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Foghladh_mhara
06-03-07, 08:23 AM
I'm getting cocky now. I'm on my eleventh patrol playing DID and all the extras turned off (except external camera. I like explosions!) My tonnage bag is a little too impressive and the bridge watch have more decorations than that fat flyboy Goering. So naturally I've now started messing with the escorts.

I got careless with my periscope whilst waiting in the path of a convoy on my last patrol and a couple of Black Swans came up to get me. I spent about 2 hours underwater with depthcharges going off around my ears and the damage control party running from one end of the boat to the other trying to stop the flooding. I was rising and sinking like a yoyo. I blew so much ballast that the compressed air ran out and I thought I was gone but the crew stopped the flooding just in time. I eventually limped off at 1 knot and returned to base. Best patrol ever. Didnt sink as much as a trawler but I really enjoyed myself :yep:

Which explains why I'm now running at flank speed ahead of a convoy with two corvettes picking up speed behind me and getting ready to dive... or die possibly:hmm:
The lookouts look less than happy

nikbear
06-03-07, 09:19 AM
This is going to end in tears before bed time if you ask me:rotfl: The men in the boats with guns have no sense of humour and get very irrate if you insist on winding them up;) :lol:

Packerton
06-03-07, 09:30 AM
Haha Yeah Escort Evasion is thrilling and fun and where the series really shines in recreateing the effect of being relentlessy hunted (GWX at least anyway)

Foghladh_mhara
06-03-07, 10:18 AM
I dont know whats happening to the Royal Navy these days. Thats not how you depth charge:nope: Their heart just didn't seem to be in it. Very disappointing.

Now having said that I fully expect to get sent to the bottom as retribution for my cockiness:hmm:

KeptinCranky
06-03-07, 10:50 AM
well, you could try and turn into those pesky escorts go to pd, fire off all your forward tubes, and if that doesn't work, go to flank speed, still go straight for him and just when he's about 50 meters away, blow ballast and go right down his throat, they'll never see it coming :D

or you could try the Med, go loiter off Valetta harbor and sink anything warshippy that moves, at one point I had 17 different warship contacts there at the same time , all moving...:o

Growler
06-03-07, 11:01 AM
Heck, if you're bored, run surfaced during daylight at two or three knots... through the English Channel.

I guarantee a life of excitement... though it may be a short one.:D

Canovaro
06-04-07, 08:46 AM
Foghladh_mhara you *will* get yourself killed this way :yep:
(http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/member.php?u=229414)

SmokinTep
06-04-07, 09:03 AM
Heck, if you're bored, run surfaced during daylight at two or three knots... through the English Channel.

I guarantee a life of excitement... though it may be a short one.:D

That is truely a death wish...........

Foghladh_mhara
06-04-07, 10:01 AM
Well I'm still a chicken**** at heart it appears. Just ran into a destroyer escort group consisting of 4-5 frigates and destroyers. The perfect opportunity to tug the tigers tail.... I went very very silent and very very deep :D

One has to know ones limits:yep:

HunterICX
06-04-07, 11:04 AM
Heck, if you're bored, run surfaced during daylight at two or three knots... through the English Channel.

I guarantee a life of excitement... though it may be a short one.:D

That is truely a death wish...........

Mmm...its not that bad...if you want to have a dead wish go flank speed right into a H&K group:up: stay on surface and mount the deck gun!

Sailor Steve
06-04-07, 11:04 AM
Not chicken...just smart. At least you're here to tell us the story.:yep:

Growler
06-04-07, 11:06 AM
Whew, that was close... glad you got over your momentary lapse of reason, man. There's bravery, yeah... but there's also suicide!