UBOOT

bboyer66 · December 15, 2017, 10:29:53 AM

Just took a look to see how this game is progressing, and I can firmly say that I am impressed. It really looks like a proper update of SHIII.

Greybriar · December 15, 2017, 10:49:26 AM

That's great news. O0

Jarhead0331 · December 15, 2017, 11:04:32 AM

Looks great!

stolypin · December 15, 2017, 11:52:13 AM

Looking forward to this. I haven't played any sub sim for over a decade and my only sub wargaming has been board games ("The Hunters" and "Uboat Leader").

Sir Slash · December 15, 2017, 01:02:31 PM

Is that SH 3 or 4? Looks like 4 to me.

mbar · December 15, 2017, 02:20:02 PM

This is on the top of my want list for 2018!

IronX · December 15, 2017, 02:45:23 PM

It looks promising, but I'm not sure about the torpedo firing. There seems to be no way of obtaining a firing solution, so it appears as though you have to get to within 50 feet to ensure a hit. And they need to work on those explosions. But everything else looks good.

Tuna · December 15, 2017, 04:13:09 PM

That does look cool!!.. Agree on the torp firing, you'd think that close the repercussion would damage the sub too!

JasonPratt · December 15, 2017, 11:10:42 PM

Quote from: Sir Slash on December 15, 2017, 01:02:31 PM
Is that SH 3 or 4? Looks like 4 to me.

Neither? I can't recall what engine it's supposed to be using, but something else I think. I half-recall it was originally supposed to be a side-watch ant-farm sort of game, too, and they reaaaaalllly took off on fleshing it out more like SH thanks to fan support.

Staggerwing · December 15, 2017, 11:29:17 PM

Those ant-farm views remind me a lot of a cut-away model of the U-47 I built back in the 70's.

bboyer66 · January 05, 2018, 07:29:26 AM

Latest update

Ian C · January 05, 2018, 01:24:01 PM

The game has Cheese in it - I'm sold.
Seriously though, the immersion in that looks amazing.

Destraex · January 05, 2018, 06:02:57 PM

It does look great. Does it have a facility to do the torpedo calculations ourselves?

besilarius · January 06, 2018, 10:05:08 AM

This article on the sinking of the Japanese carrier Shokaku may be of interset because it goes into the spread of a six torpedo shot. This resulted in three or four hits on a very large target.
At the start of the war, american subs used as few torpedoes as possible, because of production bottlenecks, there was a very limited supply. This, and the technical faults in the US torpedoes, caused a lot of good opportunities to be wasted.

http://www.combinedfleet.com/shoksink.htm