Well I didn't know...

[ryanglavin]

Well I didn't bloody know that an exploding ship could damage your hull integrity and cause flooding... nearly ended my patrol before it started...

[frau kaleun]

How close were you when it exploded? I'm curious because I've always wondered how close was too close.

[Paul Riley]

Probably if you were right next to/behind it,like 50m or even less.Wouldnt at all be surprising,if you have ever seen what can be done with a petrol bomb imagine what a ship full of the stuff can do...well,diesel in this case :o
Minimum safe distance for me would probably be no less than 300m and still get a great fireworks display.

[maillemaker]

LOL

I lost some crew members on deck a while back while I was gunning them with the deck gun and the ship exploded and killed my deck crew.

Last night I was gunning a ship and it rammed, me, and pinned me against it's hull. It was burning, and then exploded and sank my ship.

I've got a picture of me pinned against the bow of the ship just before it exploded, but I can't get it to upload right now.

Steve

[Paul Riley]

hahaha,classic stuff.Can't imagine Doenitz been pleased though.

[RConch]

I have gotten few chances in a convoy attack to hit an Ammo ship, missed them all.:haha:
However has anyone hit one, I wonder if it damaged or sunk any ships around it.:hmmm:
There is at least one U-boat that was believed lost by being too close to its victim when it blew.

[ryanglavin]

ha it was a rinky dink coastal freighter, and I was within 50 Meters of it. All stopped, and it was disabled with a few below decks shots. I let the crew get some experience, so they start shooting the deck, cargo, command tower, and eventually the whole thing pretty much mushroom clouds at once, and that nearly killed me later in the patrol. The game CTD'ed anyways, so it didn't really matter :wah:.

[Jimbuna]

Blast radius = 100 metres

[Paul Riley]

Almost as powerful as what I produced after last night's dinner :rotfl2:

[Jimbuna]

Almost as powerful as what I produced after last night's dinner :rotfl2:


http://www.freefever.com/animatedgifs/animated/men9.gif

[Paul Riley]

:haha:

[frau kaleun]

Blast radius = 100 metres

:hmmm:

I'm not sure now if that's the closest I should get to an exploding ship, or just the minimum safe distance from Jimbuna's loo.

[Jimbuna]

:hmmm:

I'm not sure now if that's the closest I should get to an exploding ship, or just the minimum safe distance from Jimbuna's loo.

LOL :rotfl2:

[Sailor Steve]

Oh yeah, they can get you. My shortest career was the one I never got to. I was playing the Gunnery Training mission in the Academy. I was shelling a ship from very close range when it exploded, taking me with it.:dead:

[Jimbuna]

Oh yeah, they can get you. My shortest career was the one I never got to. I was playing the Gunnery Training mission in the Academy. I was shelling a ship from very close range when it exploded, taking me with it.:dead:

You should have wrapped yourself in jimbunas loo roll :O:

[frau kaleun]

Oh yeah, they can get you. My shortest career was the one I never got to. I was playing the Gunnery Training mission in the Academy. I was shelling a ship from very close range when it exploded, taking me with it.:dead:

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that was a FAIL. :O:

[Sailor Steve]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that was a FAIL. :O:
Whatever gave you that idea? Just because I took three senior officers with me, including the Academy's top instructor...
:rotfl2:

[Jimbuna]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that was a FAIL. :O:

Or even the early development (to put it in KL's words) "a stinky pickle".


http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/6002/manontoilethi3.gif

[frau kaleun]

Whatever gave you that idea? Just because I took three senior officers with me, including the Academy's top instructor...
:rotfl2:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2035/2371224505_208c8589a1.jpg

[frau kaleun]

Or even the early development (to put it in KL's words) "a stinky pickle".

http://images.teamsugar.com/modules/smileys/examples/DancingCucumber.gifhttp://images.teamsugar.com/modules/smileys/examples/DancingCucumber.gifhttp://images.teamsugar.com/modules/smileys/examples/DancingCucumber.gifhttp://images.teamsugar.com/modules/smileys/examples/DancingCucumber.gifhttp://images.teamsugar.com/modules/smileys/examples/DancingCucumber.gifhttp://images.teamsugar.com/modules/smileys/examples/DancingCucumber.gif http://yahoofreak.com/animated%20emoticons/Funny%20Animated%20Emoticons/unreal.gif

[ryanglavin]

http://images.teamsugar.com/modules/smileys/examples/DancingCucumber.gifhttp://images.teamsugar.com/modules/smileys/examples/DancingCucumber.gifhttp://images.teamsugar.com/modules/smileys/examples/DancingCucumber.gifhttp://images.teamsugar.com/modules/smileys/examples/DancingCucumber.gifhttp://images.teamsugar.com/modules/smileys/examples/DancingCucumber.gifhttp://images.teamsugar.com/modules/smileys/examples/DancingCucumber.gif http://yahoofreak.com/animated%20emoticons/Funny%20Animated%20Emoticons/unreal.gif

I see your a valkrie now! Where did the torpedo Kaleun go?!?!? Without her, we can't destroy anything!

[Ships-R-Us]

I have got to give praise to both Jimbuna and Frau Kaleun for some of the good graphics that get posted............That new avatar of Frau's is very intimidating.....:woot:

[frau kaleun]

I see your a valkrie now! Where did the torpedo Kaleun go?!?!?

She got a makeover when her check cleared. :smug:

Without her, we can't destroy anything!

:hmmm:

I guess it's true, then. Behind every great kaleun is a woman greasing the torpedo.

:O:

[frau kaleun]

I have got to give praise to both Jimbuna and Frau Kaleun for some of the good graphics that get posted............That new avatar of Frau's is very intimidating.....:woot:

http://www.messentools.com/images/emoticones/varios/www.MessenTools.com-Varios-big-033.gif

I'm proud to accept this award on behalf of myself and Jimbuna, who cannot be with us tonight. Unfortunately he ate some very stinky pickles and is currently... indisposed.

[Paul Riley]

I guess it's true, then. Behind every great kaleun is a woman greasing the torpedo.

:O:

This is just getting sick now! :har:
Still,makes for good comedy reading on those boring voyages across the Atlantic.Can we make a weekly subscription?,send via (was going to say email) pigeon post to U-16.They will find us,usually by the rancid smell drifting across the sea.I'm gonna shoot that bloody cook of ours!,smell like old socks these rotten eggs!

[Jimbuna]

Stinky pickles eh http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/1817/thinkbigsw1yo4.gif

http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/6002/manontoilethi3.gif

Good job I'm not at home or this GIF would have bloody well worked :damn:

[Jimbuna]

Back at home now :DL

One stinky pickle :sunny:

http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/6002/manontoilethi3.gif (http://img709.imageshack.us/i/manontoilethi3.gif/)