Author Topic: Silent Hunter III Review (Read 16654 times)

Saintaw · « **Reply #270 on:** March 30, 2005, 03:02:09 PM »

You get to keep your crew Pongo. You can sack some, or hire more.

Habu · « **Reply #271 on:** March 30, 2005, 05:34:32 PM »

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Originally posted by Staga
You just fill up ranks from the available crews.

IIRC type XXI did use batteries because the Hydrogen Peroxide was HIGHLY corrosive and all tanks and fuel lines would have to be lined with rubber (this was scarce material at that time; I believe butyl rubber, developed by German engineers in fourties because of lack of rubber, didn't work) and even then it was more than risky way to power a submarine.

They did make torpedos fueled with Hydrogen Peroxide. They were getting rubber from Japan via some specially modified cargo submarines. I believe they were type XB.

Pongo · « **Reply #272 on:** March 30, 2005, 05:39:05 PM »

Thanks.
Ill have enough coin for a Type VIIB tonight.

takeda · « **Reply #273 on:** March 30, 2005, 05:45:35 PM »

As I have read in some other board, this sim has an extremely realistic and wife-annoying feature:

I've been playing so much that I now sport an unshaven, sweaty face and stink to high heavens, just like a true u-bootmensch!

SFRT - Frenchy · « **Reply #274 on:** April 01, 2005, 04:50:32 AM »

Is there a way to know if the ship is neutral, or if you are at war with the country?

First mission, I sank a Brit coastal marchant ... and it counted as neutral. I guess Churchild was still in his sleepers.

This one saw me a tat too late.

Fishu · « **Reply #275 on:** April 01, 2005, 05:58:18 AM »

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Originally posted by SFRT - Frenchy
Is there a way to know if the ship is neutral, or if you are at war with the country?

Check the flag.

However I do still wonder how to check what countries are enemies or neutral.
So far I've been just using the WWII knowledge to avoid sinking neutral ships.

Pongo · « **Reply #276 on:** April 01, 2005, 10:33:05 AM »

Neutrals show up as green on the map

Fishu · « **Reply #277 on:** April 01, 2005, 11:55:45 AM »

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Originally posted by Pongo
Neutrals show up as green on the map

...in the easy mode only.

Furious · « **Reply #278 on:** April 01, 2005, 12:16:18 PM »

the colors of the cities on the map show whether allied, neutral or at war.

BlueJ1 · « **Reply #279 on:** April 01, 2005, 12:29:16 PM »

IS there anything bigger then DDs ? (might have been asked before, got headache looking through 4 pages worth of posts.)

Fishu · « **Reply #280 on:** April 01, 2005, 12:39:10 PM »

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Originally posted by Furious
the colors of the cities on the map show whether allied, neutral or at war.

except there isn't ports in all the countries.
Like Greece, Portugal, Spain....

Pongo · « **Reply #281 on:** April 01, 2005, 12:51:30 PM »

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Originally posted by Fishu
...in the easy mode only.

I dont have map update on but when a contact shows up its indicated whether its neutral or not. Im talking about the ones that hq puts on your map

Nefarious · « **Reply #282 on:** April 01, 2005, 12:59:14 PM »

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Originally posted by BlueJ1
IS there anything bigger then DDs ? (might have been asked before, got headache looking through 4 pages worth of posts.)

As in like Battleships and Aircraft Carriers? Yes.

I can vouch for that.

SFRT - Frenchy · « **Reply #283 on:** April 01, 2005, 01:01:50 PM »

I looked at the Flag, it was British ... I sank it ... counted as Neutral. It was the first patrol.

Red ports are enemy, green ports Axis friendly, blue ports Nazi?

Fishu · « **Reply #284 on:** April 01, 2005, 01:08:41 PM »

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Originally posted by Pongo
I dont have map update on but when a contact shows up its indicated whether its neutral or not. Im talking about the ones that hq puts on your map

Yeah.. when and if it does, often I just sink ones which weren't known by the HQ.