Gaijin
12-05-07, 03:58 PM
Greetings to one and all...
New captain, playing SH3 for about 3 months now, and a forum lurker for about two.
GWX has been the best thing since sliced bread...my sincerest thanks to the people involved.
I'm on patrol 13 of my first DiD career, so itchy fingers and serious second thoughts every time I attack.
So many random images and memories so far:
Those mid atlantic sunsets, on calm waters...
Diving under a dd and losing the peri...
Crashing into my first sub net...(What the he...!)
Tracking my first convoy and finding it already in flames...
But this week, in one sesion was a first of firsts...
I sneak into plymouth harbour, nothing much there, just a med. cargo and a couple of tramps. As I attack, I hear aircraft, am about to run before they start blowing up the same ships...they're the luftwaffe! I sink four of them, but only get credit for 2.
Damn airjockeys.
A few (game) days later i'm georges channel...spot a nice fat small freighter...just as I fire,down come the aircraft and blow it away.
Pesky Flyboys.
Next up, a lone Town class...which i'm only watching silently, waiting to pass me by (I'm not stoopid anymore)...and guess what happens again...Zooooooooooom. Bang. Glug....glug.
I presume that because I'm so close to the mainland, I'm just seeing a lot more luftwaffe activity then I ever had. But that asn't stopped me ordering the crew to check all lockers for a damn luftwaffe tracking device!
I got my own back though. Yesterday, I came across a V&W, limping along at 4 knots. Put a fish under her keel, and down she went in about 6 mins. Before she went, I popped out for 'an outside view', swung around her far side (opposite me) wondering why on earth she was so slow, and behold, another blackened explosion mark on the opposide hull.
So, if you were sitting there in Georges channel, circa Jun, 1941, calmly waiting for your latest V&W to sink...then, eh... sorry bout that.
New captain, playing SH3 for about 3 months now, and a forum lurker for about two.
GWX has been the best thing since sliced bread...my sincerest thanks to the people involved.
I'm on patrol 13 of my first DiD career, so itchy fingers and serious second thoughts every time I attack.
So many random images and memories so far:
Those mid atlantic sunsets, on calm waters...
Diving under a dd and losing the peri...
Crashing into my first sub net...(What the he...!)
Tracking my first convoy and finding it already in flames...
But this week, in one sesion was a first of firsts...
I sneak into plymouth harbour, nothing much there, just a med. cargo and a couple of tramps. As I attack, I hear aircraft, am about to run before they start blowing up the same ships...they're the luftwaffe! I sink four of them, but only get credit for 2.
Damn airjockeys.
A few (game) days later i'm georges channel...spot a nice fat small freighter...just as I fire,down come the aircraft and blow it away.
Pesky Flyboys.
Next up, a lone Town class...which i'm only watching silently, waiting to pass me by (I'm not stoopid anymore)...and guess what happens again...Zooooooooooom. Bang. Glug....glug.
I presume that because I'm so close to the mainland, I'm just seeing a lot more luftwaffe activity then I ever had. But that asn't stopped me ordering the crew to check all lockers for a damn luftwaffe tracking device!
I got my own back though. Yesterday, I came across a V&W, limping along at 4 knots. Put a fish under her keel, and down she went in about 6 mins. Before she went, I popped out for 'an outside view', swung around her far side (opposite me) wondering why on earth she was so slow, and behold, another blackened explosion mark on the opposide hull.
So, if you were sitting there in Georges channel, circa Jun, 1941, calmly waiting for your latest V&W to sink...then, eh... sorry bout that.