Call me a nerd, but.....

aj906 · 04-15-11, 07:32 AM

I have just spent the last four and a half hours glued to the computer watching a quadrant of AL33....

I play with full real (except externals, cause I like the screen shots) and decided I should try and do a stint on watch to see what it was like. Dentist appointments are annoying. Mother-in-laws are painful. This was agony. And I was sitting in a chair out of harm's way and not being sprayed with February's North Atlantic spray!

So, call me a nerd, but the challenge is out there

Find a space of ocean to call your own. Cut the watch crew to just a single sailor. Turn up the speakers and turn off the iPoooood and gramaphone and see how long it is before you loose the will to live. (And remember, it matters what you scan because with just a sailor, you don't get a fail safe!)

It really hit home just how boring it must have been for a real life crew simulating the run to AH 12 no less (above New Foundland and in the Hudson Straights, thank you very much Mr Dönitz!) I did on a previous patrol for 15 weeks and heard nothing but destroyers off Reykjavik and managed just 81 tons of a fishing vessel via gunfire (the crew of which I took pity on, surfaced beside the boat, counted to 100 for real life evac, sunk, hung around to grab the half a dozen guys then chuffed off back to St Nazaire).

04-15-11, 07:32 AM	#1
aj906 Helmsman Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 107 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Call me a nerd, but..... I have just spent the last four and a half hours glued to the computer watching a quadrant of AL33.... I play with full real (except externals, cause I like the screen shots) and decided I should try and do a stint on watch to see what it was like. Dentist appointments are annoying. Mother-in-laws are painful. This was agony. And I was sitting in a chair out of harm's way and not being sprayed with February's North Atlantic spray! So, call me a nerd, but the challenge is out there Find a space of ocean to call your own. Cut the watch crew to just a single sailor. Turn up the speakers and turn off the iPoooood and gramaphone and see how long it is before you loose the will to live. (And remember, it matters what you scan because with just a sailor, you don't get a fail safe!) It really hit home just how boring it must have been for a real life crew simulating the run to AH 12 no less (above New Foundland and in the Hudson Straights, thank you very much Mr Dönitz!) I did on a previous patrol for 15 weeks and heard nothing but destroyers off Reykjavik and managed just 81 tons of a fishing vessel via gunfire (the crew of which I took pity on, surfaced beside the boat, counted to 100 for real life evac, sunk, hung around to grab the half a dozen guys then chuffed off back to St Nazaire). __________________ Gott weiß ich will kein Engel sein...!