Tanker Alley

[Brag]

You just sunk a tanker. You haven't finished reloading the tube and the sound man reports another contact. It's another oil bearing argonaut, 15,000 tons waiting to go to the bottom.

Sounds like a Kaleun's dream, Right?

Such an area does exist just 50 hours steaming from Lorient. Tanker Alley, a route where frequently you can sink 2 or 3 tankers in one day!

Presently, after 21 days of going up and down the Alley trying to pinpoint its exact location, I'm sailing home to Lorient with 135,676 BRTs under U-123's keel.

As a reference point (Datum) I have used the detailed Kriegsmarine grid

Picture provided courtesy of ReM
http://uboat.net/maps/images/grid_quad_41.gif


When you look at the chart below, you can see the datum is located at grid BE3936. This is an area if any other ship is present it will be within hydrophone range.

I have confirmed the exact location of this route by running 3 patrols here from May to December 1940. The tankers are always there, though, you should expect a few days without contacs from time to time.

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o207/Braguine/fsscr271.jpg

If you measure 10 kms south of the BE36 boundary and extend a line of 240 degrees it will give you the route of the tankers. All the ones I have encountered where northeast bound.

Bear in mind, not all tankers travel exactly along this line. Strangely enough, I have intercepted tankers transiting the Alley at headings somewhat different than the direction of the route. Besides tankers, I have intercepted Large freighters here and one whale factory.

I've tried to sink all ships by using one torpedo. A magnetic torp at the engine room or an impact just at the rear of the forecastle are usualy fatal, but it can take a long time for the tanker to sink.

Good luck Kaleuns, we should see some good tonnages from fishing on Tanker Alley :know:

[SmokinTep]

Will investigate this tonight............:cool:

[danlisa]

LOL, I think you can now pretty much assume that this won't happen in GWX 1.04.:rotfl:

Thanks for the intel.:lol:

[Stoli]

LOL, I think you can now pretty much assume that this won't happen in GWX 1.04.:rotfl:

Thanks for the intel.:lol:

What changed in 1.04? Do they randomize the routes?


Great Patrol Brag, keep dishing out the hell!

[danlisa]

:lol: Nothing like that.

It's just, as Brag has brought it to our attention, it may get changed/reduced as it seems a source of very high tonnages :yep: or maybe better protection will be offered to these sitting ducks.

Have to wait and see what the campaign scripters say.;)

[Paajtor]

Go for it, Danlisa!!:rock:

No way that in RL, ships would continue to use this route...they'd either spread out or go elsewhere, or call for better protection.

Gj, Brag.:up:

[nikbear]

LOL, I think you can now pretty much assume that this won't happen in GWX 1.04.:rotfl:

Thanks for the intel.:lol:

I'm a bit worried as to what the next installment may bring:o is the happy time to vanish altogether,I'm hoping that there will be some balance to this,its just that as soon as someone finds something juicy in the game someone else chirps in with "that won't happen in GWX1.04"I'm all for realism and that but I hope the baby's not going to be thrown out with the bath water in the constant striving for a realistic experience:hmm: ;)

[danlisa]

Don't worry.

It's just tonnages that high are a bit OTT.;)

GWX will remain scalable for the average player, it's sort of a requirement.:yep:

[nikbear]

Phew,thank god for that:yep: Had me worried for a moment;)

[Brag]

:lol: Nothing like that.

It's just, as Brag has brought it to our attention, it may get changed/reduced as it seems a source of very high tonnages :yep: or maybe better protection will be offered to these sitting ducks.

Have to wait and see what the campaign scripters say.;)

I agree. In RL even if they were using the same route, a ship's distress message would alert everyone that a U-boat was in the area.

Speaking of better protection: In one year (39-40) of GWX, I've ran into 5 battleships and sunk them all. Only once I was persecuted by escorts after the deed.
My tonnage in general is a bit on the high side, too.

I did get a nasty surprise when chasing after a fast troop transport. The blighter opened fire at me with several guns including a shower of flack. This caused a lot of damage, though no casualties.

After Danlisa's comments, I see Kaleuns scrambling out of the harbours and heading for this elephant bone-yard before GWX 1.04 shuts down the easy pickings :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[KeptinCranky]

And rightly so! Mr Brag :up:

IRL if anything like your killing spree were to happen you'd be happily cruising along looking for the next juicy floating bomb and kerblammo the brits have just invented the Hunter/Killer group, and your their first guinea pig...:cry:

Then again, they'd probably have a Bogue or something along, and those are good tonnage too:arrgh!:

I have no luck sinking BBs they seem to be heavily damaged but sail on nonetheless, and no time to put in another fish to make sure because of escorts...

Since you seem to have attracted the attention of the GWX crew, they might want to have a look at the Cunard Liner damage model (see also screenshot thread) because 1 hit kills on one of those seem a bit unlikely.....

now I'm off to tanker alley (while it's still there) :lurk:

[Telgriff]

:o

I think I need to have a sick day from work and 'rest' for a patrol.

[Lagger123987]

Tanker Alley is in Mexico! Not in the convoy routes! Tankers are numerous around the Pirates of the Carribeean land!

[bigboywooly]

:nope:

[Lagger123987]

:nope:

What you mean by that?

[azn_132]

:nope:

What you mean by that?

The carrib is not the only place to get Tankers.

[rb4door]

brag, I will check this out in '42 and see what results I get - as last "tanker alley" I tried from the happy hunting grounds thread (BF13) was not producing any tankers at all for me when I spent days patrolling that alleyway. It did seem to produce an abnormal amount of destroyer escorts patrolling by themselves though! I'm wondering if its because i'm in 1942 and you were patrolling that area earlier in the war..

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

brag, I will check this out in '42 and see what results I get - as last "tanker alley" I tried from the happy hunting grounds thread (BF13) was not producing any tankers at all for me when I spent days patrolling that alleyway. It did seem to produce an abnormal amount of destroyer escorts patrolling by themselves though! I'm wondering if its because i'm in 1942 and you were patrolling that area earlier in the war..

DD's and Escorts :hmm: :hmm: :hmm:
beware for me :arrgh!: :arrgh!: :arrgh!:

[KeptinCranky]

Been to Tanker Alley, only got the one tanker, but I finally got my Battleship(s) :arrgh!:

It seems my current kaleun has something against the British royal family, sinking both King George V and the Prince of Wales

as an addendum to tanker alley, if it's slow going there, go one grid north to AM7x that's convoy alley...they keep appearing (at least in 41)

[Jimbuna]

:lol: Nothing like that.

It's just, as Brag has brought it to our attention, it may get changed/reduced as it seems a source of very high tonnages :yep: or maybe better protection will be offered to these sitting ducks.

Have to wait and see what the campaign scripters say.;)

You being a bully again Dan ? :hmm:

Careful you don't start a mutiny :arrgh!:
:rotfl: :rotfl:

[johan_d]

[aaa]

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[bigboywooly]

:lol: Nothing like that.

It's just, as Brag has brought it to our attention, it may get changed/reduced as it seems a source of very high tonnages :yep: or maybe better protection will be offered to these sitting ducks.

Have to wait and see what the campaign scripters say.;)

You being a bully again Dan ? :hmm:

Careful you don't start a mutiny :arrgh!:
:rotfl: :rotfl:

Changed already :up:

[STEED]

See a tanker sink it and to heck if it's neutral like a Russian one before Jun41 in American waters make it look like an accident. :roll:

[down and out]

See a tanker sink it and to heck if it's neutral like a Russian one before Jun41 in American waters make it look like an accident. :roll:

:o
:rotfl:

[Lagger123987]

brag, I will check this out in '42 and see what results I get - as last "tanker alley" I tried from the happy hunting grounds thread (BF13) was not producing any tankers at all for me when I spent days patrolling that alleyway. It did seem to produce an abnormal amount of destroyer escorts patrolling by themselves though! I'm wondering if its because i'm in 1942 and you were patrolling that area earlier in the war..

DD's and Escorts :hmm: :hmm: :hmm:
beware for me :arrgh!: :arrgh!: :arrgh!:

Hohr, beware for me.

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

brag, I will check this out in '42 and see what results I get - as last "tanker alley" I tried from the happy hunting grounds thread (BF13) was not producing any tankers at all for me when I spent days patrolling that alleyway. It did seem to produce an abnormal amount of destroyer escorts patrolling by themselves though! I'm wondering if its because i'm in 1942 and you were patrolling that area earlier in the war..

DD's and Escorts :hmm: :hmm: :hmm:
beware for me :arrgh!: :arrgh!: :arrgh!:

Hohr, beware for me.

hey Fagger... shut it would ya

[azn_132]

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Zxgpx Brbvc Otbpz Ejaev Gpzwf Kqvlz Ycrxg Kvwha Huiig Qnw

Translation?

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

[aaa]

Zxgpx Brbvc Otbpz Ejaev Gpzwf Kqvlz Ycrxg Kvwha Huiig Qnw

Translation?

have to use the enigma with aaa settings (standart)

[Genghis Khan]

Thanks a lot,Brag.I have found that intense traffic route in my GWX too.Consisting mainly of large ships,it goes all the way West to Canada,from your specified point.I found it in February 1940,also with IXB U-123 U-Boat.Large Cargos,Merchants,Tankers are there.:D :up:

[Brag]

19 Jan 1941
U-123

Stopped by on my way back from patrol to jazz up my tonnage. 4 days now with nothing happening. :roll:

[Genghis Khan]

Brag,what grid are you in?As far,as I have seen,traffic is lower when you are closer to Canadian Coasts. :)

[nikbear]

I've stopped by "tanker alley" twice now,first time ran into 2 tankers and a large cargo in 5 days of patrol,second time found nothing in 8 days of patrol:nope: eventually ran into a convoy that crossed into TA but it was very bad weather,managed to sink 1 large cargo and 1 small tanker along with a great lakes freighter which was pointless for the tonnage it gave me.So all in all not the turkey shoot I was expecting,I think if your in BE39 at the right time with the right conditions then you could get lucky,but it doesn't seem to be tonnage heaven,if anything its an abject lesson in tedium and patience:-? I suppose what I'm trying to say is that yes you can get lucky there(sometimes very lucky) but not as frequent as you'd think,be prepared for days of nothing and then finding that the one contact you get is not a great big juicy tanker but a bloody passenger/cargo:damn: If the GWX team want to have a look at something its the damage model on those damn things,22 105mm HE shells into one,8 below the water line,I checked,and it still manages to sail on with barely a drop in speed:nope: just look at that again,105mm High Explosive shells,22 of them!!!!!!!!!!Its a shame the people who built them didn't build the titanic,it would have shrugged of that iceberg no problem

[nikbear]

/_______Great,My icon has now changed into some plonker with some sort of safety bonnet,lovely.
\

;)

[Jimbuna]

It's really quite becoming :lol:

[johan_d]

Just returned from there, altough just found 2 ships in about 8 days, I slowely headed back, and ran in an unarmed, unescorted convoy.. total tonnage 59,000 and not a scratch! (january 1941)

In that month you can expect a convoy crossing the alley, heading west.

Johan

[Telgriff]

Currently doing laps of the tanker alley for some morale boosting. Sunk 1 merchant and 1 medium cargo. Fairly quiet though....

[Jimbuna]

You all might want to consider keeping an install of 1.03...to remember the happy times with :lol:

[Brag]

January 1941
I spent one week in Tanker Alley--zip contacts. Then an Anrican large tanker went by. A few hours later, north of the Alley, a whale factory tried to outrun us. I have a few torps left to bring the tonnage up for a suitable celebration in Lorient :cool:

Jimbuna: Yesss!!
The evil GWXrs must be on Churchill's payroll.

[ReM]

Anyone find a repeating mini convoy consisting of 2 large tankers and 2 other big vessels in BE39?

I found and chased this group multiple times only to find that the tankers are Irish and thus neutral...I've stumbled upon them at least 3 different patrols...

Next time i'll sink them anyway...:arrgh!: I've got more than enough renown to take the hit.....

There is also a fast moving merchant that appears in BE 39 at intervals...

I haven't been able to actually spot it, because it is really fast, but maybe a passenger liner...

[Jimbuna]

Jimbuna: Yesss!!
The evil GWXrs must be on Churchill's payroll.
:rotfl: :rotfl:

There is a regular route for passenger liners nearby....but that's unrealistic as well because it enables 300.000 ton patrols :arrgh!:

[nikbear]

You all might want to consider keeping an install of 1.03...to remember the happy times with :lol:

I might not bother with GWX1.04,I struggle to get decent tonnage as it is,the most I've ever got is 80000 tonnes and that was thanks to our careless cousins the americans when they finally joined and I took a Type IX over there.If GWX gets alot harder I'll be stuffed:dead:

[Jimbuna]

You'll be fine kaleun....just a little practice. When I started out I used to lie approx 100km off large ports and catch the traffic coming and going. :yep:
Don't forget your map of convoy routes in the top left hand corner....I know it's not 1oo% accurate but it will help you in patrolling the right areas :up:

[nikbear]

Oh,I'm in the right places,just never at the right time:doh: I'm the yesterday kaleun,as in "you should have been here yesterday,it was the biggest convoy I've ever seen":damn:

[Brag]

Oh,I'm in the right places,just never at the right time:doh: I'm the yesterday kaleun,as in "you should have been here yesterday,it was the biggest convoy I've ever seen":damn:

There was a time, even in the vanilla days, when I was super happy with a 30K patrol.

Started new career with gwix and got killed twice.
Started new carreer with GWX 1.o2 , it became obsolete with 1.03.

Now, well trained and afraid--very afraid, I'm on tenth patrol and scooping great tonnages.

We grow together with GWX. The GWX ghouls ( :rotfl: ) keep tossing nasties our way. But we get better, too.

Courage, mes amis (As we say in Lorient) we will win this war :rock:

[Jimbuna]

Oh,I'm in the right places,just never at the right time:doh: I'm the yesterday kaleun,as in "you should have been here yesterday,it was the biggest convoy I've ever seen":damn:

PRICELESS!! :rotfl: :rotfl:

[Telgriff]

There is also a fast moving merchant that appears in BE 39 at intervals...

I haven't been able to actually spot it, because it is really fast, but maybe a passenger liner...

Yep, chased that for a while and never made visual contact. Ended up stumbling upon a convoy while trying to chase the fast merchant, meaning the DD heard me coming from miles away.

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Oh,I'm in the right places,just never at the right time:doh: I'm the yesterday kaleun,as in "you should have been here yesterday,it was the biggest convoy I've ever seen":damn:

There was a time, even in the vanilla days, when I was super happy with a 30K patrol.

Started new career with gwix and got killed twice.
Started new carreer with GWX 1.o2 , it became obsolete with 1.03.

Now, well trained and afraid--very afraid, I'm on tenth patrol and scooping great tonnages.

We grow together with GWX. The GWX ghouls ( :rotfl: ) keep tossing nasties our way. But we get better, too.

Courage, mes amis (As we say in Lorient) we will win this war :rock:

Heh heh. Now TURN OFF your map contacts and go patrol the mid-Atlantic.:yep:

Get tough with some REAL salt in your teeth!:arrgh!:

[Brag]

Oh,I'm in the right places,just never at the right time:doh: I'm the yesterday kaleun,as in "you should have been here yesterday,it was the biggest convoy I've ever seen":damn:

There was a time, even in the vanilla days, when I was super happy with a 30K patrol.

Started new career with gwix and got killed twice.
Started new carreer with GWX 1.o2 , it became obsolete with 1.03.

Now, well trained and afraid--very afraid, I'm on tenth patrol and scooping great tonnages.

We grow together with GWX. The GWX ghouls ( :rotfl: ) keep tossing nasties our way. But we get better, too.

Courage, mes amis (As we say in Lorient) we will win this war :rock:

Heh heh. Now TURN OFF your map contacts and go patrol the mid-Atlantic.:yep:

Get tough with some REAL salt in your teeth!:arrgh!:

Aarrgghh!!
Capt. Lehman knows how to issue a challenge :eek: , I guess I'm gonna have to turn off map cpntacts. It's just more work, more stress. Aarrgghh :eek: :nope: I guess I'm gonna have to paint the frog on my conning tower blur.

[vwc_maxwellsmart]

Hi guys

I've been to the caribean to find a good tanker route on the southern coast of Curazao, tankers come from the east and west and then head to the port. Most of them are American, so it's a bit useless to go there before the US enters the war.

The sad part of the story is the long journey from Europe, but tonnages around 130 K are not uncommon.

Cheers

[Avatar]

I sank 2 medium tankers within 24hours.
Grid BF15, near the top of the grid and a little to the right of it too.
They were both inbound to england too. :smug:

edit: cool chief status!

