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Must have silent hunter 5 mods simulator#

I restore that watchman’s schnapps portion I don’t need anyone nursing even a tiny grudge right now.Īt 30KM out I hit full speed the conditions couldn’t be better. The weather’s picking up good, perhaps we’ll be able to traverse the Straits at night after all. If we have fuel left on the way back we may come back and play, but for the moment we must wave them farewell. Unfortunately it is moving away, and in the wrong direction, and orders are orders - at least for now.

Right before we enter the truly dangerous area we get news of a convoy a measly 150 kilometers northwest of us. Everyone perks up as we surge from 10 to 15 knots, and I put the gramophone on for some appropriate accompaniment. This will get us to the Straits near night fall and will give us ample time to negotiate it in the dark. Since in this type of weather we can get some decent speed I order cruising speed for the day. I pop quickly to the conning tower to check the weather, and it is perfectly clear. I make note of the former and cut the lookout’s schnapps portion about the latter, and continue my (very long) nap.ĭay two, about 300 miles out and this slow speed is driving everyone nuts. My pulse quickens for a moment as I get a report of a “warship sighted”, but it is once again my lookouts playing silly buggers and it is one of our own coastal patrol motorboats. One report of an engagement on the other side of Great Britain, and a notice of a friendly warship operating in an area we’re nowhere near.

Must have silent hunter 5 mods simulator#

A successful sub simulator captain knows when to spend an hour staring through the periscope and making minute course adjustments, and when to hit that 1024x switch and retire to the captain’s cabin.Īs expected since we’re hugging the coast of friendly territory, not a lot happens on the way. I bring up the map screen and prepare to accelerate to warp - i.e., engage time acceleration by a factor of 1024. Anything else patrolling in there and things get positively crowded.īut now it’s time for that nap. Ten kilometers is one half of the range that our screws can be heard underwater, and that’s just one ship. The Strait of Dover is 40 kilometers wide - which means 20km to either side if I go through the middle to reduce the chances of being sighted from land, which in turn means that any single ship in there potentially reduces maximum contact range to 10k. I make sure that the watchtower is fully staffed, as my XO tends to nap as well during cruise - but he can boost my sighting efficiency by ~50%, so no naps for him! I determine to wake when we get within 50k of Der Kanal entrance in anticipation of the traverse. After clearing the traffic at full speed I reduce to 1/3 as planned and … it’s naptime, to make that 800 miles to Der Kanal pass faster. Soon after we leave friendly port traffic behind - trawlers performing their endless back and forth at the outlet - and in no time flat it’s nothing but open seas. I know those bathtubs well, and seeing one returning is always a cause for cheer. The departure from Wilhelmshaven on Augis routine we’re buzzed by some BF109s and wave hello/goodbye to an incoming Type II. On the other hand, the odds of running into something interesting are very nearly 100%. That will give us plenty of allowance for flank speed as needed, and of course to get there and back - but it cuts our outward speed by 50%.

I huddle with my navigator and we plot out the course and run some calculations on fuel usage and ultimately settle on 1/3 being the optimum speed for this trip. Without the ability to refuel - not modeled in the game - we’re going to be straight out short on diesel this run. This is… beyond our range at standard cruising speed.Īfter the jump, 40 kilometers of nailbiting tension This is deep waters and vast hunting grounds with no land in sight. This is international traffic and massive convoys. With my fancy new Type VIIb, I ranged that coast and beyond numerous times in a single patrol. I’m used to AM, AN and the Bs but this is what? DJ? Where is that? I’ve taken my little Type II boat all over the North Sea and the coast of Great Britain. The result is the most solid, real-feeling submarine experience, and the only way to play Silent Hunter III.įor this patrol, our destination grid is the farthest I’ve ever been. For the next five days, I’ll be playing Silent Hunter III with the Grey Wolves mod, which fixes lots of bugs from the original game and tweaks tons of environmental values, ranging from visibility and detection ranges in low light to crew fatigue factors.