Worst luck, then best patrol ever!

[Nangleator]

Last night I was on my second patrol in a new career, and tooling along fat, dumb and happy in thick fog and heavy seas at night. 1024 time, of course.

I hear bullets whizzing by, and hitting me, and I order a dive and flank speed before jumping out to external view to see what's up. Well, a destroyer came right up my wake and was less than 10 seconds from giving me a pretty good nudge. As my boat rolled over under his bow, my lookouts announced that a ship was spotted. Thanks, guys.

I died from diving too deep with the damage I had. I'm sure he would have made short work of me anyway.

Tonight I start a new career, and my maiden voyage in a VIIC, I walk right into a large convoy in early '42. My 3 free acoustic torpedoes turn into 3 sunken destroyers, and it's just me and lots and lots of ships!

I only missed with one torpedo, which hit a different target afterwards, and sank it. Only one ship took more than two torpedoes to sink.

Then, I realized most of the ships didn't have guns on them. So I surfaced for some target practice. I missed very few shots and emptied my ammo bunker. There was even some dueling going on, and I killed off all the guns facing me.

I've got one eel for the return trip, and I've put 16 ships on the bottom. 88k tons. Maybe I can make it an even 90k with that last eel!!

[Packerton]

Nice job Kaluen! :arrgh!:

BE MORE AGGRESSIVE :arrgh!:

[nikbear]

To be honest I'd keep that Last eel for the way home and wouldn't push my luck,would be a shame to ruin a good patrol now by getting greedy:03:Trust me,its been the downfall of many a kaleun:salute:Congrats on your success,now go to port and celebrate :woot::shucks::doh::arrgh!:

[Nangleator]

Okay, I did stumble across a loner on my way home, and that last eel broke his back. So, over 90k tons.

So want to know about the Awards and Promotions? Curious? First patrol in a new career sinks 90k tons?

Zip. No promotions. No medals. At least I was allowed to add a qualification to my crew. Jeez, I've gotten medals for just showing up on station for 24 hours. (And yes, I did that on my patrol, too.) 2,500 lousy reputation points.

So what happened? My only guess is that, since my path home paralleled the convoy's route, and I kept getting contact reports about it, and I kept doing nothing about those contact reports, since I was out of everything but one last torpedo... Okay, either that or Bernard messed around with the admiral's daughter.

[Packerton]

Ive had the same glitch happen to me mate, you get back and you get no medals or awards yet you still get the renown points, I think it has to do with saving and the game sometimes glitches and forgets you sunk anything before you saved.

[Lzs von swe]

First patrol bug. Did you change/ upgrade anything on your boat before leaving base. If so, you have suffered the first patrol bug.
Never touch your boat before the first departure. Go out for a short spin, call it a shakedown, and head back to base. Then change whatever you want on the boat and go sink the enemy.

[Nangleator]

Oh, cheers! Yup, I probably bought better batteries or something.

Also, how come I can't use custom bitmaps for my conning tower any more? Do I have a bad file in that directory now? What's the pixel dimension limit for one of those?