Who else is holding up the honour of the U-Boats?

[Genferret]

U-21 (Type IIA) setting sail on Sep 1, 1939.

U-45 (Type VIIB of my last campaign) met her untimely demise when she got too close to Dunkirk during Operation Dynamo.

[Genferret]

U-21 (Type IIA) setting sail on Sep 1, 1939.

U-45 (Type VIIB of my last campaign) met her untimely demise when she got too close to Dunkirk during Operation Dynamo.

Well, that was amongst my shortest careers ever.

Lesson learned, don't accidentally hit the crash dive key whilst in the Kiel Canal. :doh:

Altho on one hand it was somewhat amusing to watch my boat do a bucking bronco like maneuver of bouncing first the front and then the rear of the boat off the bottom over and over again, the salvage crew expects it to be about a week before traffic will be able to traverse the canal again due to the stream of wreckage I left behind of what was parts of my boat. BdU was not amused by my story at all, however, and I've been put on permanent latrine duties. :88)

Guess I'll start a new career tomorrow. Probably go back to the VIIB. Quite like that boat I do after further trips with it. I used to race to get a IX, but I think for now on unless I transfer somewhere going super long distances I'll stick with the VII.

[capt-jones]

:up: ahoy shipmates capt-jones back aboard u-48(i think) gonna start a new carrier -gwx 103 been across the pond had a go of sh4 for two days and im head shot :yep: yes same old probs as sh3 all them years ago, dont ubi learn anything :rotfl: i even disabled the intros and the umark (uboat marker) the same way as sh3 :-? im a sailor not a modder, so sh4 will be on the shelf for a while unless i fancy a scenic cruise of the paciffic,thats about the best of it the nice scenary :rotfl: at the moment, i cant wait for the gwx team too get thier hands on it, and convert it back for our trusty uboats:know:

[Brag]

Welcome back to the fray. Bernard is happy to see you again! :rotfl: :rotfl:

[STEED]

U-46 Still having a bad month this time a bloody Type II torp blew up near my bow and destroyed two of bow tubes. :damn:

I hate September 1940. :damn:



And now news from October 1940 which got off to a good start sinking one medium cargo ship while being shot at by a destroyer, slipped away with paint damage only.

Late October 1940 on patrol in BE99 two large cargo and a tramp steamer now at the bottom of the sea, heading south to see if I can pick off any more.

[Brag]

28 Oct. 1941
U-123
200 Kms WNW of Gibraltar. Just been attacked by aircraft at NIGHT. No casualties, no damage. :o

[fair_weather]

U-4 Type IID 4th Patrol, eve of 1940.
Just sank my first DD...sunk her with one...broke her in half with two :arrgh!:
Sank 3 ships that patrol, 1 Merch, 1 DD and an Armed trawler...thingy...

All torps hit home.:up:

Onto Patrol 5 and 1940

[Kpt. Lehmann]

To answer the first post...

The GWX dev team and crew have not forgotten the U-boats.

We still have work to do.:arrgh!:

[Brag]

To answer the first post...

The GWX dev team and crew have not forgotten the U-boats.

We still have work to do.:arrgh!:

Heil to the GWX devs!!! :D

[STEED]

U-46 now back home with moderate damage only sunk one more ship a small merchant. Had a run in with a Town Class Destroyer on the way home.

[unterseemann]

U-110 report-11 avril 1941
Patrol 1: 102.170 tons
Patrol 2: After 14 days we sank 3 merchants ships west of gibraltar...we have a video of it. Take a look! Sorry it's in french so if there's something you don't understand, ask me i'll try to answer!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMxjKTPXTaM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOucdr3OomI

[GreyOctober]

Oblt. z. S. Lukas Jungman
2nd Fleet / Type VIIB / Patrol 2
Reporting 20 nm west off the coast of Ireland enroute to BF13
Oct 19, 1939

Calm seas, provisions good (were out of fresh fruit), morale high, diesel down to 55%
Sunk 5 merchants totalling roughly 13500 tons (3 British and 2 French)
Other events:
Attempted to infiltrate Channel at night..failed and was pushed back. Took the northern route by Scapa Flow.
Raided by air defences 3 times and depthcharged. No damage, no casualties.

All good til now. God help us!

[Brag]

U-110 report-11 avril 1941
Patrol 1: 102.170 tons
Patrol 2: After 14 days we sank 3 merchants ships west of gibraltar...we have a video of it. Take a look! Sorry it's in french so if there's something you don't understand, ask me i'll try to answer!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMxjKTPXTaM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOucdr3OomI

Tres bien fait!
Well done!:up:

[unterseemann]

Thanks Brag! It's one of my best moment in sh3! I have ever met 'illustrious' one time but failed to sink it (21knots it's really fast :o). So this time when i launch my torpedoes (tubes 1,2,3,4 electric torps) i said '****! they will miss it' ( in french: "et merde! ça a foiré!" ) so i quickly prepare tube 5 and 6 for aft shot and... and i hear this loud explosion! followed by 3 others!
What i like mostly is that i never see him sinking, i heard sounds with hydrophons as i tried to escape escorts! But i was doubtless about his fate!
It was as if i were Von Tiesenhausen with Barham sinking! cool...
If i had failed to sink it, it would be in the video too! I just try to show what happen to me, the good ( illustrious) and the bad (the 5 torpedoes for the C2!). For the part 3 i will try to make it in english!

[Brag]

30 Oct. 1941
U-123
CG 83 WNW of Gibraltar. weather calm, scattered strato-cumulous clouds

17 Freighters sunk. Total tonnage 10041K
Remaining torpedoes 7
(long patrol, heavy enemy air activity)

[gord96]

after the loss of U-47 (VIIB) I am now sailing with a new boat in October 1940. It is U-107, a IXB. On first patrol with a very green crew. Have sunk 44000 tons so far and still have 13 fish left. First time in a IX boat and I love the amount of torpedoes they carry. :up:

[Telgriff]

After the loss of the VIIB and all its crew, I have set forth from Lorient in August '40 bound for CF84 in my new IXB, which has yet to be given a name, it must EARN a name! So far, I am loving the IXB, handles pretty well.

[Brag]

after the loss of U-47 (VIIB) I am now sailing with a new boat in October 1940. It is U-107, a IXB. On first patrol with a very green crew. Have sunk 44000 tons so far and still have 13 fish left. First time in a IX boat and I love the amount of torpedoes they carry. :up:

Welcome to your new life!:up:

31 Oct 1941 , U 123
I'm about to start heading back to Lorient. Sank 18 Freighters, 1 destroyer. Still have 4 torpedoes left. The IXB can create a real ship's boneyard. :smug:

[firouz]

Sadly U179 sank in the mid Atlantic during its 5th (and final) cruise. Hull failed due to previous damage while escaping being Depth Charged by three destroyers, who saw the IXD2 rather too soon :dead:


U48 Type VIIB now on patrol 2 (October 1939), off Scarpa Flow, heading for the Altantic. Very good first patrol through the English Channel & back. 12 Merchants sunk - even obeying Bdu's endless radio instructions. :damn:
Crew learning fast. Commander learning faster :88)

[Der Schatten]

U-53 still here.
Type VII, out of St.Nazaire, 5th patroll.
Got my first Liner last patrol, lucky shot on a foggy night.
Good crew, good boat, what more does a Kaleun need?

[Lzs von swe]

Mar 2, -43. U-24, IId, 30th/33rd Flot docked in Constanza after her 5th patrol.
One Russian Hurricane downed, U-24 got the new conning tower and sports two flakzwillings now, two other Hurries crashed into the see. Russian pilots, bah:rock:
On Feb 23rd, 2300 hours, U-24 sailed decks awash straight into a convoy on collision course. Sank a troop transport, 7000+ t. Got away with some 54% hi.
On the 26th, 0400 hours U-24 attacked an liner in another convoy, but this time all three torps missed. The escorts picked us up on sonar and the convoy started zigzagging just before impact:damn: The Dd´s dropped so many cans on us I thought the boat would roll, held on to my desk:rock: The boat will need some repairs and the crew some rest before going after the Russians again:up:

[STEED]

U-45 joins my little fleet and she had a great third patrol Dec39 sinking four large cargo ships and two medium cargo along with one passenger/cargo.

U-47 is on shore leave.

[Brag]

Grand reports, chaps! With commanders like you, we're winning the war. Big celebration in the works :up: :up: :up: :up:

[hobnailboot]

U5, Type II AN56
I am determined to get this manural torpedo stuff right if it kills me...which it might:-? Anyway...in mid patrol, weather and visability is bad, 400 mtr visability. So far got one tramp steamer after 2 misses and one hit. One more ship and then back to Kiel for a beer.

[Brag]

8 Nov. 1941
Just returned to Lorient from 8th GWX patrol.
20 ships sunk. Total tonnage 112,575 tons. 18 torpedos used. :smug: 3 torpedoes left.

3 ships sunk with deck gun

Drinks are on me!!!! :D

[Umfuld]

U-33 out of Kiel in late 1940. Kicking cargo butt and taking names.

Not wanting to spend $200 or so for the game and to upgrade for SH4, safe to say I'll be around the Atlantic for awhile. Until I get sunk/the war ends, that is. :arrgh!:

[AndyW]

Radio message to BdU:

"8 May 1944, 0207 Zulu. U-972 reporting in from the Irish Sea. Cloudy, light fog and wind 15 from 217 degrees. On the way back to Lorient from AM66 (Solvay Firth / Northern Irish Sea). Three destroyers, four small cargo, 2 hrs depth charges. 12,375 tons, 4 torpedos left, hull 86%. Heavy air coverage during day and nights, can't run on surface. Batteries low."

Cheers,

[Brag]

25 December 1941, 1530 hrs,
U-123 departed Lorient for patrol area off Casablanca. Even with hangovers, we know the war has taken a nasty turn with the American entry into the war. But that means more targets to sink :arrgh!:

[Morts]

U-87 (jan. 1940)
returning back to willyshaven (:rotfl: )
hull badly damaged by 7 direct bomb hits and 11 close bombs
attacked by 10 patrols of swordfish...that means 20 planes
and in one of the attacks i was jumped by 4 patrols (8 planes) of swordfish

[Brag]

U-87 (jan. 1940)
returning back to willyshaven (:rotfl: )
hull badly damaged by 7 direct bomb hits and 11 close bombs
attacked by 10 patrols of swordfish...that means 20 planes
and in one of the attacks i was jumped by 4 patrols (8 planes) of swordfish

When we said you needed a shower, we didn't mean bombs. :roll:

[Morts]

U-87 (jan. 1940)
returning back to willyshaven (:rotfl: )
hull badly damaged by 7 direct bomb hits and 11 close bombs
attacked by 10 patrols of swordfish...that means 20 planes
and in one of the attacks i was jumped by 4 patrols (8 planes) of swordfish

When we said you needed a shower, we didn't mean bombs. :roll:

:rotfl: :rotfl:

well i sunk 20 ships for 84000 tons and gunned down 1 swordfish:arrgh!:
and lost 5 crew members:-?

[Jan Kyster]

November 22, 1940.
U-33 back in Lorient.

Went for patrolgrid CG87 on Nov 7, gunned down 4 ships on the way.
Had an intercept Nov 12 with what RA called "Warship", but what turned out to be a british taskforce :o

Came as close as 4400m to HMS Rodney
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u31/janoch/Rodney.jpg

Emptied all four tubes, all missed, but one took out a small Tribal on the far side of the TF. Sigh. Went north.

2000 km later and nothing! In BE31 got a report of large, slow convoy. Intercepted 12 hours later well ahead of it. Saw no other warships than an old Southhampton and a Flower Class. Targeted 4 large cargo - and all hell broke loose. At least 5 destroyers came racing down and we were forced deeper than we've been before. And now SO reports long distance contacts moving very fast and closing from NW and SE... SE report was a task force... Swordfish now everywhere... Spend 3 hours evading hundreds of DC's... Shaked and stirred, but undamaged. Close to disaster as one of the cargos going down almost sucked us with it :o

6 cargos and that lousy Tribal, 36770 ton.

1 year and 1 month after U-33's first warpatrol, we have now been 201 days at sea and are going for a 3 months leave. Boat and crew are fine, but exhausted.

Kaleu Janus Küster.

[Brag]

Well done, Mate!
You deserve a rest :up:

[Brag]

Bleah!
After a 4 day sunny transit to the Gib approaches, moved to intercept convoy. Rain started pelting as i crept into position. Saw nothing, wasted 3 torpedoes. Should have stayed at the party :nope:

[Lzs von swe]

Jan29´th -41. U-46, VIIb, 7´th Flot.
Docked at Bessel in Vigo. 75% diesel left but only two torps, in the aft tube and one reserve. 2 weeks into the 11´th patrol, second out of St:Nazaire, and already out of torpedos, have fired two at every target to make sure they would go down.
The weather has been to rough to use the deck gun.

We will drink tonight:()1: , sleep till noon tomorrow, and then go hunting again:arrgh!:

[STEED]

Two new U-Boats Type VIIC U71 and U72 Both crews glad for the extra speed now, as they say good bye to there VII/B's

U71 Jan/ Feb 1941 no kills just rotten weather. March 1941 one medium merchant.

U72 Had a great month in Feb 1941 intercepted medium convoy west of Spain heading to wards the med. AI wolf pact must have picked off some of the escorts. Three large cargo's one medium cargo and one passenger/cargo. Slipped one destroyer to safety no damage.

[Brag]

U-123 suffered hardware problems and CTD. Stuck in port UFN. Leaving Giselle's Bistro only to wave you guys off and wish you good hunting. :damn:

[Brag]

Seems that I might be able to get another boat and join the fray. Took one out for a short test (single mission) and everything appeared normal. Having trouble with BDU giving me a new career boat. :roll:

[Brag]

Wilhelshaven, October 1939. U-46 ready for sea. :up:

[hobnailboot]

Sept 39
Left the kiel canal behind, the crew of the U4 are wondering why we have had all leave cancelled....oh well just another exercise. Bernard has blocked the toilet once again and half the crew are seasick.

[svenks]

U-53, october 1940, 2nd patrol in this career (previous career ended rather abrubtly in too shallow water, with 5(!) DD's as executors).

N of ireland, having sunk 2 largs tankers in a largish convoy. Now doing the old "end-around", having reserved my last 4 fish for HMS Revenge sailing in the middle of that same convoy! I have hit her once, barely missing her with another fish. She didn't even slow down!

BRGDS
Sven

[Kpt. Lehmann]

U-53, october 1940, 2nd patrol in this career (previous career ended rather abrubtly in too shallow water, with 5(!) DD's as executors).

N of ireland, having sunk 2 largs tankers in a largish convoy. Now doing the old "end-around", having reserved my last 4 fish for HMS Revenge sailing in the middle of that same convoy! I have hit her once, barely missing her with another fish. She didn't even slow down!

BRGDS
Sven

Some battleships should be able to take multiple hits and keep on truckin'

[HunterICX]

U-53, october 1940, 2nd patrol in this career (previous career ended rather abrubtly in too shallow water, with 5(!) DD's as executors).

N of ireland, having sunk 2 largs tankers in a largish convoy. Now doing the old "end-around", having reserved my last 4 fish for HMS Revenge sailing in the middle of that same convoy! I have hit her once, barely missing her with another fish. She didn't even slow down!

BRGDS
Sven

Some battleships should be able to take multiple hits and keep on truckin'

also while having the convoy in sight, you should see or hear the BB sailing in it
If you had spotted the BB earlier, you shouldnt have wasted the torps on the merchants, focus on the BB, the BB is your target, the BB is a Threat for germany the BB has lots of tonnage and renown for ya
so Fire all 4 tubes on him!:arrgh!:

[danlisa]

.....the BB is your target, the BB has lots of tonnage and renown for ya
so Fire all 4 tubes on him!:arrgh!:

Then come about and give him the other 2.:88):arrgh!:

[melnibonian]

.....the BB is your target, the BB has lots of tonnage and renown for ya
so Fire all 4 tubes on him!:arrgh!:

Then come about and give him the other 2.:88):arrgh!:
...While you're reloading the original 4 ones ;) :arrgh!:

[Umfuld]

I put 4 torps into one of those convoy battleships and she kept on sailing. Caught up about 50kms later and although trailing the convoy by about 5000m she was still making 6knots with 4 holes.

I finished the job with 3 more hits. Tough ships.

[Brag]

Good job! Tommy hurts when you sink their capital ships :up:

[STEED]

U-71 blows the hell out of grid BF41 by ripping the guts out of a outbound convoy, all ells and shells used. Late March 1941

X3 Large Cargo Ships
X2 Black Swan Ships
X2 Whale Factory Ships
X1 Tramp Steamer Ship

It's party time. :()1:

[svenks]

Hi All,
Seems like my Revenge encounter got some attention, so I guess you better hear the rest of the story.
To begin with, the decision to go for the tankers was done of need: I had miscalculated the time to reach the convoy, and stumbled into it - I was afraid I had been spotted by at least 1 DD. Because of that, I had to crash dive and before I had a chance to come back to periscope depth, the tankers were already going past me (in 2 rows), so I had to take the shot or loose them. Only then did I discover the batteship, in foul weather!

So I did the end-around, but with some difficulty - the convoy changed course, almost 90 degrees!. Anyway, in the end I caught up and got into the convoy. 3 fish reserved for the revenge, 1 in reserve if it wouldn't go down! And what a long wait until the angle was correct...
3 fish gone, 3 hits! But it sailed on! 1 fish from the rear tube then, magnetic even at the risk of a premature detonation.
But no detonation at all - a dud!
And here comes the DD's! Dive deep and reload, as they didn't come close enough to hit anything... But wait! What's that sound? A ship in distress! Sure enough: The Revenge is going down! YAHOO!
Sorry, I didn't get any pictures - it was too dark!

Patrol stats: > 65000. Pretty good, huh?

BRGDS
Sven

[Brag]

U-46
19 October 1939
BF-17

Sank a Revenge class BB inside a convoy. 2 torpedoes left. 5 dud torpedoes out of 14. Returning to Wili. :smug:

(1st GWX 1.03 patrol)

[Lzs von swe]

May 30´th -41, St: Nazaire

U-46 returns to base after an eventful 13´th patrol. Sunk two tankers in an large convoy in BE53 May 18´th. Then, on the 27´th, we found ourselves in the middle of a gun fight between Bismarck and the Royal Navy. We could do nothing to save Bismarck but at least we took revenge by sinking the Rodney and shooting down three Swordfish torpedo planes. Bismarck sank two British cruisers and crippled the Rodney before she went down.


How many U-46 boats are there:hmm: :lol:

[CaptainAsh]

actualy, after all the screenshot of SHIV I saw, my update to a EN7600gt, etc. I had planed to buy SHIV this weekend even if I do have a fascination for atlantic battle.
Hopefully, I read the SHIV forum a lot this two last days. And decide to stay on SH3 for some weeks or months :yep:

[firouz]

6th April 1940. U-48 abandoning assigned patrol and Moving to support invasion of Norway as instructed in secret orders. No sign of any British units. I'll bet they've not given Norway a second thought. Heading for Narvik. It should be a quiet spot. ;)

[down and out]

6th April 1940. U-48 abandoning assigned patrol and Moving to support invasion of Norway as instructed in secret orders. No sign of any British units. I'll bet they've not given Norway a second thought. Heading for Narvik. It should be a quiet spot. ;)

Stay around Narvik till at least the 10th
A couple of Br TF on the 9th and 10th :up:

[unterseemann]

21 may 1941- End of patrol 3 (23 days)
U-110 sank 9 ships (8 merchants and 1 destroyer) for 59339 tons. Back in Lorient without damages.
knight's cross with oak leaves and swords for kapitänleutnant Rösing (total tonnage 216114 tons)
New orders: Grid AK 55 but before...party:rock:

[Brag]

26 November 1939
U-46 (Herr Frosch)

Departed Wili at 1717 hrs. for BF-15. Sorry, forgot to tell Bernard we would depart two hours earlier. :cool:

[Morts]

26 November 1939
U-46 (Herr Frosch)

Departed Wili at 1717 hrs. for BF-15. Sorry, forgot to tell Bernard we would depart two hours earlier. :cool:
oh dont worry
i left with him
ill meet you in BF-15 so you can get him....

cya there:rotfl: ...now...what the...someone ordered crash dive...ping for depth
navigator: depth is 20 meters
oooohhh BERNARD

[Brag]

26 November 1939
U-46 (Herr Frosch)

Departed Wili at 1717 hrs. for BF-15. Sorry, forgot to tell Bernard we would depart two hours earlier. :cool:
oh dont worry
i left with him
ill meet you in BF-15 so you can get him....

cya there:rotfl: ...now...what the...someone ordered crash dive...ping for depth
navigator: depth is 20 meters
oooohhh BERNARD

I'm really looking forward to this :o

[Raus]

26 Sept, 1939.
U-53 reporting in.

Just arrived back home at Kiel under the 7th Flotilla after a 26-day patrol to grid square BF17.

Many convoy reports from other boats on the way out and back home, but all too far to catch up with especially in the foul weather of the North Atlantic. On the way back home around the eastern side of Britain, sunk two small merchants for a total of just under 5,000 tonnes. Decent weather on the way home to Kiel.

We're assigned back out to patrol grid BF17... apparently BdU wants us to try to intercept some convoys comming south from Britian through King George's straight. We'll see how it goes though with the damned weather.

- Leutnant z. S. Johann Beck
U-53, 7th Flotilla. Kiel, Germany.

[STEED]

U-71 has a rotten month in April 41 no kills and chased off more than once. Mid May 41 damaged by Task Force north of Scotland all bow tubes smashed along with a ton of damage limped home, under going repairs.

U-72 claims only a couple of small merchants and a small chemical merchant, what a barren sea it is out there for late April and May 41. Set off to sea again to wards Murmansk should arrive on station for our great offencive against Russia.

[Kongo Otto]

To: Bdu
From: U-46

May 13th,1940
On way to CF95
Light damage after airattack passing the hebrides.
No personal losses
Have torpedoed two Freihters and one Destroyer, all Torpedos duds.
Hat the hell is going on?

[P_Funk]

Just for the hell of it and for some easy torpedo practise, I went back to the torpedo training mission in the naval academy. So there it is, your medium cargo at 1700 meters and a tramp steamer in the foreground at 800. My plan, as always, to fire a spread of 3 at the medium cargo, set it to magnetic pistol and run them under the tramp at more than 2 meters under his draught. Then as he reacts to the torps that will miss him he starts to move and I fire at him with a a single impact pistol.

Well one promlem. I didn't set the salvo of 3 to run at 10 meters, no I left them by mistake at the stock 5. So much to my surprise I have 3 quick explosions on this little tramp. What an explosion! And since he's less than 800 meters away it was so thrilling.

Funny. Naval Academy thrilling.:cool:

[firouz]

Thanks Down & Out :up:

U-48 reached Narvik following first battle having relocated from the Atlantic as instructed. Received intel that a task force was approaching. Estimated a nighttime arrival 12th-13th April 1940 and deployed in ambush on the surface in the deep water of the outer fiord. 0100 hrs observed enemy task force of 10 DD and HMS Nelson headed to Narvik. Closed on surface. Low on ammo due to previous patrol sinkings. Fired final 4 forward steamers at HMS Nelson from 2.5km. Turned away at full speed and crash dived at first impact. Three hits and HMS Nelson dead in the water and sinking :arrgh!: . Dived to 180m and silent. DDs like flies. After an hour they continued with their misson to Narvik leaving U-48 to put a rear T1 into HMS Nelson. Forward Magazine exploded. She went down in seconds. Our first BB:sunny:
Without the fire power the attack on Narvik failed. Avoided the 9 returning DDs. Out of ammo and Bdu ordering us home.

78,000 tons, a Knights Cross and promotion to Kapitenleutnant. Good patrol.

[HM.Medico]

U-63

Fresh out of dry dock

Commencing Depth Tests

I'll be here for a while, don't worry Cap

[STEED]

Bad news U-71 surrenders to a British destroyer in the Med Jan42. :down:

U-72 was going to the Med now stays put in the Atlantic.

[Lzs von swe]

The Med takes it´s toll on our boats. Sad news, STEED:arrgh!:

[STEED]

The Med takes it´s toll on our boats. Sad news, STEED:arrgh!:

Technically I am dead on the surface but with SH3C I changed that. Well that crew were lucky as they now sit it out for the rest of the war as P.O.W's.

[Brag]

U-46
08 December 1940. 0424 hrs. BF14

SenT salvo of 4 torpedoes against HMS Rodney, which was amid a convoy. I torpedo exploded prematurely but other three reached their target in most satisafatory manner. Rodney went down in less than two minutes. :smug:

present tonnage 68,000. 6 torpedoes left.

Data: T-2 elctric torpedoes. sea state light. large moon. Range 2600 meters, salvo spread 1 degree, depth 7 meters.

The gory details:
Had trouble intercepting convoy, which had changed course. Was in lousy flank position but having only a couple of hours of darkness left decided to go in.

While looking for targets spotted Rodney on opposite flank of convoy. But if I accelerated , I could be under 3,000 meters from it's projected course. I decided on a fan shot of 4 with one dgree spread. Just before firing a small freighter got in the way.

I fired once the little one cleared. A few seconds later one of the torps exploded prematurely. I began my dive right away.

The bloody stopwatch did its thing, it stopped. By this time I thought the whole thing would be a miss.

An explosion and "Torpedo treffer"

I thought, it had hit a medium freighter. Then two more explosions and "she's going down"
I topped the game and went to screenie mode. It was the Rodney blowing up. Must have hit a magazine, for even the explosion was short lived just one big bang. In seconds it was over.

I stayed quiet at one knot and the escorts never got close enough .

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-124.
second patrol 10th august 1939.
loch ewe. 8:35.

entered loch ewe surfaced. spotted a destroyer and went to PD.
fired tubes 1 and 2 at the destroyer.
8:40 both torpedoes hit.
8:45 destroyer starts to sink.
9:00 destroyer sunk and continuing to loch ewe harbour.
9:25 Fiji class warship spotted.
9:30 fired 2 torpedoes.
9:35 torpedoes hit bow and stern.
9:36 fires another torpedo.
9:40 torpedo hit in the middle and ship starts to sink.
9:45 want to fire another torpedo but get spotted by incomming destroyer.
9:50 sailed up the Fiji class warship and holds breath for eather danger the ship would sink on top of me or destroyers would DC me.
12:20 destroyers gave up and returned to the harbour.
13:00 firing another torpedo at the Fiji class warship while escaping from loch ewe.
13:05 torpedo hit and Fiji class warshipship sinks.
13:50 out of loch ewe and on to patrol grid AM35.
15:00 got spotted by enemy airplane.
15:05 firing at enemy airplane's who try to bomb me.
15:15 got a direct hit by a bomb and having flooding.
15:17 enemy plane shot down.
15:20 10 enemy airplanes spotted and ordered a emergency dive.
15:30 flooding stopped and repairs done.


15th august 1939.
10:00

reached grid AM35.
11:25 small tanker and coastal merchant spotted.
11:40 into position and firing 1 torpedo at the merchant and 2 at the small tanker.
11:44 torpedo's hit. tanker catches flame's and merchant sinks.
12:00 both ships sunk.

20th august 1939
16:00

almoast out of fuel. heading home.

30th august 1939
01:00

arrived at willemshaven.
crew men died 4
ships sunk 4. 2 warships and 2 merchants.

[gord96]

......

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-143 Type IID heading home from second patrol in August 41. 33000 tons with 6 torps. Little tub of a boat is turning some heads at BdU. All they expected was this little ship to watch the coast. :up:

:o cool.
how did you do that ?

[Kongo Otto]

They didn´t forget Mohr at their List:
http://www.uboat.net/men/aces/top.htm
He is at Pos.17

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

They didn´t forget Mohr at their List:
http://www.uboat.net/men/aces/top.htm
He is at Pos.17
i meanth SH3's list:shifty:
http://img366.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sh3tonnagelistmn0.jpg

[Lzs von swe]

Aug 20 -41, St. Nazaire.
U-46 returns from a long patrol, leaved Jun 30. Bad weather and few contacts. Downed an British Wildcat, or Martlet, west of Portugal on the 4´th of July. Then nothing, no contacts until we were west of the Canaries. Rain, fog, high seas and in the middle of the night and... well, no excuses, it was an American tanker and we sank her:oops: or :arrgh!: BDU was not to happy about that:stare: and it seems we will have to wait for our turn on an VIIc:shifty:

[SmokinTep]

I just started a new campaign last night...............:D

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-124. patrol 3
15 december 1939.
12:21.

leaves kiel to go on a hunt.
13:10. engine problems apear. starboard engine isnt working properly. decide to continue.
13.40 bad weather. dived to periscope deapth. starboard engine repaired.


20 december 1939.

01:00 first enemy contact near scappa flow. a C-3 cargo.
01:30 in position and fire tubes 1 and 2.
01:33 firs torpedo hit. second misses.
01:35 fire tubes 3 and 4.
01:37 both hit and C-3 breaks appart.
01:40 C-3 sank.

21 december 1939.

15:40 enemy aircraft spotted.
15:41 opening fire.
15:45 3 other planes sighted. first one is down.
15:50 4th plane gives a critical hit. port engine destroyed havy flooding.
15:51 returning home for repairs.
16:00 2 planes shot down. 1 on fire.
16:10 flooding stopped in all compartiments and repairs done

1 january 1940.

20:49 arived at kiel.

got iron cross 2cnd class.
lost 1 officer and 5 crew members.

[Brag]

I presume next time you see an airplane you will crash dive? :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[Gezoes]

U-97 out of Salamis, east of Valleta.
24th of March, 1942.

The storm has passed, the crew finally saw a bit of sun! Got jumped again by a plane and crashdived. Encountered several merchants escorted by warships, unable to engage. If only the winds would calm down, so i can use my flak for a change! :arrgh!:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

I presume next time you see an airplane you will crash dive? :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
nope. just shoot and axellerate :up:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-124.
4th patrol.
15 january 1940.

03:40 leaves kiel.

19 january 1940

10:20 engaged by enemy aircraft. and opening fire.
10:23 plane shot down.
10:30 destroyer spotted. dived to PD changed course and set speed to 1knot.
10:35 DCed and crash dived.
10:40 deapth of 100m and silent run. still got DCed. decide to dive deeper.
10:50 deapth of 150m engines stopped. destroyer misses me.
12:30 destroyer thinks im destroyed and leaves. back on course and going up.
12:40 PD. message recieved of task force at scappa flow.
14:00 arrived at the place but task force disapeared.
14:20 2 planes spotted and opening fire.
14:30 huntI destroyer apears and opens fire.
14:31 crash dived. and on the way to the bottom at 120m.
14:40 engines stopped and on the bottom. destroyer on attack run.
14:45 taking hits from DC's.
14:50 gone to 90m and set course to the north. speed 1 knot.
14:55 2cond destroyer joins.
15:03 at PD and firing tube 5.
15:10 torpedo hits and destroyer slows down (i never knew if he sank or not).
18:20 area clear and surfaces. starting repairs and reloads.
19:00 arived at AM19.
20:00 light tanker spotted and firing tubes 1 2 and 3.
20:06 2 torpedo's hit. 3th misses. tanker slows down
20:10 engaging with deck gun.
20:30 tanker destroyed.

20 january 1940.

19:00 heading home after sinking 2 more merchants and 3 torpedo's left.

21 january 1940.

01:00 revenge class batleship spotted.
01:30 in position and firing tubes 2 3 and 4.
01:40 all torpedo's hit. batleship sinks.
02:05 batleship sank.

30 january 1940.

arrived at kiel.

2 crew died.
got iron cross 1th class

[Brag]

Nice job, Mohr. :up:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

Nice job, Mohr. :up:
thanks mate ;)
most of the time there is a Fiji class batleship in loch ewe.
go check it out. should be right to the southwest side of the harbour.

i saw it again last patrol (5) but i got destroyed :cry:

[AndyW]

Radio message to BdU:

"11 May 1944, 0100 Zulu. U-972 reporting in from the Celtic Sea. Weather clear, light fog and wind 15 from 207 degrees. On the way back to Lorient from AM66 (Solvay Firth / Northern Irish Sea). Four destroyers, four small cargo, 13,563 tons so far. 2 torpedos left, hull 22%. Operating against large inbound enemy convoy in BF21 heading Northeast. Rendezvous time approx. 0220 Zulu"

Cheers,

[Lzs von swe]

Jul 12, -43.
U-24, type IId, returns to Constanza after 10 days in patrol. We only got one small merchant this time. The Romanian air force showed up and sank the tanker we had crippled, thank you very much:stare: Out of six fired torps we had one dud and two misses. There are talk on the base that we might get homing torpedoes in time for the next, ninth, patrol:up:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

Patrol 5.B
U-124. type IXB.
transfered to willemshaven.
2cond flotille (first one was 7th flotille)
10 February 1940.
12:02

leaving kiel for the last time and set sea on a raiding mission (loch ewe and scappa flow).

18 February 1940.

10:00 arrived at scapa flow and entered from the east. target only warships.
10:12 3 destroyers spotted. firing at 1 for a decoy (always handy to sneak up to the batleships)
10:16 torpedo hits. decoy sucsessfull. other destroyers rush to the spot.
10:20 silent running and passing the destroyers.
10:30 batleship (revenge class) spotted and firing tubes 1,2,3 and 4.
10:32 3 torpedo's hit. one dud. batleship starts to roll over.
10:40 moved up north and firing tube 5.
10:43 torpedo hit and batleship sinks. destroyer comming towards me.
11:10 barely escaped with my avantage of range.
11:20 exit scapa flow from the west side and continuing to loch ewe.
18:30 destroyer spotted at enterance of loch ewe. firing tube's 1 and 2.
18:33 torpedo's hit and destroyer catches flames.
18:40 destroyer explodes and sinks.
20:00 entering loch ewe and dives to PD
21:00 more warships spotted.1 Fiji and 6 destroyers. 13 torpedo's left.
21:30 firing tubes 1,2 and 3 on the Fiji.
21:35 3 torpedo's hit Fiji starts sinking. Destroyers come to find me.
21:40 firing tubre 5 on 1 destroyer and tube 6 at another. changing course to north.
21:45 1 torpedo hits a destroyed (that sank in 2 minutes) and other missed.
21:50 firing tube 1 to the other destroyer again.
21:52 torpedo hits and destroyer catches flames. firing another torpedo.
21:55 torpedo hits and destroyer breaks appart.

