Remembering frustrations the hard way

[Hinrich Schwab]

It had been a while since I have played SH3. Being preoccupied with 4 and forever tweeking 5 has kept me busy. I came back to SHIII earlier this afternoon and I was re-introduced to something I had mercifully forgotten; dud torpedoes. I had mercifully forgotten how utterly merciless SHIII was with duds. On my 17th career patrol, I had a dud rate of 70%. I only sank three ships and engaged five. Two got away because of classic SHIII weather (read: raging storm) and torpedo load times. My last kill I had to make a controlled ram to capsize the ship. I went into full "Captain Ahab" mode in order to sink the last ship since I had no torpedoes and the weather is never good enough for the deck gun. So much work for three measly Small Merchants. I almost appreciated 5 for its generous torpedo success rate. Then I remembered (after the fact, when I had calmed down) that the dud rate is very realistic.

Stupid Torpedoes