Tell us what you are upto in your current campaign

[Snestorm]

d. 21.jan.41. BF61.
22.07. Underway from Lorient, bound for Patrol Grid AK27.

d. 22.jan.41. BF52.
06.00. Pre-morning dive. 25 Meters (of 66). Course 270.
(My IX(A) doesn't play well with aircraft.)

d. 24.jan.41. BF19.
17.33. Sound Contact. Merchant. Moving Slow. Closing. Long Range.
18.55. C3 Cargo (7.909 GRT) Sunk. Course 040. Speed 6 Knots.
G7E Torpedo x 3, Deck Gun coup de grace.

d. 25.jan.41. BF18.
07.55. Sound Contact. Merchant. Medium Speed. Closing. Long Range. (Surface).
08.30. Ship Spotted. "We've been spotted, sir." (Dive. 20 Meters of 35).
DEPTH CHARGES! AIRCRAFT! Good thing we dived, and were at Full Ahead.

23.48. BF15. Ship Spotted. 031. Long Range. (Merchant).

d. 26.jan.41. BF15.
00.55. Torpedo Impact x 3. C3 Cargo. Course 055. Speed 8 Knots. Night Surface.
01.00. Dive to 50 Meters to reload. Target is D.I.W.
02.10. Torpedo Impact x 1. stern shot.
02.13. C3 Cargo (7.949 GRT) Sunk. G7E Torpedo x 3. G7A Torpedo x 1.
02.22. Status Report: 2 ships sunk for 15.858 GRT. 5 torpedoes remaining.

d. 27.jan.41. BF14.
12.07. Sound Contact. Merchant. Moving Fast. Long Range. Closing. (278T).
12.45. T2 Tanker. Course 079. Speed 10,5 Knots. Flagged USA. (Down Scope).

d. 28.jan.41. BE33.
07.56. Ship Spotted. 065. Long Range. (Destroyer! 100 Meters. 90 degrees to port.)
08.00. Sound Contact. Warship. Moving Fast. Closing. 143R. Long Range.
08.22. Warship Moving Away.
08.50. No Sound Contact.

d. 8.feb.41. AK27.
12.00. On Station.

THE CONVOY.

d. 9.feb.41. AK27.
05.56. Radio. Convoy. AK19. East. 7 Knots.
Full Moon. Clear & Rough. Making 15 Knots at Full Ahead.

d. 9.feb.41. AK01.
12.31. Radio. Convoy. AK01. East. 7 Knots.
13.11. Ship Spotted. (Destroyer. Periscope Depth.)
13.36. Lead Destroyer is a old Four Stacker. (USA or England?)
13.53. T2 Tanker (10.872 GRT) Sunk. G7A Torpedo x 3. Course 094. 7 Knots.
13.53. Coastal Merchant (2.045 GRT) Sunk. G7E Torpedo x 1. 094. 7 Knots.

15.05. Surface. Just one G7A left in Tube 6.
20.48. Destroyer Spotted. Wide ride around. No visual with convoy.
23.13. Ship Spotted. (Merchant. Periscope Depth. We are in front.)
23.20. Nearest Sound Contact. Warship. Very Fast. 075R. Short Range.
"Enemy is pinging us sir." (Go to 101 Meters. 60 degrees to port. Full Ahead!)
Flak gun damaged (E.S.P.?) at 20 Meters.

d. 10.feb.41. AK01.
00.53. Surface.
02.35. Destroyer Spotted. 5.000 Meters. 261R. (Evaded Undetected.)
03.44. Periscope Depth. (Forward of the Convoy.)
03.48. Asdic (He didn't have us). DC (Distant, but close enough to abort).

05.20. Surface.
06.37. Destroyer Spotted. 6.600 Meters. (Undetected Evasion.)
07.50. Merchant Spotted. Periscope Depth.
07.55. P I N G. (He doesn't have us.)
07.56. D E P T H C H A R G E S. (Distant, again.)
08.18. Torpedo Impact! (Little Tanker targetted. No sinkings.)
09.32. Surface. Status Report: 4 ships sunk for 28.775 GRT. 0 Torpedoes remaining.

d 17.feb.41. AL92.
09.47. Coastal Merchant (2.047 GRT) Sunk. Deck Gun.

d. 21.feb.41. BF15.
10.51. Sound Contact. Warship.
16.03. Sound Contact. Warship.

d. 26.feb.41. BF61.
09.37. Docked at Lorient. H E A V Y F O G.

Patrol Results: 5 ships sunk for 30.882 GRT.

U37's History:
8 Patrols.
29 Ships Sunk.
166.147 GRT.

[Snestorm]

So how do I make use of the Weapons Officer? Because I'm not sure if there's something I need to set up differently in the Realism options, or do differently in the game.

Before this career I tried a couple times to use him, I mean I clicked on things asking for identification of target, solution to target, etc., but couldn't really see how that affected what I was doing. I had better luck just getting into a good position and waiting for the triangle to go green. So I'm not sure if I was supposed to have done something different because I was asking for his assistance - maybe I was not doing what was necessary to make use of it.

Hmmm. Good questions.
Realism: I think you check Manual Targeting, but leave Weapons Officer Assist unchecked.
If I remember right, he's worth 6% Realism.

Using the WE (regular way):
Lock target.
Click on Identify Target.
Click on Solution To Target.
Open Tubes.
Ckeck the box at bottom of Notepad.
When the Gyro Angle (3 didits) reads 000 fire.

Using the WE (my old way)
Set your own Heading, and make note of it (F.eks. 270)
Lock Target.
Click on Identify Target.
Click on Solution To Target.
Use his Solution compared to your Heading to obtain the Targets Course.
Set up your perpendicular attack course.
Set the UZO or Periscope on 000.
Go to F6.
Press the green botton. (It will light.)
Set the AOB at 90 degrees Port or Starboard as needed.
Bearing and Speed are already entered for you.
Press the green button. (Turns off light.)
Go to the UZO/Periscope.
Lock Target.
When the Gyro Angle reads 000 . . . Fire.

You can mix and match the methods as you see fit, or skip mine altogether for the time.

[Gilbou]

16:25/18032010/u-99/2of2//
engaged on surface by four destroyers
under heavy attack
destroyers shooting at crew in water
our position is grid am3....

Complete report in previous message
(requires Enigma to decipher)

[frau kaleun]

You can mix and match the methods as you see fit, or skip mine altogether for the time.

Thanks for the explanation.

I'm sure I never had Manual Targeting checked, so maybe that's why I couldn't see the point before of whatever Weps was doing since I was still getting all the info I seemed to need from the notepad/triangle.

[Snestorm]

Thanks for the explanation.

I'm sure I never had Manual Targeting checked, so maybe that's why I couldn't see the point before of whatever Weps was doing since I was still getting all the info I seemed to need from the notepad/triangle.

He's pretty cool. You get to deal with maneuvering, and he deals with shooting.
I never did full auto. The Weapons Officer was always there for me.

Always nice to be helpful.

[Leandros]

U-99 - kaleun Paul Fischer - Patrol 11 - AM64 - March 24th 1943 - 07:56

Left Lorient March 18th for AM68. Mission: Test out new anti-escort tactics. Have passed up the South-Western Approaches and the Irish Sea. Most of the weaponry has been expended on upcoming enemy naval vessels. See report to BdU. So far the tactics have been validated.....:DL



http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U99/Patrol11/EscortMassacre3.jpg


Coming up the South-Western Approaches the first we hit upon was this. Not stated in the report to the BdU but listed on the ship sunk list.


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U99/Patrol11/GatoClassB.jpg


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U99/Patrol11/GatoClassD.jpg



http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U99/Patrol11/GatoClassC.jpg



These three were our last victims - the last Black Swan still afloat


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U99/Patrol11/EscortMassacre.jpg


Here goes:


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U99/Patrol11/EscortMassacre2.jpg


To be continued - 6 torps left

[Paul Riley]

Having to restart patrol 3 due to a crippling crash I experienced tonight,probably due to saving the game submerged and in close proximity to a sinking ship.
Bugger,never mind,least I wont be making that mistake again! :nope:

[Brag]

Just been to BDU and Doenitz told me the budget for my U-boat is GO!

My next stop was the shipyard where they will hammer together my boat. I expect to be ready for sea in about a week or two.

(Yeah, it will be Balz :D)

[Leandros]

U-99 - kaleun Paul Fischer - Patrol 11 - AM52 - March 26th 1943 - 00:39

Finally out in the open. Was tempted into using 3 torps on a large merchant and a medium cargo. Used the gun to finish them off. Also a third, smaller one following them.

Sunk a lightship with the DG. Not marked on the sunk list. While trekking westwards submerged during daytime was surprised by 3 subhunters. They were obviously lying still as we picked up no sonar signature on them. First we knew we were pinged. Went to max. depth (145 m.) and started squiggling. Lost them after a couple of hours. Some damage on superstructure. Heading south now. 3 torps left.

3 hungry subhunters looking for revenge:


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U99/Patrol11/cb6a2d42.jpg

[Grim Nigel]

10:20am 24th December 1940 - We have arrived back home to a heroes welcome at St. Nazaire. Just in time for my crew and I to spend the Christmas with our families.
We have had our tonnage confirmed and I was presented with a promotion and an Iron Cross medal, my crew also earned commendations and medals. This was quite an exhausting patrol and I still hadn't found a convoy. Perhaps the next patrol will yield better results.

End of Patrol 2
Days at sea : 27
Crew Losses : 0
Ships Sunk : 13 Merchants
Aircraft Destroyed : 0
Tonnage Sunk : 66,214 (Confirmed)

[Leandros]

U-99 - kaleun Paul Fischer - Patrol 11 - Lorient - March 29th 1943 - 11:33

Back in base. Caught up with a convoy west of Ireland on the way back. Spent the last 3 torps on 3 escorts.

Final tally - 13 warships:


http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U99/Patrol11/c2a2ee15.jpg


A nice counter-clockwise trip:



http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/Leandros10/U99/Patrol11/22ec8b49.jpg

[martin1004]

Just sank a S-class sub in BF 52. Suprisingly it took 2 torpedoes to sink it and it didn't fight back.

[Leandros]

Just sank a S-class sub in BF 52. Suprisingly it took 2 torpedoes to sink it and it didn't fight back.
Same with the Gato-class above. It didn't sink with one torp so surfaced to finish it off with DG. It fired back and killed 2 of the gun crew. A new gun crew finished it.

[Grim Nigel]

Situation update : Patrol 3, Werner Faust of U-707.

18th February 1941

Left St. Nazaire at 1:23pm after a long refit and repair of U-707. Much of its internal equipment had to be replaced due to damage sustained on the previous patrol. Several of the other U-Boat captains commented about how damned lucky we were to get our boat back in one piece. We'd been told that an overall estimate of the hull damage placed it at about 60% of the total structure.

This time, we will be much more cautious of potentially armed merchants, as will the other U-Boat captains we had told our story to.
The grid we have been assigned to is DR23 which is over 5,500km away from our base and will take approximately 300 hours ( 12 days ) to arrive travelling at 1/3.
DR23 is located past Gibraltar and 2,500km west of the Canary Islands. At least the weather should be warmer than the North Atlantic.

10:36am 20th February 1941 - we have left St. Nazaire far behind and are now in open ocean heading Southwest past Spain, Gibraltar is approximately 1000km to our SSE. We should pass far enough away to avoid any task forces lurking in the area. Watch has been instructed to be extra vigilant to our port side when we reach about 500km from Gibraltar.

10:40am 21st February 1941 - Received a single ship contact report at a position 38km NW of the boat, travelling south at medium speed. Visual identification showed it to be an unarmed British Coastal Freighter which was promptly sent to the bottom by our Deck Gun crew. At 12:26pm the target was split in half by a small internal explosion, 2 minutes later it had gone to the bottom. 32 8.8 shells were expended in this sinking.


21st February 1941 @ 12:26pm
Coastal Freighter sinking awaiting confirmation from BDU...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_f-Ar3WjQlA8/S6NqiWFkC1I/AAAAAAAAACw/JxjH7PCWKo0/s400/U-707_Deck_Gun.png

The Gun Crew in Action
Alois Mulbach, Arno Popp, Joachim Locke.


2:50pm 23rd February 1941 - We were passing 400km NNW of Madeira when we received a contact report of a Large Convoy located 180km NW of our position. The Convoy was travelling at 7 knots in a Northeasterly direction so it shouldn't be too difficult to intercept. Calculations showed we could arrive at a point ahead of the convoy in 6-8 hours. Lets hope this time the convoy doesn't change course. A lot can happen in 6 hours.

Received a report update at 9:25pm, the convoy was still on course and travelling at 7 knots. We have only a matter of a couple of hours and we'll be in position to begin our approach from ahead of the convoy.
The positions and numbers of escorts will determine our approach strategy.

10:18pm 23rd February 1941 - In position and at Periscope Depth, awaiting hydrophone contact with Convoy group.

10:36pm 23rd February 1941 - Hydrophone contact acquired with lead escort in expected position. Will await arrival of the rest of the convoy and determine its composition and escort positions before deciding on approach and attack method.

11:47pm 23rd February 1941 - Hydrophone tracking showed the convoy had changed course to a NNE direction. A single Black Swan Class escort was observed through the periscope at a distance of approximately 6km. I decided to risk surfacing to race Northward 20km into a new intercept position. The night was very dark and provided us cover to surface, but we wont know for sure if we have been spotted yet.

12:33am 24th February 1941 - At new position, convoy re-acquired via hydrophone. As the convoy approached within 4km, we went to silent running and crept along at 1 knot. We slowly worked our way in between the 2nd and 3rd rows as the convoy advanced.
We fired 2 G7e's at a Large Merchant, 2 G7a's at a Tanker and a G7e from the aft tube at a Small Merchant.

1:46am 24th February 1941 - As soon as all torpedo's were launched, we went flank speed to a depth of 130 metres, once we had reached our depth we returned to silent running at 1 knot. We managed to pass underneath the convoy and remained deep, none of the escorts even came close to finding us and we continued unchallenged until the escorts were safely out of hydrophone range. We surfaced at 6:00am and reloaded all tubes, the external reserves are now being transferred inside the boat. We heard 4 hits but only one ship was heard to sink, we will have to await confirmation for the results of this event.

24th February 1941 @ 1:40am
Large Merchant sinking awaiting confirmation from BDU...

[Sailor Steve]

Good report - and a nice period-looking b&w photo to boot!:rock:

[Vipper]

OMG, im after my first capital ship! It is in neutral convoy and it is Nelson class Battleship. I did attacked it at night and wasted my first salvo of torpedoes cause bad positioning and merchants on the way (it did hit some merchs and made convoy zig zag) , now i reloaded torpedoes and will position myself better. I do attack it some 300-400 meters using salvo, going for sure...

[frau kaleun]

IIRC the torps need at least 300 meters to arm themselves. Fire from too close in and they won't be armed even if they make impact. So don't get so close that even a perfectly set-up shot goes to waste!

[frau kaleun]

Good report - and a nice period-looking b&w photo to boot!:rock:

I know, it looks sorta like a photo was taken by someone on the u-boat.

Haben sie ein gast an bord, Leandros? :D

[Leandros]

Iaben sie ein gast an bord, Leandros? :D
Lieber Fräulein, Ich habe viele Gaste an bord....warum fragen sie, bitte....?.....:hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

IIRC the torps need at least 300 meters to arm themselves. Fire from too close in and they won't be armed even if they make impact. So don't get so close that even a perfectly set-up shot goes to waste!

300 meters...your quite correct. The one exeption being the Falke which requires 400 metres of travel distance.

[KL-alfman]

Lieber Fräulein, Ich habe viele Gaste an bord....warum fragen sie, bitte....?.....:hmmm:



Frau Kaleun refers to the "Kriegsberichterstatter" aka Herbert Grönemeyer in "Das Boot".
(hopefully I haven't misinterpreted ......)

[frau kaleun]

Lieber Fräulein, Ich habe viele Gaste an bord....warum fragen sie, bitte....?.....:hmmm:


KL-alfman is correct, and oops, sorry, I meant that question for Grim Nigel. :oops:

[Grim Nigel]

B&W photos capture so much more atmosphere than colour photo's :D I have always loved B&W pictures. We have also been "asked" to take various photo's of successes and high points of patrols for propaganda purposes :03:

[frau kaleun]

B&W photos capture so much more atmosphere than colour photo's :D I have always loved B&W pictures. We have also been "asked" to take various photo's of successes and high points of patrols for propaganda purposes :03:

I like them, I think maybe I will try to "snap some pics" on a future patrol. :DL

[Leandros]

KL-alfman is correct, and oops, sorry, I meant that question for Grim Nigel. :oops:
Verstehe Ich.......:03:....

[Grim Nigel]

Heres one I took from the about same position (If I remember rightly) the chap in Das Boot took one of his first few photo's from, right before he was told to wait till they were on the return journey, they would have grown beards.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_f-Ar3WjQlA8/S6UZTY4GbSI/AAAAAAAAADA/64pir4XdXMU/s400/U-707_Watch_Crew_3.png

[frau kaleun]

Heres one I took from the about same position (If I remember rightly) the chap in Das Boot took one of his first few photo's from, right before he was told to wait till they were on the return journey, they would have grown beards.


:yeah:

[frau kaleun]

I knew I didn't want to patrol AN16.

Made visual contact with a RN task force, three Tribal class and one V&W. Went immediately to periscope depth but their quick-on-the-draw course change told me I'd been spotted as well. Dropped as deep as I could go and went to silent running, but only had about 70m of water to creep away in and couldn't get deep enough fast enough to lose the stinky pickles hot on my trail. Hello depth charges, goodbye career.

:wah:

Oh well, now I can play with some new mods.

[martin1004]

Just experienced the first major drawback in my carreer. Nineteen of my crew KIA in AN81 shallow-water (just 23 meters) depth charging. After taking a heavy beating the situation looked hopeless for me. But then the destroyer just left...weird but lucky for me, maybe it ran out of fireworks.
My boat was shattered. From the outside it looked like it came straight out from a toaster - burning marks all over it. But I managed to limp back to St. Nazaire ( Had no option but to go across the channel as close to the coast as possible.). Think that was the closest near death moment in SH3 for me.
HI 18% and a huge disaster for my crew as 19 of them died. No ships sunk to make matters worse.

[Snestorm]

Left Lorient on 26.mar.41 bound for DH28.
Returned on 26.apr.41.

O ships sunk for 0 GRT.

Crashed dived for aircraft 4 times.
No ships seen or heard.

U37's history:
9 patrols.
29 ships sunk for 166.147 GRT.

[Snestorm]

I knew I didn't want to patrol AN16.

Made visual contact with a RN task force, three Tribal class and one V&W. Went immediately to periscope depth but their quick-on-the-draw course change told me I'd been spotted as well. Dropped as deep as I could go and went to silent running, but only had about 70m of water to creep away in and couldn't get deep enough fast enough to lose the stinky pickles hot on my trail. Hello depth charges, goodbye career.

:wah:

Oh well, now I can play with some new mods.

Sorry you lost your boat.
How did you manage to ID all those ships, in so short a time?
Just the word Destroyer is usualy good enough for me.
(I hide.)

[frau kaleun]

By doing a periscope sweep to see all four. Which is probably what got me spotted, if they hadn't spotted me before I submerged. :doh:

[Grim Nigel]

Dropped as deep as I could go and went to silent running, but only had about 70m of water to creep away in and couldn't get deep enough fast enough to lose the stinky pickles hot on my trail. Hello depth charges, goodbye career.

Ouch, R.I.P. your Boat & crew.

[Paul Riley]

Left Lorient on 26.mar.41 bound for DH28.
Returned on 26.apr.41.

O ships sunk for 0 GRT.

Crashed dived for aircraft 4 times.
No ships seen or heard.

U37's history:
9 patrols.
29 ships sunk for 166.147 GRT.

Odd,that you had no contacts at all :shifty:

[Paul Riley]

I knew I didn't want to patrol AN16.

Hello depth charges, goodbye career.



oops ;)

[Paul Riley]

Heres one I took from the about same position (If I remember rightly) the chap in Das Boot took one of his first few photo's from, right before he was told to wait till they were on the return journey, they would have grown beards.


http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_f-Ar3WjQlA8/S6UZTY4GbSI/AAAAAAAAADA/64pir4XdXMU/s400/U-707_Watch_Crew_3.png


When taking screenshots which button hides the interface bar at the bottom of the screen?
Thanks :up:

[Sailor Steve]

NumPad Del. The NumLock has to be on for it to work.

I'm actually using a mod that hides it permanently.:D

[frau kaleun]

Ouch, R.I.P. your Boat & crew.

Well, I've got about a dozen mods that I d/led and have been itching to try out and maybe subconsciously I really wanted that patrol to be over a little too quickly. :O:

Should've quietly done my patrol as ordered and avoided the hell out of anything other than lone ships, then made for deeper water where I could hunt at will with a better chance of surviving the wrath of any warship I couldn't take out with one well-placed salvo.

Instead I tried to set up an attack run on four destroyers coming out of Scapa with barely 70m of ocean beneath my keel.

http://usera.imagecave.com/chasbo00/DoubleFacePalm.jpg

[Paul Riley]

Well, I've got about a dozen mods that I d/led and have been itching to try out and maybe subconsciously I really wanted that patrol to be over a little too quickly. :O:

Should've quietly done my patrol as ordered and avoided the hell out of anything other than lone ships, then made for deeper water where I could hunt at will with a better chance of surviving the wrath of any warship I couldn't take out with one well-placed salvo.

Instead I tried to set up an attack run on four destroyers coming out of Scapa with barely 70m of ocean beneath my keel.

http://usera.imagecave.com/chasbo00/DoubleFacePalm.jpg

:rotfl2:
Quite an appropriate image

[Paul Riley]

NumPad Del. The NumLock has to be on for it to work.

I'm actually using a mod that hides it permanently.:D

Thanks for that Steve :up:

[KL-alfman]

sry for your losses, Frau Kaleun and martin1004!

for me it's sailing home to Brest after a pretty successful patrol (7ships, 52k tons).
the ride into the sunrise reveals all the beauty of the type VII:

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/6697/beautycp.jpg (http://img42.imageshack.us/i/beautycp.jpg/)

p.s: the water is the mod of rik007 (SH5water for SH3)

[Paul Riley]

I seem to be having problems taking screenshots ,someone just clarify this for me,is it CTRL+F11 or CTRL+PRINTSCREEN? and the location of the screenshot/s in the SH3 directory?

Thanks :yep:

[KL-alfman]

for me it's CTRL+F11
and it saves directly into the root directory of the game as a *.bmp-file

[Flopper]

I seem to be having problems taking screenshots ,someone just clarify this for me,is it CTRL+F11 or CTRL+PRINTSCREEN? and the location of the screenshot/s in the SH3 directory?

Thanks :yep:

If by chance you're using kegetys' d3d9.dll for the widescreen fix, it's just printscreen, and the path is specified in the ini file:

http://alexbret.perso.cegetel.net/indexa2c1.html?title=Display_Resolution

[Snestorm]

Instead I tried to set up an attack run on four destroyers coming out of Scapa with barely 70m of ocean beneath my keel.

Didn't one of your earlier boats meet the same end, in the same place, and under the same circumstances?

How about trying a IXB, with the Weapons Officer ON, and Auto Targeting OFF?

[Snestorm]

Odd,that you had no contacts at all :shifty:

That seems to be the story of my life, when BDU decides to send me towards Afrika.
I hate going down there.

I had thought my U37's total tonnage might be a-little high historicaly,
until I looked up The Real U37. WOW!

My U37:
9 Patrols.
29 Merchants for 166.147 GRT.

The Real U37 (Type IX "A"):
11 Patrols prior to becoming a School Boat.
53 Merchants for 200.124 GRT! (1 damaged at 9.494 GRT)
2 Warships for 2.404 Tons.

She survived, only to be scuttled on d. 8. maj 1945.
Whew! What a boat!

I play Boat Carreers as opposed to Commander's Carreers.

None of my boats carry external reloads, thus giving the variouse VIIs a more that even footing with my IXs. It also gives my late war boats (If I get that far alive) a slightly better chance to compete.
Type II (all): 5 Torpedoes.
Type VII: 11 Torpedoes.
Type IX: 12 Torpedoes.
Type VIIB (and up): 12 Torpedoes.
Type IXB (and up): 14 Torpedoes.

I've got to figure out how to "zero out" my tonnage when I get a new boat.
(That way SH3 can do the math, instead of me. I hope.)

[frau kaleun]

Didn't one of your earlier boats meet the same end, in the same place, and under the same circumstances?

How about trying a IXB, with the Weapons Officer ON, and Auto Targeting OFF?

No, not really. I was patrolling AN16, about as far off to the east of Scapa as I could get and still be in that grid, when I got tagged by this task force.

The last time I was actually trying to sneak through between Scapa and the Scottish mainland at periscope depth, spotted a destroyer, and blew her to kingdom come. Then her friends came and returned the favor. Probably not a facepalm in the world that's facepalmy enough for that escapade.

I might try a Type IX if'n I ever live that long and have enough for the upgrade. Still too enamored of the Type VII to be all that interested right now though.

[Snestorm]

No, not really. I was patrolling AN16, about as far off to the east of Scapa as I could get and still be in that grid, when I got tagged by this task force.

The last time I was actually trying to sneak through between Scapa and the Scottish mainland at periscope depth, spotted a destroyer, and blew her to kingdom come. Then her friends came and returned the favor. Probably not a facepalm in the world that's facepalmy enough for that escapade.

I might try a Type IX if'n I ever live that long and have enough for the upgrade. Still too enamored of the Type VII to be all that interested right now though.

My mistake. Thought you might have been out playing in "Scapa Valley" again.

And on the last note. Enjoy your VIIB. It's a nice ride.

[Paul Riley]

Hate to bring this up again but I tried taking a quick snap of my game again last night,first by using CTRL+F11 then CTRL+PTRSC...no luck :nope:
Pressing F1 to bring the button mapping info up indicates that CTRL+F11 is the correct way?
I was looking in the main SH3 directory,and cant see any recent JPG or BMP references to SH3.
I think I managed to take a snap ages ago using stock but cant remember which button I used.For the record,I am using the res fix for GWX3 allowing for higher resolutions.

Thanks for any help here.

[Paul Riley]

Obviously the res fix is the culprit here after a bit of reading on the matter.It seems I may not have a valid directory path for the screenshots to be placed in.Opening up the d3d9.cfg I get -
enableScreenshots=1
screenshotPath=. <-- there really is a full stop after the equals sign.

So,can someone give me a valid directory to save the shots to,like my documents for example?,would that work?

If all else fails is it safe to remove the res fix and revert back to the original GWX3 setup? its ok modding our games but my experience is teaching me that we can do it TOO much eventually breaking a once stable game :damn::zzz:

[Grim Nigel]

Easiest way, and saves a lot of bother is just to hit the "Print Screen" key, then mimimise and open MS Paint, then select "Paste" and your screenie should appear right there, then save to whereever you want.

Not sure if some people get crashes when minimising but I never had a problem with it (so far).

:salute:

[Gilbou]

Obviously the res fix is the culprit here after a bit of reading on the matter.It seems I may not have a valid directory path for the screenshots to be placed in.Opening up the d3d9.cfg I get -
enableScreenshots=1
screenshotPath=. <-- there really is a full stop after the equals sign.

So,can someone give me a valid directory to save the shots to,like my documents for example?,would that work?

If all else fails is it safe to remove the res fix and revert back to the original GWX3 setup? its ok modding our games but my experience is teaching me that we can do it TOO much eventually breaking a once stable game :damn::zzz:

The dot is a perfectly valid path. It means "Current directory" to the system.

It comes from Unix where . means = current directory
and .. = the directory above

ex. you can copy a file by doing :

cd c:\toto
copy c:\somefile .

This copies file somefile located in c:\toto to the current directory (the .)

That's why you see a . and .. when you do a dir
Or a ls on a Unix machine running Linux or BSD.

[Paul Riley]

Easiest way, and saves a lot of bother is just to hit the "Print Screen" key, then mimimise and open MS Paint, then select "Paste" and your screenie should appear right there, then save to whereever you want.

Not sure if some people get crashes when minimising but I never had a problem with it (so far).

:salute:

The PRTSC button is the usual method you are right,but I installed a higher resolutions fix to the game,and the PRTSC is now no longer working,you must manually edit the screenshots path etc in the d3d.cfg file,which I dont believe I have done and cant be bothered to do now.
I am going to remove the res fix and revert to how things were,at least everything worked as it should then.

Thanks for the comment :yep:

[Paul Riley]

The dot is a perfectly valid path. It means "Current directory" to the system.

It comes from Unix where . means = current directory
and .. = the directory above

ex. you can copy a file by doing :

cd c:\toto
copy c:\somefile .

This copies file somefile located in c:\toto to the current directory (the .)

That's why you see a . and .. when you do a dir
Or a ls on a Unix machine running Linux or BSD.

I see,thanks for that :know:

[martin1004]

After sneaking in to the port of Reykjavik in early May 1942 I sank New Orleans class battleship and Brooklyn class battleship, both over 12 000 tons.
I also sank all the small destroyers docked there to guarantee my safe exit and a few tankers that were coming to the port on my way back. Great patrol, never sunk a battleship in a career before and blasted 2 of them.

[Paul Riley]

After sneaking in to the port of Reykjavik in early May 1942 I sank New Orleans class battleship and Brooklyn class battleship, both over 12 000 tons.
I also sank all the small destroyers docked there to guarantee my safe exit and a few tankers that were coming to the port on my way back. Great patrol, never sunk a battleship in a career before and blasted 2 of them.

I havent even SEEN a battleship yet never mind 'blasting' one,and ive been playing the game for years now,although I will say I have never been past August 1942 before (had to quit my old stock career to use GWX3) :wah:
Sounds like you had a good harvest out there.

[KL-alfman]

glad, you're doing fine in your new career, martin1004! :up:

[Leandros]

After sneaking in to the port of Reykjavik in early May 1942 I sank New Orleans class battleship and Brooklyn class battleship, both over 12 000 tons.
I also sank all the small destroyers docked there to guarantee my safe exit and a few tankers that were coming to the port on my way back. Great patrol, never sunk a battleship in a career before and blasted 2 of them.
Good show, Martin!

[Snestorm]

After sneaking in to the port of Reykjavik in early May 1942 I sank New Orleans class battleship and Brooklyn class battleship, both over 12 000 tons.
I also sank all the small destroyers docked there to guarantee my safe exit and a few tankers that were coming to the port on my way back. Great patrol, never sunk a battleship in a career before and blasted 2 of them.

USS New Orleans and USS Brooklyn would be cruisers.
Submarines: Fish.
Battleships: States.
Cruisers: Cities.
Destroyers: Heroic Figures (Usualy deceased).

Still, quite an accomplishment.

[Jimbuna]

@Paul

Have you considered installing a screen capture programme such as fraps?

[Paul Riley]

I havent Jim no.You will have to tell me more about this some time :up:

[Grim Nigel]

Situation Update from the logs of Werner Faust, U-707


13th March 1941

8:31am 13th March 1941 - Contact report received, a large convoy located 70km ESE of our boat, travelling at 7 knots in a Northeast direction.
We should be able to intercept ahead of the convoy in 4 hours.

10:30am 13th March 1941 - report update received, convoy is maintaining course and speed and its currently at expected position in grid DH45.
We are just under 2 hours away from the planned intercept point.

12:40pm 13th March 1941 - We have arrived at the intercept point and will try to move into the path of the convoy before the lead escorts reach visual distance. The heavy seas and high winds have slowed our progress and several course corrections had to be made.
The convoy is closer than I had planned and we only have about 10 to 20 minutes before we are forced to submerge to maintain the element of surprise. In this situation we have a larger advantage being surfaced than submerged, speed an maneuverability are what matters right now.

We successfully infiltrated the convoy perimeter and crept at 1 knot into the centre of the convoy. At 1:49pm both our remaining forward torpedo's (1 G7e and 1 G7a) were fired at a Large Tanker, the aft torpedo (a G7a) was fired at a Large Merchant.
At this point, my first instinct is usually to head deep at flank speed. Now I know from experience that running the electric motors at full is like waving a "Here I am!" flag at the enemy escorts, so this time I tried a different tactic.
This time we simply sunk slowly downward to 100m at 2 knots. The sonar operator reported positions of escorts every minute or so, it seemed that they just couldn't find us and just hung around our firing location trying desperately to listen for any sign of something that might indicate our position.
During our slow and somewhat tense descent into the depths, the sound man reported 3 torpedo explosions, shortly followed by the distinctive sounds of a ship sinking in the directions of both targets. I was pleased to hear that all of our three remaining torpedo's had found their mark.

For quite some time the escorts scoured the area trying desperately to locate us, and in all that time we heard neither ASDIC nor Depth Charges.
We had simply disappeared from existence to them and all they had that betrayed our presence were 2 sinking ships.
One of the escorts did come quite close to our position, within 1km but we remained calm and waited, soon the escort moved away to try somewhere else.

We finally surfaced at 4:53pm when the convoy had passed well out of hydrophone range. We are now heading toward the Corrientes supply ship stationed at Las Palmas about 900km from our position. We should arrive in a little under 2 days. The morale on the boat is joyous and many of the crew are talking about sitting on the beach and taking a well earned break for a few days, perhaps we may be able to find a crate of rum for our next patrol.


13th March 1941 @ 1:51pm
MV Empire Norseman (Large Tanker), 9678 tons. Cargo: Crude Oil. Crew: 73. Crew lost: 24


13th March 1941 @ 1:52pm
SS Wisconsin (Large Merchant), 10622 tons. Cargo: Mail/Packages. Crew: 105. Crew lost: 73




15th March 1941

2:19pm 15th march 1941 - We have arrived at the Corrientes supply ship and are preparing for resupply operations. Once U-707 has been resupplied with Torpedo's and Fuel, each crew member has been granted 24 hours shore leave in groups of 10 men.
I will take Wolfgang Eisenholtz and Herbert Lindner to Las Palmas in 2 hours to check out the area for potential problems or enemy activity before anyone is permitted to go ashore.
Lets hope my crew doesn't destroy too much property, they tend to go a little wild after coming back from patrol.


http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_f-Ar3WjQlA8/S6aDM0B8fyI/AAAAAAAAADg/SC4HEF9ftVE/s400/U-707+Corrientes_2.png

The Crew of the Corrientes prepares for U-707's arrival.



http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_f-Ar3WjQlA8/S6aDqXf_BrI/AAAAAAAAADw/xcyhqej_mhA/s400/U-707+Corrientes_4.png

Shore leave at Las Palmas once resupply is finished.




End of Patrol 3





Patrol Results

Days at sea : 26
Crew Losses : 0
Ships Sunk : 9 Merchants
Aircraft Destroyed : 0
Tonnage Sunk : 51,595 (Confirmed)

[KL-alfman]

Oberleutnant Friedrich Mohr
1st Flotilla
U-578 (VIIC)
left Brest on 24th of September 1942 to assigned grid ET55 (just west of Freetown)

when moving south along the Portuguese coast we were radioed about a small convoy heading north just a few hours away. intercept course was navigated quickly and in the evening a Hunt Class destroyer and four merchants could be made out on the horizon. as we still had a long way to go to our grid we decided to sink only the juciest target and leave the rest of the convoy alone.
a Liberty-cargo in the end was then attacked submerged from about 1700m with two aale. one bow-shot and one right under the stack.
both hit but the vessel was only wounded and didn't explode right now as we hoped.
to evade the upcoming angry escort we dove to 160m and ran silent. hydrophone stated the Liberty-cargo was moving slower by the minute and the camera confirmed her heavy listing to port.

http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/2223/liblist.jpg (http://img688.imageshack.us/i/liblist.jpg/)

after the DD was charging back to safely protect its remaining ships we came up and hunted her up to 1000m distance. we full ahead surfaced and finished her with only three shells of the deck-gun.

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/1394/libsink.jpg (http://img26.imageshack.us/i/libsink.jpg/)

the crew was happy about this lucky start of our patrol and we didn't loose time to head south leaving the area before the DD might come back.



p.s: patrol-reports will be continued!

[Exakt]

Patrol 8
Departure: Feb 15, 1940
Whilhelmshaven

Just departed, enroute to AN11, NW of Scapa Flow, I guess BdU wants to scare the Tommys. I have heard that the western front campaign is going well, we should see a couple of countries to fall at the feet of the Wehrmacht.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g55/VAC1012/SH3Img21-3-2010_23229_248.jpg

On the way out, we saw the Admiral Hipper coming in to Whilhelmshaven.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g55/VAC1012/SH3Img21-3-2010_23365_304.jpg

Went it was abeam of my boat.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g55/VAC1012/SH3Img21-3-2010_233712_226.jpg

Currently in the North Sea. close to the mainland, to avoid unnecessary combat with British patrols.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g55/VAC1012/SH3Img21-3-2010_234243_852.jpg

Still haven't come across any British merchants, but I will rather keep my eels for the possible Royal Navy ships that I will encounter later on during our patrol.

[Leandros]

Patrol 8
Departure: Feb 15, 1940
Whilhelmshaven

Just departed, enroute to AN11, NW of Scapa Flow, I guess BdU wants to scare the Tommys. I have heard that the western front campaign is going well, we should see a couple of countries to fall at the feet of the Wehrmacht.
Beware of mines if entering Scapa through the western entrance. Safest is to go on the surface in the dark. When it narrows down there is coastal artillery.

[Exakt]

My goal is to actually harass the Royal Navy after they get out of Scapa Flow. Entering it would be foolhardy with a crew that has (almost) only sunk merchant ship, with little to no escort. Only once, under the cover of night, did we sank a destroyer and 2 auxiliary cruisers, from about 9km out. Took out the destroyer with one torp, then the first of the auxiliary cruiser with 2 and sent the 4th one to the last one to cripple it, gave me a chance to reload another one to send it to the bottom. Now, if I see a battleship, I may just send all 4 on it and then try to avoid the destroyers escort.

[Paul Riley]

Battleship = full 4 torpedo salvo,across its entire beam,its the only way to be sure,or you could tighten your spread and concentrate them into a tight area such as under a gun turret :arrgh!:
Remember your main goal though,we are there to sink merchant ships,try to avoid encounters with military ships as much as possible,although a Battleship would be far too 'fat' to simply ignore!

[KL-alfman]

U-578
Oberleutnant Friedrich Mohr

after the first successes running south along the Portuguese coast we had a lot of sightings of lone merchants and/or small convoys (just guarded by one escort) all along the west-coast of Africa.
helped to raise our tonnage-record and we easily evaded all attacks.
in the background an angry DD can be seen:
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/9586/mediumsink.jpg (http://img151.imageshack.us/i/mediumsink.jpg/)

at night we sank a merchant:
http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/3107/nightsink.jpg (http://img695.imageshack.us/i/nightsink.jpg/)

when we approached our assigned PG (ET53) we more and more got assaulted by enemy aircraft. this area there west of Freetown is really pesky. but our Metox proved to be of great help, we got the warnings some minutes before we were spotted and could dive to safe depth.
with our last 6eels we then attacked a convoy heading west out of Freetown and destroyed 3ships from inside.

after evasion of the escort's charging and no eels left, Oberleutnant Mohr decided to resupply at U-460 (west of Cape Verde Isles):
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/9181/milkcow.jpg (http://img130.imageshack.us/i/milkcow.jpg/)

on our way home to Brest we might run into some vessels west of Gibraltar or in the eastern grids of BE.
today is 15th of November 1942, hopefully we can return to port before X-mas.

[Paul Riley]

Dont eat too much Xmas cake!,you will add to your UBoat's weight forcing her to the bottom in no time! :woot::har:
The ballast wont save you then,only your strict dieting regime.

[KL-alfman]

but what's X-mas good for without cookies? :hmmm::D

[Paul Riley]

but what's X-mas good for without cookies? :hmmm::D

Getting drunk my friend,blind drunk and surrounded by sizzling hot German whores! :woot::salute:

[KL-alfman]

Getting drunk my friend,blind drunk and surrounded by sizzling hot German whores! :woot::salute:


:D
this reminds me of what I was missing last year's X-mas eve .... :salute:

[martin1004]

This time luck ran out for me - lost at sea during patrol 17.
The weather was awful when my crew reported a ship at short range. Well it turned out to be a warship and even though I sounded the alarm there wasn't much to do anymore. The boat took several hits and the warship rammed me in the end. Barely enough time to even react.
Was the end of a great career to me. Overall 227 160 tons sunk of which 51 023 tons were warships. Overall only 194 days spent at sea. Most sucessful patrol 11 ships sunk at 51 861 tons.
Decorated with RK with oak leaves, swords and posthumously diamonds were added to it.

[Snestorm]

This time luck ran out for me - lost at sea during patrol 17.
The weather was awful when my crew reported a ship at short range. Well it turned out to be a warship and even though I sounded the alarm there wasn't much to do anymore. The boat took several hits and the warship rammed me in the end. Barely enough time to even react.
Was the end of a great career to me. Overall 227 160 tons sunk of which 51 023 tons were warships. Overall only 194 days spent at sea. Most sucessful patrol 11 ships sunk at 51 861 tons.
Decorated with RK with oak leaves, swords and posthumously diamonds were added to it.

That was a good carreer, until the end.

[KL-alfman]

U-578 - Oberleutnant Friedrich Mohr
1942-12-07
CG71 - 10:42 local time

fully supplied by U-460 fate showed us where to spend all of our 14eels.
after having received a contact-report we ran into a smaller convoy (9vessels) of freighters with war-materials (tanks and planes can be seen) and a troup-transport amidst sailing at 4knots escorted by 4DDs. the convoy heads SE so they are either sailing through Gibraltar or will deploy at Casablanca.
to help our fellow comrades of the Deutsches Afrika-Korps we intend to attack immediately (though the sea is relatively calm) and continue our attacks after.

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/623/troupconvoy.jpg (http://img84.imageshack.us/i/troupconvoy.jpg/)

[martin1004]

In my new career I again invaded Reykjavik port. It's late 1940. It seems to be a good place to hunt, no sub nets or anything and this time it had many tankers docked, one auxiliary cruiser and Southampton class cruiser. This time I went there with a type IXB submarine which isn't perfect for it. sunk a good 30 000 tons.

[Snestorm]

d. 24.maj.41. BF61.
1440. Underway from Lorient for grid AE73.
1543. Secure from Sea & Anchor. Steady on Course 270.
1700. Periscope Depth.
2150. Surface. Ahead One Third. Sunrise 0440. Sunset 1950.

d. 6.jun.41. AL02.
0550. Radio Report. Convoy. AL35. East. 7 Knots.

d. 6.jun.41. AL36.
2100. Radio Report. Convoy. AL36. East. 7 Knots.
2306. Convoy Sighted. (We are dead astern.)
2310. Destroyer sighted starboard aft of convoy.
2317. End running port side. Making good 17 Knots at Full Ahead.
2324. Corvette sighted port aft of convoy.
2359. Closing port side of convoy. No ships in sight.

d. 7.jun.41. AL36.
0043. Destroyer! Dive to 15 Meters.
0047. P I N G ! He's got us. Full Ahead! New Depth 101 Meters!
0049. Depth Charges! Holding steady on 225T.
0130. He's moving away. We are inside the screen, aft the convoy.

0300. Surface. Full Ahead. Calm & Clear. Full Moon.
0515. Sound Check. Convoy at 090R.
0542. Destroyer! Dive! New Depth 102 Meters. VCS (Variouse Courses & Speeds).
0543. Sound. Warship. 146R. Closing. Moving Fast. (Radar?)
0600. Depth Charges. (Not close).
0606. He's behind us. Starting up.
0607. Depth Charges. (Distant).
0638. Fire 1, 2, 4. (G7E x 3) (T2 Tanker). Fire 3 (G7A x 1) (Coastal Merchant).
0639. New Depth 100 Meters. New Course 225T.
0640. T2 Tanker (10.871 GRT) Sunk. Course 090T. 7 Knots.
0730. "No Sound Contacts." Start torpedo reload.

0846. Surface. Full Ahead.
1037. Sound Check. Convoy 000 - 015R.
1043. Surface. Full Ahead. New Course 080T.
1110. Corvette! 4600 Meters. 025R. New Speed 2 Knots. Keeping bow on.
1116. Visual contact lost. Full Ahead. New Course 060T.
1126. Corvette! 4600 Meters. 066R. New Speed 2 Knots. New Course 121T.
1133. Corvette at 000R. 3900 Meters. Maintaining bow on.
1136. Corvette at 3700 Meters.
1139. Corvette at 3500 Meters.
1144. Corvette at 4900 Meters.
1145. Visual contact lost. (Whew.) VCS.
1316. Destroyer! Coming fast! Dive! New Depth 100 Meters.
1318. Sound. Second warship closing. Silent Speed.
1319. New Course 180T.
1323. P I N G ! (He doesn't have us.)
1324. Depth Charges astern of us.
1325. Sound. Warship lost at 162R.
1326. Sound. Warship. Very Fast. Moving Away. Short Range.
1327. New Depth 20 Meters. (This guy must have Radar.)
1329. Sound. Closest warship at 196. Very fast. Medium range.
1330. P I N G ! (He doesn't have us.)
1331. New depth Periscope Depth.
1347. Fire 3 (G7A). Target = C2 Cargo. New Depth 100 Meters.
1349. New Course 227T.
1352. Torpedo Impact. Full Ahead. Then Silent Speed.
1400. New Course 135T.
1414. New Course 090T.

1605. Surface.
1713. Corvette! 4600 Meters. New Speed 1 Knot. Holding bow on.
1717. Visual contact lost at 5000 Meters. VCS.
1720. Radio Report. Convoy. AM15. East. 7 Knots.
1843. New Course 180T. Periscope Depth.
1849. Sound. Multiple contacts 064 - 074R.
1855. Lead Destroyer is a Clemson Class (4 Stacker).
1924. All bow tubes fired on separate targets. (3 hits. 1 miss.)
1925. Little Merchant (2.343 GRT) Sunk. Course 090T. 7 Knots.
1927. Little Tanker (4.276 GRT) Sunk. Course 090T. 7 Knots.
2040. No sound contacts. Last G7E into tube 2. (Bow 1 G7E. Stern 2 G7A.)

2100. Surface.
2230. Light from burning ship visable.
2234. Corvette sighted at 3500 Meters.
2236. Dive. New Depth 100 Meters. VCS.

2309. Surface.
2346. Corvette! 3300 Meters. (Making 16 Knots at full & outrunning him.)

d. 8.jun.41. AM16.
0113. Periscope Depth. (Intend to use stern tubes.) VCS.
0153. 2 burning ships observed.
0208. Fire 5 (G7A). Fire 6 (G7A). New Depth 101 Meters. New Course 313T.
0210. Coastal Merchant (2.044 GRT) Sunk. Course 090T. 7 Knots.
0210. Coastal Merchant (2.042 GRT) Sunk. Course 090T. 7 Knots.

0340. Surface. Heavy Fog.
0357. Status Report: 5 ships sunk for 21.576 GRT

d. 11.jun.41. AE73.
1100. On Station.
Found and torpedoed a C2 Cargo, with my last torpedo (G7E).
Didn't even slow him down. Too rough for deck gun.
Finish up the 24 hours, and head for Lorient.

d. 17.jun.41. AM48.
0907. "Flak gun damaged, sir". "Watch tower damaged, sir".
0908. Crash Dive!
Aircraft? No. Convoy! TC at 128. Heavy Fog without warning.
Sound picked up 5 escorts.
Luckily we came through it with 95% Hull Integrity.
The escort must have been surprised too. Guns instead of ramming.
Followed by depth charges, naturaly.

d. 21.jun.41. BF43.
1751. A L A R M ! Aircraft.

d. 25.jun.41. BF61.
0521. Docked at Lorient. Heavy Fog!

Patrol Results: 5 ships sunk for 21.576 GRT. 95% Hull Integrity. Shot up watch tower.

U37's History:
10 patrols.
34 ships sunk for 187.723 GRT.

[KL-alfman]

U-578 reporting:

during our attack-run the convoy changed course from SE to SSE. stayed at PD and went to ahead one third. got AOB90 at range 4.400m. released two G7e (bow and stack). decided to keep the two G7a due to distance.
immediately went to silent running and lowered slowly to 160m. both aale hit:
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/9049/trouper1.jpg (http://img694.imageshack.us/i/trouper1.jpg/)

atm we head east submerged and will come up in an hour to continue the hunt. might comply with two attack-runs when protected by night. one last glimpse of the troop-transport:
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/8629/trouper2.jpg (http://img221.imageshack.us/i/trouper2.jpg/)

[Exakt]

We have departed Wilhelmshaven on February 15, 1940.

The crew at least spent St. Valentine's day ashore, those who are married, with their wife, others, I don't want to speculate. But in any case, I hope they cherish theses moments, for the war will surely get harder for us.

Feb 24, 1940, 1236.

