maillemaker
03-13-10, 06:30 PM
So it's January 1940.
I'm to patrol the Rockall Bank, leaving from Wilhelmshaven. As usual, I hit the southern end of England and start my way up the west coast before cutting between Scapa and Lerwick to head over to the Bank.
I'm between Lowestoft and Hull when I get a convoy report. It's about midnight. I make the intercept. There are two large tankers in the convoy.
I'm playing 100% realism, so I manually target the two tankers, giving a spread of 2 eels to each. All four fish hit, and the tankers break in half and sink.
But there is only about 15 meters of water under my keel! I try to get out of there, but two escorts (I finally make them out to be a River class and a Black Swan) pound me. I go round and round with them, taking a fair amount of damage. At one point the bow flooding got so bad I hit the seabed, and when I blew ballast I broached on the surface and started to take surface fire!
The attack periscope was destroyed, but using the observation scope finally I managed a stern magnetic shot at the River class, and I nailed him dead! I circled with the Black Swan and fired two bow torpedoes at her (sterns were gone) and missed. Finally with a third torpedo I nailed the black swan, just barely, in her stern. She went down.
I surface and chased after the convoy.
Suddenly, another escort is bearing down on us! I man the guns, and duke it out with the escort. We took some damage (all the bow tubes were damaged) but I sunk the escort!
So I chased after the convoy.
After a bit, I caught them, and laid into them with the deck gun. I sank 3 ships, and there were only 3 left, and I had plenty of shells to do the job.
Suddenly, another warship is spotted - a torpedo boat!
I turn my deck gun to it, but I can't hit it!
And suddenly, with a volley of machine gun fire, THE MOTOR BOAT SANK MY UBOAT!
All that only to be sunk by a motorboat.
Steve
I'm to patrol the Rockall Bank, leaving from Wilhelmshaven. As usual, I hit the southern end of England and start my way up the west coast before cutting between Scapa and Lerwick to head over to the Bank.
I'm between Lowestoft and Hull when I get a convoy report. It's about midnight. I make the intercept. There are two large tankers in the convoy.
I'm playing 100% realism, so I manually target the two tankers, giving a spread of 2 eels to each. All four fish hit, and the tankers break in half and sink.
But there is only about 15 meters of water under my keel! I try to get out of there, but two escorts (I finally make them out to be a River class and a Black Swan) pound me. I go round and round with them, taking a fair amount of damage. At one point the bow flooding got so bad I hit the seabed, and when I blew ballast I broached on the surface and started to take surface fire!
The attack periscope was destroyed, but using the observation scope finally I managed a stern magnetic shot at the River class, and I nailed him dead! I circled with the Black Swan and fired two bow torpedoes at her (sterns were gone) and missed. Finally with a third torpedo I nailed the black swan, just barely, in her stern. She went down.
I surface and chased after the convoy.
Suddenly, another escort is bearing down on us! I man the guns, and duke it out with the escort. We took some damage (all the bow tubes were damaged) but I sunk the escort!
So I chased after the convoy.
After a bit, I caught them, and laid into them with the deck gun. I sank 3 ships, and there were only 3 left, and I had plenty of shells to do the job.
Suddenly, another warship is spotted - a torpedo boat!
I turn my deck gun to it, but I can't hit it!
And suddenly, with a volley of machine gun fire, THE MOTOR BOAT SANK MY UBOAT!
All that only to be sunk by a motorboat.
Steve