U-8 GOES TO WAR - Episode 1 - Full Realism Campaign - GWX OneAlex Edition - Silent Hunter 3 

I always remember having oddly fond memories for the type II in SH3. I usually started a new career with them and took advantage to early war blind escorts to do stupid things. Like sneaking into ports to blow up docked ships. One time even snuck a type IID into Loch Ewe and sank one of the Nelson class Batleships there.

I found out about your channel yesterday, and I just started watching this series. I can safely say this is one of the (if not THE) comfiest channels on RU-vid. There's nothing like falling asleep to the sound of the waves in this game, very therapeutic. Thank you for your content! I'll be enjoying my time here.

This is better than any movie. Always love the attention to detail and immersion, I couldn't hack this game myself but definitely gotten back into Graviteam Tactics as a result of your vids.

So great to see you make a return too silent hunter! It’s what made me subscribe to your channel years ago. It’s amazing to see how far your channel has grown since then. I’m looking forward to this series!

Absolutely excellent storytelling, cinematography, and gameplay. Subbed

Fantastic editing work. Great pacing to the story, too.

At 11:40 you can see a clever trick where the sea is constructed from multiple planes with their geometry being manipulated by procedural algorithms to produce wave/surf-like displacement, looking like there is a seperate foam layer or multiple layers blending together to produce a more natural-looking seascape. Natural looking water is actually fairly tricky to make right and in a game where you're usually surrounded by that water I imagine they went to great lengths to tune it so it looks good for most sea conditions. If you wanted to learn how to make good video game water you could learn a bunch from dissecting this game and others like it.

Nice! Love the idea of this campaign, and great story telling as always.

Story telling is superb on this one! Keep it up please! Glad to see you starting a new campaign on a kickass game!! Also, can't wait for the next episode of Typhoon Rising :)

Wow this game looks amazing with the mods! I love the type 2. I'm excited to see where this campaign will take you. Hopefully to a type 21! Well done!

What a haunting ending. Really well filmed!

"i dont expected to last long" 63 episodes later lmao

This mod looks incredible! I'm amazed what the community is able to do with this old game to keep it soldiering on. Great narrative too, looking forward to the rest of the series!

Just found your channel man, the narration is just too notch, very cinematic. Love it.

Just found your channel and I'm very much looking forward to binge watching this series and others, your commentary is very entertaining but also relaxing, feels like i'm right there with you every step. thankyou for content!

Loved this episode and look forward to the rest of the series. This mod is amazing and i hope to see you do more attacks with your hardcore realistic methods of acquiring a target solution :)

Great to see a new Silent Hunter campaign back on your play list again, and usual to a very high standard of commentary.

I just discovered your channel about 40 minutes ago from somebody’s comment online and I’m amazed I haven’t seen your videos yet. I was looking for a good SH3 playthrough for ages after watching Wolfpack 345’s one and this tops it already in my opinion, thank you!

Really been enjoying the series tyvm for the knowledge and keep up the great work 😁👍

I remember watching your tutorials a while ago. Knowing your expertise, i,m looking forward to watch this new adventure and keep learning along the way!

A very clear, intelligent commentary style.

This is so cool, I can't wait. A fitting successor to the marathon just finished

This is the best subsim content I've ever come across. I've been watching the whole series, but thought I'd come back to comment on the first video in case someone wanders by and is deciding whether to invest in the whole series. Do not miss this. It's as close as to a Das Boot series as you'll ever likely get. Also - the German accent and narration from @Tonci87 is amazing.

Wow. Got so invested in the story I was genuinely caught off guard when it switched to normal commentary. Was so into the vid 40 minutes felt like 10. Can't wait to watch the rest of this series and see where they go.

Loved the intro! A long time coming indeed! I currently have a SH5 campaign at the end of 1940....looks like I will need to start another campagin using the GWX Onealex mod and follow your rules of engagement : ) I have another version of the GWX, so might need to fiddle about with the new one first to see how it differs, but the sub interior shots etc look great ( loved the uboot tour in the intro as well!). I was actually on the edge of my seat when you fired the torps as I really thought they would either be blindgänger or run too deep as they often did early in the war.... Tja, es wird sicher eine grossartige Kampagne Herr Kaleun!

Im glad to see someone giving SH III a good go. I have so many fond memories of this game and the regular GWX mod.

Wow, this is a very nice change of pace from a lot of other gaming content creators! Unusual setting (the game) and storytelling. Awesome, dude!

10 minutes in ..... very well done! Love the format.

Only just had your video pop up in utube recomendations at episode 51! So I went to your page and I'm starting at ep 1 - that's going to be quite a binge watch and it'll probably take me a couple of weeks to catch up. In the meantime - don't die!

Onealex did a hell of a job. Gute jagd ihr himmelhunde!

Thank you for this. Saw your post in onealex's discord and this is a really awesome watch.

Ohhhh YESSS!!!!!! I have been waiting for this, literally for years now! So happy to see this! Vielen dank, freue mich auf´s Kampagne Herr Kaleun!

late to this career, but I'm hooked. Cheers!

