At this stage, we're following a course I plotted, and not 'manually' formating on our consort.Īs we pass the pens, someone down in the radio room is evidently busy working the direction finding kit, whose loop antenna is rotating continuously.įurther evidence of harbour traffic - or ex-harbour traffic, in this case - is the beached steamer visible over to port. We turn to starboard after the minesweeper. There's plenty of harbour traffic in GXW, like this moored destroyer. The bridge watch is still relaxed, but they will soon be fully alert. It's in the form of a pair of Messerschmitt 109s buzzing around at low level. U-boats were generally escorted out of, and met coming back into, port and this welcome feature is evidently something else GWX adds.Īir cover is another welcome addition. GWX adds the ability to start some missions from a U-boat pen, but this evidently isn't one of them.Īs we pull slowly away, I can see that there's a minesweeper up ahead, going our way. Our patrol area is Marine Quadrat EJ19, which is near the Cape Verde Islands, off the coast of West Africa. This time I'm in a Type IXB - U-108 - rather than the later IXC/40 I got last time, so I didn't need to roll back to the early conning tower to get a more accurate boat for the period. U-Flotille out of Lorient in France, starting in 1941. To parallel a career I've been running with U-802 in my first install, I decided to go for another one in a big Type IX boat operating with 2. To check things out, having dabbled with a few of the many extra single missions included in Grey Wolves (GWX3 Gold, to be precise), I reckoned it was time to put properly to see and go for a career.
So I decided to take the plunge (sic) and go for a second install for the Grey Wolves mod (the first being for a stock game to which several individual mods have since been added). 'Twas Fiedler's installation guide ( http:/ / forum/ index.php?topic=2838) that got me past my fear of the deep water of applying Silent Hunter 3 mods to my Steam version of (to my mind) much the best U-boat sim ever to go to virtual war.
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