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About weather. For those of you who haven't read it theres a book titled "das Boot" (the Boat) and in it theres a chapter dedicated entirely to a storm; its called appropriatly "the Storm and its 55 pages long. In the chapter the author (Lothar-Gunther Buchheim a German war correspondent) tells about a thirty day hell ride in a raging Atlantic sea. Mind you the book is a semi-autobiographical account of two patrols he made with U-96 ( I think it was two patrols on two diffrent boats but that I'm not sure about.) So he took the most exciting as well as boring parts of those two patrols and made a book. What I was getting at is his account is just one of thousands that tell of hideous storms that just never seemed to end. I think thats what Ubi had in mind when they were making this sim. Maybe they goofed and spread it on a little thick (okay alot thick) but whatever it keeps things challenging. If a little bad weather keeps me from getting into the 100k club then so be it, I don't need a uber-patrol everytime I go out. Crack open a history book on the battle of the Atlantic (I suggest "Hitlers U-boat War" by Clay Blair) and see what a fiasco the U-boat operation really was (and how much was due to the weather) numbers don't lie. Ohh sorry getting off track.
In short; weather sucks, makes sim harder=good realism
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I agree. I'm currently going after a convoy south of Ireland and the weather is atrocious. Trying to get range through the uzo or scope in those heaving seas, having my entire conning tower exposed while I'm trying to maintain periscope depth and having my torpedos being flipped around like pancakes on their way to the target is frustrating...but that's part of the charm of this game: realism.
