READ the RULES

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,

Poi,
Only in English, as I can only read English and the translator software normally does an abysmal job.

Also the community then needs to be able to read it and vote for their choice.

what about short bits of spoken german dialogue in there? or other german terms ?

Anlauf beginnt!

I would recommend that you include footnotes so that people do not have to surf the web just to know that you said "Approach begins"

Any kind of subjet (mail) or information?

I sent the story to contest@SimHQ.com with the subject "Silent Hunter III Short Story Competition"

AG,
Already?! I am impressed.

I look forward to reading your story.

Well.

Finished the story too. And yes, is about a Type II (maybe a world first!!!)

But I must check some details first.

For example, how many sub-exocets were carried by those subs. :p

Kidding, just gimme a couple of days to correct grammar.

Hi to all, I finished my history too, but it's in spanish, i try to translate it and sent as soon as posible.

Un saludo a los hispano-hablantes.

Teddy, About the other "Conpetition", could you put the correct answers for your questions. Thanks.

Teddy could you also post the deadline for this compo.

Cheers

The new contest information is here:
http://www.simhq.com/_contests/SH3_contest2.html

Thanks guod.

Can we submit using a pen name? That's acceptable practice with authors, eh?

That would be a "pen" name like 'Staedtler' by any chance?

Hi,
Which tense can these be written in?

Do you want us to write

1. "My U-Boat"
2. "Your U-Boat"
3. "The U-Boat"
4. "Captain Blogg's U-Boat"

????

Thanks,

The narative is about you as a Captain on a war patrol within the scenario 1 or 2 setting. So I envisioned more of an "I" feel to the story.

However, I see no problems should you decide to write the story as "It is late 1940 and as Captain Joe Blogg walked down the snow-covered pier to his new command, a lone light illuminates the boat. He stopped and took in the view of of his 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 Captain Joe Blogg's first patrol as Captain."

Ah I see, is this more like a "fanfic" thing on Silent Hunter III? Though with the scenarios in it?

Well I tried my best to type it up, Im not really good at making scenarios but its as close as I could get. If it was a fanfic then I would have made it twice as good as making a scenario.

OK call me stupid! (No please don't) but where do i find my member number?

I have my member name, password but my registration number?

Thanks for the help in advance.

PS Hello everyone if you are all different people to the guys at Silent hunter 3 website

Thanks!

lmao yes do call me stupid I see it to the left of my post. Though i only know that now i have posted... just ignore me its the best coarse of action...

Dominico,
The information under you name is your Member Number. In this case you are Member # 23231

As the story can depict anypart of the patrol, can we jump straight to that section.....or must we follow on from the introduction

Hello Teddy

Just a few questions, then I'll launch the fish

1) I am horrified, my story counts for 3303 words.
But this stinky Word is counting each ", each isolated . , or each * as a damn word. Since my characters talk much and because of the punctuation, I believe I am probably under the 3000 words, but it must be quite close.
What can I do? Will my story be accepted anyway?

2) does your deadline apply to Friday 23:59, East Coast time or something like that? (I am French )

3) Finally, are we supposed to put a footnote for terms such as BdU, which may seem obvious to us, but may seem dark for anyone else? I fear my short story may eventually turn into a dictionnary...

thanks!

AJ

You can jump right into any section.

1. I am allowing around 10% on the word count
2. Yes
3. Better to be a dictionary....

reminds me of highschool

btw, he's still got three words too many then, hahaha


also, i think I'll refrain from participating since i just won the Subsim Scavenger Hunt Grand Prize

wooohoo!

Is that true?!
Congrats chap

Sorry Teddy, I'll not troll this topic any longer, but I couldn't leave Tomcat without a word
Thanks for your answers boss!

AJ

one question; does the scenario have to mentioned in the story?

okay, story sent.

Thanks for the oportunity Herr Teddy Bar. (also checking member # ).

Hi I'm a late starter, just in the process of writing a story, hope it's enjoyable to everyone, should have it completed by WEdnesday or Thursday night. Good luck to all you writers:)....

Hi i was just wondering if you could send us a confirmation that you got the story if you have time. I am having problems with my internet and some mails are going astray

Thanks anyway!

Off the top of my head I believe that I have your story, will check when I get home and I will send you an e-mail.

Story sent

Rick

I do have your story.

my story has been sent in also

Wicked thanks, its a nightmare because i have sent lots of business emails and they didnt get there. I get no confirmation either way with aol, i guess i will have to start using the hotmail email till its sorted out!

Thanks again.

Teddy, my life is a tragedy

I sent you my story, but it appears it is the wrong one (it has a mistake that was corrected in the other one). It is just a matter of changing a word for another and adding a new entry to the glossary.

I just sent the right version to you, but I was obliged to use another mailbox as Hotmail is having some problems with the file attachments.

Can you please tell me here if everything's ok?

Thank you very much - the ID data and other comments are in the first mail sent earlier of course.

One more time, sorry for the inconvenience

Alain-James

I have sent you and e-mail. If you could confirm what should be the obvious it would be appreciated.

BTW, no worries. Great to see so many stories.

Thank you Teddy - confirmation sent

AJ

Oops Teddy, problem with your mailbox...

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I send it to you through the contest address so

AJ

It says through Friday, what time Friday?

I think I might take a shot at it!

sent, and checking my number

Good luck everyone! I cant wait to read all your stories. Im pretty excited about it actually lol, now i have 2 sub related things to wait for