I need some action

[uniquemind]

Ok thanks Nemo, I'll have to find a calculator somewhere on the Net and see if I can somehow figure it out pardon the pun

At present I was going after a Convoy, using my guessing method and of course it failed but never say die, I'll keep trying


UM onboard the U-100

[leeclose]

I did pretty intresting stuff

[uniquemind]

Hi Kumando,

I'll check it out thank you

I know it must have been very tedious for the really Subs Crews during WW2, I have seen Das Boot and own it on DVD and saw how they had to spend alot of time just waiting, I could'nt have stood that, heaven knows how they did, heroes all of them, but indeed I'll find your thread, thanks mate


UM onboard the U-100

[leeclose]

Its amazing how good you get at playing cards and chess at sea

[uniquemind]

Yeah exactly! and by the time you got back, you'd be better than Kasparov!


UM onboard the U-100

[Zantham]

Originally Posted by uniquemind

Hi Captain Nemo,

That's easy for you to say! I meant that in the nicest possible way its just that I am incredibly daft where maths and numbers are concerned, would you know if there are any tools on the Internet that might help me in attempting to do this

Thanks for trying to help me though

I'm trying to take it in and in about a years time it might sink in

The only way I have been doing it is literally guessing, and to be fair it worked once! but since then nothing, maybe the AI knows that I am hopeless and so goes along its route without worrying 2+2 is about as far as I can go, well maybe a bit better than that

UM onboard the U-100

I prefer using art over math for plotting intercepts. Personally I found using Claren and Danotec's intercept technique really easy to use, and best of all requires no math . You can find the instructions here on the community manual pages, about 1/3rd the way down.

http://www.communitymanuals.com/shii...epting_Targets

[Rykaird]

This is the easiest way I've found to plant myself in a target rich environment:

1. Open your nav map (F5).

2. Go to square AM51.

3. Get out your ruler tool, and start a line at the top left corner of AM51 (the north west corner).

4. Draw a line straight down (due south) for a length of 21km from that northwest corner.

5. Get out your three-point angle tool, and put the first point of the angle on the start of this line (the 0km point) and the second point at the 21km point.

6. Create an angle of 94 degrees heading off east all the way through AM51 and off to the eastern edge of AM52. Many ships transit through this corridor and will come right to you on this course.

7. Patrol this route, submerging frequently to do hydrophone checks. If you stay on this line near the eastern edge of AM52 (but stilll in deep water) you will also pick up contacts running south of the line.


You should pick up at least one ship a day, sometimes as many as three. You can literally sit submerged on this line in AM52 near the eastern edge and wait, like a spider waiting for a fly. This is not per the U-Boat Commander's Handbook, but it is easy to rack up some major GRT this way.

[Corsair]

If you just sail along at TC 256 and rely on your crew, you will miss a lot. By far the most targets I find are through regular hydrophone checks with my own ears when I am in shipping lanes.

[uniquemind]

Hi to all of you,

I will check all of these things out, many thanks as I need all the help I can get, take today for example, I started playing around 11 this morning and I just gave up on my last Career mainly due to frustration of my own making really, its now quarter to 7 in the evening and have had no enemies to take on in all that time

So in a moment I shall begin again, I am using the SH3 Commander Program version 2.7 and I am struggling to really understand and set up the tc settings for the best, I know they go from the higher the faster the lower the slowest, but what should I use for each given situation in the list?

No dis-respect to Captain Nemo here but to be brutally honest my relying on or trying to learn a certain degree of maths is for me pointless, as I'll never manage it, maths is my nemesis, sorry Captain Nemo, did'nt mean to waste your time

Thanks again guys

UM onboard the U-100

[leeclose]

Oh yeah and gameboys when they first came out they were a godsend

[High Voltage]

I'm sorry, when I read your thread I thought you were looking for something else. If that is indeed the case, there is a bar in Paris called "Le gouffre". Ask for Jean-Pierre and tell him Kapitanleutnant Klaus Kohler from U-333 sent you; he will make sure you "get some action".

[Rykaird]

Originally Posted by uniquemind

Hi to all of you,

I will check all of these things out, many thanks as I need all the help I can get, take today for example, I started playing around 11 this morning and I just gave up on my last Career mainly due to frustration of my own making really, its now quarter to 7 in the evening and have had no enemies to take on in all that time

So in a moment I shall begin again, I am using the SH3 Commander Program version 2.7 and I am struggling to really understand and set up the tc settings for the best, I know they go from the higher the faster the lower the slowest, but what should I use for each given situation in the list?

No dis-respect to Captain Nemo here but to be brutally honest my relying on or trying to learn a certain degree of maths is for me pointless, as I'll never manage it, maths is my nemesis, sorry Captain Nemo, did'nt mean to waste your time

Thanks again guys

UM onboard the U-100

The TC defaults in the SH3 Commander list are fine. Remember that these are the max TCs allowed when a certain event occurs, not the TC you use while playing.

In other words, if you are cruising along at TC256, and your watch crew spots an airplane, you will automatically drop to a TC of 1. That way you have some prayer of responding. That has nothing to do with what TC you use while on patrol.

A for finding ships, just remember the old saying - you can't catch fish where the fish ain't. There's a lot of ocean and much of it is empty. In other words, go to AM51/AM52, or BF13, or AF78 - all known hot spots - and concentrate your patrols in there.

Use the pull down map to find single merchant routes and patrol them.

Numerous players post their patrol logs - in those logs you'll find the sectors where they racked up the tonnage. Ducimus, for example, even has a chart showing hot spots (for IX series) off the Americas.

Stick with it. You're looking for choke points where lots of shipping flows, and once you start to find them you'll get lots of action.

[uniquemind]

Originally Posted by High Voltage

I'm sorry, when I read your thread I thought you were looking for something else. If that is indeed the case, there is a bar in Paris called "Le gouffre". Ask for Jean-Pierre and tell him Kapitanleutnant Klaus Kohler from U-333 sent you; he will make sure you "get some action".

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:Oh I bet he would!!! It took me a few minutes to figure out what you meant there I know now to put a better title in the post before submitting it

The TC defaults in the SH3 Commander list are fine. Remember that these are the max TCs allowed when a certain event occurs, not the TC you use while playing.

In other words, if you are cruising along at TC256, and your watch crew spots an airplane, you will automatically drop to a TC of 1. That way you have some prayer of responding. That has nothing to do with what TC you use while on patrol.

A for finding ships, just remember the old saying - you can't catch fish where the fish ain't. There's a lot of ocean and much of it is empty. In other words, go to AM51/AM52, or BF13, or AF78 - all known hot spots - and concentrate your patrols in there.

Use the pull down map to find single merchant routes and patrol them.

Numerous players post their patrol logs - in those logs you'll find the sectors where they racked up the tonnage. Ducimus, for example, even has a chart showing hot spots (for IX series) off the Americas.

Stick with it. You're looking for choke points where lots of shipping flows, and once you start to find them you'll get lots of action.

Thanks Rykaird,

I am on my way now into a "no going back and scrapping Career" and I'll post if and when anything happens and how I get on with all the great help you guys have given me

Oh yeah and gameboys when they first came out they were a godsend

leeclose,

I actually won one of them thanks to an old friend but I had to sell it in the end as it was playing havoc with my eyes, Migraine sufferer as it is and that thing did'nt help

[codmander]

Time compression could be your problem also try 64x instead of 256x

[leeclose]

What a bumer Unique i was a tetris god