Why me GWX?

[AVGWarhawk]

Since the advent of GWX I make about 3 patrols then I'm fish food:shifty: . I check the boats at uboat.net and find, well, most only made a 2-3 patrols before the inevitable. Sure, there was a handful that were very successful boats but by and large most not scoring anything and getting sunk.

Thanks GWX for making it real......jerks....J/k. It's awesome!:up:

[Jimbuna]

Gotta agree with you there AV....the closest thing to the real deal IMO :up:

[Hakahura]

4 patrols before death is now my best with GWX.

Death by eye candy:rotfl:

[AVGWarhawk]

It is really something.....1942 in my pig of an IXB on the bottom on my second patrol.....it is almost too real.....:shifty:.....what I would do for a defensless singleton. I play DiD so I start all over again:oops:

[stabiz]

I`m actually starting to get the hang of ot now. 14 patrols so far, still alive. One narrow escape north of England, though.

(Okay, I had 20-30 patrols with the beta, and probably 20-30 deaths :D)

[Deep-Six]

I am still alive on my current patrol.:yep:

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Good luck gentlemen.

You'll need it against all that silly eye candy. ;) :p

[mookiemookie]

I started in 1941 for my first career in GWX since that's my favorite year. I was promptly sunk on my first convoy attack. That scared me into starting my next career at the start of the war. It's now late January 1940, and I'm on patrol 4 out at Rockall.

I really am dreading seeing a convoy. :lol:

[andy_311]

Am just getting to gips with it too patrol 12 next and of to the East Coast.

[Deep-Six]

Well, I lost my current patrol, due to a computer kicking me out of SH3.:damn: :damn: :damn:

Yes, I know I should have saved the patrol.:oops:

[JScones]

I just did something I swore I'd never do - sail all the way to Penang from Lorient.

And it wasn't until just off Cape Town that I realised that I'd been running with an engine malfunction - was a bit touch-and-go whether I'd make it, but I did in the end.

Now off to Madagascar for patrol #3...

[Brag]

After downloading GWX, I did two tests provoking the GWX DDs. Lethal MFs (and I don't mean Meine Freunde ;)). Then started mein new life: GWX carreer.

1939. Stuck with a II canoe, and in Kiel!! Grrr, was so ticked, forgot to pick additional crew.

The first patrol was off the Shetlands. Picked off two Amie munitions ships in first 24 hours. Had trouble reloading torpedoes because the short crew was too tired. Had to dive and put the engine crew to work in the torpedo room.

Then a large freighter came our way and ate our last two torps. Was back in Kiel in 11 days with enough Anhnemen to get outta da canoe into a nice type VIIB.

Asked for transfer--no joy.

Now stoogying off England's west coast after sinking another Ami munitions hauler without lights.

One thing I've learned from the experimental trips into GWX: BE QUIET, if you're not in a perfect attack position: get out! :arrgh!:

[peterloo]

Having gone through 3 patrol yet...

Either I get impatient with those IXB and IXC, with patrol grid in American coast

or I really got wasted by DD

In the past, I thought that Prien didn't gone through the 10th patrol is his shame... but getting through 1 patrol is really tough when I use high realism (70%) when compared to what I used to (40%)

But don't mind, many commanders only sunk 1 sips and got wasted in only 1 or 2 patrols. Some even went straight to the Heaven in the first patrol... no ship sinking
you can see many of them in uboat.net, in U-boat of the day

[peterloo]

One thing I've learned from the experimental trips into GWX: BE QUIET, if you're not in a perfect attack position: get out! :arrgh!:

Yes, even the task force is close to me, I dare not to go in if I'm not in a perfect position. Crossing the T used to be a good one, but now, no more (for me)

[HEMISENT]

Two days ago I finished my WAW patrol to the US east coast. I just now got GWX up and running - 1942, left St Nazaire in a VIIC looking forward to giving it a thorough workout. So far everything is working right out of the box.

Stay tuned...

[stabiz]

Damn it. Just got sunk west of England. Damn you Black Swan!

I`ll blame it on my serious hangover.

[azn_132]

Damn it. Just got sunk west of England. Damn you Black Swan!

I`ll blame it on my serious hangover.
HaHA but stabiz Im bored lookin all over the Indian ocean for ships in the Panang one.

[LeafsFan]

Damn it. Just got sunk west of England. Damn you Black Swan!

I`ll blame it on my serious hangover.

Good one!!

HB

[Slick Rick]

Well I am glad to hear that I am not the only one getting my clock cleaned....I have noticed that the PT boats are a lot more lethal in GWX...before I would stay on the surface and shoot it out with them.......not any more....the damage to the boat is too costly.......I had it out with a whaling ship sticking two eels in her and then surfacing to finish her off....well after taking a few bursts from her gunners I sank her.....and then went to chase a convoy nearby....I TCd with out checking for damage and was soon faced with the screen telling me the U boat was destroyed by flooding.......I didnt think we had much more than a scratch.......that was my third patrol..........back to the drawing board.......

[AVGWarhawk]

Having gone through 3 patrol yet...

Either I get impatient with those IXB and IXC, with patrol grid in American coast

or I really got wasted by DD

In the past, I thought that Prien didn't gone through the 10th patrol is his shame... but getting through 1 patrol is really tough when I use high realism (70%) when compared to what I used to (40%)

But don't mind, many commanders only sunk 1 sips and got wasted in only 1 or 2 patrols. Some even went straight to the Heaven in the first patrol... no ship sinking
you can see many of them in uboat.net, in U-boat of the day

Yeah, thats were I looked. So if I get past three in the early 40's I feel pretty good. :shifty:

[AVGWarhawk]

Damn it. Just got sunk west of England. Damn you Black Swan!

I`ll blame it on my serious hangover.


Captain, just what was told to you by the good medic and his war patrol stash of cheer? Drinking and uboat driving do not mix:shifty: but it sure helps during the slow periods:up:

[unterseemann]

Just start a new carreer in 1939. I play d.i.d with difficulty sets to 100%
So i begin with U-6 a type II-A. Base: Kiel

First patrol: 1 ship sunk for 7200 tons. attacked also a small merchant with the two last torpedoes but they didn't explode although good firing position within 600m. So 3 of 6 torpedoes didn't explode on mission 1...

Second patrol: not finished, but left Kiel 10/14/39 and don't encounter targets yet (10/26/39). Gone near hartlepool and been depthcharged by.. an armed trawler. The sound of the explosions are really really frightening. He hit me on his first attack run (minor damages) and failed to hit a second time but it was really close.

For the moment i think that GWX provides everything i expect with this game: Few targets (look at uboat.net: A lot of kaleuns made patrols with no ships sunk) but a lot of different ships (remember stock SH3), illuminated ships (what a bright idea!)aggressive and accurate escorts, moments of extreme tension..., feeling that your death is near, no more carreers with 1.000.000 tons sunk, for all of that I LOVE IT

Happy new year to all of you! and infinite thanks to GW dev team

[Jimbuna]

It's very heartening to see that GWX hasn't dampened your new year spirits :rock: :up:

[AVGWarhawk]

I changed by captians name to Fritzen DieppeShiite. The two patrol wonder!

[Mooncatt]

well i cant wait to get my internet connection back up at home. all ive heard is good things about GWX and how much better it is

[HunterICX]

I changed by captians name to Fritzen DieppeShiite. The two patrol wonder!

Guess how long my Bernard Dummkopf patrol lasted!

err....short?!

how?

Friendly Harbour defenses
he couldnt resist to poke a Mine.....:shifty:

[AndyW]

Sitrep:

First career with GWX @ 84% realism, September 1943, no Snorkel (U-389 Ltn. Heilmann): 31 air attacks within 11 days on sea. Hull integrity 30%, lethal hull demage after crash dive at 130 meters, R-I-P on first sailing.

