Operation Weserübung help

[TheBeast]

Operation Weserübung Complete!

Now it is time to play Hide and Seek with the DD escorts

-TheBeast

[TheBeast]

Originally Posted by TheBeast

Operation Weserübung Complete!
Now it is time to play Hide and Seek with the DD escorts

-TheBeast

OK, Operation Weserübung is not Complete. Upon leaving port on April, 11, 1940 I notice a NEW mission icon up by Narvik. This did not show up during Mission Briefing. I clicked on it and guess what. Yes, you guessed it. I have to go back up there and repeat what I had just done. Hopefully it will let me complete the mission without requesting it.
I would laugh about it but there is just to many things like this happening every where I look in this release so it is way beyond laughter.

[theglenlivet12]

I still cannot find the Queen Elizabeth. And Im guessing it needs to be that specific ship to complete the mission huh?

[Zedi]

I feel you, for me this mission was a nightmare. So here is a screen with the location and date I found that battleship, I hope this will help.

[theglenlivet12]

That would make sense, I think Im a month early yet. It HAS to be the Queen Elizabeth to count though yeah?

[Zedi]

Originally Posted by theglenlivet12

That would make sense, I think Im a month early yet. It HAS to be the Queen Elizabeth to count though yeah?

Yeah, correct. Don't try to sink it in Scapa, will not count.

[scl]

Hi everyone - I hope someone can help here please!

I took the British Coastal Waters and British Supplies missions first, thinking (looking at the complete-by date for Weserubung as June 1) I had a fair bit of time to do this. I didn't start Weserubung until about the 10th April, and it's now 19th April. I have an in-port save for the 10th. I've been sitting on the approaches to Narvik and I've only sank 2 Brit merchants. A heavily escorted convoy passed but I let it go as I wanted to save my torps for the battleship stage which I hoped I could do on the way back to Kiel.

My question is, have I left it too late? I've hardly spotted anything since the merchant convoy except neutrals and friendlies, and time's running short! It bothers me that nearly everyone who's completed this mission started it much earlier than I did. If I have is the June 1st complete by date wrong?

Cheers

[Zedi]

You lost the mission, after April 9 Narvik is friendly port. But if you have patience you can still find some enemy ships at the entrance of the channel, the big problem will be finding a battleship and I don't think that will be possible after April 9.

Anyway, you can finish the campaign without completing the mission.. so is not a big deal.

[scl]

Thanks for the reply Magnum - much appreciated. Pretty annoyed though if what you say is true! Why give a final date of June 01 when you are stuffed if you don't complete part of it nearly two months before? Doesn't make sense to me.

I might reload my in-port save and try for the BB first - I should just make it to the place shown in a previous post - if I'm lucky!

Cheers

[kanfield1]

slippery little devil.
have sunk required 5 ships & am near 'Blue Arrow' by 3/31, but can't find this mysterious battleship. Any tips?
thx.

[scl]

Well, after reloading my in-port save for April 8 I headed back up to the approaches to Narvik ignoring all incidental shipping on the way. Low and behold, just about where the tip of the blue arrow is on a previous post there came into view the familiar cluster of escorts heading for Narvik - with a QE in the centre. And then the fog came! Taking advantage I closed to as near as I dare and let loose with 3 torps. All 3 hit and down she went like a stone - the escorts didn't even pause in their journey! No picking up survivors I guess in this came despite the weather. Strike 1

Then a couple of days later guess what came along - another cluster of escorts with another QE!! This was interesting as well because she had ice on her rigging - not seen that before. And again came the fog. It was unbelievable that the same thing should happen, only this time they were on their way out from Narvik. I repeated the same tactics and 3 torps struck home. I had to dive quick because this time the escorts were a little upset. Fortunately they weren't very persistent, and steamed away into the fog. Having lost site of the QE in the fog, and no kill was registered in my log, I began to wonder if I had lost this one to record and wondered if you have to actually see the ship sink for it to count (which makes sense I guess). Then I picked her up, and she was listing badly. I couldn't believe the escorts has just scarpered and left her. I gave the cous de grace from the stern tube and was satisfied to see the kill duly logged. Strike 2 QEs!!

So I got 2 QEs. Just need to tally the necessary merchant score and I'm done. BUT - ha no merchants. Well sod it, if I fail this mission just on a lack or merchant kills I can live with that. I'm not doing it all again. Two BBs will do nicely thank you

[Skurcey]

Warships spotted at 3-4 km !! All to battle stations, silence on board
*captain preparing the math, deploying periscope !!
***Crash of the game, aaaaarg***

[kanfield1]

finally!
(as someone prev. posted coordin.):
N. 67.50, E. 14.14, found her on 4/4 in a raging rainstorm.
good hunting.

[CaptainMattJ.]

yea she usually comes through the strait either coming out of or going into narvik. i missed her myself though, i tried to get past dd's and used TC and they skipped right past me be4 i could stop TC

[Rafael]

Magnum helped me a lot with his image. Thanks!

Below another image (operation Weserubung), the spot I could intercept the Warship Convoy.

Hope it helps to anyone.



I shot 4 torpedoes (3 was in fact enough).