U-Boat number

[WWII44]

Out of curiosity what type of u-boat do you use and what is it's number. Mine is a type VIIC called U-529(name after the u-boat in Medal of Honor Allied Assault).

[Hans Uberman]

At the moment I'm in charge of U-122 (2nd Flotilla), a Type IXB boat. I didn't bother to change the number with SH Commander or anything. I'll likely do that next campaign and on a different type of boat.

[HW3]

Right now I'm running a type VIIC with the number given me by SH3 Commander U-98. I'm running the VIIC testing mod setups getting ready for WaW V.

[frau kaleun]

U-51, Type VIIB. Currently on its way to grid AM53 (grumble grumble) in July 1940.

[OSU]

U-45 VIIB In base after 2nd patrol. I may choose a new number when I get my VIIC.

[timmy41]

U-57, VIIB currently


advice to wwii44, check all of your crates before you load them on!

[flugkapitan]

U-123 Type IXB, 2nd Flotilla. I picked that number because that particular boat survived the war. Hope it might bring me some luck! :DL

[HW3]

grid AM53 (grumble grumble)

:hmm2:
That is real good hunting in there, a little shallow, but good hunting anyway.:yep:

[frau kaleun]

:hmm2:
That is real good hunting in there, a little shallow, but good hunting anyway.:yep:

It's the shallow part that worries me, combined with the potential proximity of RN task forces. Which I hate to pass up if given the chance to intercept (and there's a big prize involved), but don't want to tangle with if I can't dive as deep as the boat will safely go.

[HW3]

I get you. Spend the 24 there and move to the Northwestern part of AM52. There is still great hunting there with lots of convoys going both ways, and deep water too.

[Alpha Von Burg]

U-46, type VIIB.

:salute:

[frau kaleun]

I get you. Spend the 24 there and move to the Northwestern part of AM52. There is still great hunting there with lots of convoys going both ways, and deep water too.

That's exactly my plan, mate! :salute:

I've already lost one boat to a TF of destroyers that spotted me just after I spotted them in the North Sea, in the grid east of Scapa. I ran silent and went as deep as I could but it wasn't nearly deep enough to throw them off. And there wasn't a fog bank in sight to lose myself in on the surface. :wah:

I have to admit that for a while afterwards I'd keep asking for a different grid in Commander until I got one that I knew wasn't in the Nordsee or too close to the English/Scottish coast. Then I lucked out and drew one right off that had me down where the shipping routes out of West Africa peel off in one direction towards Gibraltar and in the other towards Britain. Had fantastic luck down that way so I figure I'm due to take whatever I get this time around. Don't intend to push my luck though. :D

[Venatore]

Type VIIC,
U-657
Why 657
6 Letters in my first name
5 Letters in my middle name
7 Letters in my Surname

Then I researched everything about her.

[Draka]

Shaking down U 45 - also waiting for W@W5 and getting my mods all working. Including finding a roster of the original crew and modifying my files to match.

[U777]

For my realistic career, I use U-123 which is what SH generated.

For my nuclear career, I use U-777 because its a lucky number to me.

[HW3]

@frau,

I'm not a big fan of shallow water either, although I've had good luck catching unescorted merchants exiting the channel into the North Sea early war, and getting away. I even went into Dunkirk harbor once during the evacuation, sank a couple ships, and got away undetected and untouched.

:salute:

[Tessa]

Since starting back up after a period of absense I've been just using VIIb's (ingame the VIIC doesn't really give you much more of edge. In real life the VIIC's were made for the same resign the VIIb's were - to fix some engineering issues with the boat design.) and going to try and do a whole career to 45 with it (might switch to a VIIC/41 when it becomes available. The VII's I like as their sonar signature is much smaller making it easier to escape from escorts, and are more nimble. At 8 knots you have a range of 20,0000 km so you could pretty much go anywhere you wanted; one major advantage of the type IX's is with their larger fuel supply their cruising speed is significan't higher (12 kts I think?) so you can go farther faster, or somewhere close at full or flank speed for a quicker trip.

While's it cliche` I normally use U-47 (or could start using U-38 as that capatain also shared my playing style of hunting capital ships) since I like to do harbor raids. Harbor raids may be cheesy to some, I think of it as the ultimate demoralizer for the enemy (though has no effect on the game), taking out their ships in their backyard. Just think of how enraged the public got after Pearl Harbor and that's typically how I like to see what harbor raiding is like.

