1st Kill - Silent Hunter 3

[Weasel]

Amazing..after all this time.. I've finally managed to sink a ship!!!!!

I sank a large European cruise ship (18k+tons) flying the Japanese flag off the coast of Borneo and avoided the 3 destroyers protecting it.. Oh happy day..

sadly tho, I managed to shoot off 2 torps into the wild blue without any targets (damn enter button).. but I won't mention them in my report..

I shot a 4 torp spread at the liner that all missed astern.. then swung the sub around and launched 2 more, of which both hit square in the middle and slowed it down to a crawl..
I slipped my sub back around and crawled up next to the liner and hid from the escorts while we reloaded a tube after which I moved off to the side and let fly another into the opposite broad side of the sitting duck (it was under way, speed estimated @ 2 knots) and in a spectacular explosion it went down within seconds (real sinking time option is on)

the escorts being on the opposite side of the liner, never saw or heard me as I slipped away until nightfall to surface and clear the air.. :)

Total submerged time approaching and escaping was over 9 hours.

Not a bad game after all :P

now SH 3 has me irritated as I can't slip past Scapa Flow and out into the Atlantic.. I keep getting detected and sunk by wandering destroyers :(
of course the 18 meter water depth isn't helping I guess..

Good hunting buds. I have had my torps in SH4 screw off to never land too, it is like the targeting computer won't clear.

For SH3 you can't go between Scotland and Scapa Flow, you must go way north, the Bismarck route. You can sneak through at silent running speed, but then you have to risk surfacing to charge batteries and clear air.

Hey, did you know that a player thought the crew fatigue method was wrong, so he set SH3 to real time and played it straight for three days. He would do a 4 hour shift like the game does, then do what ever or sleep while the game went on, and then go sit in front of the computer for 4 more hours etc. After 3 days he still had no action and was pretty damn tired. Man, the balls.