paulasteffan
03-25-08, 01:19 PM
Greetings fellow kaleuns just thought id share with you my recent experience in this patrol.
Well i must say it went better than my first as i was ordered to patrol out to DT 23 out from lorient in my type Vii B weather was foul for like a week in transit missed two large convoys because of bad weather returned to lorient highly embarrassed to have full load of arsenal still in tack, How emabarrassing with the great otto Kretchsmer at the helm , But hey this did happen to some commanders IRL not only with 1 patrol but successive patrols as well.
The 2nd patrol took me to east of the azores again BTW its NOV 40 but to DT23 again weather abit better in transit nothing for like a week no contacts thjen boom steereed straight into the path of a 15 ship convoy 5 wide by 3 deep only 2 escorts weather clear 10pm so straight out of the commanders handbook i set up for a 90deg aob starboard shot on the first 2 that come into range the first a medium cargo GHRT 4500 aim forward of aft mast at 1000m LOs!!! while that was away lined up a coastal merch and Los !!! saw first impact BOOOMM ship then proiceeded to have secondary explosions and she wenty down within minutes
I then proceeded to move into the middle of the convoy when my watch officer ordered alarm destroyer off port bow setting up to ram i go deep but she was onto me with an accurate run i then hear my next victim proceed to the bottom Shes going down !!! cheers from my crew but it was all in vain as io had sustained heavy damage and flooding succumbed me to the bottom never to recover. Another Uboat ace lost (pity my scores didnt reflect his score IRL)
What an awesome game im enjoyng it so much am also reading Hitlers Uboat war by clay blair and what i am reading is happening in the game UNREAL.
Cheers
Well i must say it went better than my first as i was ordered to patrol out to DT 23 out from lorient in my type Vii B weather was foul for like a week in transit missed two large convoys because of bad weather returned to lorient highly embarrassed to have full load of arsenal still in tack, How emabarrassing with the great otto Kretchsmer at the helm , But hey this did happen to some commanders IRL not only with 1 patrol but successive patrols as well.
The 2nd patrol took me to east of the azores again BTW its NOV 40 but to DT23 again weather abit better in transit nothing for like a week no contacts thjen boom steereed straight into the path of a 15 ship convoy 5 wide by 3 deep only 2 escorts weather clear 10pm so straight out of the commanders handbook i set up for a 90deg aob starboard shot on the first 2 that come into range the first a medium cargo GHRT 4500 aim forward of aft mast at 1000m LOs!!! while that was away lined up a coastal merch and Los !!! saw first impact BOOOMM ship then proiceeded to have secondary explosions and she wenty down within minutes
I then proceeded to move into the middle of the convoy when my watch officer ordered alarm destroyer off port bow setting up to ram i go deep but she was onto me with an accurate run i then hear my next victim proceed to the bottom Shes going down !!! cheers from my crew but it was all in vain as io had sustained heavy damage and flooding succumbed me to the bottom never to recover. Another Uboat ace lost (pity my scores didnt reflect his score IRL)
What an awesome game im enjoyng it so much am also reading Hitlers Uboat war by clay blair and what i am reading is happening in the game UNREAL.
Cheers