Sinking Fast
01-09-07, 01:45 AM
Well I’m not dead yet. For those of you that have followed my newbie adventures you know that I spent a lot’s of renown on a IXB that doesn’t have the range…Stupid. So I reloaded before I upgraded. I really like the VIIC but can’t get the Caribbean out of my mind. This is the first patrol in my new IXC.
After I sailed I noticed that Curacao was green and wondered why. Half way across the pond I realized America had not entered the war and I was sailing toward neutrals. Reverse course….stupid.
After getting back to my VIIC hunting grounds I was attacked by a PT boat. The F key is for flak and PT boat killing. You’d have thought I have noticed that I didn’t have a 37mm on this boat before I left port…Dive stupid. One wounded.
The weather now stinks. I can see less than 400m. I’m doing my normal bad weather chase. I got a sound contact, surface, full speed, dive to make sound contact again, over and over to close the range. First time it’s a C3 making 8 knots no wonder it took forever to catch him. Well he can’t hit me with that bow gun if I’m directly behind him. I’ve got to slow him down. One fish 1m below his stern and this time it works, 3knots. I dive and put another fish in his side. Not stupid enough, yet…..
Well it worked once. This is what happened next. Did I mention I’m tired of putting the watch officer up every time I surface only to dive again. Did I mention the target is moving slow and I’m now going flank instead of full. Nav chart, gee that guy looks close I should be able to see him. UZO gee that weather looks different kind of like nothing but metal. Bridge @#%! Back Emergency! Impact Sir we are taking damage. OK we are still afloat. Ahead slow, rudder full to port. Range 50m Sir, ship engaging us. I didn’t know they could depress that gun that far. They don’t miss at that range. More damage. Ahead flank, dive. More damage. Well the stern tubes still work. Fire 5. It explodes in the rough water before it gets there. I didn’t set it below the rough seas. Fire 6. Goodbye. Did I mention I never saw the flag but on the chart the sunk ship is green. I just rammed and sunk a neutral. The hull has only 44% left and I haven’t even seen a DD. Now that’s stupid.
Sinking Fast
After I sailed I noticed that Curacao was green and wondered why. Half way across the pond I realized America had not entered the war and I was sailing toward neutrals. Reverse course….stupid.
After getting back to my VIIC hunting grounds I was attacked by a PT boat. The F key is for flak and PT boat killing. You’d have thought I have noticed that I didn’t have a 37mm on this boat before I left port…Dive stupid. One wounded.
The weather now stinks. I can see less than 400m. I’m doing my normal bad weather chase. I got a sound contact, surface, full speed, dive to make sound contact again, over and over to close the range. First time it’s a C3 making 8 knots no wonder it took forever to catch him. Well he can’t hit me with that bow gun if I’m directly behind him. I’ve got to slow him down. One fish 1m below his stern and this time it works, 3knots. I dive and put another fish in his side. Not stupid enough, yet…..
Well it worked once. This is what happened next. Did I mention I’m tired of putting the watch officer up every time I surface only to dive again. Did I mention the target is moving slow and I’m now going flank instead of full. Nav chart, gee that guy looks close I should be able to see him. UZO gee that weather looks different kind of like nothing but metal. Bridge @#%! Back Emergency! Impact Sir we are taking damage. OK we are still afloat. Ahead slow, rudder full to port. Range 50m Sir, ship engaging us. I didn’t know they could depress that gun that far. They don’t miss at that range. More damage. Ahead flank, dive. More damage. Well the stern tubes still work. Fire 5. It explodes in the rough water before it gets there. I didn’t set it below the rough seas. Fire 6. Goodbye. Did I mention I never saw the flag but on the chart the sunk ship is green. I just rammed and sunk a neutral. The hull has only 44% left and I haven’t even seen a DD. Now that’s stupid.
Sinking Fast