Y4L's Log Of Poorly Planned Patrols

[Y4L]

Well, I thought I'd share with everyone here my somewhat poorly thought out submarine happenings.

I'm sure you'll find a little bit of enjoyment in laughing in delight after torpedo after torpedo just misses that bloody ship (You know the feeling...)

I'd call myself a veteran of SH3, but that's not truly correct, just because I've played a lot doesn't mean I'm any good at it!

So without any further ranting, I present my first entry into this log:
I left my base with high hopes and low expectations, loaded with torpedo's and my all important deck gun shells, heading for Britain's eastern coast, to raid some shipping.
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This was the result of my first attack, one missed torp, and another creating a huge hole in the side, amazingly, this merchant ship refused to sink!

I decided to utilise a weapon that never fails to disappoint, the deck gun. I surfaced and began firing, but it took more than it's fair share of rounds to sink!

I quickly fled the scene, taking a nearby destroyer down to aid my escape (I'm not going to lie, the shot was a fluke), and I quickly realised I was being pursued by another, I fired a rear tube, a shot I was pretty proud of, hitting the destroyer, crippling it, allowing me to escape whilst it's engines quickly died out.
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I was pleased to see the destroyer take a rapid nose dive, it's front half sinking in under five seconds! My day just kept getting better!
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I returned to base to rearm myself, a decision that proved useful, well, it would've been if I actually hit anything with those torps I rearmed myself with.

I stumbled across a huge convoy of merchants/transports numbering about 16 ships, with no escorts! The only defences they had were a few AA guns which were strapped to their 4 largest ships (To their credit, they did damage my periscope temporarily with it), I hit one of the 4 largest with two torpedo's, the rest either hit a few of the smaller ships or missed.

I moved in and finished it off with the deck gun:
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I continued to assess situation:
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I turned around and let off my last torpedo at one of the larger ships via the rear tube, then continued to harass one of the smaller ships.

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Do you see it? Because I nearly missed it!! Look to the left, one of the larger ships is 3/4 underwater! That was one good shot!!
I finished off the small merchant and moved on.

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I sunk one of the larger tanker looking ships and moved on to finish off a smaller merchant that one of my first torpedo's had hit, before running completely out off both types of shells.

So I sailed off into the night, happy with sinking two massive ships that I assumed to be troop carriers, two smaller merchants and a tanker.

My most successful SH5 patrol, and my 5th most successful to date!

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Nice read! But if that is 'poorly planned'... what well planned would look like? :o

[GDFTigerTank]

That's a haul any U-Boat Ace of the period would have been jumping for joy over.

It's certainly more tonnage than I've sunk in my campaign so far - although I also have 9 destroyers to my credit :)

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

That's a haul any U-Boat Ace of the period would have been jumping for joy over.


Agreed. U-boat ace doing this kind of warpatrols would quite fast earn Knight's Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds (atleast if I had been Führer).

[AVGWarhawk]

Sometimes the best plan is no plan at all! :up:

[robbo180265]

Sometimes the best plan is no plan at all! :up:


Always works for me :03:

[Bill.Braskey]

What's a plan? :oops:

[Y4L]

I say poorly planned because I fired a salvo, 3 out of the four of which missed, then I steamed headlong in and started firing with the deck gun.

But oh well, if it works!

[SteamWake]

If it makes you feel any better I ran into a 7 ship convoy fired off about 9 torpedoes all of which struck then I had to surface to finish off 2 ships that refused to sink and I managed 4 ships.

I had to bail out of there cause the escorts finally took notice and were steaming within range of their guns. Fortunatly it was deep and I dropped to about 60 meters and the escorts were clueless as I sailed away quite satisfied.

Never would have got away with that in previous versions but it is what it is.

[Y4L]

I've been hunting around for that British Carrier just at the mouth of the British Channel, but I've had no luck finding it, anybody know a specific patrol pattern it has?

I could search for it some more, but I keep getting pretty distracted by those tasty destroyer patrols...
Oh, and by distracted I mean sunk whilst taking them on with my deck gun (Though I did manage it once!)