19 February 1940.

00:10 sank 2 other destroyers while escaping. leaving me with just 2 torpedo's.
decide to return home.


25 February 1940 passed the channal and docked at willemshaven.
got some havy damage while passing the channal.
lost 8 crew members and 1 officer.
got the knights cross.

[Brag]

24 December 1939
U-46 Returned from patrol in Western Approaches. 80,000 tons. Attacked one convoy, sank battleship Rodney.

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

patrol six was a disaster. i got bernard on board.

all torpedo's missed,no ship sank,out of fuel and gun ammo.

struck a mine when entering home base.


:damn: :damn: :damn: :damn: :damn: :damn: :damn:

[gord96]

...............

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

this time il make my patrol reports a bit shorter.

U-124. IXB.
Willemshaven 30 march 1940.

thrown bernard and dinsdale overboard before leaving.
left willemshaven to AM32 taking the long route passing scapa flow.

10 april 1940.
entering willemshaven after successfull patrol.

sank 4 light tankers, 1 C-3, 2 destroyers, 1 C-2, 5 coastal merchants.
shot down 8 planes.

havy damage and hull down to 20%.
got a knights cross and U-boat badge

[STEED]

U-72 VIIC claims the odd ship here and there Jun41-Nov41 this veteran crew say good bye to U-72 as they hand her over to a new crew. My veteran crew have been given U-125 IXC Dec41 shakedown complete ready for the new year.

[Meridian]

Ran into a nice convoy last night and sank a fair few ships. Launched my last torp at a large merchant, which if sunk would have taken my total patrol tonnage over the 100k mark.

The damn thing zigged and the torp missed and sunk a small tanker running the other side of it. Total tonnage for that patrol, 97066k. Still waiting to join the 100k club. :damn:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-124 was destroyed while attacking a batleship...

U-123 takes his place and on mission 2 i got this
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/6019/sh3loggbookos8.jpg
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/5277/sh3loggbook2lp4.jpg
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/5586/sh3loggbook3dk0.jpg

[STEED]

U-125 IXC claims six medium size ships on round one of Drumbeat Feb42. :up:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-123 is sunk on its 2cond patrol (first i had U-47 VIIB then U-123 IXB). :dead:

now got U-45 VIIB.
1st patrol nothing yet...
at grid AN35. waiting for ships

[Lzs von swe]

Aug 13, -43, 0830, Eastern Black Sea.

U-24, IId, of the 30´th Flot. Sank an heavy transport yesterday and survived heavy dc attacks after that. Went down to 130m. The manual says 125m is max. No damage. This morning we sank an Uragan, only 700t, but she crossed our T and it´s always a good feeling to sink destroyers:arrgh!:
Two torpedoes left and plenty diesel and provisions. Pressing on:up:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-45
spotted a little british convoy of 3 fishing boats,3 trawlers,1 small merchant and 1 hunt I sestroyer.

attacked and sank 2 trawlers the merchant and the destroyer (the fishing boats arnt worth to be attacked)

[gubby_uk]

U-101, Type VIIB (2 patrols) in base, readying for next patrol. No way heading west.
:arrgh!:

[Brag]

Gubby, welcome aboard this den of ruffians!

[Brag]

U-46 Feb 1940
Having trouble reaching my patrol grid. Battleship and two large freighters got in the way. 54,000 tons. Will proceed one destroyer above departs. :smug:

Steed, good to see you haven't forgotten the war still rages.:rock:

[mr chris]

Great thread Brag, Sorry i a little late in posting here but here goes.

U124
In the port of lorient
Feb of 1940.
Am waiting for my new graphics card to arrive then we will be back at the front once again.:arrgh!::arrgh!:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-123
in willemshaven and ready to go.
throwing all bernards overboard and set course to AN32

[Karl-Heinz Jaeger]

Although I've had the pleasure of a short cruise aboard USS Thresher, it just didn't feel like my old love, U-108 Type IXB recently transferred to Lorient. Atm she's at 180 metres in AM45 NW of Ireland having happenned into the midst of a heavily protected convoy and having her conning tower dented by soe of ze Tommie's pop guns. For Volk und Vaterland!:arrgh!:

[P_Funk]

April 30,

LISH CIQC FGCY ICLK MDNC OMQB QXQE SLMG LOOH HIYX XBMW BGBD RYNF OERG TWBH WPVT MAZC ZQBC QJRU KGED UAPB LXDJ HOZR AKSJ IQFM UZXO EPAX ZXZS JOPV FPIQ YSAC PWDJ XSFA ULUK SGFB QYZF DTEW EKYL IZVM TMWY IHCN

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-123 went trough the channal and sank 4 destroyers and 1 elco.

arrived in BF29 and sank a passanger liner a coastal merchant and a C-3 cargo.

got bombed and shot down 1 heavy bomber and 2 hurricanes.

patrolled BF15 and spôtted a convoy escorted by a armed trawler.
destroyed the entire convoy.

in the convoy were:
4 coastal merchants
2 T-2 tanker's
2 T-3 tankers
4 C-2 merchants
2 catham troop transporters

total tonnage at this moment is 157159 ton

finaly a convoy spotted and succesfully destroyed ^-^

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

this was the final result of my patrol

http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/1443/sh3mostshipseversankjz7.jpg

srry for posting these images.

[HM.Medico]

I'm CONSIDERING (but not too seriously) of getting SHIV, probably won't, the German's treat us and our crew far too well :D

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

I'm CONSIDERING (but not too seriously) of getting SHIV, probably won't, the German's treat us and our crew far too well :D

i have SHIV... my oppinion about the game is : its crap

its worse than SHIII (exept for the graphics)
SH3 and 4 should be swithed from place

[HM.Medico]

Thank Kaleu. Jochen Mohr,You've just saved me $80 :D

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

no problem :up:
always glad to help

[Brag]

this was the final result of my patrol

http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/1443/sh3mostshipseversankjz7.jpg

srry for posting these images.

Excellent tonnage, Kaleun! Keep up the good work :D

[Brag]

U-46
7 February 1939
BE 58

0 torpedoes left, unable to reach patrol area.

Returning to Willi

102,382 tons sunk

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-50 (went back to VIIB)
4 april 1940
the most boring patrol ever

guarding a german convoy at 7 knots :shifty:
waiting for somthing to happen...

[ReM]

U 101

March '41

Limping back to St Nazaire after getting a bloody nose by some dd's protecting a nice juicy convoy...
I got a little cocky :|\\ and paid the price...

[Lzs von swe]

U-46
7 February 1939
BE 58


Ahemm :rotfl: a bit to much:()1: maybe:sunny:

[Lzs von swe]

Aug 18, -43 Constanza

Wilhelm Ranacher brings U-24 back to port after her ninth patrol. Three ships sunk this time, 1 heavy transport, 1 small merchant and 1 Uragan class destroyer.
There are concerns about the Rw, no signals detected during the last two patrols. Maybe the enemy has new equipment:hmm:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

a new kind of cloaking divice that hides ship,smoke and sound :rotfl: :rotfl:


anyway.

got U-124 back (yay)
left willemshaven but had to return a week later.
the only thing i saw this patrol ware raf bombers... i guess it were 80 in total :hmm:
they bombed the hell out my poor boat.

[STEED]

U-125 IXC Back from round two of Drumbeat March 1942

X1 Small chemical goods freighter
X1 Passenger and freight ship
X1 Liberty cargo
X1 Modern medium tanker
X1 Large cargo
X1 Tramp steamer
X1 Large trawler

Crew prepped and ready, U-125 ready to sail to the rich tanker hunting grounds. Round three of Drumbeat is under way May 1942.

[gord96]

................

[Brag]

U-46 "The Tommy Frogger"
11 Feb 1940
Put into Cadiz for refueling and rearming with 109,772 tonnes. Promoted to Kptlt, got Knight's Cross. Crew was showered with medals and promotions. Capt of Thalia is a charming fellow, treated us to a superb lunch and some fine sherries. Life is good. :D

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

my life isnt... march 1940

left willemshaven and got choosed to stay close to a friendly convoy again (since the previous convoy got destroyed 10 minutes after i left it)

this time i stayed with the convoy till the end (litteraly :dead:)
convoy got bombed and attacked by warships,elco's,RAF and so on

i managed to shoot 2 planes down and sank 3 destroyers.
then i got attacked by a nelson batleship...

[STEED]

U-125 IXC Back from round 3 of Drumbeat July 1942

The oil price just went up.

X4 Modern medium tankers
X2 Small tankers
X1 Large tanker

U-125 is now on shore leave the crew have done well. :()1:

[Telgriff]

Kpt. Johann Grassler of U-123 returning to base after a decent patrol near Gilbratar, November 1940.
2 x Cargo's
1 x Passenger Liner

And a wounded Black Swan that only got away due to its friends turning up.

19,566 Tons. Making a total of 42,403 tons in 4 patrols. I love my IXB :up:

[Gezoes]

U-97 out of Salamis, East of Valletta, april 1942. Two liners and a wandering large merchant so far this patrol.

Jumped by two Mosquito's today, returned fire, dived to 75 meters. Six eels left.

Lots of unknown warships on the hydrophones, but due to distance and speed, unable to engage.

Course set for friendly warship up north :smug:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-53 (GWX) VIIB

left willemshaven on first patrol...

sailing around the brits to get to grid AM23
bad weather.
near scappa flow i spotted a small merchant and a american munitions merchant and sank them

then nothing and reached AM23

after spending 24 hours there it is still bad weather and i sailed trough scappa flow sank 2 destroyers and returned home

[Telgriff]

U-53 (GWX) VIIB


after spending 24 hours there it is still bad weather and i sailed trough scappa flow sank 2 destroyers and returned home

You did the Scappa flow in GWX? You madman! And well done :up:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-53 (GWX) VIIB


after spending 24 hours there it is still bad weather and i sailed trough scappa flow sank 2 destroyers and returned home

You did the Scappa flow in GWX? You madman! And well done :up:

in stock version i used to go via the main enterance at the south but in GWX its subnetted so now i use the east and west sides :arrgh!:

its not that hard... you should try it to ;)

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-18 (WAC) VIIB

luck isnt on my side:shifty:

destroyed 4 coastal merchants near scapa flow
then i got bombed and DCed...

now im 80m under the ocean with no hope to survive....


http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/3300/sh3damnty5.jpg

[Telgriff]

Ouch. Scapa flow did get you after all. :down:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

but not on GWX :arrgh!:

on WAC it did yes...
still repairing my sub that has no screws,dive planes and other stuff anymore :shifty:

[Telgriff]

but not on GWX :arrgh!:

on WAC it did yes...
still repairing my sub that has no screws,dive planes and other stuff anymore :shifty:

Ha! GWX is going to make you feel the pain of Scapa Flow :arrgh!:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

but not on GWX :arrgh!:

on WAC it did yes...
still repairing my sub that has no screws,dive planes and other stuff anymore :shifty:

Ha! GWX is going to make you feel the pain of Scapa Flow :arrgh!:


i just went trough it again sank a battleship (revenge class) and its escorts and escaped again :arrgh!:.

i saved my WAC game and quitted it to play GWX

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-124 (WAC) after 24 hours of rapairs i finaly mannaged to surface and get back to wallemshaven (by just pressing escape)

the next patrol i went back to take revenge (this time i used uberboot again) shot 10 planes down sank 8 destroyers and 10 merchants. :arrgh!:

the brits didnt like it when i got back to willemshaven

[Brag]

U-46
12 March 1940
Departed Cadiz at 0345.
Sank 2 small freighters by 0955
14 torpedoes left

Love this short commute to work. Will attempt to break my last patrol's record of 109 K tonnes. (not bad for a VIIB bucket.) :cool:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-124

completed patrol 3

sank 10 warships and 10 merchants
shot down 3 planes

[firouz]

News: 25th June 1940 Kapitanleutnant August Neumann appointed to command 5th Flotilla to see to the battle training of new Type VII crews. German Cross in Gold and Oak Leaves to his Knights Cross from a grateful nation. In 6 patrols U-48 sunk 250,000 tons of alliied shipping including the HMS Nelson and HMS Manchester.:arrgh!:

Enter: U-52 Type VIIB headed for the Dover Straights 2nd September 1939. Hoping that England and France don't decide on war. (Now up to 80% realism):doh:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-124 (GWX)

left willemshaven and set course to AM23.

have big expectations from this patrol

[Brag]

U-46
15 March 1940
3rd day of patrol, deck gun ammunition expended. 7 freighters sunk.
Heavy enemy air activity in approaches to Gibraltar, Have light damage from bombs.

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-124 (GWX)

left willemshaven and set course to AM23.

have big expectations from this patrol

this mission had to be aborted...
i couldnt fire a torpedoe...
i opened the tubes and pressed the red button but no torpedo came out :damn:

sank 2 ships with the deck gun on the return to willemshaven

[Canovaro]

....approaches to Gibraltar...

Ehm...are you sure?
:o

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-124 went to Scapa Flow again.

target : warships.
found : arround 10 destroyers ,1 battleship (revenge class) and a troop transport.

aproached from the east and sank 2 destroyers.
other destroyers got at the spot and when they stopped i sank them.

proceeded to the battleship and fired 4 torpedo's at it.
after 10 minutes it sank.

meanwhile i went to the troop transport and fired 2 torpedo's at it.
it sank after 5 or 6 minutes

escaped at the west and proceeded to AF36.

got bombed on the way there by hurricanes and shot 2 down.

went back to base with havy dammage

[Brag]

....approaches to Gibraltar...

Ehm...are you sure?
:o

Ummmmm. I don't think it's the Luftwaffe :88) Or Coronel Arriagada of the Ejercito del Aire (who objected to the attentions I paid to Senorita Diaz de Castro while in Cadiz) :roll:

[Brag]

U-124 went to Scapa Flow again.

target : warships.
found : arround 10 destroyers ,1 battleship (revenge class) and a troop transport.

aproached from the east and sank 2 destroyers.
other destroyers got at the spot and when they stopped i sank them.

proceeded to the battleship and fired 4 torpedo's at it.
after 10 minutes it sank.

meanwhile i went to the troop transport and fired 2 torpedo's at it.
it sank after 5 or 6 minutes

escaped at the west and proceeded to AF36.

got bombed on the way there by hurricanes and shot 2 down.

went back to base with havy dammage

What's going on in Scapa?
Has Tommy turned nambi-pamby?:huh:

[Lzs von swe]

Ok, now I have got my own KM:up:
U-24, IId, 30´th Flot. Oberleutnant z.S. Wilhelm Ranacher. Docked in Constanza, Aug 20, -43. 9 patrols.
U-46, VIIb, 7´th Flot. Kapitänleutnant Bruno Ambrosius. At sea in 15´th patrol, DH 33, Sep 27, -41.
U-103, IXb, 2´nd Flot. Oberleutnant z.S. Gerhard Harder. Docked in Lorient, Dec 12, -40. 2 patrols.

U-46 reports bad weather, will head east, closer to Gibraltar. 2 ships sunk, 15000t.

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-124 went to Scapa Flow again.

target : warships.
found : arround 10 destroyers ,1 battleship (revenge class) and a troop transport.

aproached from the east and sank 2 destroyers.
other destroyers got at the spot and when they stopped i sank them.

proceeded to the battleship and fired 4 torpedo's at it.
after 10 minutes it sank.

meanwhile i went to the troop transport and fired 2 torpedo's at it.
it sank after 5 or 6 minutes

escaped at the west and proceeded to AF36.

got bombed on the way there by hurricanes and shot 2 down.

went back to base with havy dammage

What's going on in Scapa?
Has Tommy turned nambi-pamby?:huh:

just my usual trip trough scapa flow :arrgh!:

somtimes there are only destroyers and somtimes more than destroyers

[Brag]

Next time you stop there, get a few bottles of single malt, cask strenght bottles from the duty free shop :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[Lzs von swe]

Oct 9, -41, 0854. St: Nazaire.
U-46, VIIb, returns to home after her 15´th patrol. We attacked two convoys in this trip. Both of them lost two ships. Total result, five ships sunk for 43422t:up: But we lost Friedo, our trusted plane killer. That Anson came out of nowhere in the middle of the night:dead: Friedo had downed eight planes and was revenged two nights later when an Hudson attacked us west of Lissabon. It came down in a big fireball:arrgh!: It seems they can find us in the dark:hmm:

No VIIc in sight, the Commandant still mutters something about American tankers:roll:

[Brag]

U-46
17 March 1940
CG91 (Gulf of Cadiz)
sank 7 ships 28104 tons, 13 torpedoes left

Light damage from bombs. Heavy enemy air activity.
Continuing patrol.

[joea]

On my 7th patrol, with U-732. Enroute to AK13 in January 1944. :dead: About a 3rd of the way and multiple crashdives...after one my sonar officer even detected a task force of warships, Black Swan and Captain class, brazenly operating in the Bay of Biscay. :damn: Well kept quiet til the next morning then surfaced to face it again. If only there was a way to replenish batteries without surfacing. Hope BDU hurries up with the devices (called snorkel) that will allow us to do so...hope we survive long enough to get them.

[Brag]

On my 7th patrol, with U-732. Enroute to AK13 in January 1944. :dead: About a 3rd of the way and multiple crashdives...after one my sonar officer even detected a task force of warships, Black Swan and Captain class, brazenly operating in the Bay of Biscay. :damn: Well kept quiet til the next morning then surfaced to face it again. If only there was a way to replenish batteries without surfacing. Hope BDU hurries up with the devices (called snorkel) that will allow us to do so...hope we survive long enough to get them.

Long time we haven't heard from you. Bear up and sink them all :up:

[Brag]

U-46
18 March 1940. CG 94

In contact with large convoy--attacking!

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

Next time you stop there, get a few bottles of single malt, cask strenght bottles from the duty free shop :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

U-124 patrol 2 and 3 (WAC)

ordered to go to AN35.
destroyed 2 small polish convoy's in every patrol.

after completing the AN35 order i went ot scapa flow (again :doh: ) and sank the destroyers.

i docked in the harbour and went ashore with the crew.
when i went in the liquir store and asked for some scotish whisky and some beer for the boys the shopkeeper almoast craped his pants.

few weeks later i returned (patrol 3) and spoke to the shopkeeper. he is a nice chap (like the brits say) and met his doughter.

i asked to marry her :yep: and waited for the answer on patrol 4.

so now i have to wait.

[Lagger123987]

U-8623, a IXB sunk 10 fishing boats, 5 trawlers, and 2 trampers, and someone named "Bernard" is cleaning up the bathroom and smells like the dump. Still in patrol, only 18 "eels" and 120 HE deckgun ammo left.

[Genghis Khan]

June,1940.

Type VIIB U-45,total tonnage 230 000 tonns after 8 patrols,44 ships sunk.

Still preparing for departure for the 9th patrol.:)

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-124 patrol 4.

no scapa flow this time. got ordered to patrol grid AO98 (danzing harbour) where i sank just 1 ship.


U-124 patrol 5.

grid AN84 sank 4 merchants and a destroyer. heading up to scapa flow.

ignored the first 3 destroyers and went to the harbour
sank the guarding destroyers and docked at nigh.
went back to the liquir shop and visited the shopkeepers doughter.
she said yes and we will get married tomorrow :up:

meanwhile the boys are on shore and went to the "ladies of plesure".

[Brag]

U-46
19 Mar 1940

Attacked heavily escorted convoy CG-94. Sank one large freighter, damaged another.
Heavy depth charging in wrong place by escorts deceived by Brag's Wiggle Waggle Maneuver. :smug:

Will attempt another attack before dawn. (Weather: thick overcast, heavy seas.)

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-124

a week after marriage im in germany and my boat is ready to leave.

early the next day.
assembled the crew and inspected the boat.

i notice a crew member is missing (sadly it isnt bernard) so i call HQ and ask where he is.
it seems he got transfered to U-158. and they had send a new sailor yesterday.

i waited 1 more hour while my crew gets to its positions and wait for my orders.
after 30 minutes Gustav Thomsen arives. i scolded him for the delay and ordered him to get inside the boat and report to the cook.

then i finaly got on my way to AN35 and then to scapa flow.

at AN35 i spotted a smal polish convoy and sank it. at scapa flow i sank 3 armed trawlers and had to return home becouse Jurgen (one of the watch) lost his arm thanx to a explosion from a gun shel

he died before reaching base

[Brag]

:rotfl: The Scapa Kid strikes again :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[Brag]

U-46
Attacked convoy again. Fired 3 torpedoes. One exploded prematurely, one missed, one failed to explode. :nope:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-48 (GWX)
had to patrol grid AM19 so i had to go trough scapa flow :arrgh!:

got bombed by planes and shot 0 planes down while losing 4 crew members (damn rookie's)

torpedoes 10 ships
2 warships and 8 merchants

[Brag]

U-46
24 March 1940
200 miles SW of Ireland
Sank another Revenge class.
3 torpedoes left--returning to Willi.

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-52 (GWX)

went trough the chanal
sank 5 warships and 2 merchants. got heavy DC damage but survived. returned home with 0 dead. the rookie's learn fast :up:

[Brag]

U-46
06 April 1940. Returned to Willi with 97,000 tonnes (31,000 belonging to a Revenge, which bit the Atlantic mud). Knight's Cross with oakies and a slugfull or renown. Join me to celebrate at The Drinks Are On Me thread :D .

[Lzs von swe]

Sep 20, -43. 30´th Flot. Constanza.
U-24 returns to base after patrol nr 10. It took four days to spend all six torpedoes. Two heavy transports sunk for 25777t.:up:
The only signals the Rwr picked up where from our own ships:hmm:

Oh well, back to the little ladies:yep:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-45 english chanal november 11 1939.

i raided the calais harbour and sank 6 merchants then got bombed by planes and dived to PD. got DCed and sank 3 warships.

still continuing trough the chanal with 3 torpedo's (1 in the front and 2 in the back).

hoping il get out alive

[DanBiddle]

U-48, VII class, U-Flotilla Wegener

Patrol 1, 11th September 1939

U-48 now heading for the Western Approaches with green crew. Passed north of Scapa two nights ago. Little naval activity but attacked four times in 12 hours by Anson patrol aircraft. Depthcharged by aircraft but no follow-up attack from destroyers. Damage to flak and deckguns.

One coastal tanker sunk last night. One torp from tube 5 hit her on the stern. Little damage but surfaced and finshed her off with deckgun. She capsized and sank within 30 mins but crew seen to escape safely.

Dived and stayed deep for 4 hours before surfacing. Crew learning fast.

UH out

[ReM]

U 101,

november 1940, AE87

After a long and pretty uneventful patrol, getting to sink only a single merchant, I decided to take a look in Reijkjavik harbor...just for the heck of it...

Got detected by some armed trawlers while submerged and at silent running. They must have radioed for reinforcemenst because a dd show up pretty quickly The water was so shallow and it was only a matter of time before the boat would be destroyed, so I decided to surface and die fighting!:arrgh!:

The heroics were short-lived though....my boat was ripped to shreds within 2 minutes.....(not like SHIV where you can outgun a dd)

So ends the life of J von Kloppstock and his crew.....dead at the bottom of the sea after only three patrols....

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-45 english chanal november 11 1939.

i raided the calais harbour and sank 6 merchants then got bombed by planes and dived to PD. got DCed and sank 3 warships.

still continuing trough the chanal with 3 torpedo's (1 in the front and 2 in the back).

hoping il get out alive

i didnt survive this one eather.

aftar raiding the harbour i got detected by 2 DD's and fired a torpedo in hope to destroy one of them.
unfortunatly the torpedo missed and i got DCed.

started to rapair while sinking. had flooding in all compartiments.
havy dammage and my electrick engines destroyed.
i ordered to "blow balast" and my boat started to rise again (unfortunatly it was a BIG mistake).

the DD's had lost my signal but than my command tower came out of the water and the fighting continued.

after another 2 hours i had no more air in my balast tanks and was sinking.
the DD's had won. while they still DCed me i gave up hope and said "goodbye my love, my crew, my boat and my fatherland" 3 minutes later i died.:dead:



that was the end of oberleutenant zs. Jochen Mohr on GWX.

[Brag]

The disaster stories above show one good lesson:

Stay out of shallow water!!!!!!! :eek:

[ReM]

The disaster stories above show one good lesson:

Stay out of shallow water!!!!!!! :eek:

Yep....this is the umpteenth time I have been sunk in shallow waters.....nowhere to run, nowhere to hide...


Only deep blue waters from now on!

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

The disaster stories above show one good lesson:

Stay out of shallow water!!!!!!! :eek:

Yep....this is the umpteenth time I have been sunk in shallow waters.....nowhere to run, nowhere to hide...


Only deep blue waters from now on!

is 80m shallow ?

[STEED]

My crew said good bye to U-125 IXC as they have a new home U-177 IXD2. Mid to the end of 1942 saw the odd kill here and there and a lot damage inflicted on me. Early 1943 saw no end of rotten weather, May and June saw a return to the happy times in the Caribbean sinking medium size ships but aircraft now becoming a real pain, some good news for July 1943 I got T-IV's now it's pay back.

[robbo180265]

Kaleun Hans Mayer reporting.

Whilst out on patrol we happened upon a large convoy. We pulled away and I ordered flank speed to overtake. Once in postion we dived to around 80 meters and intercepted from the 2 Oclock area. When we reached 80 meters we went silent and levelled out at around 48 meters through natural boyancy. We snuck under the lead destroyer, and as soon as we were clear I ordered a depth of 14 meters.

Imagine my suprise to find a Dido class ship right in the middle of the convoy! I ordered a speed of 2kt's, secured from silent running and lined up on her. As soon as the angle was right I opened the tube doors and launched 4 magnetic torpedos at her. When all torpedo's were clear, we dived at flank speed to about 150 meters, heading under the convoy.

The destroyers started pinging us at around 60 meters, but we held our nerve and carried on at flank until we got to 150 meters,where we went silent and turned 10 to port. This was when we heard all 4 torps hit,from the sounds of it she went down pretty fast.

What followed was about an hour of depth charging, never near enough to do any damage. After the hour when all sounds above had ceased, I ordered periscope depth, ahead full, and secured from silent running. Sure enough the destroyers had gone. We surfaced and started to celebrate our biggest sinking in ernest


http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w181/robbo180265/tonnage.jpg

All done in 80% realism whilst using GWX - drinks are on me when we return to port:up:

[Brag]

Excellent attack!

Though, I would have cut flank and gone silent at about 60 meters. Of course, being deep when the escorts arrive is the best insurance. I'll be ready for the drinks :D.

[robbo180265]

Excellent attack!

Though, I would have cut flank and gone silent at about 60 meters. Of course, being deep when the escorts arrive is the best insurance. I'll be ready for the drinks :D.

Cheers mate:D

From what I could tell from the hydrophones they were still quite a way away.Plus as I was heading under the convoy(a tactic I use a lot) it was probably quite difficult for them to get over me(well that was what I was praying for anyway)

[Brag]

U-123
26 May
WSW of Belle Isle Strait
Force 8 gale, clear. Found myself in the middle of a convoy. Fired two torpedoes. Checked depth after firing
43 Meters!
I thought my bum was history.
For once I was glad both torpedoes prematured and convoy merily sailed away. :roll:

[Kptlt. Siegmann]

June 2nd, 1940
Type VII-C U-230
2nd Flotilla: Wilhelmshaven
Currently in Bergen, Norway (undergoing repairs)
74% Realism (everything checked except: No Map Contact Update, No External View, No Weapon Officer Assistance, and Manual Targeting System)

5 Patrols for 182,955 tons (113,302 merchant tonnage, 69653 warship tonnage)

Major sinkings
Patrol 1
-January 12th, 1940: HMS Illustrious (23,000t)

Patrol 4
-April 12th, 1940: HMS Euryalis (5,600t)
-April 12th, 1940: HMS Sirius (5,600t)
-April 12th, 1940: HMS Implacable (23,000t)
-April 13th, 1940: HMS Bermuda (10,725t)

Personnel File detailing my career can be found on my website at: http://www.isaf.us/

[Brag]

Hot day on April 12, mate! :up:

[Telgriff]

Oberleutnant Johann Grassler, commander of the U-123, has been lost with all hands sometime on December 22nd, 1940 in the vicinty of Scapa Flow. His last orders were to infiltrate the near by naval base, attack and then fall back, his first order was completed, but his second was not. Caught in sudden shallow water, and taking on heavy flooding in the bow compartments, Johann had no choice but to surface and await capture.

Instead the British opened fire, puncturing the hull with Flak and cannon rounds, killing the surrendering deck crew and sending the remaining crew along with their Kaleun, to the bottom. His loss has left a small reward of 45,432 tonnes of merchant and military shipping being sunk in his 5 patrols...

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-52 (WAC) VIIB
patrol 8.

left willemshaven and set course to scapa flow (again:doh: ).

on my way i got attacked by whatsoever (was havy fog and rough sea) so i ordered to crash dive. later it turned out to be a armed trawler. (damn bernard)

after a hour or 4 i finaly could surface again.

on 12 january i arived in scapa flow and started my usual attack (but the brits still didnt learn it)

i sank all destroyers there and raided the harbour. then went ashore and visited my girl there. buyed some drinks and the boys went to the pleasure house.

then on 14 january i left again and went back to willemshaven.

[Brag]

Not another Scapa escapage!:eek:

[Morts]

The disaster stories above show one good lesson:

Stay out of shallow water!!!!!!! :eek:

Yep....this is the umpteenth time I have been sunk in shallow waters.....nowhere to run, nowhere to hide...


Only deep blue waters from now on!

is 80m shallow ?

yea it is
IMO

[Ducimus]

Who else is holding up the honour of the U-Boats?

I am! In a.... manner of speaking :roll:

http://www.ducimus.net/sh4/ai_german_sub_01.jpg

http://www.ducimus.net/sh4/ai_german_sub_02.jpg


http://www.ducimus.net/sh4/ai_german_sub_04.jpg





*shrug* its a work in progress, uboats in the indian ocean, java sea, etc,

[Morts]

ducimus
you will pay for that:stare: :arrgh!:


:rotfl: :rotfl:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

Not another Scapa escapage!:eek:

yup :arrgh!:

i just did it again on GWX (it was normaly loch ewe on this one)

[STEED]

U-177 IXD2 10TH FLOTILLA PENANG SEPT 13TH 1943

This convoy had a run in with my T-IV's :lol:

X3 Small Freighters
X2 Bathurst Class
X1 V&W Class
X1 Passenger/Cargo
X1 Modern Medium Tanker

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

5 august 1939
14:12
U-46 leutenant zs. Jurgen Von Braun startet the war (yea i did) i had to patrol grid AO73.

after patrolling this area i went to Danzing (it was still neutral) and sank 3 destroyers and a sperbrecher. :arrgh!:

im out of torpedo's but i stay in this area to see the bombing of our flyboys :up:

[Lzs von swe]

Oct 26, -43. 30´th Flot, Constanza.
U-24, IId, back home after her 11´th patrol. 3 ships, 15884t sunk.
We found that Italy no longer is an ally, found an small Italian convoy going East:hmm:
Then the escort, an armed tug opened fire on us:huh: We fired all three on an tanker and dived, two hits and she was a burning wreck, slowly sinking. Well, at least now we know where we have our Italian friends.
The Commandant said something about the Sea of Azov for the next patrol:dead: but lets worry about that then, the girls are waiting:/\\k: :()1:

[azn_132]

ducimus
you will pay for that:stare: :arrgh!:


:rotfl: :rotfl:

Aint that ur boat Morts, that just got torp by Ducimus?

[Brag]

U-177 IXD2 10TH FLOTILLA PENANG SEPT 13TH 1943

This convoy had a run in with my T-IV's :lol:

X3 Small Freighters
X2 Bathurst Class
X1 V&W Class
X1 Passenger/Cargo
X1 Modern Medium Tanker

Steed, you must like those Penang noodles, duck soup and curries with cocunut stuff :roll:

[azn_132]

U-177 IXD2 10TH FLOTILLA PENANG SEPT 13TH 1943

This convoy had a run in with my T-IV's :lol:

X3 Small Freighters
X2 Bathurst Class
X1 V&W Class
X1 Passenger/Cargo
X1 Modern Medium Tanker

Steed, you must like those Penang noodles, duck soup and curries with cocunut stuff :roll:

And young cocunut juice from Thailand, rice cakes, sushi, chow mein, green tea, the taste of Asia, but hey, I kno the food.

[Morts]

ducimus
you will pay for that:stare: :arrgh!:


:rotfl: :rotfl:

Aint that ur boat Morts, that just got torp by Ducimus?
nope:)

im sailing a type VIIC in the atlantic:arrgh!:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-52 (WAC)
patrol 8.

want (again) to scapa flow (this time luck wasnt on my side)

first the brits gave me a free bombing (and 1 aircraft thet crashed on my sub).
then near scapa flow i git DCed. in scapa flow i used my normal thing.
the first 3 destroyers were sank in 10 minutes. the other about 20 minutes after.
2 of them cracked my command tower. and then i once again docked at the harbour.

but when my crew was out of the sub i (and crew) got arrested. so now im in jail and awayting trial :shifty:.

[Brag]

U-52 (WAC)
patrol 8.

want (again) to scapa flow (this time luck wasnt on my side)

first the brits gave me a free bombing (and 1 aircraft thet crashed on my sub).
then near scapa flow i git DCed. in scapa flow i used my normal thing.
the first 3 destroyers were sank in 10 minutes. the other about 20 minutes after.
2 of them cracked my command tower. and then i once again docked at the harbour.

but when my crew was out of the sub i (and crew) got arrested. so now im in jail and awayting trial :shifty:.

Hehehe:rock:
:huh: :/\\chop :eek:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-52 (WAC)
patrol 8.

want (again) to scapa flow (this time luck wasnt on my side)

first the brits gave me a free bombing (and 1 aircraft thet crashed on my sub).
then near scapa flow i got DCed. in scapa flow i used my normal thing.
the first 3 destroyers were sank in 10 minutes. the other about 20 minutes after.
2 of them cracked my command tower. and then i once again docked at the harbour.

but when my crew was out of the sub i (and crew) got arrested. so now im in jail and awayting trial :shifty:.

Hehehe:rock:
:huh: :/\\chop :eek:

(WAC) my jail is near the harbour and the brits took control over my sub.
im betrayed by my girl who lives in scapa flow.
i saw the brits rip my boat appart and executing most of my men.

im charged of death and destruction and im about to go to a brittish POW camp.
next month to be hanged. :dead:



(GWX) U-45 went to sea (and trough the chanal)

mede a short stop at calais harbour and then continued to BF39.

after a month of hunting i return to port with 3 DD's,5 coastal merchants,1 T-2 tanker and 1 Fiji class battleship.

got promoted to Oberleutenant zs. and got the iron cross I and II class.