Other reason is that I'm the owner of this beautiful piece of history:

http://pelsia.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/u-47_forum.jpg

With Third Reich militaria everyone sees it at yells fake fake! I was able to trace the ownership of the flag back to the original holder in 39' so there's no question about it, and have seen the only (that have found) picture that has it in the picture on the day of his return and you can see the pennant, albeit the backside . Inexperienced people frequently screw up and say something is fake when its the real thing, there's a lotmore to figuring out an items authenticity than its markings or sewing; until you've seen them there can be dozens of variations for the same badge making them a pain to classify. SO......this was the flag flown on U-47 on its return to port after the Scapa Flow patrol. I traded an insanely equally rare piece to get this flag so no money changed hands but several thousands in trade did. For Prien's sake I like to honor him and use his boat while playing. Also hav some pennants from U-99 (Kretchmer's boat) while he sank some very impressive merchant ships of 10,000+ tons nothing quite as cool as a batteship or carrier.

[JScones]

Nice. :up:

[the.terrabyte.pirate]

U13 - Was a Type IIA, now a type IID.

My fearless crew spit in the face of superstition. We have a black cat for an emblem. :rock:

Planning to take it to the end of the war. Currently patrol 3, Oct '39.

[Redbear]

Currently it's U-53, a type VIIb, in a nasty summer storm in AM16.

[WWII44]

I origonally had a type IXb called U-144 but my save got coruppted and I had to start from scratch:-?


P.S> the real U-529 was a type IXB

[Mikawa3945]

U-137 a Type IID, currently on patrol 4 out of Willi.

[Kapt Z]

Currently it's U-53, a type VIIb, in a nasty summer storm in AM16.

U-53 for me too.:up:

Had her since Sep '39 and seeing if we can make it to late '42 to early '43 and then I'll retire her to a training boat and buy a new VIIC.

On our 8th patrol(2nd CO) a few hundred km into the bay on our way to CF32. Jan '41

[Sucrose]

SH3 Commander gave me command of U-100, a type VIIB.

I'm currently on my first patrol in August 1940.

In the real war, U-100 was the first U-boat sunk after being located by radar in March 1941. She was then rammed and depth charged to death. That's a bad omen. :-?

[frau kaleun]

SH3 Commander gave me command of U-100, a type VIIB.

I'm currently on my first patrol in August 1940.

In the real war, U-100 was the first U-boat sunk after being located by radar in March 1941. She was then rammed and depth charged to death. That's a bad omen. :-?

Don't feel bad, when I first started with Commander I used to pick U-48 all the time because 1) she was widely considered the most successful boat of the war and 2) she lasted until she was scuttled at the war's end.

Let's just say that none of the historical luck rubbed off on my first few kaleuns. :dead:

So now I'm not superstitious about it at all.

[Zedwardson]

my current kaleun had 10 patrols with U-27, a Type VIIB, and recently transferred and had his first patrol in a U-122, a IXB

[Obersteuermann]

Don't feel bad, when I first started with Commander I used to pick U-48 all the time because 1) she was widely considered the most successful boat of the war and 2) she lasted until she was scuttled at the war's end.

Let's just say that none of the historical luck rubbed off on my first few kaleuns. :dead:

So now I'm not superstitious about it at all.
I was randomly assigned U-48 and didn't even think about it until I lost her on my second patrol in 1940 and loked up her actual history, out of curiosity. Whoops.

[frau kaleun]

I was randomly assigned U-48 and didn't even think about it until I lost her on my second patrol in 1940 and loked up her actual history, out of curiosity. Whoops.

I know! I actually started to feel guilty about it. In six years the Allies couldn't put the old girl down, and I couldn't get through two patrols without losing her. :rotfl2:

[Kapt Z]

SH3 Commander gave me command of U-100, a type VIIB.

I'm currently on my first patrol in August 1940.

In the real war, U-100 was the first U-boat sunk after being located by radar in March 1941. She was then rammed and depth charged to death. That's a bad omen. :-?

Schepke's boat. One of the aces.

Apparently he was crushed against the periscope shears by the ramming destroyer. Not a nice way to go.:nope:

Just trying to cheer you up.:03:

[frau kaleun]

Schepke's boat. One of the aces.

Apparently he was crushed against the periscope shears by the ramming destroyer. Not a nice way to go.:nope:

Just trying to cheer you up.:03:

You are bad. :O:

[Kapt Z]

You are bad. :O:

My wife would say, "you have no idea.":D

[Snestorm]

Type IXB (My favorite).
U64 because I try to have the first day, of my boats first war patrol, match (or nearly so) that of the real boat.

