What's your favorite ship in the game.

[Armistead]

If you like the large oil tanker, this is even better..should be the biggest merchant..Large modern freighter..think it's in RSRD, but there is a seperate mod for it, installs fine with RSRD. 11K tons

[chrysanthos]

my favorite playble ship if you mean right? well they are fuso ise before conversion kongo and maya

[commandosolo2009]

Mine favourite is the Large Old Passenger Carrier, and the Conte Verde.. I don't like battleships because they are very armored and a salvo of 6 often never finished the job. Aircraft carriers are a rarity.

I also like the Large Freighters and Tankers, with the exception of small versions, which often confuse me.

As for loving some ships, well, I love the Flower Corvette, the Clemson, the Fletcher, and the Fubuki destroyers.. I don't know if Buckley klasse is portrayed in game (been two or three years since playing UBM), but that too is eye candy.

Good question btw...

[Anthony W.]

To sail... Definitely any one of the destroyers. I love the speed and maneuverability.

To sink - any of the big capitol ships. I love the feeling of accomplishment I get from taking out a big carrier or battleship.

Like when I sank The Yamato and the Musashi in 1 patrol.

[Schwieger]

Originally Posted by Anthony W.

Like when I sank The Yamato and the Musashi in 1 patrol.

That must have been an experience.

I must say I do like the lines of the Japanese battleships - Fuso, Ise before the conversion, Kongo too. Lexington Class Battlecruiser is a favourite of mine now too even though it's still WIP. That there's a good looking ship

[WernherVonTrapp]

Gee, I never really gave much thought to the idea of favorite ships. It does appear that some ships are endowed with more structural details than others, especially at closer range where other ship's details blur or wash-out. I suppose the Furutaka might be one of the finer detailed ships as are some of the DDs (don't recall exactly which ones off-hand). The Takaos are pretty good too. I can't say for sure though (at the moment) which one is my favorite. Maybe the Mogamis?

[V.C. Sniper]

Iowa class superbattleship and Balao class.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Anthony W.

Like when I sank The Yamato and the Musashi in 1 patrol.

I have never even seen one of those, no less attacked one.

[Bubblehead1980]

Originally Posted by Armistead

If you like the large oil tanker, this is even better..should be the biggest merchant..Large modern freighter..think it's in RSRD, but there is a seperate mod for it, installs fine with RSRD. 11K tons

I've been looking for this.Do you have a link for it? i lost it

[Aviv]

Hmm, my favourite ship I think is the Takao or Mogami cruiser. Very modern and cool looking ship. I like this smokestack which is curved. Very cool. I like the Fletcher destroyer too. I think it's the most powerful destroyer until the 1980s, with almost cruiser strength. I have to thank Silent Hunter for teaching me so much about ships and the Navy!

[Navelintel]

Of all the ships in SH3 & SH4 which are pretty impressive and well rendered especially in the ‘Super Mods’, I’m partial to the U.S. Navy's 'Blimp’ airship which I first saw as a little kid (when they were still sailing out of Lakehurst NAS) playing in the sand along the Jersey shore. My dad once told me they were being used for spotting sharks, my brother said they were looking for Russian submarines, but they just plain scared the crap out of me because I was convinced that they were ‘alien’ space craft!




My next and sentimental favorite, though I don’t think the guys at Ubisoft did them justice were the ‘Elco’ Patrol Torpedo Boats (PT’s).



Here’s my redo with the authentic twin 50 cal. gun tubs and colors flying just aft of the helm. The 20mm canon aft is actually obscured the angle of the boat so it’s not properly rendered. I'm still tweaking this screenshot so it's a work in progress.



And last but not least, something that’s classic and timely, well built, low tech, and dependable but slow if you’re not in any real hurry, The Flying Dutchman!

[Daniel Prates]

Oh my, is that dirigible in-game? I never saw it anywhere!

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Daniel Prates

Oh my, is that dirigible in-game? I never saw it anywhere!

Only in GWX and SH3, as far as I know. They patrol the US east coast and the Caribbean.

[Navelintel]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Only in GWX and SH3, as far as I know. They patrol the US east coast and the Caribbean.

Yeah, that's where I found this little honey, in one of the mission patrols in GWX 3.0 (Gold Edition) for SH3 off the coast of New Jersey (which incidentally is a very difficult mission to complete without getting blown out of the water). My deck watch picked up an aircraft off in the distance and when I zoomed in for a closer look it brought back many childhood memories.


During WWII, these gentle giants were very effective at spotting and bringing guns to bear on U-Boats off the Atlantic Coast along the eastern U.S. and Lakehurst NAS was still using the 'Blimp' well into the 1960's (during the height of the Cold War).


I was playing in the sand as a tot in 1958 at the beach when the ominous shadow created by this behemoth first crossed my path as it blocked out the sun from high overhead. Once my dad convinced me that it wasn't an alien space ship from the planet 'Mongol' (the result of an active imagination and viewing too many Flash Gordon episodes on TV) I then felt safe. I once had a chance to see one up close and even sit in the gondola at Lakehurst NAS during an air show which also featured an earlier version of the 'Blue Angles' in 1962!

[Rockin Robbins]

The finest sight in the game is if you can get the light just right on a sinking freighter!


Ah! She's a thing of beauty. Salute!