GWX and 1941

[PapaG39]

Well, I finely got out of Stavanger, Norway on 3 august 1941 & resumed my journey to Brest, France. Just NW of Bergen, Norway I heard what turned out to be a Norwigen C3. I picked my position and he was just 1000m away from my shot when I heard an aircraft right above me ( I was at perscope depth). I thought..."Oh Sh*t" I'm about to be bombed & here I am standing still...I'm dead...
then in the next instant "MY" C3 lit up like a Christmas tree..bloody sukas...Herrmann! "you rat". that's my C3....anyway, it was a good show, but no ceegar....
about 150 km further on up the road I had a repeat with a C2..same results. Herrmann is stealing my thunder.... about 200km further along I finely get to sink a puny little Tramp Steamer for my self...thanks Herrmann...your a real prince..

I tried going just below Torshaven and above Scapa Flow, but the English aircraft were really making it rough so I desided to use that compass thing & draw a circle around the British Isles & Iceland showing the 1941 air cover limits that are indicated on the map that came with SH3. I went to those limits & just stayed to the outside & started plodding along to the Irish coast.

I made my way slowly down to the Rockall Banks, but I didn't hear so much as a whale fart...i mean..total silence except for aircraft...they are everywhere if I stayed above the surface during the daytime...They showed up. So much for map limits...

On August 20th I finely confirmed that this dang hydrophone was working when I picked up a British Destroyer. I have been 15 days without a sound or sighting...Except aircraft.

I have been at this since the 21st November real time & I am just at the SW tip of Ireland & have sighted nothing...I mean Nodda!

I am wondering...If you stay out of the SH3 map area where it shows aircraft coverage to be if you don't hit any triggers that would start ships moving.

I am using GWX & the patch.. Man, this is one long dry spell. About the most TC I have used is 128 a couple of times, but I went slow & tried to keep from getting bombed from above. I stayed down in the day & up at night mostly. However, August still doesn't get real dark out this far north.

This has been one long patrol. It took me 30 days from Wilhelmshaven to Brest last time. In a IID that is quite long..It is actually right at the very maximum for food & fuel.

I am fairly fuel conscious so I still have just 1/2 tanks left and approximately 1300km to go to Brest, France.

[T.Von Hogan]

Herr PapaG a question from this old senile kaluen.......where do you find C3's in GWX 1.03? But it was a good chuckle and i needed 1 as i'm april 1944 GWX 1.03 and my butt is being handed to me

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Hi guys,

The dry spells are normal too... just like in RL. Traffic is moving WORLDWIDE while you are in game... and at the place and time where you are... it is elsewhere.

Also, we made C3 cargoships very rare intentionally... as they were very rare in RL. IIRC, most C3 cargos were appropriated for fleet duties.

(...Or am I getting crossed-up with T3's )

Both of you! Stop asking such difficult questions! Yer makin' me head hurt! (j/k)

[PapaG39]

It was a C3 because it had the hole (little bitty see through open area) in the forward part of the bridge structure area.. I aim just forward of that hole.

so what was a Norwigen C3 doing along the west coast of Norway in august 1941? That is a mystery to me... Must be a trigger left over from prior Norway/German war & surrender...

Kpt Lehmann...yeah, that's what I was wondering.. I'm not complaining, well just a little...lol..but I am use to being a day late & a dollar short.
the hydrophone will pickup anywhere from say 17-27km...if I miss them by just a 1km more I miss them completely.

Also, what about that water temperature/density problem. If I was just below that layer I assume that I would also miss any sounds. I do different depths all the way down to 70m so I could well be below an area where the sound just doesn't pickup...

I don't know how to tell if i am below or not...

[Brag]

American buggers are no good--Jan 42, my first american (large cargo) we put six torpedoes in it, left it destroyed, but still floating. GRRR. Don't ta;k to me about deck guns--the weather you know.

[Kpt. Lehmann]

@PapaG39,

Thermal layers aren't modelled in SH3... HOWEVER, if you use SH3 Commander they are made to exist and their depth is randomised. As in real life, SH3 commander will not reveal to you at what depth... as U-boats weren't equipped to find a thermal layer.

At any rate, in WWII, thermal layers weren't very well understood.

[PapaG39]

I do use Commander. however I believe that I DO NOT have a check mark in randomized thermal layers. This is still my very first campaign and I didn't know about the thermal scenario when I first started.
I guess I just missed things even though I did go very slow through those areas shown on the SH3 map as being high traffic areas throughout the war years.
Like I said above..it is so easy to miss a sound...you only have to be 1km one way or another to miss or hear...

They had a segment in the movie "Das Boot" where they went through the same scenario as I am now going through.. Kinda cool actually...I just hope they don't come out of the clouds & blow me to pieces just after I get to Brest...That would really not be to cool...lol..

[T.Von Hogan]

Originally Posted by Brag

American buggers are no good--Jan 42, my first american (large cargo) we put six torpedoes in it, left it destroyed, but still floating. GRRR. Don't ta;k to me about deck guns--the weather you know.

(large merchant?)
better go ask balz