Very frustrating...

[Canovaro]

Just as you have finished plotting a target's course and speed and you have done everything possible to set up a perfect ambush, hydrophone, calculations the whole thing, set depth and speed of the torpedoes, set speed range and bearing for the target and manage the crew, in other words you are ready to blow that sucker to kingdom come, you take one last check...
wait a minute...NOOOOO it's neutral :damn::damn::damn:

It happened to me three times in a row tonight. Really what a waste of time!
Stupid Portuguese and Brazilian ships, why don't they stay in port!!
Could have earned me a lot of Spinnennetz points too :nope:

I'm on my way to ES63 now. Hope it doesn't happen again.

[VolvicCH]

Count yourself lucky...........its usually not till after ive sunk them that i discover theyre neutrals....... :arrgh!:




Have a nice day :)

[Brag]

Canovaro, I feel your pain. Portuguese ships loaded with porto and Brazilian ships carrying tons of cachasa bottles away from one's reach are most frustrating. :nope:

[Sailor Steve]

Well, do you want to be a u-boat kaleun, or do you just want to play a submarine game? Frustration's the name of the game in this man's war.:lurk:

[mowgli99]

I have it also. Two portuguese ships sailng south west a little west from aftrica and those islands. It sure is a bummer. I like to sail in across their path and give them death stares.

[Venatore]

Well, do you want to be a u-boat kaleun, or do you just want to play a submarine game? Frustration's the name of the game in this man's war.

Spot on Sailor Steve. :yep:

[Canovaro]

Count yourself lucky...........its usually not till after ive sunk them that i discover theyre neutrals....... :arrgh!:


That really bad for your renown :lol:

[Shelton]

Just as you have finished plotting a target's course and speed and you have done everything possible to set up a perfect ambush, hydrophone, calculations the whole thing, set depth and speed of the torpedoes, set speed range and bearing for the target and manage the crew, in other words you are ready to blow that sucker to kingdom come, you take one last check...
wait a minute...NOOOOO it's neutral :damn::damn::damn:

It happened to me three times in a row tonight. Really what a waste of time!
Stupid Portuguese and Brazilian ships, why don't they stay in port!!
Could have earned me a lot of Spinnennetz points too :nope:

I'm on my way to ES63 now. Hope it doesn't happen again.

This is exactly how it was in real life - some boats would go the entire patrol without sinking anything (enemy material that is). And we are talking like 8 weeks+.

[danurve]

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FROM: Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine
TO: Deutsche Kräfte auf See

U 512 reported that "Monte Gorbea" was recognized as a neutral vessel before she was torpedoed. Reasons for suspecting that she was a camouflaged English vessel were insufficient to warrant sinking. The Commanding Officer will have to face a court martial.

BdU

[von Zelda]

Frustration? Wait until you get to August of 1943, all I see are Allied aircraft. I surface for about an hour hoping to recharge batteries before the next crash dive. Heading west towards the northern tip of Iceland to break through the Denmark Straight; no contacts, just crash dive, surface, crash dive, surface; there's no let up until you're in a small section of air gap. Then, close to Iceland, it all begins again; crash dive, surface, crash dive, and on and on without let up.

[Avatar]

Just as you have finished plotting a target's course and speed and you have done everything possible to set up a perfect ambush, hydrophone, calculations the whole thing, set depth and speed of the torpedoes, set speed range and bearing for the target and manage the crew, in other words you are ready to blow that sucker to kingdom come, you take one last check...
wait a minute...NOOOOO it's neutral Hey, practice makes perfect. If memory serves me correctly, in Gene Fluckey's book, "Thunder Below!", he did an approach and was in firing position only to have the target be a Russian Freighter.

[Canovaro]

Just as you have finished plotting a target's course and speed and you have done everything possible to set up a perfect ambush, hydrophone, calculations the whole thing, set depth and speed of the torpedoes, set speed range and bearing for the target and manage the crew, in other words you are ready to blow that sucker to kingdom come, you take one last check...
wait a minute...NOOOOO it's neutral Hey, practice makes perfect. If memory serves me correctly, in Gene Fluckey's book, "Thunder Below!", he did an approach and was in firing position only to have the target be a Russian Freighter.

That sounds familiair then :D

[frenema]

I sunk a British ship once thinking they are automatically enemy, turns out the British didn't declare war on Germany yet, so it was counted as a neutral kill...