U-32 patrol diary

[meduza]

March 24, 1940 Sailed out of Wilhelmshaven
Day 2 Sank Granville type freighter
Day 4 Sank Small freighter
Day 6 Sank Granville and Small freighter
Day 7 Nothing but empty sea
Day 8 Nothing but empty sea
Day 9 Nothing but empty sea
Day 10 Nothing but empty sea
Day 11 Nothing but empty sea
Day 12 Nothing but empty sea
Day 13 Nothing but empty sea
Day 14 Nothing but empty sea
Day 15 Nothing but empty sea
Day 16 Nothing but empty sea
Day 17 Nothing but empty sea
Day 18 Nothing but empty sea
Day 19 Nothing but empty sea
Day 20 Nothing but empty sea
Day 21 Nothing but empty sea
Day 23 Nothing but empty sea
Day 24 Nothing but empty sea
Day 25 Nothing but empty sea
Day 26 Nothing but ... :doh:
:damn:

[Jimbuna]

Whereabouts are you located :hmm:

[meduza]

Whereabouts are you located :hmm: Currently west of Gibraltar.
This is the chart of my patrol, dots represent sunk ships :arrgh!:
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/7910/clipboard01uu1.jpg

[Myxale]

Wow, you must be a ballsy one, taking the Channel! :up:

Anyway, the lack of ships is clearly your fault, you're not aggressive enough?! ;)

[meduza]

Wow, you must be a ballsy one, taking the Channel! :up: The stormy weather was very helpfull :D. And the fact that it's only 1940. I do plan to return around UK.

Anyway, the lack of ships is clearly your fault, you're not aggressive enough?! ;) :oops:

:lol:

[bookworm_020]

Welcome to the real world of Sub patrols!:up:

[Jimbuna]

Whereabouts are you located :hmm: Currently west of Gibraltar.
This is the chart of my patrol, dots represent sunk ships :arrgh!:
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/7910/clipboard01uu1.jpg

I would hang about where you are....you should enconter plenty of sport arond that area http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

[meduza]

I would hang about where you are....you should enconter plenty of sport arond that area http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif
That's my usual hunting ground :up:. But this time I'm patrolling the place for days, and nothing. I did the same with the SW approach (BE36/39), with the same result. I guess I'm out of luck this time.

I'll continue my patrol while the fuel permits...

[Bosje]

are you sure to do regular hydrophone checks? the ships are probably there but with bad weather and all, the watch crew may need a hand :)

or perhaps the English are so scared of a Channel-runner that they halted all merchant traffic on the Atlantic :arrgh!:

[meduza]

are you sure to do regular hydrophone checks? the ships are probably there but with bad weather and all, the watch crew may need a hand :)
Yep, I do regular hydrophones checks, every 2 hours (more or less). Most of the time I man the station personaly.
Regarding the weather, I had my share of storms, but also had some fine weather, with unlimited visibility.

or perhaps the English are so scared of a Channel-runner that they halted all merchant traffic on the Atlantic :arrgh!: :D
If that's the case, next time I'll go around Greenland. :lol:

[Wreford-Brown]

Use the compass to draw a circle 18km across.
Drag the compass until the circle you've drawn fills the western end of the Gibraltar channel.
Put your sub in the middle of the circle at periscope depth.
Wait for contact.
Sink contact.
Repeat until torpedoes and deck gun ammo gone.
Rearm at Thalia (or home base if Thalia not deployed).
Repeat.

[meduza]

Use the compass to draw a circle 18km across.
Drag the compass until the circle you've drawn fills the western end of the Gibraltar channel.
Put your sub in the middle of the circle at periscope depth.
Wait for contact.
Sink contact.
Repeat until torpedoes and deck gun ammo gone.
Rearm at Thalia (or home base if Thalia not deployed).
Repeat.
Good tip :up:

Well, my luck finaly changed. It started with a disaster - my saved game was corrupted (although I saved away from land or ships :hmm:).
I reloaded a previous save (5-6 days game time earlier), and detected a small French convoy; Large Merchant and Medium Cargo, escorted by Armed Trawler.

I stayed on surface and sank both merchants. As I was leaving the scene, I enjoyed watching the Trawler's futile attempts to locate me with the searchlight... :arrgh!:

[Jimbuna]

Use the compass to draw a circle 18km across.
Drag the compass until the circle you've drawn fills the western end of the Gibraltar channel.
Put your sub in the middle of the circle at periscope depth.
Wait for contact.
Sink contact.
Repeat until torpedoes and deck gun ammo gone.
Rearm at Thalia (or home base if Thalia not deployed).
Repeat.
Good tip :up:

Well, my luck finaly changed. It started with a disaster - my saved game was corrupted (although I saved away from land or ships :hmm:).
I reloaded a previous save (5-6 days game time earlier), and detected a small French convoy; Large Merchant and Medium Cargo, escorted by Armed Trawler.

I stayed on surface and sank both merchants. As I was leaving the scene, I enjoyed watching the Trawler's futile attempts to locate me with the searchlight... :arrgh!:

If it was French....no wonder :p

[meduza]

If it was French....no wonder :p
:rotfl::rotfl:

[Brag]

Keep it up and I'll let you buy me a drink :D

[Wreford-Brown]

Good tip :up:

I can't take the credit - jimbuna told me about this hunting ground a while ago and I just applied my method to it.

On each patrol I go to periscope depth as I leave the harbour and work out what the detection range of my hydrophones is - it differs with the experience of the radio room crew. Once I have this info I can draw a circle of the right radius and know that I can detect anything inside this circle. It's just part of my shakeout routine at the start of each patrol along with test firing the guns etc.

[meduza]

Keep it up and I'll let you buy me a drink :D :()1:

@Wreford-Brown
Drawing various detection circles is part of my tactics also. :yep:
But I usualy do the sound check myself, because I can hear a propeler noise long before my SO does, from about 30km.