[PhantomLord]

Type IXB (My favorite).
U64 because I try to have the first day, of my boats first war patrol, match (or nearly so) that of the real boat.

Doing the same with U-128.
Starting in january 1942, my first trip goes to Florida :yeah:

[Sucrose]

Schepke's boat. One of the aces.

Apparently he was crushed against the periscope shears by the ramming destroyer. Not a nice way to go.:nope:

Just trying to cheer you up.:03:

Ahahah:rotfl2:

Well as you say, he was one of the aces, and sank 25 ships. So I should have a good run before I get smashed and sent to the bottom.

[HW3]

Joachim Schepke

Kapitänleutnant (CREW 30)
(http://www.uboat.net/men/commanders/crews.html?crew=30)


Successes
36 ships sunk for a total of 153,677 GRT
4 ships damaged for a total of 17,229 GRT
1 ship a total loss for a total of 2,205 GRT

After 5 patrols in U-100 she was heavily damaged on 17 March 1941 by depth charges from HMS Walker and HMS Vanoc while executing an attack on Convoy HX112. U-100 was forced to surface and was detected on radar and consequently rammed by Vanoc. Schepke and 37 crew members perished in the ocean; six crew members were rescued. Schepke was last reported on the bridge of U-100. When Vanoc rammed his boat, he was crushed into his own periscope standards, and he went down with his boat.

[Sucrose]

Ohh I see. So Schepke himself sank 36 ships, but 25 of those ships were sunk by U-100.

[HW3]

Yes, he sank 2 in U-3, 9 in U-19, and 25 in U-100. The 4 damaged and 1 totaled were also in U-100.

[Kapt Z]

U-99 was sunk by the same convoy's escorts that night as well. Kretschmer had better luck than Schepke and was captured.

A tough night indeed.

[desirableroasted]

U-48, a VIIB, assigned by SH3 Commander.

Aware that I have Herbert Schultze's boat, I am taking good care of her and getting (in June 1940) somewhat better results (200K to his 146K).

But every time I get a ding in her I cringe... what's he going to say when I pull into W'haven with a big scratch down the side?

[frau kaleun]

But every time I get a ding in her I cringe... what's he going to say when I pull into W'haven with a big scratch down the side?

:rotfl2:

"You're grounded. And get a haircut."

[WWII44]

I lost U-529 yesterday in a fouled up save game:(

[Hans Uberman]

I lost U-529 yesterday in a fouled up save game:(
:wah: Farewell U-529! :dead:

I take it that you have no backup from an earlier point? Expecting save game corruption, I tend to make a backup .zip file of my save games every now and then.

[WWII44]

:wah: Farewell U-529! :dead:

I take it that you have no backup from an earlier point? Expecting save game corruption, I tend to make a backup .zip file of my save games every now and then.

well it give me a chance to start from scratch

[Obltn Strand]

I tend to use numbers of boats already destroyed when my career begins, or those that never did war patrols. Reason for this is simple. I just hate when I receive a radio message sent by "my boat".

[timmy41]

I tend to use numbers of boats already destroyed when my career begins, or those that never did war patrols. Reason for this is simple. I just hate when I receive a radio message sent by "my boat".
in my first game i started with U-47, unaware of u-47s exploits in real life at the time, imagine my surprise when i got messages of u-47 in scapa flow!

[WWII44]

My new boat is a type IXC called U-382, I chose that number because that's the number of the locomotive that Casey Jones road in to legend, plus the sum of 382 is 13 so I'm hoping that will sring bak of the brits. so far I sank 4our ships with her and averted a close call with a destroyer(I sank the destroyer too:O:).

[Captain J. Borne]

I use U-571 Because of the movie.

[Snestorm]

Doing the same with U-128.
Starting in january 1942, my first trip goes to Florida :yeah:

Super cool!

Good luck with the carreer, and be careful.

[PhantomLord]

Thanks Snestorm :salute:

Hope i can repeat the U128 drumbeat... Kaleun Heyse sunk 3 ships with 27.312 GRT. One of them was the big norwegian tanker O.A. Knudsen (11.007 GRT).

[StarFox]

For the first few patrols I had the U-36 out of Wilhelmshaven. After a disastrous 8th patrol which only lasted 7 days, the boat took 3 months to repair. I "changed" some files allowing the upgrade to a Type IXB and was given command of the U-123

Currently running around in Late May, 1941, awaiting deployment on Patrol 14