At Last! A Battleship!

[Slateford-5]

200 km W of Rockall Bank, on a wet and windy October 1940 night, just before midnight, I slip quietly by the lead Flower Class, cutting diagonally towards a convoy at periscope depth....

The sonar man is going crazy: Frachter...Frachter...Kontakt Kriegshciff, kontakt Frachter....the convoy looks big, maybe 6 x 4, although disappointingly only coastal merchants and tramps....

And then HMS Nelson hoves into view...I realise I have screwed up my torpedo loading and have G1's and G2's in the wrong tube order (had wanted to fire the G2's first, then set the G1's to fast and let them catch up, so they all struck at the same time: too late now.

Closing to 3,000 m, the stealth meter stays a reassuring shade of apple green: my main problem now is these ****ty little ships catching some eels en route. Gyroangle is taking forever to tick over. Low groan of the tube doors opening. Then hit the button and start counting. Cut to 2 knots and start drifting down, staying on course to pass right underneath the convoy, hoping this will mean the DD's bringing up the rear will find it difficult to get a run at me.

At 70m, torpedo treffe x 4: first time I have ever managed that, although still unsure of what the torpedoes actually hit. Ever further downwards, silently. 12 mins later I am exiting the NW side of the convoy: not a single ping, but no red ship sunk icon either.

After 30 mins drifting, I come up in increments, following warship contact. Entfernt sich. Just after 1am, we come up and 4 km behind us is a badly listing Nelson, with the hindmost DD a tiny smoke plume. Time passes, she rocks, she lists, she is stationary, but the damned thing won't sink. Then sonar boy says the dreaded "Kriegschiff, kommt naeher". A DD is coming back! Reluctantly, the stern tube is used. No mistake: two fires have now started and the foremost gun triplet is awash with water....

The DD turns away to the E to catch up to the convoy as the Nelson bulkheads start to screech. A further 30 mins later, she's going down, 36,000 tonnes, without so much as a ping, never mind a depth charge.

I know sinking battleships is probably quite standard for you guys, but I was elated: I didn't know whether to worry more about the DD's or a sudden CTD.

Anyway, other than a 12 hour depth charging a few weeks back near Malta, I have never been so gripped by a game in my days. Quite superb!

S-5

[FIREWALL]

I was roughly in the same area Oct 39 going after a lone freighter when to starboard NE and just out've torp range was the Hood followed by the Rodney. :damn: :damn: :damn:

Congrats on your kill. :up:

[mengle]

a great story :rock:

[Hanomag]

Good Hunting Herr Kaluen!! :arrgh!:

[nikbear]

Congratulations on a text book kill:up:I too also sank a BB last night,the Rodney,mine was a far more scrappy affair,twas april '40 and I blundered into a task force south of the kerwell sub base,fired 3 eel's on the surface at night from about 3K's away,then slowly slipped beneath the waves to the not so safe depth of 110M's,which was all there was:o.2 of the eel's hit home which irritated the 9,yes NINE:huh: DD escorts no end,who then proceeded to slowly circle around until they got a ping fix on me,even at silent running with that many ears they were bound to:doh:what happened next was 2 real hours of utter hell as they dropped everthing including the galley sink on me:dead:eventually by slowly twisting and small bursts of speed during hells arrival in a can I managed to avoid death and finally gave them the slip with some light damage!Took ages to finally trace my wounded pray,but I finally caught up with her and dispatched her with a further 2 eels:up:I dont mind admiting that until I got that 'she's going down' message and heard the crew cheers I was a total nervous wreck,sweating and drinking far more beer that is good for me......and it was utterly FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!

[Red Heat]

Congratulations, Kaleu... :D

[xxx]

In a previous life I came up against a nelson, and king george the 5th with 9 destroyer escorts, in april '41 about 250km from portugal. I only had 3 torps left and 2 were duds:damn: . The torpedo that hit the nelson did absolutely nothing. P.S sorry for any bad spelling:up:

[Jimbuna]

BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!! http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

[jpm1]

where the SC-7 convoy has been annihilated

[bookworm_020]

I would have stayed at periscope depth and kept loading and firing torpedo's till they were out, or an escort start to come after me.

But well done anyway. you met her and sank her, so your doing something right!:up:

[BasilY]

I know sinking battleships is probably quite standard for you guys, but I was elated: I didn't know whether to worry more about the DD's or a sudden CTD.

S-5

I sunk 4 BBs in my last career with 39 patrols. Another 3-4 excape from under my perescope. They are still quite a rare find, especially the one that offers you a good firing angle. Let me tell you, it never gets boring!

I once had the fast moving Rodney and Nelson giving me the slip west of Gibraltar. (only got 3 lousy DD for it). You always remember the one that got away.

Congrats!