[Canovaro]

Spring 1940
There was an enemy task force reported with speed 0 reported at Smola - Norway.

I decided to take a look what was going on, turned out to be some kind of British invasion task force, with troop ships and dd's.
Don't know my history good enough to remember what was going on.

They were all lying still in the water, except two dd's. The water was so shallow, I had a hard time getting in position.
When I approached they started firing...at the approaching Stuka's!
I sank a Fiji, a dd and a troop transport all with 0 gyro, then the luftwaffe came in and sank 6 more ships :huh:


The most spectacular patrol I ever had.

[STEED]

U-177 IXD2 10TH FLOTILLA PENANG SEPT 13TH 1943

This convoy had a run in with my T-IV's :lol:

X3 Small Freighters
X2 Bathurst Class
X1 V&W Class
X1 Passenger/Cargo
X1 Modern Medium Tanker

Steed, you must like those Penang noodles, duck soup and curries with cocunut stuff :roll:

And young cocunut juice from Thailand, rice cakes, sushi, chow mein, green tea, the taste of Asia, but hey, I kno the food.

My men were getting fat on all that French red wine and cheese but now there on a healthy diet which has done wonders for them. :D

[Brag]

U-123
03 June 1940
Began operations in Gulf of Cadiz by sinking an 11K ton freighter with one torpedo. It took the ship 1.5 hours to sink.

Conratulations to our heroic troops in Norway and France.

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

GWX : raided loch ewe.
WAC: raided scapa flow (again :shifty:).

SH4: i start to like it (after 8 hours of pressing wrong buttons) and did 3 missions:up:

[azn_132]

(after 8 hours of pressing wrong buttons)

:rotfl: :rotfl: U serious?

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

(after 8 hours of pressing wrong buttons)

:rotfl: :rotfl: U serious?

yup.... and died about 109 timmes

[azn_132]

(after 8 hours of pressing wrong buttons)

:rotfl: :rotfl: U serious?

yup.... and died about 109 timmes

How did u died 109 times? did the planes kill u or u accidently pressed some button that make u dive to the bottom or somthin similar to that?

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

(after 8 hours of pressing wrong buttons)

:rotfl: :rotfl: U serious?

yup.... and died about 109 timmes

How did u died 109 times? did the planes kill u or u accidently pressed some button that make u dive to the bottom or somthin similar to that?

the buttons and the land....

[ReM]

U-46, september 1939

Just started a new career, KaLeun Bratfisch the captain....

Let's see if those escorts are easier in '39

This is my first career in '39, all the others started in '40 form a French base.....

A pretty long sail from Kiel to the hunting grounds......(BE96)

[johan_d]

Started from KIEL in 1939, worked all the way to 1940, then GWX came in, installed the first version, lived to 1941, and with 1.02 to november 1942. Then, I reinstalled all on a new HD, and continued with 1.03 now in june 1943.. what a mess! (planes someone?)

I think I start over from scratch, to feel free again, but not before I see december 1943. Its darn hard now. :oops:

Due to my cautioness (right word?) we lived for a couple of years, only to be sunk twice, due ignorance, (subnets.. not counted) and another stupid thing I cant remember well. I thought it wasnt right. But also not much tonnage, 45,000 per mission average.

So, will we see the end of the war? :roll:

[Brag]

June 1940
U-123
Testing magnetic torpedoes in Gulf of Cadiz.
5 days without seeing a ship (strange). Lots of air patrols.

[STEED]

News from U-177

Sept-Dec 1943
Rotten weather and lots of damage. I just don't know how much my crew will take before cracking.

Jan-Mar 1944
More rotten weather and low kill rate, nearly bought it on the last patrol. I suspect the crew are sabotaging the boat to keep them in port. And even I delayed are patrol for 24 hours by hiding the toilet paper.

May be we should call it a day and sail to South America. :hmm:

[Brag]

News from U-177

Sept-Dec 1943
Rotten weather and lots of damage. I just don't know how much my crew will take before cracking.

Jan-Mar 1944
More rotten weather and low kill rate, nearly bought it on the last patrol. I suspect the crew are sabotaging the boat to keep them in port. And even I delayed are patrol for 24 hours by hiding the toilet paper.

May be we should call it a day and sail to South America. :hmm: Bear up and pull yourself together, Steed. There's a war going on, you know? :rotfl: :rotfl:

[STEED]

Bear up and pull yourself together, Steed. There's a war going on, you know? :rotfl: :rotfl:

Heck your right we could still win this war. :)

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

Bear up and pull yourself together, Steed. There's a war going on, you know? :rotfl: :rotfl:

Heck your right we could still win this war. :)

lets change the course of history :arrgh!:

[Lzs von swe]

Mar 4, -41. 2´nd Flot. Lorient.
U-103, IXb, makes it back to base with heavy damage. 3´rd patrol was no success.
Five crew members buried at sea in the waters South East of Newfoundland.
Our WO seriously wounded, but the medic patched him up. With both scopes and the radio destroyed and diesel leaking into the sea we turned for home. Sank two merchants in surface attacks for a grand total of 3 merchants and 1 Tribal for 7940t.
Will try to go to New York again next patrol:yep:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-52. GWX.
patrol 3.

U-52 went to the chanal for harbour raids and succeeded.
after raiding calais we went back home with major damage.
all fuel leaked in to the sea,1 dieselengine destroyed,hull down to 20%(i think),had havy flooding but stopped it,forward batteries destroyed and 8 crew members died during the harbour raid.

after leaving the harbour and maneuvring between the mines i was back into the chanal.

unfortunatly my sub got detected and now it rests on the oceanfloor.

[Penelope_Grey]

U-101 Latest Patrol.

Results so far - NOTHING. NYADDA, ZILCH, ZIPPO, NOWT, SWEET FA! :damn:

:rotfl::rotfl:

Ok so I am going crazy, unfortunately, I am letting the side down guys, the allies are either using new shipping routes, or I am just having "one of those patrols." And there is genuinely nothing about. :'(

I am nearly down to half a tank of fuel and all, so desperate times calls for desperate measures, I am headed to Gibralter to see what damage I can do (or receive)

[kurtz]

Co-incidentaly U-101 (sorry about losing the enigma machine:oops: ).

Lost 2 crew outside New york due to Catalina attack, they manned the ack-ack heroically to the last. I don't know how I'll tell their families (especially as I can't remember their names:down: ).

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-20 WAC.
patrol 3.

got orders to patrol grid AO98. spotted a convoy on the way there and sank it.

then nothing. arrived on my patrol area. still nothing.
decided to go home and still nothing when i arrived in kiel.



got the iron cross 2cond class and promoted to OberLeutenant zs.

[Penelope_Grey]

Things are looking up!

Just escaped from a pretty severe depth charging convoy attack!

I found the convoy on hydrophones. Surfaced. Medium fog, wind - 7 meters per second.

We head over recharging batteries and compressing air. We are then spotted by a Black Swan coming out of the fog. Dived to Periscope depth, they are pinging looking for us, they passed our stern torpedo tube. BOOM! Magnetic shot to the engine room renders the big boy crippled.

More escorts come in actively searching for us, but not quite able to locate. Convoy is now coming up fast in my periscope, to my delight I find that I am now INSIDE the lines! YESS! To my left, large Cargo. To my right, Large Merchant, Convoy still sails straight and normal.

They are coming towards us at bearings of 310, and 040. So I set my T1's to slow out of tubes 3 and 4 sending them over to the left to the Large Cargo. Fire. Waited till there was 30 seconds till impact. Fired 1 and 2 at the Large Merchant.

All four connect the Cargo got it first then about 6 or 7 seconds later the explosion from the Large Merchant lit the sky it was loaded with munitions and weaponry, before we were forced to dive before, I radioed in the ocntact report, at Periscope Depth BdU sent back a message of good work.

In little short of an instance we had gone from 0 tons, to 21,000 tons. The black swan I crippled before eventually succumbed to her wounds and she sank. make that, 22,346 tons. :D

Problems. 3 destroyers inbound to our location. Time for alarm. Down we go to 70m but this time I ordered 80 just to be safe. We hit 80 and the three swarming round us began a depth charge drop, one of the destroyers ran up from behind us and dropped and he hit a good drop too. All along our port side we could feel the explosions, the boat was shaking violently and we were all hanging on for dear life. (I even clung onto the desk! LOL)

After that we decided to run silent run deep, eventually leveling off at 150m and slinking away at silent speed. Not a bad Christmas Present bonus (yep its December 25th 1940 in the game) But wait, Santa was not finished yet. A lone Large Cargo trying to catch up. One torpedo which we had reloaded in our stern before we were forced deeper was ploughed into the side of the big clunker then surface a couple of dozen deck gun rounds down she went!

We now stand at 31,000 tons. Just to be safe its back down to Periscope Depth and we got away. :D Merry Christmas U-101!

6 torpedoes fired. Plenty more to go! Assuming we can find another big juicer before our fuel gets too low!

[Brag]

Good report--Congratz! :D

[Canovaro]

U-45

Just spotted and attacked a TF with an aircraft carrier.
Fired 4 torps from great range, but missed.

First time I saw a carrier in SH3

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-20 (WAC) Oberleutenant zs. Jurgen Von Braun
patrol 4.

left willemshaven 5 says ago and headed to gird AL75.
passed scapa flow (didnt go trough it this time) and sank 3 large merchants.

4 days later i arrived at AL75 and stopped my engines.
2 hours after our arrival suddenly 3 planes show up and i ordered to mann the AA gun. was lucky the missed me with 2 or 3 meters. shot one down and damaged the other 2. 1 of them crashed later.

5 hour after the plane attack a TF of destroyers show up. i counted 2 Hunt I, 2 V&W,1 C-class and 1Hunt II. i ordered to PD. i knew they would find us so i took a big risk.
i set all torpado's to 1m and fast speed. opened all tubes and waited.

when they were close enuf i fired my torpedo's. 1 torpedo for each destroyer.
then crash dived with silent running.
about 30 or 35 seconds later my torpedo's staring to hit.

the 2 V&W's went down. the Hunt I's were damaged and stopped. the other 2 torpedo's missed.

strangely enuf the Hunt II and the C-class destroyers just continued to sail south.
after waiting 2 hours i went back to PD and sank the remaining Hunt I destroyers.

2 weeks later i docked at willemshaven with 6 destroyers,2 planes and 8 merchants downed.


got the iron cross 1st class.

[Brag]

U-123
June 1940 in the Gulf of Cadiz--Bleah. Maybe the French capitulation has something to do with this, but enemy traffic has dried up.

Moving to western approaches. 40% of fuel remaining. Intend to proceed to Lorient once munitions are expended.

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-20. patrol 5A.
2 december.
patrol orders. AM32

just sailed out of willemshave with the scharnhorst and gneisenau.
almoast had a collision with the gneisenau.

i hope this patrol will give me a lot of tonnage

[firouz]

U-52 Type VIIB. January 1940.
Sucessfull completion of Patrol 4. Ordered to harbour raid on Calais, so did the channel route to Western Bay of Biscay. Sank T2 tanker at Calais and Damaged a C2 during surface attack (*** minefields). Contact made with a French dock (Bernard is WO 1), but this just helped confuse the defence, and we escaped from the port into the Channel. Good weather for patrol. Sank small merchants with gunfire, saved torps for the big ships. Finally contacted a large convoy north of Londondery with only two torps left. It was flanked by two armed trawler :roll:. Easy. Two large merchants later, on our way home. 74,000 t for the patrol, an chunk of a French dock in the bow, and a Knights Cross. U-52 has sunk 240,000 t in four patrols.:arrgh!: We can't lose this war!

