Worst death in game.

[Fr8monkey]

I've heard it said that dying in a depth charge attack is the worst way to die.. I agree. But in the game, what is the crappiest way your ship went down?

I was setting up an attack run on a convoy off of Rockal submerged. Weather was windy and foggy. I popped up the scope and did a 360 look around and found nothing. I surfaced and was hit by a destroyer commingt up from the rear. Didn't have time to crach dive. He fired 2 rounds... first tookout the conning tower and crew and the second destroyed the aft torp room. I was then rammed and went to the bottom.

[goggles]

mines...

i hit a mine off of scapa sunk to the bottom but managed to get pumped out and patched up ehough to start heading for home

so i think ive survived and i home free little do i know there a minefield just southwest of helgoland

critical flooding herr kaleun!!!!

all hands abandon ship!!!

u-51 went down within sight of home shores in water less than 20 metres deep and within sight of friendly mine sweepers:nope:

[ivank]

mines...

i hit a mine off of scapa sunk to the bottom but managed to get pumped out and patched up ehough to start heading for home

so i think ive survived and i home free little do i know there a minefield just southwest of helgoland

critical flooding herr kaleun!!!!

all hands abandon ship!!!

u-51 went down within sight of home shores in water less than 20 metres deep and within sight of friendly mine sweepers:nope:

That is a bummer!:nope:

[goggles]

indeed

the north sea is awfully cold:nope:

[Iron Budokan]

I was in a heavy fog moving slow. I had a sonar contact and knew I was coming up on a convoy and I was trying to feel my way into it. Then, without warning, a DD came steaming out of the fog and rammed me. Flooding. Panic. Screams. Damage control parties drowning in shattered compartments and then for laughs the DD decided to lay a pattern of depth charges.

It was a really messy death.

[Schroeder]

A Foggy day near the east coast of England. I was running with high time compression on. All of a sudden I get the message "ship spotted, sir." The moment I get to the bridge I see one of those armed trawlers 150m away. One second later, before I could even think about crash diving, the first shell hit me.:dead:

Being sunk on the surface by an armed trawler early in the war was somehow embarrassing.

[Otto Heinzmeir]

Speaking of TC deaths. I was cruising along in 1024 TC about 70km from any land off western UK when All at once I am dead. Never even dropped out of TC so not sure what happened. Only thing I can think is there are a couple places that are not land but are shallow, maybe 8 to 10m. So I probably hit bottom. Only I was on the surface and the game should have at least came out of TC you'd think. Although I was lagging a bit at the time as well. :O: I don't view it as an actually death just computer stupidity!

[A Very Super Market]

There is a micro-island between Scotland and the Hebrides. You have to zoom in to see it, and it apparently doesn't register with the watch officer as land.

[Fr8monkey]

I've hit that island atleast twice.... Damn, I hate that island. :mad:


What is with all these Destroyers comming out of no-where? The brits must have a successful Philadelphia Experiment (http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq21-1.htm) of their own.

[GREY WOLF 3]

While leaving port hit the c button by mistake :06: and ended up in the mine defences:cry: what a big bang that followed :wah: :wah:

[Lt.Fillipidis]

My worst death was cause of a yankee sniper decided to join the US navy...
With 11% Integrity, after a convoy attack and being loaded with almost 90.000GRT
in a complete calm and clear weather, the DD fired a lucky shot at nearly 7km far...
Hit amidships. :damn:

[Schroeder]

Speaking of TC deaths. I was cruising along in 1024 TC about 70km from any land off western UK when All at once I am dead. Never even dropped out of TC so not sure what happened. I have the same problem very often when I'm running along the English coast submerged (oddly enough never on the surface). I guess there are mines.:nope:

[Jimbuna]

Testing escorts sonar....hid underneath a cargo I had fatally wounded in 30metres depth and got crushed as it hit the sea bed, making me the filling in the sandwich. :oops:

[Puster Bill]

Speaking of TC deaths. I was cruising along in 1024 TC about 70km from any land off western UK when All at once I am dead. Never even dropped out of TC so not sure what happened. I have the same problem very often when I'm running along the English coast submerged (oddly enough never on the surface). I guess there are mines.:nope:


Bingo. You both hit mines.

It's happened to me often enough. Generally, if you are on the surface you are safe from the anti-submarine mines, but if the seas are rough I suppose you could "bounce" into one.

I've had several decent GWX careers ended near the British Isles because of mines.

The only time you are safe from them is in deep water. Doesn't matter if you are 70 KM from land, in both World Wars the British layed mines in the upper reaches of the North Sea to try and close it at least partially. These minefields weren't very effective, but they did get the occasional u-boat that happened to be unlucky enough to bump into one of them.

[USS Sea Tiger]

I usually shot from 350 to 400 yds, Just fired my last shot at a BB, and crash died to avoid a Dd, In the process I lost my bearings UW, and when I looked,why I heard scraping and grinding, and diving deep fast, The BB had rolled onto me and then dragged me down with her.

