My first GWX3.0 patrol

Spike88 · 01-12-09, 06:04 PM

I downloaded GWX earlier today(took like 10 minutes with my connection

) I finally get around to installing it this afternoon and go to play. Choose the 7th/13th Flotilla, upgrade my hydrophone and fill in my crew slots. I finally depart from my base the second day after the game starts, in 1939. I get orders to patrol a sector thats nearby. I have 3 points on my map that say there are targets there. So I head to them, to find 2 ships at each one. They have the British flags, but they're showing up as green. Ignoring this I sink them anyways, plus two ships that were leaving the area. I sink up to 20-30 tons. Happy with my work I start to return to my base, which is about an hour away. When my watch reports two more ships, I check and see that they're British and sink them with my deck gun. But unlike the other 8 ships I sank, they didn't show up in my log and the ship sunk icon didn't appear. I continue on my way to my dock. About 10 minutes away from the actual dock part, I realize that I'm taking damage. I check to see that I didn't hit anything, but thats not the case. I slow down time compression to 1 and realize I'm being fired on. Before I can finally come to realization that its a German boat attacking me, I'm sunk.

What did I do wrong to be attacked?

meduza · 01-12-09, 06:41 PM

If you attack a neutral ship, all neutral nations will be hostile to you for 24 hours. Since you started the career in August 1939, the war hasn't begun yet, and all the nations are still neutral, including Germany. That's why they fired on you.

Next time wait until September.

If you don't want to wait, you can set the starting month in SH3 Commander.

Weiss Pinguin · 01-12-09, 06:43 PM

If you start with the 7th? flotilla your orders are to sink the target ships in that vicinity. What I did was sail back to port submerged. Can't remember if it worked though.

meduza · 01-12-09, 06:45 PM

You should hit Escape button and Return to base.

Weiss Pinguin · 01-12-09, 06:47 PM

But it's more fun to sneak back to base underwater. Good practice for late war attacks.

meduza · 01-12-09, 07:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Weiß Pinguin

But it's more fun to sneak back to base underwater. Good practice for late war attacks.

When you put it that way, I guess you do have a point. First you practice targeting, and then evasion.

Spike88 · 01-12-09, 07:54 PM

If their neutral will I still get the renown? Because when I died and it showed my career report it said I had -600 renown. I didn't know if that was because I died, or because of the ships I sunk. Also when I sunk the other two ships that weren't listed as Target ships, they sank but the marker didn't show up on the map, was I not supposed to sink these? I was sure they had British flags.

01-12-09, 06:04 PM	#1
Spike88 Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Miami, FL Posts: 3,052 Downloads: 36 Uploads: 0	My first GWX3.0 patrol I downloaded GWX earlier today(took like 10 minutes with my connection ) I finally get around to installing it this afternoon and go to play. Choose the 7th/13th Flotilla, upgrade my hydrophone and fill in my crew slots. I finally depart from my base the second day after the game starts, in 1939. I get orders to patrol a sector thats nearby. I have 3 points on my map that say there are targets there. So I head to them, to find 2 ships at each one. They have the British flags, but they're showing up as green. Ignoring this I sink them anyways, plus two ships that were leaving the area. I sink up to 20-30 tons. Happy with my work I start to return to my base, which is about an hour away. When my watch reports two more ships, I check and see that they're British and sink them with my deck gun. But unlike the other 8 ships I sank, they didn't show up in my log and the ship sunk icon didn't appear. I continue on my way to my dock. About 10 minutes away from the actual dock part, I realize that I'm taking damage. I check to see that I didn't hit anything, but thats not the case. I slow down time compression to 1 and realize I'm being fired on. Before I can finally come to realization that its a German boat attacking me, I'm sunk. What did I do wrong to be attacked?

01-12-09, 06:41 PM	#2
meduza Ace of the Deep Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: on patrol Posts: 1,035 Downloads: 40 Uploads: 0	If you attack a neutral ship, all neutral nations will be hostile to you for 24 hours. Since you started the career in August 1939, the war hasn't begun yet, and all the nations are still neutral, including Germany. That's why they fired on you. Next time wait until September. If you don't want to wait, you can set the starting month in SH3 Commander. __________________

01-12-09, 06:43 PM	#3
Weiss Pinguin Ocean Warrior Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Auburn, Alabama Posts: 3,333 Downloads: 101 Uploads: 0	If you start with the 7th? flotilla your orders are to sink the target ships in that vicinity. What I did was sail back to port submerged. Can't remember if it worked though. __________________

01-12-09, 06:45 PM	#4
meduza Ace of the Deep Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: on patrol Posts: 1,035 Downloads: 40 Uploads: 0	You should hit Escape button and Return to base. __________________

01-12-09, 06:47 PM	#5
Weiss Pinguin Ocean Warrior Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Auburn, Alabama Posts: 3,333 Downloads: 101 Uploads: 0	But it's more fun to sneak back to base underwater. Good practice for late war attacks. __________________

01-12-09, 07:54 PM	#7
Spike88 Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Miami, FL Posts: 3,052 Downloads: 36 Uploads: 0	If their neutral will I still get the renown? Because when I died and it showed my career report it said I had -600 renown. I didn't know if that was because I died, or because of the ships I sunk. Also when I sunk the other two ships that weren't listed as Target ships, they sank but the marker didn't show up on the map, was I not supposed to sink these? I was sure they had British flags.