What's your record patrol?

[Gargamel]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I don't play it as a game, I play it as an historical recreation. I'm lucky if any patrol gets me 10,000 tons, and I have many which yield no sinkings at all.

But that's just me.

I know those are historically accurate patrols.

But I'm curious as to how?

Unless you intentionally go retarded at the beginning of each career, to simulate the greenness of a new skipper, I would assume you are competent, if not very skilled at manual targeting.

Doesn't the game intentionally have more ships come your way, cause as someone once put it, it would be hard to market SH3, Boredom in the Atlantic.

Do you mod the game to reduce contacts, etc?


To answer the OP, My best is 123,704, but that was only 5 ships total! Would have more, as I put 2 eels into the Hood before it could hook up with the convoy, and another 2 after it was trailing behind. Never got it to sink though. That would have been one for the record books, historically speaking. Type VII too, With a IX I would have had the eels to sink her, as I ran out.....

7.6.40.
0503Grid BF 76Ship sunk! SS Ariosto (Small Freighter), 1662 tons. Cargo: Foodstuffs. Crew: 27. Crew lost: 14
0534Grid BF 76Ship sunk! SS Empire Commerce (Small Merchant), 2375 tons. Cargo: Military Stores. Crew: 73. Crew lost: 40

14.6.40.
1712Grid BF 41Ship sunk! SS Alexandra (HMT Aquitania), 46563 tons. Cargo: Mail/Packages. Crew: 2017. Crew lost: 1633
1803Grid BF 41Ship sunk! SS Antonia (Large Troop Ship), 26542 tons. Cargo: Troops. Crew: 916. Crew lost: 119
1827Grid BF 41Ship sunk! SS Dempo (HMT Aquitania), 46562 tons. Cargo: Troops. Crew: 1439. Crew lost: 1064

20.6.40.
2101Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 5
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonnage: 123704 tons

[gazpode_l]

I have only managed about 5,000 GRT in a VIIB in 1941.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Bakkels

I really don't see any need to use the SpySat mod. I'm playing with GWX3 but am still running into ships plenty enough. Just reading the ' juicy huntinggrounds' topic here and looking at the Operation Spinnennetz site gives me enough info to find my targets.

Everyone will play the way that suits them best....the SpySat for GWX was developed initialy to support the testers in acheiving their goals.

Originally Posted by Vendor

Hmmm ... apparently many who want to come up in tonnage,

Apparently so

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Gargamel

I know those are historically accurate patrols.

But I'm curious as to how?

Unless you intentionally go retarded at the beginning of each career, to simulate the greenness of a new skipper, I would assume you are competent, if not very skilled at manual targeting.

I use WE Assistance and still get those low scores. How?

1. I go to my assigned grid and I stay there. After a week I roll a die. On a roll of 1 I'm reassigned to another grid. After two weeks I will move on a 2 etc.

Doesn't the game intentionally have more ships come your way, cause as someone once put it, it would be hard to market SH3, Boredom in the Atlantic.

It is boring. I wouldn't recommend it for everyone. My reason is that I've been playing subsims consistently for more than twenty years, and "winning" just doesn't hold my interest anymore.

Do you mod the game to reduce contacts, etc?

That too. I use a tool called SH3 Contacts
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=1402

The readme says it allows the player to increase contacts, which is true, but it also allows me to reduce contacts.

[Tessa]

A patrol that I think even Jim would consider aggressive enough:




Was in a type VIIB in March of 41' and had zero luck finding any convoys as I kept heading west; once I finally passed the Belchen supply ship I said screw it and would just go straight to the source - Halifax. By the time I got there the weather was pretty much a gale so was able to travel around on the surface in the otherwise very shallow water to get to the promised land:



In the time it took to get from the main Halifax harbor to this staging area the weather started to ease up a bit so that I was able to see the targets from ~1000m away instead of 400m like it was when I entered the harbor and sunk the big tankers there. Then used the deck gun to finish off all the remaining large targets that I wasn't able to use a torpedo on or they didn't sink with just 1 eel.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Tessa

A patrol that I think even Jim would consider aggressive enough:




Was in a type VIIB in March of 41' and had zero luck finding any convoys as I kept heading west; once I finally passed the Belchen supply ship I said screw it and would just go straight to the source - Halifax. By the time I got there the weather was pretty much a gale so was able to travel around on the surface in the otherwise very shallow water to get to the promised land:



In the time it took to get from the main Halifax harbor to this staging area the weather started to ease up a bit so that I was able to see the targets from ~1000m away instead of 400m like it was when I entered the harbor and sunk the big tankers there. Then used the deck gun to finish off all the remaining large targets that I wasn't able to use a torpedo on or they didn't sink with just 1 eel.

Ah yes, Halifax convoy formation area....the Aladdins Cave of every Kaleun.



SINK EM ALL!!

[Missing Name]

...that looks beautiful. And you said the deck gun got some use?

[Tessa]

Originally Posted by Missing Name

...that looks beautiful. And you said the deck gun got some use?

Used the deck gun till it was dry, trying to maneuver around that area submerged is extremely difficult. Ironically it provided difficult at times having to manuever backwards enough to hit below the waterline and not hit another ship or burning wreck.

Too much later in the timeline when all merchants are armed makes getting into this area nearly impossible. Only with the most severe/zero visibility weather (and nightime) do you have any hope of getting through, the route isn't mined but extremely shallow. If you don't go down the middle you ground you end up beaching your boat.

[desirableroasted]

Originally Posted by Tessa

Used the deck gun till it was dry, trying to maneuver around that area submerged is extremely difficult. Ironically it provided difficult at times having to manuever backwards enough to hit below the waterline and not hit another ship or burning wreck.

Too much later in the timeline when all merchants are armed makes getting into this area nearly impossible. Only with the most severe/zero visibility weather (and nightime) do you have any hope of getting through, the route isn't mined but extremely shallow. If you don't go down the middle you ground you end up beaching your boat.

Well done! In real life, they would have invented a new medal just for you.

What sort of ASW did you get in there? And how did you ever get out?

[Gargamel]

Originally Posted by Missing Name

...that looks beautiful. And you said the deck gun got some use?

I LOL'd at this.

I just saw MN perking up at the words Deck Gun. I love my deck gun, but the epic stories I've heard from MN make me smile every time I fire mine.


And pssssst: I perked up too, any 'convoy' that I can use a deck gun is a good convoy.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Tessa

A patrol that I think even Jim would consider aggressive enough:

My obsessive / compulsive nature, however, thinks you sank exactly one ton too many.

[gazpode_l]

it appears I under-estimated my best patrol. One I did back in april 2010 when in command of U-103 in one of my first GWX campaign's.

See here:-
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...postcount=1178