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| Starting screen of Warship mod |
Silent
Hunter 3 Warship mod 3.0 is a modification for Silent Hunter 3, where you can
take control of some of the ships in the game (you could say it's a free battleship simulator game). It was developed by Chinese
U-47, if you want, you can check out his other work at the Subsim forum. If you’re
looking for something new to do with your copy of Silent Hunter 3, this is
definitely something you should do.
The mod has
3 packs and in each pack there are 3 different ships, I’m quite sure they are
all German ships. Some examples of the ships you can use are: the aircraft
carrier ‘Graf Zeppelin’, the light cruiser ‘Leipzig’, just to name a few. I’ve
been playing around a bit with one pack, and can really say that this
modification is pretty fun and different! The interface of the game stays the
same as in the ‘normal’ Silent Hunter version (aka when playing without the mod).
Commanding the ship is really easy, just choose your speed and adjust your
rudder, just like you would do normally. When you click on the periscope icon
on the left, you go directly to the view you would get when you would be
playing without the mod, so even if you’re sailing with a ship, the same
interface will always appear. The only thing that has changed is that when you
click on the bridge icon, you actually end up on the bridge of your ship, with
a sailor behind you steering the ship and the binoculars in front of you. Most
of the commands on the left are practically unusable, pretty logic because I don’t
think you want to go diving with your ship (although it sometimes happened that
I could).
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| Shooting at those nasty destroyers |
NOTE: If
you just installed the mod and you’re asking yourself why the guns aren’t moving
be sure to put some men on the deck gun in the crew interface.
I’ve played
the career mode with this mod and came to the conclusion that the aim of some
of the enemy ships is really really bad. Only when they came close enough (say
between 500 and 1000 meters) were the destroyers able to hit me, but at the
time they got close enough they were already burning and ready to sink. The
only time I was actually worried is after having raided Hartlepool with ease, I
went to Firth of Forth that was right next to it. While entering the bay didn’t find
too much resistance, maybe two destroyers, but then I saw the coastal
batteries, thinking they would also shoot to the stars (it was night time) I
went straight ahead in direction of the port. Boy was I wrong, I really took a
beating there, everything was flooded fortunately the crew could repair the
damage. When advancing further into the bay I saw another line of coastal
batteries, so I decided it was best to turn back as fast as possible. There wasn’t anything
special in the port except for some lousy merchants that were not worth my time. Came out of the bay safe
and sound, saved the game first, and headed straight back to Wilhelmshaven put
the time accelerator on 1024 and was going home. Unfortunately my plotting
skills were a bit rusty and I ran ashore not far from the harbour. To my
surprise I couldn’t load up my save game! All I can say is that it was fun until it lasted!
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| Majestically sailing to Hell |
Little
tutorial on how to install the warship mod 3.0:
1. Have Silent Hunter 3 patched to version 1.4b
4. Start JGSME.exe, normally you should see WSM3.0 activate it, by putting it to the right, close JGSME.exe
5. Reopen JGSME.exe and you should see Ge I, Ge II and Ge III, enable only one of these three and start the game enjoy!
(didn't have any problems installing this mod, but be careful for your save games!)
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| Very deadly encounter |
