RN Type 2 submarine

[aj906]

Hi guys

Just a quick question (Well, two..) Firstly, tooling about around the Orkney's I caught a single Type 2 surfaced at 1 knot in clear weather, (needless to say, it and its crew is now sleeping with the fishes) but when I flipped through my on-baord 'Janes', I couldn't find a tonnage listing for it. I'd already sunk some 50K GRT and was planning to do simple maths but then got hammered by two destroyers (Bernard has a lot to answer for!!!!) - both of which I sunk...eventually...and neither of which I was careful enough to note down as to their type (they were two separate types and I was more concerned about getting home in time for dinner). Having downed them, I then stumble upon a supply ship and coastal tanker in convoy. By the time I'd dispatched both of them, my tonnage was up to some 64K...so I'm still left wondering what a Type 2 is worth.

In fair weather, I'm loath to waste an eel on anything less then 2,000GRT (angry escorts, notwithstanding), but my ego got the better of me and I had to sink a sub. Which leads into my second question:

How many Kaleun have sunk an enemy submarine - with torpedoes only?

[Red Heat]

I personaly i dont waste a torpedo against such small targets...for me its a artillery mater lol i try to avoid the enemy fire manouvering my U-boat to a position witch was favourable to me... :)

[Jimbuna]

What's a Type 2 ? http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1817/thinkbigsw1yo4.gif

[aj906]

I have no idea what a Type 2 is - it looks about the size of the Typ II U-boats, The only info I get on the weapon log next to the periscope view was 'Type 2'. No tonnage was listed in the register for British shipping.. I knew it wasn't one of ours because it was steaming on the surface near Lerwick sub pens and secondly, I wasn't shot when I returned to base,

[bookworm_020]

I have sunk a T class that was attached to a convoy. Apart from one lone DE she was the only warship in the convoy. Knocked off both and went hunting.:arrgh!: Scratch one convoy.

[Jimbuna]

I have no idea what a Type 2 is - it looks about the size of the Typ II U-boats, The only info I get on the weapon log next to the periscope view was 'Type 2'. No tonnage was listed in the register for British shipping.. I knew it wasn't one of ours because it was steaming on the surface near Lerwick sub pens and secondly, I wasn't shot when I returned to base,

Did it look like either of these http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1817/thinkbigsw1yo4.gif

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/7821/sclass2ot8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/1868/tclass2kf9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[aj906]

The first of the two screen shots you've posted - that's the li'll sod :yep:

Now the question remains - what's she worth? I almost let her go, but my ego got the better of me (mano e mano and all that testosterone fueled idiocy)

I've done some dumb things in my time in charge of U-108, but surfaced at 1 knot in calm seas and unlimited vis ain't one of them :lol:

[Jimbuna]

The first of the two screen shots you've posted - that's the li'll sod :yep:

Now the question remains - what's she worth? I almost let her go, but my ego got the better of me (mano e mano and all that testosterone fueled idiocy)

I've done some dumb things in my time in charge of U-108, but surfaced at 1 knot in calm seas and unlimited vis ain't one of them :lol:

British S Class = 320 Renown http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

[aj906]

Ah....many thanks!

A least it was quick... single eel slightly forward of the conning tower. Perhaps those on watch.....but the rest :down:

[Jimbuna]

Ah....many thanks!

A least it was quick... single eel slightly forward of the conning tower. Perhaps those on watch.....but the rest :down:

BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!! http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/4030/winkbigid2zj6.gif

The other sub is a British T Class and is worth 420 Renown http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

[aj906]

BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!!


that is such a coincidence... I have an uncle who says exactly the same thing http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/4030/winkbigid2zj6.gif

[Jimbuna]

BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!!


that is such a coincidence... I have an uncle who says exactly the same thing http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/4030/winkbigid2zj6.gif

Alright then http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1817/thinkbigsw1yo4.gif

SINK EM ALL!! http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

[Red Heat]

I have no idea what a Type 2 is - it looks about the size of the Typ II U-boats, The only info I get on the weapon log next to the periscope view was 'Type 2'. No tonnage was listed in the register for British shipping.. I knew it wasn't one of ours because it was steaming on the surface near Lerwick sub pens and secondly, I wasn't shot when I returned to base,

Did it look like either of these http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1817/thinkbigsw1yo4.gif

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/7821/sclass2ot8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/1868/tclass2kf9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Argghhh!!! they are so ugly!
I never but never sail in such sub ever! :lol:

[Jimbuna]

Probably not the prettiest design of the era....but quite effective in what they were designed to do ;)

[U-46 Commander]

apparently you haven't seen the american S-18 in SH4, Looks like a fish, uglier then sin, and yet.....still lethal to enemy shipping,

[ddiplock]

Probably not the prettiest design of the era....but quite effective in what they were designed to do ;)

Indeed, my grandfather served aboard a T class submarine in the Med in WW2. HMS Torbay infact. the commander of the boat, Anthony Miers recieved the VC, but their was some controversy apparently about him shooting a boat load of prisoners of war but it was never actually established.

I've heard a few stories about Torbay. Shame my grandfather died before he could tell me what really happend :down:

[JU_88]

Argghhh!!! they are so ugly!
I never but never sail in such sub ever! :lol:

Now then, the T Class could spew out a spread of 8 to 10 torpeedos, the only thing to spew out of your VIIC would be a giant turd when faced with one of those monsters!
Then again, the U-boats were a bit faster so you could run away while he works out his firing solution with pencil and paper, or call in the trigger happy RAF to help you - they merrily bombed their own subs on more than one occassion. :rotfl:

Can you beilive it, most of the RN subs were actually fitted with ASDIC!?
I dont belive it ever led to a single one of the 13 Uboat sunk by the British submarine service.

British Sub: PING!!
German Sub "dive to 90 meters"
British Sub "damn.... any one for a cuppa?"

[Red Heat]

I think the same...
For me its only a pre-historical "thing" at one steep of the extinsion! :lol: