View Full Version : Time Bomb? Strange GWX event
Lt. Otto Kalb writes:
I'm not going to mention the events that led Captain Balz to nearly go beserk and led us to follow a tanker in fog and rain.
We maintained station 300 meters behind the tanker, barelly seeing it's stern in the fading light. Balz leaned on the bulwarks mumbling, "I'm going to hoochie your woochie, you bastard."
Finally he gave the order to fire one magnetic.
The torpedo ran true. But time elapsed and nothing happened.
"No, boom-boom, no boom-boom," Balz mumbled and buried his face in his arms.
This was the third torpedo we launched against the tanker without positive results.
"Shall we sing the hoochie-woochie song?" Bernard asked.
"Get off my bridge, you swine," Balz shouted back.
I took another look at the zizagging tanker, knowing that in a few minutes we would lose him in the darkness. I wasn't about to suggest to launch another torpedo and lit my pipe.
An explosion racked the tanker. I looked at my watch, it couldn't possibly be our torpedo.
The monster sank.
My only possible explanation is that the torpedo got tangle up with something on the ship and stayed underneath until the self-destruct activated.
Stranger than GWX?
Jimbuna
10-31-07, 03:15 PM
A mine perhaps :hmm:
DirtyACE
10-31-07, 03:19 PM
Perhaps Bernard's tampering with the detonation timer actually pays off. Any other time and it would be exploding in your own sub's tube.
bigboywooly
10-31-07, 04:12 PM
Odd
Have seen fish go between the ship and rudder but keep going
Most odd indeed
Perhaps the new cloaked phase inverter from the 24th century?
(Star Trek Stuff that is...)
BulSoldier
10-31-07, 06:06 PM
Dont you get it ? Its a magnetic torp,when it is close to metal objects (expet the uboot) it sticks to the hull and when enough time has elapsed it goes boom-boom.:hmm:
Well really i never saw a thing like that.The strangest i saw was a torpedo hitting the screw and being launched in oposite direction :)
Sooooo, the great Balz is a little focused on his torpedo's, eh? ;)
Doesn't like his 88mm? ;)
Was last one in his class of midshipman during his 3 months at artillery school in Swinemünde, eh?
Who is he, to raise questions about the always failure-free almighty torpedos of the Torpedoinspektion der Deutschen Kriegsmarine, eh?
There were NEVER-EVER ANY failures with torpedos! They were letter perfect. It was just that the crews were not properly qualified, to lazy to read a manual or plain stupid.
(Litteraly, this is a quotation of one admiral.. :D)
Capt. Shark Bait
10-31-07, 08:15 PM
Lt. Otto Kalb writes:
"Shall we sing the hoochie-woochie song?" Bernard asked.
"Get off my bridge, you swine," Balz shouted back.
:rotfl: :rotfl:
The question as yet unasked: "Did you get the renown for the kill?":hmm:
Jimbuna
11-01-07, 03:13 AM
....."Or was it the Renown that killed you?" http://imgcash2.imageshack.us/img476/5140/jawdropbq0.gif
Kpt. Lehmann
11-01-07, 03:56 AM
Simple really.
The ever-stupendous Balz forgot to order the plasma to be rerouted through the secondary EPS conduits... resulting in a tear of the space-time continuum.
I'll bet that he doesn't make that mistake again though.
KeptinCranky
11-01-07, 02:18 PM
Not until he fits his boat with a deflector dish and heisenberg compensators anyway :D
which makes me wonder, where if you get right down to it, on a U-boat are the jefferies tubes?
Kpt. Lehmann
11-01-07, 02:29 PM
Those are right next to the mass converters. Most of them lead to the gravity drive.
KeptinCranky
11-01-07, 05:15 PM
Hmm, so not part of the sanitary facilities then :D
I'd better get my Chief Engineer outta there....:rotfl:
UnterseeBoogeyMan
11-01-07, 07:10 PM
Not until he fits his boat with a deflector dish and heisenberg compensators anyway :D
which makes me wonder, where if you get right down to it, on a U-boat are the jefferies tubes?
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/1312/bernardsbitchinrideka2.th.jpg
madmike81
11-01-07, 08:32 PM
Ive actually watched one of my torps hit the prop of a target vessel...get knocked backwards...accelerate again and hit the ship.
Gotta love wild shots. :lol:
KeptinCranky
11-02-07, 02:46 AM
Not until he fits his boat with a deflector dish and heisenberg compensators anyway :D
which makes me wonder, where if you get right down to it, on a U-boat are the jefferies tubes?
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/1312/bernardsbitchinrideka2.th.jpg
:o Picture is a bit small but I get the gist of it...
Oh Gods!!! :damn: :rotfl:
NiclDoe
11-02-07, 07:02 AM
The cuase for the weirdness is most likely Bernard just swam to the tanker and pressed the self destruct button and came back on to the bridge like nothing happened.
GreyBeard
11-02-07, 09:24 AM
Ive actually watched one of my torps hit the prop of a target vessel...get knocked backwards...accelerate again and hit the ship.
Gotta love wild shots. :lol:
Same thing happened to me. First :down: and then :up:. Go figure. :hmm: :roll:
GoldenRivet
11-02-07, 12:33 PM
I have seen it hit the prop and get knocked backwards too... but it did this about 3 or 4 times.
as the ship turned the torpedo was able to hit something besides the prop and it finally detonated, i have a feeling this is what heppened to Balz.
3 or 4 or 5 prop impacts followed by a good detonation would have easily added anywhere from 20 to 40 seconds to the "torpedo travel time" depending on how many times it was knocked back
Must to remember!
Philidelphia Experiment by U.S.?
Perhaps affects torpedos?
:rotfl:
CapZap1970
11-02-07, 07:44 PM
Lt. Otto Kalb writes:
I'm not going to mention the events that led Captain Balz to nearly go beserk and led us to follow a tanker in fog and rain.
We maintained station 300 meters behind the tanker, barelly seeing it's stern in the fading light. Balz leaned on the bulwarks mumbling, "I'm going to hoochie your woochie, you bastard."
Finally he gave the order to fire one magnetic.
The torpedo ran true. But time elapsed and nothing happened.
"No, boom-boom, no boom-boom," Balz mumbled and buried his face in his arms.
This was the third torpedo we launched against the tanker without positive results.
"Shall we sing the hoochie-woochie song?" Bernard asked.
"Get off my bridge, you swine," Balz shouted back.
I took another look at the zizagging tanker, knowing that in a few minutes we would lose him in the darkness. I wasn't about to suggest to launch another torpedo and lit my pipe.
An explosion racked the tanker. I looked at my watch, it couldn't possibly be our torpedo.
The monster sank.
My only possible explanation is that the torpedo got tangle up with something on the ship and stayed underneath until the self-destruct activated.
Stranger than GWX?
Anyway, I am glad you were able to sing the hoochie-woochie, Kpt. Balz.
Again, Consuela will be more than glad to have us back in her "bar".
It's good to be back, you know? ;)
CapZap
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