The War Claims Another Kaleun

[sergei]

U-19.
Sixth War Patrol.
I had decided to do just one more patrol in the North Sea before upgrading to a bigger boat.
That's not gonna happen now.

I must have hit a mine, or collided with another ship, east of Heligoland.

As you can see, it killed 5 men and wrecked the whole front of the boat.

http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/3461/damaged.jpg

The repair team worked strenuously, but there was no way they were ever going to keep ahead of that amount of flooding.

So it's goodbye to Oberleutnant Vasili Zaitsev and the men of the U-19.
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/1584/career.jpg

Career highlights include a 'Golden Patrol'
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=167747

and surviving a night surface attack on a Southampton Class Cruiser
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=1360964&postcount=7756

Goodbye U-19. :salute:
http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/599/felixatsunset.jpg

A new career beckons. I have decided to go from one extreme to another.
Gimme the biggest boat you got.

[gazpode_l]

Awwwww Hugs hunni! ((hugs))

all the best wiv yr new career - how did u get that printed career summary - is that from SH3 commander??

i've seen a few people use it - looks IMMENSE! :rock:

[gazpode_l]

The War Claims Another Kaleun
WHAT is the view from the membership about when a kaleun bites the dust - is one allowed a re-load or is that it, you :dead: then your career is over and you H.A.V.E. to re-start? :hmmm:
:up::down:

[Sailor Steve]

There is no general 'view' as such - everybody plays the way they want, which is as it should be.

Many of us do prefer DID (Dead Is Dead) careers, but there's no shame in reloading if you like what you're doing. Ever since SH1 I've always run multiple side-by-side careers, one from each command. If one dies or retires I start a replacement career from that month.

[sergei]

how did u get that printed career summary - is that from SH3 commander??

Oh yes. SH3 Commander. Don't leave port without it.
Whether you are running a modded game, or stock SH3, you seriously need this. It adds so much to the game, I couldn't imagine SH3 without it.

[gazpode_l]

If one dies or retires I start a replacement career from that month.

Steve - Can you actually SELECT this from within SH3?

[brett25]

many condolences to the family of your brave men:wah:

[Sailor Steve]

Steve - Can you actually SELECT this from within SH3?
With GWX, yes. Any month of the war.

[frau kaleun]

east of Heligoland


Chances are good it was a mine, as the British laid mines in those waters.

Stay well away from Helgoland!

[maillemaker]

I play dead is dead, myself. My goal is to make it through the entire war. So I always start over in 1939.

Steve

[KL-alfman]

sincere condolences, sergei! :nope:

[Exakt]

Hope you will fare better in the next one...

[Snestorm]

Whew!
That little thing realy racked up some tonnage!

Shame she couldn't have retired as a school boat.
Farvel U19.

[Sailor Steve]

I play dead is dead, myself. My goal is to make it through the entire war. So I always start over in 1939.
I'm just the opposite. No real captain ever did that (everybody get's promoted sooner or later, either to a flotilla or training command) so I use Commander's 'Realistic Career Length' function. I guess I was spoiled by AOD and SH1, since they both did this.

But that's just me.:sunny:

[frau kaleun]

My goal is to make it through the entire war. So I always start over in 1939.


I always start over in 1939 too!

My goal is to make it through 1939. :O:

[Joe Bob]

I have decided my type IIA is a lucky boat, I have never lost one. I can't say the same for my type VIIs Therefore I am going all the way with the old dugout canoe. 1939 to 1945. I figure if I keep the oil changed and let the engines warm up on cold mornings before making way I should be alright.

[sergei]

I play dead is dead, myself. My goal is to make it through the entire war.
I have been trying to do this for 2 years. Never made it past '41.
And I just can't face starting in September '39 again.
Plus, I have never seen GWX in '42-'45. I figure there's a huge part of this game I have never seen. I hear it gets real exciting past '42 :DL
Now is the time for me to start seeing it, no matter how short lived my Kaleuns end up being..

With that in mind, I have decided that this is an excellent idea from Sailor Steve.
If one dies or retires I start a replacement career from that month.


I bought the farm in May '40, so that's where my new career has started.
I'm now in a VIIC, about 800km west of Gibraltar.
And I gotta tell you, it sure is nice being in a bigger boat :DL

[sergei]

Therefore I am going all the way with the old dugout canoe. 1939 to 1945.

Ambitious, Joe Bob.
I wish you the best of luck :up:

[Snestorm]

I have decided my type IIA is a lucky boat, I have never lost one. I can't say the same for my type VIIs Therefore I am going all the way with the old dugout canoe. 1939 to 1945. I figure if I keep the oil changed and let the engines warm up on cold mornings before making way I should be alright.

Noble goal.
I recommend shifting to a IID, as it has the range capability of doing the more distant grids that you will eventualy be assigned.
If you realy like the IIA, you'll love the IID.

[frau kaleun]

Noble goal.
I recommend shifting to a IID, as it has the range capability of doing the more distant grids that you will eventualy be assigned.
If you realy like the IIA, you'll love the IID.

Not only that, but I just talked to the manager... and, well, we've never done this before, but seeing as it's special circumstances and all, he says I can knock a hundred dollars off that Trucoat. :up:

[Snestorm]

@Frau Kaleun

"Location: Midgard"
Spelling should be changed to Midgård or Midgaard.
("å" and "aa" are equivalent to eachother.)

Asgård, Midgård, og/(and) Udgård.

That letter is pronounced like the english word "oh".

[frau kaleun]

Thanks, but I'm using the Anglicized spelling, since I did the same with Valkyrie.

Altho' Valkyrie may well be the "correct" spelling in one of the languages of the mythic traditions involved, I don't know. Midgard is the Norwegian spelling IIRC.

Or I could just change it to Valhalla and not worry about it. Except Valhalla's no fun, it's mostly just a bunch of dead heroes banging their fists on the tables and hollering for more mead. :O:

[Snestorm]

Thanks, but I'm using the Anglicized spelling, since I did the same with Valkyrie.

Altho' Valkyrie may well be the "correct" spelling in one of the languages of the mythic traditions involved, I don't know. Midgard is the Norwegian spelling IIRC.

Or I could just change it to Valhalla and not worry about it. Except Valhalla's no fun, it's mostly just a bunch of dead heroes banging their fists on the tables and hollering for more mead. :O:

Still "å" or "aa" in norwegian or danish.
It gives the letter an "oh" as opposed to "ah" pronunciation.
But do as you see fit.

Valhalla: That's Odin's lodge. Fight & die daily? No thanks.
Freja's lodge is much more appealing. Loving is so much more fun.

(According to the national song, Danmark IS Freja's lodge.)

(Frigg was always my favorite.)

[frau kaleun]

Still "å" or "aa" in norwegian or danish.
It gives the letter an "oh" as opposed to "ah" pronunciation.
But do as you see fit.

No, I'll take your word for it, I don't know diddly about Scandinavian languages. Somewhere I saw "and Midgard in Norwegian" but that doesn't mean it was right. :DL

[Snestorm]

No, I'll take your word for it, I don't know diddly about Scandinavian languages. Somewhere I saw "and Midgard in Norwegian" but that doesn't mean it was right. :DL

You're cool.

You're comprehension of german grammar is nothing short of astounding.
Should have your danish up and running in no time.
(The grammer is much less complex than german, dutch, or english.)
(And, just two genders. Common, and neuter.)

[KL-alfman]

Plus, I have never seen GWX in '42-'45. I figure there's a huge part of this game I have never seen. I hear it gets real exciting past '42 :DL



exciting, hair-raising, frustrating, dangerous.
that's all I can tell from my experiencies so far (in April1944 for the first time in GWX).
there are DD-patrols all over, convoys got an outer screen, air-patrols all over the place, yet leaving harbour is kind of success when you get out of the pen and 10-20 Halifax-bombers circle above you!

but there are some little helpers:
a "Falke" loaded in stern-tube
a working RWR-device
staying submerged for about 20h a day (only surfacing twice for recharging)
a very very cautious approach to all assumed targets.

it's nerve-wracking. :arrgh!:

[frau kaleun]

You're cool.
You're comprehension of german grammar is nothing short of astounding.


Actually it's nothing short of what I can remember from playing at learning it and what I can confirm with any source at hand. :D

Should have your danish up and running in no time.

:o

:timeout:

I can only pretend to learn one language at a time! :O:

Danish does sound interesting, though. I've only heard it once, when I watched Babette's Feast. It's not a language one hears at all in these parts so it was cool to hear it spoken for the first time.

[schlechter pfennig]

I should have been 'claimed'. I'm on my fourth wartime patrol (fifth total) and playing merry Hell in AM53. Weather has been extremely cooperative (for a blessed change), no more than 5mps. So far I've sunk 15 ships for 45K tonnes, and still have 4 torpedos left (yep, when it's still 1939 me and my deck gun --weather permitting-- get a lot of exercise).

My surface torpedo attacks are always at night, and when the water is reasonable calm, I go to decks awash at around 5-7 km and very patiently creep ever closer. Almost all my torpedo attacks are at 500 meters or closer.

I was trying to maneuver just in front of a small freighter to bring my stern tube to bear (as I only have 1 bow torp left, but I still have all 3 stern ones) and I mis-turned: turned 30 degrees port, not starboard. :oops::doh:

I was already within 600 meters, and by the time I'd realized what I'd done and tried correcting it, it was far too late. I was on the bridge and got a simply horrid and terrifying view of the bow of the freighter bearing straight down at me, dead perpendicular to my beam. It stuck me right behind the conning tower and pushed me 15 meters deep . . .

. . . the silly merchant --and crew-- continued blithly sailing on . . .

. . . my watch crew somehow held their breath until I managed to re-surface . . .

. . . and I seem to have been barely dinged.

By all that's right, that impact should have been fatal. I'm grateful that it wasn't, mind you. Although things like that are also an immersion killer. :dead:

[KL-alfman]

By all that's right, that impact should have been fatal. I'm grateful that it wasn't, mind you. Although things like that are also an immersion killer. :dead:


you might "correct" that in-game mistake by diving to 400m at flank speed. :D:up:

[frau kaleun]

you might "correct" that in-game mistake by diving to 400m at flank speed. :D:up:

I can confirm this. :yeah:

[schlechter pfennig]

I can confirm this. :yeah:

Alas, I can. too . . . what happens when you hit 'D' instead of 'P' at 256TC. :doh:

[gazpode_l]

Almost all my torpedo attacks are at 500 meters or closer. I Doubt the probabilities of this as Im sure it takes at LEAST 500mtrs for torpedoes to arm! :88)

[Kapitanleutnant]

No they don't. It's more like 300 meters, give or take 50.

[Snestorm]

No they don't. It's more like 300 meters, give or take 50.

Right you are, sir.

I THINK the acquistic torpedoes might be 400, but am unsure.