Second career with GWX @ 84% realism, May 1942 in the Med (U-577 Ltn. Schauenburg): sunk by a Catalina in an deliberate shoot-out, my mistake, I should have dived, R-I-P on first sailing.

Third career with GWX @ 84% realism, December 1943, no Snorkel (U-972 Ltn. König): only surfaceed during night, nevertheless 24 air attacks in 9 nights. Still alive with hull integrity 85%, but on sea and facing 30 or so more air attacks on my march back to St.Nazaire. :-?

The BdU is worried: Seems that the enemy has a new very effective ASW weapon called GWX ;)

Cheers,
AndyW

currently U-792 König, 1st patrol 12/1943 [SH3 + GWX 1.0 @ 84% realism]
Total: 10 careers, 40th sailing, 856 days at sea, 544,474 tons sunk

[Cap.Palla]

I played 6 patrols than i surrended to a english DD :oops: ....They made me surface the boat because i was out of oxigen!! WOW,very realisitic !! When i surfaced they sunk me in 30 seconds .... shootin at me with all they have... a sailor trowed a deep charge inside my connin tower than closed the hatch:lol: .
Anyway....im actually on my 2nd career at 6th patrol and still alive.

[Morts]

palla DD's arent that hard:lol:
not even in 1945:lol:

[Cap.Palla]

i thought that too but when i surfaced he shot me with cannons and MGs and took a very short time to sunk my boat ...but maybe my hull was already damaged a bit (i hide the hull integrity)

[Iron Budokan]

Sitrep:

The BdU is worried: Seems that the enemy has a new very effective ASW weapon called GWX ;)



LOL, ain't it the truth!

[Trimbeaux]

U-50 VII, My 2nd patrol April 8 1940 (90% realism) and I learned a new lesson. After sinking a Pyro ammo ship in a large convoy and finally evading a couple close depth charge attacks at 80 meters ( I could go no deeper as its to shallow and I think I might not try this again lol) I surfaced as the convoy was moving away but failed to check for enemy aircraft :damn: . But to my suprise a swordfish was waiting :o (called in by the enemy escorts) and pounced. Alarm! crash dive! to late! 2 bomb hits and I was flooding and sinking :dead:. I had no choice but to blow ballast and surface. I had both batteries knocked out and looked like I was going to the slam into the bottom at 90 meters but was able to stop sinking and get back to the surface. Well I got bombed again and straffed by machine gun fire but I managed to limp away and repair my batteries and stop the flooding. My veteran chief engineer Wilhem Villian, winner of both the Iron cross 1st and 2nd class repaired all critical damage so we can dive again. I got real lucky no one was killed on my watch crew. I think I will head back to port as my hull is badly damaged. Hopefully I will get lucky and find some lone merchants on the way back. Only 2 torpedos fired on the 10th day of the patrol and 1 ship sunk :shifty: . Bdu will be very unhappy with my mistake.

[IceGrog]

Since the advent of GWX I make about 3 patrols then I'm fish food:shifty: . I check the boats at uboat.net and find, well, most only made a 2-3 patrols before the inevitable. Sure, there was a handful that were very successful boats but by and large most not scoring anything and getting sunk.

Thanks GWX for making it real......jerks....J/k. It's awesome!:up:

My first, or I should say my second GWX career, my first is a 1x and I’m not out of the bay, well my first taste of GWX battle mission (early 1940) I was heading down south from the St. Nazaire base and I received a message saying there was a large slow moving convoy heading out from England. I thought I could race up there and get in front of it when I ran into a medium size loner transport. I took it out with the deck gun, wanted to save my fish for the convoy, after sinking this one I started back to intercept the convoy when I was given more info on another ship, in my greed I took off after it. I knew I was getting a little too close to British waters but I proceeded anyway. Suddenly there was a destroyer chasing after me, I dove down to 100m and can go no deeper, haven’t able to loose him, and he’s not wasting his depth charges, it seems he only drops them when he’s right on the target. As I was trying to loose this guy, my soundman informed me that another warship was approaching, crapppppppp! I had to use my camera to see what was going to be my outcome. The new warship was a PT boat, a little speed demon, now when I run out of air I don’t think I’ll be able to come up and out maneuver the both of them. My time is running out!

