What kind of subsim skipper are you?

[SandyCaesar]

Nuke. I still haven't figured what that mirror-on-a-pole thing sticking out of my hull is for.

"Too much periscope exposure..." :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:And I pity you diesel-electrics. Bragging over your tonnage...tsk, tsk. You don't see me bragging when I sink a 350,000-ton supertanker, do you?!


Kidding. I do play SH3; it's just so different from triangulating with the TA and the hull array, and it's scary not being able to shoot back with the depth charges in the water.

[msb80sc]

ROLE-PLAYING SUBSIM SKIPPER
Your taste in sub and naval games runs the gamut from Grey Wolf to Silent Hunter 4. You have tried them all, at varying realism options. You're a lit-tle old-er than the typical subsim skipper, and probably remember using a tape cassette player to load programs onto your Radio Shack TRS-80. (Or perhaps you're wise beyond your years.) Your primary joy is using your imagination to put yourself into the game. You are able to overlook little details like the crew appearing instantly on the bridge, or wonky AI: to you, these are easily worked into the story as a crew who are really light on their feet, and frigates that have green skippers. The game platform gets you halfway there, your imagination does the rest. You spend lots of time setting up your crew management so it's just right and may even talk to them. You relish managing support and logistics in games like Pacific Storm, Navy Field, and Silent War.

Hum, I did use some kind of Radio shack computer. Bad part was I had to write the program that was stored on the tape.

[ubootcomrade]

CASUAL SUBSIM SKIPPER You fell in love with Aces of the Deep. Your playing style is relaxed, more for fun than historical accuracy. You always play Sub Command or Dangerous Waters from the NavMap (rightclick is your friend), if you ever ventured to play them at all. Probably you prefer WWII subsims like Silent Hunter 3, SH4 and Aces. You may try the manual TDC, but you prefer to leave the auto map contacts on, (blank maps scare you). Even though you know submarine skippers missed targets occasionally in real life, you cannot resist reloading a mission to take another shot at a 10,000-tonne troopship that got away. One ship, one torpedo, finished off with the deck gun--that's the creed you live by.


Its true, its all true *sobs of dispair*

[SteamWake]

Well Ill be dammed !

HARDCORE SUBSIM SKIPPER
No doubt about it, you are hardcore. You are the kind of subsim player who pins up the Kriegsmarine gridmap on your wall, you use a redlamp when playing at night, your wife lets you know her mother is visiting by shouting "Alarm!" and you didn't know--or care--that Silent Hunter III has a save game feature. You cut your teeth plotting attacks in Gato, sank 28,000 tons in your first Aces of the Deep patrol, and played Dangerous Waters at 100% realism. You scoff at wannabes who whine about some niggling detail in a subsim but use the red triangle-infested auto TDC and auto-map updates. You never, ever, use anything but full realism.
You are the "sim" in Subsim.

You know I really felt dated when I hit the Y2K question !

[Fearless]

Nah!!, I just look and see what happens. I give the orders to the XO to do all the work

[Bosje]

i too am the sim in subsim, lol

nice quiz, caused a few s******s

[vespernz]

No doubt about it, you are hardcore. You are the kind of subsim player who pins up the Kriegsmarine gridmap on your wall, you use a redlamp when playing at night, your wife lets you know her mother is visiting by shouting "Alarm!" and you didn't know--or care--that Silent Hunter III has a save game feature. You cut your teeth plotting attacks in Gato, sank 28,000 tons in your first Aces of the Deep patrol, and played Dangerous Waters at 100% realism. You scoff at wannabes who whine about some niggling detail in a subsim but use the red triangle-infested auto TDC and auto-map updates. You never, ever, use anything but full realism.
You are the "sim" in Subsim.

Well id like to be, but I still get caught out alot by lack of experience.

Turns out I'm CASUAL SUBSIM SKIPPER

[conus00]

CASUAL SUBSIM SKIPPER

Wow. I was surprised how VERY fitting the description was.

[BlueFlames]

So, I got labeled a "Hardcore Subsimmer," a man's man, who plays at 100% realism and would turn it up higher, if he could...

...but that's a lie, isn't it?

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by BlueFlames

So, I got labeled a "Hardcore Subsimmer," a man's man, who plays at 100% realism and would turn it up higher, if he could...

...but that's a lie, isn't it?

LOL .. first off welcome to Subsim

Secondly if you couldent tell the uhh 'quiz' was a tad tounge in cheek. There are no wrong answers.

[Deepseahunter]

I'am a typical german .I only do what my superior officer ordered me.
If he ordered me to "deliver" a spy to its destination without to be seen then i realy avoid every fight.Even fishing boats.
If the lookouts report aircrafts then i allways crashdive. No ship stand a chance vs aircrafts for long.Soon or later one of their bombs will hit.
I normaly don't save the game for every attack becuase if my attack fail then it's ok **** happens .
I normaly don't use the deckgun. It's a useless weapon in my eyes. Becuase i can't fire it underwater.
If destroyers located me i allways dive as deed as possible and sneak away.
I WILL NEVER SHOOT RESCUE BOATS OR SURVIFERS.that break the Genfer Convention.I have no problems to sink fishing boats becuase they deliver the food for the enemys.
Now you can figue it out yourself what kind of Captain "Deepseahunter" is.

[JHuschke]

HARDCORE SUBSIM SKIPPER No doubt about it, you are hardcore. You are the kind of subsim player who pins up the Kriegsmarine gridmap on your wall, you use a redlamp when playing at night, your wife lets you know her mother is visiting by shouting "Alarm!" and you didn't know--or care--that Silent Hunter III has a save game feature. You cut your teeth plotting attacks in Gato, sank 28,000 tons in your first Aces of the Deep patrol, and played Dangerous Waters at 100% realism. You scoff at wannabes who whine about some niggling detail in a subsim but use the red triangle-infested auto TDC and auto-map updates. You never, ever, use anything but full realism.
You are the "sim" in Subsim.


Awesome. Had to be hardcore didn't I!?

[seaniam81]

SWASHBUCKLER SUBSIM SKIPPERWhat's all this business about torpedoes? You prefer an honest fight, broadside to broadside. Cold steel for breakfast, grapeshot for dinner. While you may dabble in U-boat sims, you prefer pirate/sail sims, and you wouldn't squash a bug with a nuke subsim. You are original olde school, you only go to movies rated "Arrr!" and you won a pair of Johnny Depp's boxers off eBay. You're more like to be playin' Age of Sail, Sea Dogs, and Pirates! that diddling around in a stinky submarine full of seamen.


Thats so funny... YARR!

[Atony94]

casual sub sim player,

Yea i think its pretty accurate.