Author Topic: Silent Hunter III Review (Read 16647 times)

Saintaw · « **Reply #180 on:** March 26, 2005, 06:39:30 AM »

ping...ping...ping...PING!

Nefarious · « **Reply #181 on:** March 26, 2005, 12:49:45 PM »

March 6th 1940

Just Finished Patrol 6.

Another 25000 ton adventure

Gave the IC 2nd Class to my Navigator this time. And handed out some more Clasps and War Badges.

Finally got to use the deck gun, matter of fact I used every single round

The seas were finally calm enough.

I dont know if this could be used as advice. But Im seeing alot of Merchants in the SE corner of AN73. C2's and C3's mostly.

I think Im gonna try to go through the Dover Straits, And see what I can find on Patrol 7.

Saintaw · « **Reply #182 on:** March 26, 2005, 02:20:23 PM »

I met no less than 3 convoys in a row west of portsmouth in the summer of 41. Went home without torps... and 3 T3 tankers in the belly and the knight's cross with oakleaves and diamonds

I am now about to invade America... well, I'm on the canadian coast sinking a couple of coastal merchants... waves are higher than the periscope mast when surfaced, at one point I thought the boat would roll over.

Fishu · « **Reply #183 on:** March 26, 2005, 02:59:16 PM »

wewpt... finished my longest mission so far, 1st Jan 1941 to Feb 11th.
Had a mission from Lorient to DT28, where was absolutely nothing for thousands of miles and then I headed to intercept traffic passing the gibraltar strait.
Of course the bottleneck caused some good opportunities. With also 11 planes shot down.

Some 34 ships sunk, worth of over 90,000 tons.

Pongo · « **Reply #184 on:** March 26, 2005, 03:48:18 PM »

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Originally posted by CyranoAH
I have only played 1 patrol and it was quite uneventful (not a single convoy sighted), but a funny thing happened during my last training mission... I torpedoed the C2 and dove for the other merchant to avoid detection...

One of the destroyers came after me but instead engaged the other destroyer!!

I guess one's cannon shells came a bit too close to the other one for comfort and that pissed him off. Result: one DD sunk and the other completely forgot about me

Daniel

Same thing happend to me. I let the big one kill the little one then surfaced and finished off the big one pretty easily, I then guned down the rest of the convoy.

Schaden · « **Reply #185 on:** March 26, 2005, 05:11:22 PM »

Okokok enough already, I give in, I'll go and get my copy tomorrow!!! Bastards!!

thrila · « **Reply #186 on:** March 26, 2005, 05:24:59 PM »

I kept my saved games and reinstalled and everything is fine now. I restarted my 5th patrol as my midway save was gone. Well my patrol has started off badly- i spotted a lone destroyer and thought i would use him as target practice. I got to within 500m and let lose with a torp... oh no! it's a dud!....eeeek! The destoyer turned to ram me and steamed into my conning tower. Flak destroyed and periscope destroyed...bugger. sod this! so i emergency surfaced, 2 shots from my deck gun into his water line and he split into 2.

If i want to torp anything i have to use the UZO, however it's bugged, i only see foam from 310 to +50 degrees:( So i'm continuing my patrol picking off single ships using my deck gun. I've sunk about 18.000 tons of shipping with 50 HE and 40 AP rounds remaining. I also have a couple of ventral torps left over too.

I think i'll avoid destroyers from now on, or perhaps i'll fire off 2 torpedoes instead.

vorticon · « **Reply #187 on:** March 26, 2005, 05:34:42 PM »

moan...this miserable computer cant even try play the game...

bastards.

Saintaw · « **Reply #188 on:** March 26, 2005, 06:00:52 PM »

Nice work Fishu !

I'm headed for my 12th Patrol (Yes, I played too much) to CF28... near the canari islands. Plenty of lone ships so far... I will linger on the patrol zone (after following the convoy route on paper map) ... and if nothing fat shows up, I'll head over to Gibraltar *shivers*

I found something interesting: Whenever you send in your status report, within the hour you will get contact reports in your region from BdU.

Fishu · « **Reply #189 on:** March 26, 2005, 06:17:48 PM »

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Originally posted by Saintaw
I found something interesting: Whenever you send in your status report, within the hour you will get contact reports in your region from BdU.

Haven't had that happen.
I get contacts randomly on the map, but no reports of other than large convoys... very rarely.
Otherwise they just send back a word "keep up the good work" and once "return to the base".

Darkish · « **Reply #190 on:** March 26, 2005, 06:29:02 PM »

thrilla - if you've got patch 1.1 installed CTRL "P" will temporarily turn off particle effects to let you look through the UZO.

-tronski- · « **Reply #191 on:** March 26, 2005, 11:48:36 PM »

Yeah..bloody Nvidia bug...I always hit Ctrl-P as a standard thing before I use the UZO, at least thats an easy fix (and control P back to watch the particle goodness)

Tronsky

Saintaw · « **Reply #192 on:** March 27, 2005, 12:42:34 AM »

Fishu, no paper notes, but the contacts that appear beyond your visual/sonar range are contacts reported by radio, when in a very calm area try it... send a 'situation report' and look at the contacts appearing soon

beet1e · « **Reply #193 on:** March 27, 2005, 04:29:43 AM »

If anyone is struggling with the strategy of this game (like me) there is a wealth of expertise from one of the other guys in my WB squad board. I'm not sure whether I'm allowed to link to the board from here, but I'll find a way to post it. Some excellent tips about RL UBoat captaincy and techniques, dos and don'ts.

I got frustrated on Single Mission #3 - sink the Courageous. The large carrier is steaming along at 20 knots, and my Uboat can do only 17 knots at surface. The mission starts in broad daylight, and I have no way of knowing how to get in torp range of the target without being detected. I end up being targeted by two destroyers that come at me at 36 knots! I got fed up with that, so I brought the boat around and fired off a torpedo from about 600m range. Much to my surprise, I got a single hit which sank the destroyer. Just at that moment, dinner was ready, so I had to save the game. So...

... can someone tell me how I should resume that game, later on? The intended target was steaming away. I don't know that I can catch it!

thrila · « **Reply #194 on:** March 27, 2005, 06:10:10 AM »

Thanks for the tip guys. Just found a 20 ship convoy just W of england with only 2 escorts. I wish i had my periscope i closed to about 3000m and let lose with a salvo of 3 torps. One ship destroyed, 1 damage:) i'm currently dodging the 2 escorts, if i was more confident i would have tried to sink the escorts (1 is only a tug with single gun), i just can't sneak up on them with my preiscope out of action. I'm deciding whether to show myself to the destroyer and try to sink him, or to shadow the convoy and let loose with another salvo. I'm currently at around 30,000 tons sank this patrol - not bad without a periscope.