[astak9]

BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!! http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif


Never mind, God job


Proud to be a Kaleun:rock:

[mcf1]

An excellent kill and a great story Slateford-5 :up:

[Kipparikalle]

Excellent work mate! Congraturatin's on yer' succesfull keelhaul

[StarLion45]

:p :p It is an incredible feeling isn't it:p :p
Now sink more and congrats to you:lol:

[Robert Fulton]

Congratulations. And thanks for the good story.

A small matter, but I am puzzled: I can find the St. Kilda Islands 350nm west of Loch Ewe (fareastern AM28), but I don't see Rockall rendered in the game. It should be another 160nm west of St. Kilda, should it not?

edit: I answered my own question, having found a better Atlas. Rockall (the islet) is indeed not rendered on the navmap. But Rockall Bank is. And the Bank is actually separate from and another 150nm west of the islet (AM18 and AM19). The islet is in AM27.

[Paul_IronCoffin]

<sigh> another capitol ship sighting...

[A Very Super Market]

Jeez you guys are good. Sinking Nelsons, Hoods.... I can barely sink a Dido without wetting myself.

[Red Heat]

You will...soon you think as predator, soon you will reach your goals!

Good Hunting! :ping:

[Jimbuna]

Jeez you guys are good. Sinking Nelsons, Hoods.... I can barely sink a Dido without wetting myself.

All in good time....early on you may find the odd BB in the middle of a convoy leaving the Med http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

[Shadowblade]

Good work and congratulation, Herr Kaleun :up:

[Weiss Pinguin]

Congratulations on your kill!

Going out on my second patrol now, hopefully I'll run into more than just Dutch freighters this time around.

[Silverleaf]

Congrats ...

<sigh> another capitol ship sighting...

You and me kid, you and me...

Jeez you guys are good. Sinking Nelsons, Hoods.... I can barely sink a Dido without wetting myself.

Did a double take at the word Dido.

:rotfl:

[Unterseeboot92]

A similar thing happend to me in grid BF something when i spotted a destroyer coming at me and he hadn´t spotted me yet so i dived to periscope depht and set my engiens to stop because if he cant here me he dont know iam there. Many here has said they never encount battleships and i had nerver done that before either..so i waited and then i saw more smoke behind the destroyer and what i saw was 2 battleships!! one nelson class and one revenge class. when thay had come in range i fired 4 torpedoes at the revenge class and i hited with one. battleships usually have thick armor but it started to lean 30 degrees and i sunk it with only 2 torpedoes one under the keel so the engiens stopped the destroyers (about 9) where totally confused, i got one hit in the nelson ship but that didnt do anything to him. but i slipped away whitout damage. later on my way to base i encountered a convoy with small merchants an i only got 2 torpedoes left and succeeeded to sink one.(this was in camapign):DL

[bigboywooly]

Jeez you guys are good. Sinking Nelsons, Hoods.... I can barely sink a Dido without wetting myself.
All in good time....early on you may find the odd BB in the middle of a convoy leaving the Med http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif
Congrats Slateford 5

Or a complete TF exiting the Med if you are lucky

Picked up a warship contact moving fast
Quite away out and closing
Then another
And another
Picked out the lead DD in scope and then the KGV filled the scope
Then the Nelson
Have to say took a few deep breathes
Then noticed one of the flank DDs taking an unhealthy interest
That got the heart beating a lil fast
He got so nosey had to let him have a stern torp
Then fired 2 at the KGV and 2 at the Nelson
All magnetic 1m below keel
Then went deep
Very deep and waited

All 5 hits
L class DD blew up in a huge fireball about 200m off my stern
KGV went down straight away
Nelson a while after as I tried to give the escorts the slip
They werent too happy

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[nikbear]

What a result BBW:salute:2 at once:yeah:bet that had you sweating:03:

[bigboywooly]

What a result BBW:salute:2 at once:yeah:bet that had you sweating:03:

More that you know - especially as down to 64%HI after NOT diving when aircraft spotted :nope:
Lost my flak gunner and watch officer too so was a lil nervy at having to go deep after
lol
Thought it was just a fast convoy till saw the speed - 21Kts
Lucky for me they were heading my way too or would never have got close enough

[Jimbuna]

What a result BBW:salute:2 at once:yeah:bet that had you sweating:03:

Pah!....beginners luck :DL

[Jazer]

I love this sim!!!:yeah:

[mookiemookie]

Good lord, bbw. You had a field day!

I love sinking battleships. In fact, I keep my eyes on the prize, so to speak. I have this art print of the Hood framed above my computer:

http://www.directart.co.uk/mall/images/dhm378.jpg

:arrgh!:

[wolfpack_jim]

An excellent kill and a great story Slateford-5 :up:

oscar oscar oscar
bravo bravo bravo

Katsonis call papanikolis

6976033122 call me to get u my e-mail (dimitris):DL :woot:

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[Larry U-136]

Gutes Jagen! Sie alter Seenhund!