Have you ever been in love with... with AOD/SHCE ?

KriegsMarine · 08-28-08, 01:01 AM

i wrote this title which was inspired by the beautiful song "Have you ever" featured by the R&B singer BRANDY. cuz i love both R&B and SubSim.

it's an old same topic, but i still love to talk 'bout it with our brave SubSim Kapitans.

these days i reinstalled AOD/SHCE which are both working in DOS environment. and with the great helps of DOSBOX i ran them well. i started my AOD Kapitan career from the very beginning of the war by commanding a type II coastal U-Boat, meanwhile, after the japanese raided the Pearl i got an order to command an S class pigboat of the USN silent service in the SHCE career. what a wonderful thing you could sail out to fight against the enemy convoy as both an audacious U-Bootwaffe Kapitanleutnant and a gallant US sub skipper simultaneously.

every weekend i spend about 12 realistic hours on my SubSim patrols. first join Der Fuhrer's Kriegsmarine and then the USN submarine force.

IMHO, i do enjoy the wolfpack tactics which is pretty well presented by the AOD, i fight the convoy battle in several consecutive days with my German comrades. we attack together, we evade together, we live together, we die together ...
albeit the SHCE didn't give us the wolfpack coordination experience, it did give us a great atmosphere of the real submarine warfare of the pacific theatre. i love the acknowledgements of my brave sailors, i love the feelings when i was silently running in the deep blue below 300 feet being attacked by 5 IJN escorts and surrounded by the lethal ash cans, click...booom! click...booom! wow,what a beautiful sound! the goddamned DC's shake off my coffee!

they both are truely the masterpieces of the submarine simulations, i enjoy them very much.

if you have the same feelings, share it with us.

Sailor Steve · 08-28-08, 11:15 PM

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=124355

That should answer your question. As for the rest, several of us are glad to talk about the good - and the bad - of those and other old sims. Yes I loved them back when, but that thread will show you that there are several who love them and play them still.

KriegsMarine · 08-29-08, 08:31 AM

Thanx, Steve. glad to see so many AOD/SHCE enthusiasts !
Salute, Kapitans !

Werewolf · 08-29-08, 05:32 PM

SHCE is THE submarine sim. there will never be one like it!

I still have my copy lying...just imagine that many years ago they were able to do everyting they screw up today with so less technology....

nikimcbee · 12-29-08, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Werewolf

SHCE is THE submarine sim. there will never be one like it!

I still have my copy lying...just imagine that many years ago they were able to do everyting they screw up today with so less technology....

Ditto

I would love to this game with SH4 graphics and SHCE game design. I think that would be fun.

CTarana · 01-03-09, 04:34 PM

Even when SHCE was starting, times were different for programmers back then. They had less to work with both from a system and a graphics POV so every byte had to count. These days even freeware simulations gobble up 3 gigs of hard disk space, and I don't see it. When I play a simulation it's to immerse myself in the environment of the topic. I don't want to watch cinematic cut-scenes! I don't play SHCE and COAD as much since my computer died (win98, 64meg ram, SVGA etc) but the stuff I do dabble in is small and topical (AOE, AOK, SPMBT)

ChristopherT

08-28-08, 01:01 AM	#1
KriegsMarine Loader Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: West Point Posts: 87 Downloads: 1280 Uploads: 0	Have you ever been in love with... with AOD/SHCE ? i wrote this title which was inspired by the beautiful song "Have you ever" featured by the R&B singer BRANDY. cuz i love both R&B and SubSim. it's an old same topic, but i still love to talk 'bout it with our brave SubSim Kapitans. these days i reinstalled AOD/SHCE which are both working in DOS environment. and with the great helps of DOSBOX i ran them well. i started my AOD Kapitan career from the very beginning of the war by commanding a type II coastal U-Boat, meanwhile, after the japanese raided the Pearl i got an order to command an S class pigboat of the USN silent service in the SHCE career. what a wonderful thing you could sail out to fight against the enemy convoy as both an audacious U-Bootwaffe Kapitanleutnant and a gallant US sub skipper simultaneously. every weekend i spend about 12 realistic hours on my SubSim patrols. first join Der Fuhrer's Kriegsmarine and then the USN submarine force. IMHO, i do enjoy the wolfpack tactics which is pretty well presented by the AOD, i fight the convoy battle in several consecutive days with my German comrades. we attack together, we evade together, we live together, we die together ... albeit the SHCE didn't give us the wolfpack coordination experience, it did give us a great atmosphere of the real submarine warfare of the pacific theatre. i love the acknowledgements of my brave sailors, i love the feelings when i was silently running in the deep blue below 300 feet being attacked by 5 IJN escorts and surrounded by the lethal ash cans, click...booom! click...booom! wow,what a beautiful sound! the goddamned DC's shake off my coffee! they both are truely the masterpieces of the submarine simulations, i enjoy them very much. if you have the same feelings, share it with us.

08-28-08, 11:15 PM	#2
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=124355 That should answer your question. As for the rest, several of us are glad to talk about the good - and the bad - of those and other old sims. Yes I loved them back when, but that thread will show you that there are several who love them and play them still. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

08-29-08, 08:31 AM	#3
KriegsMarine Loader Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: West Point Posts: 87 Downloads: 1280 Uploads: 0	Thanx, Steve. glad to see so many AOD/SHCE enthusiasts ! Salute, Kapitans !

08-29-08, 05:32 PM	#4
Werewolf Sonar Guy Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Europe Posts: 394 Downloads: 69 Uploads: 0	SHCE is THE submarine sim. there will never be one like it! I still have my copy lying...just imagine that many years ago they were able to do everyting they screw up today with so less technology....

01-03-09, 04:34 PM	#6
CTarana Bosun Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 68 Downloads: 28 Uploads: 0	Even when SHCE was starting, times were different for programmers back then. They had less to work with both from a system and a graphics POV so every byte had to count. These days even freeware simulations gobble up 3 gigs of hard disk space, and I don't see it. When I play a simulation it's to immerse myself in the environment of the topic. I don't want to watch cinematic cut-scenes! I don't play SHCE and COAD as much since my computer died (win98, 64meg ram, SVGA etc) but the stuff I do dabble in is small and topical (AOE, AOK, SPMBT) ChristopherT