Wonderful patrol grid

nightdagger · 12-24-06, 09:04 PM

Guess where BdU sent me to patrol? AM95. For those of you without a map handy, that's in the Irish sea, equidistant from the outlets. Seriously, once I got a coastal merchant, there were hourly air patrols, plus around 5 destroyers (I sunk 2) and Elco boats. I thought Donitz wanted the u-boats to survive.

peterloo · 12-24-06, 09:45 PM

Yep. You can oppose its orders if u thinks that he had gone MAD

Your career won't END if you oppose Bdu orders in SH3. Opposing them will only decrease the renown you got in that particular patrol.

Also, you may use SH3 commander to change the patrol grid

Kpt. Lehmann · 12-24-06, 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by peterloo

Yep. You can oppose its orders if u thinks that he had gone MAD

Your career won't END if you oppose Bdu orders in SH3. Opposing them will only decrease the renown you got in that particular patrol.

Also, you may use SH3 commander to change the patrol grid

Believe it or not (if you are playing using the GWX mod) your patrol grids are historically correct... even the ones in shallow water.

AVGWarhawk · 12-24-06, 10:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Kpt. Lehmann

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Originally Posted by peterloo

Yep. You can oppose its orders if u thinks that he had gone MAD

Your career won't END if you oppose Bdu orders in SH3. Opposing them will only decrease the renown you got in that particular patrol.

Also, you may use SH3 commander to change the patrol grid

Believe it or not (if you are playing using the GWX mod) your patrol grids are historically correct... even the ones in shallow water.

NO MAN.....SHALLOW WATERS=DEATH! I'M NOT GOING AND THAT IS FINAL!

Letum · 12-24-06, 11:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Kpt. Lehmann

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Originally Posted by peterloo

Yep. You can oppose its orders if u thinks that he had gone MAD

Your career won't END if you oppose Bdu orders in SH3. Opposing them will only decrease the renown you got in that particular patrol.

Also, you may use SH3 commander to change the patrol grid

Believe it or not (if you are playing using the GWX mod) your patrol grids are historically correct... even the ones in shallow water.

Not allways! I got send to a shallow water grid neer scapa flow. That would have been fine....but I was in a Type IXC

Bdu would never send a IX to coastal wayers like that in '42

The Munster · 12-25-06, 02:06 AM

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Originally Posted by nightdagger

Guess where BdU sent me to patrol? AM95. For those of you without a map handy, that's in the Irish sea, equidistant from the outlets. Seriously, once I got a coastal merchant, there were hourly air patrols, plus around 5 destroyers (I sunk 2) and Elco boats. I thought Donitz wanted the u-boats to survive.

nightdagger, you should kick off a 'the worst Grid I was assigned to and why' thread. Mine was at the Isle of Man [can't remember the number now as it was with GW] = horrible experience !

Jimbuna · 12-25-06, 06:24 AM

Can't remember my grid number either...but it was in mainland Spain

Hylander_1314 · 12-25-06, 11:54 AM

Worst one, area around the Thames Estuary, in a IXC...........

Talk about being a sitting duck! I think the civilian population were firing potato guns at us too!

Safe-Keeper · 12-25-06, 02:07 PM

Worst one here was off of Scottland. 500 metres from shore I spotted a horde of screaming men in kilts wielding longswords running into the water for my boat. I crash-dived and they went after me and almost managed to slice open my pressure hull.

They at last gave up on me when we had submerged all the way down to 300 metres.

Seriously, though, the worst one was the one that required me to go from La Spezia almost all the way to Gibraltar. Needless to say they took me down

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Jimbuna · 12-25-06, 03:20 PM

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Worst one here was off of Scottland. 500 metres from shore I spotted a horde of screaming men in kilts wielding longswords running into the water for my boat. I crash-dived and they went after me and almost managed to slice open my pressure hull.

They at last gave up on me when we had submerged all the way down to 300 metres.

:rotfl: :rotfl: PRICELESS:rotfl: :rotfl:

gdogghenrikson · 12-25-06, 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by nightdagger

Guess where BdU sent me to patrol? AM95. For those of you without a map handy, that's in the Irish sea, equidistant from the outlets. Seriously, once I got a coastal merchant, there were hourly air patrols, plus around 5 destroyers (I sunk 2) and Elco boats. I thought Donitz wanted the u-boats to survive.

well that is a great area to patrol early in the war!

DCdodger · 12-26-06, 12:48 PM

That Dönitz is a dungbrain. Since the US entered the war he keeps sending me over the atlantic pond with my VIIC boat. If i travel "1/3 fahrt voraus" i have just enough fuel to complete the patrol and reach a milkcow. (strange... if i visit a cow before completing my mission, the orders disappear.)

