Questions!

Kasbe · 04-16-09, 04:50 AM

Hello! As I said earlier when I introduced myself, I started playing SH3 a few days ago. These days I've been struggling to learn the game, as I have to other subsim experience. My intention is to play in a full realism environment and thus I installed GWX and Iam working on manual targeting, manually calculating torpedoes and all that stuff. So far I have completed all the naval academy missions except the last one, and by now I have a lot of questions.

First of all, Im a bit puzzled about torpedoes. I have seen that sometimes a torpedo is enough to sink a ship instantly, but sometimes it takes minutes until I my officer reports a sinking, or I dont damage the ship enough to sink it. Is there any way to guess when you deal enough damage to cause sinking? or is it just experience? I find this matter really important because it can save torpedoes for other targets and prevent me from running out of ammo and watching the other ships get away while I wait for the reload.

Also, I dont quite get how the sensors work. I have read a little about making hidrophone contacts at periscope depth to spot ships before they come into visual range. But Im completely lost when it comes to spotting ships, calculating courses and intercepting them (which is, as I guessed on my first patrol ever this morning, VERY important). I'd like some feedback on how all this work.

And finally, navigation is my last Nemesis. Completing the navigation tutorial was useless for me. I know how to control the sub, but long-term navigation is a mystery. When you are told of patrol a grid, do you just plot a random course through the sea, set the engine at ahead standart and hit the time compressor? As I have 0 naval experience, I dont know the procedure. This morning, when I arrived at my target grid my crew was exhausted, apart from various other dissasters (like spending minutes wandering around the command room during time compression 1036, to suddently see I was surfaced sailing next to an english merchant). I'd like to know what do you do to get to your target destination: what time compression do you use? do you plot all the course, plot a few miles ahead only? what speed do yo use?

I hope you recognise some of my problems as "typical newbie questions" and you dont mean explaining things to me, or at least tell me where can I read about all this.
Thanks for your time, and good hunting

P.D: As I see there is no Q&A topic, I think we newbies could use this topic to ask everything so that we wont flood the forum with single-question topics.

04-16-09, 04:50 AM	#1
Kasbe Watch Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 17 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	Questions! Hello! As I said earlier when I introduced myself, I started playing SH3 a few days ago. These days I've been struggling to learn the game, as I have to other subsim experience. My intention is to play in a full realism environment and thus I installed GWX and Iam working on manual targeting, manually calculating torpedoes and all that stuff. So far I have completed all the naval academy missions except the last one, and by now I have a lot of questions. First of all, Im a bit puzzled about torpedoes. I have seen that sometimes a torpedo is enough to sink a ship instantly, but sometimes it takes minutes until I my officer reports a sinking, or I dont damage the ship enough to sink it. Is there any way to guess when you deal enough damage to cause sinking? or is it just experience? I find this matter really important because it can save torpedoes for other targets and prevent me from running out of ammo and watching the other ships get away while I wait for the reload. Also, I dont quite get how the sensors work. I have read a little about making hidrophone contacts at periscope depth to spot ships before they come into visual range. But Im completely lost when it comes to spotting ships, calculating courses and intercepting them (which is, as I guessed on my first patrol ever this morning, VERY important). I'd like some feedback on how all this work. And finally, navigation is my last Nemesis. Completing the navigation tutorial was useless for me. I know how to control the sub, but long-term navigation is a mystery. When you are told of patrol a grid, do you just plot a random course through the sea, set the engine at ahead standart and hit the time compressor? As I have 0 naval experience, I dont know the procedure. This morning, when I arrived at my target grid my crew was exhausted, apart from various other dissasters (like spending minutes wandering around the command room during time compression 1036, to suddently see I was surfaced sailing next to an english merchant). I'd like to know what do you do to get to your target destination: what time compression do you use? do you plot all the course, plot a few miles ahead only? what speed do yo use? I hope you recognise some of my problems as "typical newbie questions" and you dont mean explaining things to me, or at least tell me where can I read about all this. Thanks for your time, and good hunting P.D: As I see there is no Q&A topic, I think we newbies could use this topic to ask everything so that we wont flood the forum with single-question topics.