Bouge CVE in a convoy!

[WilhelmSchulz.]

I was patroling grid AK33 and I found a convoy. My jaw droped when I saw it was a ALL TANKER CONVOY! But what I saw next blew my socks off. A BOUGE CLASS CVE! I fired my last 3 fish at it(2 foward, 1 aft) and it sunk. I have finaly have gotten proper revenge for U-124.

THANK YOU GW!!!! :rock:

[spork542]

Several carriers sunken by one of my IXCs. Don't remember the number, though.

[The_Blockade_Runner]

At the beginning of every career I try to get the Illustrious when its docked in Scapa.

[Pants]

I got the Illustrious and sank her in the open ocean in a task force:D

[mookiemookie]

I did the same on my way to one of my Drumbeat patrols. I'd say Donitz would be pleased with sinking a Bogue.... That puppy was more than 10,000 tons.

I left the rest of the convoy alone, like a good little Paukenschlager. :know:

[andy_311]

I was patroling grid AK33 and I found a convoy. My jaw droped when I saw it was a ALL TANKER CONVOY! But what I saw next blew my socks off. A BOUGE CLASS CVE! I fired my last 3 fish at it(2 foward, 1 aft) and it sunk. I have finaly have gotten proper revenge for U-124.

THANK YOU GW!!!! :rock:

Oh yes I encountered the same convoy and took it out.As I recall there are 2 convoys like that in GW there's one in the early years of the war and there's another one in late 44 early 45 with loads of Escorts.

[melnibonian]

Well done mate :up:

The only carriers I've sunk were the Illustrious at Scapa and two Bouge CVEs at Norfolk. I haven't seen any in the open sea..........yet :D

[Phoenix3000]

I managed to sink a British carrier as she left the bay of Gibraltar heading ito the Atlantic. She was shadowed by several destroyers and two large cruisers as part of a task-force.

I set up a firing position heading south and waited for them to approach. Luckily she didn't alter course too much. Running silent I had a destroyer behind me - I was that close!

She was running at 20kts, so didn't have much time - but fired all 4 torps as a salvo set at 2 degrees apart. All 4 hit, and given her speed she ploughed into the sea headfirst. Took no time at all to sink - less than a minute before she vanished!

In the region of 30K tons - my first and only carrier!

Great feeling.

Well Done!!

Px3000

[WilhelmSchulz.]

Well done mate :up:

The only carriers I've sunk were the Illustrious at Scapa and two Bouge CVEs at Norfolk. I haven't seen any in the open sea..........yet :D
Go to BF13, you will run into them every other patrol or so. :shifty:

[Kresge]

Good job! I've never managed to sink one yet; it's always to far off or I can't get all the eels to detonate!

"Try harder"
:rotfl:

[melnibonian]

Well done mate :up:

The only carriers I've sunk were the Illustrious at Scapa and two Bouge CVEs at Norfolk. I haven't seen any in the open sea..........yet :D
Go to BF13, you will run into them every other patrol or so. :shifty:

Thanks I will give it a shot at some point :up: :up:

[Saukko]

It is March 7th 1942, and I just sunk my first ever aircraft carrier in a campaign game.

My heart leaped when I saw a Bogue class escort carrier in the middle of convoy, it wasn't the first time I have seen one during campaign but those big ship have always been too far to catch.

She took three torpedoes, and took quite a while to sink, but finally she capsized, and went under the waves. :rock:
Bad news was that the escorts were pissed and found me even if I were in the middle of convoy, but they must have heard me while my crew was reloading torpedoes. I managed to survive (silent running + decoy) but damage report was quite bad: Hull integrity down to 70%. Radio, hydrophone, radar, deck gun and half of batteries destroyed.
Fortunately, no crew casualties.