[AVGWarhawk]

Icegrog, it can get ugly real fast for sure! Attempt 2 kts/silent and change course often to elude the DD. Pray for bad weather! Write you last will and testament! GWX has a habit of making you think twice. It is that one time you do not think twice and bam....fish food;). I have had two careers so far. First career I made 3 patrols, second career I made 2 patrols. My life insurance carrier has dropped me;). I'm on my third career on my first patrol....here goes nothing!

[Albrecht Von Hesse]

So far I seem to be doing OK. Driving a Type VIIB (84% realism; I can't get away from having the external camera on; I'm a screenie-junkie --grins-- and GWX has soooo much to look at and admire!), on my 4th patrol during January 1941. I've around 130,000 tonnes so far.

I've had several hair-raising encounters, and some tense moments (hours actually) evading escorts. I'm very deliberate on how I make approaches now, fine-tuning depth, speed, approach angles, vectors and positions. I'm even more cautious when the bottom is shallow (less than 120 meters for me I now consider shallow :p ).

The end of my third patrol was awesome: less than 300 km from St. Nazaire and I encountered --and sank-- a S-class sub!

I'll be posting screenies of this when I get home, but the 2nd day of my fourth patrol was astounding. Again we spotted a sub, but this time it was a Type VIIC U-boat . . . attacking a convoy I then discovered! And not just one U-boat, but three! By the time we were done, the entire convoy was littering the bottom.

I don't expect it to stay that easy though! :p ;)

The deck gun seems to be tweaked to give a very good blend between realistic reloading time and damage, although it does seem at times as if it's a bit too easy to whack the larger ships. I've noticed two really awesome effects with the deck gun though. The first is that, sometimes when I hit the hull (I'm aiming for the waterline but at times the shot does go high) there is the primary explosion of the round against the hull, then a secondary one: sometimes external and sometimes seemingly internal. The second effect I've noticed happened while we were gleefully sharking our way through the unescorted convoy minnows. I'd shelled a large merchant with about 12 rounds, then left it to pursue the slowly fleeing ones. I wasn't worried about the large merchant getting away, as I was sure I'd crippled it. It was listing, and on fire. About 30 - 60 seconds after my last round hit, with no warning at all, it suddenly erupted into a huge fireball, rocked by several massive explosions! :D

So far I've found the escorts to be more of a nuisance than a danger. Not belittling them by any means! They sure can kill you if you're not careful. It's just (again, so far) it's been more of a case of, 'Sheisse, they've twigged onto us' and spending 30 minutes to several hours with them playing cat-and-mouse with me before I manage to disengage and creep away. With the concurrent frustration of losing contact with the convoy at times.

However, I certainly expect, as time marches on, for things to get a lot hairier then they are right now! :yep:

[fredbass]

The deck gun seems to be tweaked to give a very good blend between realistic reloading time and damage, although it does seem at times as if it's a bit too easy to whack the larger ships.

Yes, you can do more damage with your deck guns in GWX, but when the merchants become armed, you'll be thinking twice about engaging. :know:

[AVGWarhawk]

That is excellent Hesse! I suspect it will get harder and I suspect you might get cocky as you have done well Captain! Time will tell!

[Albrecht Von Hesse]

That is excellent Hesse! I suspect it will get harder and I suspect you might get cocky as you have done well Captain! Time will tell!

Nu-UH!! Ain't no way I'll get cocky. But I'll tell you this much, for certain sure: by the time I get a transfer order back from BdU to be a trainer, I'm not gonna be whining, "Awwww, but I wanna stay at sea on patrols!" :p

Seriously though: right now they are an aggravation and pest, but I don't ever forget that they are also very lethal ones, too. And although my primary duty is to sink the enemy, I also have the important secondary duty to not waste the resource of my boat and crew by being cocky and overconfident.

