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Offline TheMercinary60

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Re: Silent Hunter 3
« Reply #15 on: January 25, 2013, 11:23:25 PM »
Alright, got the Grey Wolves mod installed, so far pretty different,  my big question is on the radio message how do i read the coordinate system? For example CB2753
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Re: Silent Hunter 3
« Reply #16 on: January 26, 2013, 12:07:58 AM »
Alright, got the Grey Wolves mod installed, so far pretty different,  my big question is on the radio message how do i read the coordinate system? For example CB2753

The radio messages in the GWX mod mean absolutely nothing. And later on they get down right annoying.


They are just chatter between BDU and other Uboats. The only real traffic is the stuff that shows up on the map.
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Re: Silent Hunter 3
« Reply #17 on: January 26, 2013, 12:52:10 AM »
The radio messages in the GWX mod mean absolutely nothing. And later on they get down right annoying.


They are just chatter between BDU and other Uboats. The only real traffic is the stuff that shows up on the map.

well damn, ad here i was thinking i could try and intercept a few strays, from what i understand though its pretty realistic. they never realized we cracked their code and they just loved to talk
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Re: Silent Hunter 3
« Reply #18 on: January 26, 2013, 02:19:03 AM »
With SH3 Commander you can control how radio messages and other things effect the game in TC.
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Re: Silent Hunter 3
« Reply #19 on: January 29, 2013, 12:00:16 PM »
Love the SH series
.. really got into the pacific theater beginning with the pig boats out of Cavite in the early days of WW2.

Gettin into the Balao class boats *really* is a huge leap.
Personal best encounter: Late 1944, in a Balao
Was runnin South along east coastline of Japan
..Tokyo was out there about 30 miles abeam ..
 ..it was nearing 2am in the morning.
Rainin so hard I could not see much beyond the bow.
Our last refit had added a pretty decent surface radar and if ever there was a night for it..
..we were trackin surface targets closing from behind us and I was angling into
the projected track at full speed ..they were going to be close comin up on our left.
 ..sonar said it was multiple screws .. a capitol ship ..and perhaps a few escorts?

At 900 yards I still could not see anything but blackness filled with heavy rain and we had at least one
CLOSE that we were intercepting .. I stayed on the surface ..caught a fleeting glimps of a huge silhoutte
of superstructure .. a Pagoda ..and fired 4 from the front as fast as we could pump them out.
..hard left rudder . . we passed within 30 yards of the aft end of what could be a battleship..
..just as all 4 ripped into her side.. a short spread blooming right in the middle of the shape
and lighting it up.

The Yamato or her sister the Musashi.

Rudder amidships, and put 4 out the back ..they all caught that big monster
in a short spread from the screws forward .. and now it was time to hide.

Did an arc right, still on the surface runnin like my hair was on fire, full speed ..comin up on a parrallel course with the wounded monster.
We had only had visual for seconds ..the rain and darkness swallowed the burnin battlewagon before our sub even began to turn.
..using radar as my eyes to avoid the escorts ..the big battleship was still runnin away from us..and fast!

I managed to put a couple thousand yard between us and the escorts, now circling far behind us..
..probably thinkin we had submerged and gone quiet.

The battlewagon just plain ran off and left ..we lost all trace of it about daylight.
This close to Japan I finally gave the order to take her down and slowed to best cruise-patrol speed.
I could not beleive that monster had taken *eight* of our best and just shrugged them off.

On a slim hope I continued on course .. ears out ...throughout the morning.
Noon came and went ..no sign.

About 2 in the afternoon smoke was spotted on the horizon along with faint screw sounds.
Quiet, stealthy ..we closed.

It was makin 4 knots .. somethin obviously burning out there ..far too much smoke for a funnel.

It was the monster from the night engagement!
..listing to port badly, burning from midship to stern, but still making 4 knots!

Full sweep of the area ..nothing else around ..we had her!
Closed in classic beam attack ..put 4 into her amidships ..cranked hard left until rear tubes came to bear..
..put 4 more into her ..all from 900 yards.

That big monster took them *all* .. began to slow ..
..tipped ever so slowly onto her side ..and the waves swallowed the Yamato.

-Frank aka GE (never had another mission to equal that one in years of playing)
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Re: Silent Hunter 3
« Reply #20 on: January 29, 2013, 12:18:00 PM »
Nice story GE :)

I remember the first time I loaded up SH3 with GWX and other mods back in 2008-2009. I made a post on another forum:

"Just started a new campaign using Sub Commander and a boatload of mods. September 1939: As the German war machine overruns Poland I'm in the Baltic sailing east from the Denmark-straights towards Danzig/Gdansk, looking for Polish ships to engage. Just south of Sweden my watch crew spot a Polish merchantman; I order the chief to close at flank speed and the watch officer to man the deck gun. After a brief action the Polish vessel is a burning hulk and sinking slowly. While my boat returns to its previous course I take a last look at my quarry trough the binocs... The hulk is burning profusely, periodically erupting in fuel explosions sending huge fireballs into the air and blanketing the area with black oily smoke. There's a lot of debris in the water... and bodies. My heart sinks as I observe a lone Polish sailor swimming away from the sinking ship, and on the far side three or four more survivors are paddling away on a makeshift raft. I'm almost tearing up.

