Requesting Assistance in GWX3.0

ShadowOps · 07-15-10, 09:14 PM

I just installed GWX3.0 and I love it but I keep getting radio messages stating "SSS...
S.S. Ship 53.9N 10.6W"
or something along those lines and I just wanted to know how you can tell where those coordinates are located on your nav map. I have checked all the areas of the map and I simply cannot find out how to know where these ships are. Also, how do you find resupply boats/subs? Do you request them or do you just randomly find them or what? ALSO What does SSS mean?

TarJak · 07-15-10, 09:48 PM

Those messages are there for immersion not for you to find and go to the location. There was a grid ref-log/lat converter posted somewhere.

SSS was the distress signal sent by ships that spotted or were under attack by an enemy submarine.

The resuply boats /subs show up as bases when they are available. first on is some time in 1940 I think.

ShadowOps · 07-15-10, 10:15 PM

Thats too bad.. I was kind of looking forward to destroying damaged enemy ships. Oh well thanks for the advice anyway, I appreciate it.

ShadowOps · 07-15-10, 10:19 PM

It would be pretty cool if you could go find a convoy or something that another sub reported and work with it to attack the convoy. Wolf Pack with AI.

Sailor Steve · 07-16-10, 12:45 AM

Actually with GWX you will occasionally recieve a convoy report that shows up on the map with a round sub symbol instead of a square merchant symbol. These convoys have a u-boat travelling with them. The game won't allow them to fire torpedoes, but they will be there when you show up.

Sixteen years ago Aces Of The Deep had full wolfpack participation, with you being ordered to go join other boats in an attack, or you reporting a convoy and being told to shadow it until more boats arrived. Why modern subsims don't have that is a mystery everyone wonders about.

ShadowOps · 07-16-10, 01:21 AM

Its too bad they got rid of that. If that was an available option in SH3, I would never stop playing.

Pisces · 07-16-10, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by ShadowOps

I just installed GWX3.0 and I love it but I keep getting radio messages stating "SSS...
S.S. Ship 53.9N 10.6W"
or something along those lines and I just wanted to know how you can tell where those coordinates are located on your nav map. I have checked all the areas of the map and I simply cannot find out how to know where these ships are. Also, how do you find resupply boats/subs? Do you request them or do you just randomly find them or what? ALSO What does SSS mean?

Every degree of longitude and lattitude in the real world represents 120km on the SH3 map. Just use lines from the Greenwich meridian and equator. But you won't find there what you are looking for. It's just a message.

07-15-10, 09:14 PM	#1
ShadowOps Mate Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Freezing in my Type VII off of Norway Posts: 52 Downloads: 73 Uploads: 0	Requesting Assistance in GWX3.0 I just installed GWX3.0 and I love it but I keep getting radio messages stating "SSS... S.S. Ship 53.9N 10.6W" or something along those lines and I just wanted to know how you can tell where those coordinates are located on your nav map. I have checked all the areas of the map and I simply cannot find out how to know where these ships are. Also, how do you find resupply boats/subs? Do you request them or do you just randomly find them or what? ALSO What does SSS mean?

07-16-10, 12:45 AM	#5
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Actually with GWX you will occasionally recieve a convoy report that shows up on the map with a round sub symbol instead of a square merchant symbol. These convoys have a u-boat travelling with them. The game won't allow them to fire torpedoes, but they will be there when you show up. Sixteen years ago Aces Of The Deep had full wolfpack participation, with you being ordered to go join other boats in an attack, or you reporting a convoy and being told to shadow it until more boats arrived. Why modern subsims don't have that is a mystery everyone wonders about. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

07-15-10, 09:48 PM	#2
TarJak Fleet Admiral Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 17,052 Downloads: 150 Uploads: 8	Those messages are there for immersion not for you to find and go to the location. There was a grid ref-log/lat converter posted somewhere. SSS was the distress signal sent by ships that spotted or were under attack by an enemy submarine. The resuply boats /subs show up as bases when they are available. first on is some time in 1940 I think.

07-15-10, 10:15 PM	#3
ShadowOps Mate Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Freezing in my Type VII off of Norway Posts: 52 Downloads: 73 Uploads: 0	Thats too bad.. I was kind of looking forward to destroying damaged enemy ships. Oh well thanks for the advice anyway, I appreciate it.

07-15-10, 10:19 PM	#4
ShadowOps Mate Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Freezing in my Type VII off of Norway Posts: 52 Downloads: 73 Uploads: 0	It would be pretty cool if you could go find a convoy or something that another sub reported and work with it to attack the convoy. Wolf Pack with AI.

07-16-10, 01:21 AM	#6
ShadowOps Mate Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Freezing in my Type VII off of Norway Posts: 52 Downloads: 73 Uploads: 0	Its too bad they got rid of that. If that was an available option in SH3, I would never stop playing.