Is this considered a good sortie? - Page 2

melnibonian · 01-19-07, 07:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Kapitan Edvard

I just got Silent Hunter III this Christmas, but have only been able to start playing this morning. I started with a type VIIB in 1939, using the GWX(?) pack. For my first sortie of the game, I found a convoy south of Portsmouth and began my attack. I came out of it having sunk a total of 90 000 tonnes, including the battleship HMS Nelson, and 3 Pyro Ammunition Carriers (great explosions). The hardest part was deciding which crew members recieved the assorted 43 medals!

I have played Silent Hunter II, but I've never got anything like that. Is a result like this unusual, or has anyone else ever recieved sunk such a surprising amount?

To put things into perspective my vert first patrol (stock SH3) with my IID yielded 5000 tons

and on my GWX career my first patrol on VIIB yielded a bit less than 20000 tons.:p

You did well

AVGWarhawk · 01-19-07, 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Kapitan Edvard

Hey guys,

I just got Silent Hunter III this Christmas, but have only been able to start playing this morning. I started with a type VIIB in 1939, using the GWX(?) pack. For my first sortie of the game, I found a convoy south of Portsmouth and began my attack. I came out of it having sunk a total of 90 000 tonnes, including the battleship HMS Nelson, and 3 Pyro Ammunition Carriers (great explosions). The hardest part was deciding which crew members recieved the assorted 43 medals!

I have played Silent Hunter II, but I've never got anything like that. Is a result like this unusual, or has anyone else ever recieved sunk such a surprising amount?

P.S: Whenever you recieve a mesage containing latitude and longitude coordinates, how does one find this location? I know SH II has a lat,long mous position, but SH II dosent. Could I possibly get some help on that?

Great patrol. What realism are you playing? Very soon just surviving will be considered a good patrol

. Welcome aboard!

Jimbuna · 01-19-07, 09:15 AM

It will get harder mate as the Allies get more proficient and incorporate technological improvements to their ASW equipment

Enjoy the happy times while you can

SINK EM ALL!!

Tijn · 01-19-07, 09:52 AM

I play GWX @ 100 % realism and DiD. I usually between 15.000 and 30.000 each patrol. Somtimes a little more, somtimes less. Since i play DiD i'm a bit more carefull.

So regardless of youre realism settings 90K is a hell of score.

My best score with Vanilla Sh3 was around 115K with a 7c and realism around 85% or so.

Grtz Tijn

Kingcobra24 · 01-19-07, 10:03 AM

Welcome aboard...enjoy the forum. A finer bunch of submariners you'll be hard-pressed to find anywhere else but here!!!

bigboywooly · 01-19-07, 10:38 AM

Hi and welcome to Subsim ( should really put that in notepad and paste :rotfl: )

Any way you can use this site

http://www.ubootwaffe.net/quadrant.cgi

To convert the long\lat to grid squares if you want

Enjoy your stay Kpt

Kapitan Edvard · 01-19-07, 04:04 PM

Thanks for being so welcoming everyone. However, the notion that things will get harder and I won't be singing couldn't be more true. Had a blackout during the load of my 4th sortie - all the save files are corrupted and so are any new ones. Back to the reinstallation for me.

Is the game historic? In regards to the idea that if a convoy passes Portsmouth on a certain date, will it be there if you start over? I loved being in that convoy, and would kill (torpedo in fact) to do it again.

Thanks again everyone, I never expected such a warm welcome

Kapitan Edvard · 01-19-07, 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by bigboywooly

Hi and welcome to Subsim ( should really put that in notepad and paste :rotfl: )

Any way you can use this site

http://www.ubootwaffe.net/quadrant.cgi

To convert the long\lat to grid squares if you want

Enjoy your stay Kpt

And I think that this might be very helpful tool, thank you very much indeed. Some say that those reports are for eyecandy, some not. I wonder if they do mean anything. Maybe that could be my contribution to these forums, by spending a whole sortie following radio message locations....

andy_311 · 01-19-07, 04:10 PM

Welcome from me too,I would just like to say any patrol you come back from is a good one.

AVGWarhawk · 01-19-07, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Kapitan Edvard

Thanks for being so welcoming everyone. However, the notion that things will get harder and I won't be singing couldn't be more true. Had a blackout during the load of my 4th sortie - all the save files are corrupted and so are any new ones. Back to the reinstallation for me.

Is the game historic? In regards to the idea that if a convoy passes Portsmouth on a certain date, will it be there if you start over? I loved being in that convoy, and would kill (torpedo in fact) to do it again.

Thanks again everyone, I never expected such a warm welcome

Yes, it is as historic as the GWX team could make it. You will often find ships spawning back at certain ports. Not to often as each patrol will really take on a life of its own and you will find yourself not repeating things....with exception of dying

Corruption.....rule of thumb. Do not save while warships are present. Do not save in port. Do not save submerged. It does not always mess things up but there is a greater chance it will corrupt your current career.

Biggles · 01-19-07, 04:45 PM

90 000 tonnage?

You had a great patrol. Period.

.....or not....well my record for one patrol is 66532 tons, where I sunk 12 ships. By the sound of it you sunk 4.......I kneel for you, my master.....

pfffh, best pic I got...bloody waste of time....

oh, and welcome to Subsim!

CWorth · 01-19-07, 04:59 PM

Welcome to the forum..

I look at it this way..any partrol that you get out of harbor,sink at least 1 ship and get back in at least somewhat one piece is a good patrol.Especially during the later years.

Tonnage tracking is overrated anyway as the game allows for far higher tonnage amounts sunk per patrol even with the mods than what was historically done by the real captains.

Blacklight · 01-19-07, 07:15 PM

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The lat/long is just eye-candy, IIRC. It is just a part of the radio messages that you shouldnt pay attention to!

Actually, If you pop open the map that comes with SH III in the DVD case, it has the longitude latitude lines on it. I've followed those radio messages to their coordinates when they were nearby and found exactly what they are describing on several occasions. I think there's more to them than just eye candy.

Congrats on that patrol !! Sounds like you had a stunning one ! I've never come close to that !!

Could you give one or two examples ? :hmm:

Okay..... I got a message stating that *Insert ship name here because I don't remember the name* was seen at such and such coordinates... and it gave a longitude and latitude.. I happend to be near there and headed in that direction. When I got there.. there was nothing so I headed in the ships reported direction and lo and behold.. there it was. I sunk it.. it showed up as the ship from the report.

There have been other times when task forces were reported or single ships were reported in this manner that seemed to help me zero in on targets as well.

I havn't had this happen recently cuz I'm been on a 1x mission and I'm nowhere near the Atlantic yet

I'll start a new career and go out again when I get time and see if I get any reports near me so I can duplicate the results.

Prior to these encounters, I had just assumed that the map and the messages were eye candy.. but now I'm not so sure.

01-19-07, 09:15 AM	#18
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,770 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	It will get harder mate as the Allies get more proficient and incorporate technological improvements to their ASW equipment Enjoy the happy times while you can SINK EM ALL!! __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

01-19-07, 10:03 AM	#20
Kingcobra24 Soundman Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Maine, USA Posts: 142 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Welcome aboard...enjoy the forum. A finer bunch of submariners you'll be hard-pressed to find anywhere else but here!!! __________________

01-19-07, 10:38 AM	#21
bigboywooly Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Swindon, England Posts: 10,151 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	Hi and welcome to Subsim ( should really put that in notepad and paste :rotfl: ) Any way you can use this site http://www.ubootwaffe.net/quadrant.cgi To convert the long\lat to grid squares if you want Enjoy your stay Kpt __________________ My mediafire page http://www.mediafire.com/?11eoq19bq9r41

01-19-07, 04:45 PM	#26
Biggles Silent Hunter Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Sweden (I'm not a Viking...) Posts: 3,529 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	90 000 tonnage? You had a great patrol. Period. .....or not....well my record for one patrol is 66532 tons, where I sunk 12 ships. By the sound of it you sunk 4.......I kneel for you, my master..... pfffh, best pic I got...bloody waste of time.... oh, and welcome to Subsim! __________________

01-19-07, 09:52 AM	#19
Tijn Loader Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Nijmegen Posts: 83 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	I play GWX @ 100 % realism and DiD. I usually between 15.000 and 30.000 each patrol. Somtimes a little more, somtimes less. Since i play DiD i'm a bit more carefull. So regardless of youre realism settings 90K is a hell of score. My best score with Vanilla Sh3 was around 115K with a 7c and realism around 85% or so. Grtz Tijn

01-19-07, 04:04 PM	#22
Kapitan Edvard Watch Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane Posts: 19 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Thanks for being so welcoming everyone. However, the notion that things will get harder and I won't be singing couldn't be more true. Had a blackout during the load of my 4th sortie - all the save files are corrupted and so are any new ones. Back to the reinstallation for me. Is the game historic? In regards to the idea that if a convoy passes Portsmouth on a certain date, will it be there if you start over? I loved being in that convoy, and would kill (torpedo in fact) to do it again. Thanks again everyone, I never expected such a warm welcome

01-19-07, 04:10 PM	#24
andy_311 The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Oldham, Lancs,England Posts: 1,312 Downloads: 82 Uploads: 0	Welcome from me too,I would just like to say any patrol you come back from is a good one.

01-19-07, 04:59 PM	#27
CWorth Grey Wolf Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Gettysburg PA Posts: 845 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	Welcome to the forum.. I look at it this way..any partrol that you get out of harbor,sink at least 1 ship and get back in at least somewhat one piece is a good patrol.Especially during the later years. Tonnage tracking is overrated anyway as the game allows for far higher tonnage amounts sunk per patrol even with the mods than what was historically done by the real captains.