I love this game."


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Re: Silent Hunter 3
« Reply #21 on: January 29, 2013, 05:41:29 PM »
Nice story GE!

I just can't sail the Med, as promised above this last weekend I sailed through the Straits. On to Malta, then Suda Bay then Alexandria. Played all day! starting at 0800. It approached 0200 hours real time. I was about 100km NW of Alexandria and had just torpedoed a Small Merchant being escorted by a Town Class DD. The Merchant did not sink and eventually the Townie kept on going.

I thought to myself, I better pause the game since I am so close to Alexandria. Even at 100m and Silent Run I didn't want to risk it.

Woke up Sunday morning. Blue Screen of Death.  :bhead

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Re: Silent Hunter 3
« Reply #22 on: February 06, 2013, 04:13:33 PM »
Been playing since Sunday February 3rd at 1500. Still in Med... 150 KM north of Oran.

I entered the Med on March 14th. Sailed to Malta, Suda then Alexandria then back to Malta. In my last engagement I was depth charged by two Black Swan Class for several hours. Experienced the first flooding of my entire super campaign.

I have yet to find any of the big Malta Convoys, only two or three ships being escorted by two DDs. Aircraft swarming near Gibraltar, Malta and Alexandria. Impossible to stay surfaced during day in these areas.

Currently sitting at 26000 Tons Sunk. 3 Bow and 1 Stern Torp left. It is now April 11th. Planning on covering Eastern approach to Gibraltar, exhausting torpedoes and heading back to St Nazairre. Bad news is I will not be able to play tomorrow as I am going to a Hockey Game and won't return till Friday afternoon.

Oh well, back to the cellar.
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Re: Silent Hunter 3
« Reply #23 on: February 06, 2013, 08:14:40 PM »
So, for someone who doesn't have a submarine sim (but used played one waaaay back in the '80's), would you recommend SH3 or SH5?  Or is there something better out there?
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Re: Silent Hunter 3
« Reply #24 on: February 06, 2013, 08:17:44 PM »
I have silent hunter 5, I love it, but like GVing in aces high, I'm useless at it.
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Re: Silent Hunter 3
« Reply #25 on: February 07, 2013, 06:33:18 AM »
So, for someone who doesn't have a submarine sim (but used played one waaaay back in the '80's), would you recommend SH3 or SH5?  Or is there something better out there?

I can't vouch for SH5, as I have not played it. But from what I have heard (like all the other SH releases) it was filled with bugs and not finished. Also from what I heard it does not go past a certain year in the war. SH3 stock has the entire war.

With the GWX mod it makes SH3 an excellent game I definitely reccomend it.
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Re: Silent Hunter 3
« Reply #26 on: February 07, 2013, 08:26:34 AM »
If you want to play with German subs go SH3 or SH5 (get both, their not exactly new games anymore). If you want play with U.S. subs, get SH4. Whatever you get, mod the snot out of them to get the best experience. Find mods over at the subsim forums.

If modern subs interest you there is also Sonalyst's "Dangerous Waters". You get to play with the Seawolf, 688i, Akula, Kilo, Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate, MH-60R Seahawk and P-3C Orion. Compared to the SH-series graphics kinda suck, but the game is still great for naval war buffs.

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« Reply #27 on: February 07, 2013, 03:38:50 PM »
I have SH5 and used to have SH3.

To be honest 3 is waaaaay better than 5 imho. 
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Re: Silent Hunter 3
« Reply #28 on: February 07, 2013, 04:01:50 PM »
I used to love playing sub sims. Maybe have to check one of these out after the next computer upgrade.

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Re: Silent Hunter 3
« Reply #29 on: February 07, 2013, 10:40:54 PM »
Ok, so I bought and downloaded SH3 and downloaded the GWX mod. For the life of me I couldn't even get the vanilla game to load on my Win7 rig. I spent over an hour reading posts and trying stuff to no avail. Then I stumbled upon 1 little post on how to fix the nVidia/Windows bug where Windows reports the refresh rate at 59Hz even though the driver is set for 60Hz.

Well, I went into the nVidia control panel and created a custom resolution of 1920x1200 60.001Hz and BAM! Windows reports 60Hz refresh rate and the game loads and plays just fine.

I'm off to tinker with the video settings in the main.cfg file to find a combo of resolution and fullscreen/non-fullscreen that I like.
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