What kind of subsim skipper are you?

[kg6eyr]

HARDCORE SUBSIM SKIPPER
No doubt about it, you are hardcore. You are the kind of subsim player who pins up the Kriegsmarine gridmap on your wall, you use a redlamp when playing at night, your wife lets you know her mother is visiting by shouting "Alarm!" and you didn't know--or care--that Silent Hunter III has a save game feature. You cut your teeth plotting attacks in Gato, sank 28,000 tons in your first Aces of the Deep patrol, and played Dangerous Waters at 100% realism. You scoff at wannabes who whine about some niggling detail in a subsim but use the red triangle-infested auto TDC and auto-map updates. You never, ever, use anything but full realism.

You are the "sim" in Subsim.

I wouldn't mind a gridmap, actually. Now, in my case, there's no wife, yet. Guaranteed, if I played at 100%, at least at this stage, I'd have zero success. Doesn't mean I won't go out and try to get the feel for it though.

Glad to know that despite how much I suck, I'm still harcore!

[vanjast]

It seems like Hardcore is too soft for me..

[desertstriker]

HARDCORE SUBSIM SKIPPERNo doubt about it, you are hardcore. You are the kind of subsim player who pins up the Kriegsmarine gridmap on your wall, you use a redlamp when playing at night, your wife lets you know her mother is visiting by shouting "Alarm!" and you didn't know--or care--that Silent Hunter III has a save game feature. You cut your teeth plotting attacks in Gato, sank 28,000 tons in your first Aces of the Deep patrol, and played Dangerous Waters at 100% realism. You scoff at wannabes who whine about some niggling detail in a subsim but use the red triangle-infested auto TDC and auto-map updates. You never, ever, use anything but full realism.
You are the "sim" in Subsim.

[nimitz98]

I'm strategic. Be my friend or be a mushroom cloud!



NOTE: I actually was categorized as "action oriented" the first time I took the quiz, but I was just goofing around with the answers then.

[russ663]

Dang it was right that is how i am.. Nice lil test..
russ

[russ663]

ROLE-PLAYING SUBSIM SKIPPER

Your taste in sub and naval games runs the gamut from Grey Wolf to Silent Hunter 4. You have tried them all, at varying realism options. You're a lit-tle old-er than the typical subsim skipper, and probably remember using a tape cassette player to load programs onto your Radio Shack TRS-80. (Or perhaps you're wise beyond your years.) Your primary joy is using your imagination to put yourself into the game. You are able to overlook little details like the crew appearing instantly on the bridge, or wonky AI: to you, these are easily worked into the story as a crew who are really light on their feet, and frigates that have green skippers. The game platform gets you halfway there, your imagination does the rest. You spend lots of time setting up your crew management so it's just right and may even talk to them. You relish managing support and logistics in games like Pacific Storm, Navy Field, and Silent War.

[arkroyal]

ACTION-ORIENTED SUBSIM SKIPPER
Oh hell, who are we kidding? Working TMA in Dangerous Waters is as exciting as watching paint dry. You want no part of it, and rightfully so, you are a man of action, the reason games with good graphics sell. You may try a hand at Silent Hunter 4 but only with fast reloads and never dud torpedoes. Who says you cannot sink a whole convoy and never drop below 16x time compression? And manual TDC? Are they crazy? If you wanted to work trig problems, you could do that in school. No, you like fast-paced games like Battlestations: Midway and Steel Tide. Blow stuff up real good! Zoom! Blam! Full speed ahead--look, a kitty!

[dannygjk]

Hardcore, but I smiled when it spoke of 100% realism because in SH1 I like to play at 115% I played the game for months before I accidentally discovered that it can be played at 115%
Admittedly SH1 is too easy, period, so I have to play at 115% else I feel like I'm cheating.

Danny

[ikalugin]

STRATEGIC SUBSIM SKIPPER

For you, Silent Hunter 4 is just Battleship with shiny, moving pieces. You see the big picture, you think long term, and you are indifferent to political consequences. They would not have put you in charge of a $2 billion attack sub if they didn't want you to use it. You learned that back in Red Storm Rising and you never forgot. You prefer handling large scale operations like Fleet Command and Fighting Steel. Half your time is spent setting up mind-numbingly complex battle plans, with 8 layers of contingencies. You pray for the day Sonalysts will release a ballistic missile sub. With nukes. Every day is a good day for the other side to die. Your motto is "Be my friend or be a mushroom cloud."

hehe.

In reality I am your average over aggressive Akula driver and I don't have any love for WW2 era setting sub sims (or even for conventional subs in modern setting sub sims).

[U-15]

HARDCORE SUBSIM SKIPPER
No doubt about it, you are hardcore. You are the kind of subsim player who pins up the Kriegsmarine gridmap on your wall, you use a redlamp when playing at night, your wife lets you know her mother is visiting by shouting "Alarm!" and you didn't know--or care--that Silent Hunter III has a save game feature. You cut your teeth plotting attacks in Gato, sank 28,000 tons in your first Aces of the Deep patrol, and played Dangerous Waters at 100% realism. You scoff at wannabes who whine about some niggling detail in a subsim but use the red triangle-infested auto TDC and auto-map updates. You never, ever, use anything but full realism.
You are the "sim" in Subsim.

A fun quiz, but only the last bit in bold yellow, applies to me.

[Punkrokker]

HARDCORE SUBSIM SKIPPER
No doubt about it, you are hardcore. You are the kind of subsim player who pins up the Kriegsmarine gridmap on your wall, you use a red lamp when playing at night, your wife lets you know her mother is visiting by shouting "Alarm!" and you didn't know--or care--that Silent Hunter III has a save game feature. You cut your teeth plotting attacks in Gato, sank 28,000 tons in your first Aces of the Deep patrol, and played Dangerous Waters at 100% realism. You scoff at wannabes who whine about some niggling detail in a subsim but use the red triangle-infested auto TDC and auto-map updates. You never, ever, use anything but full realism.
You are the "sim" in Subsim.
Why yes, I do still have my map from SH3 in my game room and it even has some X's on it from ships that I sank back when I was playing SH3, lol.

Awesome quiz, thanks for sharing.

[Nemo66]

oohhps..casual skipper...that hurts! Especially because its true (somehow )

never felt so unmasked after a simple test/quiz like this!

I never will do such thing again. What a trap!

[Tango589]

Nuke Skipper here.

Just drop me into a Seawolf or Los Angeles, preferably with lots of ADCAP and TLAMs and I'm a happy bunny!

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Nemo66

oohhps..casual skipper...that hurts! Especially because its true (somehow )

never felt so unmasked after a simple test/quiz like this!

I never will do such thing again. What a trap!

Haha, love your reply.

[CptCrunch]

Casual - yep thats me




Whatever ... I don't care how they sink as long as they go down.