Guah me encantan tus videos amigo. Gracias al traductor de youtube y a tus conocimientos estoy aprendiendo mucho sobre este juego y disfrutándolo más que nunca pienso ver esta serie entera. Gracias por estos magníficos videos e historias tan inmersivas. Un saludo desde España. (Wow I love your videos dude. Thanks to the youtube translator and your knowledge I am learning a lot about this game and enjoying it more than ever I plan to watch this entire series. Thank you for these great videos and immersive stories. A greeting from Spain. Sorry for the translation... haha)

Great narration.Well done. +1 sub

Awesome. This looks like a really good start. Looking forwards to see you being promoted to a VII, though. Also, you might want to do something about that port propeller at 5:05... That can't be healthy for the boat 😁

Absolutely love this game, was in the middle of a playthrough i started on sep. of 39 and am at jan. of 43 and this playthrough got me to start my own type 2 playthrough. :)

Just started watching. Love how you do this. I settle into bed and watch the movie!

This is most excellent!!

Dude you just landed a new sub! Its criminal that you have soo little! Im glad I found out your channel as Im never able to fully enjoy SH3 with mods due to various reasons (most common is installation ones and not having the same result as in the videos). Currently using SH4 with the Ace mod and so far so good except that torpedoes are missing their targets (auto targeting). Happy hunting Herr Kaleun!

Guess I am in for a journey 😎

Good old Silent Hunter 3. Richtig gut.

Oh man i just got really into cold waters a few days ago based off your other series. now you tell me this is available for totally not free I really enjoyed the newer uboat game but it felt more like Das Boot: The Game than a sub sim

Just found this channel/series. Enjoying the work done here!

You play all the games I love brother!! I appreciate the content

Oh dam Lithuanian ships. Really good narration and good visuals. 40 minutes felt like 15 minute video

Interesting to see an early boat like this and the early war ROE. Just makes me wish all the more for the Wolves of the Kaiser mod to actually come out, but I'm not gonna hold my breath.

Wow, this old workhorse of a game looks fantastic with this mod. Sometimes it feels like it looks better than SH5.

your RP style of campaign reminds me wolfpack345, and im great, that you are going since the beginning of the war

And so it begins... I've been waiting for this. 🥳

Awersome video and storytelling ! Keep up the good work

oh boy, i've always waiting for you to revive this series XD

I am living vicariously via your LP. ALEX v1.52 is best UBoat compilation I have ever seen. Before that AOD(DOS). If you have never seen that, I can put a build together for you with all patches and expansions. The DOS version is much better than CAOD. I had many tense moments with it. In terms of escorts hunting/escape, it may have more intensity then SH3/GWX/ALEX. I've retired from SH3 for time. I am too old to invest 2-3 days in patrolling without finding a convoy. I am back to ground combat at the moment where action is always around the corner. This is why is asked for GWX map this morning. If you know where they coded the convoys, you are going to have much more interesting war. Going to sink the Royal Oak? After that the Frauleins will be lining up for a shot with the uber-mensch Kaleun. (How good is your English. Get the pun?)

looool 11:18 that guys face says it all!

Happy to have found this series! I have fond memories of Silent Hunter III. I also remember starting with a Type IIA in 1939. But the short range was so annoying, with BdU sending me to patrol off northern Scotland. I experimented a lot with different engine settings to find the most fuel efficient setting for maximum range - I think I found it to be with only 1 engine running at standard speed, without recharging batteries. What's your most efficient setting?

That was a great episode thanks Tonci87 ;)

fantastic intro. Better than streaming. thank you

New to your channel, I love SH3 play troughs! I like your style of storytelling, I have to catch up on this series.

oh yeah. lets goooo!!! the onealex edition is awesome!

Great to see a SH3 series on this channel :)

Yes, he is roleplaying a bit but that is historical fact that on the day war broke out in 39 all Kriegmarine commands were handed a file envelope containing orders from wehrmacht party command signed by the krigsmarine command. That the time of peace was over the invasion Poland had begun to the surface navy operational orders to block the North sea from the french and royal navy. The patrol boat and U boat forces deny the sea to allied shipping andthat French navy and Royal navy warships to be sunken on sight; while merchant ships were to be sunken by prize rules meaning ships of the allies or ships of the neutral nations who's merchant ships tried to enter enemy ports such as the british French and other allied ports were to be singled to surrender to the german navy then be searched if they contained military cargo the passengers and crew were to abandon ship and the ship is to be sunk ether by charges or weapons fire if they are not carrying military cargo they allowed to leave. But if the ship runs and refuses to stop from the warning message or even send a sos or to fight back they are to be sunk on the grounds of being a threat to the patrol. this is a summery of the actual document that can be found online.