[PaulH513]

The very worst for me was being killed by a dag gum iceberg ! :wah: I had plotted my course thru and iceberg field and had to leave the helm for some RL stuff and returned just in time to see an iceberg hit me and drag me under. I could not get away no matter what I did and soon became an artifical reef in the North Atlantic. I had forgotten that the icebergs were actually moving when I plotted my course and on top of it...all of my buds on MP witnessed it. Just goes to show that icebergs can be silent and deadly too.

[OneToughHerring]

Well there's been plenty to choose from. :) The last nasty death was a case of me coming up to periscope depth in the middle of a convoy. Unfortunately in the middle was also a destroyer or some other big ship that saw me and 'oneshotted' me to pieces.

[kbak303]

Perhaps my 'death by collision' was an ASW mine as well.....off the coast of France, NE of Calais and NW of Dunkirk (I think it is) I was in heavy time compression then a screen pops up...dead by collision, lost all hands...my 2nd patrol, Sept 1939, and I'd just wrecked havoc in the port of Calais ....but was running on the surface at standard, oh well...

Bingo. You both hit mines.

It's happened to me often enough. Generally, if you are on the surface you are safe from the anti-submarine mines, but if the seas are rough I suppose you could "bounce" into one.

I've had several decent GWX careers ended near the British Isles because of mines.

The only time you are safe from them is in deep water. Doesn't matter if you are 70 KM from land, in both World Wars the British layed mines in the upper reaches of the North Sea to try and close it at least partially. These minefields weren't very effective, but they did get the occasional u-boat that happened to be unlucky enough to bump into one of them.

[Tribesman]

Got a silly death fighting 2 elco boats with the flak gun .
Enemy is engaging us ...yes I know
Enemy is engaging us ...yeah so what
Enemy is engaging us ...yeah tell me something new
bow tubes damaged watch tower damaged control room damaged we have flooding ....
they could have said new enemy engaging us

[Task Force]

Havent died in a LONG time... Ever since I started commanding my sub (still in U 45.):rotfl:

Before...

Ship spotted

shells all around me

Distroyer getting bigger and BIGGER and BIGGER!!!
Then BOOM SQUEEEEEK as I crash dive.
He rammed me (didnt kill me.)
splash splash splash.

BOOM to my right

Boom to the stern of my sub

BOOM!!! SPLASH!!! SHATTER!!! SHHHHHHHH!!! the famous "were takeing damage sir"
Then The death screen...:o:rotfl:

[nikimcbee]

i hate loosing to the torpedo boats:stare: sunk by machine gun fire, sheesh.

And I hate when you stumble across an escort in bad weather:doh:.

[Sag75]

the worst for me is when I get to much close to my crash depth..

I mean, around 250/260 to avoid DD sonar/hydrophones as possible... Well, you know, when the officer starts saying we are taking damage because too deep.. and I see the light bulbs get broken.. and I order a new lower depth or just hit the emergency surface key several times to be much faster in the manouver.......... my crew has never, never, never complied it as quick as I want :nope:...

[Synthfg]

Cruising in the north Atlantic in the worst storm I've seen in the game, stumble into the midst of a convoy whilst on the surface, somehow I've missed the escorts coming in from the side, Watch can't identify targets closer than about 200m, so fill my boots by cruising around on the surface looking for shadows, closing into identification range, setting the shot and then dropping back until an approx range of 350m before firing Have picked off a couple of small merchants, a medium tanker and a pyro ship, when I see a large shadow crossing my path, I race in to get an identification and range, only to run smack bang into an British Heavy Cruiser, we obviously identify each other at the same time but I'm at 200m and stand no chance as he shreds my sub sending me and my loyal crew to the bottom

[padmack]

leaving kiel
ahead standard...forgot to plot course through canal
ploughed straight into far side of harbour t x256 TC...ouch...

easy come easy go

[sharkbit]

Just had mine yesterday.
I was playing the Scapa single mission and got caught in shallow water by one of the patrolling destroyers after launching torpedoes at the Royal Oak.

The Royal Oak actually spotted me and shot a broadside with her secondary arnament forcing me under. Then the real fun began when the destroyer showed up.

It just wasn't pretty, especially after being forced to the surface and trying to run with all of those searchlights on me. :dead:

My 6 year old son enjoyed the spectacle though. :woot:

:)

[Tribesman]

i hate loosing to the torpedo boats:stare: sunk by machine gun fire, sheesh.

It wasn't the torpedo boats , while I was too focused on those two a tribal destroyer had turned up

[Subnuts]

Trapped on the bottom 50 miles from Scapa Flow, because I didn't read the manual, forgot to put a damage control team in my flooding bow quarters, and didn't know what the countdown clock on my crew management page meant.

Ummm...whoops. :roll: