Herr Russ
11-20-06, 09:55 AM
Running patched vanilla
Finished my patrol grid (below Gibraltar) and weather was miserable.. Couldn't see the flak gun while standing on the bridge. Decided to head up towards the Irish channel where I had sunk a few cargos on an earlier patrol..
Was cruising in much better weather (took 3 days to get there & the weather laid down) when one of the lookouts sighted a ship.. I checked it in the UZO and it was a nice C3. Sunrise was in 30 minutes so I sprinted ahead to an area and set up for a bow shot. I prefer to get around 500 meters.. I settled in at periscope depth, fired up the gramaphone to calm the crew and took a quick hydrophone reading.. Heard two sets of screws on almost the same bearing.. Checked my map & sure enough, two black lines.. Checked the scope & saw a second C3 trailing the first!! Had plenty of eels so I set all tubes for 10 meters and magnetic.. Kept the scope up to verify the plot I had and they were running straight & true :up: A few more minutes and they were mine...
About then I see a blue triangle appear on my nav map & headed right towards the cargos.. Dummy me didin't look right away at the scope, but when I did, both cargos were ablaze and barely making headway.. The Stuka headed back to base & I repositioned for a shot.. The initial C3 took one eel and the second took 1 eel and 5 rounds of HE.. I was suprised to see that I had gotten full credit for both cargos!!!!
Too cool... Too bad they're never around when I'm getting DC'd :damn:
Finished my patrol grid (below Gibraltar) and weather was miserable.. Couldn't see the flak gun while standing on the bridge. Decided to head up towards the Irish channel where I had sunk a few cargos on an earlier patrol..
Was cruising in much better weather (took 3 days to get there & the weather laid down) when one of the lookouts sighted a ship.. I checked it in the UZO and it was a nice C3. Sunrise was in 30 minutes so I sprinted ahead to an area and set up for a bow shot. I prefer to get around 500 meters.. I settled in at periscope depth, fired up the gramaphone to calm the crew and took a quick hydrophone reading.. Heard two sets of screws on almost the same bearing.. Checked my map & sure enough, two black lines.. Checked the scope & saw a second C3 trailing the first!! Had plenty of eels so I set all tubes for 10 meters and magnetic.. Kept the scope up to verify the plot I had and they were running straight & true :up: A few more minutes and they were mine...
About then I see a blue triangle appear on my nav map & headed right towards the cargos.. Dummy me didin't look right away at the scope, but when I did, both cargos were ablaze and barely making headway.. The Stuka headed back to base & I repositioned for a shot.. The initial C3 took one eel and the second took 1 eel and 5 rounds of HE.. I was suprised to see that I had gotten full credit for both cargos!!!!
Too cool... Too bad they're never around when I'm getting DC'd :damn: