Hello, hello!

[Umfuld]

Just thought I’d make a thread to say hello, hope you don’t mind.


Not a Sim game enthusiast by any stretch. Just bought SSIII by what I saw on the box in the store and have been very pleased with the game over the year I’ve been playing.
Wish I’d known of this place then, as it would have saved me a lot of trial and error. Oh well.
About a month ago I downloaded my first patch for any PC game (the latest one, 1.4 or whatever) and that has made it all the more enjoyable.


I play campaigns only, and have never played online. Just thought I’d talk about some aspects and try and get some feedback if I can.


First off, deck guns. I find it odd that they say in the manual not to get too caught up in the deck gun. I am all about the deck gun, at least early in the war.

A couple of missions ago (April, 1941 / VIIB) I had over 50,000 tons sunk before I fired my first torpedo. I’m not kidding. This was on 92% difficulty (ship sink time, and auto targeting the only aides I use). I ended up with 78,031 tons that patrol, I’d have to guess my best on a higher difficulty.
Normally the weather turns bad before too long, so I make a habit of speeding around busy parts of the ocean right at the start of a patrol.
Also, I will sometimes target the escorts of a convoy with torpedoes and if I knock them all out I pop up and take out 6 or 7 of the largest ships with the deck gun. More so early in the war as taking out three Destroyers at once can be a bit tricky.
I’ve never lost a gun fight with a Corvette or Armed Trawler before.

So just wondering if any of you use the deck gun as much?

Have you ever taken on a Destroyer with the deck gun? (I have not.)




Secondly, I pretty much only use the T1 (G7a) type torpedoes. I’d imagine that’s not very common. But I just have come to love the flexibility of speed changes, and most of all the long distance. I am starting to use magnetic a bit more (on larger ships) but feel much more confident running at about 2 meters/Impact detonation. And I’d say about 95% of the time one impact torpedo will sink any Small Merch, Coastal Merch, Destroyer, Small Tanker, or smaller warships.

The two times I’ve made it later in the war when more advanced torpedoes are available I made the idiotic blunder of not realizing that they cost renown, and both times ended up blowing thousands fiddling with different armaments. A mistake I don’t think I’ll make again.

Anyway, what’s your preference with torpedoes?



Well, this is getting long for a hello thread so I’ll stop there and come back with some more at another time.
Sorry if you’ve discussed all of this over and over on other threads. I’d rather spend my time sinking tankers than searching. (Okay, so I’m kind of a jerk.)


But I’d really appreciate any thoughts you have, mates!