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- Silent Service Review
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- From: Petree
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- A review of SILENT SERVICE
- by MICROPROSE SOFTWARE
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- Ok, so you are 6 foot 5 and hanker
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- to be one of those guys in "RUN
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- SILENT RUN DEEP". Well, anyone with
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- fingers and a joystick glued to one
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- hand better sign up right now. Uncle
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- Sam wants YOU! Silent Service is a
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- well thought out submarine warfare
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- simulation. I refrain from calling it
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- a game as I see it more as an
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- educational adventure in submarine
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- warfare in the Pacific. There are
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- practice scenarios as well as convoy
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- and Pacific patrol actions with many
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- variables to keep your bottom warm
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- this winter.
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- The program is well supported by
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- the manual but there is so much to
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- learn you may wear out the pages
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- before you master the submarine
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- commands. There are moderately
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- detailed views of the conning tower,
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- bridge, gauges, and charts. You may
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- look through the periscope from the
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- conning tower or just look out from
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- the bridge. Binoculars may be used
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- from the bridge for improved vision.
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- The enemy ships are very well
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- depicted and may change course, try
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- to ram you, or call in the cavalry
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- disguised as a Kaibokan class
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- destroyer.
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- The torpedo data computer (TDC) will
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- help you fire the 4-inch deck gun or
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- send off the bow and stern torpedos.
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- "I" will identify what you are
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- looking at so that you can plan the
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- sequence of the attack or so that you
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- know who that idiot is that got you
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- out of the bunk and is 500 yards
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- away, coming down on you like a coon
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- dog in May.
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