From Grrr to Eternity

[Brag]

Awright Kaleuns, time to post your most agravating moment not involving Bernard. Here's Mine:

March 1940. 8th day of patrol out of Lorient. No ships, no sound contacts. Smooth seas going to waste for my gunners.

Report of warship heading SE. I see that if it remains on course I can intercept. Zoom at 16 knots, arrive at intercept point. Within an hour: sound contact. A few minutes later, we sight a destroyer. Clear the bridge! Down to PD. Seas are smooth one hour before sunset.

Periscope reveals a task force. DDs all over the place. Revenge and Rodney heading straight for me. I penetrate destroyer screen undetected but can't maneuver to favorable firing position (AOB 10 degrees).

Fire two magnetics at Rodney from 400 meters. No explosions.

No one pays attention to my murderous intent. Rodney and Revenge sail by 200 meters on each side of me.

What can I say. Wish them a bon voyage? :damn: :damn:
At least got a couple of screenies of the mighty battleships, will send them to Uncle Karl for his birthday.

[Mush Martin]

I dont have a specific one all of my most aggravating moments are
CTD's.
MM

[AnthonyKennethDonaldCalve]

All my moments stem from my absolute ineptitude. Being a new skipper, as soon as i catch wind of any destroyer i send my sub hurtling down to the depths. This tactic may sound fine, and it would be...but for the fact that in my panic, I always forget to take a depth sounding. On my last voyage i hammered the sub into the sea floor no leass than four times and no slower than 5 knotts! Half my crew were injured. the other half were working like almighty to patch up the sub and sort the flooding out.


Luckily i have not yet lost the sub and am on my third voyage, but I swear that in the 3-d views within the sub, the survivng crew all regularly turn to face me and scowl. I fear mutiny is a-foot mr Christian..Mutiny...:huh:

[Sheerin]

Most frustrating, non-Bernard inducded moment would be the time I was able to sneak past the destroyer screen of a convoy with three fat and juicy T3's and 2 Liners. In spite of the horrible conditions (15 m/s wind, rain, slight fog and twilight) i was able to get myself into perfect condition. I lined up my shot for my electrics to hit around the engine compartment of two of the T3s and two torpedoes for one of the liners, after wating a few moments I fired my torpedoes.

I watched with great anicpation as each of the torpedoes move closer and closer to their target, and with just over 10 seconds to go on each of the torpedoes I watched with great exasperation as all four of them prematurely detonated. Aghast with my bad luck I ordered a quick dive to 140 metres and slowly inched away from the convoy. It was at around that point I realised that I forgot to set the torpedos to impact pistol.

I seriously kicked myself in the ass for that one....

[_Seth_]

Welcome to subsim, Anthony! :up: (Long name you got there, matey!)

[robj250]

Welcome to subsim Anthony.
Yep, I've had a lot of goofs as well, but for the life of me I can't (don't) remember them :damn:
Rob

[High Voltage]

middle of Convoy..Battleship and a small destroyer on either side of me..palms sweating...all measurements and settings checked and rechecked...900m away..700m..500.."LOS!", swing periscope around "LOS!", and fire a salvo of 4 torps at the destroyer and 1 measly eel at the battleship (all at gyro settings of 180 degrees to boot) :88):88)
I blame a strong sudden current for having swung my sub around end-to-end without the crew having realized..

[AnthonyKennethDonaldCalve]

Thankyou for the welcome, excellent sim, helpful and intelligent community, needless to say my new wife is becoming a little peeved at the amount of my time it swallows...