Possible new submariner out there somewhere!

[Brag]

Originally Posted by Puster Bill

He will be assimulated.


Yes, it was an intentional pun.

Ha ha ha ha, assimulated --brilliant! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[Laufen zum Ziel]

Ditto to JU 88.

I was surffing the web and came accross this forum and became addicted to
you guys. I immediately went and bought SHIII (Unpatched) fired it up and was hooked. I had to get a new computer (Alienware) to handle all the great mods. Expensive but I have not bought a new game in over 18 months. I did buy SH4 but do not play it thanks to our SHIII Modders.



http://silent-hunter-addict.com

[von hally]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

In Woolies, in Edinburgh

6 months at Her Majesty's pleasure I should imagine

deep in woolies

and its only 60 days at her maj pleasure up here

[Jimbuna]

LOL

[thefretmaster]

sorry guys! started a thread and didn't check it
I got the game when i was 14 or 15 i think now coming up to 18 im still interested.

oh and guess what...
i sold another copy today! it was some old guy today. I pointed him this way.

I recently bought sh4 but i dont think it has the same addiction as "last years model" sh3 was and still is a classic sim.

oh btw i think its £4.99 if youre lucky (and want two copies?)

[Teh_Diplomat]

I bought this game in early 2007, I had seen it on shelves and eventually I gave in and bought it.

Wow!
After learning the controls and getting accustomed to controlling the sub and lurking and searching the forums here I've learned alot about tactics to employ and as such I've up'd my difficulty to around 57% - from 29% when I first got the game - and It's now in my current "All Time playable Games" list that I always end up coming back to (Starcraft & Rome: Total War are also on this list).

I played the game and then once I learned the DiD moniker I tried that and got up to 1943. I bought SHIV but felt as if while more visually appealing I was less immersed into the game.

I think it's just the plain and simple HUD, that coupled with the feeling of having the War shift as it get progressivly harder. I mean you start out hunting with impunity and by '42 you start to see that you've become the hunted. In '43 I would only surface at night.


I must say this is a fantastic game and an awesome community. Kudos Gentlemen

[moscowexile]

I started with SH2 in 2004. Bought it for 80 rubles (about £1.50) on the street in Moscow. I had already become interested in historically accurate wargames and naval warfare seems to be sadly neglected in this field, so I snapped it up. A few months after that, SH3 appeared. I bought that for 80 rubles as well and have been totally hooked ever since.

Then GWX appeared as an update on Game Shadow. Big problem: my 80 ruble Silent Hunters were clearly copies of SH3 1.0. It's often hard to find the genuine article here and even those which are sold as the real MacCoy are not. In the end, I managed to get the real thing then updated and modified it to GWX. Then last August, for the first time after many years, I went back to England for a fortnight, where, to my great surprise, I saw SH3 in a video games shop bargain bin in the Trafford Centre, Manchester: it was under a fiver (£5), namely £4.99.

From what I read on the web, so-called "adult" games are big money spinners now: I am talking about "Grand Auto Theft" and such like. Can't understand why. But as they say here: What's food to a Russian is poison to a German.

[BootsmanBoof]

There's another new subsimmer, too. My old dad.

He went to sea aged 16 in 1948 (scrubbing decks on merchants), retired only a few years ago having spent the last 30 or so years as a Master Mariner, a Torres Strait Pilot. He even piloted the QE2 through from Sydney through the Great Barrier Reef when I was a kid

Anyway I showed him SH3 when he last visited, and later sent him a copy. He thoroughly enjoys it, although in old sea dog style he does have a bit of a verbal blast at the map scale in northern and southern latitudes, things like that. I think he enjoys trigonometry with interceptions as well as the TDC more than anything (but he's pissed off about the lack of spherical trig involved lol).

So I guess SH3 can catch them young or old.

[Tombow]

Have to report in here as a new submariner. A friend of mine just gave me his DVD as he rather enjoyed FPS games. Didn't install SHIII until I got to do some PC upgrades. Well, installed it about a week ago and am still struggling with torpedo practice. Being no new to high-standard-sims (in fact, I am an MSFS aircraft designer) I just couldn't afford going on a mission without a self-imposed merciless training drills (you guess, it's my standard - I wouldn't even think on going on a single mission without having mastered the training part to perfection). Navigation and gunnery was relatively easy, so now trying to get some confidence and experience in putting those eels dead on.

Found subsim.com by myself and spent most of my recent time off reading Laughing Swordfish's U46 story and enduring self-imposed torpedo drills (see above). Let's see how I will do at the last training mission (convoy attack). Maybe setting sail for some of the single missions in a couple of weeks.

[Jimbuna]

Welcome aboard to you all....Good Hunting

[Sailor Steve]

WELCOME ABOARD, new kaluens!