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

patrol 5B.

after my (almoast) colision with the gneisenau i sank a troop carrier and a pasanger liner.

5 days later i sank a destroyer and 2 coastal merchants.
later that day i spotted a TF and guess what ship was there....

THE ARK ROYAL !!!
i thought he was already sank :o :o :o

i fired 4 torpedo's at it but they all missed. then fired my last one. he missed to.

i decided to compleet my patrol and go back home

[Brag]

U-123
11 July 1940
Entered Lorient before it was ready as bese.
Despite horrible weather, managed 2 bag 2 large tankers toward end of patrol. This brought tonnage to s;oghtly under 80K.

Here is Tanker Alley:

BF 13.
On southern boundary measure 35 kms from western edge of grid. Then run a line 60 -240 degrees. draw second 60 degree line at 60 kms. You will find plenty of large tankers inside that corridor.15K tons per ship.

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-123. IXB (WAC)
Patrol 7

i left willemshaven a wheek ago and this is my curent state.

1x coastal merchant wrack (just for fun)
3x coastal merchant.
3x armed trawler.
2x C2-cargo.
1x Hunt I destroyer.
1 small merchant.
1x large merchant.
1x trawler.
1x small tanker.
1x transportmerchant.

total tonnage : 49725

out of torpedo's and deck gun ammo.

and look where it all happened
http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/4681/sh3img14520074648656uj2.png

[KeptinCranky]

edit: :o You Idiot Mohr!! :o see above post :rock:


U-77
Oblt Karl Beneder
St. Nazaire
Feindfahrt 8
25 februari 1941
Grid AM92

I'm not amused, someone up there has it in for me but Befehl ist Befehl, so..

BF23 The weather is clear but heavy swells...good for the planes, not so much for us

Sank several lone freighters approaching st.Georgs Kanal

snuck into Irish bay on south coast to load external stores, apparently someone called in the British, despite the filthy weather, surprised by Destroyer just outside Irish waters...managed to evade.

Onward..ran into an outbound convoy sunk another whaler and a medium merchant (broke her back)

evaded escorts and headed further north running submerged all day, lots of warships moving about up there, only surfacing at night to race further north and recharge batteries,

AM92 torpedoed 2 tramp steamers, they didn't sink, eventually driven off by MTBs

Spotted a strange freighter, one of the petty officers informs me it's a great lakes freighter, hardly looks seaworthy, it's also an American, ignore it

torpedoed lone large merchant, sinks quickly another 10k tons :up:

1 fish left in the forward tubes, inbound convoy detected, they're going to steam right over me, hug the bottom..
reached periscope depth in the middle of the convoy, used my last fish in a shot to nothing at a medium tanker crossing my bows at a bad angle...She blows up, must have been carrying AVgas, dived for the bottom again, evaded escorts, stayed under till passing taskforce was well away

patrol completed, heading south, why haven't we seen any planes yet?

near Scilly Islands, spotted large merchant, too rough for the deck gun, schade
She opens fire on us, these things carry guns now!?!

evaded hostile merchant, continue south, passed Brest on the 3rd of March
return to St. Nazaire uneventful.

40.000 tons, a nice haul, and not one single plane, maybe not everyone up there hates me....
I got promoted to full Kapitanleutnant , drinks are on me :()1:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

edit: :o You Idiot Mohr!! :o see above post :rock:


why ? becouse i went trough the chanal :smug:

[Telgriff]

edit: :o You Idiot Mohr!! :o see above post :rock:

why ? becouse i went trough the chanal :smug:

Keleun Jochen Mohr goes through Scapa Flow and the Channel....for fun. :arrgh!:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

edit: :o You Idiot Mohr!! :o see above post :rock:

why ? becouse i went trough the chanal :smug:

Keleun Jochen Mohr goes through Scapa Flow and the Channel....for fun. :arrgh!:

damn right you are :arrgh!:

but not only for fun... also for some adventure
although scapa flow got boring after a while so thats why i now go trough the channel :yep:

trying it again in patrol 8. (nr 7 was to make my rank oficial)

[azn_132]

U-666 in the house! First stop! Scapa Flow!

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-123 (WAC)
patrol 9.

went back trough the channel.
this time i almoast pissed my pants.

i was almoast on the end of the channel when 8 PLANES showed up.:o
they all bombed me and i sank to the oceanfloor. i had flooding in all compartiments but mannaged to stop all flooding. i realy thought my time was ended.

still buzy to get the water out and repairing my sub.

edit: i managed to repair my sub and im continuing my patrol.
sank a C3-cargo after the repairs... will post a patrol pict when completed

edit2: patrol finnished. status.

1x Armed Trawler.
4x Coastal Merchant.
1x C Class Destroyer.
1x V&W Destroyer.
1x C3-Cargo.
1x Empire Cell Tanker.
1x Transport Merchant.

total tonnage : 33246

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/9361/sh3img1452007182116671if5.png

the x marks the spot where i almoast sank

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

U-124. (WAC) (changed 123 to 124 with SH3cmdr)
patrol 10.

this patrol is the biggest disaster ever.
fired ALL my torpedo's to 1 SINGLE ARMED TRAWLER!!!! :damn:
it just refused to get hit. or the torpedo's hitbut didnt explode :damn: :damn: .

returned home and got scolded by Döniz.
got drunk in the tavern on shore next to my sub.

crew was shocked to see me that night lying on my subs deck and talking to her

[Brag]

U-123
BF17
Arrived on station in "Tanker Allee" on 6 Agust 1940 at 1950 hrs.
07 Aug chased sound contact, turned out to be American large tanker
08--09 Aug no contacts.
10 Aug 1743 hrs. Sank 1 Medium tanker, 1 large tanker total 26,000 tons.
20 torpedoes left. :yep:

[KeptinCranky]

Mohr, I still say you're nuts but you certainly do it with style :D

I've never taken my boat through der Kanal in GWX yet, I thought getting in and out of AM92 in 1941 was pretty damn ballsy but you're something else :rotfl:
last time I went anywhere near there in anything bigger than a type II I got mined for my trouble :stare:

I'd like to hear your thoughts on taking a IXB or C out of Lorient through gibraltar (and possibly suez (for the truly suezidal) docking in Mogadishu before it falls to the British and going back the way you came.....doable?

[Brag]

Ooh-boy, Cranky -- you're really stiring up trouble :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[KeptinCranky]

:D:D:D

well, you've got to admit, that suez canal is there, and it's mighty tempting.....and think about the wonderful tall tales he'll be able to share :D

I tend to look into these forums from work and seeing him do something like that, that'd make me fall off my chair laughing, that'd be so worth losing a bit of karma for suggesting it, and he did say going through scapa flow got boring.
besides I'm confident(ish) he can actually pull it off

something like this :gulp:

[jwatch]

Parked off Casablanca, waiting... U224

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

Mohr, I still say you're nuts but you certainly do it with style :D

I've never taken my boat through der Kanal in GWX yet, I thought getting in and out of AM92 in 1941 was pretty damn ballsy but you're something else :rotfl:
last time I went anywhere near there in anything bigger than a type II I got mined for my trouble :stare:

I'd like to hear your thoughts on taking a IXB or C out of Lorient through gibraltar (and possibly suez (for the truly suezidal) docking in Mogadishu before it falls to the British and going back the way you came.....doable?

on GWX i went trough the channel just 1ce whitout trouble. those picts are from WAC :up: .

you have a splendid idea there mate. as soon as i have a french base il pass gibraltar :arrgh!:.

and where is suez ? seems verry interesting.

i do this with a IXB type. before my IXB it was a VIIB type

[Brag]

Aaarrrghh!
Mohr is awake but not sober :huh:. Interesting? :roll: Aaaarrghh. :rotfl: :rotfl:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: couldnt sleep so im once again on SH3 WAC :arrgh!:

[azn_132]

U-666, goin home after killin Hood and Nelson, next stop The Canal after some more :()1: .

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

ok boys and girls.

U-124 (WAC).
patrol 11. march 8 1940.

mission : go trough the channel and pass gibraltar :arrgh!:.
hope il get back home alive

[azn_132]

ok boys and girls.

U-124 (WAC).
patrol 11. march 8 1940.

mission : go trough the channel and pass gibraltar :arrgh!:.
hope il get back home alive

So ur just goin through Braltar and back, or head straight to La Speniza whatever(forgot the spellin after playin SH4 alot).

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

ok boys and girls.

U-124 (WAC).
patrol 11. march 8 1940.

mission : go trough the channel and pass gibraltar :arrgh!:.
hope il get back home alive

So ur just goin through Braltar and back, or head straight to La Speniza whatever(forgot the spellin after playin SH4 alot).

just passing for fun :up:.
srry to correct you but its La Spezia

[azn_132]

ok boys and girls.

U-124 (WAC).
patrol 11. march 8 1940.

mission : go trough the channel and pass gibraltar :arrgh!:.
hope il get back home alive

So ur just goin through Braltar and back, or head straight to La Speniza whatever(forgot the spellin after playin SH4 alot).

just passing for fun :up:.
srry to correct you but its La Spezia

Oh, ok, wait for me, after my The Canal passage patrol.

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

ok boys and girls.

U-124 (WAC).
patrol 11. march 8 1940.

mission : go trough the channel and pass gibraltar :arrgh!:.
hope il get back home alive

So ur just goin through Braltar and back, or head straight to La Speniza whatever(forgot the spellin after playin SH4 alot).

just passing for fun :up:.
srry to correct you but its La Spezia

Oh, ok, wait for me, after my The Canal passage patrol.

sure. im passing the chanal now. still not detected by destroyers. destroyed 1 armed trawler and 1 coastal merchabt.

[azn_132]

ok boys and girls.

U-124 (WAC).
patrol 11. march 8 1940.

mission : go trough the channel and pass gibraltar :arrgh!:.
hope il get back home alive

So ur just goin through Braltar and back, or head straight to La Speniza whatever(forgot the spellin after playin SH4 alot).

just passing for fun :up:.
srry to correct you but its La Spezia

Oh, ok, wait for me, after my The Canal passage patrol.

sure. im passing the chanal now. still not detected by destroyers. destroyed 1 armed trawler and 1 coastal merchabt.

well, only kills I have so far is 5 PTs and movin Suderland(spellin?), also two DDs.

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

i encountered a sailing sunderland to on patrol 7.
the bloody thing killed 2 sailors :shifty:.

speaking of luck... look at this.

its a destoyer that sailed over my deck and he still didnt spot me :rock:
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/462/sh3destroyerdidntspotmeco9.jpg

[azn_132]

Nice! what officers mod ur usein tho?

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

Nice! what officers mod ur usein tho?

take a look on this site
http://www.silent-hunter3-modzone.de/include.php?path=content/downloadkategorie.php&PHPKITSID=1e876243af1ba625b508beae43fff4b6
its called historishe offizier mod 2.00

anyway. my first trouble have apeared...
sank the destroyer and 5 minutes later i struck a mine. i got heavy flooding and heavy dammage. sank to 45m and started repairs.

[azn_132]

Nice! what officers mod ur usein tho?

take a look on this site
http://www.silent-hunter3-modzone.de/include.php?path=content/downloadkategorie.php&PHPKITSID=1e876243af1ba625b508beae43fff4b6
its called historishe offizier mod 2.00

anyway. my first trouble have apeared...
sank the destroyer and 5 minutes later i struck a mine. i got heavy flooding and heavy dammage. sank to 45m and started repairs.

Whats the H.I? And Im halfway through the canal, sunk three more DDs, got only one DC run then PD try to get a stern shot at the last DD, got him.