It only takes one mistake: you seldom, if ever, get a chance to get a second mistake. :dead:

[AVGWarhawk]

True that!!!!! let us know how it goes! Some really did make it back and survived the war....perhaps you are the chosen one!!!:hmm:

[Albrecht Von Hesse]

True that!!!!! let us know how it goes! Some really did make it back and survived the war....perhaps you are the chosen one!!!:hmm:

If I do, it'll be as much a matter of luck as anything else.

Yanno, I think GWX should adopt your siggy "GWX makes me feel like a condemned man....It is just a matter of when...." as their hallmark slogan, AVGWarhawk. That pretty much sums it up perfect! :D :yep:

[Albrecht Von Hesse]

The deck gun seems to be tweaked to give a very good blend between realistic reloading time and damage, although it does seem at times as if it's a bit too easy to whack the larger ships.

Yes, you can do more damage with your deck guns in GWX, but when the merchants become armed, you'll be thinking twice about engaging. :know:

I'm not, by any means, a deck gun junkie. But there are (for now, anyway :p ) certain situations that I feel are appropriate for using it. In the situation I was referring to, there were nine unescorted merchantmen lumbering along at 5 or so knots.

After flushing all five tubes I decided to engage the remainder (and polish off the cripples) with the deck gun while reloading the tubes. The weather was virtually ideal: 4 MPS wind, no fog, no clouds. Since I was only a few days into my patrol, I decided to continue the engagement on the surface with the deck gun even after the tubes were reloaded, in order to save the torps for later in the patrol when conditions wouldn't be so ideal.

I've no plans on engaging any armed ship, of any size, merchant or otherwise, on the surface with either the deck gun or flak cannons. But this was a situation highly unlikely to repeat again, and it seemed the right thing to do.

[fredbass]

The deck gun seems to be tweaked to give a very good blend between realistic reloading time and damage, although it does seem at times as if it's a bit too easy to whack the larger ships.

Yes, you can do more damage with your deck guns in GWX, but when the merchants become armed, you'll be thinking twice about engaging. :know:

I'm not, by any means, a deck gun junkie. But there are (for now, anyway :p ) certain situations that I feel are appropriate for using it. In the situation I was referring to, there were nine unescorted merchantmen lumbering along at 5 or so knots.

After flushing all five tubes I decided to engage the remainder (and polish off the cripples) with the deck gun while reloading the tubes. The weather was virtually ideal: 4 MPS wind, no fog, no clouds. Since I was only a few days into my patrol, I decided to continue the engagement on the surface with the deck gun even after the tubes were reloaded, in order to save the torps for later in the patrol when conditions wouldn't be so ideal.

I've no plans on engaging any armed ship, of any size, merchant or otherwise, on the surface with either the deck gun or flak cannons. But this was a situation highly unlikely to repeat again, and it seemed the right thing to do.

Hey, I wasn't criticizing you. I'd do the same thing. I was just giving you a heads up for later. :up:

[Albrecht Von Hesse]

Hey, I wasn't criticizing you. I'd do the same thing. I was just giving you a heads up for later. :up:

I didn't take it as criticizing, honest. :)

[AndyW]

Yesterday afternoon I run directly into a convoy heading south at 6 to 7 knots between Greenland and far southwest of Iceland.

The weather is the worst of possible: storm, heavy rain, maximum wind. Visibility is 350 meters, diving is not possible because of the DD’s ASDIC and the swelling. No radar.

I gave it a try anyway (“BdU: Be more aggressive”)and zigzag at full speed into the also zigzagging convoy to launch torpedoes on every ship that’s coming in sight. Managed to hit 5 ships and sink 3 of them so far. 3 torps left.

Following observations:

With GWX’s new swelling model it’s impossible to dive & shoot in heavy seas, it has to be done on surface. Guess it’s the best way, though.

