Your biggest succes in SH 3

dmagnusson · 11-20-18, 08:10 AM

My must be a British heavy cruiser outside Malta..

I was patroling night night time. Then i got contact with her with 2 destroyers.
I dived directly , open all tubes, fired the solution. must have hit the pouder magasine becuase it was a big mushroom clowe.

Sailor Steve · 11-20-18, 12:11 PM

I sank a ship once.

Schnee · 11-20-18, 12:49 PM

Previous career? Sank a KGV Battleship coming up on the Straights of Gibralter (an area I have had some good luck with). In the this career, best so far is a 24000 ton passenger liner sank with a combo of 1 torp and 88 mm gunfire.

BigWalleye · 11-20-18, 01:26 PM

I play NYGM, so returning to port alive after a patrol is my biggest success.

ivanov.ruslan · 11-20-18, 02:39 PM

I'm about to figure out if i will reach Shepke's record, so far two torpedoes - two ships, about 11,000 BRT http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...postcount=1153

although I have exceeded 70,000 tonnes, in the 42 rd, near the US east coast

bstanko6 · 11-20-18, 11:21 PM

Any aircraft carrier sunk is a great career.

bubba734 · 12-27-18, 02:49 PM

Once deep sixed the Queen Mary! Painted all grey and she was doing almost 30 knots. Just happened to be in the right position for a shot. In a Type VIIC, gave her all four tubes. Very cool to watch her go down; not too cool thinking of how many troops would have gone down with her.

Niume · 12-27-18, 03:40 PM

Aircraft carrier

doksas · 12-27-18, 10:43 PM

Just now i finish my best patrol ever !

In one patrol with my VIIb U-48 sink HMS Hood, Revenge class, HMS King George V and HMS Nelson on grid AM74.
Also, this is first time i see and sunk King George

doksas · 12-29-18, 12:24 PM

Today, first big merchant sunk, large troop transport 24010 tons south from Reykjavik

Kapt Z · 12-30-18, 02:51 PM

Biggest success? How about the most MEMORABLE??

Early '40 on a rainy foggy day. Mild seas, but practically 0 visibility. Received contact report of a inbound convoy close by. Figured what the 'hey' we will try for it.

Running submerged, picked up their screws on sound. Could not see a thing through the scope. Listened as the lead escort passed us by with merchant screws closing ahead. Do we dare it on the surface? Yes! Up we go.

Nothing but fog and rain out there. They must be close, but where?! Then the towering bow of a large freighter appears out of the fog less 800m from our bow! Yes! Quickly try to set up a shot when other shadows appear all around us. Tankers! Bigger freighters! All around us! We are in the middle of the convoy. Close enough to touch and they don't see us yet!

Quickly we pick two large tankers and a let fly with all bow tubes. Bright explosions and fire. They are on the way down! Now what? There! A small freighter passing astern at less than 500m! Stern fish away! A hit! More explosions and she is gone.

Now what to do? No time to reload, the convoy in panic with us in the middle and the escorts alerted. No point in diving. Try to get away, but which direction? No idea where the escorts are, but they have not found us either. There! A space ahead between freighters! We thread the needle and disappear into the mist and rain.

We extend and attempt an end around while reloading, but never pick them up again.

Two tankers and a medium freighter for approx. 20,000t. I've sunk more in other attacks(BBs, CVs etc), sure, but NEVER felt such exhilaration as that day in the rain.

Secretan · 01-17-19, 04:06 PM

I'm a novice at SH3. I don't have patience to learn manual targeting, so I let the TDC compute my torpedo solutions. I also use Free View to gain 3D awareness of where I am, since I have poor 3D spatial awareness. I have Grey Wolves GWX 3.0 installed.

That being said, the Happy Times single mission was my biggest thrill so far.
Approaching the convoy, my spotter called out the sighting. There was another U-boat between me and the convoy. I dove immediately. The other U-boat did not and showed a short time later as sunk. Got close enough to convoy as it was coming across in front of me to sink the lead destroyer. I moved forward and got inside the first column before letting off some torpedos. A couple hits on targets in middle columns. Rear shot at a small merchant behind me in the first column. Periscope check, oh no! A corvette was coming up fast from the back of the convoy. No time to turn and set up a torpedo shot or surface to duke it out. Dove deep and turned towards the small merchant that I had just hit. Before I got to the merchant's location, the corvette was on top of me and dropped some DCs. No hits. I was around 50 meters depth, circling around the merchant which had settled in the water and appeared to be sinking very slowly. Corvette would not DC so close to the merchant. I came up to periscope depth with the idea of making a run. Then I noticed that the reinforcement escorts had arrived. Scratch the idea of bolting. Only way to get away would be a slow creep at depth. So, down to 150 meters on Slow, SIlent Routine. I noticed that I couldn't maintain depth at that speed at that depth, so I had to periodically increase revs to keep above critical depth. The new escorts cruised around the merchant with the corvette. No way out? Did this for half an hour, then I thought I can't just sit here and wait to die. So, I pointed the uboat south and started to creep away. Amazingly, I was not followed. The escorts just sat next to the merchant which was still afloat. Crept away for a mile or two, brought it up to the surfact and then full speed to the East while recharging.
I found the convoy to be lacking escorts and in total disarray. Three or four instances of ships were seemingly locked together. Ships were going in every direction. So, I cruised around and used torpedoes and deck gun to sink ships. Withdrew for a time to move torpedoes from deck storage to inside. In all this time only one escort was detected at the far Western edge of the convoy. I ran out of torpedoes before targets. Lots of deck gun use, being mindful of an armed merchant in the convoy. Must have sunk close to 80,000 tonnes. Don't expect that to happen again any time soon.

01-19-19, 09:14 AM

Kaleun's private diary - summer 1941

I was assigned to patrol the coasts around Freetown. Little success was achieved there but as weeks went by I felt that I should relocate closer to home base. On the way back I looked at the charts and saw that many shipping routes closed up on the area west of Gibraltar. So there I went!

The west passage had lots of merchants but also ASW ships and planes so I didn't feel like the best place to hunt. I saw that the port of Gibraltar was actually very close to where I was and loving raiding ports I start planning an attack there. I timed my journey so that I would be on the passage to port on night time, so having the best change to be unspotted and time to creep into the port to be in best position at the break of dawn.

I positioned myself at around 1,5 km from the shore next to the port at periscope depth and waited until it was lit enough to see around. Little by little I started to see the ships in the port. I looked around and marked some interesting targets to my map when I suddenly saw something huge sitting in the bay, far away from other ships moored in: it was the HMS Nelson!

I understood that this is my primary and perhaps only target now. I prepared to spend all my torpedoes to this baby and planned a hasty retreat. I set my torpedoes to run at different depths: some to strike the hull with impact pistol and some with magnetic fuse running beneath the keel to crack the mighty spine of her.

"Tubes 1 to 4, LOS!"
Right away I started to turn the boat around for silent retreat and of course bring the lone aft tube towards Nelson in case it is needed. It wasn't; all four torpedoes struck the Nelson causing massive explosion. She went under in a matter of minutes. I targeted one lone ship in anchor and released the last aft torpedo. It also found it's mark. I engaged silent running as the port came to alive and soon all the ASWs in 10 km started the search. It was all in vain since they could not get a fix on me and so I slipped away from the bay and straight out to Atlantic.

Back in home base Kptlt. Zahn was more than happy to buy me and my boys a round!

11-20-18, 08:10 AM	#1
dmagnusson Seaman Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Sweden Posts: 35 Downloads: 94 Uploads: 0	Your biggest succes in SH 3 My must be a British heavy cruiser outside Malta.. I was patroling night night time. Then i got contact with her with 2 destroyers. I dived directly , open all tubes, fired the solution. must have hit the pouder magasine becuase it was a big mushroom clowe.