We have just sunk 2 ships, a tanker and a large merchant. We went to periscope depth and fired 2 eels at each, the first 2 for the biggest one, both hit, but those for the tanker missed. Since the large merchant was "almost" out of commission, I ordered to surface and we went hunting the tanker. A few well placed shots at the waterline and a few minutes later, multiple secondary explosions occurred and the boat went down fast, very fast, the only picture that our war correspondent has taken of this one is the lone life boat that made it out.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g55/VAC1012/SH3Img24-3-2010_16738_607.jpg (http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g55/VAC1012/?action=view&current=SH3Img24-3-2010_16738_607.jpg)

Then, we have turned our attention to the large merchant, which was still floating, but barely. I ask the deck gun crew to open fire on it, to finish it off. After 20 shots, it went down.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g55/VAC1012/SH3Img24-3-2010_1688_881.jpg (http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g55/VAC1012/?action=view&current=SH3Img24-3-2010_1688_881.jpg)

Feb 25, 1940.

Today could have been pretty much uneventful if it wasn't for a lone ship. Saw it and since the seas were calm, I've decided to go ahead flank and take it down with the deck gun. Closed in on it, but our prey couldn't escape. Surprisingly, only after approximately 10 shots or so, at the waterline, the ship burst out in flames and multiples secondary explosions happened. maybe they were hauling ammo.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g55/VAC1012/SH3Img24-3-2010_164453_856.jpg (http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g55/VAC1012/?action=view&current=SH3Img24-3-2010_164453_856.jpg)

Mar 3, 1940.

It has been really quiet in the last few days, still have 8 torpedoes, 5 at the bow and 3 in the stern. Seas were getting a bit rougher, guess a storm may be approaching. Anyway, we are currently heading for Cadiz, refuel and rearm at the Thalia. During the day, we have come across a ore carrier. Went under, calculated his trajectory, speed and I laid down the intercept course. Launch two torps, hit him with impunity. Then I got a bit impatient, since the seas would not allow us to finish of the kill with the DG, sent a third torp its way and quickly it went down.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g55/VAC1012/SH3Img24-3-2010_172049_146.jpg (http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g55/VAC1012/?action=view&current=SH3Img24-3-2010_172049_146.jpg)

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g55/VAC1012/SH3Img24-3-2010_172157_897.jpg (http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g55/VAC1012/?action=view&current=SH3Img24-3-2010_172157_897.jpg)

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g55/VAC1012/SH3Img24-3-2010_172234_694.jpg (http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g55/VAC1012/?action=view&current=SH3Img24-3-2010_172234_694.jpg)

Mar 5, 1940.

Yeah, just as I thought, bad weather coming in. Still on our way to Cadiz, still 2 eels in the bow tubes. We came across another ship during the night. It was traveling right into my path, almost perpendicular to our course. Without wasting any time, I've sent the data to the weapons officer, dialed it in and sent the 2 fish left... sadly they went just past its bow and both missed. Now, time to head straight to Cadiz.

Mar 8, 1940.

We have arrived at Cadiz without much incident, under the cover of night. Here is a picture of our arrival.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g55/VAC1012/SH3Img24-3-2010_174438_723.jpg (http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g55/VAC1012/?action=view&current=SH3Img24-3-2010_174438_723.jpg)

Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 4
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonnage: 19665 tons

[Exakt]

Started to run a second career in parallel with Ernst Wagner's U-47.

Again started in Aug 1939, Günter Weitz, in a type IIA boat, U-21, based in Kiel. So far only the pre-war patrol has been done. The war should start during the second patrol.

[Jimbuna]

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

[Exakt]

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


Will do... as always... Alright, now an update on my second career...

September 15, 1939.
ObLt.z.S Günter Weitz

If I ever wanted to know what being part of an actual war was like, guess I just learned that in the last few days. We patrolled our grid (AN52) for about 2 straight days, without even seeing a single ship. The crew was itchy to get their first kill. So, I decided to head SW and go for a harbour attack. Only a ASW trawler was patrolling. I sneaked in, at periscope depth, in the middle in the night. about 10 km out, I took the periscope up and scanned the horizon. The trawler was about 15km away, had a nice shot at a medium cargo, about 9km away and a small merchant, about the same distance but a little bit further to the left. Had 4 torpedoes left, only used one on a coastal tanker that we sank, during the previous day on our way here. Sent 2 towards the medium cargo and lined up for the small merchant and fired the 2 others. 3 out of 4 hit their intended targets, the last one bounce off the small merchant and exploded beneath. Both ships went down in about 2 hours and a half. Quite a good run with an old boat. The ASW trawler didn't even approached our position, it was searching with its searchlight for a periscope, but I was far enough away and sneaked out shortly after seeing the 2 ships sink. The way home was pretty uneventful.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g55/VAC1012/U21_1stwarpatrol.jpg (http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g55/VAC1012/?action=view&current=U21_1stwarpatrol.jpg)

[Exakt]

u-47 Fur Deutchland
ObLt.z.S. Ernst Wagner's log

March 9, 1940

We are leaving the Thalia at Cadiz, we will patrol a known convoy route on our way to Wilhelmshaven.

March 10, 1940, 1846

We have sunk a Empire-type freighter in grid CG86.

March 11, 1940, 0019

Sunk a British small merchant in grid CG85. Still heading westward.

March 15, 1940, 0141

First encounter with a Q-ship, sank it with the deck gun, have taken no damage. Grid CF53.

March 20, 1940, 1730

Second Q-ship encountered. Those Tommys are really trying to fool us with this setup. 1 torpedo hit, 1 missed and finished with deck gun. Grid BE55.

March 21, 1940, 1719
Lone small merchant, intercepted on the surface and sunk with deck gun. Grid BE28.

March 22, 1940, 0510
Only catch of the day, an Empire-type freighter, sunk with the deck gun. Grid BE25.

March 27, 1940, 1041
Spotted a Large Merchant, went submerged. Sent 2 torpedoes, both hit. Going to the bottom. Grid AM52.

March 30, 1940
We are about to reach Heligoland. The Kriegsmarine is preparing for an operation in the North Sea. We came across 2 friendly destroyer task forces and have come into visual contact of the Gneisenau and the Scharnhorst. Quite a sight to see theses 2 magnificent ships being sortied.

March 31, 1940
Made it back to Wilhelmshaven without a scratch.

Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 7
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonnage: 35458 tons

[Reinhard Dietz]

A brief note from U-48, assigned to U-Flotilla 'Wegener' at Kiel:

U-48's second patrol has been completed and her crew is proud to report the following statistics:

Patrol Quadrant: BF19

7 ships sunk for 45,953 tons; B-Dienst data is included where available.

SS Empire Scout (Coastal Merchant), 2042 tons. Cargo: Sulfur. Crew: 35. Crew lost: 30 (AN 28, 12 NOV 1939)

SS Goodwood (Coastal Merchant), 2043 tons. Cargo: Grain. Crew: 24. Crew lost: 2 (AM 32, 16 NOV 1939)

MV British Engineer (T2 Tanker), 10871 tons. Cargo: Aviation Fuel. Crew: 55. Crew lost: 5 (AM 43, 19 NOV 1939)

SS Alboni (C2 Cargo), 6447 tons. Cargo: Textiles. Crew: 53. Crew lost: 12 (AM 43, 19 NOV 1939)

MV Athelprincess (T3 Tanker), 11653 tons. Cargo: Crude Oil. Crew: 77. Crew lost: 42 (AM 43, 19 NOV 1939)

SS Red Rover (C2 Cargo), 6448 tons. Cargo: Machinery. Crew: 37. Crew lost: 5 (AM 43, 19 NOV 1939)

SS Japan Mail (C2 Cargo), 6449 tons. Cargo: Bauxite. Crew: 61. Crew lost: 43 (AM 43, 19 NOV 1939)

All sunk vessels were British-flagged.

Empire Scout and Goodwood were encountered sailing alone and dispatched each with a single G7a using the magnetic pistol. It is unknown why casualties were so high, as all applicable war orders were followed.

The latter five ships were sunk in a mixed convoy of American and British vessels, no escort, headed east at six knots. Although U-48 was in position during a moonless night, it was decided to attack submerged account the large number of tightly packed vessels in the convoy and the rough seas which would prevent U-48 from defending itself against any vessel which chose to engage with guns or ramming. Special care was taken to avoid attacking neutral vessels.

The convoy was entered from the southern side at an approximately perpendicular angle. A northern approach would have been more favorable for the selected targets but the most favorable initial targets, cargo ships of the 'C3' classification, were on the southern side. The decision to enter the convoy came after the two cargo ships were positively identified as American-flagged.

The first target was the tanker British Engineer; a simultaneous attack against tanker Athelprincess was not possible account a neutral vessel blocking the torpedo path. British Engineer exploded after one torpedo probably account its cargo of aviation fuel. B-Dienst's report of survivors cannot considered credible without further corroboration.

While waiting for the neutral vessel to clear U-48's line of sight to Athelprincess, 'C2' Alboni presented itself as a target and was destroyed with a single magnetic pistol.

Athelprincess was destroyed with two G7a magnetic pistols fired at different times. Her cargo of crude oil was far less reactive than the aviation fuel aboard British Engineer and thus the second torpedo was required.

Red Rover was crippled by a magnetic pistol that exploded near her stern, crippling the vessel. Another magnetic pistol was required to sink her.

Japan Mail was struck by a single magnetic pistol and subsequently abandoned. No sign of the crew was seen while U-48 loaded her last aft torpedo from external storage, which was required to sink the vessel. There is no accounting for the 70% casualty rate among her crew, as U-48 was not in a position to attack vessels that may have recovered survivors.

Two torpedoes of the G7a series, using the magnetic pistols, were heard to impact vessels Red Rover and Japan Mail. IWO Benno Rählecke speculates that this was due to miscalculations in the actual keel depth of damaged vessels. He is, however, at a loss to explain why a third G7a with a magnetic pistol failed to detonate, as a follow-up torpedo with the same settings detonated properly, breaking Red Rover's back.

A fourth torpedo prematurely detonated approximately 400 yards into its run, shaking the crew in the aft tube but without damage.

All torpedoes were expended.

The crew of U-48 was awarded the Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse for their efforts; all officers and men were also awarded their U-Boots-Kriegsabzeichen. IWO Leutnant z. S. Benno Rählecke was awarded the Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse for his contributions to the performance of U-48; he has also been promoted to Oberleutnant zur See.

The following enlisted men were promoted to the rank shown:

Chief Seaman
Egon Lange - Now expected to oversee radio and sonar compartment.

Senior Seaman:
Josef Johannsen
Hans Kern
Otto Krüger
Gerhard Maiwald
Erwin Müller
Rudolf Peemöller

The flotilla commander has suggested that he is inclined to transfer Rählecke, as well as Oblt. z. S. Peter Schaefer, Oblt. z. S. Edmund Müller and Ltn. z. S. Heinz Faust, the IIWO, LI, and IIIWO respectively, to command school. The efficiency of U-48 is likely to suffer if four of her five commissioned officers serving under her commander are transferred.

U-48 has sunk 16 ships for 73,703 BRT since the declaration of hostilities on 01 September 1939.

[KL-alfman]

U-578
Oberleutnant Friedrich Mohr

as in above written posts mentioned we ran into a smaller convoy with 9ships escorted by 4DDs. we were fully supplied by a "Milchkuh" before and decided to lock jaws onto those reinforcements meant for North-Africa as we wanted to help our fellow comrades of the DAK by all means.

we hunted them through 5PGs and never wanted to let loose. these planes will not fight against Rommel:

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/6092/planesd.jpg (http://img38.imageshack.us/i/planesd.jpg/)

here's our last victim loaded with tanks which was stopped with our last aft torp and finished off by gun-fire:

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/4320/lastvictim.jpg (http://img514.imageshack.us/i/lastvictim.jpg/)

all in all we were successful in sinking 6freighters, 1old tanker and a Hunt-class DD. only 3smaller merchs could land their cargo at Casablanca.
the crew's morale got even more boosted by the prospect of returning to Brest around the 18th of December 1942 and thus being able to gather with their families for X-mas eve.

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/254/navmap.jpg (http://img248.imageshack.us/i/navmap.jpg/)

(not all the sunken-ships-symbols are shown)

[Paul Riley]

Just watch what you eat over Xmas Mr.Alfman,we dont want you getting fat and putting our men's lives even more at risk by not being able to surface the U-Boat,just because you ate too much cake and drank too much schnapps!, :haha:;)
By the way,good patrol,thats more breathing space for Rommel now.

[KL-alfman]

Just watch what you eat over Xmas Mr.Alfman,we dont want you getting fat and putting our men's lives even more at risk by not being able to surface the U-Boat,just because you ate too much cake and drank too much schnapps!, :haha:;)
By the way,good patrol,thats more breathing space for Rommel now.


thx, Paul, exactly what I've felt.

in one and a half years of SH3 (the last 6months with GWX) I've never felt so devoted to the task of sinking tonnage because of the plain intentions (and bearings :03:) this convoy had.
IMHO very, very immersive! :o

[Paul Riley]

This is exactly what i'm hoping to experience in my current campaign,the opportunity to contribute to major offensives,like Stalingrad,which is one of the theatres I am most interested in during WWII,mainly because it was the single most pivotal battle that altered the course of the war...trust me,the Ruskies will pay if ever I get my teeth into em :D
However,its only November 1939 at the moment for me,and I will have to settle with little tadpoles,the bigger fish will have to wait :wah:

[KL-alfman]

However,its only November 1939 at the moment for me,and I will have to settle with little tadpoles,the bigger fish will have to wait :wah:


try to get involved into the Norwegian Theater next spring!
RN shows up with some BBs and stuff ..... :up:

[Paul Riley]

I will do extra paperwork when on leave from now on until spring,maybe BDU will accept my request to take part in the Norwegian campaign :salute:

[Jimbuna]

This is exactly what i'm hoping to experience in my current campaign,the opportunity to contribute to major offensives,like Stalingrad,which is one of the theatres I am most interested in during WWII,mainly because it was the single most pivotal battle that altered the course of the war...trust me,the Ruskies will pay if ever I get my teeth into em :D
However,its only November 1939 at the moment for me,and I will have to settle with little tadpoles,the bigger fish will have to wait :wah:

I'm in no way challenging what you say regarding Stalingrad Paul, but have you not considered the Kursk battle and the smashing of the German Panzer Divisions which ultimately led to the withdrawal on the Eastern Front? :hmmm:

[Paul Riley]

I'm in no way challenging what you say regarding Stalingrad Paul, but have you not considered the Kursk battle and the smashing of the German Panzer Divisions which ultimately led to the withdrawal on the Eastern Front? :hmmm:

I forgot about the tank clash at Kursk.The eastern front as a whole was a disaster,bad planning and severe depletion of the best German forces.

[Snestorm]

I'm in no way challenging what you say regarding Stalingrad Paul, but have you not considered the Kursk battle and the smashing of the German Panzer Divisions which ultimately led to the withdrawal on the Eastern Front? :hmmm:

Stalingrad was the end of the beginning.
Kursk was the beginning of the end.

That's my take on it anyway.

[Snestorm]

FINAL PATROL FOR U37.

d. 23.jul.41. BF61.
10.15. Underway from Lorient for patrol grid BF78.
11.55. Steady on new course 234T.
12.10. Depth Under Keel 68 Meters. New Depth 50 Meters.

d. 27.jul.41. BF78.
13.00. On Station.
T2 Tanker spotted and chased hard.
Course 009T. Speed 14 Knots. Flagged USA.

d. 14.aug.41. AM19.
21.40. Radio Report. Convoy. AL03. East. 7 Knots.

d. 15.aug.41. AL03.
03.10. Radio Report. Convoy. AL03. East. 7 Knots.
04.00. Destroyer sighted. Periscope Depth.
Turned my nose to him, and he passed almost directly over us.
(027R to 166R short range.)
04.36. Fire Tubes 5 & 6. G7A x 2. Stern On Shot.
04.36. T2 Tanker (10.871 GRT) Sunk. Course 088T. 7 Knots.

Enter AL38 followed by AM17.
Driven under by Corvette on next attempt.

12.59. Fire Tubes 1, 2, & 4. G7E x 3. Target is a C2 Cargo.
13.01. Fire Tube 3. G7A x 1. Target is a Coastal Merchant.
13.02. Single impact heard, followed by double impact.
13.13. Coastal Merchant (2.044 GRT) Sunk. Course 088T. 7 Knots.
Heavy Fog moved in halting further attacks.

d. 20.aug.41. AE92.
19.57. A L A R M ! Crash dive for aircraft.

d. 1.sep.41
U37 docks at Kiel in preperation to becoming a school boat!

Patrol Results: 2 ships sunk for 12.915 GRT.

U37's History: 11 patrols. 36 ships sunk for 200.638 GRT.
(The real U37 did slightly better in tonnage, having sunk 51 merchants to do so. She also sunk 2 warships.)

[pickinthebanjo]

U-52 - War Log 1939-1940

Patrol 1:
U-52 - 2nd Flotilla, Left Wilhelmshaven port on: 08/02/1939 05:53
Mission Orders: Patrol grid BF17
Log entry 1: ship sunk, grid AM97, smallfreighter(2226tons) 09/03/1939 05:02
Log entry 2: ship sunk, grid BF13, tramp steamer(1969tons) 09/03/1939 21:57
Patrol results Crew losses: 0, Ships sunk: 2, Patrol tonnage: 4195 tons
Date of return 09/16/1939 22:10

Patrol 2:
U-52 - 2nd Flotilla, Left Corrientes on: 10/06/1939 08:17
Mission Orders: N/A
Log entry 1: ship sunk grid CG75 coastal freighter(1869tons)10/09/1939 23:15
log entry 2: ship sunk grid AM52 coastal freighter(1871tons)10/26/1939 00:31
Log entry 3: ship sunk grid AM52 medium cargo(5083tons)10/26/1939 14:50
Log entry 4: ship sunk grid AM52 medium cargo(5084 tons)10/26/1939 16:22
log entry 5: ship sunk grid AM52 black swan class(1250tons)08/26/1939 16:51
Patrol results Crew losses: 0, Ships sunk: 5, Patrol tonnage: 15157 tons
Date of return 11/01/1939 10:36

Patrol 3:
U-52 - 2nd Flotilla, Left Belchen supply ship on: 11/21/1939 02:18
Mission Orders: N/A
Log entry 1:ship sunk grid AK71 coastal freighter(1869tons) 11/21/1939 20:52
Log entry 2:ship sunk grid AK71 granville freighter(4707ton) 11/25/1939 23:59
Log entry 3: ship sunk grid AK49 tramp steamer(1964tons) 11/27/1939 15:41
Log entry 4: ship sunk grid AL51 granville freighter(4708ton)12/04/1939 06:23
Patrol results Crew losses: 0, Ships sunk: 4, Patrol tonnage: 13248 tons
Date of return 12/05/1939 07:45

Patrol 4: Attack On Scapa Flow (Christmas Night)
U-52 - 2nd Flotilla, Left Wilhelmshaven port on: 12/21/1939 05:42
Mission Orders: Patrol grid BE29
Log entry 1: ship sunk grid AN16 C&D destroyer(1375tons) 12/25/1939 23:26
Log entry 2: ship sunk grid AN16 troop transport(11052tons)12/25/1939 23:26
Log entry 3: ship sunk grid AN16 V&W destroyer(1188tons) 12/26/1939 00:28
Log entry 4: ship sunk grid AN16 modern tanker(10872tons) 12/26/1939 00:51
Log entry 5: ship sunk grid AN16 small Tanker(1981tons) 12/26/1939 00:55
Log entry 6: ship sunk grid AN16 small depot ship(6250tons)12/26/1939 08:22
Log entry 7: ship sunk grid AN48 small freighter(2229tons) 12/29/1939 22:04
Patrol results Crew losses: 0, Ships sunk: 7, Patrol tonnage: 35047 tons
Date of return 01/01/1940 04:05

Patrol 5:
U-52 - 2nd Flotilla, Left Wilhelmshaven port on: 01/22/1940 20:48
Mission Orders: Patrol grid CG76
Log entry 1: ship sunk grid AF78 sloop(8tons) 01/27/1940 00:13
Log entry 2: ship sunk grid AF77 tramp steamer(1964tons) 01/27/1940 13:23
Log entry3: ship sunk grid AN11 granville freighter(4707tons)01/28/1040 00:09
Log entry 4: ship sunk grid AN13 small coal tender(314tons)01/28/1040 03:25
Log entry 5: ship sunk grid AN15 small freighter(2229tons)01/28/1040 11:32
Log Entry 6: ship sunk grid AN15 large cargo(8577tons)01/28/1040 17:43
Log Entry 7: ship sunk grid AN15 large cargo(8576tons)01/28/1040 18:04
Patrol results Crew losses: 0, Ships sunk: 7, Patrol tonnage: 26375 tons
Date of return 01/29/1940 14:53

Patrol 6:
U-52 - 2nd Flotilla, Left Wilhelmshaven port on: 02/17/1940 06:32
Mission Orders: Patrol grid AM11
Log entry 1: ship sunk grid AM52 empire freighter(6780ton) 02/29/1940 20:54
Log entry 2: ship sunk grid AM52 large merchant(10615tons)03/01/1940 08:07
Log entry 3: ship sunk grid AM52 tramp steamer(1964tons)03/02/1940 03:08
Log entry 4: ship sunk grid AM43 black swan class(1250ton)03/02/1940 12:25
Log Entry 5: ship sunk grid AM43 medium cargo(5084tons)03/04/1940 12:33
Log Entry 6: ship sunk grid AM43 large cargo(8577tons)03/04/1940 12:42

End of log.

[Snestorm]

d. 29.sep.41.
AO77.
04.14. Underway from Kiel for Western North Atlantic patrol, enrout to Lorient.

CONVOY BATTLE.
d. 19.okt.41.
AL15.
08.17. Destroyer sighted. Periscope depth. Convoy approaching.
08.54. Fire 1, 2, 4. (T2 Tanker)(G7E x 3). Fire 3. (Coastal Merchant)(G7A x 1).
08.54. T2 Tanker (10.871 GRT) Sunk. Course 109T. 7 Knots.

12.16. Surface.
14.20. Sound Check.
AL16
16.00. Corvette sighted at 4600 meters.
17.12. Sound Check. Periscope Depth.
17.37. Destroyer sighted.
18.04. Fire 5 (Coastal Merchant)(G7A). Fire 6 (Coastal Merchant)(G7A).
18.06. Coastal Merchant (2.045 GRT) Sunk.

20.31. Surface.
22.53. Sound Check.

d. 20.okt.41.
AL18.
00.07. Destroyer! 2.000 Meters. Coming fast, bow on. (Dive! 102 Meters. 45 degree twist.)
00.10. Sound. Warship. Medium Speed. Closing. 158R. Short Range.
00.12. U502 gets her Depth Charge initiation. Destroyer audable in control room.
00.17. Depth Charges astern.
00.23. Final Depth Charges distant astern.

03.00. Surface.
06.00. Sound Check. Periscope Depth.
06.57. Fire 1, 2, 4 (C2 Cargo)(G7E x 3). Fire 4 (Little Merchant)(G7A).
06.57. Double impact followed by single impact heard.
06.57. Little Merchant (2.335 GRT) Sunk. Course 109T. 7 Knots.
06.59. C2 Cargo (6.448 GRT) Sunk. Course 109T. 7 Knots.

09.50. Surface
13.00. Sound Check.
15.09. Tubes 5 & 6 (G7A x 2) fired on distant targets, without results.

16.10. Surface.
18.08. Sound Check. Periscope Depth.
18.33. Fire 2, 3 (G7A & G7E) on T2 Tanker.
18.35. 2 hits heard.
19.14. Surface. Tanker observed burning, but making way.
23.59. Status Report sent. All torpedoes (14) expended.

d. 29.okt.41.
BF42.
01.51. "We're under attack, sir!" ASW vessel in medium fog. Dive.
02.15. He's giving up. No damage. He should have rammed instead of gunning with Radar.

d. 1.nov.41.
BF61.
07.57. Docked at Lorient in Heavy Fog & Rain. 300 meter visibility.

Patrol Report:
4 ships sunk for 21.699 GRT. 100% Hull Integrity. No crew casualties.

[Fozzy22]

Patrol #3 for U-28 of 2nd flotilla. Patrol from 26th September to 26th October - 1 month with no ship contacts and no sinkings :wah: Even around grid BF17. :dead:

[Snestorm]

Patrol #3 for U-28 of 2nd flotilla. Patrol from 26th September to 26th October - 1 month with no ship contacts and no sinkings :wah: Even around grid BF17. :dead:

Hmmm. U28? That's a Type VII "A".
One non-reloadable, external stern tube.

Easy conversion from a VIIB.
Just waste a stern torpedo at the start of each patrol.

Type VII(A): U27-U36.
Type VIIB: U45-U55, U73-U76, U83-U87, U99-U102.

[pickinthebanjo]

Patrol #3 for U-28 of 2nd flotilla. Patrol from 26th September to 26th October - 1 month with no ship contacts and no sinkings :wah: Even around grid BF17. :dead:

I remember when I left port england was still neutral, so I sailed strait through the English channel. I sailed within 100m of a couple destroyers (pretty much waived at them) seen a convoy bound for england, and seen at least twenty lone merchants by the time the war started.
That first ship always feels good after that long..

[Lt. Cobra]

Ahoy all!

I want to take this time to reintroduce myself to this forum after a few years of my being away. What a great group of guys with such a ton of knowledge that this group has! I want to especially thank you publically, Jimbuna, for all of your recent help!

Now that I have the new GWX3 Gold and SH3 Commander on my rig, I have started my first career in SH3 although I have actually had this sim on my computer for several years now. I played single player in the past and a few multiplayer sessions but never set up a career until now.

On my fourth patrol last night, I did my dastardly deed and through a surface attack using a salvo of two torpedoes, I sank the S.S. Nyholt (Ore Carrier) that was 8083 tons in the North Sea off the coast of Norway. This I did on my way to patrol the North Sea that is north of Great Britain. What a spectacular event this sinking was! I made every effort to rescue some survivors but all are, believed to have perished during that dreadful night.

I am looking forward to getting more back into this as time allows. Cheers to the crew here at this forum and to the GWX developers! My hat is off to you! I hope to see some of you at sea sometime.

:salute:

http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/3419/personnalfilecroppedg.jpg

[Dutch]

Currently just returned to SH3 after a good many years away.

Mods Running: GWX 3.0 of course.

Station: Kiel 1st Flotilla
Sub: U-7 Type IIa
# of Patrols: 1 (Pre War Training)
Current Status: Adjusting Sub Personnel after Training.
Next Mission: Pre War Training
Date: August 5th, 1939

Good Hunting!:arrgh!:

[unterseemann]

23 Oct 1941: After 44 days at sea U-125 ( Kptlt Konrad Tietz) is back to Lorient.
Patrol info: 7 ships sunk for 59574 tons, no damage, no casualties.

Total tonnage after 9 patrols: 55 ships for 349512 tons

Next patrol will be the last for the kaptain, 1wo Dieter Hagenau will be the next kaptain of U-125 (if everything goes well...).

This is a photo of the 55 sinkings locations so far
in blue U-46 type VIIC 7 patrols (39 ships)
in red U-125 type IXC 2 patrols (16 ships)

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/[IMG]http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b161/gneisenau/SH3Img31-3-2010_172433_1251024x768.jpghttp://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b161/gneisenau/SH3Img31-3-2010_172433_1251024x768.jpg

[KL-alfman]

after Kaleu Friedrich Mohr (U-578) was assigned to the Baltics as an instructor, I started a new career:

Leutnant Alfred Hackel
U-599 (VIIC)
1.Flotilla, Brest
1943-02-05

patrol grid was ET57, an area SW of Freetown with a lot of air-traffic. they returned 62days later on April, 7th and had sunk 8ships with 42k tons.
four times convoy-attacks were attempted to conduct but only once the approach was successful (and led to sinking of 2ships).
the outer screen of DDs in now unpredictable when they former just were side escorts they now swarm out to 4,000m and scan the area constantly with ASDIC.
due to the cautious approach we could dive and evade all DD-runs but it gets tougher by the day.
so we concentrated on loners or two-ship convoys.
the allies covers the air nearly everywhere (will get worse when the Azores will turn into an air-base too).

hope will not sink but every ton must be earned the hard way, it seems.

[Stavros]

Hi everyone :salute:

Its my first post here :)

I start new campaign some days ago with GWX 3.0 at 90% realism settings , only external camera enabled. 7th flottila VIIB U-47. Today i finished my secound patrol (first combat patrol), after one month at sea (8 September 1939 to 8 October 1939) i sunk 15 ships, total ~35000 tons (12 merchant and 3 DD) and head back to Kiel. I scored +1300 renown, 2 promotions, Iron Cross second class and 26 x U-Boat War Badges... it was very successful patrol ;) Can't wait to start another...

Regards!
Stavros :salute:

[KL-alfman]

welcome aboard, Stavros! :salute:

keep up the good hunting.

[frau kaleun]

That's some nice shootin' there, Stavros.

Welcome to Subsim. I'd say "Fette Beute" but you already got that covered. :up:

[pickinthebanjo]

yeah well done. I always like to get at least one destroyer on my patrols.
thats the same settings I use, with just the external cam enabled (for screenshots)

[xance]

August 12th, 1942
On my 5th patrol out of Brest I was assigned to patrol BE 57. As I had 30000 tons under my belt from my last patrol I was quite confident of a repeat performance. I completed patroling my square in horrendus weather and decided to visit and old hunting ground, Rockall banks. About 8 days later the weather had not stopped and the crew were a bit restless when all of a sudden I notice that my TC had gone from 128 to 1. Apparantly some B24's decided to pay a visit and forgot to alert the watch crew :down:. Luckily nothing hit and I dive immediantly. This was repeated through out the entire jounrny to Rockall. There we were set upon by some P38's who simply dived into the see, much to the crews amusment. By this time my batteries were low so I decided to surface. Literaly 30 seconds later some PBY's and P38's appeared and started to attack. I decided to give them a fight. My senior petty officer and No1 managed to deter the PBY's and shot down 1 of the P38's but his partner managed to hit the forward deck and basicly screwed up the ship. I dived, evaded and repaired.

That little action cost 2 men killed, 1 wounded (radio operator) and destroyed the batteries, radar, radio, deck gun, flak guns and bow torpedo's. I decided to return home, no eels fired with only 22% hull integrity.

After that Bdu "retired" me to a nice desk job. :damn:

[frau kaleun]

After that Bdu "retired" me to a nice desk job. :damn:

Coulda been worse.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LoPTdkHrjjk/SgBQVHaaOuI/AAAAAAAADGM/PBi6BgKeJA8/s400/battle-stalingrad-1.jpg

[Fozzy22]

Coulda been worse.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LoPTdkHrjjk/SgBQVHaaOuI/AAAAAAAADGM/PBi6BgKeJA8/s400/battle-stalingrad-1.jpg

:har:

[Dutch]

Captain's Log: Date September 12, 1939 (U-7 Type II)

00:13 hrs: Received a radio contact. Plotted intercept course to investigate.

01:26 hrs: Visual Contact Made. Confirmed English Ore Carrier. Plotting Solution

01:56 hrs: Opened Tubes 1-3. Fired.

01:57 hrs: 3 Confirmed Hits on Target. Target Dead in Water.

01:59 hrs: Target Deck Awash Confirmed Kill Grid AN61 Ore Carrier 8789 tons.

02:00 hrs: Continuing to Patrol Grid AN52.

End Log.

[xance]

Coulda been worse.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LoPTdkHrjjk/SgBQVHaaOuI/AAAAAAAADGM/PBi6BgKeJA8/s400/battle-stalingrad-1.jpg

You sure got that right...

[frau kaleun]

Hey, I see you're in your own little world.

I used to be there, when I first got here. Except it was my own little world.

The voices told me to leave, though. ALWAYS DO WHAT THE VOICES SAY!

Here endeth the lesson.

[Fozzy22]

On patrol #6 with my Type VIIB:

Day 3 on route to patrol grid I came across an Empire-style freighter (nearing 8000 tons...largest i've come across so far) and it took 4 eels to send to the locker.

Proceeding to patrol grid with morale high and some more enemies to sink. :arrgh!:

[Jimbuna]

Still on the east coast of England in my Type XXIII (with two eels) doing my best for the Fatherland.

[pickinthebanjo]

Still on the east coast of England in my Type XXIII (with two eels) doing my best for the Fatherland.
I didn't even know there was a Type XXIII in here, Is that a Mod?

[Fozzy22]

Patrol report U-28 Type VIIB cont:

After sinking 2 large merchants and loosing my remaining eels in very bad weather trying to sink a tanker I proceeded north west to the Belchen supply ship off the coast of Greenland. After a day or so rest with the crew now rested i decided to scout along the convoy route of Halifax (Canada) to Liverpool, and with some success. Now at grid BC48 tracking ahead of a large neutral convoy, full of eels and ready to attack.

End report.

[Jimbuna]

I didn't even know there was a Type XXIII in here, Is that a Mod?

Yeah, playable in GWX3.0....see my FF site.

[Dutch]

Hey, I see you're in your own little world.

I used to be there, when I first got here. Except it was my own little world.

The voices told me to leave, though. ALWAYS DO WHAT THE VOICES SAY!

Here endeth the lesson.

I suppose it all depends on who's voice it is.

[Dutch]

PERSONNEL FILE


Name: EWALD HÖRMANN
Date of Birth: 06JUL14
Place of Birth: BERLIN-SCHÖNEBERG
Date of Intake: 01APR34 (CREW 34)

Promotions
30NOV34 SEEKADETT
01DEC35 FÄHNRICH Z. S.
01OCT37 OBERFÄHNRICH Z. S.
01JAN38 LEUTNANT Z. S.

Medals
NIL

Badges
17SEP39 U-BOAT FRONT CLASP
U-Bootwaffe Postings
07JAN39 U-Boat Flotilla Weddigen (Commander training)
01AUG39 U-Flotilla Weddigen (3 patrols)

U-Boat Commands
01AUG39 U-7, Type IIA (3 patrols)

Patrol Dates Ships Sunk
(Merchant/Warship) Tonnage
(Merchant/Warship) Comments
1 (file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Colin%20Parrish/My%20Documents/Personnel%20Files/SH3/Ewald_H%C3%B6rmann/Log_0.html) 01AUG39 - 05AUG39 (5 days) 0 (0/0) 0 (0/0)

2 (file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Colin%20Parrish/My%20Documents/Personnel%20Files/SH3/Ewald_H%C3%B6rmann/Log_1.html) 13AUG39 - 16AUG39 (4 days) 0 (0/0) 0 (0/0) U-boat damaged (H.I. 99.97%)

3 (file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Colin%20Parrish/My%20Documents/Personnel%20Files/SH3/Ewald_H%C3%B6rmann/Log_2.html) 08SEP39 - 17SEP39 (10 days) 1 (1/0) 8789 (8789/0)
Ship sunk!|Grid AN 61|SS Ixion (Ore Carrier), 8789 tons. Cargo: Iron Ore. Crew: 64. Crew lost: 53



TOTALS: 3 patrols (19 days) 1 (1/0) 8789 (8789/0) (file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Colin%20Parrish/My%20Documents/Personnel%20Files/SH3/Ewald_H%C3%B6rmann/Aces.html) 0 enemy planes downed
0 crew lost

I had a chance at sinking another ship close to the English Eastern Coast. I fired my last two torps but I forgot to set a new spread degree, so my torps pretty much missed just ahead of the bow and just astern. But to my surprise I still hit just under the bow. Hopefully that will keep it in dry dock for a few days. Going to call it a night now and watch some Star Trek DS9 (Yes yes I know but if I'm going to be a geek, by God I'm going to be a total geek. Some chicks like that :yeah:. Go big or go home I always say.) which we will call shore leave. Night, and good hunting fellow Captains.

Frau you in on shore leave or just reporting it? :hmmm::woot::03:

Will report in ASAP tomorrow.

[pickinthebanjo]

Just south west and also north west of Ireland is where I always find the most ships near England. Also try sneaking into Scapa Flow for some easy tonnage. (Ill post a pic tomorrow of the easiest way in/out)

Also DS9 is great stuff:)

[microlime]

1939 2nd flotilla

1st patrol passes by port of Dover and decide to get some easy tonnage seeing how it was only guarded by an armed trawler. Went to 12m 3 knots and came about 900m of port(while I was under I did get two sonar conatacts). Put two torps in a medium cargo,1 in another cargo and what i think was a small tanker(there were dozens of ships to choose from). the trawler goes crazy and I watch in amusment.

then he goes above me and starts firing and im thinking WTF? I raised the periscope and look all derictions and see 2 bright white lights in the distance. the trawler is taking damage from what i asumed a german ship so I think what the heck lets try some deck gun practice on the other ships.

I go the surface and shells start flying around me(at that point the trawler was sunk). CRITICAL DAMMAGE!!!! DIVEEEE!!!!


Damage assesment: flooding in the stern torp room/quarters,diesel room,sonar/radio rooms,bow quarters. Conning tower gone,middle to stern of sub takes critical damage. Sonar/radio man injured


FLOODING CRITICAL 15 mins later sub destroyed by flooding. some april fools joke


Was the ship in the distance firing at me and hit the trawler?

p.s. this was my 1st actual patrol in the game 30% realism, also can I start sinking british/allied ships this early?

[KL-alfman]

must have been the shore batteries .... :hmmm:

[Paul Riley]

Hey Mr.Alfman,
Have you any Easter plans? Hope you didnt forget to load your UBoat with chocolates this year? The men could do with a treat now and then :yeah:

[KL-alfman]

thx Paul!
the crew is on shore leave.
got to test some newer mods (wide screen).
on Sunday I have in mind to search eggs and have roasted lamb. :D

[Paul Riley]

Does that widescreen mod you mention eliminate the stretching?

Roast lamb eh?,sounds delicious,my favourite meat.
Have fun on your mine hu..,I mean EGG hunt :woot:

[KL-alfman]

Does that widescreen mod you mention eliminate the stretching?

Roast lamb eh?,sounds delicious,my favourite meat.
Have fun on your mine hu..,I mean EGG hunt :woot:


the mod is optimized for 16:9 ratio and 1366x768 resolution
only the 2d-screens need to be worked on, the 3d is marvellous already.

[Dutch]

U-7 Patrol Orders: 1OCT39. Patrol Grid AN21 for 24 hrs.
Departure: Immediately
Crew Transfers: None (Yay!)

4th Patrol, 2nd War Patrol.

[Snestorm]

d. 29.nov.41 til d. 10.feb.42.
Patrol Grid CA53 assigned mid patrol.
(South of Long Island, USA).

BROKEN DRUMSTICKS.
CA61. 100 Miles south of Long Island.
d. 29. and 30.dec.41
21.52. Sound Contact. Merchant.
23.20. Surface. (Times are GMT. Waited for darkness.)
00.17. Ship spotted at 3600 Meters.
00.25. Target making 6 Knots.
00.40. Target on course 100T.
01.22. Open gun mount visible on stern. (Night Surface Attack).
01.23. "Nearest visual contact at 335R, 1500 Meters.
01.25. Fire tubes 1, 2, 4. G7E x 3.
01.26. "Nearest visual contact at 351R, 1200 Meters.
01.27. C2 Cargo (6.446 GRT) Sunk.

At 09.00 we were on station.
Following our obligatory time on station we ventured closer to New York City in CA52.
When the total depth reached 55 Meters we departed the area.
Only one warship was heard on the hydrophones throughout the journey.

U502 made her return trip along the US and Canada coastline. No ships were encountered.
The North Atlantic convoy routes were also checked, without results.

RETURN MERCHANT ENCOUNTER.
BE63. Southwest of Ireland. d. 6.feb.42.
At 15.56 a Coastal Merchant was spotted at 3700 Meters. U502 went to periscope depth and let loose with a single G7A torpedo. The shot was rushed, and missed the target. (I over-estimated the speed at 8 Knots.)
By 19.29 U502 was lining op a new shot. target course 068T. 7 Knots. The merchant's gun crew had other thoughts on the matter, and forced a "speedy" (IXC) dive.

PRICE OF DETECTION.
BF41. D. 7.feb.42.
At 16.03 U502 came under air attack. Alarm! Crash dive!
Heavy damage followed.
Both periscopes destroyed.
Radio antenna destroyed.
Flak gun destroyed.
Watch tower destroyed!!!
(I had to stand watch alone when surfaced. No room for the deck watch.)
HULL INTEGRITY 50%.
No injuries or deaths.

U502 arrived in Lorient on d. 10.feb.42 at 23.00 in medium fog.

Patrol Results:
1 ship sunk for 6.446 GRT.
50% Hull Integrity, with no loss of life.

U502's history to date.:
2 patrols from d. 29.sep.41 til d. 10.feb.42.
5 ships sunk for 28.145 GRT.

[Fozzy22]

Patrol report U-28 Type VIIB cont:

After sinking 2 large merchants and loosing my remaining eels in very bad weather trying to sink a tanker I proceeded north west to the Belchen supply ship off the coast of Greenland. After a day or so rest with the crew now rested i decided to scout along the convoy route of Halifax (Canada) to Liverpool, and with some success. Now at grid BC48 tracking ahead of a large neutral convoy, full of eels and ready to attack.

End report.

End of Patrol 7 report for U-28, Type VIIB, 2nd Flotilla:

Returned to base after large unescorted convoy attack at grid BC48.
Total of 11 merchants sunk - Total of 59955 tons.

Captain promoted with Iron Cross 2nd Class, medals and promotions for crew.

End Report.

:rock:

[UltimaGecko]

I just recently got SH3, but I've found it incredibly engrossing. So much so that I felt compelled to make a pseudo-documentary of my current U-45's exploits.

- - - - -

U-45; Type VIIB
U-Boot Flotille Saltzwedel
Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Officers Aboard
Commander: Oberleutnant zur See Matthias Himmelsdonner
Chief Engineer: Oberleutnant Ingenieur Volkmar Schäfer
Artilleryman, IWO: Leutnant zur See Gottfried Bargsten
Navigator, IIWO: Oberfähnrich zur See Herbert Lindner


U-45 - Patrol I (Test Run)
August 1st, 1939 - August 5th, 1939

The boat's first patrol took place on August 1st, 1939, but immediately ran into problems. Faulty gauges, engine troubles and mechanical failures forced her to return to Wilhelmshaven by August 5th for urgent repairs and refitting.

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g247/UltimaGecko/ff1-1-1.jpg

The commander's journal was lost in an unfortunate flooding accident, resulting in an understandably short patrol report.


U-45 - Patrol II (Test Run)
August 25th, 1939 - September 2nd, 1939

No Additional Officers or Crew Changes


By August 25th U-45 was once again ready for a test run, this time performing admirably - particularly compared to her first abysmal outting due to mechanical failures. With everything shored up, the crew undertook the patrol drill with due diligence - reaching their intended grid ahead of schedule. Torpedo and driving drills filled the late days of August as this training photo demonstrates:

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g247/UltimaGecko/testrun-bw.jpg


Unfortunately, the training drill was cut short; due to the impending threat of war the U-Boat was called back. Cruising through the Straits of Dover early on the 1st of September on its way back to Wilhelmshaven, the boat wouldn't see peace in the English Channel again.

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g247/UltimaGecko/ff2-1.jpg

The boat would be fitted with a full load of G7e and G7a torpedoes and fuel and supplies would be topped off so that it could begin action immediately...


U-45 - Patrol III
September 3rd, 1939 - September 9th, 1939

Additional Officers
Crew Chief: Oberfähnrich zur See Adolf Kessler

Kaleun Himmelsdonner greeted his new crew chief upon U-45's return to Wilhelmshaven, but there was no time for pleasantries. War with Poland had erupted almost moments ago and there was speculation that Britain and France would uphold their alliance with Poland and declare war on Germany.

Crew on the dockyard worked tirelessly to restock the U-Boot's food, inspect her hull, top off her fuel, and load her with as many torpedoes as she could carry. U-45 managed to pull out of Wilhelmshaven after an astonishingly short 36 hour layover.

Slipping past the East Frisian Islands a message came from the FdU giving word that the UK and Germany were at war.

As U-45 made its way through the narrow Straits of Dover, the watch crew sighted a small freighter to the west travelling slowly northeast. Himmelsdonner immediately plotted an intercept course. Under the cover of night, just after 2200 "Taufen zur Sehrohrtiefe!" echoed through the ship as she dived to periscope depth to intercept her first vessel of the war.

Moments later torpedoes were in the water and U-45 turned hard aport. Half a minute later the explosion of the warheads deafeningly loud over the hydrophones confirmed their trajectory.

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g247/UltimaGecko/ff3-1.jpg
(After numerous times playing the torpedo and convoy naval academy training missions, this was my first case of firing a torpedo completely manually...it may have taken a while to sink, but it did sink).

Himmelsdonner ordered the ship immediately surfaced to survey the damage.

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g247/UltimaGecko/ff3-3.jpg

After a short victory celebration alarm set in as an escort vessel was quickly overhead.

(...Notice that hydrophone contact on the map above? I didn't...This is what happens when you up time compression when you shouldn't.)

As fast as he'd come up, Himmelsdonner immediately brought the ship back down with an emergency dive. U-45 learned its first harsh lessons as the bow of the ship plunged into the floor of the English Channel and scraped across the silty bottom. Damage reports came flooding in. The forward torpedo room and bunks were flooding; water up to the ankles had alreay filled the command room. Repair duties were immediately assigned.

Then more bad news from the radio crew "Wabos!" Depth charges exploded all around the ship; new reports came in of flooding in the aft torpedo room as well. The force scraped the boat across the bottom; glass on gauges broke and lights shattered. It looked grim, but after nearly 10 charges had gone off nearby they stopped falling. It seemed the escort crew thought it had destroyed the Type VIIB.

U-45 was still in deep trouble. Hurried work contined 48 meters under the water. With the flooding under control and the hydrophones clear, Himmelsdonner ordered a full reverse in an attempt to lift them off the seafloor, but to no avail. As a last resort he blew the ballast tanks. The depth gauge finally ticked its way up - 47m and climbing.

Minutes later the sub broke the surface and the damage was assessed. The flooding had abated and the hull seemed intact, but the conning tower wasn't so fortunate. Both periscopes and the deck gun were irreparably damaged.

Not resigned to defeat so easily - even without the ability to effectively attack while submerged, Himmelsdonner ordered the ship to continue west through the English channel. With an UZO as their only aiming device they managed to engage and sink numerous small vessels (without crash diving into the seafloor...again).

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g247/UltimaGecko/ff3-2.jpg
The SS Trentonia and its load of iron flounder to the bottom of the channel from one of U-45's UZO-targeted attacks.


Expending 12 of 14 torpedoes, U-45 only managed to sink just under 10k in tonnage. Its first wartime patrol was a story of miraculous survival through poor decisions. No crew were lost. The patrol was cut short due to mechanical troubles again - this time they just happened to come from the commander instead of the dockyard.

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g247/UltimaGecko/ff3-4.jpg


Can they manage to pull their luck and leadership around and become a truly successful U-Boat?

...Well, I don't know if I can do much worse than crashing my boat into the seafloor and getting depth charged.

[unterseemann]

Nice story Gecko, and welcome to subsim! :salute:

[Flopper]

Still on patrol, west of Portugal, Feb. 1940

9 eels fired:

1 hit.
1 miss.
3 exploded prematurely.
4 duds on impact.

1 medium cargo sunk.

:shifty:

[darkone999]

In port after third patrol..Just pure luck ran into a convoy with a heavy cruiser escort on my second patrol..got four torps off at the cruiser(wanted her bad) then ran due to six escort destroyers also around convoy..one torpedo hit the cruiser the others missed the cruiser and two of them hit a large cargo ship..I was like damn it I wanted to sink that heavy cruiser..Well while the escorts where beading in on me I am thinking **** all those ships and not one was sunk that sucks...then to my surprise the cargo ship went under..That made me fill better..then the next hour was spent avoiding depth charges..I then continued to scurry off at two knots and all of a sudden the heavy cruiser went under..I was so happy as I thought "no way it will sink with one torp in her"...In the end all that hard work payed off...Love it...

PS
any one point me to a thread as to why my save game files for sh3/gwx3 are getting corrupted.some save fine and others wont load at all..Thanks in advance..

TIM

[pickinthebanjo]

Just returned to base after a very short but very succesfull patrol. I patrolled the grid an8455 with no results. Then decided to make an attack on Scapa Flow for the second time. This time around I got depth charged by a lone destroyer that snuck up on me. I was forced to make repairs as the destroyer could not navigate the narrow chanal that I entered from and struck a ship barrier (lucky me) I then commenced my attack on another destroyer, and the light cruiser HMS Newfoundland (Fiji class) but then decided to wait it out till morning, before finishing my attack

CAPTAIN'S LOG
30MAY40 - 09JUN40 (11 days)

30.5.40.
1744 Patrol 8
U-52, 2nd Flotilla
Left at: May 30, 1940, 17:44
From: Wilhelmshaven
Mission Orders: Patrol grid AN84

8.6.40.
21:03 Grid AN 16 Ship sunk! HMCS Margaree (C&D classes), 1375 tons. Crew: 154. Crew lost: 35

23:45 Grid AN 16 Ship sunk! HMS Northern Dawn (ASW Trawler), 1100 tons. Crew: 51. Crew lost: 49

9.6.40.
04:39 Grid AN 16 Ship sunk! HMS Newfoundland (Fiji class), 10725 tons. Crew: 745. Crew lost: 499

04:53 Grid AN 16 Ship sunk! MV White Castle (Small Tanker), 1981 tons. Cargo: Gasoline. Crew: 17. Crew lost: 13

04:58 Grid AN 16 Ship sunk! MV British Pride (Modern Tanker), 10872 tons. Cargo: Gasoline. Crew: 76. Crew lost: 3

05:11 Grid AN 16 Ship sunk! SS Accra (Troop Transport), 8011 tons. Cargo: Troops. Crew: 237. Crew lost: 109

05:37 Grid AN 16 Ship sunk! SS Saltwick (Small Merchant), 2404 tons. Cargo: Scrap Metal. Crew: 80. Crew lost: 55

09:04 Patrol results;
U-boat damaged (H.I. 72.83%)
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 7
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonnage: 36468 tons
BACK

[frau kaleun]

PS
any one point me to a thread as to why my save game files for sh3/gwx3 are getting corrupted.some save fine and others wont load at all..Thanks in advance..

