Let's Play: Das Thanasboot!

[PeZook]

So - was it ever decided who was sonar and whos on the enigma/coms?

For now, stabsbootsman Dargos Ritterbachen is working the radio/enigma and the radar, while you are the antisocial recluse listening to whales getting it on.

[Chardok]

So - was it ever decided who was sonar and whos on the enigma/coms?

For now, stabsbootsman Dargos Ritterbachen is working the radio/enigma and the radar, while you are the antisocial recluse listening to whales getting it on.

Fair enough - in the days before interwebz, I suppose whale pr0n is about as good as one can hope for.

[Eleventh Century Remnant]

I had been fascinated by that unique characteristic of the submarine service, which requires a submariner to strand on his own feet and sets him a task in the great spaces of the oceans, the fulfilment of which demands a stout heart and ready skill; I was fascinated by that unique spirit of comradeship engendered by destiny and hardship shared in the community of a U-boat's crew, where every man's well- being was in the hands of all and every single man was an indispensable part of the whole. Every submariner, I am sure, has experienced in his heart the glow of the open sea and the task entrusted to him, has felt himself to be as rich as a king and would change places with no man.

-BdU


I was thinking about this one, especially as I have recently grown a remarkably appropriate beard, but September? One of the first boats to be risked in grey water again, after the near victory of March turned into the bloody disasters of May?

Hals-und-beinbruch, you're going to need it.

[MKSheppard]

"Das Kommandant, I thought I heard you ask for the new experimental blue camouflage in the bar."

[MKSheppard]

Hey zook, want me to make a VIIC skin in the appropriate colour?

[PeZook]

Hey zook, want me to make a VIIC skin in the appropriate colour?

That would be great! Make it bright and gaudy, too!

...unless herr kommandant orders you to repaint the boat again

EDIT: Also, do you want to have the deck gun? It's taken off by default.

[Thanas]

Leave it off, not much use for it as most merchants are armed at this time anyway and even if they are not, the use of it is ahistorical.

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"Herr Shapp, repaint the boat or I will order it repainted with the colour crimson. You personally will be the source of that colour. BLUE. Are we STENCHIES?"

(ooc: I'll leave it to pezook to decide whether there is enough time for that or not).

[Force Lord]

"Ja, ja, sonar is good and all. But we can only afford hydrophones now, Herr Kommandant. Reichsmarks do not grow on trees!"

[Simon_Jester]

Exactly what game is this a Let's Play of, by the way?

[Thanas]

Sh3? With grey wolves modification?

Jawohl! A 1943 war patrol!

SH3 = Silent Hunter III.

[Chardok]

May I request that I be the most unintentionally offensive sonar operator in the universe? when I say offensive, I mean offensive against my own people. I'm talking thiiiiiiiiick stereotypical suddeutschland accent, to the point vere even zee typings ov zee sings I say ah extyueemly offensive and nearly illegible?

Think the goldfish from Family Guy.

[Force Lord]

"Mein Gott, von Dokken, where are you from? Bavaria or Austria?"

[Chardok]

"Vell, My muhzah vas vrom Austria unt vas a bit of a trahmp. I nevah met my fazah, aber muhzah tolt me zat he vas some sort of inventor unt travelled all ovehr zee vorld so really...he could've been from anyvehr in zee fahzahland."

[Chardok]

"Und, I vood like to make zis vary cleah - he vas completely German. He could not've been more German, Ja?"

[Thanas]

"Ze Hydrophone operator better yell out the soundings or I vill not be able to hear him. Unless ve are silent running."

[Force Lord]

"Und, I vood like to make zis vary cleah - he vas completely German. He could not've been more German, Ja?"

"Of course not! For the most German of all of us is already leading our Vaterland!"

[Force Lord]

"Ze Hydrophone operator better yell out the soundings or I vill not be able to hear him. Unless ve are silent running."

"Jawohl, Kommandant! The Hydrophone vill operate at peak efficiency! I vill make sure of it!"

[Thanas]

"Und, I vood like to make zis vary cleah - he vas completely German. He could not've been more German, Ja?"

"Of course not! For the most German of all of us is already leading our Vaterland!"

"All praise Hynkel. His speech shall be required listening."

[FaxModem1]

In the mess hall of the submarine, all could be heard was the throwing of food and utensils as the chef tried to make a pumpkin pie. All that could be heard was "Bork Bork Bork."

[Simon_Jester]

Hmm. Swedish Aryan Chef would be devastating and mighty in the incredibly cramped quarters of a U-boat galley: There's not a lot of space...

Surely, if there was a way to make him as much of a menace to things outside the pressure hull as he is to things inside it, U-1313 would murderize the entire Royal Navy in a matter of weeks!

[The Yosemite Bear]

Witz, Radio/Enigma operator.

[PeZook]

May I request that I be the most unintentionally offensive sonar operator in the universe? when I say offensive, I mean offensive against my own people. I'm talking thiiiiiiiiick stereotypical suddeutschland accent, to the point vere even zee typings ov zee sings I say ah extyueemly offensive and nearly illegible?

Think the goldfish from Family Guy.

Make him as offensive as you want. The whole point is to offend the stereotype of the awesome grey wolf supermensch

As for the u-boat galley...



That's a luxurious and spacious one on a Type IX. Your Type VII will have a vastly smaller galley

[PeZook]

Witz, Radio/Enigma operator.

Alas, U-1313 already has one!

[Simon_Jester]

I don't know what the crewing arrangements look like; is there an opening for a PC understudy to Skywalker?

[The Yosemite Bear]

Ok, Witz is also good with math and getting anti-social desiel engines to comply, sometimes without making too much noise. (just cursing, usually no hitting things with spanner unless needed, and definalty not when we are hiding from those damn destroyers....

hopefully no one will notice my ability to curse in serveral different languages, without knowing any other Russian, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish, or Japanese besides curse words...