[Canovaro]

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Translation?
U69 LEAVING LORIENT AT HIGH SPEED TO TANKER ALLEY

Johan used rotors I (A), II (A) and III (A) and no plugs ;)

[Kitzbuell]

I've been patrolling this area for over two weeks so far during the last weeks of November '39 through the first week of December and the only pathes I've crossed is one small and one medium merchant. I'm down to my last torpedos of this patrol and am looking to pad my tonnage totals as well. :hmm:

[T.Von Hogan]

I've been patrolling this area for over two weeks so far during the last weeks of November '39 through the first week of December and the only pathes I've crossed is one small and one medium merchant. I'm down to my last torpedos of this patrol and am looking to pad my tonnage totals as well. :hmm:

Wouldn't be using GWX2.0 would you? :huh: :roll:

[Brag]

In GWX 2.0, tanker Alley is still there but it has spread out. I just came back from there and sunk about five tankers. But you can spend a week without any traffic. It will take some more "research" to see what Big Bad Wooly (Big Boy Woolly's evil twin working in the British Admiralty dept. GWX) has done. :-?

[Sniper_Fox]

ill be checking out this area tomorrow, and ive locked it in as my patrol grid, ill be scowering BE until my XIB runs out of operating fuel and i have to return...

hopefully itll be as sucessful as todays patrol, if not more so... i ran out of torps and deckgun ammo... (btw how do you change your deckgun rounds manually... i wanna be able to use my Starshells... maybe you can blow sh!t up with that?:arrgh!:

[Blacklight]

My personal favorite hunting ground is BF17 from the northwest corner down to the middle, then a full zig zag patrol accross it's deep area. I then proceed to do a nice full out patrol of the square to the left of BF17 (BF16 maybe ? I forget). I do about 90% of this patrol underwater at a depth of about 20 meters. I'll spend as little time surfaced in these two grids as I can. This area for me is now the home of the largest artificial reef in the world. Pretty soon, the ships are going to have to plot around the area or they'll crash into it. There has to be QUITE a pile of ships down there by now considering the numbers I sink there.:yep:

Also... when I go a little bit to the west side of the letters/numbers BF17 and set a perfect south course, somewhere along the rout between there and where it intersects with squares near Girbraltar, I always run into tons of ships on that line. I assume this is part of what everyone is calling "Tanker Alley".

[Brag]

My personal favorite hunting ground is BF17 from the northwest corner down to the middle, then a full zig zag patrol accross it's deep area. I then proceed to do a nice full out patrol of the square to the left of BF17 (BF16 maybe ? I forget). I do about 90% of this patrol underwater at a depth of about 20 meters. I'll spend as little time surfaced in these two grids as I can. This area for me is now the home of the largest artificial reef in the world. Pretty soon, the ships are going to have to plot around the area or they'll crash into it. There has to be QUITE a pile of ships down there by now considering the numbers I sink there.:yep:

Also... when I go a little bit to the west side of the letters/numbers BF17 and set a perfect south course, somewhere along the rout between there and where it intersects with squares near Girbraltar, I always run into tons of ships on that line. I assume this is part of what everyone is calling "Tanker Alley".

What mod are you using?

[Jimbuna]

My personal favorite hunting ground is BF17 from the northwest corner down to the middle, then a full zig zag patrol accross it's deep area. I then proceed to do a nice full out patrol of the square to the left of BF17 (BF16 maybe ? I forget). I do about 90% of this patrol underwater at a depth of about 20 meters. I'll spend as little time surfaced in these two grids as I can. This area for me is now the home of the largest artificial reef in the world. Pretty soon, the ships are going to have to plot around the area or they'll crash into it. There has to be QUITE a pile of ships down there by now considering the numbers I sink there.:yep:

Also... when I go a little bit to the west side of the letters/numbers BF17 and set a perfect south course, somewhere along the rout between there and where it intersects with squares near Girbraltar, I always run into tons of ships on that line. I assume this is part of what everyone is calling "Tanker Alley".

What mod are you using?

Are you really that desperate for tonnage :p

:rotfl:

[Blacklight]

What mod are you using?

