How did you get into U-boats (everyone please post) - Page 6

TarJak · 07-24-06, 03:58 AM

My interest in all things naval came from my father. He was a keleck AE (Senior Rate Aircraft Engineer) in the RAN (Royal Australian Navy), back when it had a real Fleet Air Arm and an aircraft carrier of it's very own. (HMAS Melbourne), both now sadly long gone.

Somewhere along the line I got to visit one of the old Oberon class subs that the RAN used up until the early nineties. Whilst we didn't submerge (tied up to the wharf the hole time) as a young kid I could imagine it.

The sub sim thing started with an old arcarde slot video game which had a periscope and you fired a faster and faster moving targets that shot across a fairly flat mono screen. i progressed to Aces of the Deep and then the original SH. Didn't think much of SHII because of the other graphical advances that were happening at the time, but it was still a good improvement on the original. Blew my mind when I saw SHIII and had to have it. Currently running a campaign using GW after using RUB and some other mods for the past 6-7 months or so.

Seaveins · 07-24-06, 03:07 PM

My grandfather (Danish resistance member) had stories of reporting German naval traffic to the UK around Lolland and Langeland, DK (saw the Bismarck!). I ended up getting into scuba diving and worked on a boat that had recently recovered artifacts on the U-? off North Carolina, USA. The propeller was salvaged and ended up in the dive shop's lounge. I would sit there looking at it and imagine the journey this object took. I guess I have always been into U-boats.
-Lars

vodkaphile · 07-24-06, 08:49 PM

I've been interested in most things German military since the middle ages/Holy Roman Empire days.

Das Boot and other sub movies have always been a favorite of mine plus one of the first games I played on PC was a game called "Wolfpack". I was hooked from there on out.

Pirates and Submarines are a great interest of mine, go figure. I guess they are similiar in a way.

Slick Rick · 07-24-06, 08:54 PM

I grew up on the South side of Chicago...and we went on a field trip to the Museum of Science and Industry....and it was there that I first laid my eyes on U505....I have been back many times since and I always get excited every time I see her......I also never missed an episode of Voyage to the bottom of the Sea.....

rcs929 · 07-24-06, 09:35 PM

I have always enjoyed simulation games & have a great interest in WWII. I saw a friend play silent hunter I at a lan party so I watched him play a bit. He ended up giving it to me & about a year later I played it shortly- I have waaay too many games that I like so bounce around a lot. I liked the cat and mouse of it and the charting but it didn't really spark yet.

Later on I saw SHII so I bought that & played it a great deal more. The rolling seas, running smack dab into a convoy in heavy heavy fog & trying to escape hunter/killer groups got me hooked. Also I like the slow pace which I can choose to speed up or keep slow.

I got SH3 because the sub rolls with the sea & the crew. I didn't like manning a one man sub that never moved especially when my favorite feature in the game is the rolling seas. I must say the community here keeps me playing as well, I get to reading some patrol stories then I am inspired to go out on patrol

spork542 · 07-24-06, 09:36 PM

I took interest in world war two and its ships at a young age, and was given Silent Hunter II as a birthday present a long time ago, I think. Then I got really interested in U-boats. Several years later, SH3 gets released without my knowing, and I eventually got it.

Wilko · 07-25-06, 04:50 AM

Read "Run Silent Run Deep" (which I have just had to rebuy after loosing it) then I bought SH, SH2, SH3 as well as Janes 688i with that lovely spiral bound manual, Sub Command, Dangerous Waters.

Max Peck · 07-25-06, 05:10 AM

Silent Service on NES got me started with sub sims, Aces of the Deep showed me how amazing (at the time) they could look, Silent Hunter and Silent Hunter III actually made me learn targeting and tracking skills like a true submarine commander would have to use.

SubConscious · 07-25-06, 09:11 AM

I've been interested in WWII history since early High School. I think what fascinated me most was how close Germany came to winning and how their defeat could be attributed to a few key strategic mistakes.

It was at this time that I was exposed to my first computer game - a multi-player Star Trek combat simulator written in BASIC written by two friends of mine. The game didn't have any graphics (so it was fast enough to have 6-8 players at that time), so we were flying around and plotting intercepts in 3D space using nothing but numbers. To put this in perspective, we were playing on 110 baud terminals. If you think a 56k modem is slow, try something 509 times slower.

Several years later, I was visiting a friend who had Aces of the Deep on his PC. He was tired and sacked out, but I ended up playing that game until the wee hours - I was completely hooked. When PCs outpaced AotD and I couldn't get it to load anymore, I gave up on Sub Sims, vowing to wait until something that I thought was as good or better than AotD arrived. I think SH3 fits that bill.

Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane...

Jusa_Finn · 07-25-06, 09:57 AM

Read all the war and navy books in the 60’s starting with Hornblower.
Started playing Silent Service 2 in about 1990
Played Silent Hunter 2 until I heard that SH3 is coming.

