The most reckless/foolish thing you have ever done?

[Howard313]

I'm curious as to how much of the Bernard persona we have in each of us so I started up this thread so we can talk about some of the stupid decisions we have made.

Here's one of my own stories from back in my early SH3 days, while it didn't end horrible or anything it wasn't the brightest idea.

I was on my way back from a very good patrol, my list of kills went on for about three pages in the Captain's log (Before I got GWX mind you). I was out of every type of ammunition, torpedoes, deck gun, and flak gun had all run dry. My watch officer tells me he sees a ship in the distance so i bring up my uzo to check it out.

A small fishing vessel greets my eyes on the horizon, and at this point my mind switched over and my blood thirsty side popped out.

"Ahead Flank!" I gave the order. "New heading 140!"

My men, despite the confused expressions on their faces, did as they were told and my Type VIIB uboat raced toward the harmless insignificant fishing vessel. After a few minute of chasing them down we were within 500m of each other, by this point the captain of the fishing boat is having a heart attack, going at his top speed and zigzagging trying desperately to avoid me, while I'm on conning tower laughing like a maniac.

Long story short, My uboat plowed right into his starboard side and i literally ran over him causing him to do a barrel roll underwater. We didn't get a scratch. The fishing boat plucked up to the top for about 10 seconds before quickly sinking back beneath the waves.

And the best part? I didn't even get credit for killing him. :stare:
Really? After all that I don't even get acknowledgment for the sinking? :damn:

Anyway, after BDU heard of my little ram attack they suggested that I transfer and try my hand at being the captain of a destroyer, not sure why though. :doh:

[Brag]

The weather outside Brest was foggy with rain. The moment Brest was taken by German forces, I entered the straits. Out of the gloom a destroyer appeared. It was British and it had a friend behind him. We passed each other not three hundred meters appart. I ordered a normal dive. We were at 17 meters when both destroyers returned pinging. They dropped a bunch of charges for about an hour, then left.

A good idea when entering a newly occupied port, is to give time for enemy vessels to leave. :yep:

[STEED]

Without question came to the surface to finish off a ship and while I was lining up the shot a Destroyer came out of no where and rammed me. :dead:

What was I thinking. :doh:

[Sailor Steve]

Lucky you, sinking that fishing boat at all. Way back in my SH1 days I found out the hard way that sampans are made out of high-tensile steel armor, while US submarines are made out of paper. Ram him, sink me.

In SH3 I still have to go with the time I was shelling a merchant and was too close when he exploded, killing the entire bridge crew including myself, and killing one of the Kriegsmarine's best insructors.

You see, this was during artillery training at the Naval School.

[Missing Name]

Engaged 4 destroyers with the deck gun at once. Sank one, damaged two.

Forced to withdraw with serious damage, barely made it back to base.

I want to take on a BB with the deck gun now. I've seen a pic of someone taking on an entire task force somewhere...

[FIREWALL]

Sept. 15, 1940 13:18 AN12 75m of h2o under me. Peri depth 1knt spd


SO tells me we have a contact close by. I raise scope.

Ahhhhhh. 5 Destroyers. And... Nelson BB at 700m :o

Fire a 4 torp spread. Then the fun began. :eek:

[Gerald]

Sept. 15, 1940 13:18 AN12 75m of h2o under me. Peri depth 1knt spd


SO tells me we have a contact close by. I raise scope.

Ahhhhhh. 5 Destroyers. And... Nelson BB at 700m :o

Fire a 4 torp spread. Then the fun began. :eek: I'm just saying, Avoid shallow water,:yep:

[Snestorm]

VIIB
Playing catch-up with a convoy, in the shallows of AM53, during heavy fog.
A RN Desstroyer brought that very aggressive Kaleun's carreer to a very short end.

[timmy41]

attempted to sink a bogue in a hunter killer group, only to have another hunter killer group come across me during the attack just by chance! doh!

