How realistic do you play SH3

Don't lie Koon you just like it when Bernard tickles your ears and pats your belly

[U49]

I have tried 100% but without that external camera I miss all those eye-candy sweeties.....
no way...

So external camera is my little sin

I play Overkill alot so I chose it! Rarely I have played hard..for screenies, other than that I choose overkill. I love the realistic battle's,It's what makes a challenge so fun. If you go easy, how could it be fun then? No challenge!!

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

Originally Posted by AdlerGrosmann

I play Overkill alot so I chose it! Rarely I have played hard..for screenies, other than that I choose overkill. I love the realistic battle's,It's what makes a challenge so fun. If you go easy, how could it be fun then? No challenge!!

surfaced trough the channal and gibraltar ? :hmm:
(i did that)

[Umfuld]

I was doing 100% and even getting the firing solution myself a while back. Stunk at it but found from 700m even I couldn't miss. That was fun.

But right now I have No God's Eye, No WO Asst. and No External View off.

[Castout]

Well 100% plus the OLC GUI which implement realistic manual TDC solution measurement. Nothing less. Though I do play with stabilised view but that is because the mod is handicapped to play with it(no adjustable vertical tickmarks).

EDIT
You know don't think the stock procedure for firing out the fishes is easy.
With the poor accuracy especially with the AoB guessing it's very hard to hit longer-range targets.

With OLC GUI mod you can hit targets as far as 4.5km with relative ease. It's true.
Of course the difficult part is to hit a fast target at close range because the OLC GUI requires more time to get it done(but not that much more). In those circumstances let your wit play. Measures up only the speed then the range if time still permits then just approximate the AoB. Voila the fish(es) is out. Just like the way the ol Kaleuns do it.

Originally Posted by Kaleu. Jochen Mohr

surfaced trough the channal and gibraltar ? :hmm:
(i did that)

Yeah,the Gibraltar dock is easy..but reaching the dock is a lil'bit hard..I'll get through there alright.

[Herr Trigger]

I'm on 89% (unlimited fuel), GWX 1.03, OLC GUI (using Manual Targetting only) & Longer Repair Times. I've just started 6th patrol and hopefully can for once find something substantial to add to my 88,000 tonnage.

[JAKE]

I play at 74%. At 100% u have to i dentify the target speed course and plot the attack this wouldn't have happened in real life you don't have 40 to 50 odd men on a boat for one man to do all the work, wheres my First watch officer.... He's goin to be court marshalled when we get back to port. Plus trying to plot an attack in the night in the middle of a convoy on your jack at 100% realism seems prove itself just to difficult for me. The time i identify the ship i cant see the tip of the mast to find its range by the time i've done this i'm on my way to the bottom with heavy flooding and being depth charged. From what i've read on here about GWX2.0 the escorts are even more cunning and on the ball so my crews future is looking grim. Maybye i could fire a salvo and hope for the best or just practice and practice but thats no fun.

[TomcatMVD]

I play SHIII stock.
I am currently running my first campaign under 80% realism, map contact update (stock version lacks a lot of map tools, and if my men don't spot a ship, I act as if I hadn't seen it on the map) and free camera of course! And sometimes I ask my WO for a solution, in important engagements. As an example, I found a Nelson Battleship on my fourth patrol, no way I was going to risk spoiling that shot, so I had him calculate it. (It was a thrilling encounter by the way, having to fool the DD's and then re-engage for a coup-de-grace, she ate 5 of my eels. My weapons officer got an iron cross 2nd class BTW)
After a while I'll start a new campaign DiD, and if I download any patches, I'll disable Map Contact Updates.
That's my story.

[sea snake]

i play at 90%+ , havent played in a few months but am trying to download GWX 2.0

65%

External Camera, God View, and Automatic Targeting

[Von Schmidt]

I play on 57 percent i do not do manual targeting, since it was the Iwo's job to imput targeting information into the TDC, it doesnt bother me at all since im the Kaluen.

[Brer Rabbit]

Ive jist completed my 4th patrol in the 1st Flot. at 74% map updates, weapons officer assistance, and external views. So far I have not used the weapons officer assistance and seldom use the external view. Choosing instrad to lollygag around watvhing the fireworks through the periscope. Of course my sinkings reflect this so far only three ships - two coastal cargo and one C-2. SOmetimes while I'm shaving in the morning I thind I see Bernard in the mirror - - but My crew and I are still alive.

After this mission I plan to eliminate the weapon officer assistance and the external views -- map up dates will have to wait for nest career. Running stock SHIII. I cut my teeth on Silent Service and Silent Service II which I believe had 75% as realistic and a true challenge as 100%.

Enjoy every minute of the sim, perhaps I will go to GWX 2 later, but as of now I have enough challenge and the war is yet young.

Kapitan Broderhase is at the wheel.

[Bridger]

84%, but i think its fully realistic because a U-boat skipper had his :- 1st officer for target info input and UZO for surface attacks, navigator for plotting the attack.

ie i have not heard of a skipper doing all these things by himself, it would be hard to run down from the attack periscope and plot your own brg, aob and range etc, thats what you have a crew for