Kaleuns, Report to the Personnel Office

[Brag]

We have a lot of new people joining our march to victory. Please introduce yourself so that we know who our Kameraden are.

Steed, we know you. No need to report.
Jimbuna, you may comment with smileys.
Sailor Steve, keep nurturing the troops.
The rest of you, old salts, no excuse for slacking.

[TFatseas]

Reporting in!

Hmm.... what to say? Well...

I always had a thing for the military, and expesically WWII.

I have played Slient Hunter for a while now,(Back to the days of SHII, boy was I out of my league back then!) so naturally I gravitated towards these boards. And I have played SHIII for a few years now. Still playing, still learning.

I do hope that I will make my stay here a good one!

[Brag]

Welcome TFastseas!
You are already making a difference.

[Torp III]

Bernard is 2 years older than I am!(subsim years) So what does that make me

Jr. ?

[Task Force]

I always have been intrested in U-Boats. And still play SH3. I like SH3 because of many reasons but there is one main one. In early war it is easy and as the war goes on, it gets harder. and getting back to base alive is a constant struggle. Untill SH4 gets a GWX makeover, Im sticking to sh3.

[Erich dem Roten]

I'm sure some of you have seen me around, I tend to ask silly questions. The last "sim" I played was Silent Service II when I was maybe 14 (my first was Wolfpack)...so when I saw screen shots of SH3 I was completely blown away by the advanced graphics...I had thought submarine sims were dead, victims of a niche genre. I bought it along with SH4 (which I've played maybe 15 seconds total...everyone said SH3 was better so that's where I started and that's where I stay) and couldn't be happier with it.

I'm still getting used to this game, so you can probably look forward to more questions from me. My knowledge of subs is very small; I spent nearly all my time reading about the land wars of WWII. I'm trying to remedy that, but I'm also a full time college student, so finding time to tackle books isn't as easy as it used to be.

[headcase]

Originally Posted by Brag

The rest of you, old salts, no excuse for slacking.

But slacking is what I do best! Some might even call it my profession.

[skookum]

Skookum here,

After deserting my fellow Kaleuns and joining the US Navy, I've returned as a double agent. Just kidding, your military secrets are safe with me...

Anyways, Silent Hunter 3 and 4 are both great games. But without the Subsim community, thier greatness would be diminished...greatly.

Ahoy mateys.

[Blacklight]

*salutes !*
I'm the resident nerd. I tend read and watch a LOT of Sci-Fi and Fantasy stuff. I collect board games (Real gamers games, not that crap like Uno and Monopoly) and board war games. I also collect and play pencil and paper role playing games. I have over 500 games stuffed in my walk in closet here. I also collect vintage computer games (thank you dosbox and MAME ). I also collect and read comic books and graphic novels. I'm totally not a war or history buff, but hardcore, complex, military sims scratch my itch for a more strategic style of gaming. My favorite games are (in this order): City of Heroes, Silent Hunter III, Dangerous Waters, Sub Command, Harpoon III Advanced Naval Warfare, Neverwinter Nights, The Operational Art Of War III, Orbiter, and 688i Hunterkiller. When caught playing a game on my computer, it's bound to be one of these on this list. I've been playing the Sonalyst subsims since 688i HK was first released.

I also play guitar and keyboard. I've been in several punk, industrial, and noise bands. I currently am working on reccording a couple of audio projects right now with a couple of friends. I'm also enjoy circut bending (taking battery operated gadgets that make sounds like toys and such and short circuiting them to make them into experimental (non)musical? instruments.

[andym]

I started with SH2 and needed more realism,spent some dosh on a new LAppy and IT WOULDNT HANDLE SH3!!!!!HAppily i waited and was rewarded by greatful parents with a new Alienware Area 51 laptop.I have SH3 & 4 also just installed GWX and am soooooo blown away with the Improvement,love the lit up ships and harbour traffic.Only 1 niggle and its minute,id like the small line in the sub graphic to show the direction of travel.I am an Ex Royal Navy Medic(Corpsman for the Colonials and "Sani" for Our Teutonic freinds)Although i never saw any seatime in my 8 odd years.I also set up a website for Serving and Ex RN/RM personell,a kind of cyber Messdeck.(link is on my sig LOL)

[HuskerNlincoln]

Well, I was I very young when I was born, but from that time on I have grown....make since?

Acutally, I'm not sure how this all started, built models as a kid, always fascinated with the events and machines of WWII, then in the 80's got into computers. 90's go into building computers, building them, them started building gaming rigs and selling them on ebay, or freinds. I always am trying to tweak them, over clock them, update them in an effort to have the latest and greatest. Firm fan of Nvidia and AMD. Never had any formal training in it, just trial and error, got a part time job for a while as a tech as a result.

Loved IL2, Janes WWII Fighters, and of course Medal of Honor, then I found SHIII. Played it for a couple years, loved the graphics, and a great excuse to upgrade my rig. Downside was that I could never ever hunt down or take part in major battles. Stop playing for awhile as life had priority, but always lurked around the boards, then learned about all the mods GWX and here I am again.

All of you have been amazing, all the mods, the support, truly impressive.

I have no desire to move to SHIV, just deeper into SHIII, and become a more effect capt.

recently married, and she has been fantastic about it, so I limit the playing time, dont want to push it.

Little does she know if she was to ever go away for the weekend, she'd come home to find me in the office at my computer sitting in my soiled underwear, unshaven, with a steel bucket that had been used as a toilet, picked eggs everywhere, the stench of oil and diesel in the air and me babbling to myself in a coma like state about being depth charged!

[Seaveins]

Reporting from the DC area: I come and go from this forum as RL dictates. I have been playing since the original SH. History of the battle for the North Atlantic has always been of interest to me. I really enjoy the posts here and bought a new computer specifically to play GWX (it does other work at times). Hope to see you over the waves.

[Brag]

Hi Seaveins!

Good to see another DC area Kaleun.

For your info, I'm having a signing at the Borders bookstore in Silver Spring on October 18

[Iron Budokan]

I've been playing subsims for a long time now. The first one was Silent Service II and I fell in love with 'em. Then I played Aces of the Deep and figured sub sims could never get any better than that. And then SH3 came out and I haven't stopped playing since.

When I'm not commanding a sub I'm a writer and father to two little boys who also like sub sims. (Mom tolerates our mania, lol, she's good that way!)

[Kipparikalle]

I have played SH3 GWX for God knows how long.
When I'm not playing, I'm probaly reading some books, biking, or just doing some random stuff