Best place to find warships?

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Paul Riley

Ahh...I have an ally finally

Hey, even the worst losers get to have friends.

For which I am always grateful.:rotfl:

[Paul Riley]

I wouldnt call myself a 'loser' ,rather 'new to the fold' instead.I know you didnt mean anything bad by that statement,just thought I would say
Say,just to change the subject very slightly,does it annoy you sometimes,with this silly modern talk about nubes,noobs,pwned (whatever that tripe is supposed to mean) to attempt to describe someone that is either: 1:young 2:relatively inexperienced and needs some info?.This stupid talk from kids today trying to be really impressive in front of the grown ups,and all knowing,really pisses me off!
I havent seen stuff like this in here yet,and its very unlikely too,but I have seen many examples in other forums,they seem to forget that they too were green once *the insolent fools*

Anyway,cheers!

[Cezbor]

Many warships are present in their historical theatre of operations. More info you may find in GWX 2.1 manual. Those informations are rather acurrate.
There're many posts concerning this subject on the forum. All you have to do is ... to search . Warships may be found in harbours f.e: Scapa Flow, Loch Ewe, Reyjkjavik, New York, Gibraltar (my favourite), Alexandria, Port Said. You may check movments of large or small Task Forces using SH3 Campaign or Mission Editor Tool attached to your game. For more info how to use it - check posts on the forum .
The best area to meet Task Force is Med. theatre of operations, especially from mid 1942 to late 1943.
You can check this thread:http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...hips+locations

or http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=140610
Good reading, .... and good hunting

[Paul Riley]

Originally Posted by Cezbor

Many warships are present in their historical theatre of operations. More info you may find in GWX 2.1 manual. Those informations are rather acurrate.
There're many posts concerning this subject on the forum. All you have to do is ... to search . Warships may be found in harbours f.e: Scapa Flow, Loch Ewe, Reyjkjavik, New York, Gibraltar (my favourite), Alexandria, Port Said. You may check movments of large or small Task Forces using SH3 Campaign or Mission Editor Tool attached to your game. For more info how to use it - check posts on the forum .
The best area to meet Task Force is Med. theatre of operations, especially from mid 1942 to late 1943.
You can check this thread:http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...hips+locations

or http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=140610
Good reading, .... and good hunting

Thanks for this info cezbor.I always knew that Gib would be crawling with warships as it was and probably still is a major British port.I think the history behind Gibraltar goes back to the colonial days,and as the British empire broke up and with France getting occupied the Brits moved their med. centre of control to Gib.?.Someone correct me here if I have the details of this wrong.

Cheers.

[Bronzewing]

I've gotten into scapa several times, and Gibralta once or twice, only warship I ever found was an Old revenge class ww1 drednaught one time in Scapa. Are there specific dates when the ships are in port or is it random?

[Tomcat84]

Stumbled across these two bad boys by chance in AM 32, late february 1940. I chose to focus my 4 torps on the HMS Hood and as you can see it worked!

They were escorted by 5 or 6 destroyers but I found a gap haha

It was sort of coincidental too. I was travelling around Britain to go to the bay of biscay / atlantic area when intel came up about a convoy ENE of me travelling west. So i plotted a position to ambush it, waited, and the time i had calculated with the given speed, nothing had showed. I decided to wait a little bit longer and then my sonarman had these guys as a contact, coming from the west!

Funny thing





Amazingly,

the next day when i was about to get underway south again, I found a completely unescorted convoy coming my way with about 20 merchants, but, in the center, a Nelson class battleship!! And not a destroyer in sight.

But i thought it'd be unrealistic to sink two huge capital ships in one cruise so i only went for the merchants and sank 5 of em (although the game only credited me with 4)

88000 tons, my best patrol yet !!! I'm loving this game all over again

[Erich dem Roten]

Thanks for the replies. I wasn't sure if vanilla SH3 would consider historical happenings and add the appropriate ships/shipping. Also, I'm a bit bummed now because I managed to sneak into Gibraltar before, in horrid weather, and only saw a T2 Tanker and a bunch of smashed-up destroyers in berths. I never tried to check around for a capital ship to the NW

[astak9]

Originally Posted by Tomcat84

Stumbled across these two bad boys by chance in AM 32, late february 1940. I chose to focus my 4 torps on the HMS Hood and as you can see it worked!

They were escorted by 5 or 6 destroyers but I found a gap haha

It was sort of coincidental too. I was travelling around Britain to go to the bay of biscay / atlantic area when intel came up about a convoy ENE of me travelling west. So i plotted a position to ambush it, waited, and the time i had calculated with the given speed, nothing had showed. I decided to wait a little bit longer and then my sonarman had these guys as a contact, coming from the west!

Funny thing





Amazingly,

the next day when i was about to get underway south again, I found a completely unescorted convoy coming my way with about 20 merchants, but, in the center, a Nelson class battleship!! And not a destroyer in sight.

But i thought it'd be unrealistic to sink two huge capital ships in one cruise so i only went for the merchants and sank 5 of em (although the game only credited me with 4)

88000 tons, my best patrol yet !!! I'm loving this game all over again

Amazing, I've just sunk the HMS Hood in Scapa. (sept 5th 1939)