11-20-18, 12:11 PM	#2
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	I sank a ship once. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

11-20-18, 02:39 PM	#5
ivanov.ruslan The Old Man Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Pleven,BG Posts: 1,577 Downloads: 901 Uploads: 0	I'm about to figure out if i will reach Shepke's record, so far two torpedoes - two ships, about 11,000 BRT http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...postcount=1153 although I have exceeded 70,000 tonnes, in the 42 rd, near the US east coast Last edited by ivanov.ruslan; 11-20-18 at 02:53 PM.

12-27-18, 02:49 PM	#7
bubba734 Nub Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Lost City, WV Posts: 4 Downloads: 99 Uploads: 0	Sorry! Once deep sixed the Queen Mary! Painted all grey and she was doing almost 30 knots. Just happened to be in the right position for a shot. In a Type VIIC, gave her all four tubes. Very cool to watch her go down; not too cool thinking of how many troops would have gone down with her.

12-27-18, 03:40 PM	#8
Niume Sea Lord Join Date: Sep 2015 Location: Lithuania Posts: 1,633 Downloads: 499 Uploads: 2	Aircraft carrier __________________ GLORY TO UKRAINE! [ENG] SH 4 KSD II Ace Edition

11-20-18, 12:49 PM	#3
Schnee Engineer Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 209 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Previous career? Sank a KGV Battleship coming up on the Straights of Gibralter (an area I have had some good luck with). In the this career, best so far is a 24000 ton passenger liner sank with a combo of 1 torp and 88 mm gunfire.

11-20-18, 01:26 PM	#4
BigWalleye Sea Lord Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: On the Eye-lond, mon! Posts: 1,987 Downloads: 465 Uploads: 0	I play NYGM, so returning to port alive after a patrol is my biggest success.

11-20-18, 11:21 PM	#6
bstanko6 Admiral Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Murwik Naval Academy Posts: 2,122 Downloads: 390 Uploads: 13	Any aircraft carrier sunk is a great career.

12-27-18, 10:43 PM	#9
doksas Mate Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 51 Downloads: 129 Uploads: 0	Just now i finish my best patrol ever ! In one patrol with my VIIb U-48 sink HMS Hood, Revenge class, HMS King George V and HMS Nelson on grid AM74. Also, this is first time i see and sunk King George

12-29-18, 12:24 PM	#10
doksas Mate Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 51 Downloads: 129 Uploads: 0	Today, first big merchant sunk, large troop transport 24010 tons south from Reykjavik

12-30-18, 02:51 PM	#11
Kapt Z Grey Wolf Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: ...somewhere in the swamps of Jersey. Posts: 906 Downloads: 153 Uploads: 0	Biggest success? How about the most MEMORABLE?? Early '40 on a rainy foggy day. Mild seas, but practically 0 visibility. Received contact report of a inbound convoy close by. Figured what the 'hey' we will try for it. Running submerged, picked up their screws on sound. Could not see a thing through the scope. Listened as the lead escort passed us by with merchant screws closing ahead. Do we dare it on the surface? Yes! Up we go. Nothing but fog and rain out there. They must be close, but where?! Then the towering bow of a large freighter appears out of the fog less 800m from our bow! Yes! Quickly try to set up a shot when other shadows appear all around us. Tankers! Bigger freighters! All around us! We are in the middle of the convoy. Close enough to touch and they don't see us yet! Quickly we pick two large tankers and a let fly with all bow tubes. Bright explosions and fire. They are on the way down! Now what? There! A small freighter passing astern at less than 500m! Stern fish away! A hit! More explosions and she is gone. Now what to do? No time to reload, the convoy in panic with us in the middle and the escorts alerted. No point in diving. Try to get away, but which direction? No idea where the escorts are, but they have not found us either. There! A space ahead between freighters! We thread the needle and disappear into the mist and rain. We extend and attempt an end around while reloading, but never pick them up again. Two tankers and a medium freighter for approx. 20,000t. I've sunk more in other attacks(BBs, CVs etc), sure, but NEVER felt such exhilaration as that day in the rain. __________________ ...I fought in many guises, many names, but always me. Patton

