Sunk the Rodney!!!! (GWX 2.0)

[Kaleun Volk]

Patrol Report to BDU:
Feb 20, 1940.
I followed a contact report of a neutral convoy south of our assigned patrol grid, in the hopes of finding a few legitament targets scattered amongst the convoy. 14 hours later, 1749hrs, Jan. 1, 1940, we stumbled uppon the convoy, directly ahead of us and making 10 knots our direction, SSE. I scaned the formation of ships ahead of us, and could not identify any escorts. Before submerging, I look at the most suspicious shape in the distance through my banoculars. It appered to be a long merchant with a tall bridge. Selecting this as our anticipated target, I ordered the weapons officer to mark its location in our charts. I dove to periscope depth, and headed NNE to give us a good angle on the target, occasionally putting the pariscope up to locate our target and correct our hedding and speed. On our second look, I was shocked to discover the Merchant was indeed a Nelson class battle-wagon. I scanned the records and compared camoflage scheems, determining that It was the HMS Rodney. We turned tunill we were perpindicular to the Rodney, and made adjustments to our torpedos. I decided uppon a Salvo of four torpedoes, all set to impact pistons and running at 7 meters, 1 degree spread. we closed to 1570 meters, the entire convoy remained unaware of our presense. Perfect. We fired the salvo and lowered the pariscope untill 25 seconds to estimated impact. I rased the scope. I peered at the beast, whom in a few moments would either detect us or be sent to the bottom.... Immediatly 3 huge plooms of water jet out from the Rodney's Side, andd seconds later, a fourth impacts astern in the rear quarter. One of the other eels must have hit the Ammuniton bunkers, as the largest explosion I have ever had the pleasure or terror of seeing rocked the Rodney. "She's Going Down!!!" The cheers filled the boat, who were now safe as the only ship capable of fighting was now slipping beneath the waves, stern first.
I surfaced and continued to fire and sink ships for the better part of an hour, untill I was out of Deck gun ammunition and down to 2 forward tubes remaining, for an estimated 52,000 tons of merchant shipping, along with the estimated 36,000 tons of the HMS Rodney. I now forward a request that the Officers and Crew, especially the gun crew and the Officer of the watch (whom assisted in the torpedo room) be rewarded and decorated as BdU sees fit.

With reguards,
Kpt. Leutnant Karl Melchert, Kpt. U-47

-Volk

[Jimbuna]

Well done

[Brag]

Well done, Kaleun!

Pretty amazing that weather was calm enough and no escorts in sight. A Kaleun's dream

[antikristuseke]

While you sank rodney, I was sunk by Rodney. A destroyer coming out of the fog is bad ennough but a battleship allready training its guns on you and firing a broadside is something else. Me and the crew of U-55 died very dead indeed.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by antikristuseke

While you sank rodney, I was sunk by Rodney. A destroyer coming out of the fog is bad ennough but a battleship allready training its guns on you and firing a broadside is something else. Me and the crew of U-55 died very dead indeed.

Aye, when the big guns drawer a bead on you it's time to pray

[STEED]

I sunk the Rodney so many times I'm getting bored sinking her, where's the challenge.

BTW
Well Done

[gord96]

over 2 years playing this darn game and I have yet to even see a battleship

[Tessa]

:p

Originally Posted by gord96

over 2 years playing this darn game and I have yet to even see a battleship

Transfer to the 23 Flottille, the amount of action you can see can be frightening. There's plenty of task forces that will have 2 or 3 battleships and even flat tops cruising around. You'll rarely find any ships without at least 1 DD or even LC escort.

Last night was trolling around and ran across a group of 3 DD's but no merchant ship, didn't show up as a task force so tried to figure out what was so important to send 3 escorts for. Finally close far enough to make out the silhouette of the Aquitania. After a bold and suicidial move I made flank to her, the 3 escort fan'd out into 3 directions. Once they starting pinging (far away) dumped all my decoys dove to 80m and proceeded at silent. My course put me straight under the DD in the middle of the group. The morons took the bait and kept moving away from me dumping DC's as fast as they could roll em off the racks. Finally after they'd reached 10,000m I hit flank to close to the Aquitania. 1000m away shot all 4 tubes (knowing I'd only get 1 chance before the escorts came back) and the 1st hit managed to sink her, other 3 just impacted and make her sink really really fast. Less than 2 minutes she was deep 6'd. Fortunately weather was really bad so surfaced and made flank to escape and got lucky.

[Nippelspanner]

I sunk a Revenge Class BB in October 1940 somehwere in the AM grids. It was in the middle of a nice Convoy. Took me 4 Eels. 2 Hits near stern (no effect at all), 1 miss, 1 in the bow and down she goes... sunk a tanker from the same convoy too.

[bigboywooly]

Have sunk a couple
Nearly blown out of the water by one too

Attacked an early war convoy and sank a couple of tankers - that bought a couple of escorts sniffing so sunk those
Then realised no more escorts
Happy days
So I surfaced

BOOM

Oops
A battleship in the middle row had opened fire
Didnt even know he was there

Took a hit and some close ones before crash diving to repair the mess
Never did sink that one as the convoy was closing on the UK and took me a while to get repairs completed