The best grid was CA28 (NY). When submerged to PD i had about 2-3 metres under my keel. And the place was swarming with destroyers and those annoying speedboats. But the destroyers seemed deaf and blind. Sank a merchant and 2 of the destroyers and sneaked away unharmed.

Jimbuna · 12-26-06, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by DCdodger

That Dönitz is a dungbrain. Since the US entered the war he keeps sending me over the atlantic pond with my VIIC boat. If i travel "1/3 fahrt voraus" i have just enough fuel to complete the patrol and reach a milkcow. (strange... if i visit a cow before completing my mission, the orders disappear.)

The best grid was CA28 (NY). When submerged to PD i had about 2-3 metres under my keel. And the place was swarming with destroyers and those annoying speedboats. But the destroyers seemed deaf and blind. Sank a merchant and 2 of the destroyers and sneaked away unharmed.

After leaving a milchcow you will get a 'NULL' patrol grid

I just continue to where I was ordered to go prior to 'docking'

Paajtor · 12-26-06, 06:37 PM

I'm playing from Bergen '42, and my 1st and 2nd patrol both send me to AJ-38, which is just S of Greenland. That's a long journey, for a typeVIIC, with not much room for side-quests.
So I used SH3Commander, to give me a - still historical - different grid, and I picked AE-63

That's halfway between Norway and Iceland. It covers the Murmansk-England route, but it's known for it's very unpredictable weather, and on top of that enemy task-forces are always around the corner.
And it's just within the reach of the Allied air-coverage.
Love it!

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

Can't remember my grid number either...but it was in mainland Spain

Ahh, I remember this bug...just after SH3 was released, right?

Jimbuna · 12-26-06, 07:54 PM

I'm not 100%...but I think it was something like CG38 or 62 :hmm:

12-24-06, 09:04 PM	#1
nightdagger Officer Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 243 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Wonderful patrol grid Guess where BdU sent me to patrol? AM95. For those of you without a map handy, that's in the Irish sea, equidistant from the outlets. Seriously, once I got a coastal merchant, there were hourly air patrols, plus around 5 destroyers (I sunk 2) and Elco boats. I thought Donitz wanted the u-boats to survive.

12-24-06, 09:45 PM	#2
peterloo Commander Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 462 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Yep. You can oppose its orders if u thinks that he had gone MAD Your career won't END if you oppose Bdu orders in SH3. Opposing them will only decrease the renown you got in that particular patrol. Also, you may use SH3 commander to change the patrol grid __________________ Romeo is here, but where is Juliet? The 中国水兵 (Chinese Sailor) in subsim

12-25-06, 06:24 AM	#7
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,507 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Can't remember my grid number either...but it was in mainland Spain __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

12-25-06, 11:54 AM	#8
Hylander_1314 Sea Lord Join Date: May 2006 Location: 5 Miles Inland West Of Lake Huron Posts: 1,936 Downloads: 139 Uploads: 0	Worst one, area around the Thames Estuary, in a IXC........... Talk about being a sitting duck! I think the civilian population were firing potato guns at us too! __________________ A legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law. -John Marshall Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ---------------------

12-25-06, 02:07 PM	#9
Safe-Keeper Ocean Warrior Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Norway Posts: 3,234 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	Worst one here was off of Scottland. 500 metres from shore I spotted a horde of screaming men in kilts wielding longswords running into the water for my boat. I crash-dived and they went after me and almost managed to slice open my pressure hull. They at last gave up on me when we had submerged all the way down to 300 metres. Seriously, though, the worst one was the one that required me to go from La Spezia almost all the way to Gibraltar. Needless to say they took me down. __________________ First Strike Mod tester. Hardcore sub skipper.

12-26-06, 12:48 PM	#12
DCdodger Nub Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 4 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	That Dönitz is a dungbrain. Since the US entered the war he keeps sending me over the atlantic pond with my VIIC boat. If i travel "1/3 fahrt voraus" i have just enough fuel to complete the patrol and reach a milkcow. (strange... if i visit a cow before completing my mission, the orders disappear.) The best grid was CA28 (NY). When submerged to PD i had about 2-3 metres under my keel. And the place was swarming with destroyers and those annoying speedboats. But the destroyers seemed deaf and blind. Sank a merchant and 2 of the destroyers and sneaked away unharmed.

12-26-06, 07:54 PM	#15
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,507 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	I'm not 100%...but I think it was something like CG38 or 62 :hmm: __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!