01-17-19, 04:06 PM	#12
Secretan Bilge Rat Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Canada Posts: 1 Downloads: 37 Uploads: 0	Happy Times Madness! I'm a novice at SH3. I don't have patience to learn manual targeting, so I let the TDC compute my torpedo solutions. I also use Free View to gain 3D awareness of where I am, since I have poor 3D spatial awareness. I have Grey Wolves GWX 3.0 installed. That being said, the Happy Times single mission was my biggest thrill so far. Approaching the convoy, my spotter called out the sighting. There was another U-boat between me and the convoy. I dove immediately. The other U-boat did not and showed a short time later as sunk. Got close enough to convoy as it was coming across in front of me to sink the lead destroyer. I moved forward and got inside the first column before letting off some torpedos. A couple hits on targets in middle columns. Rear shot at a small merchant behind me in the first column. Periscope check, oh no! A corvette was coming up fast from the back of the convoy. No time to turn and set up a torpedo shot or surface to duke it out. Dove deep and turned towards the small merchant that I had just hit. Before I got to the merchant's location, the corvette was on top of me and dropped some DCs. No hits. I was around 50 meters depth, circling around the merchant which had settled in the water and appeared to be sinking very slowly. Corvette would not DC so close to the merchant. I came up to periscope depth with the idea of making a run. Then I noticed that the reinforcement escorts had arrived. Scratch the idea of bolting. Only way to get away would be a slow creep at depth. So, down to 150 meters on Slow, SIlent Routine. I noticed that I couldn't maintain depth at that speed at that depth, so I had to periodically increase revs to keep above critical depth. The new escorts cruised around the merchant with the corvette. No way out? Did this for half an hour, then I thought I can't just sit here and wait to die. So, I pointed the uboat south and started to creep away. Amazingly, I was not followed. The escorts just sat next to the merchant which was still afloat. Crept away for a mile or two, brought it up to the surfact and then full speed to the East while recharging. I found the convoy to be lacking escorts and in total disarray. Three or four instances of ships were seemingly locked together. Ships were going in every direction. So, I cruised around and used torpedoes and deck gun to sink ships. Withdrew for a time to move torpedoes from deck storage to inside. In all this time only one escort was detected at the far Western edge of the convoy. I ran out of torpedoes before targets. Lots of deck gun use, being mindful of an armed merchant in the convoy. Must have sunk close to 80,000 tonnes. Don't expect that to happen again any time soon.

01-19-19, 09:14 AM	#13
Mussalo Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Kaleun's private diary - summer 1941 I was assigned to patrol the coasts around Freetown. Little success was achieved there but as weeks went by I felt that I should relocate closer to home base. On the way back I looked at the charts and saw that many shipping routes closed up on the area west of Gibraltar. So there I went! The west passage had lots of merchants but also ASW ships and planes so I didn't feel like the best place to hunt. I saw that the port of Gibraltar was actually very close to where I was and loving raiding ports I start planning an attack there. I timed my journey so that I would be on the passage to port on night time, so having the best change to be unspotted and time to creep into the port to be in best position at the break of dawn. I positioned myself at around 1,5 km from the shore next to the port at periscope depth and waited until it was lit enough to see around. Little by little I started to see the ships in the port. I looked around and marked some interesting targets to my map when I suddenly saw something huge sitting in the bay, far away from other ships moored in: it was the HMS Nelson! I understood that this is my primary and perhaps only target now. I prepared to spend all my torpedoes to this baby and planned a hasty retreat. I set my torpedoes to run at different depths: some to strike the hull with impact pistol and some with magnetic fuse running beneath the keel to crack the mighty spine of her. "Tubes 1 to 4, LOS!" Right away I started to turn the boat around for silent retreat and of course bring the lone aft tube towards Nelson in case it is needed. It wasn't; all four torpedoes struck the Nelson causing massive explosion. She went under in a matter of minutes. I targeted one lone ship in anchor and released the last aft torpedo. It also found it's mark. I engaged silent running as the port came to alive and soon all the ASWs in 10 km started the search. It was all in vain since they could not get a fix on me and so I slipped away from the bay and straight out to Atlantic. Back in home base Kptlt. Zahn was more than happy to buy me and my boys a round!