Jager Kapitan · 07-25-06, 06:13 PM

I always loved researching WWII, then I learned my grandpa was in fact a radioman on destroyer, guarding the east coast from u-boats,

, thought that was the only person in my family to ever be in the navy, but it turns out I'm a distant relative of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (by marriage through my great uncle) And thats about all the naval tradtion in my family. (my 2 greatx3 grandfathers were in the Civil war, we still have one of their resignation letters)

HunterICX · 07-25-06, 06:32 PM

As an Kid I Always loved stuff about WW2,
had 100 - 200 of those small plastic soldiers...you know...those Green - American, Grey - Axis and yellow - Brits

and when I had an Computer I played
Panzer General the Classic one

and a whole lotta more WW2 games
and after a while U-Boats start to blow my mind about how the germans did it in WW2.

Also my Grandpa, was an part of an dutch resistance...Sabotaging small things on the Airport of Gilze-Rijen . he almost got fusilized for that

Geezzz...Grandpa...
well

here I am

sinking stuff

Zero Niner · 07-25-06, 11:22 PM

I started off with MPS's Silent Service for the Apple ][, then Silent Service II & II when they were released.

But it was the first Silent Service that got me hooked.

Then it was (iirc) Aces of the Deep and the original Silent HUnter + add-ons.

Jane's Attack sub was cool, but lack of replayability doomed it to a short life on my hard drive.

Looking forward to SH IV - somehow patrolling a US boat in the Pacific is what still interests me.

Mooncatt · 07-26-06, 03:56 AM

i got into u-boats from a game on the c-64 "silent service" wicked game

ecm747x · 09-21-06, 05:29 AM

My facination with first, the WW2 Navy came from my grandfather who was on the USS Enterprise durring WW2. He was on her when she sailed into Pearl after the attack on Dec 7th.
I then kept looking for computer sim games and most were sub sim and fell in love with them...
I also had two cousins who were on Boomers durring the cold war. There stories facinated me, even though they said it was99% of the time borring, the other 1 percent more than made up for it

07-24-06, 03:58 AM	#1
TarJak Fleet Admiral Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 17,052 Downloads: 150 Uploads: 8	Who wouldn't be? My interest in all things naval came from my father. He was a keleck AE (Senior Rate Aircraft Engineer) in the RAN (Royal Australian Navy), back when it had a real Fleet Air Arm and an aircraft carrier of it's very own. (HMAS Melbourne), both now sadly long gone. Somewhere along the line I got to visit one of the old Oberon class subs that the RAN used up until the early nineties. Whilst we didn't submerge (tied up to the wharf the hole time) as a young kid I could imagine it. The sub sim thing started with an old arcarde slot video game which had a periscope and you fired a faster and faster moving targets that shot across a fairly flat mono screen. i progressed to Aces of the Deep and then the original SH. Didn't think much of SHII because of the other graphical advances that were happening at the time, but it was still a good improvement on the original. Blew my mind when I saw SHIII and had to have it. Currently running a campaign using GW after using RUB and some other mods for the past 6-7 months or so.

07-24-06, 03:07 PM	#2
Seaveins Sailor man Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Burke, VA, USA Posts: 44 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Why I dive... My grandfather (Danish resistance member) had stories of reporting German naval traffic to the UK around Lolland and Langeland, DK (saw the Bismarck!). I ended up getting into scuba diving and worked on a boat that had recently recovered artifacts on the U-? off North Carolina, USA. The propeller was salvaged and ended up in the dive shop's lounge. I would sit there looking at it and imagine the journey this object took. I guess I have always been into U-boats. -Lars

07-24-06, 08:49 PM	#3
vodkaphile Torpedoman Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Louisiana, USA Posts: 115 Downloads: 64 Uploads: 0	I've been interested in most things German military since the middle ages/Holy Roman Empire days. Das Boot and other sub movies have always been a favorite of mine plus one of the first games I played on PC was a game called "Wolfpack". I was hooked from there on out. Pirates and Submarines are a great interest of mine, go figure. I guess they are similiar in a way. __________________ -VP Missing targets since 1990.

07-24-06, 08:54 PM	#4
Slick Rick Sonar Guy Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Whats left of Florida Posts: 396 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	I grew up on the South side of Chicago...and we went on a field trip to the Museum of Science and Industry....and it was there that I first laid my eyes on U505....I have been back many times since and I always get excited every time I see her......I also never missed an episode of Voyage to the bottom of the Sea..... __________________ Wasserbomb!!!!