[sublynx]

Trying to sink a destroyer that knows where I am, with a magnetic torpedo, at close range, with manual targeting, when I have never tried magnetic shots before, not even on a merchant. It was the black screen for me - you reap what you sow :lost:

[The Dean]

Can't decide. Either

1)Taking on more than a dozen Short Sunderlands in my IXB with 2 light flak cannons (x2 magazines) at flank speed across Biscany, surviving with 11 or so confirmed kills, heavy damage, 3/3 dead/wounded.

or

2)Wounded a heavy cargo ship, stern almost under but refusing to go down. No torps left, waters too rough for the deck gun, and an armed trawler is bearing down. It had been a busy patrol, but not a profitable one. I opt for ramming the freighter's underside astern. When that doesn't work, I circle around, resurface, and beach myself like a whale on the freighters deck, having decided that either that my weight will finish her off OR the idiot trawler captain that's been shooting at me this entire time lands enough errant shots around me to damage the freighter beyond seaworthiness. The latter works, kill confirmed, crew sworn to secrecy, back to base and a smiling, clueless BdU.

[Howard313]

2)Wounded a heavy cargo ship, stern almost under but refusing to go down. No torps left, waters too rough for the deck gun, and an armed trawler is bearing down. It had been a busy patrol, but not a profitable one. I opt for ramming the freighter's underside astern. When that doesn't work, I circle around, resurface, and beach myself like a whale on the freighters deck, having decided that either that my weight will finish her off OR the idiot trawler captain that's been shooting at me this entire time lands enough errant shots around me to damage the freighter beyond seaworthiness. The latter works, kill confirmed, crew sworn to secrecy, back to base and a smiling, clueless BdU.
This is proof that sometimes it takes a little bit of recklessness to get the job done. Good job! :up:

[Luno]

Well, my whole career was pretty stupid...

I started with a type II. No kills on my first patrol. On the second, one torpedo kill (coastal merchant) and one flack gun kill (tugboat). I fired two torpedoes at a C2 cargo (she was not in a convoy, but had a destroyer escorting). Both fishes hit the ship squarely in the middle, and it caught fire, but it hardly slowed down at all. I was out of torps and I had to let that one go. I later encountered another coastal merchant. Emboldened by my success against the tug, I pulled right along side it, as it was zig-zagging (not smart) and gave it all I had with the flak gun. We were almost touching at some points, and I had to pull hair raising turns to avoid being plowed over by the ship. I caused all the cargo on its deck to catch fire and explode, but she sustained no other damage. I expended all my ammo and high-tailed it to base (but not before being bombed by several Hurricanes - thankfully I received no hits).

On the third patrol I fired a torpedo for no reason (accidentally hit Enter :damn:) but later I found and torpedoed a Norwegian merchant, (his lights were out) and he caught fire but he continued on his way. I came across another C2, fired my last 3 fish, 2 hit under the funnel, and he was dead in the water, but still afloat. I waited for hours... I expended all my flak ammo, and then proceeded to ram him. No effect whatsoever. I went home without a single kill.

On my fourth and last patrol, I loaded up with 5 TIIs (electric). I had to expend 4 of them on one small merchant. :stare: I decided to sneak into Hartlepool at night to send the last fish into a stationary ship. I came across a fishing boat in the port itself and sank him with the flak gun (I could not resist such an easy target).

Now here comes the really dumb part: as I watch the fishing boat go down, out of nowhere comes this DD with spotlights bearing down at ramming speed, shells whizzing past my head. I go to periscope depth and gun the engines. I narrowly escape him and the depth charges. Then I maneuver silently, for a while, and raise the observation scope for a look. Whoops - he's right next to me, and I got his attention. Searchlights are on me again and he's turning around. I lower the scope, but now I'm out of options. He starts pinging and nails me with depth charges. The sub settles the few more meters to the bottom, and he charges me again, ending my career. :dead:

What did I learn: don't push your luck with DDs, stay out of shallow water, ensure the victim never sees you, 1st mission objective is to stay alive, 2nd is to sink targets.

[Snestorm]

What did I learn: don't push your luck with DDs, stay out of shallow water, ensure the victim never sees you, 1st mission objective is to stay alive, 2nd is to sink targets.

Outstanding!

". . . ensure the victim never sees you . . ."
This is the big one, that goes right past so many players.

