The Unluckiest Uboat

[Blacklight]

My Uboat was just sunk in the funniest and most preposterous way.

I just came upon a nice juicy tanker running very fast. I was able to get myself into position for a nice perfect 90 degree shot. I fired off two torpedoes and then turned more toward it's direction of travel to line up another shot if I missed. One torpedo hit. The other, I watched hit the side, bounce off and deflect away from the ship. I then lined up another torpedo and fired. When I switched to external camera, I saw the torpedo leave the tube... and when I turned the camera toward the ship, I see this stream of bubbles approaching my Uboat VERY FAST !!!

Yep. You guessed it. My torpedo had riccoche'd right off the side of the ship and went right back at me. Unfortunately, I'm not Balz so i couldn't just catch the torpedo in one of my torpedo tubes for re-use so I got pegged. Flooding all over and before I could react... "YOU ARE DEAD" :nope:

I wish I could have filmed it !!!
This would have been a fantastic scene for U-Disaster III ! :up:
I guess I can't blame Bernard for this one huh ?

[Grayson02sept1980]

:hmm:

of course you can blame Bernard! he was there starting the propellers again to get the torp back for Balz to reuse :yep:

Yeah a film of that would have been nice.

[Brag]

That's boom-boom without hoochie woochie :nope:

[TomcatMVD]

That's boom-boom without hoochie woochie :nope:
ROFL:rotfl:

[Keelbuster]

Insane - sure it wasn't a circle runner? I've never seen torps bounce off and keep running (unless it's a homing torpedo).

[ToySoldier]

There are some days you lose ... and some days the other win!

Keep you had up mate an sart a new career, even if it is sad!

In diesem Sinne
Gott mit Uns
Frank B. aus K.

[Blacklight]

Insane - sure it wasn't a circle runner? I've never seen torps bounce off and keep running (unless it's a homing torpedo).

Nope. Not a circle runner. Just a regular old steamer. I have no idea how it happend and I bet I'll never be able to reproduce it again. The stars must have been alligned just right at the time.

Next time I'll try this with a convoy. If I can get the angles just right, maybe I can riccoche it off of several ships and have it come back and hit me !!! 8 Ball...corner pocket !!!

This could be a fun new challenge for the game... sinking ships by riccocheing torpedoes !!

[panzer 49th]

It has happened to me before like 2 times both in the same case as you blacklight

[Blacklight]

This could be a whole new way to kill those tasty giant ships in the middle of the convoys without actually having to go in there !!!

"If I bank it just right off that small merchant, and then off the bow of that armed trawler, and then off the underside of that other small merchant, I should be able to peg that tanker right on the bow !!"

I fear only Balz is capable of such a feat though. :D

[papa_smurf]

Now thats really unlucky!

[Schwuppes]

I lol'd

[Jimbuna]

I'd have been really interested in seeing a film or some screenies of that phenomena http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

[Blacklight]

Me too !! It happened so fast that I couldn't even think fast enough to take a screenshot.

It kind of went like this:
"Now THIS time you're going swimming !!!!'
"Wait !! What the hell is that trail of bubbles !?!"
"OH *expletive*"
*BOOM*
:o
:o
:rotfl: