Chisum
03-22-10, 04:18 PM
And now all is over.
After a last attack on a convoy en route to Murmansk, we had several damages. I escaped but this time it was really difficult...
Messages from BdU ask us to continue the fight to the end and talks about our "sense of duty" but at the same time on the English radio we understand that things are not in the right way for us. We are defeated and the war will be over soon...
After meeting the crew and obtained the agreement of all, I decided to walk without returning to seek contact to save human life, at this stage would have been totally unnecessary. Also, I deliberately ignored the stupid recommendations calling to fight to the end at a time when everything was lost.
The rest of the trip, music on, was imbued with a strange atmosphere.
Each understood that it was the last time in his life he was sailing on a submarine. All knew we would have to face a life farless dangerous but as hard and this prospect was not really pleasing.
And finally, after 10 days passed to avoid all Allied ships, May 6, 1945 around 5 am, I returned U-2506 in a shelters in Kiel, because Bergen and Trondheim was no more operational.
Begun January 9, 2009, I concluded this 8th campaign 14 months later, it's enormous for a game, so great that the time seems so long as true. Immersion is really total if we have enough imagination to do abstraction of "no-game" moments.
Thus, through this immersion, it generates an impression of realism so strong that returning home I was wondering what thought these sailors at that time and I thought now this is no more convoys that we must found but potatoes to eat...
What was the life of those soldiers soon after capitulation ? It must be something strange, memories full head and cruel realities right in the eyes, country destroyed, defeat spirit in the soul and a world that has radically changed and we don't recognize. How did they have it integrated ? How did they survive ? We do almost never speaks, but it is a very interesting subject.
And after being offered one last drink at this valiant crew has never failed, after remember our three gunners killed by a bomb two years ago, we exchanged our address and promising to meet again a day...
And to my second, "Kunz", I promised to visit him in his Bavaria native.
Then I started walking, I got on a train and I went home find my parents.
The war was finally over.
The last war pictures, a big tankers in flamme in the Arctic Ocean.
http://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/13/87/46/18/sh3im109.jpg
U-2506 in the North Sea, returning home for the last time.
http://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/13/87/46/18/sh3im105.jpg
http://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/13/87/46/18/sh3im110.jpg
Engines stop forever.
http://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/13/87/46/18/sh3im108.jpg
Final account.
http://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/13/87/46/18/final_11.gif
(I hope this Google translation reworked by myself and my poor knowledge will let you understand all I mean lol).
After a last attack on a convoy en route to Murmansk, we had several damages. I escaped but this time it was really difficult...
Messages from BdU ask us to continue the fight to the end and talks about our "sense of duty" but at the same time on the English radio we understand that things are not in the right way for us. We are defeated and the war will be over soon...
After meeting the crew and obtained the agreement of all, I decided to walk without returning to seek contact to save human life, at this stage would have been totally unnecessary. Also, I deliberately ignored the stupid recommendations calling to fight to the end at a time when everything was lost.
The rest of the trip, music on, was imbued with a strange atmosphere.
Each understood that it was the last time in his life he was sailing on a submarine. All knew we would have to face a life farless dangerous but as hard and this prospect was not really pleasing.
And finally, after 10 days passed to avoid all Allied ships, May 6, 1945 around 5 am, I returned U-2506 in a shelters in Kiel, because Bergen and Trondheim was no more operational.
Begun January 9, 2009, I concluded this 8th campaign 14 months later, it's enormous for a game, so great that the time seems so long as true. Immersion is really total if we have enough imagination to do abstraction of "no-game" moments.
Thus, through this immersion, it generates an impression of realism so strong that returning home I was wondering what thought these sailors at that time and I thought now this is no more convoys that we must found but potatoes to eat...
What was the life of those soldiers soon after capitulation ? It must be something strange, memories full head and cruel realities right in the eyes, country destroyed, defeat spirit in the soul and a world that has radically changed and we don't recognize. How did they have it integrated ? How did they survive ? We do almost never speaks, but it is a very interesting subject.
And after being offered one last drink at this valiant crew has never failed, after remember our three gunners killed by a bomb two years ago, we exchanged our address and promising to meet again a day...
And to my second, "Kunz", I promised to visit him in his Bavaria native.
Then I started walking, I got on a train and I went home find my parents.
The war was finally over.
The last war pictures, a big tankers in flamme in the Arctic Ocean.
http://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/13/87/46/18/sh3im109.jpg
U-2506 in the North Sea, returning home for the last time.
http://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/13/87/46/18/sh3im105.jpg
http://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/13/87/46/18/sh3im110.jpg
Engines stop forever.
http://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/13/87/46/18/sh3im108.jpg
Final account.
http://i67.servimg.com/u/f67/13/87/46/18/final_11.gif
(I hope this Google translation reworked by myself and my poor knowledge will let you understand all I mean lol).