What got you interested in WWII submarines?

[Sledgehammer427]

Long story short I bought a 4 game pack from a store at the age of 5 to play Fighting Steel, the surface combat simulator. In that pack was Silent Hunter Commanders edition and I started gaining interest, especially after the release of U-571. After a long hiatus because of school and entering young adulthood I returned to SH3 in '07 and made an account here.
It's all been up, down, and around including through the hill ever since

[Red Devil]

Originally Posted by Sledgehammer427

Long story short I bought a 4 game pack from a store at the age of 5 to play Fighting Steel, the surface combat simulator. In that pack was Silent Hunter Commanders edition and I started gaining interest, especially after the release of U-571. After a long hiatus because of school and entering young adulthood I returned to SH3 in '07 and made an account here.
It's all been up, down, and around including through the hill ever since

Are you refering to the film U571? A complete work of fiction bearing no resemblance to actuality. It got slagged in the UK and hardly got a viewing in cinemas. Typical Hollywood trash.

[Sledgehammer427]

Originally Posted by Red Devil

Are you refering to the film U571? A complete work of fiction bearing no resemblance to actuality. It got slagged in the UK and hardly got a viewing in cinemas. Typical Hollywood trash.

Aye, thats the movie. It was very appealing in the theater although I was read up enough on the real history to know it was a complete farce.

[Mush Martin]

BBC "The War Years" as a child
and
Silent Service for 8 bit Nintendo
as a young adult

[ReallyDedPoet]

Living by the water for one ( near the Atlantic Ocean ) and Fast
Attack

[Armistead]

I loved subs from that first arcade game where ships passed before you like ducks and you had to time your shots.

Seems my first sub game was by Microprose.

[Haukka81]

Originally Posted by Mush Martin

BBC "The War Years" as a child
and
Silent Service for 8 bit Nintendo
as a young adult

Silent Service here too in my nintendo 8bit , It was 1989, 90 or 91 i think when i first played it.

[neilbyrne]

Lexandro, thanks for the rec on Victory at Sea. I finally got around to looking at it on Steam. It doesn't appear from the reviews to be what I'm looking for tho.

The largest departure from reality appears to be the gunnery accuracy which is the mistake the surface games that I've played have made. Naval gunfire is the furthest thing from a death ray you can imagine. Hit probabilities at what you would normally think to be mean hitting ranges run in the single digits percentage wise.

This was one of the issues with the gaming folks when we talked a realistic WWII surface game. "No one wants to fire a half dozen broadsides and come away with one hit or none." One of their solutions was to have three modes of play. An arcade like GUI where the player aims himself and is rewarded with hits based on his hand/eye coordination similar to the way SH handles gunfire. The second mode would be probabilistics driven via a data base populated with actual stats where available and then a third mode which would allow the player to determine by what percentage increase he wanted to corrupt the second mode to feature more hits than would be historical. Of course we never got that far.

[cdpca]

Victory at Sea and Silent Service TV series in the 50's...kinda shows my age!

[Red Devil]

Das Boot is probably the most authentic u boat film ever made, even down to the contempt the crew held for the 'political officer'. I have it still on VHS and on DVD.