Famous Last words?

[Packerton]

Heh share your storys of overconfidense or mistakes in this thread.


I was in the Med (GWX 1.3) yeah Suicide I know but I love a challenge.

100% Realism I got a bunch of Random warship contacts on sonar not far away (no task force report) The whether was extremely poor and I surfaced to get some air before I checked out the contacts.

well I came into range and Could tell in the fog that it was a Nelson Class BB with only 2 DD escorts.

"Theirs no way he can see me from here in all this fog"

Then I saw Cannon Discharges from it.

WOOOSSHHHH!!! Game over lol.

[KeptinCranky]

Heh! :D Getting your boat blown up by a Battleship, that's damn difficult, what with escorts getting there first :D

well done:up:

mine:

Attacking the lone armed trawler outside Casablanca with my deckgun, from 2000 meters in the dark and not turning my boat directly towards it AND only going 6 knots with an untrained crew.

First hit blew my rudder off, my gun wasn't even loaded yet. second hit blew up the Zentrale, and all the officers there. third hit sunk my boat and killed me :dead: to add insult to injury, this was june 1940, France still hostile and my type IX boat is parked in 12 meters of water for easy recovery by the Allies to salvage enigma machine and other goodies:oops:

and all because I didn't want to waste an eel on it

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Ouch and ouch!!! :huh:

[Growler]

Ouch and ouch!!! :huh:

But not neccessarily in that order.:D

[Canovaro]

Pretty new to SH3 I entered a harbor in the med with 100% in 1940.
It must be not to difficult this early in the war, let's do it I said.
I was soon spotted and six DD's came at me!

Last words: "alhoewel..." ("on the other hand...") :shifty:

Hit the bottom almost before finishing "Allaarm" :rotfl:

[jumpy]

a la star wars empire strikes back:

Watch officer: "Sir, enemy ships entering our sector!"
Captain (me): "Good. Our first catch of the day!"

Followed by the DD destroyer equivalent of the ion cannon barrage, saw me safely reduced to a pile of rapidly sinking junk inside of about 5 minutes. :roll:

[Morts]

my famous last word
"schei...." i was gonna say "scheisse"
and now the story behind the famous last word:rotfl:
i was sailing a VIIC/41 (Uflak) out of bergen in 1945 when i suddently got 6 radar contacts i then waited for the contacts to get close and bam there was 4 rocket equipped fighters:damn: and 2 big bombers
they arrived at my boat the same time:damn:
got hit directly with all of the bombs from the first bomber and almost all of the rockets with the fighters :damn: *DEAD*
worst part is i was standing on the bridge and i saw them hit
3 of the rockets even hit where i was standing:rotfl: :damn:

[Packerton]

my famous last word
"schei...." i was gonna say "scheisse"
and now the story behind the famous last word:rotfl:
i was sailing a VIIC/41 (Uflak) out of bergen in 1945 when i suddently got 6 radar contacts i then waited for the contacts to get close and bam there was 4 rocket equipped fighters:damn: and 2 big bombers
they arrived at my boat the same time:damn:
got hit directly with all of the bombs from the first bomber and almost all of the rockets with the fighters :damn: *DEAD*
worst part is i was standing on the bridge and i saw them hit
3 of the rockets even hit where i was standing:rotfl: :damn:


Wow, Overkill much? :rotfl:

[Morts]

my famous last word
"schei...." i was gonna say "scheisse"
and now the story behind the famous last word:rotfl:
i was sailing a VIIC/41 (Uflak) out of bergen in 1945 when i suddently got 6 radar contacts i then waited for the contacts to get close and bam there was 4 rocket equipped fighters:damn: and 2 big bombers
they arrived at my boat the same time:damn:
got hit directly with all of the bombs from the first bomber and almost all of the rockets with the fighters :damn: *DEAD*
worst part is i was standing on the bridge and i saw them hit
3 of the rockets even hit where i was standing:rotfl: :damn:


Wow, Overkill much? :rotfl:yee
and from now one when an aircraft is sighted/i get a radar contact i crashdive
ive learned my lesson:rotfl:

[Bindolaf]

It's early in the war (1940 I think, this was a-ways back) and I spot a convoy. Not too large, just plump and juicy. The periscope tells me two escorts are in front and to the side and just creeping ahead, no maneuvering. So, I think I'll try something new. Mind you this is before GWX (i.e. deck guns do a lot of damage).

One fish each (97% realism), kablam, kaboom, soon they are both burning and headed for Davy Jones' locker. "Ok" I think, "there is bound to be at least one more". Sure enough. Merchants start wiggling and a small frigate is making its way straight to me. Straight. Bearing 0... yummy. With nothing to lose, I fire a magnetic torpedo which hits and down she goes too. I wait a little and think my last words "that's all of them, no one else approaching".

Fire torpedoes at the juiciest targets, surface and start gunning away at the... defenseless convoy.

