Your Finest Hour

[Iron Budokan]

What is the bravest thing you ever did in SH3? What is the one event which you will always remember when playing this game? What is the one ship you sank which you will remember to your grave?

What was your finest hour?

It can be as simple as learning how to shoot the flak guns or sinking a ship at 100% realism or trying to look up the skirts of the nurses.

Let's here it, guys. What was your finest hour as a kaluen in SH3?

[Ducimus]

Good greif, i have to pick just one moment? Ive played this game for so bloody long i can't pick anything out.

....

After thinking for awhile, I just remembered this incident.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=87661

I'll just go with that one since im at work and can't type whats tantamount to a short story. I've had a number of equally "lucky" moments though.

[mookiemookie]

January 1942, on my way to the East Coast of America. Donitz ordered the Drumbeat boats not to attack anything on the way unless it was 10,000 tons or over. Well, I came across a convoy with an Essex class carrier in it. In a brilliantly () executed maneuver, I slipped past the escort screen, and sunk her with a spread of 4 torpedoes. I slipped out the back of the convoy and continued on my way, unmolested. It was just so surgical and precise, to take out that one carrier and nothing else, I was extremely proud of that one.

[bookworm_020]

November 1940, I take on a convoy sucessfuly for the first time. Sneak in without being detected, Fire four torpedos at three different ships (two large merchants and a pryo ammo carrier) Three hit and all thee ships go to the bottom! Fire the aft tube as a snap shot on a small merchant, it hits!! Brings it to a halt.
The escorts sniff around but never detect me. Let the convoy go (only contains tramp steamers, coastal and small merchantmen now!) When there over the horizon I surface, man the deck gun and fire two rounds into the small merchant which sinks.

I then do a harbour raid which bags me another 35,000 tons. Uncle Karl had my photo on his desk after that!

[Warmonger]

I feel I've accomplished sth whenever I bring back my boat with all men still aboard and no to low damage.

[johan_d]

Originally Posted by Warmonger

I feel I've accomplished sth whenever I bring back my boat with all men still aboard and no to low damage.

Hear Hear!! thats what I also have in mind,

[Mush Martin]

Originally Posted by Warmonger

I feel I've accomplished sth whenever I bring back my boat with all men still aboard and no to low damage.

well hit indeed
MM

[Mush Martin]

Originally Posted by Iron Budokan

What is the bravest thing you ever did in SH3? What is the one event which you will always remember when playing this game? What is the one ship you sank which you will remember to your grave?

What was your finest hour?

It can be as simple as learning how to shoot the flak guns or sinking a ship at 100% realism or trying to look up the skirts of the nurses.

Let's here it, guys. What was your finest hour as a kaluen in SH3?

I had been testing my Type IX-XI Uberboot and was using Zaunkonig 1's
what happened was that I fired three acoustic torps downrange at formation
of four River Class Frigates, (new type 2 download here,http://hosted.filefront.com/MushMartin ) and what happened was
that all three acoustics homed on one ship as the escorts where closing me
when the first torp hit the escort it killed the engines and by then the remaing two acoustics were headed back downrange towards me, now if
you have played against a type 2 River Class Frigate you would know that
hanging out to spend time with them is just not a good choice so I had been moving at speed, the two now returning acoustics would have me if I was moving fast enough to get clear of the escorts and the escorts would have me if I stopped and let the acoustics go by me at all stop silent running, with no torps left and reload not happening in the same hour,
I did the only thing a resourceful skipper could.

I went quick quiet all stop and let the two acoustics go by me, while they were behind me and still close enough to hear me, I hit Flank ahead and turned course back up range towards the oncoming Frigates (3) as the acoustics picked up My sound signature at flank within two hundred yds
they came about and started tracking to intercept my course, at which point, I went quick quiet all stop again and they slid by me back uprange
towards the now much closer frigates, both torps engaged seperate ships this time and as first one was about to open the hedgehog attack portion of my day I took him in the screws popped his seals and he sank in mere seconds. the second torp totally crippled its ship,leaving me only one to deal with a hard knuckle with a Bold decoy in it, and I was away while the
last escort pounded the seafloor with repeated attacks. got away clean
in a failed and recovered attack, I have been playing subsims for more than
a decade and this was just totally frosty classic skippering it was very very
gratifying.

A very close second went to the first time I got sunk by a type 2 River Class Frigate that BBW and I got together and made
I was absolutely thrilled at how good the escort ships were, and like a papa I was very proud of the creation it was a far better
asw escort than the Vanilla type 3 river de had ever been and they were sailing smart and quick, being a creator in this case
was the thrill even though getting my heinie kicked by them left me staring at the screen for a few minutes going Wow
who were those guys.

MM

[fredbass]

The most memorable moment for me was back when I was using GW1.1a and I was attacking this convoy. I was right in the middle of them, trying to keep track of all the ships, especially the warships of course. I was at periscope depth and had forgot to check my rear for a bit. I was trying to get into position to fire my forward eels at a target and had neglected to check my rear for a while. I fired off my shots and then swung my periscope around 180° to see that a DD was less than 500m away coming straight at me at high speed. Luckily, she was directly behind me. I hit crash dive and fired my rear torp, just hoping to get the warship to change course for a bit and whammo, about 15 seconds later, the DD went down in flames.

I thought that was pretty exciting.