Oh well this isn't ominous at all

[frau kaleun]

Getting ready to start my first combat patrol of a new career and Commander informs me that my Obersteuermann has been killed in a bar fight.



I guess I picked the wrong day to give up quaaludes.

*sniff*

He was just an Oberfähnrich! He should've been in his bunk writing a letter home to his Mutti, not out engaging in drunken fisticuffs.

I keep telling the lads, if anybody makes fun of you again for having a woman kommandant, just smile mysteriously and give them a wink and a somewhat suggestive eyebrow-waggle and WALK AWAY.

Then point them out to me later and I'll open a can of Lady Kaleun Fu on their sorry butts.

OTOH I guess it's a good thing I played that first patrol at 100% realism, cuz now I'm gonna have to spend some renown to get me another navigator.

[brett25]

if anybody makes fun of you again for having a woman kommandant,

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

I keep telling the lads, if anybody makes fun of you again for having a woman kommandant, just smile mysteriously and give them a wink and a somewhat suggestive eyebrow-waggle and WALK AWAY.

Are you sure that's what they were making fun at

[sergei]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

I guess I picked the wrong day to give up quaaludes.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Are you sure that's what they were making fun at

Well if the poor boy was gonna insist on handing pictures of his sister around, then he should've been a little less sensitive about the family resembance.

[Jimbuna]

LOL

[Dissaray]

Who knows, this could be a good omen. Perhaps he was fated to die that day, had you gone out earlyer then he would have to have died on your boat and that could cause any number of issues most unplesant.

[TarJak]

Meh just get another one for the meat grinder!

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by TarJak

Meh just get another one for the meat grinder!

Done and done.

[Paul Riley]

I never knew they could actually DIE while on leave
Do you also have realistic crew transfers on too?

[Didd]

On a similar theme, I once had one of my finest killed by partisans...in Wilhelmshaven!! That was a bit of a surprise - in a French base fine, but surely this didn't happen in Germany? Or did it?

[sergei]

Originally Posted by Didd

On a similar theme, I once had one of my finest killed by partisans...in Wilhelmshaven!!

I'm pretty sure once I lost a petty officer due to a car accident.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Didd

On a similar theme, I once had one of my finest killed by partisans...in Wilhelmshaven!! That was a bit of a surprise - in a French base fine, but surely this didn't happen in Germany? Or did it?

It did in SH3 apparently

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Paul Riley

I never knew they could actually DIE while on leave
Do you also have realistic crew transfers on too?

Yes, realistic crew transfers.

Usually it's somebody transfering out to another boat, and someone transfering in fresh from training.

But I have also had crewmen who were arrested by local police for public drunkenness, injured in an auto accident, went on leave and never came back... and now killed in a bar fight.

It makes it interesting, especially after I've printed out my crew list at the finish of one patrol, given out whatever awards and quals were earned, and assured myself that I am satisfied with how things stand as we "prepare" to go out again.

And then I hit the "launch SH3" button and *POPUP!* find out my Chief Engineer went AWOL.

[Sailor Steve]

When I have one die or just disappear, I roll a die. If I roll a one it happened at the last minute, and I sail one man short.