Longest Patrol (Distance) - Page 2

CCIP · 09-19-06, 12:44 PM

My longest patrol was my famed Monsoon cruise during WaW I:
http://radioroom.wolvesatwar.org/viewtopic.php?t=4248

The farthest I went was east of New Guinea :hmm:

GT182 · 09-19-06, 01:11 PM

CCIP, where'd you get the skin for your IX/D2? The conn looks nice, I like it. Looks like there's 2 U-181's out on the high seas. LOL Upon upgrading from the IX/C I received my IX/D2 as U-181.

For the farhtest patrol I've ever been on, it's Lorient to Capetown to patrol Grid 58 in a VII/B. Talk about trying to save fuel, with no resupply available either.

andy_311 · 09-19-06, 04:31 PM

My longest patrol was in a IXD2 Lorient to Penang

09-19-06, 09:25 PM

Departed St. Nazaire.
Pass through the Pillars of Hercules.
Traversed the Med
Busted through the Suez
Traversed the Red Sea
Crossed the Indian Ocean
Raided around Australia (found lots of ships in the Bass Straights)
Resup at Penang
Passed north of PNG
Crossed the Pasific, Island hopping - not many Islands either (didnt find many ships, 2 maybe)
Checked out Pearl - Nothing there.
Pass through the Panama Canal
Raided along the Eastern Seaboard of the USA/Canada
When level with St. Nazaire - crossed the Atlantic back to base

Have repeated this 3 times now with slight variations. Takes a long time.
Well the poster did say - "Join the Kriegsmarine and see the World"

CCIP · 09-19-06, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by GT182

CCIP, where'd you get the skin for your IX/D2? The conn looks nice, I like it. Looks like there's 2 U-181's out on the high seas. LOL Upon upgrading from the IX/C I received my IX/D2 as U-181.

It's a hybrid of fubar's normal IXD skin and the tower from his late war IXC skin. You can find these at realsimulation

The farthest I've been to on a Type VII was off Brasil, with resupply from a Milk Cow. The farthest I've been to on a Type II was around Rockall bank, although I keep meaning to have an experimental career where I'd use it to scoot around from resupply to resupply (I'll probably never get to it).

The furthest I'll be on a IXB/C will be this WaW patrol off Capetown

JSalinger · 09-20-06, 08:47 PM

Gibs, that is pretty epic...really did go around the world! LOL

Question: How'd you successfully get through the Suez Canal? I thought the Tommies had the place smothered with airbases and escorts and shore guns...

09-21-06, 01:31 AM

Easy, I waited untill I had foul weather at night for cover. Used the dark, fog and rain to help hide me as I ran the Suez. Visability gets down to around 100m- 200m at night in a pea soup like that. I then surface and hit flank and RUN for all I'm worth. The only thing is, I pray like mad I dont litteraly run into something or some1!

1's I'm safely a ¼ of the way into the Suez I can slow down and conserve fuel. No traffic scripted/spawns that far in land/up the canal..

Biggles · 09-21-06, 08:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Cdre Gibs

Crossed the Pasific, Island hopping - not many Islands either (didnt find many ships, 2 maybe)
Checked out Pearl - Nothing there.
Pass through the Panama Canal
Raided along the Eastern Seaboard of the USA/Canada
When level with St. Nazaire - crossed the Atlantic back to base

Have repeated this 3 times now with slight variations. Takes a long time.
Well the poster did say - "Join the Kriegsmarine and see the World"

Is it possible to go from,say Australia to Pearl Harbor just like that??? the Direct route? Don't you have to go all the way from south Pacific and take the route south of America????

Captain Nemo · 09-21-06, 10:06 AM

I must say that I didn't realize that the whole of the world was mapped in SHIII (only been playing SHIII for a couple of months). It's a pity that the ice cap isn't modelled in the game as previous posts seem to suggest. I've seen icebergs in single missions why don't they appear in career mode?

Nemo

Laffertytig · 09-21-06, 12:38 PM

whats the highest TC u guys use to do long patrols? ive heard anything above 256x and u get weird aircraft behaviour

Captain Nemo · 09-22-06, 04:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Laffertytig

whats the highest TC u guys use to do long patrols? ive heard anything above 256x and u get weird aircraft behaviour

I think I read somewhere on the forum that TC in excess of 256 means that the game misses waypoints and therefore you have less chance of encountering aircraft. I can confirm this as I always used to use 1024 but never seemed to bump into any aircraft. Since using only 256 or less I have encountered quite a few enemy planes. I think this might also apply to random ship encounters as well. The downside of course is that it takes forever to get anywhere.