Cracking and blasting sounds, screams, blood everywhere... now I know better. There is always "one more" escort :)

[UnterseeBoogeyMan]

1. I knew I should have backed up my career files to another location! (after losing a patrol with 160,000 tons!)

2. I was just too greedy!

3. He can't find me at 100 meters!

4. Hurry up and fix that frakkin' leak!

5. What do you mean the forward batteries are destroyed!

6. Where are my patrol planes, Goering!??

7. Am I ever gonna get out of 1939?

8. I've been in this chair way too long.

[Iron Budokan]

"Let's take the shortcut through the English Canal."

[bookworm_020]

I can get in and out of this habour before they know I'm there! :nope:

[TarJak]

I've said this so many times::damn:

"I'll just pop the scope up to see how close we are to the target":nope:

[Lagger123987]

my famous last word
"schei...." i was gonna say "scheisse"
and now the story behind the famous last word:rotfl:
i was sailing a VIIC/41 (Uflak) out of bergen in 1945 when i suddently got 6 radar contacts i then waited for the contacts to get close and bam there was 4 rocket equipped fighters:damn: and 2 big bombers
they arrived at my boat the same time:damn:
got hit directly with all of the bombs from the first bomber and almost all of the rockets with the fighters :damn: *DEAD*
worst part is i was standing on the bridge and i saw them hit
3 of the rockets even hit where i was standing:rotfl: :damn:


Wow, Overkill much? :rotfl:yee
and from now one when an aircraft is sighted/i get a radar contact i crashdive
ive learned my lesson:rotfl:

I got the worse of it more, same thing happen to me but 12 roket equid fighters attack and overkill me, and I was being roasted watching the rocket hit my face.

[mapuc]

ARRRGGGGG

[Indiana_Jones]

"Oh no wonder my damage control team isn't repairing, I'm on silent running......"

:dead: lol

-Indy

[Canovaro]

"Let's see how our brand new IXD2 handles against a convoy"

:nope:

[Engel der Vernichtung]

"Bernard, you have the conn."

[Morts]

"Bernard, you have the conn."
oohh god:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
are you nuts !?!?:rotfl:

[abel29a]

Couple of days ago - I uttered the slightly modified Gen. Sedwick thingy - "They couldnt hit a VIIB at this dista....."

Running away from a DD on the surface with dusk approaching I was hoping to evade and loose him in the dark. Seeing as it was 15m/s winds and I had him directly astern at 3000+m I figured he didnt have a snowballs chance of actually hitting me - well... I figured wrong and everyone on the bridge died, including me I guess seeing as I was on the bridge at the time. But I did what I normally do, cheated and pretended I had just popped downstairs to... "check the trim" or something such, so I managed to dive away to safety.

[spork542]

(SH4)

New depth 165 meters.
...
...
...
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!

I had no idea an American submarine would be that fragile. 165 meters is nothing!




(SH3)
"I can't get mined here..."

I did not actually hit a mine. As it turns out, I hit an iceberg instead. :oops:

[KeptinCranky]

(SH4)

(SH3)
"I can't get mined here..."

I did not actually hit a mine. As it turns out, I hit an iceberg instead. :oops:


:rotfl:or rather :damn:

I've said that too often myself, worst incident was something like this

Hmmm, hmm hm hmm hm (Me humming along to a tune while patrolling for ships in AN86 IIRC)
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BOOM!
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Clonk! (hitting the bottom at 25 meters)
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gurgle (90% of my remaining diesel flushing out into the north sea)
.
.
an hour of fixing the boat later.
"Bernard, get up here! you're the new periscope, uzo, observation periscope, radio antenna and anything else sticking up above the main hull! And you better hope you can spit far because we don't have any guns anymore either!"

I eventually got back to newly occupied Rotterdam without my conning tower, batteries and only a smidgen of diesel left.:-?

Patrol lasted all of 4 days, no sinkings and the Uboat was a write-off in june 1940.....:oops:

[Packerton]

:rotfl: At the last story.


That was great heh I had A similer experience where I intercepted a convoy and was all hyped up and the first depth charge destroyed my batteries :damn:

BATTLE SURFACE!!! :arrgh!:

The gun battle lasted 10 seconds.

[KeybdFlyer]

August 1940. Medium Liner pops up on the hydro at 18kts. Just managed to spin around enough to get one off, which hit slightly aft of the engine room and slowed her down to 16kts. Ok - surface and put a few shells into her, no chance of keeping-up submerged. As the conning tower broached the surface it was all searchlights & shellfire! Fancy them having all those guns!!

[Sailor Steve]

"The Spitfire is such a pretty airplane..."

[Biggles]

-Fan, det var nära....(damn, that was close).
Seconds later I'm hit by the second Catalina that attacked me....could only see the first one.....:roll:

[TigerShark808]

" The Straight of Gibralter? Sure lets roll... the Mediterranean must be nice this time of year (1944ish) "

[antikristuseke]

"Gah, im tired of all this crash diving from airplanes, ill just fight them off"

[Kpt. Lehmann]

My famous last words are usually pretty simple...

"BLOW BALLAST!":oops:

[P_Funk]

"alright alright, I'll take the garbage" .... forgets to pause...