'driveable' submarine?

[Pat Pattle]

Is there a cfs3 'driveable' submarine around?

If not does anyone fancy making one, I'll help!

Thanks,

Pat

Edit: Found it in the ETO install! Shame it's a Jerry though :(

[Frosty]

Nothing a little tinkering in some files and a new texture can't fix!
Doing an Allied one is a whole different ballgame and comparable to modelling an aircraft - you know how much work that is! But even so, you'd be a sitting duck as you cannot dive to escape. Are you sure you don't need a sub-sim? :icon_lol:

[dewoitine]

Hello Clive, what do you think about this ?

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Au large de Toulon ! :icon_lol:

[dewoitine]

But it can't plunge for the moment.

[dewoitine]

Other picture with "Le Béarn", harbour of Toulon

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[HouseHobbit]

Wait a minute, I remember a drivable, diving sub from the past!

I will have to search a 1000 CD's but I have it from someone from years ago..
I had this loaded at one time some years ago..

[HouseHobbit]

Found it!
Drivable, diving sub..
Regs Hanger Ground Crew -- ships section..

Link:

http://www.regshanger.com/Groundcrew/homepage/CFS3/Ships/Ground%20Crew%20Design%20CFS3%20Ships.php

[BeauBrummie]

The drivable U-boat is in ETO 1.4 along with a few missions by moi! It's a pig to 'drive' though. But it is fun once you get the hang of it. As it's rather slow you have to start missions rather close (unless you want to spend quite a lot of game time paddling about in the sea as you crawl along. What's you're interest Pat? Actually I could knock up an early Coastal Command mission where they were so short of aircraft to patrol the channel in 39-40 that they roped in some Tigermoths to drop flares on suspected U-boats to force them to dive! They called them 'Scarecrow' patrols.

[Pat Pattle]

What's you're interest Pat



Am in the middle of reading 'One of our Submarines' by Edward Young. Absolutely first class acount of his time in the sumbmarine service in ww2. I can't be bothered to learn yet another sim so thought if we had a british sub in cfs3 it could be a bit of fun.

I agree with Joost though, a new one would be a big project. I had some ideas on making one dive and surface and they're probably how Greg did his models.

Andre, where did yours come from?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Preston_Young

[Old Tiger]

:wavey:Here's some ETO1.4 u-boat shots I found in my pic collection:salute:




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[Old Tiger]

Some more u-boat stuff:salute:

The periscope is raised and lowered by applying Shift + B (Bomb Bay Doors toggle).

The U-Boat will dive and surface by applying Shift + C (Canopy Open/Close toggle).

The torpedoes are armed by pressing Backspace.

The torpedoes are fired by pressing Enter.



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[HouseHobbit]

WOW!! I had forgotten it was in ETO..
It is a ball sinking ships with Her..
had to Give it a go..

A French and British and American, Japanese drivable sub would be
A Great deal of fun..
:applause: :applause: :applause:
Off to play U-boat Hobbit

[Pat Pattle]

great pics. :)


I came across this whilst browsing, an open source freeware sub sim.

http://dangerdeep.sourceforge.net/gallery/

It's now on version 4.0, haven't had chance to do much with it but it looks good.

[josepicos]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wfPSZECLl3s

[Pat Pattle]

I don't know why there's all the fuss about U boats, we had them too!

Ah! the late great John Mills...We Dive at Dawn, a cracking movie :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXI4G9JzVek

[Frosty]

...
The U-Boat will dive and surface by applying Shift + C (Canopy Open/Close toggle)...

So you can dive!? I must confess I never tried the sub... :redf:

[dewoitine]

Me to !

Here Le Tonnant with a file of "g_u_boat" :

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and submarine base of Toulon

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[Old Tiger]

:wavey:Eblems painted on ww2 german u-boats:salute:



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[HouseHobbit]

I am a Idiot!! Yea what else is new..

Been driving the Sub in ETO, and I forgot only two months ago was doing missions in PTO with it too..
RATS! Getting old here I guess.
I enjoy driving the sub..And sinking things..
Oh yea!

[BeauBrummie]

The difference being the deployment opportunities I think. I'm no expert, but the closest Brit subs got was sinking Rommels supply ships in the Med.

[HouseHobbit]

The difference being the deployment opportunities I think. I'm no expert, but the closest Brit subs got was sinking Rommels supply ships in the Med.

I found this..
I never realized how successful they were..


http://www.naval-history.net/WW2CampaignsBritishSubs.htm