The first ship I run into was a medium tanker with a flag unknown to me…Hmmm, I guessed that’s Panama but I wasn’t sure so I pulled down the reference card on the upper left corner…not on it. I checked the flags on the ID book, yep. Panama, now the BIG question: Is Panama in war with me? :hmm: Well, it’s December 1943, I’m in the middle of the Atlantic and in the middle of an enemy convoy and have no-one to ask. With the BdU’s standing order in mind (“Be more aggressive!”) I decided to shoot first and ask later, but during all that, the tanker already vanished in the storm and wasn’t seen again :damn: (I checked later at Google: Panama declared war on Germany on January 16, 1942).

At a visibility of 350 meters max, it’s impossible to aim a target properly, as 300 meters is too short and at 350 they are out of sight. All I can do is to preset the torpedoes for a 90 degree shot with 5 or 6 meters running depth and contact fuse. As soon as I hear them I try to get them in a position somewhat perpendicular and between 300 and 350 meters and fire away. It’s a hell of manoeuvring work going on, and for every single merchant you can hit you’ll loose contact with two others in the storm.


While I’m running blind on surface with flank speed like a grey wolf in the enemy flock of sheep, I can hear the DD’s launching their depth charges, spooky. Suddenly a DD is crossing my way from starboard at 300 meters: full rudder starboard, engine flan backwards! Enemy DD also turns towards me, and with the rest of my forward momentum I crush into him, better: I touch him before my boat is going backwards. I thought that’s it, but not much damage, hull still O.K., the DD vanishes in the storm, but a second DD on 120 degrees! Hard rudder, flank ahead, I’m showing him my aft, he turn towards me, shoots, but after 15 seconds I can’t see him any more in the storm. Survived so far!


This is one of my most intense battles I had with SH so far. You don’t know where the enemy is, you don’t know if you are running in the wrong direction, you don’t know if that ship coming up 350 meters away is a destroyer running to you or a huge fat tanker. You don’t know if the torpedoes you shot from the hip at point blank will hit or not, or if you are below the 300 meter range. You hear the cargo ships in the storm before you see them, you hear the DD’s throwing their depth charges and you hear them explode and you are in the middle of it struggling with the storm just like they do.

Very intense fight, thanks to GWX. :up:

Cheers,
AndyW

currently U-792 König, 1st patrol 12/1943 [SH3 + GWX 1.0 @ 84% realism]
Total: 10 careers, 40th sailing, 856 days at sea, 544,474 tons sunk

[johan_d]

I love the storms.. perfect cover, only no use of the deckgun.

But I am just in april 1940, 6th patrol, but being very cautious. No heroic deeds, I am planning to survive the war after all. So is my crew.

Maybe I am to cautious, on average 30.000 tons sunk per patrol, and I am happy with it. Avoiding shallow waters, DD's and planes as the plague.

No sign of the luftwaffe yet, where are they!!

Anyhow, great fun with GWX!

[mookiemookie]

No sign of the luftwaffe yet, where are they!!


"Our patrol planes! Where are they? Answer that one, Herr Goering! The British have plenty of them! Talking big is all he's good for, that fat slob."

See, if you're asking that question, that means GWX is accurate! ;)

[ReallyDedPoet]

GWX forces you to be better in everything you do, or you die.

[AVGWarhawk]

GWX forces you to be better in everything you do, or you die.

Ah yes, well put!!!:up: The days of blazing into the mucho tonnage, dropping your pants at the DD are now over. Now, isn't more challenging and a little more real? I think so!

Uboat.net spells it out quite clearly....most went out on 2-3 patrols and never returned...generally starting around the end of 1942. IMHO, clearly the warships are as they should be. Is it impossible to sink tonnage, nope, looks like plenty are sinking ships and making several partrols....they are just earning their sinkings!!!!! It is a wonderful feeling being successful against a convoy and I love blasting the gramaphone now on the way home and damn it I motor all the way in to the awaiting nurses!!!!:up: Yeah, my wife thinks I'm nuts but when I hit port guess who the girl in the brothel gets to be!!!!:o

[AVGWarhawk]

True that!!!!! let us know how it goes! Some really did make it back and survived the war....perhaps you are the chosen one!!!:hmm:
If I do, it'll be as much a matter of luck as anything else.

