Top few reasons you all love this game?

[flag4]

i love the history. i love to read the books about this subject. i love to watch the dvds too.
past reading has been

Wolf: U Boat Commanders in WW11 by Jordan Vause.

Silent Hunters: German U Boat Commanders of WW11 by Theodore P. Savas.

both these books run a similar course with related history on their subjects. the book by Vause is by him alone and the one by Savas is a collection of essays by different writers on commanders not so well known. the one by Eric Topp is very personal on the loss of his friend Engelbert Endrass.

Operation Drumbeat by Micheal Gannon. an absolute classic - i can not shout this loudly enough!! virtually everything you need to know about the operation and running of a u boat is in there.

i have his other one too Black May.........oh god, im dreading reading that one!

i have Clay Blairs first Volume coming soon, Hitlers U Boat War: The Hunters: 1939 - 1942. started reading it years ago but ran out of steam and foolishly took it to a charity shop ???????

there are so many good books on this subject, and, as i have said before in many threads it is the reading that gives me the immersion into the game.
the game itself is just beautiful! its a shame it can not be updated with new graphics because it is almost perfect as it is. it is the game i have played and enjoyed more than any other and continue to. recently my 10 year old son has taken up the challenge - possibly the youngest commander yet ?

i could continue waving the flag for SH3 because it has given me so much to enjoy and think about. but i will stop now and just take my hat of to the devs and the modders who have made this game the classic that it is and will remain so for a long time.

(have i been gushing!!?)

[Tessa]

Originally Posted by flag4

i have Clay Blairs first Volume coming soon, Hitlers U Boat War: The Hunters: 1939 - 1942. started reading it years ago but ran out of steam and foolishly took it to a charity shop ??????

The two Blair books are imo the best single book (though kindly split into two volumes to avoid it looking like a reference book) about the big picture in detail. To just pick it up and start reading it can be difficult as it does read a lot like a history textbook even if it is something of major interest. Reads a lot smoother and faster if you're playing a career (doesn't really matter what time period) at the same time.

If you find your game frustrating after reading about everything that went on during the actual events it really takes the edge of your game and how much worse it was for the actual sailors that went out and indirectly were casualties of politics and had to suffer for so long because of all the beurocratic nonsense.

[flag4]

...is there another thread running like this one - somewhere else?

[Jimbuna]

On the subject of books....I picked these two up just last week and was very impressed with them.

The Golden Horseshoe - the story of Otto Kretschmer by Terence Robertson

U-Boat War Patrol - the hidden photographic diary of U-564 by Lawrence Paterson