Silent Hunter 3

[Ferral]

Think I am going to have to put a few extra hours in at work for a bit extra cash and invest in a higher spec graphics card, yeah it looks nice and plays pretty well on my Rad 9600 Pro but occasionally when theres a big explosion the game can get quite choppy and sticks occasionally. Doesnt overly ruin the fun but found it can make things difficult when it decides to go choppy when I am aiming a torp at an unsuspecting vessel.

[Skii]

Think I am going to have to put a few extra hours in at work for a bit extra cash and invest in a higher spec graphics card, yeah it looks nice and plays pretty well on my Rad 9600 Pro but occasionally when theres a big explosion the game can get quite choppy and sticks occasionally. Doesnt overly ruin the fun but found it can make things difficult when it decides to go choppy when I am aiming a torp at an unsuspecting vessel.

I did too, but turning off hardware acceleration for my sound-card in DxDiag solved the problem

[McMav]

mmm 7 patrols 93k tonnage injoi

[jeNK^]

I stalked the crap out of two Dutch Armed Trawlers yesterday as there was naff all else about, they headed through dover where I soon found myself with a tough choice..

A convoy of Merchants, or the Revenge Battleship fleet* and it's escorts.

I hit the battleship with two torps, one in bow, one just aft of midship. She limped, but did not sink. I then had multiple destroyers coming after me so I had to play hide and seek for the next 15 (!!) virtual hours.

I got away though, travelling at a whopping 1knots due to battery having roughly 2% left :/ So stopped, waited for darkness and for Destroyers to move off so I could surface and high tail it.

*I never bothered to check which ship it was, but it was the Battleship that had all the guns infront of the command tower

[Allen]

I'm still having trouble sinking the ships... in the training mission!!

I end up running out of them!

[Skii]

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*I never bothered to check which ship it was, but it was the Battleship that had all the guns infront of the command tower

That'll be a Nelson class battleship - HMS Rodney, one of the gang that sunk the Bismark



Awesome

[jeNK^]

rgr, that's the one.

Knew it was one of the ones that went for the Bizmark but couldn't remember which class it was called.

I filled my seat when I saw it though. :/

[jeNK^]

btw, on a thinly related note whilst searching for pics, I found this site:

http://www.ausbg.org/battle_fleet.html

How fricking cool would that be? They actually fire and sink each other

[Dooms]

lol that would be cool but i would have to make a sub

[Allen]

Getting seriously annoyed with this now. More than 50% of the torps I'm launching are just bouncing off the hulls, meaning I don't have enough torps to destroy the boats in the training mission. For the exam, I actually surfaced and blasted the hell out of the armed convoy, immobilising one made it easier to finish it off, then managed to get the other before I sunk. Crew repaired most of the damage and I continued to use the deck gun to sink all the ships getting an Excellent result in the process! I haven't had more then 1 sinking so far using torps? And yes, they are switched to magnetic, they already where.

So, I did my first missions. Cruised all the way to a certain area and patrolled for 24hrs, no enemy ships sighted so I came home. Plotted the course, told the navigator to follow the course and set it on 1024x, got bored and went to get a drink as I finished my home stretch and I came back to find out I had crashed due to a collision!! I mean, WTF?? Don't these guys use sonar to listen out for other ships, or even their bloody bins? I was surfaced, how can you collide with something??

Not sure if I can continue with this game tbh, it annoys me so much, and I only have it on the standard 29% realism!!

[noTHINGface]

You could just turn off the dud torps? Early torpedos were unreliable, adds to the realism (and the frustration of course)!

[YorkieBen]

just wondering, are you firing from very close range? When I did that none of the torps exploded (maybe theres a minimum arming range).

My next mission I went out and sunk a ship, but that time I was a little further out

[jeNK^]

So how's everyones careers going?

I've not had the time to play for the last week or so

[Allen]

I've now done about 2 missions and only sunk 1 ship which happened to pass by whilst I was cruising back to port. There's a lot of tapping fingers on desk and not much action, eh?

I had to try one mission again and thought it would be the same, so went to the co-ords of the first attempt and cruised around for an hour, checked the log and nothing was completed! D'oh. I had to go all the way across the map to another section! By the time I got there, half my crew were so tired that I couldn't man the torp rooms to attack a fleet.

The fight I have had make it very real though, managed to escape a convoy by what I read on here. Launched a torp at a merchant ship but it didn't sink, had a destroyer come straight at me so I crash dived and turned hard away from the path of the destroyer on full power, his depth charges missed, just, and once he had passed I rigged for silent running and got near my max depth, scary creaking going on! Waited for a bit and they passed by, so I surfaced and ran home. Intense? Oh yes!

[McMav]

Game crashed 12 patrol career lost injoi

[Skii]

I reached my patrol area in the Irish sea with only 3 torps left (1 front, 2 rear) and 3 days in, my sonar op goes mental calling out co-ordinates, I pop the scope up and the horizon is COVERED in ships

ruddy typical eh? Anyway I approached to within 2000m and fired my front torp into the centre of the convoy (I'm using manual TDC now so my hit-rate and accuracy is appalling at the moment. The torp hit a C3 but just started a fire So I turned around for a stern shot, as i'm turning I can see a Hunt Class Destroyer coming for me head on, with only seconds to play with I fired my stern torp and managed to completely miss every single ship in the convoy.

Amazing how I manage to do that

So I crash dive to 70m and hit hard rudder, just in time as my flack gun and conning tower are damaged by depth charges, as I'm so close to the convoy I head at flank right underneath the convoy, messing the destroyers attack run up completely

After about an hour of cruising directly under the convoy I turn to port and begin to ascend to periscope depth, and there I am, my last stern torp aiming directly at the side of a C3 Cargo at point-blank 300m (minimum torp distance)

I change the fuse to impact (to guarantee a bang) and set torp speed to fast - tube doors open - Los !

The external camera shows my torp arching around and within seconds slamming into the side of the C3 splitting the boat in half, and in the distance is a very angry detroyer helplessly sitting ont the other side of the convoy

I'm now crawling at 140m rigged for silent and heading home, a good days work and happy that I made my last shot count