[Sailor Steve]

1)Taking on more than a dozen Short Sunderlands in my IXB with 2 light flak cannons (x2 magazines) at flank speed across Biscany, surviving with 11 or so confirmed kills, heavy damage, 3/3 dead/wounded.
Stock game? In GWX, as in real life, they only show up one at a time. But fighting that one is a bad idea.

[krashkart]

Now here comes the really dumb part: as I watch the fishing boat go down, out of nowhere comes this DD with spotlights bearing down at ramming speed, shells whizzing past my head. I go to periscope depth and gun the engines. I narrowly escape him and the depth charges. Then I maneuver silently, for a while, and raise the observation scope for a look. Whoops - he's right next to me, and I got his attention. Searchlights are on me again and he's turning around. I lower the scope, but now I'm out of options. He starts pinging and nails me with depth charges. The sub settles the few more meters to the bottom, and he charges me again, ending my career. :dead:

My first visit to Dover (my first harbor raid) ended when a number of shells from coastal artillery landed aboard my Uboat. It was the dead of night and I thought I'd sneak in closer on the surface. Great idea, right? :doh: Everything was going smoothly until I started hearing big splashes all around me. By the time I figured out what was happening the coastal gunners had already zeroed in. Next thing I knew it was one shell after another hitting my boat, and a few seconds later we had settled on the bottom still trying to pump water out of several breached compartments. Not one of the quickest ways to end a career -- five minutes of sheer terror as I watched the water levels rising despite all efforts to save the boat. :dead:

[Luno]

Was that at night? I don't know how they would be able to see you. (One thing about SH3 that bugs me is the luminosity of water at night. It should be a black void).

[The Dean]

Stock game? In GWX, as in real life, they only show up one at a time. But fighting that one is a bad idea.

Yessir, I have admittedly yet to make the jump to GWX. I got immensely lucky as was, because I've been sunk by just the one in stock beforehand. But I tend to play with a chip on my shoulder (something like 2 or 3 of my oldest, most familiar deck hands had been killed by the initial strafe). Sometimes the recklessness pays off, other times not so much.

[desirableroasted]

Foolish?

Surfacing to "finish off" a crippled tanker and a crippled BB (Nelson I think) with the deck gun.

The sort of mistake you don't make twice.

[BossMark]

Trying to sneak into Gibraltar sink a few ships and get any scot free but those pesky destroyers had other ideas :o

[danasan]

Foolish?

Surfacing to "finish off" a crippled tanker and a crippled BB (Nelson I think) with the deck gun.

The sort of mistake you don't make twice.

It is unlikely that the crew inside Nelson would have even heard your 8.8 or 10.5 shells knocking at the hull...

[VONHARRIS]

Tracking a convoy with a IXB in shallow waters (BF12 IIRC) and attack it.
No room to dive.
I never did that thing again.

[Gerald]

I avoid shallow water, and not for a convoy I jeopardize my safety, :yep:

[desirableroasted]

It is unlikely that the crew inside Nelson would have even heard your 8.8 or 10.5 shells knocking at the hull...

No, but I heard them knocking back.

[Wintahs]

Participating in Dunkirq.
More specifically, raiding the harbour itself. Needless to say, it was reckless. I've never seen so many destroyers together in all of my careers. It was quite the show, though. Lots of fireworks thanks to the Stuka's !

[Jimbuna]

Opening up the quick plot for the Kiel Canal and not ordering the follow waypoints command.

[Missing Name]

I also engaged two Town class cruisers with the deck gun. Unfortunately, even at ahead flank I could only engage for about five minutes at 8000 meters.

Enemy fired one salvo each. I fired ~60 rounds and scored one hit.

Next insane task: Surfacing in Gibraltar.

[Kptlt. Neuerburg]

Shelling British merchant ships in daylight and not shooting up the bridge first tends to bring some curious PT Boats and ASW trawlers into the area:doh:.

[f4wildweasel]

forgetting my boat was at ahead flank after engaging a single merchant on the surface. After 5 minutes of TC, I had to radio ADAC.

[Paul Riley]

Ages ago I once ordered a crash dive passing through the English Channel as a small squadron of bombers appeared.In only about 15m of water we hit the bottom pretty hard :o:haha:

[Capt. Morgan]

August 3rd, 1939, on my shake-down cruise, I decide to take U-48 up the Thames Estuary - figure pre-war is the only chance I'll ever get to do this.

