New Player - not impressed so far....

GoDeep · 09-29-11, 05:43 AM

I'm currently on a very boring, long and tedious patrol. It's August 1941 and BDU has sent me to the middle of the North Atlantic, sitting on the convoy route to Casablanca. However, for the past two weeks that I have been in my designated patrol area, all I have seen are rain, fog, high seas, lightning or just smooth seas with almost no wind. In all that time, I have seen 1 other ship and she was a neutral which I found out after getting into firing position. Weather was really poor and fortunately I didn't have an itchy trigger finger.

Boring? Yes, at times. Realistic? Sure! U-boat crews went through days, sometimes weeks of boredom interspersed with moments of excitement and sheer terror. That's just the way it was. A submarine simulation is not a shoot 'm up game. You need patience and be prepared to be disappointed. Like when you have the perfect solution on that big tanker only to find out the torpedo you fired is a dud. For me, SH3 with GWX is a great game, though it has its quirks, like micromanagement of the crew.

09-29-11, 05:43 AM	#7
GoDeep Planesman Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Netherlands Posts: 188 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	I'm currently on a very boring, long and tedious patrol. It's August 1941 and BDU has sent me to the middle of the North Atlantic, sitting on the convoy route to Casablanca. However, for the past two weeks that I have been in my designated patrol area, all I have seen are rain, fog, high seas, lightning or just smooth seas with almost no wind. In all that time, I have seen 1 other ship and she was a neutral which I found out after getting into firing position. Weather was really poor and fortunately I didn't have an itchy trigger finger. Boring? Yes, at times. Realistic? Sure! U-boat crews went through days, sometimes weeks of boredom interspersed with moments of excitement and sheer terror. That's just the way it was. A submarine simulation is not a shoot 'm up game. You need patience and be prepared to be disappointed. Like when you have the perfect solution on that big tanker only to find out the torpedo you fired is a dud. For me, SH3 with GWX is a great game, though it has its quirks, like micromanagement of the crew. __________________ On sailor's grave there are no roses, On a seaman's grave there blooms no Edelweiss. The only ornaments are the white gulls And the many tears a girl is weeping. -- German folk song, sung by German seamen during the war.