I use GWX 2.0:up:

Are you really that desperate for tonnage :p

Answer: YES !!! I WANT ALL THE TONNAGE !!! ALL THE TONNAGE IN THE WORLD !!! MUAHAHAHAAA !!!!:rotfl:

Besides that, like I said, I'm in the process of creating the largest artificial reef in the world in that area so I'm doing this for the environment !! Think of all the nice new homes that coral, fish, and other sea creatures in that area will now have ! :88)

[T.Von Hogan]

I had a few eels left and plenty of fuel so i decided to go visit the old hunting grounds. Been there about 48 hrs now and have bagged a tanker, a passenger/cargo and a large merchant for about 16k tons.....think i will hang around for a few more days:yep: :yep:

[Blue_Ninja63]

By looking at your screenshot and comparing it to the ubisoft map that comes with Silent Hunter III you have found a shipping route that is used by single ships of the same type in this case tankers. There are 11 such routes in Silent Hunter III. These single routes did exist for Cargo ships, Tankers, Passenger ships etc.

I hope GWX doesn't remove these routes completely, but rather reduce the number of spawns for the ships in these areas if a change is required.

Just my input in this area.

Sincerely,

[bigboywooly]

By looking at your screenshot and comparing it to the ubisoft map that comes with Silent Hunter III you have found a shipping route that is used by single ships of the same type in this case tankers. There are 11 such routes in Silent Hunter III. These single routes did exist for Cargo ships, Tankers, Passenger ships etc.

I hope GWX doesn't remove these routes completely, but rather reduce the number of spawns for the ships in these areas if a change is required.

Just my input in this area.

Sincerely,

The routes didnt alter
But added in random waypoint changes so the ships vary the route either side of the original by 100KM or so

[Brag]

Maybe out of habit or maybe to see what BBW has done, I've been prowling around tanker alley. It is still there but is much wider. It takes a lot more work to hunt down the tankers. Had I not charted the original route and use it as datum it would have been difficult to identify.

In GWX2.0 I patrol part of th time in perpendicular course to the route at medium surfaced speed making frequent listening dives.

Well done BBW, Balz hates you. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[Blue_Ninja63]

Thank you for your helpful information guys I am glad the routes are still there. After Danlisa's post I thought the routes were removed or going to be removed in the next release. I'm starting my 3rd patrol in GWX 2.0 and thanks to a short patrol grid mission I will have time and fuel to investigate some of these areas.

Sincerely,

[Kaptain Hans Wolf]

is this tanker alley in the stock game or just gwX

[Blue_Ninja63]

Tanker alley and single cargo routes are in the stock game. If you have the Ubisoft Map that comes with SH3 then you can see these routes by the dotted lines. You need to investigate these routes to find out what ships travel them.

Sincerely,

[Kaptain Hans Wolf]

Thanks blue ninja, im about to investigate.

cheers.

[Jimbuna]

SINK EM ALL!! http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

[Avatar]

Convoy in sight. Grid AL03. Course 100. Speed 8 Knots.
3 Lg. Tankers(the big 12kton kind), 2 Whale Factory Ships, 3 Intermediate Tankers, 3 Nipian Parks, Sm Tanker, and a Modern Tanker... all protected by 3 Flowers and a Polish Bourrasque Class. I got the large tankers and the whalers almost 70ktons.
This is the first large tanker convoy I've seen in GWX2.0, so maybe there is a new tanker alley?
Happy Hunting!

[PB_2006]

i have "stock" SH3... Feb 1941... 3rd day of patrol in BE39 only one small tanker (sunken with deck gun on 1st day of patrol) but at end of day 3 (time was 23.15) i bumped into a convoy NE corner of BE39 (2x T3, 2xC3, one Troop Transport with 3 deck guns!!! on it and bunch of C2 and merchants) this is guarded by 2 hunt II, 1 VV and 2 Flower Corvette! (shocking for me :o as i used to see convoys with max 1 DD and 1-2 trawlers/corvettes)

[Brag]

Welcome aboard PB. Keep your cool and good hunting. :up:

[Jimbuna]

Welcome aboard Kaleun PB_2006 http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

[Von Manteuffel]

shocking for me :o as i used to see convoys with max 1 DD and 1-2 trawlers/corvettes

Try GWX!!!! If 1940 and 1941 are anything to go by, Heaven only knows what we'll be facing later in the war - especially during the second half of 1943 onwards. I can hardly wait :o, but I have a feeling that lots of people - me included - may want to reconsider their "Dead is Dead" philosophy.

Welcome PB_2006 and goog hunting :up:.

[Jimbuna]

shocking for me :o as i used to see convoys with max 1 DD and 1-2 trawlers/corvettes

Try GWX!!!! If 1940 and 1941 are anything to go by, Heaven only knows what we'll be facing later in the war - especially during the second half of 1943 onwards. I can hardly wait :o, but I have a feeling that lots of people - me included - may want to reconsider their "Dead is Dead" philosophy.

Welcome PB_2006 and goog hunting :up:.

LOL....you just never know http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

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[ReM]

Found HMT Aquitiania near Tanker Alley yesterday. I picked it up on sound and it was moving fast......after a short chase I found it doing slow speed.....

After doing a submerged approach to avoid being seen, I found it had stopped and was actually sinking! Couldn't figure out what had happened....it was only mildly bad weather. I guess a ship of that size should be relatively seaworthy; so probably an attack by another sub?

I fired one torp while it was already going down fast, but still got credit for the kill! 40 K+ tons in one swoop....

I don't know whose kill I stole; probably need to buy him a beer when I get back in port.

[Blue_Ninja63]

Very good luck!! That's awesome. I haven't found one of those in career mode yet, however, have managed to sink one in multiplayer and it took three eels to take her down.

:()1:aahhh...that's better!!

[Brag]

:()1: :()1: :()1: :()1: :()1: :()1: :()1: :()1:

Long live the sunken Aquitania. You probably stole it from Balz and his career is ruined

[Jimbuna]

Found HMT Aquitiania near Tanker Alley yesterday. I picked it up on sound and it was moving fast......after a short chase I found it doing slow speed.....

After doing a submerged approach to avoid being seen, I found it had stopped and was actually sinking! Couldn't figure out what had happened....it was only mildly bad weather. I guess a ship of that size should be relatively seaworthy; so probably an attack by another sub?

I fired one torp while it was already going down fast, but still got credit for the kill! 40 K+ tons in one swoop....

I don't know whose kill I stole; probably need to buy him a beer when I get back in port.

A clear case of mistaken identity I'm afraid :nope:

Beat you to her http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=780569&postcount=4729

[ReM]

Lol.....yours was sailing in convoy...'mine' was sailing alone.....

We'll have a cold one on its sinking nonetheless.....:()1:

[Steel_Tomb]

Lol Brag, now you've said this every U-boat crew in Lorient is making preparations to set sail! I shall be among them! :arrgh!: Yarrr time to go sinkz sum' tankerz! :rotfl:

[Jimbuna]

Lol.....yours was sailing in convoy...'mine' was sailing alone.....

We'll have a cold one on its sinking nonetheless.....:()1:

Sounds good to me :()1:

[ReM]

http://www.jaunted.com/files/admin/Oktobergurls.jpg

I found a few companions....cold one for you as well Jimbuna? ;)

[Faamecanic]

http://www.jaunted.com/files/admin/Oktobergurls.jpg

I found a few companions....cold one for you as well Jimbuna? ;)

I MUST be getting old...I looked at that picture and said "MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM..... that Spaten looks GOOD!" :rotfl:

[Sailor Steve]

I don't know about a cold one, but I'll take that warm one, please.

[Brag]

I don't know about a cold one, but I'll take that warm one, please.

I like both of them WARM! :D

[Brag]

http://www.jaunted.com/files/admin/Oktobergurls.jpg

I found a few companions....cold one for you as well Jimbuna? ;)

Ffat is diz? Tankard Alley? :roll:

[Col. Caldwell]

Hmm, Tanker Alley. I just finished patroling BF15. I still got a good number of torpedoes left, so I'll stop by there and sink some tankers.:D


lol I see you guys are talking about a different kind of "Tanker Alley". :lol:

[DrMilton]

I MUST be getting old...I looked at that picture and said "MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM..... that Spaten looks GOOD!" :rotfl:

How about: Hmm these are some big... mugs :arrgh!:

[Avatar]

This thread should be changed to "Jugs Alley!"

[Col. Caldwell]

How about: Hmm these are some big... mugs :arrgh!:

Indeed. :p

This thread should be changed to "Jugs Alley!"
Hmm, rhymes with mugs. Getting off-topic here.:p

Edit: I visited grid BE39 last night. I sank a small tanker, one T2 tanker, and 2 T3 tankers. I had to use my last 3 torpedoes on the last T3 though; she was stubborn to go down and she didn't sink until after the 3rd hit. For the most part, I sank them during rough seas and fog.