I go in submerged and get as far as Canvey Island, then decide to return on the surface just to show the Tommies that the Kriegsmarine goes anywhere it pleases.

Once On the surface I switch to the external camera. I then notice an unusual underwater object, black, round with spikes, and chained to the bottom. Turns out I'd been steaming submerged through a very dense mine field for about an hour.:o

[Depesz]

Got this konvoi somwhere. I made my approach and fired at a Black Swan a nice torpedo - miss. Black Swan closed in , threw he's depth charges, and DESTROYED my 4 forward torpedo tubes:) forced to withdraw :)

[SubConscious]

My first thought was "I got married". ;)

Years ago I was making a run at a convoy and had hit a tanker that was just starting to sink when a destroyer picked me up. My guess is that I had my periscope up too long.

My reaction was to go to flank speed, heading right at the tanker, diving as fast as I could. My plan was to get under the tanker, turn 90 degrees, go silent and kill my engines and drift, hoping that the noise of the tanker breaking up would mask my sound signature.

I had pulled this maneuver once before and it worked. In this situation, I learned that some ships sink faster than others.

Another time I had crippled a cargo ship that was brought to a dead stop. I was about to be mobbed by destroyers, so I managed to get under the cargo ship and stayed there. Those destroyers circled the area for hours, but left just before I ran out of oxygen. I tried this later in the war and not only did they stay there, they brought in friends.

[Pisces]

Sailing into the bay of Lerwick (Shetland Islands) fully surfaced in broad daylight in a type 2. I didn't 'think' the patroling DD would mind. :dead:

[Fish In The Water]

My first thought was "I got married". ;)

Sorry, nobody's figured out how to go back and reload that one... :O:

[SubConscious]

Sorry, nobody's figured out how to go back and reload that one... :O:

You're absolutely right. Once you add the kids mod (x2) and the house mod, there's no rollback option. :O:

[Willem VonBoom]

I had a rough day yesterday... Early 41' in a VIIB waiting at about 25m for the convoy to run over the top of me... Screen runs by, I come to Peri, pop it up, and the large merchant INSTANTLY sees me. I get the Black Swan with my stern tube, take a little from a DC, go to 160m, and the C&D proceeds to sit above me for more than 12 hours. You see, I have an air compressor leak, and he didn't need sonar to know where I was. So, running out of O2 and batteries, I'm forced to surface and face her with my deck gun. I lost 10 crew members. But, I did make it back to Brest.

Perhaps not foolish, due to the lack of choice in the matter, but definitely reckless. Rough day...

[sublynx]

You're absolutely right. Once you add the kids mod (x2) and the house mod, there's no rollback option. :O:

Well, there's always the "I've had enough of Windows and I'm going to change to Ubuntu" -option, but then one can't play all the games that one could play with Windows and the need to learn what makes that new operating system tick.

[Fish In The Water]

I had a rough day yesterday...

Rough day indeed, but at least you made it back to fight another day. :salute:

[Walruss]

Cruising around in a type IX for the first time, in the warm south Atlantic. Come across a British convoy escorted by 4 flower class corvettes. Anxious to try out my new big gun, and feeling blood thirsty, I snuck up on the rear of the convoy, surfaced about 4,000 meters from the rear escort, and engage.
My first (fluke) shell crashed through his bridge, the second took out his props and the third blew up his rear battery. By this point, the others had turned around and were rushing to get my attention so I dived, dodged their attentions for an hour or so and they gave up.

Feeling cheeky, I circled around and did it again. To the Front escort. Charged straight at him, ahead flank, presenting as narrow a profile as I could and engaging again out to about 4,500 meters or so. Crash dive at 1,000 by which time his poor little boat was literally digging into the water from severe flooding at her fore, and the other two corvettes were REALLY pissed off.

2 hours later, they give up, and I surface to see a lot of debris and a few scattered lifeboats from the last corvette.

I proceeded to eliminate the final two corvettes in almost the same fashion, and then chew up my entire torpedo load gutting the convoy before I decided I'd had enough fun.

