My first GWX career!

Hrvoje · 01-01-07, 01:35 PM

First of all, thanx to all people who made this mod, it is really a stunning chande from vanilla 1.4b I used to play until few days ago.

After modding the game, I noticed much looooonger loading times (I play on 1,7GHz centrino with 512MB RAM and no dedicated gfx card

at the moment), But.... All the new harbours. WoW!

So, for the first time, I decided to drop that guy who enters data in TDC and to try doing it myself. Uh! Damn AoB

And speed. and distance. And they keep changing

(I have map contact updates and action camera on, 97% realism).

Joined flotilla in Kiel, made my first patrol in Baltic, till Danzig, sinking polish destroyer and medium merchant, and also a neutral cargo moored in harbour. Damn, what is he doing there? It is war!

RTB, second patrol BE36. Got two merchants enroute, no cons in patrol area. Decided to try another harbour attack. Target: Portsmouth. Weather: heavy fog and rain. Entered harbour at 11,00 AM, PD, 2kts. Two DD's patroling on entrance. Almost colided with subnet.

Raised scope, looking for targets. Hardly anything visible, only silhuetes against the sky. Small cargo, small cargo, a bit bigger cargo, cranes, cranes, big cranes, cranes, swinging crane, crane. Wait! Swinging crane? OMFG! This is something huge! Down scope, 2kts north. 200m from that huge object, scope raised again. A battleship! lets chk manual..... HMS Hood! 1kt backward, diving to the bottom. She is moored in direction N-S in the middle of the harbour, AoB 0deg. Torpedos will bounce if fired with contact fuse..... Chk depth. Some 16m total. Lets try below her. distance 1100m, running depth 10,5m. Salvo shot of four torpedos, about 1 deg separation. First two exploded while hitting the bow, second two went under her and exploded ca. 30-50m from the bow. She must go down! Crew is cheering. Three hours pass. Let's go chk. 200m form the pier, scope up. She is still there, just a few scars on the bow. Damn. Harbour is only 250m wide, no chance for a side shot. Except if..... Hm. Yould we try to enter the pier backwards and park as fasr possible from the Hood? scope up u bit, 15 minutes of creeping at 1kt. In Position. Two torps reloded. salvo shot, 3deg wide One for stern, one for middle part. Lovely action camera shot as they leave my sub moored at 14m in middle of Portsmouth port

Torpedo treffer! And again! She's going down. UHUUUUUUU!

Slowly creeped out of the harbour, passed htrough the Channel in horrendous weather and docked in Kiel.

What a partol!

Sea Wolf · 01-01-07, 02:41 PM

Agh i'm going crazy! I'm on a work pc which i'm not supposed to download onto (and the graphics card sucks anyway) so i've got to wait for like 2 weeks until I can get GWX. Agh! Lucky bugger......

Oh and congrats on your sinking

bigboywooly · 01-01-07, 02:42 PM

Hi and welcome to Subsim
Nice patrol report
Glad you are enjoying the experiance

Just one thing
Sure it was Portsmouth and not Plymouth ?

Hrvoje · 01-01-07, 03:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigboywooly

Just one thing
Sure it was Portsmouth and not Plymouth ?

Yeah, you're right. Messed it up due to footbal text in yesterdays paper :rotfl:

BTW, got it just one day after Prien sunk the Royak Oak

bigboywooly · 01-01-07, 03:45 PM

:rotfl:
Didnt think I added it in Portsmouth as wasnt there then

mookiemookie · 01-01-07, 03:55 PM

Welcome to the forums, and good to see you're enjoying the GWX mod. I am too. It really is like night and day compared to stock SH3, isn't it?

Good work on sinking the Hood. But now what are the Prinz Eugen and Bismark gonna do?

LeafsFan · 01-02-07, 06:37 AM

Nice Report!!

