It’s Very Cold Here.

[Redy]

It’s very cold here in the North Atlantic. The weather is very bad. It has been storm condition for the past ten days. Visibility is very low and the large swells make it almost impossible to plot a torpedo solution. Two nights ago we followed a small freighter for twelve hours. We got close many times even as close as two thousand meters, but still we could not see him. I had to break off contact and turn the boat south.

We have been at sea a long time. The crew’s moral is very low. We do not have enough diesel to go back the safe way. Just an hour ago I plotted our course for home through the English Channel.


To be continued . . .

[wihadmin]

Silent Hunter 3?

[dbodenheim]

I was on the USS Columbus ssn-762 for 4 years. No thank you, Ive had enough submarining for a lifetime.

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lol

[Redy]

Silent Hunter 3?

Yep.

This game is hard if it's set to full realism. The settings can be changed to make it easier, but what fun would that be to a die hard sub simmer like myself. It took me a week just to learn the game.

[Redy]

The storm has broken and visibility has returned. Tomorrow we will be within range of the British air coverage and will travel submerged by day. Every three hours I check our course and heading. I must be careful with my calculations. The way home is long and treacherous. Our fuel consumption has given me little room for error. With only two torpedoes left, one in the bow and one in the stern, we cannot sufficiently defend ourselves if challenged. If we are to succeed, we will need to be a ghost in the waves.


To be continued. . .

[dbodenheim]

It took me a week just to learn the game.

It took me 10 months to earn my Undersea Warfare (dolphins). You have to know where every piece of damage control equipment is on the ship. The entire Trim and Drain system with all valve locations. Weapons systems flooding and draining tubes, basic knowledge of active and passive sonar, basic knowledge of the nuclear propulsion system ( incase there is no one left), escape and rescue, and on and on and on------even 10- years later I could walk back on any 688 class sub and tell you what every singel valve does and wear it is.

[Redy]

Well if they ever make a sub simm that includes the 688 then you'll be able to play it.

[Redy]

The depth charges have been constant for over an hour. We sit motionless and silent seventy meters below the surface. There are two destroyers that we know of, we fear soon there will be more. The Channel is shallow here. There are only fifteen meters between us and the ocean floor. We dare not move.

The batteries are at a good level but our oxygen is running out. Two hours until night fall. We will wait and then try to slip away.


To be continued. . .

[Redy]

Darkness has fallen. We move slowly and quietly. Orders are given in whispers. The ships above are stopped. They are listening. We creep closer to the surface five meters at a time. There is a circle of death above us. Home is to the East, but we move North toward England.

Once out of the circle we will surface and gulp the fresh air we so desperately need.


To be continued. . .