Damage: 1 crewman injured, 1 dead, a small hole in the bridge and some scratched paintwork.

I don't know who taught those brits to shoot. They didn't do a very good job :P

This was GWX as well

[Sailor Steve]

Level you're playing at? Mods? Sounds awfully gamey to me.

[Jimbuna]

Level you're playing at? Mods? Sounds awfully gamey to me.

Afraid so :hmmm:

[SubConscious]

Hi Walruss,

If you'd like to try something REALLY risky, try to re-create that effort on a high realism setting. At the lowest settings you can get into gun battles with escorts and survive, or even emerge victorious as you did.

At the higher levels, however, you'd be fish food within minutes, if not earlier. My guess is that you wouldn't try it more than once. ;)

The logic of this is simple: In a sub, you're firing on an unstable platform with very little protection. The gun crew is essentially defenseless. Your deck gun is only a single barreled crew-served weapon.

In contrast, the escorts have a much more stable platform, more often than not they have armor protection, they have multiple weapons with multiple barrels. Add in radar guidance, faster reloading and much, much bigger calibers and what you have is a recipe for disaster for the unwary U-boat Kaleun.

The higher realism setting are much more of a challenge, but if you get into the game, you'll find much greater rewards. Without the option to engage in a gun battle, when taking the time to develop a solution on a rapidly approaching escort is consummate to suicide, you'll find the thrill of switching roles from the hunter to the hunted. You'll have to be crafty and cautious to survive, but will have a much more enjoyable experience all the while.

Give it a whirl. Good luck and happy hunting!

[Schwieger]

I think this kind of explains itself...

http://i748.photobucket.com/albums/xx128/Schwieger/SH3Img16-1-2011_02953_258.jpg?t=1295159607

[Willem VonBoom]

Nope, I think I'm gonna need someone to translate this for me.

[Randomizer]

In the late summer of 1944 tried to take a snorkel equipped Type IXC into the Gulf of St. Lawrence via the Belle Isle Straight between the island of Newfoundland and the Labrador coast.

Shallow water, no merchant traffic, lots of aircraft, bored Escort Groups looking for trouble and no place to run; it had to end badly and indeed, it did.

[Walruss]

The funny thing is guys.... realism was at 100%. it was insane. They just couldn't hit me :S

[-=[TEK]=-Geezer]

I dove too deep and was crushed before I knew it. :(

[SubConscious]

The funny thing is guys.... realism was at 100%. it was insane. They just couldn't hit me :S

Wow... Just wow.... The SH3 gods were smiling on you on that patrol.

Please disregard my last post. ;)

[Fish In The Water]

I think this kind of explains itself...

http://i748.photobucket.com/albums/xx128/Schwieger/SH3Img16-1-2011_02953_258.jpg?t=1295159607

Good one... Best enjoy it while it lasts 'cause that's gonna be a very short patrol. :haha:

[Walruss]

Wow... Just wow.... The SH3 gods were smiling on you on that patrol.

Please disregard my last post. ;)
Yeah... I dunno what it was. The rounds were spalshing all around, but no serious hits.

My advice to anyone caught in a gunfight with something armed: Keep your boat pointed straight at them and go as fast as you can (in either direction)

It is a pretty small target so... :S

[Willem VonBoom]

I'm still having luck in mid 41' charging directly at a destroyer with my deck gun going so they don't notice the eel in the water. It seems like when I'm going at them at 17 knots and they're coming at me at 25, they can't ever get a good range. course, a single eel directly into the bow of even a black swan seems to do the trick.

[Walruss]

LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME! At those closing speeds, wouldn't be more than a minute or so you'd need to distract them either, right?

[Sailor Steve]

Only in a game.

[Willem VonBoom]

there's no need for a solution, you just put it on a 360 gyro angle, and loose it before she's in the 500m range, and then time your crash dive right so you don't collide with the derned brits... works rather well, really.

[sublynx]

Surface attack against a warship reveals one major flaw in the game engine. Smaller caliber weaponry is not simulated too well. Even a destroyer or maybe even an armed trawler would have had some serious firepower from 20 mm, 13.7 mm and 7.92 mm AA guns, machine guns and rifles. The automatic weapons would have wiped the U-boat gunners off the decks in no time.

