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Yeah, return rollers is what they are, with the others being road wheels. Stupid thing is, I saw this post earlier and my mind went completely blank as to what they were called It was before my first cup of tea of the day though

Just equiped my VIIB with them and headed out to see and they are indeed a big improvement, I wonder if I can get a set of cherry bomb pipes and some stripes to go with them

I've just got to February 1940 and superchargers have become available for the engines of my Type VIIB. Has anybody tried them? Are they worth having or am I better off saving my renown for a better boat later on?

It runs fine on my machine and it's running XP

It is a bit silly, after all we (the Welsh) celebrate St David's day and everybody seems to celebrate St Patrick's day. Out of interest why is it celebrated in Georgia, Portugal, and Catalonia?

Do you know what mod Orson is also a part of?

It's been seen equiped with a single GPMG on the rear mount, mostly in Afganistan I believe, although the "standard" configuration is a GPMG on the front mount and a .50cal on the rear. Single GPMG I think I may have seen one with dual GPMGs on the news when they were used in Sierra Leone but I can't find any pics.

I'm still amazed by the weather and sea effects in game, I have never been so glad to see thick fog than returning from my last patrol and having to go through the English Channel with no torpedos left. I'll be glad when the 7th Flotilla moves from Kiel, I'm getting fed up of having to go up and around every patrol. P.S. I found this site a couple of years ago, it's got loads of information on the u-boats, including some of the proposed designs and prototypes.

Nope, the Lynx can do a backflip, I've seen one do it. It hovers then flips over backwards, a loop requires forward momentum

I only found this out after I'd steered the boat into the sub pen and into the end wall - the crew were a bit slow in responding to my order to reverse the engines

I've been a couple of times, it's worth a visit. I've been meaning to go olong to one of their open cockpit days but they always seem to be on when I can't go

The most I've had looking for me so far has been 3 armed trawlers and an Elco PT boat, which was on my second patrol that I'm in the middle of at the moment. That was just of Calais, I saw the what I thought was a lone armed trawler, as I was closing on it, it saw my periscope, while I was trying to sneak away the other 3 ships turned up to join in the search. With only 20m of water to play with there wasn't much I could do except sit just above the bottom and wait for their search pattern to take them away from me. After that I came accross a H & W Destroyer off the Channel Islands on an overcast night, I closed to within 2000m on the surface, as it was travelling at 12 knots it was the only way I could keep up, then dived and at 1800m fired 2 torps, they never knew what hit them. The tension of trying to get away from enemy warships reminds me very much of Silent Service 2, I spent many an hour sat on the bottom waiting for the destroyers to give up their search so I could come back up to periscope depth and torpedo them as they left

Only just started a career, done one complete patrol so far and just started my second. My first patrol was pretty uneventful, was ordered to patrol sector AL23 which is out in the Atlantic, West of Ireland about level with Iceland. I chose to go the northern route past Scapa Flow out to my patrol area, picked up a few long range contacts between the Norwegian coast and Scapa Flow but due to weather or me not reacting quick enough I was unable to get within visual range. The trip from there to my patrol area was dull with not a single sighting, as was my patrol of the sector. On the return trip I encountered a lone Coastal Merchant at night north of Ireland. I closed undetected to within 2500m on the surface before diving for my attack run. At 900m I fired a single torpedo and watching through the periscope saw it hit the middle of the port side crippling but not sinking her. Ordering the boat to the surface, I was annoyed to find that the sea was too rough to use the deck gun meaning I would have to use another torpedo to finish her off. After watching the burning wreck slip beneath the waves I resumed my course for home. Just north of the Shetlands at about noon, the bridge lookouts spotted a trawler dead ahead, muttering "No fish and chips for you Tommy Englisher" to myself, I ordered to crew to action stations. Ordering the deck gun to be manned, I was again annoyed when the Watch Officer reported that the sea was too rough to use the deck gun. Wondering if my crew were afraid of getting their feet wet I ordered the boat to periscope depth. At about 1000m I fired the torpedo and watched it close in on the slow moving trawler, unfortunately the trail of bubbles coming from the steam torpedo was seen by the trawler's crew and she turned out of it's path. Now determined to send this bucket to the bottom I launched a second at it, which was again seen and avoided. This continued until all my bow torpedos had been fired, at some point this old rusty trawler had gone from being just another ship to my arch nemesis, kind of like Capt Ahab and Moby Dick  Now out of torpedos I ordered the boat to the surface and the Chief Engineer to get everything he could out of the diesels, that trawler was going to the bottom even if I had to go with it. At 16 knots the u-boat smashed into the starboard side of the trawler, nearly capsizing it, the serated metal on the bow doing it's job and ripping a hole in her side before the u-boats momentum and the angle at which I'd hit it pushed it aside taking on water fast, within a minute the trawler was gone and with the crew already getting started on repairing the damage we turned for home.

Bluff Cove is fine, couldn't find Stanley

The Mercedes G-wagen causes CTDs for me at least, looks like one of the view LODs is dodgy.

Looks better with every new pic

They're both RAF, the Royal Air Force on the side of the top one. As far as I'm aware all the Hercs are based at RAF Lynham, apart from the weather Herc based at Boscombe Down. I've got a feeling that the green and grey camo scheme has been phased out in favour of all grey or all green, with the majority being grey. Grey Herc, the Royal Air Force on the side is now a lot smaller than it used to be. Green Herc

I think I've got a print out of it at least, will have a rummage round

Brilliant as ever

Very nice, looking forward to this

Same here, top hole!

 Of course it has a 'mirror' function. You just select and copy/paste it. After that you hit one of the two mirror buttons (either veritcal or horizontal) and drag the object to it's correct position. Don't forger to reverse the faces (w?) after doing a mirror, I won't mention how lont it was before I noticed the mirror buttons

I'll dig them out when I get home from work. Going from memory, I think you've got the front end pretty close, I think the box-like structure may be a bit squarer and overhang the front, but the pics will show that better than I can ever describe it.

I don't think the tracked rapier is in service anymore, but it would still make a good addition to OFP Apparently the Army rejected the design and they were instead all built to be exported to the Shah of Iran, they were put into long-term storage in a BAe hanger at Filton Airport in Bristol until the Army bought them up cheap. I've got some exterior pics I took of one at Bovington if you want them.

I thought you said you couldn't texture It's all looking great, keep up the good work