully extended and making a nice wake) waiting for him to come closer. And then I fired a torp straight at him at close range. He had no time to evade. The part that makes me laugh till this day is that as soon as I heard "Torpedo teffer!" (or whatever it is they say) from my speakers, this guy was hearing something like "We've been hit!" at the same time on his end. What did he do? He paused the game.

Good times...

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by kgsuarez

Walker and Macintyre were destroyer captains (or something like that) in WWII. They were famous for being very skilled at killing U-boats using some kind of tag-team tactic. IE: Since a DD will lose contact with a U-boat when making attack runs, they basically used one DD for attacking and the other DD would stand back and listen for the sub. A lot of the aces were lost to this kind of tactic. Otto Kretschmer's U-99 was captured using this tactic I believe. Or at least by one of these two commanders.

Anyway, yes it's possible to have DDs against U-boats in multiplayer. In Dangerous Waters there are many platforms to choose from (Helos, DDs, subs, planes). The SH2/DC combo was really neat and I had a lot of fun back in those days. But it was not without it's problems.

Do you guys remember the never ending dispute of headhunting?

For those of you who don't know, back in those days DD players hated getting fired at. All they wanted to do was ping us the whole game, dropping their bombs, while we crawled in the deep waiting to die.

I'm guilty of it on several occasions. I remember one game in particular where a DD was coming strait at me (no zig-zaging) before I even got close enough to shoot at the convoy. What was I supposed to do? Just dive and spend the whole game trying to evade his wabos and never get a shot in? Ugh, no thank you. So I sat there at PD (scope fully extended and making a nice wake) waiting for him to come closer. And then I fired a torp straight at him at close range. He had no time to evade. The part that makes me laugh till this day is that as soon as I heard "Torpedo teffer!" (or whatever it is they say) from my speakers, this guy was hearing something like "We've been hit!" at the same time on his end. What did he do? He paused the game.

Good times...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_John_Walker

http://www.uboat.net/allies/personnel/macintyre.htm

http://www.uboat.net/allies/personnel/walker.htm

Thank you both Will know from now on

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Paul Riley

LMFAO!
I still can't help laughing at the "sh..sh..sh..SHIP SPOTTED" tale.Tell me,how did you know they had spotted you? :rotfl:

That was just GoldenRivet making a joke about my 'Bismarck' story. I surfaced right next to the Nelson, and they way I knew they had spotted me was when they blew me out of the water.

As for SH2 and Destroyer Command, we played them at Neal's 'other' subsim site http://subclub.info/wpl/. They still do multiplayer there, but I'm pretty sure it's all SH3 co-op. If they were still doing adversary SH2 stuff I might be tempted. I have some fond memories of those days. A lot of them are of just hanging out it their chat room waiting for a game.

[Paul Riley]

Its a great one that Steve,possibly the funniest thing iv'e read in a long time :rotfl:
Sorry...i'll not say any more about it now
Tell me though,what on earth made you decide to surface your boat right next to one of Britain's most famous warships?!,surely a little peek first with the PS?

Cheers.

[Sailor Steve]

No, like I said it was a single mission and I wasn't too concerned about it. And in something like the Happy Times mission you started surfaced and miles from the convoy, so I just figured...

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Paul Riley

Its a great one that Steve,possibly the funniest thing iv'e read in a long time :rotfl:
Sorry...i'll not say any more about it now
Tell me though,what on earth made you decide to surface your boat right next to one of Britain's most famous warships?!,surely a little peek first with the PS?

Cheers.

A nice likeness (avatar wise) :p