Yanno, I think GWX should adopt your siggy "GWX makes me feel like a condemned man....It is just a matter of when...." as their hallmark slogan, AVGWarhawk. That pretty much sums it up perfect! :D :yep:

Well, it is just the way I feel about when it comes to game play with GWX and I suspect the real u-boatmen felt the same way after 1942. It is only a matter of time.....:oops:

[ReallyDedPoet]

AVGWarhawk: My wife shakes her head at me as well for the amount of time I spend playing the game. Your Brothel idea gives me an idea on how I could involve her more. It will make those 2-3 month patrols much easier now!

[AVGWarhawk]

AVGWarhawk: My wife shakes her head at me as well for the amount of time I spend playing the game. Your Brothel idea gives me an idea on how I could involve her more. It will make those 2-3 month patrols much easier now!

HEHE;)

[IceGrog]

My first, or I should say my second GWX career, my first is a 1x and I’m not out of the bay, well my first taste of GWX battle mission (early 1940) I was heading down south from the St. Nazaire base and I received a message saying there was a large slow moving convoy heading out from England. I thought I could race up there and get in front of it when I ran into a medium size loner transport. I took it out with the deck gun, wanted to save my fish for the convoy, after sinking this one I started back to intercept the convoy when I was given more info on another ship, in my greed I took off after it. I knew I was getting a little too close to British waters but I proceeded anyway. Suddenly there was a destroyer chasing after me, I dove down to 100m and can go no deeper, haven’t able to loose him, and he’s not wasting his depth charges, it seems he only drops them when he’s right on the target. As I was trying to loose this guy, my soundman informed me that another warship was approaching, crapppppppp! I had to use my camera to see what was going to be my outcome. The new warship was a PT boat, a little speed demon, now when I run out of air I don’t think I’ll be able to come up and out maneuver the both of them. My time is running out!

I made it, can’t believe it. I kept zigzagging and I guess the Destroyer ran out of ammo, so I started to slowly rise to make sure and he didn’t drop any more. The little torpedo boat was taking side trips to where, I don’t know, so I timed my rise to periscope depth when he was gone. My attack scope was damage so I had to use the other scope, he was coming right at me 2000m. I waited until he was within the 1900m range, using the manual gauging, I sent one fish straight at him knowing he would turn from it, he turned to my starboard, I sent an another fish about 5 degrees to his port, then another one to his starboard, he avoided them all……………in my desperation I made a hard turn to my starboard side and fired my rear torpedo,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, on my! This one made a lazy horseshoe turn and got him amidships. Down he went and his little friend came back, but I guess he didn’t have the underwater eyes his big brother did, so after a while he took off. WewWWWWWWWWWW :sunny: so what if it was a lucky shot

[AVGWarhawk]

:up: Good show! I can never hit those stinking head on torpedo attacks...I just don't got it in me:cry:

[TriskettheKid]

I've had GWX only a few days now, but already I've got tons of "Why me, GWX?" moments.

My favorite was in an attempt to sneak into Loch Ewe (my favorite port to hit) in mid-1940. I had the unlucky disposition of being tracked by 2 DDs, 1 Armed Trawler, and a freaking PT boat. Luckily enough, by varying my depth, speed, and direction, I was able to hold out on the DDs and AT until they ran out of DCs.

So, I thought things were going good...until I noticed that they were circling and pinging me, just to harass me. So, I decide I'm not going to take it anymore. I raise up my periscope to gadge the shots I'd need to make. It was hard. The DDs and AT rarely got further away than 250m, and were only in front of my fore and aft tubes for a second, at best. As I'm juding angles, BOOM! My scope's damaged. I can no longer use it. So I switch to observation periscope, but only raise it up enough so that I can make out the headings.

I set up a shot with 000 gyroangle, set my fish in tube 1 to run at just under 3m, magnetic piston, fast speed. I wait and then let it loose just as the DD slices through the water in front of me. BOOM! He snapped in half!

