In the time of your absence, My career in SH3 has gone off the rails, including botching an attack on the Hood and then having a multiple patrol long kill-less streak, from bad wether to too many escorts, to encounter nothing at all, U-48 couldn’t catch a break. Until about 5 patrols of nothing We went up to near the Orkney Islands in the strait between them and the Shetland islands my watch officer spotted an aircraft, I saw that it was a swordfish and decided to that it would be funny if I tried to find the carrier, after altering our course we got a lone warship sound contact, we slowly approached and I couldn’t believe my luck, we had encounter the HMS Illustrious. By herself, no destroyers, and we were in range. We quickly made an attack run, and two volleys and three hits later, she was on her way to the bottom, I had never been prouder of my self in a video game.

Man... I was really missing this series. Glad it's back.

The fact that you are German adds the right authenticity to this, and excellent delivery, giving a 'real time' feeling to History; Many brave fighters on all sides, something within us all which we should never forget; 200 out of 10 from England...;)

Best decision made. It opened the door to better possibilities. Glad to see you back! By far the best series!!

So glad this series is back! I look forward to watching each episode. Thanks for your content.

yes please stay alive, i want to live till the end of the war

another episode so soon, excellent.

You made the right call in this situation to engage the lonely small merchant first even though it is greek(i am a greek dude).Hope you will manage to regain contact with the small convoy especially now that it is dark and you can escape the escort easier after a surface attack on them.

Drunken sailor is lucky the Resistance didn't find him.

Once you are escorted by an enemy you are fair game! Neutrals run escorts as well.

Great episode, really nice fireworks display at the end

Hey Tonci, just wanted to say that I really love this series!

Great video and good patience most would have gone for the big kill. Good to see you back.

Great one, glad the series is back. You made the best possible decision with the attack even if you're not gonna be able to reingage the convoy.

You made some solid choices here. Sorry to hear about your difficulties - real life comes first. Hope you and yours are well good sir.

Tonci87 is the best of the best when it comes to KZfaq series on SHIII and Arma

I'm curious how much you make use of time compression. Once you make contact with potential targets do stop using time compression? How long are your gaming sessions?

Smart move. You’ve already lost the chief machinist, no need to lose the rest of the crew and a boat while you can find juicy targets elsewhere!

This is such a great series.

Great episode! Night time explosions were great as well. I was getting nervous when you had said the depth was only 88 meters, and then you didn't state the depth for a long time after that , so I was really wondering how much risk you were willing to take.

Poor Chief but lesson learned perhaps.

You made my day. Dziękuję

You did the right choice! Safe and cost effective.

Neutral nations also escort their ships sometimes. If it escorted by an enemy warship it is fair game.

QUESTION: What is the story with Torpedoes these days? Earlier you had detailed instructions from Naval Command about 'contact' fuses only and raising your depth settings for torpedo runs. However in recent patrols, you are still sticking with 'contact' fuses only, but are no longer setting the depth 2-3m higher than what you desire. Have the torpedoes been improved? Can you also switch back and install 'magnetic' fuses? In short, what are the instructions from Naval Command at this point in the war? If there is a sheet from Naval Command, maybe you could pull it down and read out what has been learned and is happening with ordinance in the U-boot fleet now that it is: January 1941!

Smart move captain...

👍👍

Pop goes the Greek...

It did look like a corvette not a destroyer. You are at least as fast and you are a narrow target. You've sunk a corvette with gunfire before. Just saying.