07-25-06, 04:50 AM	#7
Wilko Officer Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Aussie Posts: 249 Downloads: 30 Uploads: 0	Read "Run Silent Run Deep" (which I have just had to rebuy after loosing it) then I bought SH, SH2, SH3 as well as Janes 688i with that lovely spiral bound manual, Sub Command, Dangerous Waters. __________________ You take it easy... and have a nice day

07-24-06, 09:35 PM	#5
rcs929 Sailor man Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: landlocked USA Posts: 44 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I have always enjoyed simulation games & have a great interest in WWII. I saw a friend play silent hunter I at a lan party so I watched him play a bit. He ended up giving it to me & about a year later I played it shortly- I have waaay too many games that I like so bounce around a lot. I liked the cat and mouse of it and the charting but it didn't really spark yet. Later on I saw SHII so I bought that & played it a great deal more. The rolling seas, running smack dab into a convoy in heavy heavy fog & trying to escape hunter/killer groups got me hooked. Also I like the slow pace which I can choose to speed up or keep slow. I got SH3 because the sub rolls with the sea & the crew. I didn't like manning a one man sub that never moved especially when my favorite feature in the game is the rolling seas. I must say the community here keeps me playing as well, I get to reading some patrol stories then I am inspired to go out on patrol

07-24-06, 09:36 PM	#6
spork542 Chief Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 328 Downloads: 18 Uploads: 0	I took interest in world war two and its ships at a young age, and was given Silent Hunter II as a birthday present a long time ago, I think. Then I got really interested in U-boats. Several years later, SH3 gets released without my knowing, and I eventually got it.

07-25-06, 05:10 AM	#8
Max Peck Watch Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 25 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	Silent Service on NES got me started with sub sims, Aces of the Deep showed me how amazing (at the time) they could look, Silent Hunter and Silent Hunter III actually made me learn targeting and tracking skills like a true submarine commander would have to use.

07-25-06, 09:11 AM	#9
SubConscious Frogman Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 309 Downloads: 102 Uploads: 0	I've been interested in WWII history since early High School. I think what fascinated me most was how close Germany came to winning and how their defeat could be attributed to a few key strategic mistakes. It was at this time that I was exposed to my first computer game - a multi-player Star Trek combat simulator written in BASIC written by two friends of mine. The game didn't have any graphics (so it was fast enough to have 6-8 players at that time), so we were flying around and plotting intercepts in 3D space using nothing but numbers. To put this in perspective, we were playing on 110 baud terminals. If you think a 56k modem is slow, try something 509 times slower. Several years later, I was visiting a friend who had Aces of the Deep on his PC. He was tired and sacked out, but I ended up playing that game until the wee hours - I was completely hooked. When PCs outpaced AotD and I couldn't get it to load anymore, I gave up on Sub Sims, vowing to wait until something that I thought was as good or better than AotD arrived. I think SH3 fits that bill. Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane...

07-25-06, 09:57 AM	#10
Jusa_Finn Bosun Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Vantaa, Finland Posts: 67 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Read all the war and navy books in the 60’s starting with Hornblower. Started playing Silent Service 2 in about 1990 Played Silent Hunter 2 until I heard that SH3 is coming.

07-25-06, 06:13 PM	#11
Jager Kapitan Seaman Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 32 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I always loved researching WWII, then I learned my grandpa was in fact a radioman on destroyer, guarding the east coast from u-boats,, thought that was the only person in my family to ever be in the navy, but it turns out I'm a distant relative of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (by marriage through my great uncle) And thats about all the naval tradtion in my family. (my 2 greatx3 grandfathers were in the Civil war, we still have one of their resignation letters) Last edited by Jager Kapitan; 07-25-06 at 06:16 PM.

07-25-06, 06:32 PM	#12
HunterICX Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2006 Location: Malaga, España Posts: 10,750 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	As an Kid I Always loved stuff about WW2, had 100 - 200 of those small plastic soldiers...you know...those Green - American, Grey - Axis and yellow - Brits and when I had an Computer I played Panzer General the Classic one and a whole lotta more WW2 games and after a while U-Boats start to blow my mind about how the germans did it in WW2. Also my Grandpa, was an part of an dutch resistance...Sabotaging small things on the Airport of Gilze-Rijen . he almost got fusilized for that Geezzz...Grandpa... well here I am sinking stuff __________________

07-25-06, 11:22 PM	#13
Zero Niner Ace of the Deep Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,033 Downloads: 69 Uploads: 0	I started off with MPS's Silent Service for the Apple ][, then Silent Service II & II when they were released. But it was the first Silent Service that got me hooked. Then it was (iirc) Aces of the Deep and the original Silent HUnter + add-ons. Jane's Attack sub was cool, but lack of replayability doomed it to a short life on my hard drive. Looking forward to SH IV - somehow patrolling a US boat in the Pacific is what still interests me.

07-26-06, 03:56 AM	#14
Mooncatt Grey Wolf Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Keighley UK Posts: 938 Downloads: 78 Uploads: 0	i got into u-boats from a game on the c-64 "silent service" wicked game __________________

09-21-06, 05:29 AM	#15
ecm747x Gunner Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: USA, Indiana Posts: 94 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	My facination with first, the WW2 Navy came from my grandfather who was on the USS Enterprise durring WW2. He was on her when she sailed into Pearl after the attack on Dec 7th. I then kept looking for computer sim games and most were sub sim and fell in love with them... I also had two cousins who were on Boomers durring the cold war. There stories facinated me, even though they said it was99% of the time borring, the other 1 percent more than made up for it