As soon as you have received your assignment, deploy S3C to create your career by taking these steps:
→ create a new career with a new commander
- enter your Kommandant-name
- start from the second flotiilla in 1939 or whatever month/year your next patrol period is in
- choose a U-Boot
- then when you actually get in game and click on that career, make sure you choose that second flotilla and the year you chose in commander and you should start out of Wilhelmshaven with a that U-Boot.
SINGLE PLAYER mission initiation process.
-Open S3C in S3F
-Enter the appropriate new kommander and appropriate dates from orders received.
-Initiate the appropriate SH3 game from inside the S3C (pressing the button at the bottom)
-Follow instructions in orders.
-When appropriate, save game, exit to desktop and send appropriate message (contact/update/arrival on patrol area/status etc..)
-Update S3O
-once response received, proceed with mission (either back into running game or from saved game).
You can continue your patrol, simply make sure to keep notes for your next post(s). However, wait to post on the forum until you have received a response
to your current post. This gives the Flotilla staff time enough to receive the message, decode if Enigma is being used, and then have the Flottillenchef respond to your message.
You can make your own profile which will be added into the game. Everytime you complete a patrol it will automatically update your own Personel file, THIS IS THE FILE YOU WILL SEND USING S3Q_QPFR. It is very straightforward, simply click "NEW CAREER" left on the tab and then fill out your details, THIS IS WHERE YOU ENTER YOUR MED U-Boot NUMBER, AND CAPTAINS NAME. Also make sure starting date is 08/1941 else you'll need to catch up 2 years to the rest of us!
After that always start the game through S3C, that way when you finish a patrol or the game and wish to leave SH3, you will return to the main-screen of S3C and click on "CLICK FOR AVAILABLE ACTIONS" and then "UPDATE YOUR PERSONELL FILE" this will open a web browser window where you can check that all your patrol data is correct.
First off, let’s talk about the main SH3 Commander screen. On the right is your SoldBuch (=Wehrpass), which identifies you as a member of the Kriegsmarine branch of the Wehrmacht. There are 10 items displayed here. The last item is a list of things you can do – like review you patrol summaries, set up your crew, annotate the standard patrol summary and add comments, etc.
Everything else (Soldbuch lines 1 through 9) cannot be touched while your U-Boot is at sea. In port, however, there are things you can do …
• Change your U-Boot number
• Change your U-Boot type – does not cost you renown
• Set your primary patrol grid for your next patrol
• Change your status between “In other base …” and “In home base …”
This last one, STATUS, is very important to understand.
As you know, we will be running patrols in 3-month increments. If you are at a base that is not your home port, you cannot set your torpedo load-out nor add equipment. Furthermore, you have no control over when you leave that foreign base – you will leave the next day or as soon as your U-Boot is repaired; whichever is longer. However, if you change the STATUS from “In other base …" to “In home base …” by mouse-clicking on it, you still cannot add equipment or setup your torpedoes, but you DO have control over when you leave that base.
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