TIM

Hey Tim

There are a lot of threads regarding problems with corrupted saves. Sometimes they just happen for no reason anyone can pinpoint. However the general consensus seems to be that you can lower your chances of having problems by:

- not saving when submerged
- not saving when within visual range of land or other vessels
- if you are using mods, disable/enable them only while in port (unless the mod's readme says it's safe to do otherwise)
- if you are using SH3 Commander, set it to "roll back" any changes it makes each time you exit the game

If you're already doing all the above and still getting corrupted saves, you can try posting some more of the relevant details and see if anyone can give you a few more ideas.

Keep in mind though once you have a corrupted savegame, any savegames made after it will also be corrupted, so if you want to continue the same career or mission you'll have to keep going backwards through all the saves you made until you find one that is clean.

[Exakt]

ObLt z. S. Ernst Wagner has been reassigned as a Admiralstabsoffizier in the staff of Dönitz. His front career consisted of 10 patrols, for a total tonnage of 197252, 37 merchant ships and 3 warships. He was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd and 1st class, the Knight's Cross, the U-boat War Badge and the U-boat Front Clasp. After the war, he served in the Bundesmarine and retired in March 1970. He died in Kiel on 9 September 1972.

[Paul Riley]

War diary , U-48
8th Dec 1939

Having now been at sea 11 days we have been patrolling a 200km corridor from BF11-BF14,accounting for 3 sinkings in the area so far,including 1 French freighter,1 British modern tanker (a good 9000 tonnes too!),and 1 British intermediate tanker for a total of 14.464 GRT.All attacks were performed at close range with contact tips (2 at night,1 in total daylight) in practically perfect weather conditions,hardly a breeze anywhere.
8 torpedoes remain with approx 150 rds of HE shells.
-Kapt. Kurt Neulinger , U-48

U-48 has also raised concern about faulty torpedoes experiencing 2 duds and one that failed to keep its depth passing right under its target.

Looks like it may be a good Christmas booze up if they manage to fire off all remaining torpedoes with successful sinkings and make it back in time.Doenitz has promised 2 weeks of leave for every man.They plan to spend possibly 1-2 weeks more on patrol then attempt another risky passage through the channel for a brief 3 days or so.Kurt however plans to spend Christmas with his elderly mother and to visit the grave of his recently deceased father.He is thankful he has good men aboard his UBoat to keep his morale in top form during this difficult time.
Wish them luck! :woot:

[Paul Riley]

Still on patrol, west of Portugal, Feb. 1940

9 eels fired:

1 hit.
1 miss.
3 exploded prematurely.
4 duds on impact.

1 medium cargo sunk.

:shifty:

Chin up mate,you arent the only one plagued by those bloody duds! :nope:
Hopefully the head sheds back in Germany will design better,more reliable torpedoes for us,sooner the better.

[Vipper]

It is 5th patrol and 1. april 1940. Going to Narvik...Wish me luck.:)

[Exakt]

Here is Jaana Galland, the Kaleun who took over U-47.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g55/VAC1012/LogJaana-1.jpg

And here is the report of her first patrol.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g55/VAC1012/JaanaPatrol1.jpg

And now, looks like I'm heading towards Gibraltar...
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g55/VAC1012/LogBookJaana.jpg

[darkone999]

Hey Tim

There are a lot of threads regarding problems with corrupted saves. Sometimes they just happen for no reason anyone can pinpoint. However the general consensus seems to be that you can lower your chances of having problems by:

- not saving when submerged
- not saving when within visual range of land or other vessels
- if you are using mods, disable/enable them only while in port (unless the mod's readme says it's safe to do otherwise)
- if you are using SH3 Commander, set it to "roll back" any changes it makes each time you exit the game

If you're already doing all the above and still getting corrupted saves, you can try posting some more of the relevant details and see if anyone can give you a few more ideas.

Keep in mind though once you have a corrupted savegame, any savegames made after it will also be corrupted, so if you want to continue the same career or mission you'll have to keep going backwards through all the saves you made until you find one that is clean.



frau kaleun

Thanks for the advice.I do follow most ideas you posted.I am lucky in that When my save games do get corrupted I only have to go back one and not very often two saved games.It dosent happen alot but its just a pain when it does..I just had hopes there might be a simple fix..My course of action now is just save the game alot..Anways thanks again...

Tim

[frau kaleun]

My course of action now is just save the game alot

:up:

Always a good idea!

[Paul Riley]

War diary , U-48
8th Dec 1939

Having now been at sea 11 days we have been patrolling a 200km corridor from BF11-BF14,accounting for 3 sinkings in the area so far,including 1 French freighter,1 British modern tanker (a good 9000 tonnes too!),and 1 British intermediate tanker for a total of 14.464 GRT.All attacks were performed at close range with contact tips (2 at night,1 in total daylight) in practically perfect weather conditions,hardly a breeze anywhere.
8 torpedoes remain with approx 150 rds of HE shells.
-Kapt. Kurt Neulinger , U-48

U-48 has also raised concern about faulty torpedoes experiencing 2 duds and one that failed to keep its depth passing right under its target.

Looks like it may be a good Christmas booze up if they manage to fire off all remaining torpedoes with successful sinkings and make it back in time.Doenitz has promised 2 weeks of leave for every man.They plan to spend possibly 1-2 weeks more on patrol then attempt another risky passage through the channel for a brief 3 days or so.Kurt however plans to spend Christmas with his elderly mother and to visit the grave of his recently deceased father.He is thankful he has good men aboard his UBoat to keep his morale in top form during this difficult time.
Wish them luck! :woot:

War diary , U-48
14th Dec 1939

Having now spent 17 days at sea we finally managed to sink 6 ships through grids BF11-BF14.This area proved to be very lucrative and I have no doubt we will return there again soon,however we won't be going through the channel next time,its getting too tight now,patrols are starting to swarm around the channel openings.
Almost all attacks were successful,performed at ranges between 500-1000m and contact tips.We experienced only 2 duds and 1 that passed clear under the keel of one ship.
But the jewel in this patrol occured last night,we picked up a large ship on the horizon at night on one of the logged shipping lanes in BF14 that seems to be used mainly by tankers,and it turned out to be a 12000 tonne whale factory vessel doing 12kts,our biggest prize yet!.I sent 2 into her from 1000m with a spread of 2 degrees,both slammed into her perfectly and she sunk after around 15mins.I couldnt believe my good fortune,I was moments away from calling an end to the patrol when my instincts told me to stay in the area longer.After that glorious final sinking it really was time to consolidate our victories and head back home,where surely an Iron cross awaits me,and the men also will no doubt be showered with medals and other spoils of war,including women!
We are now moments away from entering the channel on another risky endeavour to shorten our return in time for Christmas.The area is alive with warships and we will need to remain very vigilant,running decks awash in the day and surfaced at high speed at night.Let us hope our recent audacious actions are not avenged by angry English warships,and that our courage and tenacity carries us safely home again.

Current patrol total - 6 for 36.958 GRT
2 stern torpedoes left,150 rds HE shells
Fuel - approx 5000km left moving at ahead full

Kpt.Kurt Neulinger
U-48

[Immelman]

Just started a new career and I took the training wheels off. I have always used Manual TDC but now, no more map contact updates I will have to come up with my firing solutions all by myself.

1st War Patrol
Date: 03 Mar 1942
Time: 20:35
Port of Salamis

Departing port of Salamis for PZ off the coast of Egypt.
U-83 VIIB fully provisioned, fresh water tanks topped off.
Eels: 8 TI(G7a) 6 TII(G7e)
Crew: 42

1st War Patrol
Date: 07 Mar 1942
Time: 2:12
50 km SE of the island of Crete.

First blood!

Lookouts spotted Tramp Steamer at medium range. "Prepare for surfaced attack! Chief take us down down to 7m, crew look out decks awash!"

Time to practice my targeting skills. "Speed 9kts heading 335 solution set, flood tubes 1 & 4, open outer door on tube 1" Lets check that flag again now that we are closer just to be sure. "Boys she is a Kiwi, good eye Gerhart extra ration of Becks for you if we get this done right" I tell my IWO and laughter ensues as bit of the tension is releaved. "Stay sharp men, watch your sectors!" Can't afford to get surprised last minute by some roving destroyer.

"Set torpedo depth 3m, range 900m, Tube 1, LOS! All ahead full, right full rudder come 90 degrees to starboard, clear the bridge! Chief take us down to PD. Up scope", the trail of bubbles from the TI is visible as I stare through the scope. The eel is eating up the distance to its target as we count down the seconds. The eel has not been spotted and the Steamer is about to get a rude awakening. "Ten seconds to impact" my weapons officer states trying his best to appear calm. The crew holds its collective breath as we anticipate the detonation of the warhead.

KABOOOM right where we aimed under the fore mast. "Down scope" 2 spot lights come on and started looking for anything the gunners manning that 88 can shoot at. Sure as hell will not be my boat! "Lots of metal grinding Herr Kaleu, heavy flooding! Sounds like we ripped one hell of a chunk right from under her" Johan my Hydrophone Operator reports. The crew happily cheers as we hear the reverberation from the explosion and the low moaning sound of metal being sheared.

I risk a peak through the scope and she is well past us now but has slowed to a crawl, listing to starboard and her bow is already under. "That's a kill boys no two ways about it. Have a look Chief" Helmuth steps to the scope and a large smile blossoms on his lips. "Good job boss, looks like we did it, I give her another 15 minutes before she goes." :arrgh!:

[Exakt]

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g55/VAC1012/LogJaana2.jpg

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g55/VAC1012/patrol2.jpg

And now off to BF15... should be a good hunt.

[Snestorm]

Just started a new career and I took the training wheels off. I have always used Manual TDC but now, no more map contact updates I will have to come up with my firing solutions all by myself.

"Good job boss," :arrgh!:

He got that right, boss!

Well done!

[Snestorm]

Patrol Dates: D. 7.apr.42 til d. 17.jun.42.

Assigned Grid: BB83 (South of Canada.)
Routing to be across the northern convoy routes, then south and east along the canadian coastline.

BF61 7.apr.42 19.56 Underway.

BF42 12.apr.42 16.07 til 18.25 Evading 2 ASW Vessels.

BE63 14.apr.42
18.28 Merchant picked up on hydrophone.
19.28 Submerged Daylight Attack. Fire Tube 3 (G7A).
Course 058. Speed 8 Knots. Miss. Undetected.
20.42 Surface, and at 'em again.
23.01 Surfaced Night Attack. Fire Tube 5 (G7A).
Course 068. Speed 7 Knots. Torpedo Impact!
23.04 Dive to reload, follow, and listen.
23.16 Little Merchant (2.343 GRT) Sunk!

BE39 15.apr.42
02.24 Merchant picked up on hydrophone.
Wasted a stern shot. He passed directly over us, and I tryed putting a torpedo in his tail.
05.46 Daylight Submerged Attack. Fire 1, 2, 4 (G7E x 3).
Course 359. Speed 7 Knots. Double Impact! Target DIW (Dead In Water).
08.07 After 2 more topedo hits - C2 Cargo (6.448 GRT) Sunk.

8 torpedoes for 2 ships. This ain't good. And I don't carry externals!
All tubes loaded. All reloads expended.

BE38 16.apr.42
18.24 Warship picked up on hydrophone.
18.30 Second warship detected.
18.37 Third warship detected. Hunter Killer Group.
20.24 "No sound contacts, sir." Successful evasion. Undected.

BC26 29.apr.42 Western North Atlantic.
08.18 Ship spotted. Periscope depth. Coastal Merchant & Little Merchant.
08.33 Fire tube 3 (G7A). Course 075. Speed 6 Knots. Range 1.100 Meters.
08.34 Torpedo Impact! (To the stern section.) Torpedoes are expensive!
11.22 Daylight Submerged Attack with stern tubes.
11.22 Coastal Merchant (1.977 GRT) Sunk. (G7A). Course 064. Speed 6 Knots.
11.23 Fire 6. Last stern torpedo. (G7A). At Little Merchant.
11.24 Torpedo Impact! Again, she ain't going down!
13.12 Detected in end run. Target opened fire, and forced U502 down.
BC23
15.41 Fire tube 2. (G7E).
15.41 Little Merchant (2.389 GRT) Sunk. Course 064. Speed 4 Knots.
15.58 STATUS REPORT: 4 ships sunk for 13.157 GRT. 2 torpedoes remaining.

BC15 4.maj.42 07.42 Hydrophone contact on warship.
BC17 6.maj.42 09.06 Hydrophone contact on warship.

BB69 8.maj.42
18.11 Hydrophone contact on merchant.
19.00 Fire 4 (G7E). Torpedo impact! 25 Miles off Canada.
19.07 Coastal Merchant (1.979 GRT) sunk. Course 110. Speed 6 Knots.

One torpedo left.

BB64 11.maj.42 23.59 "Canada 6 Miles North". Total depth is 88 Meters.
(IX drivers and II drivers and much in common.)

BB82 14.maj.42
19.00 On station.
19.33 Hydrophone contact on warship. (He was around twice.)

BB95 18.maj.42 16.00 Hydrophone contact on warship.

BC77
20.maj.42 23.22 Hydrophone contact on merchant.
21.maj.42 00.19 Fire tube 1. (G7E). Torpedo impact on little merchant. No sinking.

CC32 STATUS REPORT: 5 ships sunk for 15.136 GRT. 0 torpedoes left.
RADAR DOES NOT WORK IN ROUGH WEATHER!

BE66 10.jun.42 10.49 Hunter Killer Group evaded on hydrophone.

BF61 17.jun.42 12.15 Docked at Lorient.

Patrol Results: 5 ships sunk for 15.136 GRT.

U502's history to date:
3 patrols from 29.sep.41 til 17.jun.42.
10 ships sunk for 43.281 GRT.

Anybody know how to fix the radar, so it will stay on?

[armyguy]

December ninth 1940
The U-148 Type IID sub is at home in Lorinet getting off patrol 4
Merchant ships sunk 1
Merchant tonnage 10615.00
No dead

Career total
Merchant ships sunk 4
Merchant tonnage 28010
Warships sunk 3
Warships tonnage 4440
Tonnage total 34.321

[Immelman]

Just started a new career and I took the training wheels off. I have always used Manual TDC but now, no more map contact updates I will have to come up with my firing solutions all by myself.

1st War Patrol
Date: 03 Mar 1942
Time: 20:35
Port of Salamis

Departing port of Salamis for PZ off the coast of Egypt.
U-83 VIIB fully provisioned, fresh water tanks topped off.
Eels: 8 TI(G7a) 6 TII(G7e)
Crew: 42

1st War Patrol
Date: 07 Mar 1942
Time: 2:12
50 km SE of the island of Crete.

First blood!

Lookouts spotted Tramp Steamer at medium range. "Prepare for surfaced attack! Chief take us down down to 7m, crew look out decks awash!"

Time to practice my targeting skills. "Speed 9kts heading 335 solution set, flood tubes 1 & 4, open outer door on tube 1" Lets check that flag again now that we are closer just to be sure. "Boys she is a Kiwi, good eye Gerhart extra ration of Becks for you if we get this done right" I tell my IWO and laughter ensues as bit of the tension is releaved. "Stay sharp men, watch your sectors!" Can't afford to get surprised last minute by some roving destroyer.

"Set torpedo depth 3m, range 900m, Tube 1, LOS! All ahead full, right full rudder come 90 degrees to starboard, clear the bridge! Chief take us down to PD. Up scope", the trail of bubbles from the TI is visible as I stare through the scope. The eel is eating up the distance to its target as we count down the seconds. The eel has not been spotted and the Steamer is about to get a rude awakening. "Ten seconds to impact" my weapons officer states trying his best to appear calm. The crew holds its collective breath as we anticipate the detonation of the warhead.

KABOOOM right where we aimed under the fore mast. "Down scope" 2 spot lights come on and started looking for anything the gunners manning that 88 can shoot at. Sure as hell will not be my boat! "Lots of metal grinding Herr Kaleu, heavy flooding! Sounds like we ripped one hell of a chunk right from under her" Johan my Hydrophone Operator reports. The crew happily cheers as we hear the reverberation from the explosion and the low moaning sound of metal being sheared.

I risk a peak through the scope and she is well past us now but has slowed to a crawl, listing to starboard and her bow is already under. "That's a kill boys no two ways about it. Have a look Chief" Helmuth steps to the scope and a large smile blossoms on his lips. "Good job boss, looks like we did it, I give her another 15 minutes before she goes." :arrgh!:


1st War Patrol
Date: 08 Mar 1942
Time: 20:24
100 km NW of Alexandria

Man o'War

"Hydrophone contact Herr Kaleun, multiple screw sounds bearing 150, moving fast and closing." "
"How far away Johan?"
"Extreme range but getting louder"
"All ahead two thirds, take us up to PD Chief and make your course South South East" time to take a quick peak make sure there are no surprises up top. "Up scope" Quick scan of the sky and one more of the sea, nothing on the horizon. "Surface the boat chief all ahead full, give me standard propulsion we will recharge the batteries later. Are your men ready Gerhart?"
"Men are assembled and standing by sir"
"Very well, stay sharp up there men we are expecting a fast moving convoy not long from now. Extra rations of beer for the first one to spot it! That got their attention and some cheers out of the men!
"Its not fair sir Leutnant Gerhart always wins" said one of the lookouts and everyone laughed good heartedly. The men where up the ladder in a heart beat as the conning tower broke the surface of the calm water.

Karls the navigator covered his maps as water gushed down the tower. His latest grease marks noted the estimated position of the convoy as well as our approximate position. Looking at the map I drew a line from the convoy towards the port of Alexandria the predictable course. I decided to try to sneak in since I was lucky enough to be ahead of them. Karls and Helmuth were watching me expectantly. "We run another 8km on the surface then Chief run us decks awash for another 5km. The last leg we will run submerged. The Tommies will certainly have radar on those escorts and I don't want to ruin the surprise we have in store for them." The men smiled conspiratorially. It will be dark when we engage so I better tell Fritz to load all tubes with TIs. Might as well have him recheck all the detonators, better be safe then have duds.

1st War Patrol
Date: 08 Mar 1942
Time: 21:47
100 km NW of Alexandria

“Lead ship bearing 64 degrees Herr Kaleu” we were close enough now that Johan could distinguish individual screw sounds in all that infernal cacophony that he listened to on his head set. It was pitch black outside and I couldn’t see anything in the scope. “We will have to be real close to fire accurately I murmured to Fritz.” We all have taken up the habit of talking in whispers when attacking submerged, as if the enemy could hear our plans. We are running silent at PD the control room is suffused in the red glow of the night lamps that are preserving my night vision.

A hazy form slowly becomes distinguishable despite the pitch black moonless night. Slowly it materialized in the distinct silhouette of a destroyer. There’s your lead ship Johan. “Destroyer moving fast” Everyone froze in their tracks in the control room. “Breath people she hasn’t detected us she going on her merry way.” Sighs could be heard all around me as I started enunciating my observations. “Moving right to left, Bow angle 70, estimated speed say 20kts, range 3000 meters. Down scope” Let’s give her a minute and check again.

Lather rinse repeat and we finally have a workable solution. We can’t use it to fire yet, we have to firm it up but it’s a start. As I raise the scope yet again and do my usual check, I notice more forms emerging from the dark night. They are big, massive! Three of the in a row moving fast! “What is it Herr Kaleun” Fritz probably noticed how my knuckles turned white as my grip increased on the scope.

“We are about to stir up a hornet’s nest. This is not a regular convoy, this is a task force. We need to work fast on this one boys and get the hell out even faster. Chief 5 degrees to port all ahead one third, Fritz prepare to fire a salvo, flood all fore tubes and open all outer doors. Set depth 6m, speed 40kts spread angle 1 degree.” I want to line up nice and proper on the last one in line and get as close as I can. “My God she is so big she doesn’t fit in my scope even when zoomed out!” Fritz snaps me out of my trance. “What about the range Herr Kaleun?”
“Make it 1800m, fire all tubes on my mark.”
“LOS!” I bark out my orders while my eyes stay glued on the four white fingers of death extending towards the unsuspecting prey. “Chief take us down fast. All ahead full!” With my last few moments before the scope gets smothered by the waves I make a quick 360 sweep of the horizon to make sure that we have not been spotted. “Down scope.”

I look at Fritz questioningly but his eyes heed only the needles of the chronometer. “Passing 30 meters” the Chief calls it out. No one pays him any attention all eyes are on Fritz. The bow planes man gets smacked on the back of the head “Eyes front mind your station sailor!” the Chief scolds him. “Passing 50 meters” says the Chief and I sigh in relief. “All ahead one third”, I give the order, we are not out of the woods yet, but there is no need to be calling more attention to ourselves then we have to. All is quiet in the control room barring the sound of metal being compressed as we descend and of course the tic tac of the chronometer. “10 seconds” my Weapons officer manages his voice hoarse with tension and starts giving us the count down.

The silence is shattered by four loud booms followed by a thunderous bang. A few seconds later the boat shakes as the turbulence hits us all the way down here at 80m. “Massive flooding sir, metal grinding, bulkheads breaking, sounds like a train wreck up there.”
“I certainly hope so” says Fritz “A four eel salvo will ruin anyone’s day. Just what in the hell did we shoot at sir” I never got the chance to reply since Johan reported “Fast screws coming in hot, depth charges in the water”
“All ahead full come 30 degrees to starboard new course bearing 210. Once we complete the turn resume silent running. Relax men they got nothing on us, standard procedure to make sure that our heads are down not a PD looking for more targets. They are keeping us busy while they wait for reinforcements. I figure there is another two destroyers on their way over here. But we’ll be long gone, by the time they get here, will be on the other side of that train wreck. Keep heading down chief all the way to 180 meters.”

1st War Patrol
Date: 09 Mar 1942
Time: 01:12
100 km NW of Alexandria

“Think it’s safe to go back up there sir” Chief asks me warily.
“Don’t worry chief I doubt they are lying about waiting for us. There were travelling quite fast over 20kts they were in a hurry to get somewhere. Besides they got nothing left to shoot at us that can reach us down here.” I say with a chuckle “Never seen Tommies so pissed in my life”
“With good reason sir, we infiltrated a task force and planted four eels in the side of their flagship, I would be pretty pissed too sir wouldn’t you?”
“Oh yes I was! I was livid Chief. I still am pissed at the loss of the Bismarck and this is payback for my brother and all the other sailors that died along with him. Now surface the boat and let’s see if we can find anything in the debris field.

“Anything Gerhart?” I call up to the bridge
“Alot of junk still floating sir, but nothing useful… Wait I think we got something. Sailor get that orange thing with your hook. Good throw it here!”
“I got something sir! It’s a personal flotation device, there is something stenciled on it but I can’t make it out its too dark.”
Don’t use lamps up there! Just throw it down!
The PFD hits the floor of the command room and I grab it and walk straight to my bunk. I find my lamp that I keep there for emergencies and shine it on the black markings. All the off duty crew has gathered around my bunk looking at me expectantly. I turn to Johan look him straight in the eyes. “Fire up the wireless son and tell BdU that U-83 and its crew just sunk the Flagship of the British Home fleet the HMS Nelson. :rock:

[armyguy]

Christmas Day
Grid BF 28
Stopping for the day as a gift to my crew

[gazpode_l]

New to the forum - only recently started playing SH3 again after a long hiatus.

Pleased I started my new career in 1940 as it been a year since I been seriously playing ANY S/H game and even then i been using SH2 as my machine is only really capable of running SH3 and I thus I haven't bought SH4 or SH5!

I recently completed a patrol of AL67 and was back & forth-ing between that and SW england, without spotting anything except for Hi-Sea's and strong winds.

So decided to potter around off northern Ireland - got stalked by a couple of torpedo patrol boats for a considerable while and took slight damage from thier small arms cannons. I submerged and slipped away managing to shake off thier patrol.

Later in the Irish sea SW of Douglas on the I.O.M my crew spotted a lone merchant. I closed to within firing distance and managed to sink him with my second shot (only pic I took was this one with his stern slowly sinking - confirmed by crew as a kill and was given credit)
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii66/gazpode_l/Silent%20Hunter%203/08Contactsiking.jpg

I attempted to chase other contact's given to me, but was too far away to get anywhere near them.

I ended my opening patrol with the sinking of that lone merchant (results s/s below).
http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii66/gazpode_l/Silent%20Hunter%203/12patrolresults.jpg

Couple of night's ago I started my second patrol and this has started alot like my first - vast expanses of open water, nothing in sight but open ocean and large waves - save for the odd FAST patrol off the UK coast!

When I saved up @ 2am when I went to bed early hrs of thursday (upon last playing it) I was hovering around the external's of Grids AM and AL trying to pickup some convoy contacts without any luck.

[gazpode_l]

I turn to Johan look him straight in the eyes. “Fire up the wireless son and tell BdU that U-83 and its crew just sunk the Flagship of the British Home fleet the HMS Nelson

WOW! Stonking kill matey! :yeah: :woot::rock:

[armyguy]

December 26 1940 time 14:58
Grid BF 24
Ran in to a empite type
Fired two torps all hit empire now at full stop
Two gun hits on my sub low damage
Empire now sinking at her own time

[Immelman]

WOW! Stonking kill matey! :yeah: :woot::rock:

Thanks mate, it felt specially gratifying to nail that sucker 100% unassisted! :arrgh!:

[armyguy]

Time 20:16
Grid BF 13
Ran in to a ore cattier its good a was saveing torpedo's
Time 20:20
Fired all three torpedo's ship now sinking
Going to base out of torpedo's

End of patrol 5
Merchant ships sunk 2
Merchant tonnage 14863.00
No dead
Low damage to ship

[armyguy]

“Fire up the wireless son and tell BdU that U-83 and its crew just sunk the Flagship of the British Home fleet the HMS Nelson.
Good job man :up:

[Immelman]

Three eels on an Ore Carrier? A bit of an overkill you old pirate :arrgh!:

[armyguy]

Three eels on an Ore Carrier? A bit of an overkill you old pirate :arrgh!:
ARR i be the over killing pirate armyguy time to torpedo sloops :arrgh!:

[Jimbuna]

ARR i be the over killing pirate armyguy time to torpedo sloops :arrgh!:

You should be able to sinkt them easily enough by simply throwing your empty deck gun shell casings at em :DL

[gazpode_l]

RW Time: 02:12 (Sat 10th Apr)
Game Time: 00:41 15/11/1940
Pos: Aprox Mid Irish Sea, SW of Hollyhead
Ships Sunk: 3
ASW Trawler (2x Torps), FAST Torp Boat (Deck/Flak Gun), Small Tanker (1x Torp)
Torps left: 19
GRT: 2,600 Aprox
Am calling it a nyte now but may get chance to carry on if not out tomorrow(tonight)
PS: Second patrol, but re-started as save became corrupt and game wldn't load, just CDT each time.

[Reinhard Dietz]

I must have said something to anger BdU or another high-ranking military or political officer: U-48, the pride of the 7. Unterseebootsflottille, has been assigned to AN84, the eastern approach to the English Channel. Yeah, that's going to work out just fine in early July 1940.

Thankfully, I've now got the 2cm FK C/30 Flakzwiling, so maybe I can bloody Coastal Command's nose if I get jumped in the shallow water around here. :damn:

[pickinthebanjo]

I must have said something to anger BdU or another high-ranking military or political officer: U-48, the pride of the 7. Unterseebootsflottille, has been assigned to AN84, the eastern approach to the English Channel. Yeah, that's going to work out just fine in early July 1940.

Thankfully, I've now got the 2cm FK C/30 Flakzwiling, so maybe I can bloody Coastal Command's nose if I get jumped in the shallow water around here. :damn:

lol, I got that gid last week sometime. I did my 24hours and got the hell out of there as fast as I could.

[KL-alfman]

1943-10-19
U-292 (VIIC/41)
1st Flotilla, Brest

on the way to the assigned grid FC76 a large convoy was radioed and U-292 went flank to intercept.
in the afternoon 30merchants and 7DDs could be made out. as there were 9columns it was decided to infiltrate between the second and third column after it was confirmed that they sailed on a steady course of 13° at a speed of 6kn. after reaching the attack-location in grid DS9649 (where the convoy had to arrive at 9p.m. so the darkness was on our side) U-292 went to 20m silently.
we awaited the first row to run over us and ascended to PD. sea was heayv with 15m/s winds so we tried to force our luck to spend just one aal per vessel and to go for the bow.
out of 5aale just one missed, the AOB must have been calculated wrong. but the other four hit!

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/4748/frsink.jpg (http://img405.imageshack.us/i/frsink.jpg/)


3of4 went down soon, just one ore-freighter struggled for life (without success)

http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/8885/oresink.jpg (http://img704.imageshack.us/i/oresink.jpg/)


it was the most successful convoy-attack (~ 25k tons) that late in war for the Kaleu:

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/5993/navmap43.jpg (http://img522.imageshack.us/i/navmap43.jpg/)


as soon as the first aal hit, we flanked to 200m and evaded without being detected!
a very rare situation in the meanwhile .....

[sergei]

Midway through the third patrol of U-19 (Type IIA)

Two ships sunk.
Granville Freighter
Tramp Steamer

Two torpedoes remaining.
Grid AN44.

When this patrol is over I should be renowned enough to trade up to a IID :DL

[Jimbuna]

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

[gazpode_l]

in the afternoon 30merchants and 7DDs could be made out. as there were 9columns :timeout::timeout::timeout:

OMG! Jeepers man, sombody got lucky!
How did ur machine handle processing of all them ships!!! WOW!

[KL-alfman]

How did ur machine handle processing of all them ships!!! WOW!


you know, I got probably one of the oldest rigs here at the board.
it was state-of-the-art 5-6years ago.
but I get about 20-30fps in external view, that's acceptable. ;)

[frau kaleun]

lol, I got that gid last week sometime. I did my 24hours and got the hell out of there as fast as I could.

Ugh, I hate when that happens. My last "serious" career I did 5-6 very successful patrols in the Western Approaches and then got assigned a grid to the southeast of Scapa Flow. And that's where that career ended.

Doing better so far in this one!


Patrol 1

U-45, 7 U-Flotilla Wegener
LtzS Erich Riese, Commander

August 1 1939, 18:25
Departed: Königsberg
Mission Orders: Patrol grid AO98

August 4 1939, 23:34
Returned: Königsberg
Crew losses: 0
Promotions: Leutnant z. See Erich Reise and Leutnant z. See Johann Zahn, to Oberleutnant z. See
Notes: U-45 has been transferred to 2 U-Flotilla Saltzwedel and will proceed to Wilhelmshaven immediately to begin preparations for our next assignment. ObltzS Zahn will continue to serve as 1WO but will likely be given his own command after successful completion of a second patrol aboard U-45.


Patrol 2

U-45, 2 U-Flotilla Saltzwedel
ObltzS Erich Riese, Commander

August 28 1939, 19:37
Departed: Wilhelmshaven
Mission Orders: Patrol grid BF17
Notes: Funkmaat Karl-Heinz Pipal, Bootsmann, transferred to duty on another u-boat; Stabsbootsmann Horst Rowlin transferred to duty aboard U-45.

September 5 1939, 16:56
Grid AM 53
Ship sunk: SS Glenfinlas (Large Merchant), 10403 tons
Cargo: Scrap Metal
Crew: 109
Crew lost: 29

September 5 1939, 18:02
Grid AM 52
Ship sunk: SS Lake Lucerne (Passenger/Cargo), 1970 tons
Cargo: Passengers
Crew: 200
Crew lost: 76

September 6 1939, 05:38
Grid AM 55
Ship sunk: SS Aurora (Coastal Freighter), 1869 tons
Cargo: Trucks
Crew: 30
Crew lost: 10

September 8 1939, 08:03
Grid BF 17
Ship sunk: SS Agberi (Passenger/Cargo), 1963 tons
Cargo: Passengers
Crew: 60
Crew lost: 5

September 8 1939, 22:38
Grid BF 17
Ship sunk: SS Penthievre (Small Merchant), 2211 tons
Cargo: Iron Ore
Crew: 28
Crew lost: 22

September 8 1939, 23:53
Grid BF 17
Ship sunk: MV Thalia (Tanker 09), 8505 tons
Cargo: Gasoline
Crew: 61
Crew lost: 20

September 10 1939, 02:27
Grid BF 17
Ship sunk: SS Agapenor (Large Merchant), 8630 tons
Cargo: Sulfur
Crew: 83
Crew lost: 52

September 10 1939, 09:55
Grid BF 17
Ship sunk: SS Aaltje (Coastal Freighter), 1870 tons
Cargo: Wine/Spirits
Crew: 32
Crew lost: 27

September 13 1939, 22:10
Grid AM 52
Ship sunk: SS Adherity (Coastal Freighter), 1871 tons
Cargo: Military Vehicles
Crew: 35
Crew lost: 6

September 20 1939, 15:24
Returned: Wilhelmshaven
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 9
Patrol tonnage: 39292 tons
Awards: ObltzS Erich Reise, Iron Cross 2nd Class
Promotions: Stabsbootsmann Horst Rowlin, to Stabsoberbootsmann
Notes: Oberleutnant z. See Johann Zahn has been given his own command and relieved of duty aboard U-45 to begin preparations for same. Leutnant z. See Ernst Grüneberg will take over as 1WO. Oberfähnrich z. See Helmut Happe has been assigned to U-45; this will be his first deployment aboard a combat vessel.

[Leandros]

Patrol 3 - U-123 - Dec. 3rd. 1943 08:00 - outside Lorient

Just left Lorient for BF32. Yes, that is east of Isle of Wight, just outside the RN Portsmouth base.

Last patrol gave an interesting experience. Was approaching Reykjavik, Iceland, when attacked by two destroyers. One of them managed to damage our scopes with a lucky shot while we were submerged. Both scopes got stuck, very little space below the hull. What to do? Luckily, we had saved 2 type V Zaunkønigs in the front torpedo room, one was loaded. Managed to sidestep the first run-over and went full speed to give some space. Then, by using the sonar fired the first type V manually in the general direction, according to the sonar signals. We heard it join with the noise from the destroyer and, BLAAHH. Up it went. Started to load the second one to try the same with the second destroyer. However, it was in cue, so it took 1:30 before loading could start. In the meantime we maneuvered for time. Made good use of the Bold which diverted the next attack. At the same time the second Type V was loaded we had another manual solution and off it went. And good! After that we could surface and repair the scopes. As they still were sticky I decided to return to base.

Patrol 3 - U-123 - Dec. 4th. 1943 21:12 - kvadrant BF31

A large enemy task force approaching from the east. At least 8 ships. 2 Southamptons identified and seemingly some larger behind.

[Leg]

having played sh4 a little.. now back to the ol' sh3 gwx, ready to start a new career.

[Paul Riley]

Patrol 3 - U-123 - Dec. 3rd. 1943 08:00 - outside Lorient

Just left Lorient for BF32. Yes, that is east of Isle of Wight, just outside the RN Portsmouth base.

Last patrol gave an interesting experience. Was approaching Reykjavik, Iceland, when attacked by two destroyers. One of them managed to damage our scopes with a lucky shot while we were submerged. Both scopes got stuck, very little space below the hull. What to do? Luckily, we had saved 2 type V Zaunkønigs in the front torpedo room, one was loaded. Managed to sidestep the first run-over and went full speed to give some space. Then, by using the sonar fired the first type V manually in the general direction, according to the sonar signals. We heard it join with the noise from the destroyer and, BLAAHH. Up it went. Started to load the second one to try the same with the second destroyer. However, it was in cue, so it took 1:30 before loading could start. In the meantime we maneuvered for time. Made good use of the Bold which diverted the next attack. At the same time the second Type V was loaded we had another manual solution and off it went. And good! After that we could surface and repair the scopes. As they still were sticky I decided to return to base.

Patrol 3 - U-123 - Dec. 4th. 1943 21:12 - kvadrant BF31

A large enemy task force approaching from the east. At least 8 ships. 2 Southamptons identified and seemingly some larger behind.




Ive never used Bold cannisters before,so I have a few questions about them -
- whats the general idea,deploy one and then change course for a short duration?
- how long does the decoy last?
- and lastly,are they effective against ALL pursuers?,what I mean is do the more experienced pursuers see beyond the decoy and not fall for the trick?

Cheers mate :up:

[unterseemann]

31/01/1942- Lorient
U-125 (Kptlt Konrad Tietz)docked today at 11:21 am after a 71 days patrol in the north atlantic.
7 ships sunk for 34368 tons.
This was the 10th and last patrol for Konrad Tietz who received the knight cross with oak leaves, swords and diamonds for having sunken 383880 tons of ennemy shipping during his carreer.
The former 1st wo Dieter Haguenau is now the new captain of U-125.

[pickinthebanjo]

CAPTAIN'S LOG
Patrol 12
U-52, 2nd Flotilla
Left at: December 11, 1940, 20:11
From: Lorient
Mission Orders: Patrol grid AM34

0647 Grid BF 17 Ship sunk! SS Zaandam (Troop Transport), 8279 tons. Cargo: Passengers. Crew: 209. Crew lost: 190

1430 Grid BF 42 Ship sunk! SS Victoria City (Granville-type Freighter), 4708 tons. Cargo: Machinery. Crew: 62. Crew lost: 43
15.12.40.

1610 Grid BF 15 Ship sunk! SS Kilissi (Small Merchant), 2396 tons. Cargo: Iron Ore. Crew: 41. Crew lost: 10
16.12.40.

0838 Grid AM 87 Ship sunk! SS African Sun (Medium Cargo), 5081 tons. Cargo: Sugar. Crew: 44. Crew lost: 6
18.12.40.

1520 Grid AM 2 Ship sunk! HMS Bryony (Flower class), 950 tons. Crew: 145. Crew lost: 82

1531 Grid AM 2 Ship sunk! SS Southern Empress (Whale Factory Ship), 12017 tons. Cargo: Crude Oil. Crew: 109. Crew lost: 82

1540 Grid AM 2 Ship sunk! HMS Revenge (Revenge class), 28000 tons. Crew: 1194. Crew lost: 131

1546 Grid AM 2 Ship sunk! SS Empire Heritage (Whale Factory Ship), 12016 tons. Cargo: Gasoline. Crew: 90. Crew lost: 67

1856 Grid AM 2 Ship sunk! MV Teakwood (Large Tanker), 9677 tons. Cargo: Crude Oil. Crew: 36. Crew lost: 6

19.12.40.
1246 Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 9
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonnage: 83124 tons
BACK

And I finaly got that promotion i wanted to KAPITÄNLEUTNANT

There should have been another ore carrier but some 63 88mm shells and over 1000 20mm shells later she still was going strong.
Never did end up hitting my patrol grid

[Paul Riley]

War diary of U-48

16th Dec 1939,
20th day at sea
On our return home from a very successful 2nd patrol in BF11-BF14 I decided to submerge through the entire transit through AM51 as this area looks to cut right across the north west approach from N.Ireland.And as luck would have it we picked up a sound contact at 15:06. I brought the UBoat up and observed the ship for a good 30 mins at extreme range and confirmed it as a British/Canadian outbound medium merchant on course 281 doing 10kts.I raced ahead for a good hour trying to get into our attack position but this was not quite enough as her smoke was still visible in the far distance and our final interception track would be cutting it fine to say the least,so to put us well clear I extended the run another hour and set up for a stern shot at approx 700m from her track.
At 16:51 the merchant came into view practically bang on time,then I brought the Uboat down to 12m.I waited until it passed the 200 bearing point then fired an impact torpedo from tube 5 set to a depth of 5m aimed at the foremast.Torpedo impacted slightly aft of the bridge probably due to it spotting the torpedo wake in the fading light and she tried to speed up at the last moment.Ideally the shot should have been performed closer but I decided 700m was still a good distance with the current lighting conditions.
I surfaced and put approx 20rds of HE fire into her hull and she capsized to port after around 15mins for 4.765 GRT.
We will make another dive as we round the top of Scotland just as we did in AM51 and then it will be plain sailing across the old North Sea,hopefully without incident.
Patrol report has been sent in and no doubt Doenitz and his pals are having the biggest pillow fight EVER from our good news! We expect to join them in about 5 days if all goes well,just in time for a grand Christmas piss up with the boys,then I wil leave to spend the next two weeks with my dear old mother.

Patrol total - 7 merchants sunk for 41.723 GRT
Weather - optimal,not even a breeze or slight squall since we left port , wind speed - 0
Armament - 1 stern torpedo left , 125 rds HE shells
Fuel - approx 4000 km moving at full speed
ETA back to Wilhemshaven - 5 days or so

Kpt. Kurt Neulinger

[gazpode_l]

RW Time: 02:12 (Sat 10th Apr)
Game Time: 00:41 15/11/1940
Pos: Aprox Mid Irish Sea, SW of Hollyhead
Ships Sunk: 3
ASW Trawler (2x Torps), FAST Torp Boat (Deck/Flak Gun), Small Tanker (1x Torp)
Torps left: 19
GRT: 2,600 Aprox
Am calling it a nyte now but may get chance to carry on if not out tomorrow(tonight)
PS: Second patrol, but re-started as save became corrupt and game wldn't load, just CDT each time.

Finally got time to do another sesh yesterday after a long two days (Friday/Saturday) away from my hunting games and no session sunday night as I'd spent a lovely evening relaxing with my new partner! (Yay!)

Anyway back onto the nitty gritty of hunting enemy shipping. My game resumed after i'd just sunk a small tanker. I proceeded north towards holyhead and after a couple of hours of motoring I submerged to have a listen. My suprise was quite evident when I detected another merchant, on roughly the same bearing where I had found my previous target.

Another hr of motoring in the opposite direction found yet again my contact behind me when I next had a listen. So I turned towards the contact making sure I WAS bang on course and headed off on surface at flank speed, only using a max of 8x compression for a short time. Before long I had the cry "Merchant Spotted!"

"There you ARE dear!!!" came the shout from the conning tower (my crew looking a little confused as to why I would be referring to such an animal at this stage)
The Merchant was solitary medium cargo dead ahead, which seemed quite strange as I'm sure i'd heard at least three separate sets of screws through my headphones - Ok take what i'm given and have another listen when i'm done with her.

20 minutes later I let tube 2 go and she was hit right under the stern. With event camera off, I was unable to tell if it was an impact or magnetic detonation, I suspect it was an impact as my previous magnetic detonations had done alot of damage, albeit on smaller shipping..

I let her have another torpedo which did very little additional damage. By this time I was dead abeam of her on her port-side around 800m away. We manned the deck gun and put aprox 20 shells into her. Still going strong!! So begrudgingly I let her have a third torpedo and this seemed to be the killing factor and before long she was sliding below.

by this time it was all I had time to play in reality so I logged off and went to bed. updated Summary below

Last time of Save: 01:41 (Tues 13th Apr)
Game Time: 05:41 16/11/1940
Pos: NW of Hollyhead
Ships Sunk: 4
ASW Trawler (2x Torps), FAST Torp Boat (Deck/Flak Gun), Small Tanker (1x Torp), Medium Cargo (3x Torp, Deck Gun)
Torps left: 16
GRT: 7,700 Aprox

[Paul Riley]

Tough bloody cow SHE was,3 torps to finish a med merchant,I bet you were considering ramming the bugger by that point! :stare::arrgh!: arghhhhhhhh!

Good hunting in the meantime.

[gazpode_l]

Tough bloody cow SHE was,3 torps to finish a med merchant,I bet you were considering ramming the bugger by that point! :stare::arrgh!: arghhhhhhhh!

Good hunting in the meantime.

yeh she sure was! :damn: I wldn't RAM anything though! Don't want to lose my u-boat! :down:

[pickinthebanjo]

yeh she sure was! :damn: I wldn't RAM anything though! Don't want to lose my u-boat! :down:

I wanted to see how tough the VIIC was so I rammed a type 34:
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/2301/62725791.png
http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/1919/27504420.png
She can take it, can't say the same about the type 34...

[Leg]

Back to Kiel from my first time in Scapa Flow (september 39') I've sunk a troop ship and a modern tanker. No battleships inside :S

[pickinthebanjo]

Attacking Gibraltar harbor :arrgh!:
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/6301/24292382.png
More pics to come

[Paul Riley]

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

BE EVEN MORE AGGRESSIVE!!
http://www.territoriodelobos.com/_imagenes/galerias/lobos/fighting-wolves-n-prey.jpg

;)

[Jimbuna]

Nope....doesn't quite cut it either :nope:

A real snarl :yep:

LOS!!

http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/3964/snarlingwolf.jpg (http://img682.imageshack.us/i/snarlingwolf.jpg/)

[Paul Riley]

Sorry jim,this fella will take some beating.
http://img.costumecraze.com/images/vendors/funworld/5813BRN-main.jpg

:rotfl2::har:

[Jimbuna]

Sorry jim,this fella will take some beating.
http://img.costumecraze.com/images/vendors/funworld/5813BRN-main.jpg

:rotfl2::har:

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/2328/blahgc1.gif

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/3464/thgenie9hyoj8.gif

[pickinthebanjo]

04:11 Grid CG 96 Ship sunk! HMS Glasgow (Southampton class), 10725 tons. Crew: 821. Crew lost: 73

06:26 Grid CG 96 Ship sunk! HMS Sussex (London class), 13300 tons. Crew: 991. Crew lost: 227

06:40 Grid CG 96 Ship sunk! HMS Liverpool (Southampton class), 10725 tons. Crew: 1094. Crew lost: 21

07:45 Grid CG 96 Ship sunk! SS Asterion (Medium Cargo), 5091 tons. Cargo: Military Stores. Crew: 64. Crew lost: 19

And for my troubles I got demoted:nope:

[Paul Riley]

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/2328/blahgc1.gif

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/3464/thgenie9hyoj8.gif

I never DID quite understand jim,whats with the genie you sometimes use? ;)

[gmuno]

Have to start a new campaign.
A large convoy was reported, i went to intercept it. Weather worsened (15 m/s, heavy fog) but my sonar guy reported them heading my way. So i decided to have a little surface hunt. I set my torps to varrying depths and prepared for contact. First ship spotted, a large tanker, fired and hit. Well that was a good start. Next ship spotted, the Nelson. Shame was, they had spotted me too...
U98 sunk at Nov. 28th 1941, about 300 miles north west of Ireland after suffering a heavy barrage at point blank range.

[gazpode_l]

that's interesting that you have encountered the nelson north of ireland, because I had exactly the same, barely a year earlier, nov15th 1940. :rock:

[gazpode_l]

that's interesting that you have encountered the nelson north of ireland, because I had exactly the same, barely a year earlier, nov15th 1940. :rock:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Nelson_(28)
a page of info on the nelson herself

[Jimbuna]

I never DID quite understand jim,whats with the genie you sometimes use? ;)

It can convey a variety of sentiments/comments such as 'at your command', 'as you wish', 'your welcome' etc.

[Exakt]

It can convey a variety of sentiments/comments such as 'at your command', 'as you wish', 'your welcome' etc.

Could use this too...
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g55/VAC1012/cylon.gif

since all they said back then was "By your command".

or use the new ones, but they weren't very much talkative...
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g55/VAC1012/Cylon2.gif

[KL-alfman]

Have to start a new campaign.
A large convoy was reported, i went to intercept it. Weather worsened (15 m/s, heavy fog) but my sonar guy reported them heading my way. So i decided to have a little surface hunt. I set my torps to varrying depths and prepared for contact. First ship spotted, a large tanker, fired and hit. Well that was a good start. Next ship spotted, the Nelson. Shame was, they had spotted me too...
U98 sunk at Nov. 28th 1941, about 300 miles north west of Ireland after suffering a heavy barrage at point blank range.

hmm, what a shame. :cry::wah:
only the good die young. :salute:

[Paul Riley]

It can convey a variety of sentiments/comments such as 'at your command', 'as you wish', 'your welcome' etc.

Right,got it :salute:
http://teamsubmarine.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/genie.jpg

[frau kaleun]

http://teamsubmarine.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/genie.jpg

This picture, on the other hand, is conveying a whole other range of sentiments, such as "OMG creepy," "someone forgot to take his meds this morning," and "I need to get a restraining order."

:O:

[Paul Riley]

Actually he is the latest Kriegsmarine enlisting,Hitler liked his wonder weapons,here is his latest :yeah::haha:

[Jimbuna]

Actually he is the latest Kriegsmarine enlisting,Hitler liked his wonder weapons,here is his latest :yeah::haha:


Here was me thinking you'd posted a self portrait :hmmm:

[KL-alfman]

Here was me thinking you'd posted a self portrait :hmmm:


http://www.my-smileys.de/smileys3/lol-schild.gif

http://www.my-smileys.de/smileys3/n-km.gif

[KL-alfman]

1944-02-23
U-292 (VIIC)
1.Flotilla (Brest)

for 7weeks U-292 is out in the south-western approaches to hunt and hide. 5-6 air-patrols a day are regular. so it was decided to only surface at dusk and dawn for about one and a half hour to recharge. travel was only submerged at 2knots.
twice a convoy-attack was launched but aborted because of way too many escorts nowadays. once the Bold3 could save our lives. but some loners could be sunk and tonight we got very lucky.
a huge task-force (3BBs, 2Cruisers and a handful of DDs) crossed our path. in fact, we just had to go to PD and wait. problem was, only 3aale left in bow, one of them a steamer. so only two electric were shot from a distance of 3,400m. both hit the Rodney! and stopped her. the DDs couldn't track us because of the great distance and their own speed of 17kn, so we were away around 5,000m.

2hours later U-292 came back to finish work:

http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/6612/rodney1.jpg (http://img413.imageshack.us/i/rodney1.jpg/)

after the hit she sank within 3minutes:

http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/9248/rodney2q.jpg (http://img248.imageshack.us/i/rodney2q.jpg/)

she's a mighty fine ship, a pity to sink her.
but 36k tons!

we now will slowly head back to base. there's still one aal in stern

[Paul Riley]

Here was me thinking you'd posted a self portrait :hmmm:

You must be kidding! :o:haha:
Just out of interest,I wonder if a laughing genie would make a good conning tower emblem? hmm.Not for me that is,but for yourself jim?,you like genies hehe.
Would it be pronounced "die laufen geist?"

[KL-alfman]

You must be kidding! :o:haha:
Just out of interest,I wonder if a laughing genie would make a good conning tower emblem? hmm.Not for me that is,but for yourself jim?,you like genies hehe.
Would it be pronounced "die laufen geist?"


to laugh = lachen
to run = laufen
emblem would be: "der lachende Geist"

or better: "der Flaschengeist"
(as in: genie in a bottle)

[gazpode_l]

All
I've tattled around a lot within SH3 a few years ago when I first purchased the game, but was very limited on what I could do at the time because my dad's machine would barely run it.

Now a few years later, I've got myself a laptop sufficiently powerful to run all the internal views and zoomed periscope views at a comfy rate (ok my external frames still suffer but that's a graphic card prob I think) so I’m finally managing to get a lot of immersion with the game (esp. with the arrival of GWX - greywolves expansion)

During this week I've played through my second patrol and having been lucky enough to be given an IXB straight out of the box. (Based from Lorient) After leaving base I decided to head up the Irish sea on a northerly course and before long I'd reached just off Holyhead and had just sunk my forth vessel of this patrol, a "medium cargo".

Previously I had despatched an "ASW Trawler", "FAST Torpedo Boat" and a "small tanker"

I was barely N/W of Holyhead when I got word by radio of a medium/large convoy in my area (I say med/lg because it was reported by the game as large, yet when it arrive I only detected around nine/ten enemy ships).

I looked at its reported position and they were just beyond my copies' 8km rendering range. I plotted an intercept course on my map and realised that given their position I was in an excellent place to intercept. so I moved off west at full speed to meet the SE course line that I had drawn on my map, and upon reaching this I settled down to periscope depth to sit and wait for the convoy's arrival.

I was actually quite excited as this would be my first convoy encounter in the time I been playing this year (only did 1.5 patrol's back in 07 when I had to cope with it playing slowly on my dad's atiquainted machine!!)

The convoy duly arrived, but ahead of it was a black swan destroyer who patrolled the seas around my position. I was mid-way through changing course when he detected me (I was running A/Std) and this forced me to give up my position and take evasive manoeuvres. Before I did so I managed to get two snap shot's off towards the convoy and as I was fleeing two detonations were heard.

I later checked and it emerged I’d hit & sunk a tramp steamer and a small, light cargo. By now the convoy as a whole was upon me and my headphones were awash with sound...I was still evading that destroyer and each time I could quickly snap up a solution I decided to fire, which is where I had made a mess of this, my first convoy, as I only achieved two more hits from 11 launches!!!!

A quick glance to my rear through the periscope yielded the sight of the HMS Nelson, a huge gun battery battleship and she was about to pass 500m to my stern. I had an instant solution which I quickly worked upon, opening both rear doors and letting go two eel's. they hit onto their targets but either both were dud's or had failed to arm as they hit the ship but failed to detonate!

I began to flee and dropped to 60metres, running at ahead flank at times to evade my persistent pursuers who were still continuing to track me on & off. My next trip up to periscope depth yielded the destroyer in my rear sights and I let another eel go which this time ran right underneath virtually the whole ship before detonating at his stern!!!

No more screws on the prop-shaft and a large hole ensured that within five minutes, his wrecked hull was sliding below. I thought I’d won myself the opportunity at a second go at the convoy but quickly realised the impossibility of this as I had now expended 13 of my remaining 16 torpedo's for only three additional kills, five hits and the other eight eels all missing their targets.

I then noticed I had a flower corvette steaming towards me and I let my last eel go out of my stern (I did have two more but they were external reserves) this too was looking a dead cert kill until the corvette managed to turn and avoid the torpedo at the last minute, Amazed at this guy's skilful helming, I cursed, ordered a crash dive and we slunk below to 95metres with depth charges going off above us.

I was barely 15 metres above the sea floor when I took a quick look at external view to see more D/C falling around us, once bounced off my bow and exploded directly above!!! I had the simplified damage model enabled in the game options, but even still this dealt a fatal blow to my ship and within five minutes U-103 was lost to the corvette with all hands due to the overwhelming flooding in the bow.

So that is the end of my first career within SH3 and I must say it was a joy to play. Other members have remarked in a different thread that most play the part of when you are dead, you're dead!

I will backup my save and will use it occasionally to practice convoy attacks as this one ran relatively freely, a lot better than I’d expected with a convoy and didn't slow my m/c too much. I'm wondering if they new convoy attack single player missions are like this too!

Loving the grey wolves experience.

[KL-alfman]

exciting story! :up:

just one remark:
I try to stay away from the lead-escort at least 1,000-1,500m. the chances of being detected are quite low at this range. creeping at 2kn at a perpendicular course to the convoy's bearing will get you in a fine position. you either can surface amidst the convoy (early at war and in poor visability) or shoot all your 6eels submerged.
when the explosions are then all around you, the escorts seem to be puzzled where to look for you and you can safely escape at 160m .....

just my 2€-cents :D

[Paul Riley]

to laugh = lachen
to run = laufen
emblem would be: "der lachende Geist"

or better: "der Flaschengeist"
(as in: genie in a bottle)

Thanks for the translation Mr Alfman :up:
Just one thing,the 'die' 'der' always confused me.I understand die is informal,and der is formal?,like names or places,rivers etc...DER Rhine (interesting).

[Snestorm]

Assigned grid DC71. (150 miles east of Florida, USA)

Patrol dates: 15.jul.42 til 30.okt.42.

Decided to take this patrol a-little further, like the Gulf Of Mexico via Florida Straits.

24.jul.42 01.36 BE66
Little Merchant sunk in a night surface attack. 2.343 GRT.

3.aug.42 10.19 BD46
C2 Cargo sunk in daylight submerged attack. 6.446 GRT.

8.aug.42 02.28 CD16
Little Merchant sunk in night surface attack. 2.335 GRT.

26.aug.42 03.30 DC71
On station.

29.aug.42 13.50 DB98
Entering Florida Straights.

21.42
Coastal Merchant sunk after being disabled in daylight submerged attack. 2.017 GRT.

30.aug.42 20.32 DM26
Fishing Boat sunk in deck gun attack. 82 GRT.

1.sep.42 01.40 DM29
Alarm! Aircraft.

2.sep.42 23.34 DM27
Entering Gulf Of Mexico. 12 miles south of Key West Naval Base.

4.sep.42 03.46 DM19
Status report sent. Big mistake!

List of crash dives for aircraft:
5.sep.42 02.31 DM42
5.sep.42 22.13 DM42
7.sep.42 22.17 DL66 (Begin withdrawal south of Cuba.)
11.sep.42 12.41 DM73 (While overtaking merchant.)
13.sep.42 20.50 DM86 (Fighter. No depth charges. No injuries.)
14.sep.42 21.42 DM94

16.sep.42 13.00 DM95
Passing 5 miles south of Eastern Cuba.

30.okt.42 02.10 BF61
Docked at Lorient. Boat and crew intact.

Patrol results: 5 ships sunk for 13.223 GRT.

U502's history to date:
4 patrols between 29.sep.41 and 30.okt.42.
15 ships sunk for 56.504 GRT.

Note on the real U502:
4 patrols before being sunk in the Bay Of Biscay.
14 ships sunk for 78.843 GRT.

[frau kaleun]

Just one thing,the 'die' 'der' always confused me.I understand die is informal,and der is formal?,like names or places,rivers etc...DER Rhine (interesting).

Der/die/das when used as the definite article (English the) before a singular noun indicates the gender of the word that follows (but not necessarily the gender of the person/place/thing the word refers to).

Der is masculine, die is feminine, das is neuter (singular). Die is also the plural form for all nouns regardless of gender.

The formal/familiar differentiation comes into play with use of the German words(s) for you when addressing other people. Du (sing) and ihr (pl) are the familiar forms, Sie (sing, pl) is the formal form.

I don't know how strictly the du/Sie divide is maintained in modern German as spoken by the younger generation but the old rule I remember is, "only God, children, pets, close friends, and family are du -everybody else is Sie!"

[KL-alfman]

Der/die/das when used as the definite article (English the) before a singular noun indicates the gender of the word that follows (but not necessarily the gender of the person/place/thing the word refers to).

Der is masculine, die is feminine, das is neuter (singular). Die is also the plural form for all nouns regardless of gender.

The formal/familiar differentiation comes into play with use of the German words(s) for you when addressing other people. Du (sing) and ihr (pl) are the familiar forms, Sie (sing, pl) is the formal form.

I don't know how strictly the du/Sie divide is maintained in modern German as spoken by the younger generation but the old rule I remember is, "only God, children, pets, close friends, and family are du -everybody else is Sie!"


Frau Kaleun, you are a genius in linguistics!
I'm deeply impressed by your knowledge.

http://www.my-smileys.de/smileys3/happy05.gif

[frau kaleun]

Frau Kaleun, you are a genius in linguistics!
I'm deeply impressed by your knowledge.

http://www.my-smileys.de/smileys3/happy05.gif

Thanks, but if I really were a genius I could actually speak another language instead of just knowing something about how bits of them work. :O:

[Jimbuna]

Thanks, but if I really were a genius I could actually speak another language instead of just knowing something about how bits of them work. :O:
http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/6228/pbgoogler1.gif :DL

[frau kaleun]

http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/6228/pbgoogler1.gif :DL


According to Google Translate, what I should've said was:

Danke, aber wenn ich wirklich ein Genie ich eigentlich eine andere Sprache sprechen könnte, anstatt nur zu wissen, etwas darüber, wie Bits von ihnen arbeiten.

Close enough for gubmint work?

[KL-alfman]

According to Google Translate, what I should've said was:

Danke, aber wenn ich wirklich ein Genie ich eigentlich eine andere Sprache sprechen könnte, anstatt nur zu wissen, etwas darüber, wie Bits von ihnen arbeiten.

Close enough for gubmint work?


not exactly:
Danke, aber wenn ich wirklich ein Genie wäre, könnte ich eigentlich eine andere Sprache sprechen, anstatt nur zu wissen, wie Bruchstücke von ihnen arbeiten.

but it was quite close.
if you remember "babble-fish" five years ago ..... :o

[frau kaleun]

not exactly:
Danke, aber wenn ich wirklich ein Genie wäre, könnte ich eigentlich eine andere Sprache sprechen, anstatt nur zu wissen, wie Bruchstücke von ihnen arbeiten.

but it was quite close.
if you remember "babble-fish" five years ago ..... :o

Well I figured "sprechen" as an infinitive should've been at the end of that clause but the rest I wouldn't even have guessed at. And I thought surely "arbeiten" wasn't the best translation of "work" in that context.

You see? I'm NOT a genius. :O:

[KL-alfman]

Well I figured "sprechen" as an infinitive should've been at the end of that clause but the rest I wouldn't even have guessed at. And I thought surely "arbeiten" wasn't the best translation of "work" in that context.

You see? I'm NOT a genius. :O:


you are again right.
the clause (german translation by Google) could have been more elaborated and some expressions like "arbeiten" are not quite elegant.
"funktionieren" might be a better one. :up:

[frau kaleun]

you are again right.
the clause (german translation by Google) could have been more elaborated and some expressions like "arbeiten" are not quite elegant.
"funktionieren" might be a better one. :up:

It's twoo! It's twoo! I is smart!

[MoN]

I don't know how strictly the du/Sie divide is maintained in modern German as spoken by the younger generation but the old rule I remember is, "only God, children, pets, close friends, and family are du -everybody else is Sie!"

It´s not quite as strict, i.e. coeds and coworkers are usually "per du", but still lots of possibilities to **** up and embarace yourself.

I guess it´s something you get used to rather fast, tho. Like people you just met the other day greeting you with hugs and kisses in francophone countries.

[KL-alfman]

It´s not quite as strict, i.e. coeds and coworkers are usually "per du", but still lots of possibilities to **** up and embarace yourself.

I guess it´s something you get used to rather fast, tho. Like people you just met the other day greeting you with hugs and kisses in francophone countries.


ja, du hast recht.
(you're right)

a german lesson thread might be useful, for not hi-jacking the "recent-patrol"-thread. :hmmm:

[Bothersome]

Captains log - November 19, 1940, 00:57 hours..

Currently being depth charged. Forth pass should be about 3 minutes away.

British destroyer chasing because I took the liberty of attempting to sink an Auxillary Cruiser. One sec... More spashes... Charges going off. They sound a bit further away now. My current depth is 187 meters. Silently Sneaking away South-East.

Good news, my sound man says he hears the ship going down. Aux Cuiser 13850 tons.

01:00 just commanded my chief to hold this depth at 190.

Memorandum: Convoy was 15 merchant ships strong. Only one destroyer for protection. I did radio in earlier about 8 hours ago to ask for sub-pack help. No response.

More splashes...

[Immelman]

1st War Patrol
Date: 08 Mar 1942
Time: 20:24
100 km NW of Alexandria

Man o'War

"Hydrophone contact Herr Kaleun, multiple screw sounds bearing 150, moving fast and closing." "
"How far away Johan?"
"Extreme range but getting louder"
"All ahead two thirds, take us up to PD Chief and make your course South South East" time to take a quick peak make sure there are no surprises up top. "Up scope" Quick scan of the sky and one more of the sea, nothing on the horizon. "Surface the boat chief all ahead full, give me standard propulsion we will recharge the batteries later. Are your men ready Gerhart?"
"Men are assembled and standing by sir"
"Very well, stay sharp up there men we are expecting a fast moving convoy not long from now. Extra rations of beer for the first one to spot it! That got their attention and some cheers out of the men!
"Its not fair sir Leutnant Gerhart always wins" said one of the lookouts and everyone laughed good heartedly. The men where up the ladder in a heart beat as the conning tower broke the surface of the calm water.

Karls the navigator covered his maps as water gushed down the tower. His latest grease marks noted the estimated position of the convoy as well as our approximate position. Looking at the map I drew a line from the convoy towards the port of Alexandria the predictable course. I decided to try to sneak in since I was lucky enough to be ahead of them. Karls and Helmuth were watching me expectantly. "We run another 8km on the surface then Chief run us decks awash for another 5km. The last leg we will run submerged. The Tommies will certainly have radar on those escorts and I don't want to ruin the surprise we have in store for them." The men smiled conspiratorially. It will be dark when we engage so I better tell Fritz to load all tubes with TIs. Might as well have him recheck all the detonators, better be safe then have duds.

1st War Patrol
Date: 08 Mar 1942
Time: 21:47
100 km NW of Alexandria

“Lead ship bearing 64 degrees Herr Kaleu” we were close enough now that Johan could distinguish individual screw sounds in all that infernal cacophony that he listened to on his head set. It was pitch black outside and I couldn’t see anything in the scope. “We will have to be real close to fire accurately I murmured to Fritz.” We all have taken up the habit of talking in whispers when attacking submerged, as if the enemy could hear our plans. We are running silent at PD the control room is suffused in the red glow of the night lamps that are preserving my night vision.

A hazy form slowly becomes distinguishable despite the pitch black moonless night. Slowly it materialized in the distinct silhouette of a destroyer. There’s your lead ship Johan. “Destroyer moving fast” Everyone froze in their tracks in the control room. “Breath people she hasn’t detected us she going on her merry way.” Sighs could be heard all around me as I started enunciating my observations. “Moving right to left, Bow angle 70, estimated speed say 20kts, range 3000 meters. Down scope” Let’s give her a minute and check again.

Lather rinse repeat and we finally have a workable solution. We can’t use it to fire yet, we have to firm it up but it’s a start. As I raise the scope yet again and do my usual check, I notice more forms emerging from the dark night. They are big, massive! Three of the in a row moving fast! “What is it Herr Kaleun” Fritz probably noticed how my knuckles turned white as my grip increased on the scope.

“We are about to stir up a hornet’s nest. This is not a regular convoy, this is a task force. We need to work fast on this one boys and get the hell out even faster. Chief 5 degrees to port all ahead one third, Fritz prepare to fire a salvo, flood all fore tubes and open all outer doors. Set depth 6m, speed 40kts spread angle 1 degree.” I want to line up nice and proper on the last one in line and get as close as I can. “My God she is so big she doesn’t fit in my scope even when zoomed out!” Fritz snaps me out of my trance. “What about the range Herr Kaleun?”
“Make it 1800m, fire all tubes on my mark.”
“LOS!” I bark out my orders while my eyes stay glued on the four white fingers of death extending towards the unsuspecting prey. “Chief take us down fast. All ahead full!” With my last few moments before the scope gets smothered by the waves I make a quick 360 sweep of the horizon to make sure that we have not been spotted. “Down scope.”

I look at Fritz questioningly but his eyes heed only the needles of the chronometer. “Passing 30 meters” the Chief calls it out. No one pays him any attention all eyes are on Fritz. The bow planes man gets smacked on the back of the head “Eyes front mind your station sailor!” the Chief scolds him. “Passing 50 meters” says the Chief and I sigh in relief. “All ahead one third”, I give the order, we are not out of the woods yet, but there is no need to be calling more attention to ourselves then we have to. All is quiet in the control room barring the sound of metal being compressed as we descend and of course the tic tac of the chronometer. “10 seconds” my Weapons officer manages his voice hoarse with tension and starts giving us the count down.

The silence is shattered by four loud booms followed by a thunderous bang. A few seconds later the boat shakes as the turbulence hits us all the way down here at 80m. “Massive flooding sir, metal grinding, bulkheads breaking, sounds like a train wreck up there.”
“I certainly hope so” says Fritz “A four eel salvo will ruin anyone’s day. Just what in the hell did we shoot at sir” I never got the chance to reply since Johan reported “Fast screws coming in hot, depth charges in the water”
“All ahead full come 30 degrees to starboard new course bearing 210. Once we complete the turn resume silent running. Relax men they got nothing on us, standard procedure to make sure that our heads are down not a PD looking for more targets. They are keeping us busy while they wait for reinforcements. I figure there is another two destroyers on their way over here. But we’ll be long gone, by the time they get here, will be on the other side of that train wreck. Keep heading down chief all the way to 180 meters.”

1st War Patrol
Date: 09 Mar 1942
Time: 01:12
100 km NW of Alexandria

“Think it’s safe to go back up there sir” Chief asks me warily.
“Don’t worry chief I doubt they are lying about waiting for us. There were travelling quite fast over 20kts they were in a hurry to get somewhere. Besides they got nothing left to shoot at us that can reach us down here.” I say with a chuckle “Never seen Tommies so pissed in my life”
“With good reason sir, we infiltrated a task force and planted four eels in the side of their flagship, I would be pretty pissed too sir wouldn’t you?”
“Oh yes I was! I was livid Chief. I still am pissed at the loss of the Bismarck and this is payback for my brother and all the other sailors that died along with him. Now surface the boat and let’s see if we can find anything in the debris field.

“Anything Gerhart?” I call up to the bridge
“Alot of junk still floating sir, but nothing useful… Wait I think we got something. Sailor get that orange thing with your hook. Good throw it here!”
“I got something sir! It’s a personal flotation device, there is something stenciled on it but I can’t make it out its too dark.”
Don’t use lamps up there! Just throw it down!
The PFD hits the floor of the command room and I grab it and walk straight to my bunk. I find my lamp that I keep there for emergencies and shine it on the black markings. All the off duty crew has gathered around my bunk looking at me expectantly. I turn to Johan look him straight in the eyes. “Fire up the wireless son and tell BdU that U-83 and its crew just sunk the Flagship of the British Home fleet the HMS Nelson. :rock:

1st War Patrol
Date: 10 Mar 1942
Time: 15:35
100 km NE of Alexandria

Not to shabby...



“You will have to do better then that men.” I said to Gerhart and Fritz who were both standing at attention on the bridge. I take one last look through my binoculars at the burning ship and turn to them. “These sailors need serious practice. Over 80 shots to sink the coastal freighter yesterday and we emptied our stores on that small merchant today before it finally sunk. We must do better next time.”

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The deck gun party busily went about the task of securing the 88mm for diving, but their ears missed nothing. “I want Willy to become our resident expert, he is a natural marksman with that gun but he needs practice and professional instruction. I want you to arrange for him to be trained by the best as soon as we return to port. As you have noticed it’s not like the old times anymore. Even these small ships are armed to the teeth now days, so we must dispatch them to the deep quickly and efficiently. See to it men.”
“Yes sir” They both replied in unison.

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“Now let’s go home and get some rest I think we earned it after the patrol we had.”
“Over 70000 tons not too shabby for a first patrol.” Gerhart said with a smile.
“Lets not forget that we sunk the British jewel of the Med, their prized flagship” chipped in Fritz.
“Which reminds me Captain” said Gerhart with a concerned look darkening his handsome features “We have plenty of white cloth for the merchies but have no red cloth on board to tailor a pennant for the HMS Nelson.”
“That’s no problem at all, our little souvenir will do nicely for pennant don’t you think?” I ask as a strike a match to light one of the last Monte Christos I have brought with me. My two officers exchange quizzical glances and turn to me for an explanation. I puff on my cigar twice to make sure its well lit and answer them
“Unless of course you gentlemen can think of something more fitting for the occasion, then the life preserver we recovered from the stricken battleship to hang from our flag pole?

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[Jimbuna]

Very nice http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/thumbsup.gif

[Flopper]

I could count in Spanish by the 3rd grade, Japanese by 6th. I have run sh3 since the start with German speech and STILL can't even count to 10.

WHY is that language so difficult for me to grasp?

Side note, when I was a kid, we played army. I always wanted to be the Germans. Thought they had the best looking everything (planes, ships, tanks, uniforms, flags.)

Nice post, Immelman

[sergei]

Memorandum: Convoy was 15 merchant ships strong. Only one destroyer for protection.

Happy times indeed :DL

Good news, my sound man says he hears the ship going down. Aux Cuiser 13850 tons.

Good catch :salute:

[gazpode_l]

I had a go at the nelson last night in the single mission "convoy TM1"

I hit her with four eels set at 10m depth with magnetic charges. She just simply accepted the torpedo's like they food and carried on her merry way! :o:stare:

[Immelman]

2nd War Patrol
Date: 06 May 1942
Time: 21:51
Port of Salamis

Departing port of Salamis for PZ off the coast of Egypt.
U-83 VIIB fully provisioned, fresh water tanks topped off.
Eels: 8 TI(G7a) 5 TII(G7e)
Crew: 42

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U-83 leaving port under the cover of darkness.



2nd War Patrol
Date: 07 May 1942
Time: 06:23
Aegean Sea en route to PZ

Sabotage

“Of all the things for them to brake, I can’t believe it!”
“Could have been worst Herr Kaleun, I heard that U-181 didn’t get 50 km from St-Nazaire before both her diesel engines seized. She had to be towed back and put in dry-dock” my First Officer informed me.
“Chief I want this ship canvassed from bow to stern, check every nook and cranny I do not want any more unpleasant surprises.”
“Of course Captain my men are already on it”
“Bloody Greeks will pay for that! Johan signal BdU that U-83 has been sabotaged. Tell them our attack periscope is out of action. The seals have been tampered with and humidity has seeped in and fogged the lenses.”

“Bastards new what they were doing its impossible to repair at sea”
“We still have the Observation scope Captain we should count ourselves lucky that we don’t have to scrub the patrol and return to port.” Once again Gerhart is right but that doesn’t make me feel much better.
“Oh don’t worry I plan to give them hell for this, it takes more then just a broken scope to stop us from sinking enemy shipping.”

2nd War Patrol
Date: 11 May 1942
Time: 16:39
100 km N of Port Said

“Outstanding job Gerhart, make sure to covey to Willy my admiration. He bagged two coastal freighters with less then 50 shots expanded!”
“Thank you sir but why not tell him yourself? I am sure it would mean much more to him coming directly from you.” I look at him and smile
“That’s not the way it works son. I am not here to make friends I am the tough old bastard that must ask them to lay their lives on their line for the good of the boat and crew. To do that I must maintain an air of professional detachment.
“I am not sure I agree with your reasoning Sir.”
“Maybe not yet but soon you will, at least I hope so, for your own sake…”
“What am I to understand by that cryptic reply Sir?”
After a long sigh I look him straight in the eyes and tell him “Simply put son, I hope you are taking notes because the way this war is going you will have your own boat in a few months. Then you will experience first hand the burdens of command and what it means to be responsible for 50 odd souls.”

[Immelman]

2nd War Patrol
Date: 16 May 1942
Time: 4:14
100 km N of Port Said

“Steady Chief mind our depth! Keep her at 13 meters. If we broach we are toast.”
“Bow down 5, Stern up 2, steady men” the Chief spoke resting one hand on each of the planes man’s shoulder.” Station keeping was a bitch in such sea conditions. The crew was at battle stations no one was allowed to move. The slightest movement of a single person could throw off the delicate trim balance of the boat.

“It would be a shame to screw up such a great approach due to bad seamanship.” I say as a mild rebuke with a smile on my face. My eyes are still focused on the lead ship trying to gauge the bow angle and wishing once again I could use my attack scope.
“With all due respect sir what would be a great shame is what those 152 mm guns would do to us if the spot it us at this range.” My XO commented.
Of course Fritz couldn’t let it go at that and added “At any range Sir those shells would tear through this boat like a hot knife through butter. 12 such barrels on each ship, that’s a lot of firepower.”
“All the more reason not to mess this up gentlemen, down scope.”

“Ok so here is the plan. We fire two TII at the second cruiser and a minute later we fire two TI at the lead cruiser. If we do this right they should detonate simultaneously. By then will be on our way down past 60 meters running silent.”
“Those are long shots Sir. You sure you don’t want to get in a bit closer?”
“And risk having five destroyers shoving depth charges down our throat? Hmm, no thanks I’ll pass. Besides I have every confidence in our fire control team, so don’t let me down.” I tell Fritz and wink at him. “Now go make sure those electric eels are warmed up because we will be in firing position in less then 10.



2nd War Patrol
Date: 16 May 1942
Time: 4:23
100 km N of Port Said

“Up scope” I order and immediately crouch down to meet the Observation scope on its way up. As soon as it clears the waves I order the ascension stopped. Now I am stuck in an awkward position half crouched and I sweep the scope all the way around to make sure we haven’t been spotted. Then I turn some more and bring in to perspective the 2nd cruiser.
“Flood tubes 1 and 4, open outer doors. Bearing 334 set depth 2.5, 0.5 spread angle, range 3300 meters.”
“Set” I hear Fritz’s reply which means the targeting computer has computed a firing solution based on my observations.

“Fire tube 1 and 4. Reset for TDC for second attack.” I say trying to keep my voice as steady as possible. At this moment we are at our most vulnerable. If the Chief doesn’t properly compensate for the missing weight of the torpedoes after they have been expelled we are FUBAR. He must pump the right amount of water to the forwarding trimming tank. Too much which is the better of two evils, we simply dive deeper and I can’t get the second salvo off on the 1st cruiser. Too little and we broach the surface give away our position and more then likely do not survive to tell the tale.

I try to banish all these thoughts and concentrate on the necessary observations for the 1st cruiser. I call them out and the process repeats itself 60 seconds later. The crew is running forward to the bow torpedo room used as human ballast as we dive for the safety of the deep. Assuming all went well we have remained undetected and performed a text book submerged attack.

I look over to Fritz and he answers my unspoken question. “30 seconds Herr Kaleun.”
“Passing 40 meters” the Chief calls out our depth.”
I go and sit over by Johan who is tracking the torpedoes through the hydrophone. He looks at me “I think something went wrong Herr Kaleun I estimate the second pair will get there before the first.”
“Rest easy, we will found out soon enough”
“Times up on the first salvo sir” Fritz informs me “Second salvo should be any second”
“Impact bearing 60 Herr Kaleun! Sound like both eels hit seconds apart. Heavy flooding sir, sounds like her keel is torn apart, that's a kill Sir.”

“What about the other pair Johan?”
“Still running Sir bearing 54”
“Scheiss sounds like we missed.”
“Impact sir” and he takes his headset off maybe a heartbeat later a huge boom is heard thought the boat. He is still rubbing his ears but he has a huge smile on his face. “Sorry for doubting you sir. I think we hit an ammo magazine sir. There will be raining scrap metal around here for a month!

[sergei]

U-133
May 1940
First War Patrol

Grid CG85

Sunk
Auxiliary Cruiser Approx 11,000 tons
Granville Freighter Approx 4500 tons

8 torpedoes left

[Jimbuna]

Still off the north est coast of England in a Type XXIII

[Fozzy22]

Just had what I would call a good patrol 3:

U-106, Type IXB
2nd Flotilla
Kurt Asmuss

10 Merchants
1 Warship
Total of 42084 tons :yeah::salute:

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[Immelman]

2nd War Patrol
Date: 16 May 1942
Time: 4:14
100 km N of Port Said

“Steady Chief mind our depth! Keep her at 13 meters. If we broach we are toast.”
“Bow down 5, Stern up 2, steady men” the Chief spoke resting one hand on each of the planes man’s shoulder.” Station keeping was a bitch in such sea conditions. The crew was at battle stations no one was allowed to move. The slightest movement of a single person could throw off the delicate trim balance of the boat.

“It would be a shame to screw up such a great approach due to bad seamanship.” I say as a mild rebuke with a smile on my face. My eyes are still focused on the lead ship trying to gauge the bow angle and wishing once again I could use my attack scope.
“With all due respect sir what would be a great shame is what those 152 mm guns would do to us if the spot it us at this range.” My XO commented.
Of course Fritz couldn’t let it go at that and added “At any range Sir those shells would tear through this boat like a hot knife through butter. 12 such barrels on each ship, that’s a lot of firepower.”
“All the more reason not to mess this up gentlemen, down scope.”

“Ok so here is the plan. We fire two TII at the second cruiser and a minute later we fire two TI at the lead cruiser. If we do this right they should detonate simultaneously. By then will be on our way down past 60 meters running silent.”
“Those are long shots Sir. You sure you don’t want to get in a bit closer?”
“And risk having five destroyers shoving depth charges down our throat? Hmm, no thanks I’ll pass. Besides I have every confidence in our fire control team, so don’t let me down.” I tell Fritz and wink at him. “Now go make sure those electric eels are warmed up because we will be in firing position in less then 10.


2nd War Patrol
Date: 16 May 1942
Time: 4:23
100 km N of Port Said

“Up scope” I order and immediately crouch down to meet the Observation scope on its way up. As soon as it clears the waves I order the ascension stopped. Now I am stuck in an awkward position half crouched and I sweep the scope all the way around to make sure we haven’t been spotted. Then I turn some more and bring in to perspective the 2nd cruiser.
“Flood tubes 1 and 4, open outer doors. Bearing 334 set depth 2.5, 0.5 spread angle, range 3300 meters.”
“Set” I hear Fritz’s reply which means the targeting computer has computed a firing solution based on my observations.

“Fire tube 1 and 4. Reset for TDC for second attack.” I say trying to keep my voice as steady as possible. At this moment we are at our most vulnerable. If the Chief doesn’t properly compensate for the missing weight of the torpedoes after they have been expelled we are FUBAR. He must pump the right amount of water to the forwarding trimming tank. Too much which is the better of two evils, we simply dive deeper and I can’t get the second salvo off on the 1st cruiser. Too little and we broach the surface give away our position and more then likely do not survive to tell the tale.

I try to banish all these thoughts and concentrate on the necessary observations for the 1st cruiser. I call them out and the process repeats itself 60 seconds later. The crew is running forward to the bow torpedo room used as human ballast as we dive for the safety of the deep. Assuming all went well we have remained undetected and performed a text book submerged attack.

I look over to Fritz and he answers my unspoken question. “30 seconds Herr Kaleun.”
“Passing 40 meters” the Chief calls out our depth.”
I go and sit over by Johan who is tracking the torpedoes through the hydrophone. He looks at me “I think something went wrong Herr Kaleun I estimate the second pair will get there before the first.”
“Rest easy, we will found out soon enough”
“Times up on the first salvo sir” Fritz informs me “Second salvo should be any second”
“Impact bearing 60 Herr Kaleun! Sound like both eels hit seconds apart. Heavy flooding sir, sounds like her keel is torn apart, that's a kill Sir.”

“What about the other pair Johan?”
“Still running Sir bearing 54”
“Scheiss sounds like we missed.”
“Impact sir” and he takes his headset off maybe a heartbeat later a huge boom is heard thought the boat. He is still rubbing his ears but he has a huge smile on his face. “Sorry for doubting you sir. I think we hit an ammo magazine sir. There will be raining scrap metal around here for a month!

2nd War Patrol
Date: 24 May 1942
Time: 11:30
North of Tobruk

“You got anything Johan?”
“Just a loud thunk Sir, but no explosion.”
“****ty torpedoes! At least we bagged that Ocean Liner good thing we used the last of our TI and not those lousy TII.”
“All the Captains I have spoken to report the same problem with those TII Sir. Don’t get me even started on what I have heard about the Magnetic pistol.”
“And what does BdU do about it, can you tell me that Gerhart?” Venting my anger will not do a damn thing just upset the crew. I need to calm down.

“Let’s take pride in the fact that we did our job. We delivered the goods even if they turned out to be rotten, so good job men. Now let’s get the hell out of here before those clowns up there realize what we are up to.”
“Why do you think they are so sloppy sir are they green?”
“No son just otherwise preoccupied. A ship that size can easily carry a full infantry division plus its support staff. That’s over 12000 soldiers they have to fish out of the water.”
“If your count is right Sir I figure Rommel owes us quite a few rounds of beers.”
“He owes us more then a few rounds XO, are you forgetting the other Ocean Liner three nights ago? By my count the Desert Fox owes a beer distillery by now.”


2nd War Patrol
Date: 24 May 1942
Time: 17:54
North of Tobruk

“Plot a course for home Karls we need to resupply if we are going to keep Monty from overwhelming the Afrika Corps. More eels and a fully functional attack scope would be nice.”

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U-83 homeward bound



“Receiving message from BdU Sir. One moment and I will have it decoded. Here it is:”

1755 24MAY42 // U83 // ORDERS: CHANGE OF PORT // UPON COMPLETION OF PATROL PROCEED TO NEW HOME PORT LA SPEZIA // AWAITING ACK // BDU

Interesting… “Looks like we are going to Italy boys, no more Ouzo and mousaka for dinner, from now on its Grappa and pasta. Send this to BdU Johan:”

1802 24MAY42 // BDU // ORDERS ACK PROCEEDING TO LA SPEZIA AT BEST POSSIBLE SPEED // PLEASE GET WORD TO FOX THAT DRINKS ARE ON HIM // U83

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DD Patrolling the harbor entrance


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Friendly Tug boat guiding U-83 to berth

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2nd war patrol log

[Snestorm]

Still off the north est coast of England in a Type XXIII

How many years are you planning on staying there?

Be more aggresive!
(Just kidding).

[Snestorm]

Just had what I would call a good patrol 3:

U-106, Type IXB
2nd Flotilla
Kurt Asmuss

10 Merchants
1 Warship
Total of 42084 tons :yeah::salute:

I'll second that s a l u t e.
Rack 'em up.

[pickinthebanjo]

How many years are you planning on staying there?

Be more aggresive!
(Just kidding).

that area is a goldmine, lots of naval ships and convoys out there.

I'm actually sailing a IIA way up there to do a harbor attack on the whaling station just as the war breaks out (gettin me a VIIB)

[Snestorm]

FINAL PATROL. (All times given as ZT - ZONE TIME).

BF61 27.nov.42 0213
Underway from Lorient til EC18 (Carribean Sea).

BF73 30.nov.42 2352 (110 miles north of Spain's NW corner).
Radar signals detected.
A L A R M !
Crash dive for aircraft.

BF74 2.dec.42 2228 (150 miles NW of Spain's NW corner).
Radar signals detected.
A L A R M !
Crash dive for aircraft.
Both diesels destroyed.
Flooding checked.
Hull Integrity 36%.

U502 managed to surface, send a final status report, and scuttle.

Credit for the sinking goes to the RAF pilot involved.

[Snestorm]

that area is a goldmine, lots of naval ships and convoys out there.

I'm actually sailing a IIA way up there to do a harbor attack on the whaling station just as the war breaks out (gettin me a VIIB)

But he's up there just as the war's about to end.
If they find him, the RN might consider the area a goldmine too.

[Jimbuna]

How many years are you planning on staying there?

Be more aggresive!
(Just kidding).

I plan on staying quite a while yet...I live there :DL:03:

[Phantom II]

Leutnant zur See Viktor Reck just did his shakedown patrol of U-52 in August, 1939. Did a test dive on the way back home after a 5-day trip, and ran aground. Luckily he managed to get the boat back up alright with only a few scratches.

Playing 100% Realism DID with GWX3.0 + SH3Commander

[Snestorm]

I plan on staying quite a while yet...I live there :DL:03:

I wondered about that . . . after posting.

[Phantom II]

Just had a very successful patrol. Started Christmas Eve 1939 in a Type VIIB. Sunk 9 Ships for a total of 50229 including a single Tribal Class Destroyer. Had really nice weather in the North Sea, and was able to sink several lone merchants travelling between Britain and Norway with the deck gun. I ran into a convoy just east of the Bay of Biscay, and managed to sink a Large Merchant and a Large Tanker. Took a bit of a beating from the escorts though, but we made it through alright.

Its a nice change, considering in the last patrol I only sunk 3 ships for a total of 12000 tons, and in the one before that only 2 ships for a total of 2800 tons.

Running GWX3 on 100% Realism DiD

[Immelman]

Good Job mate anything over 30K its a job well done! :yeah:

[Immelman]

Third War Patrol
Date: 11 Jul 1942
Time: 05:36
Port of La Spezia

Departing port of La Spezia for PZ South of Malta.
U-83 VIIB fully provisioned, fresh water tanks topped off.
Eels: 9 TI(G7a) 5 TIII(G7e)
Crew: 42

http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn214/Immel17/U83/P3LeavingPortDawn.jpg

[Fozzy22]

Well I have learnt a big lesson on aircraft, just one is enough to ******* you right up lol. :nope: 6 crew dead inc my watch officer and very heavy damage to my IXB. I was let off though when the plane simply left just as it had crippled me. Took some time to repair then crawled home luckily.

Next time i crash dive instead of manning the flak guns. :shucks:


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/Fozz20/Silent%20Hunter%203/JustAliveSH3-1.jpg

Yeah that will be because my radio and sonar guy's were both killed by a planes bomb.

[pickinthebanjo]

Sitting in grid AM5399 attacking passing cargo ships, sunk 6 2000ton merchants with 100 88mm shells and 1 G7E torpedo. Had to let a few pass because of Naval ships in the area.

Been there since september 3 1939, Date is currently September 6.
Aside from patroling torpedo boats and the occasional destroyer it seems to be a good spot to intercept lone ships and Large convoys (although I've yet to see one this early in the war)

Anyone know when the Hood is docked at scapa flow? I could use 48000tons:)

[Phantom II]

Good Job mate anything over 30K its a job well done! :yeah:

Yeah I was pretty lucky with the deck gun. Had I used torpedoes alone, I would've probably sunk no more than 3 ships -_-

[Immelman]

Unless its a small ship i.e Coastal Freighter, Tramp Steamer etc. I avoid sinking ships exclusively with the deck gun because its not very realistic to sink say a Liberty Cargo with the deck gun alone. Hit her with a torp and finish her off with a deck gun that I can agree with as both realistic and historical. :arrgh!:

[Immelman]

Third War Patrol
Date: 11 Jul 1942
Time: 05:36
Port of La Spezia

Departing port of La Spezia for PZ South of Malta.
U-83 VIIB fully provisioned, fresh water tanks topped off.
Eels: 9 TI(G7a) 5 TIII(G7e)
Crew: 42


Third War Patrol
Date: 11 Jul 1942
Time: 12:42
Enroute to PZ

“It keeps getting jammed Herr Kaleun, looks like the bolt mechanism is slightly askew.”
“Scheiss, what about the other one?”
“Same thing Sir, looks like someone has tampered with both of them.”
“Keep a sharp eye to the sky Gerhart same goes for all the lookouts. We will have to be extra vigilant when traveling on the surface. We are sitting ducks up here with both flak guns disabled. I am going to report this to BdU they have to secure the bases that’s two patrols in a row the boat gets sabotaged.” :x

[Phantom II]

Unless its a small ship i.e Coastal Freighter, Tramp Steamer etc. I avoid sinking ships exclusively with the deck gun because its not very realistic to sink say a Liberty Cargo with the deck gun alone. Hit her with a torp and finish her off with a deck gun that I can agree with as both realistic and historical. :arrgh!:

The way I figured, is if GWX lets me do it, then I'm going to try to exploit it however I can, because I know eventually the merchants are going to start carrying guns, and with the increase in Air Patrols and ASW Tech its going to become damn near impossible to stay alive, let alone sink anything. Make hay while the sun still shines.

[Immelman]

By all means feel free to play which ever way you see fit and makes your gaming experience more enjoyable. There are people that find ramming as a perfectly legitimate way of sinking ships. I personally avoid unrealistic behavior for immersion's sake. Its up to each individual to see where the line is drawn.

As long as we all have fun playing this wonderful simulation. :up:

[Exakt]

Just finished a patrol in AN24, with U-21, my type IID boat...

Would have been a good catch, but sadly, nothing went right, except for me evading the escorts (a J&K and a Tribal class).

End of November 1939, went to do some interdiction northwest of Bergen. I had a hunch that I would see some British ships and man I wasn`t wrong. On the night between the 29th and 30th, a small convoy showed up. Picked it up as a visual contact, about 15k away, good thing that I wasn`t moving at first, help my boat to blend in the coastal background. Went to periscope depth, set my torpedoes for under keel shots. sent 1 flying towards a coastal merchant, another one to a medium merchant and the last one towards the lead escort, the J&K. I guess the J&K spotted the torpedo before anybody else (at 00:12 in November... but i think the moon betrayed me a bit), he dodged it and I saw the merchant ships maneuvering. Sadly, all the torpedoes missed. The J&K started a search with his search light, but I was already diving for 80m, the Tribal class was coming from the north and very fast. I started heading westward, wanted to get out of this "death trap" of a canal, was in the deepest part of it, but didn't want to be stuck to about 2 square km of running ground. Both the J&K and the Tribal went just about overhead of my position, but no ping heard, no depth charges either, so I continue westward, changing my heading in only 10 degrees increments and about 10 mins apart. Just as I crest out of the fjords waters, my sonar tells me there is another warship, hidden in an alcove just on the northwest side of the island. He was somewhat stuck, he couldn't maneuver, his bow was pointing at the shore. I decided to take the chance of sinking her. Calculated everything, so my torpedoes don't hit the seabed and hit towards the rear of the ship. BOOM and BOOM... Two hits, but sadly, didn't get the credit, maybe because it was in very shallow waters. Out of torpedoes, I headed back home, with sadly 0 tonnage confirmed.

[Immelman]

You got out of there in one piece that is all that matters. As the war progresses and the Allies get better and better and hunting Uboats, you will find that any patrol you can walk away from is a good patrol :up: regardless of tonnage.

So cheer up you lived to fight another day and learned to never again use magnetic pistol :nope: on your eels. Or at least I hope you did :o

[gazpode_l]

My first career went down the pan on my most successfull mission ever.. Started my second career tonight. Got given AL33. Headed up there past south of ireland and up past south part of rockall. Arrived in grid. Scans on way up and also in the grid with hyrdophone yeald nothing but silence or marine life.

So turned and headed back towards rockall. Once there another scan also yealds silence. :damn:

Game saved @ 12:45am :yawn:
U-65 (IXB)
ALL torpedoes Remaining
Deck Gun not even loaded with ammo yet!

Current plan I hope to have another session friday night, will prob skirt round top of ireland and down irish sea, st georges and bristol channel then back to lorient.

Last time I did the irish sea was a gold-mine....We'll have to see!!!!

[Snestorm]

First patrol. U27 VII(A). 2. Flotilla.

11 torpedoes in all.
10 up front & 1 external stern tube.
No externals carried.

Left Wilhelmshaven on 1.sep.39 for BE61.
Decided on using Der Kanal for the first patrol only, rather than dodging carrier based aircraft up north.

2.sep.39 AN79
Met a dutch coastal merchant, and an english elco today.
The elco was rather polite in a standoffish way.
The dutchman was another story.
He deliberately tryed to ram us! Made quite a turn in his efforts too.

3.sep.39 BF33
War has begun.
Started things off with an english coastal merchant.
Course 038. 7 knots. 2000 meter shot with a single G7E.
Torpedo impact, followed by a 40 minute wait for him to go down.
Coastal Merchant (1.997 GRT) sunk.

7.sep.39 BF27
At 12.44 we got a sound contact.
At 13.33 we fired a single G7A at an english little merchant.
It was a guesstimated shot at 3.000 meters, and missed.
I underestimated his speed.

8.sep.39 BF28 (Still in Der Kanal. Barely.)
At 14.03 we got a sound contact.
The captain placed his boat just a-little too well in front of the targets estimated track.
At 300 meters, in broad daylight, in Der Kanal, I did something very foolish because the target was too close for a torpedo shot.
Surface! Man the deck gun! (2 boot Seamen - no Gunnersmate yet.)
They made up for their lack of speed with accuracey. 6 rounds and
a french little merchant went down. We did the same while we still could, on our own.
Little Merchant (2.411 GRT) sunk.
That was 26 miles NNW of France. 46 miles NW of Brest.

10.sep.39 BF19
At 16.28 we got multiple sound contacts, and took up the chase.
By 16.54 we found what must have been the war's first outbound convoy.
Contact report sent to BDU immediately.
At 17.46 I made a submerged daylight attack.
3 G7Es, with a 5 degree custom spread, at a T2 Tanker.
1 G7A at a Little Merchant.
At 17.47 we heard all 4 torpedoes hit, and nothing sink!
The counterattack by a DD & ASW Trawler was ineffective.
Quietly following the convoy. Course 250. Speed 6 knots.
At 19.08 the T2 is finaly DIW. By 19.15 he's already behind our 2 knot boat.
At 21.31 via the stern tube, T2 Tanker (english - 10.872 GRT) sunk.

11.sep.39 BF19 (still)
At 01.30 U27 conducted a night surface attack and expended her last 4 torpedoes.
2 small ships were struck with 3 torpedoes, and nothing sunk, or even slowed!
A status report was sent at 02.37, and U27 was instructed to recon her grid.
(Need the renown, as I didn't attend the accademy. Mustangs are cool!)
Then back through Der Kanal.

24.sep.39 BF33 (15 miles east of Dover. 5 miles off The Continent.)
04.53 U27 came under surface attack. Total depth is 42 - 47 meters.
The tower took some hits. There were some minor repairs to conduct inside.
The attacker was soon joined by 2 "very fast" DDs.
U27 successfuly evaded at 20 meters.
(I went straight under the first attacker at Full while he was in his attack run and couldn't hear us. Then went silent at 90 RPM. We were lucky. It worked.

That, and the following day were spent in waters as shallow as 35 meters.

27.sep.39 AN98
At 14.00 U27 docked at Wilhelmhaven with 92% Hull Integrity.
(The real U27 only made one patrol. We almost matched that at Dover.)

Patrol Results were 3 ships sunk for 15.280 GRT.
No injuries. No deaths.
8 days ekstra in the yards for repairs.

Oh! Gotz Zinke was promoted from GMSN to GM3.
(Gave him the gunner qual!)