Foghladh_mhara
09-03-07, 04:42 PM
Sighted a large convoy in grid BE 38 Oct 1941. And I mean big. This thing has about 20 ships and from what I can see at least 12 of them are large merchants or cargoes. Heading is 52 degrees and towards Perfidious Albion. I was inside the escort screen when I sighted them. Not in the best position but I had to do something. I was within 2000m of the nearest cargo. I got a good range let one fly and started to plot my best intercept for the next attack. Torpedo impact on a large merchant but no fatal wound. A fairly halfhearted depthcharge attack followed but nothing remotely near me. I slowly edged away from the bunch and at a safe distance surfaced and reloaded my tubes.
My intercept was perfectly planned, compass bearings, distances, times all jotted down on my paper pad (sad I know but why cant you make notes in-game like SH2?!!) 4 hours later there I was lying in wait 14m down. Positioned perfectly between the 2 columns I had big plans for. Then all of a sudden ships are going all over the shop!! They couldn't possibly have spotted my periscope! I've been maintaining a 10 second rule thats never failed me!
A bloody course change in front of my eyes! They've all settled down again now but theres only 200km to the shallows and I'm way outta position. Gonna have to do another flanking move and its daylight in about 6 hours. I might get one attack if I'm lucky but then I'm nearly in the Bristol Channel.
There's a Knights Cross with all the trimmings in this convoy if I got the breaks. Alright I already have that and the German Cross in Gold but its not the point.
I sense BBW's evil presence behind this one. He's a Leeds fan and we all know how evil they are :yep:
My intercept was perfectly planned, compass bearings, distances, times all jotted down on my paper pad (sad I know but why cant you make notes in-game like SH2?!!) 4 hours later there I was lying in wait 14m down. Positioned perfectly between the 2 columns I had big plans for. Then all of a sudden ships are going all over the shop!! They couldn't possibly have spotted my periscope! I've been maintaining a 10 second rule thats never failed me!
A bloody course change in front of my eyes! They've all settled down again now but theres only 200km to the shallows and I'm way outta position. Gonna have to do another flanking move and its daylight in about 6 hours. I might get one attack if I'm lucky but then I'm nearly in the Bristol Channel.
There's a Knights Cross with all the trimmings in this convoy if I got the breaks. Alright I already have that and the German Cross in Gold but its not the point.
I sense BBW's evil presence behind this one. He's a Leeds fan and we all know how evil they are :yep: