Post War Life... (SH3 Commander)

[mookiemookie]

So my favorite career...that of Oberleutnant Z. S. Karl Richter...has finally come to a close. I'm running SH3 Commander and after 10 patrols (and a paltry 231 days at sea...oh yeah, and 336,000 tons of shipping sunk ) SH3 Commander has reassigned me to training duties in Kiel in March 1942.

This is the first time I've ever played a career to completion. Of course you develop a sort of attachment to your boat, and your crew, and I was actually kind of happy to see that Herr Kaleun Richter survived the war, went on to become a Flottillenadmiral and the Commander of the North Sea division in the Bundesmarine before dying in 1989.

Anyone else have any good or bad stories about what happened to their favorite Kapitans?

[Tuddley3]

Did you know that if you go back to Cmdr before deleting that career, you can click on Launch SH3, and resume it. You get a Popup saying something like"Tired ofWorking Behind The Desk ? If You Would Like To Return To Duty, Click To Resume Career". Then you just return back to where you left off.

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Capt USA

Did you know that if you go back to Cmdr before deleting that career, you can click on Launch SH3, and resume it. You get a Popup saying something like"Tired ofWorking Behind The Desk ? If You Would Like To Return To Duty, Click To Resume Career". Then you just return back to where you left off.

Yes, but why do that to Karl? He's probably tired of the smell of sweat, diesel oil and Colibri. Let him enjoy his well earned cushy desk job. I've just started a Drumbeat career and am on my way to New Jersey.

Speaking of Colibri, you can buy some here. Not sure if its the same stuff, but you can try slathering yourself with this, spilling some gasoline on your hands, annd wrapping an old Gym shirt around your nose for full immersion into life on a U-boat: http://www.maroma.com/products/colibri/lotion.htm

[Ducimus]

I should enable that "realistic career length" option on SH3 commander. My career games would acutally end on a happy note. Instead its usually the grizzled old commander with 600+ days at sea is sunk by aircraft or some HK group in late 44.

[P_Funk]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

I should enable that "realistic career length" option on SH3 commander. My career games would acutally end on a happy note. Instead its usually the grizzled old commander with 600+ days at sea is sunk by aircraft or some HK group in late 44.

Indeed. What I think would be cool is maybe a way to play out a U-boats career. Like your captain gets retired and you take over as the 2nd in command who is promoted to Captain. That would be a cool thing I think. It could be an option you could enable maybe. Or maybe you could have options for retirement. Like you could do what Erich Topp did. He said he'd retire to the training school if they'd transfer his boat and its crew to the South Atlantic. That could be like options based on renown.

Maybe I should be posting in the SH3 Cmdr thread.:hmm:

[JScones]

Originally Posted by P_Funk

Indeed. What I think would be cool is maybe a way to play out a U-boats career. Like your captain gets retired and you take over as the 2nd in command who is promoted to Captain. That would be a cool thing I think. It could be an option you could enable maybe.

Maybe I should be posting in the SH3 Cmdr thread.:hmm:

Already been raised - it's been on my "to do" list since about R2.2. The sticking point is rolling over any acquired U-boat upgrades so that the "new" career commences with the same U-boat equipment. Everything else is easy.

In fact, if you have a non-upgraded U-boat (or don't mind "manually" re-upgrading when your new career starts), then you can achieve what you want now with only a small amount of fiddling.

When your current Commander is retired, take the career's latest Crew_Career_ file and add it to SH3Cmdr as a new crew option (you'll need to copy and rename it to crew_config_<boattype>_1.cfg, crew_config_<boattype>_2.cfg and crew_config_<boattype>_3.cfg - see the SH3Cmdr Help file). Then set up for a new career, setting the same U-boat type, number and Flotilla as the previous career and selecting your newly added crew. Set the start date to be the month following the previous career's end date.

Your new career will then start at the beginning of the month after where your last career left off, but with a new Commander in charge. Everything else will be same (excluding the aforementioned upgrades, although depending on date, some of these upgrades WILL be part of your new boat by default).

Of course, bear in mind that tonnage scores were linked to Commander, not boat, so they will all be correctly reset to zero.

I've followed these steps with all my retired and subsequent "new" careers - I wouldn't do it any other way.

[P_Funk]

J man... you are too cool. How you do that? This is a freaking SubSim message board! Must be that Rakish avatar.

I am bookmarking this thread so I can do all that you mentioned next time I am force retired.

Cheers Mate!

[Biggles]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Anyone else have any good or bad stories about what happened to their favorite Kapitans?

One of my captains (I think his name was "Von Stalhein") survived the entire war (1sep.1939-15may.1945, 0% realism). I suppose the only thing that made sure that I survived the last two weeks was that I went to the baltic sea and attack russian shipping. It was a nice ending if you ask me, going into Kiel (I think) on the late morning of may 15. I started in Kiel, went on to Brest, transfered to La. Spieza and transferred back to Brest. Later on I was forced to go to Bergen, but I HATE that harbor (it's just too many islands up there) so I fooled around for the most part of the war. The BdU didn't really complain, since I still sank a lot of shipping, and never hit a neutral.