Factum est

[the.terrabyte.pirate]

I'd love to see a stickied thread of the final statistics of those brave few that have lasted the war. Kinda like a wall of honour.

[SmokinTep]

Awesome.............making it to the end of the war.

[Platapus]

I have to admit that when I do another career, I will be hard pressed to go past September 1943. The game really started to suck after that. I just wanted to complete a war career at least once.

20 months of aircraft sighted, crash dive, repair, quick charge rinse and repeat gets old realllllly fast. But SH3 is a historical simulator and that's how life (and death) was for U-boats after late 1943.

My only regret was spending the renown on the upgraded superstructure and the extra flak guns (one heavy two light). It was a waste of renown. By the time I was able to get these, fighting air attacks was a losing game.

Having spent this renown I ran out when some of the newer homing torpedoes came available. I never was able to get a schnorkle (them things be expensive!)

It was interesting surviving a particularly brutal depth charge attack from this overly dedicated destroyer in the early morning of 9 May 1945.

I wanted to send up a message "hey dude, you already won the frickin war! No need to kill me!"

I was disappointed that there was no emotional ending to the game. It just kind of ended. It would have been nice if I could have hosted the white flag and sailed into a British harbour and surrendered with honour.

Awesome game. Been playing it for years but never went through the full war. As part of Operation Paperclip I have been transfered to the Pacific. Someone has to show these Naval Academy woosies that there is more to commanding a submarine then getting dressed up for fancy dances.

But I will be back. I anticipate World War II to start again in a few months LoL

[Keelbuster]

Originally Posted by Platapus

I never was able to get a schnorkle (them things be expensive!)

Woah - you made it!! That's only happened for me one other time. And I finished in an XXI with a schorkel etc. Amazing that you made it all that away without a schnorkel. I can't even imagine the number of crash dives you must have made.

Good show!

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Keelbuster

I can't even imagine the number of crash dives you must have made.

U52 All diving all the time

It is amazing how long the batteries can last when you are at dead stop 40 meters

BTW I hate the realism of it being hard to maintain deep depth without more and more speed. Kinda killed my tactic of "lets sit here at 220 meters with engines stopped"

At one time, when I was a little "too" deep, I needed standard motors to keep from sinking. Not good when trying to hide. Does anyone know the max depth you can maintain with no motors running?

It is great that I had an air compressor, but what I needed was incompressible air!