The things I learned from Silent Hunter III!

[kiwi_2005]

In pitch blackness my uber watch crew can spot a ship 5000 yrds away.

[Pants]

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

In pitch blackness my uber watch crew can spot a ship 5000 yrds away.

Yeah, they eat lots and LOTS of carrots :p

[Deimos01]

On a German U-boat, the radio operator will spend hours spinning the wheel of the rador scope even though your boat is equiped with the one the only sees 10 deg right or left.

[stabiz]

The thing I learn(ed) from Silent Hunter is that you never get to old for computer games.

Oh ... and that its really fun to hit "c" if somebody else is playing.

[Max Peck]

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

In pitch blackness my uber watch crew can spot a ship 5000 yrds away.

On the flip side, my watch crew are blind as bats and cannot see a Large Cargo vessel beaming a spotlight on the conning tower from about 500 meters away.

[johan_d]

- 60 years ago weather was much more prone to stay, storms lasts for weeks, or months. Thats why they lost stalingrad, snow all the way..lol. Luckily HAARP changed all this.

- The Boys from Brazil movie is true, clones are on the bridge

- Dunno about cocaine, but the Germans invented persistant watch crew, but due the drugs they dont see anything besides waves..

- Secrets are kept behind Uboat doors, who even the captain cant open..

- The Germans especially selected sonar men with bad ears for their duty.

- My radio man is turning a wheel what doesnt do anything.. I guess he is steering with us like my kids do in the car

- Music dont travel as sound underwater, its a fact.

- And last but not lest; the British were way beyond their time, they had xray vison, night equipped bino's, high grade radar and watchcrew with eye lasered vison, especially in stormy weather.

[GT182]

And this one...

Just when you thing you've seen it all, some new bug pops up when you least expect it.... and don't want it.

[TarJak]

- Watch and engine crew don't need sleep for days or weeks.
- Fog only exists to about 1000ft up and doesn't get disturbed even in high winds.
- Ships with broken backs always break up at exactly the same place and with clean edges.
- Land units don't get notified when a U-boat is seen in the vicinity.
- Neutral countries don't complain when you shell their ships and buildings. At least not to you anyway!
- Submarines in pens use their 88mm and 105mm guns as AAA during air raids.
- Everyboddy except you uses every gun they have as AAA during air raids.

The torpedo that could mean life or death for you will always hit perfectly and always be a dud

[enaceo]

Also:
-Brits can use their guns even in the worst weather possible,and still manage to hit perfectly ;
-PT boats and other small craft could sometimes take a direct HE hit and still not have any problems;
-Destroying explosive cargo on ships had very little or no effect at all(exterior cargo had no effect,the inner cargo would make the ship explode instantly);