Assaut on Scapa Flow GWX advice

Alexdk · 03-21-07, 09:27 AM

Hi,

I have owned SHIII for a week now and managed to infitrate Scapa Flow and sink the Revenge batteship there on SHIII 1.4 + SHIII commander. It took about 5 hours but I managed it (barely). It was that characters first patrol and didn't even get a medal for it!

However now I am going to try and attempt it again using GWX mod. Now with destroyers more aggressive than before and relistic air patrols as well as an improved damage model this is going to be hard. Any advice from the vetrans on how best to handle the slipping past the escorts and taking out the beast?

Last time I slipped past the escorts while rigged for silent running, going about 2k. Was only using 25% realism ie realistic batteries and O2 and sensors. However I still had to target the ship manually because it was heavy fog (by England who would have guessed?

) and visibility was about 400m. Now I wanted to take the shot at about 2000m so I would not be too close when the escorts when haywire. It ain't easy trying to hit the ammo cache when I cannot see the target. Fired 3 torps and proceeded to head West, toweards the mined entrance. The first 2 torps (I-Trig, 3m depth) impacted the hull but the third...BOOM!

The explosion light up through the fog....amazing! Then the escorts when crazy! All proceeded towards the explosion and the west entrance escort headed straight for me! However, they ain't to smart and he passed within 500m of me and missed me! They started pinging away with sonar in the opposite direction of where I was! Very lucky. Then just a matter of navigating the mine field and I was home free! Of course I used the external camera...I ain't good enough yet to do it blind!

Does anybody have any suggestions on how to attempt this with the GWX mod? Anybody penetrated Scapa Flow. The date was Oct 8, 1939.

Thanks in advance

Alex

03-21-07, 09:27 AM	#1
Alexdk Seaman Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 31 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Assaut on Scapa Flow GWX advice Hi, I have owned SHIII for a week now and managed to infitrate Scapa Flow and sink the Revenge batteship there on SHIII 1.4 + SHIII commander. It took about 5 hours but I managed it (barely). It was that characters first patrol and didn't even get a medal for it! However now I am going to try and attempt it again using GWX mod. Now with destroyers more aggressive than before and relistic air patrols as well as an improved damage model this is going to be hard. Any advice from the vetrans on how best to handle the slipping past the escorts and taking out the beast? Last time I slipped past the escorts while rigged for silent running, going about 2k. Was only using 25% realism ie realistic batteries and O2 and sensors. However I still had to target the ship manually because it was heavy fog (by England who would have guessed? ) and visibility was about 400m. Now I wanted to take the shot at about 2000m so I would not be too close when the escorts when haywire. It ain't easy trying to hit the ammo cache when I cannot see the target. Fired 3 torps and proceeded to head West, toweards the mined entrance. The first 2 torps (I-Trig, 3m depth) impacted the hull but the third...BOOM! The explosion light up through the fog....amazing! Then the escorts when crazy! All proceeded towards the explosion and the west entrance escort headed straight for me! However, they ain't to smart and he passed within 500m of me and missed me! They started pinging away with sonar in the opposite direction of where I was! Very lucky. Then just a matter of navigating the mine field and I was home free! Of course I used the external camera...I ain't good enough yet to do it blind! Does anybody have any suggestions on how to attempt this with the GWX mod? Anybody penetrated Scapa Flow. The date was Oct 8, 1939. Thanks in advance Alex