This obviously ticks off the other ships circling me, so they start to ping me every minute. I set up a similar shot, this time for the AT, so I set the depth at just under 4m. I cross my fingers and flood the tube, watching for him in my scope (which at this point I've raised slightly more, still under the surface of the water, but high enough to peak through in the troughs. FIRE! BOOM! AT goes up in a giant blast.

The 2nd and final DD was the problem, now. It was, for whatever reason, coming directly at me from my aft, from about 800m away. I quickly set up my aft tube to fire at around 3m, slow speed, magnetic piston. I raise my scope up some more to make sure, and then CRACK! My obs periscope is knocked out, too. I finish setting up my shot, flood tube 5, and fire.

BOOM! The DD is hit, catches fire, and then goes up in a giant explosion as one of it's ammo bunkers explodes.

Wish I'd taken screenies of that. GWX sure hasn't disappointed yet. Was killed on my next patrol from a collision.

[AVGWarhawk]

Trisket...I love it...."A GWX Moment". Your ending to this patrol is like Das Boot, the poor guys get home and killed by aircraft gun fire at their own docks. All the crap they went through to end like that:o. Your collision on patrol #2 reminds me of that....not to glorious an end to a brilliant career:cry:

[Jimbuna]

Pray tell kaleun...what did you have the misfortune to collide with ? :hmm:

[TriskettheKid]

Pray tell kaleun...what did you have the misfortune to collide with ? :hmm:

I haven't the slightest idea. I mean, I have an idea, but I have no idea why it happened.

I was in the middle of getting DCed by some more DDs on my way in to Scapa. They caught me pretty far out, in an area where it was about 213m to the sea floor. Knowing the limits of my sub, and the limits of the mid-1940 DDs and their DCs, I made the decision to "bottom" my boat.

I ran silent, changing course, until I was about 2m from the sea floor, which was about 216m down at that point.

So I lower my speed to 1 knot as I lower my U-boat the final few meters to the sea floor. All the while, 2 more DDs have joined the search, and have DCed me. No problems yet, most either miss me, or are far too shallow. Once my Nav tells me that we're 0m from the sea floor, I call all engines stop.

So there I sit, on the sea floor, waiting for the DDs to give up. At this point, they can't see me, they're not even pinging me. Two have cut off and the remaining two were still DCing the area.

I sped up the TC to that things would hurry up (sometimes it's a real bore waiting 5+ hours for those things to give up).

Then, for no reason whatsoever, I get the death message. Not from flooding, not from anything. No. I was told I had collided with something...despite my U-boat not moving an inch.

[AVGWarhawk]

Sounds like the TC got you. The bottoming of boats can be tricky from what I hear...even at a dead stop.

[Jimbuna]

It's possible you suffered structural damage prior during the depth charge attack and were pretty close to the corresponding crush level....hitting the sea bed even ever so slightly might have just 'tipped the scales' :hmm:

[Albrecht Von Hesse]

It's even possible you did collide with the bottom. It does rise and fall, after all, and you might have had the misfortune of running into the bottom as it started to rise.

[TriskettheKid]

It's even possible you did collide with the bottom. It does rise and fall, after all, and you might have had the misfortune of running into the bottom as it started to rise.

Nah, I "cheated" by using my external view to guide it in. The area around me was flat, no sudden rises or mountains in my way.

The boat wasn't moving up or down, either, it stayed right where I wanted, once the whole buoyancy issue was worked out. I even had my men laid out in a way so that neither fore nor aft was heavier to the point of tipping down.

The boat had no forward momentum, either.

What COULD have happened, and this is pure conjecture, is that I was hit by one of the DDs as it sank. I've seen it quite a few times where they a DC explodes too close to the ship and it ends up sinking. What I think could have happened is just that: one of the DDs was DCing me, one went off near the surface, causing the DD to sink. The sinking wreck could be what collided with me.

I'm not certain that happened, though. I was currently going over my maps, figuring out a course away, when I got the message. Had I been using the external view, I might have seen what got me.