I miss Silent Hunter 1

[Chock]

Lieutenant Clippy, your XO. "It looks like you're attacking a convoy. Would you like help?"

LMAO :rotfl:

[LukeFF]

Originally Posted by Chock

LMAO :rotfl:

Why, yes! Report to Tube 1 for a "special mission."

[C-4]

The captain handled the sightings and periscope/TBT measurements, while the fire control party entered them, as far as I know from Silent Victory. That is, unless the CO adopts the Morton-O'Kane method of XO manning periscope, which didn't happen too often.

[MarkShot]

Does SH3/4 model the high periscope (using the scope to conduct wider searches when the sub is surfaced) like was done in SH1? AOD, on the other hand, made no distinctions between what you could see with the scope submerged or surfaced.

Thanks.

[melin71]

oboy...are we so old that we are the only one that remember silent hunter 1? :rotfl:

my son are soon in the same age when i started to play........i hope i still love subsim and stuff when i reach 50. 36 today and for 15 years ago they talked mutch about virturial realitie..bad spell i know. what did happen with that?...do i have to wait 15 years more to get my virutall googles and stand there on the bridge...and FEEL that i stand there...oboy... i have heard that the are some gooles out there to buy..but the games suck and the googles sucks and are expensive and more then 15 min and you damage your eyes. hope someday this will come.

[C-4]

Originally Posted by melin71

oboy...are we so old that we are the only one that remember silent hunter 1? :rotfl:

LOL. SH1 was my first military sim, in many ways (I had Jane's ATF Gold, but it was in English and I didn't understand English at the time). It was back in China, when I was something like 7 years old, playing SH1 on something like a 486. i still remember the good old times when I turned realism down to 0%, sailed into Tokyo Bay and deck gunned every ship in the harbour, or all those times sneaking into those Japanese Empire harbours (with realism on high), torpedoing the escorts and gunning whatever left, then submerging, losing contact, and have the ships instantly reappear. Or those times when my ship was destroyed by Japanese destroyers. Or the ring of 12 DCs from those darned little patrol boats that got me every time (forgot what they were called, D-class or F-class or something, but they were small, maneauverable, difficult to hit and armed with twice as many DC rails as larger DDs. anyone remember what they were?). Or those death scenes where my submarine got crushed.

And yes, I miss the 2D controls and interface. Although the graphics in SH4 are far better.

In fact, I practically grew up with SH1. It was the game that introduced me to submarines and naval warfare in general.

Finally, a big thanks to the good people at Strategic Simulations Inc who made SH1. What happened to SSI anyway?

[marky]

i have to agree this particular sim got underway a bit too soon for the shipyard to finish her:rotfl:

[marky]

not that its all bad its pretty good, but pc gamer agrees it coulda had some more time