Do you play "Dead is Dead"

Yes.

Unless the game cheats and kills me for reasons of it's own.

Then I cheat right back.

[gabeeg]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Yes.

Unless the game cheats and kills me for reasons of it's own.

Then I cheat right back.

Yep, this is my philosophy also. I play D.I.D. but in one instance I had a very nice patrol and was going home to St. Nav. all torpedos spent, I plotted a safe path (early '42) out of the reach of air cover and upped the time compression, surfaced, set to standard speed and stopped paying attention....next thing I know my forward compartments are red....I am taking damage, I pause the game and try to figure out what is going on....see no other boats, no airplanes...set the TC to 1 again and get the repair crews working...take more damage and sink...WTF! I was south of Ireland at the time (well south...out in the deeps) In this case I did go back to an earlier save and continue...unfortunantly I my most recent save was at the beginning of the patrol and I lost ~ 25K in tons sunk (would have been a total of ~30K). I think that was the most irritated I have ever been with SHIII! Not sure if I was just unlucky and with lottery like chances rammed something or if SHIII just decided it had enough of me.

[STEED]

Yes

[Wulfmann]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Yes.
Unless the game cheats and kills me for reasons of it's own.
Then I cheat right back.

DiD even if the game cheats, the game made a mistake I forgot and left the TC at 2048 and disintegrated the boat against the dock.
DiD no matter what.
My reasoning?
In real life nothing was fair so why should I expect this to always be fair.
When I start making any excuse at all I lesson the simple fact the real a Kaleun could not redo, fair or not.

Wulfmann

[U-snafu]

dead is dead--and i always start back in 1939. have not been able to get past april 40, norway in my duck yet . cannot wait to see what the game has to offer in the later years! I keep hearing talk on these forums about IXC and VIIC--what are those??:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[CWorth]

Originally Posted by U-snafu

dead is dead--and i always start back in 1939. have not been able to get past april 40, norway in my duck yet . cannot wait to see what the game has to offer in the later years! I keep hearing talk on these forums about IXC and VIIC--what are those??:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

I know the feeling.

I also always start in 1939 and for awhile I could could not get near mid 1941.I was dead before the USA ever entered the war.

Now some time later and alot smarter in my playing I can live for alot longer now before dying a horrible death.I have yet to see the end of the war though .

[andy_311]

Originally Posted by Wulfmann

DiD even if the game cheats, the game made a mistake I forgot and left the TC at 2048 and disintegrated the boat against the dock.
DiD no matter what.
My reasoning?
In real life nothing was fair so why should I expect this to always be fair.
When I start making any excuse at all I lesson the simple fact the real a Kaleun could not redo, fair or not.

Wulfmann

The game does cheat my last patrol I took out the AS convoy (42-late43)out of Port of Spain Took most of it out apart from 1 Somner class dd and a Trooptransport, the rest were toast the game respawned the p/liner twice and twice I sank it it said "Enemy unit destroyed" I even seen her sink NO CREDIT a bit later same thing happened again shelled her first at around 3500m them fired a fish at her "enemy unit destroyed" no credit again so why should I play DiD and this is GW 8 fish in total fired on a liner an no credits for it.

[Ducimus]

A couple of my more painful DiD memories:

U-189, IXC:
11 patrols (627 days at sea), Boat lost august, 1944, on her 11th patrol.

U-518, IXC,
8 patrols (515 days at sea), boat lost in may, 1944 on her 8th patrol.

[irish1958]

I have killed more u-boat crews than the entire British and American navies did.
irish1958

[Wilko]

Well U313 a VIIC was just lost with all hands after 5 patrols and 4 ships sunk..

U506 a IXC has had her shake down cruise and around 2/3 of the crew have been assigned their speciality and she has been painted with the med camo and will depart shortly on her first war patrol.

[Phylacista]

When I started to play I did reloads - when torpedos were poorly aimed, when I was detected while testing the limits of surface attacks on convoys... - now I see this was very helpfull to get a feeling for the limits.

With DiD it is far more demanding and exciting: Like W@W I like to pick a historic kaleun (like in my sig) and see how I will fare compared with him.

In my W@W career it is the same and even more exciting because I am part of a community and when I die it has more impact than only to me.

As for the game cheating on me: Yes, when I ram the dock at the S entry of the Kiel kanal at high time compression I do a reload - even when the captain did take a nap the watch crew did not turn blind.

[Myxale]

At the beginning of my SH3 playin, i played the game like every other game.

Meaning; if i got DC'ed to death i did reload. If i missed some Shots at a Tanker or such i did reload too.

And i warped to port everytime!
I was thinking how cool i am as a Kaleun. Ya know, high tonnage, and 15 and more patrols. However...

But later i understood that it isn't that easy, and i started to play this as a Sim, in the real way.

Today...well I rarely last more than 2 years into the war! Doin' the 'DID variant is more taxing but also more rewarding!

I remember a 3 hour real time pounding and my boot got beaten up real bad! That was when i was close to despair, I never thought I'm gonna make it, but imagine the joy when i survived and surfaced later!

Way back i wouldn't bother! I would just reload! I would even reload only because of an DC that got lucky and got me realy good!


Playing it the hard way? No...Simmin' it the real way!

Originally Posted by Wulfmann

DiD even if the game cheats, the game made a mistake I forgot and left the TC at 2048 and disintegrated the boat against the dock.
DiD no matter what.
My reasoning?
In real life nothing was fair so why should I expect this to always be fair.
When I start making any excuse at all I lesson the simple fact the real a Kaleun could not redo, fair or not.

Wulfmann

Good points. I have to admit that sometimes my thinking changes, so I have to reign myself in.

Originally Posted by U-snafu

dead is dead--and i always start back in 1939. have not been able to get past april 40, norway in my duck yet . cannot wait to see what the game has to offer in the later years! I keep hearing talk on these forums about IXC and VIIC--what are those??:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

In keeping with my old habit from SHI I run concurrent careers-one from each available flotilla. If one of them dies I start a new career from that port at the beginning of the next month. This way I slowly progress through the war a little at a time.