Why do you play Silent Hunter?

[Graf Paper]

success depends upon good planning, preparation and execution. Steaming in, all guns blazing, will more often than not result in failure.

Sneak good...blow up more ship.

Being a scientist, I enjoy seeing my calculations of speed, range, AOB etc, and tactical preparation working as planned, and feel great satisfaction at success.

Aim right...blow up ship.

Also, the dynamic campaign means that, although the situations are often similar and the task the same, the actual happenings are never the same twice, giving the game longevity and enduring interest.

Blow up different ship in different place.

This is prolonged by the gradual improvement of your opponents, and the ability to upgrade your equipment (submarines, torpedo types, sonar etc.) as time progresses.

Enemy get better, you get better or blow up.

Finally, the simulation acts as a practical history lesson, teaching me what crews of u-boats went through better than any documentary or film on tv

Learn blow up right ship at right time.

...(which tends to miss out the boredom, the cramped space, the feeling of uncertainty/fear when being depth charged etc).

Water go boom...bowels make room. One bathroom, many men.

Basically, with the simulation (and mods - great work all you modders/dev teams.) as realistic as possible, I enjoy and learn from the experience, both doing tasks that were required in real life and feeling the emotions that come with it.

Me like blow up ships.

To be honest, I think that this sort of game should be played/demonstrated in schools as joint lessons in history, maths, physics and socialogy. Perhaps that's a new market that game dev teams could look into?

Need more people blow up ships!

[bertle]

I like submarines and the atmosphere of submarine games

Also shooting at British people is fun, because i'm British myself and believe me were as annoying as all the stereotypes make out.

Also my late Granddad was on the Barham when it was sunk (one of the survivors obviously ) so I sunk it in honour of him. It made sense at the time.