Nemo

DanBiddle · 09-22-06, 04:51 AM

Well, seeing as I'm still really new to this game, my only career so far has been in Type II boats, although hopefully the French bases will open up soon so I can move up a class.

My longest patrol was halfway up the coast of Norway in U-24, and I came back with very little fuel remaining :P

Nothing like all your epic cruises, but it seemed a long way to me!

Cheers,

Dan Biddle

09-19-06, 12:44 PM	#16
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	My longest patrol was my famed Monsoon cruise during WaW I: http://radioroom.wolvesatwar.org/viewtopic.php?t=4248 The farthest I went was east of New Guinea :hmm: __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

09-19-06, 01:11 PM	#17
GT182 Ocean Warrior Join Date: May 2005 Location: New Castle of Delaware Posts: 3,231 Downloads: 658 Uploads: 0	CCIP, where'd you get the skin for your IX/D2? The conn looks nice, I like it. Looks like there's 2 U-181's out on the high seas. LOL Upon upgrading from the IX/C I received my IX/D2 as U-181. For the farhtest patrol I've ever been on, it's Lorient to Capetown to patrol Grid 58 in a VII/B. Talk about trying to save fuel, with no resupply available either. __________________ Gary No Borders, No Language, No Culture =s No Country I'm a Deplorable, and proud of it.

09-19-06, 09:25 PM	#19
Cdre Gibs Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Departed St. Nazaire. Pass through the Pillars of Hercules. Traversed the Med Busted through the Suez Traversed the Red Sea Crossed the Indian Ocean Raided around Australia (found lots of ships in the Bass Straights) Resup at Penang Passed north of PNG Crossed the Pasific, Island hopping - not many Islands either (didnt find many ships, 2 maybe) Checked out Pearl - Nothing there. Pass through the Panama Canal Raided along the Eastern Seaboard of the USA/Canada When level with St. Nazaire - crossed the Atlantic back to base Have repeated this 3 times now with slight variations. Takes a long time. Well the poster did say - "Join the Kriegsmarine and see the World" Last edited by Cdre Gibs; 09-19-06 at 09:27 PM.

09-20-06, 08:47 PM	#21
JSalinger Sparky Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Spokane, WA, USA Posts: 156 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Gibs, that is pretty epic...really did go around the world! LOL Question: How'd you successfully get through the Suez Canal? I thought the Tommies had the place smothered with airbases and escorts and shore guns... __________________ J. Salinger King of the House

09-19-06, 04:31 PM	#18
andy_311 The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Oldham, Lancs,England Posts: 1,312 Downloads: 82 Uploads: 0	My longest patrol was in a IXD2 Lorient to Penang

09-21-06, 01:31 AM	#22
Cdre Gibs Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Easy, I waited untill I had foul weather at night for cover. Used the dark, fog and rain to help hide me as I ran the Suez. Visability gets down to around 100m- 200m at night in a pea soup like that. I then surface and hit flank and RUN for all I'm worth. The only thing is, I pray like mad I dont litteraly run into something or some1! 1's I'm safely a ¼ of the way into the Suez I can slow down and conserve fuel. No traffic scripted/spawns that far in land/up the canal..

09-21-06, 10:06 AM	#24
Captain Nemo Ace of the Deep Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: London, England Posts: 1,144 Downloads: 54 Uploads: 0	I must say that I didn't realize that the whole of the world was mapped in SHIII (only been playing SHIII for a couple of months). It's a pity that the ice cap isn't modelled in the game as previous posts seem to suggest. I've seen icebergs in single missions why don't they appear in career mode? Nemo

09-21-06, 12:38 PM	#25
Laffertytig Grey Wolf Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 757 Downloads: 110 Uploads: 0	whats the highest TC u guys use to do long patrols? ive heard anything above 256x and u get weird aircraft behaviour

09-22-06, 04:51 AM	#27
DanBiddle Torpedoman Join Date: May 2006 Location: London, UK Posts: 117 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Well, seeing as I'm still really new to this game, my only career so far has been in Type II boats, although hopefully the French bases will open up soon so I can move up a class. My longest patrol was halfway up the coast of Norway in U-24, and I came back with very little fuel remaining :P Nothing like all your epic cruises, but it seemed a long way to me! Cheers, Dan Biddle