Freiwillige
03-06-08, 05:13 AM
So on my first patrol AM32 loaded game save and decided ill head home. I check the charts and dicide ill pay a visit to scapa flow since its on my way. The weather is horrific and my boats propellers are out of the water more than in but night falls just as I enter the east entrance. Ahead 1/3 as I guide my boat just north of the island when out of nowhere "Warship spotted closing fast!" I scanned the horizon but with wave swells going 12 meters high all around me I had to resort to the periscope while surfaced. I scanned due east of my position and saw a Destroyer coming at me in a zig zag less than 1 mile out. perescope depth, aquier target,.............. Torpedo los!/Torpedo fire! (Now I normally would just evade but shallow water and land each side there was not much room to evade.)
600 meters and closing he zigged out of the way. Tube zwei und LOS! 400 meters Tube 3 LOS! The third torpedo detonated just feet off of his propellers and I thought it was going to miss! Zerstorer Kaput! Just then I realised there was another inbound right behind the first. I was slowly headed right into the destroyer I just scrapped,Engines emergancy reverse! Once I came to a stop 10 meters from the wreck I watched thru my perescope the second go right by me and slowly around to my 180 position. Range 400 meters. Rear tube LOS! And yet again a Zerstorer Erupts in flames and settles the 18 meters to the bottom.
Now I work my way on the surface deeper into scapa flow slowly just hoping to catch the battleship Royal Oak sleeping. Soon it is almost pitch black When I spot a tribal class zerstorer 1/2 kilometer off my port. Wait.......Hes not moving. Again and again lookouts spot Zerstorers sleeping. Slowly creeping I spot a Prize. Troop ship! Not the battle wagen I had hoped for but........Just then my boat crashes
and I hear screaming and running water.....What did I hit a mine!? Upon further investigation I came across my very first anti submarine net. Repairs were made without much further ado as the damage was light although my Radio operator was killed in the incedent. Some equipment fell on him? Any way I sneek around the net line up my shot and let two torpedo's loose. 180 degrees flank speed and Im running. Soon I see the tell tale tower of water signifying a hit then seconds later came another! Surely Tommy is out of his bunks now! Starshells race into the night and the Zerstorers hit their searchlights confused and ill coordenated. The ship isnt sinking! No time to go back and double check. Like a bandit in the night I am gone. Just manage to navagate the smallest stretch out of there at flank speed. Quiet trip home, The crew gets rewarded with the gamaphone. I played our new favorite, the Tommy song "Tipperary" Just as dawn is breaking I pull into Keil harbour and steer my boat to dock. Total tonnage sunk 12,456 2 warships and 1 troop transport. Back at base I get credited for sinking three neutrals although they were all British ships!
600 meters and closing he zigged out of the way. Tube zwei und LOS! 400 meters Tube 3 LOS! The third torpedo detonated just feet off of his propellers and I thought it was going to miss! Zerstorer Kaput! Just then I realised there was another inbound right behind the first. I was slowly headed right into the destroyer I just scrapped,Engines emergancy reverse! Once I came to a stop 10 meters from the wreck I watched thru my perescope the second go right by me and slowly around to my 180 position. Range 400 meters. Rear tube LOS! And yet again a Zerstorer Erupts in flames and settles the 18 meters to the bottom.
Now I work my way on the surface deeper into scapa flow slowly just hoping to catch the battleship Royal Oak sleeping. Soon it is almost pitch black When I spot a tribal class zerstorer 1/2 kilometer off my port. Wait.......Hes not moving. Again and again lookouts spot Zerstorers sleeping. Slowly creeping I spot a Prize. Troop ship! Not the battle wagen I had hoped for but........Just then my boat crashes
and I hear screaming and running water.....What did I hit a mine!? Upon further investigation I came across my very first anti submarine net. Repairs were made without much further ado as the damage was light although my Radio operator was killed in the incedent. Some equipment fell on him? Any way I sneek around the net line up my shot and let two torpedo's loose. 180 degrees flank speed and Im running. Soon I see the tell tale tower of water signifying a hit then seconds later came another! Surely Tommy is out of his bunks now! Starshells race into the night and the Zerstorers hit their searchlights confused and ill coordenated. The ship isnt sinking! No time to go back and double check. Like a bandit in the night I am gone. Just manage to navagate the smallest stretch out of there at flank speed. Quiet trip home, The crew gets rewarded with the gamaphone. I played our new favorite, the Tommy song "Tipperary" Just as dawn is breaking I pull into Keil harbour and steer my boat to dock. Total tonnage sunk 12,456 2 warships and 1 troop transport. Back at base I get credited for sinking three neutrals although they were all British ships!