Bent Periscope
06-03-09, 10:14 AM
Nov. 27, 1939
Early this morning I entered Loch Ewe through a screen of 6 to 8 destroyers, Torpedo Boats and ASW Trawlers. I crawled on the western side of Loch Ewe by hugging the coast at 1kt to keep quiet while hopefully not running into and mines or subnets. Well, near 6AM I hit a subnet but suffered very little damage. The day was just breaking and I had a stationary destroyer about 500m from my sub but I chanced it and crawled over the net. My conning tower showed a little while I crawled over and the sub’s hull made all kinds of noise as it scraped the net but I finally made it and dropped back down to periscope depth. Again I crawled slowly towards the deck.
Finally I chanced a peek since the day wasn’t fully up. I am playing GWX 3.2 and was expecting to see the Battleships Revenge & Nelson per prior post. However, they were missing!!! I’ve looked all over Loch Ewe but could not find them anywhere though I remember the there were plenty of post describing where the Moored Capital Ships were located and their dates. I made this trip to show Bdu my value and show Prien that he wasn’t the only hotshot captain.
How disappointing, I came across a Modern Tanker, Small & Medium Merchant ships and off limits Hospital Boat and US Troop Transport. :-?
There is also a floating dry dock for 26,000 tons (Can this be sunk? How much renown? How many torpedoes are needed and where do I aim?)
Of course, once I open fire on the ships, I expect all heck to break loose with the destroyers and other support ships in and near Loch Ewe. I could deal with that if the payoff was worth it but I don’t think it is.
I blame the bad intel on Goering and his flyboys with their weak recon photos.
What also upsets me is that I was tracking a big convoy and already had sunk a large tanker. It also had 3 Ore Carriers that I would have liked to sink but I let this all go since I was saving my torpedoes for those 2 battleships.
So unless that Floating Dry dock is worth tonnage and/or renown, I’ll probably just crawl back out and resume my patrol.
So are there any known Moored ships for GWX 3.2? I don’t take this as cheating since there had to be plenty of spies:shifty: in GB passing on this information plus there had to be recon flights.
And what about that Floating Drydock, is it worth an attack or just a waste of torpedos?
After this experience, if I leave empty handed, I swear off entering ports.
Thanks,
BP
Early this morning I entered Loch Ewe through a screen of 6 to 8 destroyers, Torpedo Boats and ASW Trawlers. I crawled on the western side of Loch Ewe by hugging the coast at 1kt to keep quiet while hopefully not running into and mines or subnets. Well, near 6AM I hit a subnet but suffered very little damage. The day was just breaking and I had a stationary destroyer about 500m from my sub but I chanced it and crawled over the net. My conning tower showed a little while I crawled over and the sub’s hull made all kinds of noise as it scraped the net but I finally made it and dropped back down to periscope depth. Again I crawled slowly towards the deck.
Finally I chanced a peek since the day wasn’t fully up. I am playing GWX 3.2 and was expecting to see the Battleships Revenge & Nelson per prior post. However, they were missing!!! I’ve looked all over Loch Ewe but could not find them anywhere though I remember the there were plenty of post describing where the Moored Capital Ships were located and their dates. I made this trip to show Bdu my value and show Prien that he wasn’t the only hotshot captain.
How disappointing, I came across a Modern Tanker, Small & Medium Merchant ships and off limits Hospital Boat and US Troop Transport. :-?
There is also a floating dry dock for 26,000 tons (Can this be sunk? How much renown? How many torpedoes are needed and where do I aim?)
Of course, once I open fire on the ships, I expect all heck to break loose with the destroyers and other support ships in and near Loch Ewe. I could deal with that if the payoff was worth it but I don’t think it is.
I blame the bad intel on Goering and his flyboys with their weak recon photos.
What also upsets me is that I was tracking a big convoy and already had sunk a large tanker. It also had 3 Ore Carriers that I would have liked to sink but I let this all go since I was saving my torpedoes for those 2 battleships.
So unless that Floating Dry dock is worth tonnage and/or renown, I’ll probably just crawl back out and resume my patrol.
So are there any known Moored ships for GWX 3.2? I don’t take this as cheating since there had to be plenty of spies:shifty: in GB passing on this information plus there had to be recon flights.
And what about that Floating Drydock, is it worth an attack or just a waste of torpedos?
After this experience, if I leave empty handed, I swear off entering ports.
Thanks,
BP