HB

Jimbuna · 01-02-07, 06:55 AM

Good first report

Welcome aboard kaleun

Biggles · 01-02-07, 06:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Welcome to the forums, and good to see you're enjoying the GWX mod. I am too. It really is like night and day compared to stock SH3, isn't it?

Good work on sinking the Hood. But now what are the Prinz Eugen and Bismark gonna do?

Oh, the Hood will be back.....it always come back.......

Sailor Steve · 01-02-07, 12:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sea Wolf

Agh i'm going crazy! I'm on a work pc which i'm not supposed to download onto (and the graphics card sucks anyway) so i've got to wait for like 2 weeks until I can get GWX. Agh! Lucky bugger......

Quit whining, ya big baby! It's been six months since I've played at all, and I have no idea when I'll get to play SHIII again, let alone GWX!:p

Brag · 01-02-07, 04:04 PM

Good creepy creepy in and out of harbour. Congratahoochies in sinking that big hunk or iron.

Besties
Brag

Hrvoje · 01-05-07, 04:40 PM

Third patrol update:

Ordered to patrol BF15. Passed Kiel canal and headed for LaManche. Decided to pop into Dunquirke and take a look.

November 12, IIRC.
4*destroyer (two brits, polish and unID)
large tanker
passenger ship (14000t)
3* medium cargo, sadly 2 neutral
some 4-5 coastal vessels and 5-6 smal boats

Sunk:
3 destroyers
tanker, pass ship,medium cargo, coastal vessel and a small boat.

Noticed:
no destroyers patroling, all docked, crews prolly visiting local french whorehouses :rotfl: , after I fired first torpedos and sunk 2 destroyers, pinging started but without any ships moving, must be that they didn't have enough Besatzung to man both the sonar and the engines :rotfl: . After shooting all the torps, I left the harbour, loaded the externals and came back for more

Too bad I didn't solve the deck gun problem, bcs there were few small ships to submerge :p

So, all in all, after 3 patrols on 97% realism, I made it to some 112.000 BRT

Didn't expect it to go that good, hehe.

I'll keep updating till I die, but next two weeks I'm absent

Have fun all of you

P.S. Of course, BdU ordered me home after 3 days of patroll bcs I hade no more torpedos left

01-01-07, 01:35 PM	#1
Hrvoje Swabbie Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 10 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	My first GWX career! First of all, thanx to all people who made this mod, it is really a stunning chande from vanilla 1.4b I used to play until few days ago. After modding the game, I noticed much looooonger loading times (I play on 1,7GHz centrino with 512MB RAM and no dedicated gfx card at the moment), But.... All the new harbours. WoW! So, for the first time, I decided to drop that guy who enters data in TDC and to try doing it myself. Uh! Damn AoB And speed. and distance. And they keep changing (I have map contact updates and action camera on, 97% realism). Joined flotilla in Kiel, made my first patrol in Baltic, till Danzig, sinking polish destroyer and medium merchant, and also a neutral cargo moored in harbour. Damn, what is he doing there? It is war! RTB, second patrol BE36. Got two merchants enroute, no cons in patrol area. Decided to try another harbour attack. Target: Portsmouth. Weather: heavy fog and rain. Entered harbour at 11,00 AM, PD, 2kts. Two DD's patroling on entrance. Almost colided with subnet. Raised scope, looking for targets. Hardly anything visible, only silhuetes against the sky. Small cargo, small cargo, a bit bigger cargo, cranes, cranes, big cranes, cranes, swinging crane, crane. Wait! Swinging crane? OMFG! This is something huge! Down scope, 2kts north. 200m from that huge object, scope raised again. A battleship! lets chk manual..... HMS Hood! 1kt backward, diving to the bottom. She is moored in direction N-S in the middle of the harbour, AoB 0deg. Torpedos will bounce if fired with contact fuse..... Chk depth. Some 16m total. Lets try below her. distance 1100m, running depth 10,5m. Salvo shot of four torpedos, about 1 deg separation. First two exploded while hitting the bow, second two went under her and exploded ca. 30-50m from the bow. She must go down! Crew is cheering. Three hours pass. Let's go chk. 200m form the pier, scope up. She is still there, just a few scars on the bow. Damn. Harbour is only 250m wide, no chance for a side shot. Except if..... Hm. Yould we try to enter the pier backwards and park as fasr possible from the Hood? scope up u bit, 15 minutes of creeping at 1kt. In Position. Two torps reloded. salvo shot, 3deg wide One for stern, one for middle part. Lovely action camera shot as they leave my sub moored at 14m in middle of Portsmouth port Torpedo treffer! And again! She's going down. UHUUUUUUU! Slowly creeped out of the harbour, passed htrough the Channel in horrendous weather and docked in Kiel. What a partol!

01-01-07, 02:42 PM	#3
bigboywooly Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Swindon, England Posts: 10,151 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	Hi and welcome to Subsim Nice patrol report Glad you are enjoying the experiance Just one thing Sure it was Portsmouth and not Plymouth ? __________________ My mediafire page http://www.mediafire.com/?11eoq19bq9r41

01-01-07, 03:45 PM	#5
bigboywooly Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Swindon, England Posts: 10,151 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	:rotfl: Didnt think I added it in Portsmouth as wasnt there then __________________ My mediafire page http://www.mediafire.com/?11eoq19bq9r41

01-01-07, 03:55 PM	#6
mookiemookie Navy Seal Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 9,404 Downloads: 105 Uploads: 1	Welcome to the forums, and good to see you're enjoying the GWX mod. I am too. It really is like night and day compared to stock SH3, isn't it? Good work on sinking the Hood. But now what are the Prinz Eugen and Bismark gonna do? __________________ They don’t think it be like it is, but it do. Want more U-boat Kaleun portraits for your SH3 Commander Profiles? Download the SH3 Commander Portrait Pack here.

01-02-07, 06:55 AM	#8
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,473 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Good first report Welcome aboard kaleun __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

01-01-07, 02:41 PM	#2
Sea Wolf A-ganger Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Zurich, Switzerland Posts: 79 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	Agh i'm going crazy! I'm on a work pc which i'm not supposed to download onto (and the graphics card sucks anyway) so i've got to wait for like 2 weeks until I can get GWX. Agh! Lucky bugger...... Oh and congrats on your sinking

01-02-07, 06:37 AM	#7
LeafsFan Watch Officer Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada Posts: 332 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	Nice Report!! HB

01-02-07, 04:04 PM	#11
Brag Navy Seal Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Docked on a Russian pond Posts: 7,072 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Good creepy creepy in and out of harbour. Congratahoochies in sinking that big hunk or iron. Besties Brag

01-05-07, 04:40 PM	#12
Hrvoje Swabbie Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 10 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Third patrol update: Ordered to patrol BF15. Passed Kiel canal and headed for LaManche. Decided to pop into Dunquirke and take a look. November 12, IIRC. 4destroyer (two brits, polish and unID) large tanker passenger ship (14000t) 3 medium cargo, sadly 2 neutral some 4-5 coastal vessels and 5-6 smal boats Sunk: 3 destroyers tanker, pass ship,medium cargo, coastal vessel and a small boat. Noticed: no destroyers patroling, all docked, crews prolly visiting local french whorehouses :rotfl: , after I fired first torpedos and sunk 2 destroyers, pinging started but without any ships moving, must be that they didn't have enough Besatzung to man both the sonar and the engines :rotfl: . After shooting all the torps, I left the harbour, loaded the externals and came back for more Too bad I didn't solve the deck gun problem, bcs there were few small ships to submerge :p So, all in all, after 3 patrols on 97% realism, I made it to some 112.000 BRT Didn't expect it to go that good, hehe. I'll keep updating till I die, but next two weeks I'm absent Have fun all of you P.S. Of course, BdU ordered me home after 3 days of patroll bcs I hade no more torpedos left