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Old 01-10-11, 04:34 PM   #11
desirableroasted
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Oh, how I remember my first few patrols with GWX. A real lesson in patience.

You might have had the bad luck to be picked up by 2-3 escorts with elite skills... it happens, even in 39-40, I believe. And that is a hard combination to shake. I got a very good Black Swan* and two others on me last night (Jan 1940) and, while we got away without a scratch, it was two hours of creeping, knuckle turns, snaking, and lots of creaking at 200m.

You say you are going at 1 knot. Remember that the game calls anything between 1.00 and 1.99 knots "1 knot". If you were pushing 2 knots, you might have been running too many RPMs & thus not as silent as you thought. You want to dial that back to no higher than 75 rpm. "Silent running" in the game only means your crew is quiet...

But don't give up. Many of us find GWX a hugely rich experience. I know I would not still be playing the game if this mod had not come along.

*The Black Swan would have been HMS Flamingo, the only Black Swan in service in January 1940. In 1959, she will be sold to West Germany and renamed Graf Spee. How is that for ironic?
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