Strange happenings off Afrika!

Vacillator · 10-15-07, 03:08 AM

For my 11th patrol with U47 I got EK78 as the grid. Hmm, okay I thought 'I'll just go with it'.

After a long trip down I sank a small merchant with the deck gun and continued my patrol. I started getting reports of a warship near the coast. Looking at the map, it seemed to spawn (or leave dock) again and again, see below (spawning just behind the islands and heading down past Freetown):

Needless to say I didn't head over to investigate!

Next thing I notice is my heading, which shows under the dial as 0 even though I'm heading roughly 240 towards a convoy someone just radioed in.

Also, what happened to the small merchant. I got the 'she's going down' but there's no red wreck.

Now all of this was pretty much 'Oh well, that's odd!' and no more. Until I had to save and reload a day later, at which point I got my first ever CTD while the 'Not so long ago' screen was up!

This is with GWX and SH3Cmdr, date is February 1941.

Anyone care to comment on whether the odd things caused my CTD, if I can recover the postion, or whether I should go back to the previous save (in port) and start my long trip again?

10-15-07, 03:08 AM	#1
Vacillator Frogman Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: UK Posts: 307 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Strange happenings off Afrika! For my 11th patrol with U47 I got EK78 as the grid. Hmm, okay I thought 'I'll just go with it'. After a long trip down I sank a small merchant with the deck gun and continued my patrol. I started getting reports of a warship near the coast. Looking at the map, it seemed to spawn (or leave dock) again and again, see below (spawning just behind the islands and heading down past Freetown): Needless to say I didn't head over to investigate! Next thing I notice is my heading, which shows under the dial as 0 even though I'm heading roughly 240 towards a convoy someone just radioed in. Also, what happened to the small merchant. I got the 'she's going down' but there's no red wreck. Now all of this was pretty much 'Oh well, that's odd!' and no more. Until I had to save and reload a day later, at which point I got my first ever CTD while the 'Not so long ago' screen was up! This is with GWX and SH3Cmdr, date is February 1941. Anyone care to comment on whether the odd things caused my CTD, if I can recover the postion, or whether I should go back to the previous save (in port) and start my long trip again?