Even if the gunners would somehow have survived they wouldn't have had a chance to shoot many shots as the ammo would have needed to be carried to the gun. The loading process of forming a long line of u-boat crewmen passing ammo forward to the deck gun is not simulated either.

There are no trenches or foxholes on a U-boat deck. Small arms fire from a warship comes from a higher point, from multiple places and from better cover. An interesting description of a surface battle against a destroyer and a U-boat can be found if one googles USS Borie.

I find descriptions about voluntary surface attacks against warships a bit irritating, because I take history and simulations too seriously :shifty: But in the end the main point here is having fun. So if you like sinking warships with surface attacks - SINK 'EM ALL!! :arrgh!:

[SubConscious]

Only in a game.

Surface attack against a warship reveals one major flaw in the game engine. Smaller caliber weaponry is not simulated too well. Even a destroyer or maybe even an armed trawler would have had some serious firepower from 20 mm, 13.7 mm and 7.92 mm AA guns, machine guns and rifles. The automatic weapons would have wiped the U-boat gunners off the decks in no time.

Even if the gunners would somehow have survived they wouldn't have had a chance to shoot many shots as the ammo would have needed to be carried to the gun. The loading process of forming a long line of u-boat crewmen passing ammo forward to the deck gun is not simulated either.

There are no trenches or foxholes on a U-boat deck. Small arms fire from a warship comes from a higher point, from multiple places and from better cover. An interesting description of a surface battle against a destroyer and a U-boat can be found if one googles USS Borie.

I find descriptions about voluntary surface attacks against warships a bit irritating, because I take history and simulations too seriously :shifty: But in the end the main point here is having fun. So if you like sinking warships with surface attacks - SINK 'EM ALL!! :arrgh!:

Well said. For that matter, a good rifleman with an '03 Springfield could probably clear a U-Boat deck gun crew without too much difficulty. For me, I think it's more realistic to assume that I'm outgunned at all times in surface actions. It's not worth the risk of a pressure hull puncture.

[Jankowski]

Actually, there is a reason the crew manned the 2cm flak gun. It was to ensure no drunk waving a Webley around would wipe out the deck gun crew. That is the same reason why some U-boats even had MG-34s and 42s on the conning tower, not to mention fire support in the form of the U-boats MP-40s. While all this was enough to cover the crew if they were firing at a small merchant, it would have in no way been sufficient to tackle a destroyer or even an armed tugboat.

The most retarded way I died was trying to take a sortcut over land.....did not work!

[Willem VonBoom]

Wow!

From wikipedia -

U-405's deck armament was extensive: in addition to the 88 mm gun, she also had six MG 42 machine guns, in one quadruple and two single mounts.

At a key moment in the fight, as Borie's port side crewmen were running out of 20 mm and small arms ammunition, two Germans broke from their protected position behind the bridge and approached the quad mount gun. A thrown sheath knife pierced a German crewman's abdomen and he fell overboard.[3] Unable to bring his gun to bear, one of the 4 inch gun captains threw an empty 4 inch shell casing at the other German sailor, and successfully knocked him overboard as well.[4]

Why can't I have 6 MG42s on my Conn?

[sublynx]

Why can't I have 6 MG42s on my Conn?

That's definetely something that would be nice to have modded in.:DL

However, I seriously doubt that U-405 really had six MG42's. I have never heard of quadruple MG42. MG42's barrel got so hot in shooting that barrels had to be constantly changed. Changing four barrels on a u-boat deck under fire would be quite hectic. I think U-405 probably had a Flakvierling, a 20 mm AA gun with four 20 mm gun barrels. U-405 probably had machine guns as well, but not in that quantity that USS Borie's crewmen reported. I think it's more likely that USS Borie's crewmen only thought so, mixing U-405's 20mm guns as MG42's. The battle happened during the night and U-405 was sunk, so they didn't really have a good look at it in daylight.

[Schwieger]

The most retarded way I died was trying to take a sortcut over land.....did not work!

Lol, reminds me of the tiny atolls in SH4 you don't see unless you zoom all the way in. Ended more than one career that way :nope:

[desirableroasted]

Surface attack against a warship reveals one major flaw in the game engine. Smaller caliber weaponry is not simulated too well. Even a destroyer or maybe even an armed trawler would have had some serious firepower from 20 mm, 13.7 mm and 7.92 mm AA guns, machine guns and rifles. The automatic weapons would have wiped the U-boat gunners off the decks in no time.

Even if the gunners would somehow have survived they wouldn't have had a chance to shoot many shots as the ammo would have needed to be carried to the gun. The loading process of forming a long line of u-boat crewmen passing ammo forward to the deck gun is not simulated either.

There are no trenches or foxholes on a U-boat deck. Small arms fire from a warship comes from a higher point, from multiple places and from better cover. An interesting description of a surface battle against a destroyer and a U-boat can be found if one googles USS Borie.

I find descriptions about voluntary surface attacks against warships a bit irritating, because I take history and simulations too seriously :shifty: But in the end the main point here is having fun. So if you like sinking warships with surface attacks - SINK 'EM ALL!! :arrgh!:

We had some charger a few months back bragging about how he sank a BB (in stock, of course) with his deck gun, so the original game was certainly flawed.

My assumption is that anything with a gun can kill me before I can kill it, so I treat them as airplanes. Duking it out with a deck-gun is a career-killer.

[sublynx]

We had some charger a few months back bragging about how he sank a BB (in stock, of course) with his deck gun, so the original game was certainly flawed.

My assumption is that anything with a gun can kill me before I can kill it, so I treat them as airplanes. Duking it out with a deck-gun is a career-killer.

That's similar to my experiences with warships. I haven't fought with warships voluntarily, though, but only after I have surfaced after blowing ballast after some major damage and for the hell of it tried fighting on the surface with a badly damaged boat. The end result was the destruction of the boat after a few shots.

(Once I did deck gun an armed trawler, just to see what would happen, but the trawler just kept going on in a straight line and I could sneak behind it's stern and shoot at it in impunity. After awhile I stopped and felt a little bit embarrassed, stopped and let the trawler sail away :oops: I'll never fight a warship again - it just feels too unrealistic.)

[SummerStorm]

After inching around for hours on end, I did Gibraltar, all I got was a lousy T3 and a C class. The C class spotted me as I inched my way around the pier to line a shot and proceeded to rein down fire on my as I hope to almighty Buck it wouldnt start up its engines. Fired two eels, first one did the trick and then resisted the temptation to steam away and order silent rigging as my battery hovered below the 25% mark, fortunately my crew are used to my harbour hating psychosis and coped well. Right now I can only say Gibraltar is not worth the hassle.
Inching along the coastline, took some damage, and the rewards in the stock game are not worth it. But the joy of showing the tommys a thing or two and the power of the German U-Boot make it all worthwhile.
Zum sieg!

[SummerStorm]

stupidest death though was forgetting I was submerged, time compression and getting distracted by a book. Click back to be greeted by a rather pathetic obituary page with my beloved boys all dead and not likely to be up again in a hurry...

[SummerStorm]

it just feels too unrealistic.)

Can I ask, and no offense to you, but do you play without compression and without saving. I see a large percentage of people go on about realism etc but I don' get it fully. The only way of being "realistic" is never saving and never accelerating speed and frankly I hope there are no members like that :haha:.

[sublynx]

Can I ask, and no offense to you, but do you play without compression and without saving. I see a large percentage of people go on about realism etc but I don' get it fully. The only way of being "realistic" is never saving and never accelerating speed and frankly I hope there are no members like that :haha:.


