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Steel_Tomb
06-05-07, 03:01 PM
So close! Almost got to the end of the war! About 2 weeks from VE day and I got KIA...
Found a nice juicey convoy, usual amount of DD escorts, "nothing I can't handle" I thought (wrongly!). One escort carrier and two tankers later I'm diving down 40stb rudder "wasser bomben Herr Kaluen!":huh: *BOOM*. Serious flooding, shook them off and got it under control, I stay under as long as I can...the batteries nearly flat so I surface under the cover of night to charge them (hydrophone destroyed!). "waship spotted!" ALLLLAARRRMM!!! (here we go again!) BOOM BOOM BOOM - get rid of him with a well timed homing fish "hurrahh!", not really lol. Half the crew are dead, both diesels destroyed, batteries damaged and nearly out of charge...I'm forced to surface. The deceased are burried and I try to make my way back to safe territory, can't call for help, the radio's destroyed, conning towers a mess, all aft tubes out of action...a dark moment in my longest carrear! The Coup De Grace came when a aircraft comes out of nowhere, I'm a sitting duck...
You can guess the result lol, by far the most exciting patrol EVER in SHIII for me! I was gettin to the stage where I was like "don't give in you heap of junk!" fixing the leaks in the control room.
Think I'll go get meself a beer, I need it lol.
IrischKapitan
06-05-07, 03:10 PM
Unlucky!! Were you using the XXI?
bigboywooly
06-05-07, 03:13 PM
Wow that is unlucky
Was that from 39 ?
Jimbuna
06-05-07, 03:26 PM
At least you were saved the humility of surrendering :arrgh!:
Is that in GWX start 1939 if so I am.........................................
Steel_Tomb
06-05-07, 03:33 PM
IXD2 I think (get confused with all the different types of IX), from 1939 onwards yes. I've got another career with the XXI, which is very cool. The way it all ended was rather horrid, I got hit by the sunderland or whatever it was and sustained heavy flooding, she sank beneath the waves and sank to crush depth and that was the end...ouch!
Sailor Steve
06-05-07, 04:37 PM
Are you using SH3 Commander? If so, change it to surrendered. It's not cheating to abandon ship if you were surfaced. Of course if you were killed outright by the bomb...:dead:
Doom de doom. My cap off to you and your crew.
Packerton
06-05-07, 07:03 PM
Yeah thats the thing I love about subsims you are never EVER safe.
It just feels diffrent from combat flight sims...too much of nothing before the combat.
Steel_Tomb
06-06-07, 10:08 AM
Yeah I always use SHIII commander. I would change it to surrender, but the bomb made pretty sure I didn't have a chance lol. I would have made a last stand with the flak gun but all three were destroyed! :damn:
Iron Budokan
06-06-07, 05:15 PM
I don't have the faintest idea what 1945 is like, much less two weeks from VE day. I've never gotten past June '43.
I don't have the faintest idea what 1945 is like, much less two weeks from VE day. I've never gotten past June '43.
You know, come to think of it, I don't think I have either :nope:
HunterICX
06-07-07, 05:01 AM
Surrender?!
I say be glad you went out with a big Bang! fight till the end I always say :rock:
danurve
06-07-07, 07:59 AM
I don't have the faintest idea what 1945 is like, much less two weeks from VE day. I've never gotten past June '43.
You know, come to think of it, I don't think I have either :nope:
join the club!
Steel_Tomb; sounds as if you had a good crew and a carrer to remember :yep:
Steel_Tomb
06-07-07, 11:23 AM
To be fair, I think I would have been shot for cowardace sometimes lol. There were many times where I backed off from convoys because of the DD escorts, had some very close calls too!
Jimbuna
06-07-07, 11:27 AM
Better to live and be able to fight another day when the circumstances/conditions are more in your favour :arrgh!:
Corsair
06-07-07, 11:46 AM
Being cautious and not too greedy are always keys to a long career... Congrats, I never got that far...:cry:
Lagger123987
06-08-07, 12:36 AM
I can never get pass 1940.
I can never get pass 1940.
There is centrainly room for improvement: 1940 isn't that hard; maybe you're a bit too reckless! ;)
Lagger123987
06-08-07, 01:03 AM
I can never get pass 1940.
There is centrainly room for improvement: 1940 isn't that hard; maybe you're a bit too reckless! ;)
I always push it to the limit when attacking convoys.
azn_132
06-08-07, 02:42 AM
I can never get pass 1940.
There is centrainly room for improvement: 1940 isn't that hard; maybe you're a bit too reckless! ;)
I always push it to the limit when attacking convoys.
Ur too gung ho Lag, take time on attackin them, dont be Rambo.
Indiana_Jones
06-08-07, 02:49 AM
I can never get pass 1940.
There is centrainly room for improvement: 1940 isn't that hard; maybe you're a bit too reckless! ;)
I always push it to the limit when attacking convoys.
Great now I have "Push it to the limit" stuck in my head
http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2006/11/scarface_million.jpg
-Indy
azn_132
06-08-07, 02:54 AM
I can never get pass 1940.
There is centrainly room for improvement: 1940 isn't that hard; maybe you're a bit too reckless! ;)
I always push it to the limit when attacking convoys.
Great now I have "Push it to the limit" stuck in my head
http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2006/11/scarface_million.jpg
-Indy
Push it to the Limit as in a song?
Indiana_Jones
06-08-07, 02:56 AM
Push it to the Limit as in a song?
Yea, the song :D
*puts it into the gramaphone folder*
-Indy
azn_132
06-08-07, 02:58 AM
Push it to the Limit as in a song?
Yea, the song :D
*puts it into the gramaphone folder*
-Indy
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