You're awesome keep up the good videos yes I would like to see more videos of these have an awesome day be safe out there

And so it begins! :) I will watch a bit. I had changed my play style to go submerged at night or day time zero visibility. I found at AHEAD SLOW, 12 hours under only requires 10 minutes to ventilate the boat (that is enough to time to surface with a sound contact; refresh air/dive). 12 hours ahead slow takes about 12-13% battery, and requires about 4 hours recharge (no snorkel yet). I was having great fun hunting in the shallows around UK (only turning on the ASDIC mod in 200M of water or less). BTW, 14 hours was around the longest you can do without tapping into your compressed 02. I agree this will probably be a more exciting video series than CW-EPIC, for a single class the play gets very repetitive. I wish you luck to be alive in 45! :) AKA MarkShot

You're awesome keep up the good work be safe out there have an awesome day

good job, i will follow this journey!!!!

Oh wow a Type 2 thats very very different!

Hello!Just found your channel and this series!Great narration!Btw as much as i know the German U boots had a Rcognition book on board!As much as i know it was the Lloyd Register list with all registered freighters on duty during the time and was always updated when possible!And it included silhouettes of the ships!Another btw ..where you from?You sound German!

ah yeah sh3 in da house captain

sehr geil!!!

SH3 is the goat

i used the map alot in this one, it made it easier

When the dreams become to real 🤗🤗🤗 thank you

nice first episode. No idea where the brits found an armed freighter in the first week of the war, has to be a mod thing.

SHIII was always a superior game to SHV. Only the SHV graphics were better. So glad to see some branching out on the GWX mod

really enjoying the series, thought i would come back here to ask do you use a voice command program?

Your accent is ideal for story narration. I think you’ve found your niche.

Great story telling.

Starting this series and I noticed you dont have one for SH5. Do you prefer 3 over 5 +WoS, and how would you compare the two? I might pick it up. Love your vids! Edit: I got to the end (;

I really like the merchant fleet mod, im recommending it if you want to do another series. especially since you are not using the recognition manual

Can't wait until you get the U21

Love the video excited to binge watch the series. Quick question did you use any additional mods that come with the install I.E negative buoyancy, Atlantic water etc?

...also, amazing video, as always

Excellent!

Your awesome

So amazing to see a narrated campaign, especially starting with a Type II! Are you planning to go on to the other types (eventually Type XXI)?

I downloaded the latest version of the mod, but I don't see the same gauges. I don't have that AOB wheel and my stopwatch is the older looking version (doesn't have the colors or ship length). I remember this being part of Magui (I think) but I was told that the default game already has Magui interface. I see one mod that says "Magui 1366 X 768" but I don't have that resolution. Any ideas?

Hola! Estoy pensando en instalar de nuevo la excelente compilación de OneAlex. ¿Para esta serie has utilizado algún mod adicional o solamente la compilación de OneAlex? Gracias

I was planning to start another OneAlex modpack campaign for a long while now, but I am deterred from actually starting one because of the fragility and the bugginess of save game process and subsequent loading of a save.

Do this mod make it easier to manage crew or you need still to manually move them around? I consider but this or SH 4. Which you think it's best for a newbie?

I love how this is the first video to pop up when I searched for a SH3 series. I hit the jackpot! It appears I have a bit of catching up to do which is nice. I understand that this is a one life only challenge, but do you think you could survive the entire war without burning yourself out playing this? For the record I hope you make it to 1945, I love how you mix cinematic dialog with gameplay. Also, what country are you from? I hear a slight accent, but not entirely sure where.

Gute Wahl SH 3 ist echt geil habe noch die Version auf CD von 2004 :) Empfehle die Living Silent Hunter Mod 2022. Hast du auch SH 5 getestet ? Gibts nen großen ModPack dazu (Wolves of Steel) dieser fugt viele Features dazu

I solved the one thing blocking One-Alex play ... sometimes you most save ... but you cannot as the game is bugged. Back with XP and older PC, I tried hibernating but it was not solid. But with WIN10 and my current system, it is rock solid. So, it means except for power failures, I never need abandon and encounter. IT IS TIME TO GO TO SEA!

Great video! Do you use all the realism options from the SH3commander also?

Think a u-boat commander would take advantage of poor weather. Simular to how an infantry assualt group commander's would during bad weather.

Oh snap a type 2! Forgive my ignorance if I am incorrect but was the type 2 essentially a coastal waters hunter? In so much that it lacked the range of its larger compatriots, not to say that it was exclusively relegated to coastal waters (would be quite hard work hunting freighters if that was case lol), just that it's where it tended to operate. Looking forward to this one!

5 knots for maximum fuel efficiency ;)

How did you get the extra sheets in map and radio room? For example in 9:18 you have Prize, Sop, Convoy, Torpedo on the top. I don't have them with 1.52.

Nice :)

What button do you press to close the interface/controls lile you do in your intro?

This is a great series and I'm using your videos as a resources to play out my campaigns, but the only problem is I'm not having NO success with screenshots using CTRL - F11. Has anyone else experiencing this problem? And where is the emblem on the side of the conning tower sourced for this Type-II submarine?