The things I learned from Silent Hunter III!

Originally Posted by Safe-Keeper

If land stretches on for kilometres and there's no submarine to see it, does it still exist? Nope.

Originally Posted by enacio

-The navy fanfare was fed with "Uber-soldat" pills so that they could sing for days on end untill the U-boat came back in port.Either that or they used telephaty to tell when the U-boat would come back;

I lumped these two together just so I could ask the question: How do you know they keep singing? If there's no one to hear it, do they keep it up? (I know the answer is yes, but I had to ask).

In U-boats the captain could sleep for weeks on end, only waking up when an enemy was sighted.

While this was going on, sometimes the weather would never change.

Speaking of weather: It's always clear, calm and cloudless when a U-boat leaves port.

[kiwi_2005]

In pitch blackness my uber watch crew can spot a ship 5000 yrds away.

[Pants]

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

In pitch blackness my uber watch crew can spot a ship 5000 yrds away.

Yeah, they eat lots and LOTS of carrots :p

[Deimos01]

On a German U-boat, the radio operator will spend hours spinning the wheel of the rador scope even though your boat is equiped with the one the only sees 10 deg right or left.

[stabiz]

The thing I learn(ed) from Silent Hunter is that you never get to old for computer games.

Oh ... and that its really fun to hit "c" if somebody else is playing.

[Max Peck]

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

In pitch blackness my uber watch crew can spot a ship 5000 yrds away.

On the flip side, my watch crew are blind as bats and cannot see a Large Cargo vessel beaming a spotlight on the conning tower from about 500 meters away.

[johan_d]

- 60 years ago weather was much more prone to stay, storms lasts for weeks, or months. Thats why they lost stalingrad, snow all the way..lol. Luckily HAARP changed all this.

- The Boys from Brazil movie is true, clones are on the bridge

- Dunno about cocaine, but the Germans invented persistant watch crew, but due the drugs they dont see anything besides waves..

- Secrets are kept behind Uboat doors, who even the captain cant open..

- The Germans especially selected sonar men with bad ears for their duty.

- My radio man is turning a wheel what doesnt do anything.. I guess he is steering with us like my kids do in the car

- Music dont travel as sound underwater, its a fact.

- And last but not lest; the British were way beyond their time, they had xray vison, night equipped bino's, high grade radar and watchcrew with eye lasered vison, especially in stormy weather.

[GT182]

And this one...

Just when you thing you've seen it all, some new bug pops up when you least expect it.... and don't want it.

[TarJak]

- Watch and engine crew don't need sleep for days or weeks.
- Fog only exists to about 1000ft up and doesn't get disturbed even in high winds.
- Ships with broken backs always break up at exactly the same place and with clean edges.
- Land units don't get notified when a U-boat is seen in the vicinity.
- Neutral countries don't complain when you shell their ships and buildings. At least not to you anyway!
- Submarines in pens use their 88mm and 105mm guns as AAA during air raids.
- Everyboddy except you uses every gun they have as AAA during air raids.

The torpedo that could mean life or death for you will always hit perfectly and always be a dud