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Scenario No. 1
It is late 1940 and as you walk down the snow-covered pier to your new command. A lone light illuminates the boat. You stop and take in the view of your new command. Little snow is seen on the decks as it all has been lost underfoot as the men have prepared the boat for departure later today. This will be your first patrol as Captain.

It has been less than 2 weeks since you returned in this boat from a patrol having served as a "Konfirmant". It was a quit patrol with only one opportunity, but the sea state made it impossible to carry through the attack. A frustrating experience.

The morning cold brings you out of your thoughts and you proceed at a brisk pace to where the two men stand guard at the gangplank, you turn to face them. The guard looks up and stands to attention and salutes saying "Good morning Captain and welcome aboard". "Thankyou Herbert" you say, the young sailor smiles and stands up straighter at you remembering his name.

Further up the pier you see a Type VII, looking back at your Type II you remind yourself that a young Captain has to start somewhere.

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Scenario No. 2
It is late 1941 you see the crew finalising preparations for departure as you walk down the final set of stairs to where your boat awaits you in the bunker.

This will be your first patrol as Captain and for many of the crew, their first combat patrol. You have faith in the crew; they had proved themselves a capable team when the boat plummeted out of control when the exhaust valve failed to close and the boat took on water during the boats run up trials at the Ausbildungsgruppe für Front-U-Boote (Training unit for frontier U-boats). That incident had delayed the commissioning of your boat by 5 weeks.

You are heading out into the Atlantic to tackle the same convoy routes that U47, U99 & U100 were lost on just a few short months before. You welcome the opportunity to take the fight back to the old enemy in memory of your fallen comrades.

Your short story of no less than 500 and no more than 3000 words can encompass any part of your patrol. You may for instance decide to narrate a single day, an attack on a merchant ship, your escape from the enemy, or the entire patrol.

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READ the RULES

Your short story of no less than 500 and no more than 3000 words can encompass any part of your patrol. You may for instance decide to narrate a single day, an attack on a merchant ship, your escape from the enemy, or the entire patrol.

PRIZES
First prize is a Silent Hunter III Recognition Manual, a copy of Silent Hunter III and a USB thumb drive with the Silent Hunter III logo imprinted.

Four runner-up prize winners get a copy of Silent Hunter III.

A drawing of all entries for the prize of 1 one-year subscription to the Conning Tower at . Uboat.net

How does it all work?

SimHQ will judge the best 5 stories from those submitted. Then these will be put up for everyone to read and vote upon.

The winner will receive...
The Silent Hunter III game
The Silent Hunter III Ship Recognition Manual
A Silent Hunter III branded 256Mb USB

The authors of the other 4 stories will each receive a copy of the Silent Hunter III game.

All entires will (including the five selected) go into a draw to win a 12 month subscription to the Exclusive Conning Tower at uboat.net - The U-boat War 1939-1945 !

When start the competition?

You can start writing now if you like

We will have the finish dates, public voting etc up over the weekend.

So we must write about the first patrol in the Type II????
No Indian Ocean raids, North Atlantic Wolfpacks, etc, just coastal sub warfare in those cans????

Or I´m just wrong?

Oops, forgot to post the second scenario... Anyway, what's wrong with the Type II?

It is late 1941 you see the crew finalising preparations for departure as you walk down the final set of stairs to where your boat awaits you in the bunker.

This will be your first patrol as Captain and for many of the crew, their first combat patrol. You have faith in the crew; they had proved themselves a capable team when the boat plummeted out of control when the exhaust valve failed to close and the boat took on water during the boats run up trials at the Ausbildungsgruppe für Front-U-Boote (Training unit for frontier U-boats). That incident had delayed the commissioning of your boat by 5 weeks.

You are heading out into the Atlantic to tackle the same convoy routes that U47, U99 & U100 were lost on just a few short months before. You welcome the opportunity to take the fight back to the old enemy in memory of your fallen comrades.

Your short story of no less than 500 and no more than 3000 words can encompass any part of your patrol. You may for instance decide to narrate a single day, an attack on a merchant ship, your escape from the enemy, or the entire patrol.

The second story is a Type VII B

or ?

The second story allows for you to command any of the Type VII Atlantic boats. Or a Type IX Long Range boats if you really really wanted to.

im already getting the game and recognition manual. I dont really care for the USB stick, but what i really AM interested in is access to that uboat.net section.

Now that im tryin to research a bit and see if i can come up with something, i really wish i already had access to the Conning Tower section, lol!

The story has to be written in English or it can be written in another language?
Cheers,