Hell no, I would not play the game at full realism. That would mean suffocating myself etc in real life if I get hit in the game. With realistic I mean something that gives enough of a feeling of how an actual U-boat commander might have thought in different situations. With me that means 100 % realism in the game settings, not seeing any map contacts, even my own sub in F5 screen, trying to follow the actual orders that were given during the war, ending the career if I get sunk, time compression max 128 in order to keep the airplanes in the air. But that is not enough for some people and I've read posts by people who play in real time. That's a bit too hardcore for me :)

It's a shame that airplanes and time compression don't work properly. If they did I might use more TC and actually have time to play the game :O:

[SummerStorm]

Hell no, I would not play the game at full realism. That would mean suffocating myself etc in real life if I get hit in the game. With realistic I mean something that gives enough of a feeling of how an actual U-boat commander might have thought in different situations. With me that means 100 % realism in the game settings, not seeing any map contacts, even my own sub in F5 screen, trying to follow the actual orders that were given during the war, ending the career if I get sunk, time compression max 128 in order to keep the airplanes in the air. But that is not enough for some people and I've read posts by people who play in real time. That's a bit too hardcore for me :)

It's a shame that airplanes and time compression don't work properly. If they did I might use more TC and actually have time to play the game :O:

Completely agree with you in the sentiments. Thanks for the reply.
TC is the only way I could possible play and yeah I admit it robs the game of a lot but then again it is a game. As for playing till sunk, I in general do to but when I was starting kept retrying a lot of things to have the opportunity of learning. Main thing I learned is never think you can run away from trouble

[Gargamel]

Missed this thread first time 'round..... so here goes.....

Sank myself with my own eel.

Nuff said.

I think Missing Name made some 'fan' art of it somewhere.


OK.. ok...

It was late '44 or early '45, in a XXI, I decided to take a peak into New York. I ran the 'deep' channel (all 20m of it or so) for as long as I could. Eventually, I had to run with the tip of my bridge almost surfaced, and then I saw this torpedo boat coming at me. So I figured I could pick him off with a homing eel. Somehow he picked me up i think, and came at me, towing the eel behind it as they have about the same speed. I think i panicked and went to flank, which then the eel locked onto me as it passed, and kerpow, therres goes that career.

Yup. That was dumb. On all accounts.

[Sailor Steve]

Can I ask, and no offense to you, but do you play without compression and without saving. I see a large percentage of people go on about realism etc but I don' get it fully. The only way of being "realistic" is never saving and never accelerating speed and frankly I hope there are no members like that :haha:.
To his credit sublynx did use the term "feels realistic", and with a game that's the best we'll ever have - how it feels to the player. I've objected many times to the concept of 1x play, mainly because people who use it don't actually use it; that is they don't sit in front of the monitor 24/7 being part of the game, they go and do other things, which defeats the purpose of doing it in the first place. Having said that, it's the justification that I object to, not the actual practice. You play the way that makes you feel a part of the experience. When I played flight sims I didn't "sit in the cockpit" for several hours just waiting for something to happen.

For me I try to play as realistically as possible to my mind, which for me means not using external views when in combat or to identify potential targets, not using the deck or flak guns myself and other things of that nature. On the other hand my math skills are so nonexistant I'm failed miserably at trying to master manual torpedo targeting. To counter for this I choose Manual Targeting, but use Weapons Officer Assistance. Since he's perfect I at least give the enemy a fighting chance by taking new sightings every few minutes, which doesn't change anything but gives them a chance to see my periscope.

It can never be real, but for some of us having it "feel" real is what makes all the difference.

[Tinkering]

Crash dive into ocean floor. :woot:

[Spitzenhund]

I decided to create a new career to try and infiltrate the Firth of Forth i started my Career on September 1st but since i wanted to change out my hydrophones i set patrol on September 2nd. In haste to get to the Firth of Forth before UK and France joined the war i told me men Ahead Flank half way in our Journy UK and France Declare themselves at war with Germany. So now i have made the decision to try and take it slow and not die.... i ended up getting the firth of forth just finding out that there is no room to dive, but i decided to press on... Eventually there were too many merchants in the area that were very small that weren't worth a torpedo but they could report my presence to a Destroyer and sure enough a Destroyer appears from the mouth of inlet going full speed ahead towards my ship so what do i do? Thats right charge at the destroyer my guns ablazeing. I eventually destroyed the destroyer :rock: but with 45% hull integrity. I work my self ahead flank again to the nearest deep spot i could dive and wait out all the enemy presence. The bad part was there was a tug boat following me and to not waste any shells or torpedos on it well... i ram it :D turns out there is a patrol craft comeing to the rescue and i cant get the tug boat that i rammed out from under me so i use it as a sheild from the patrol crafts AAA. i eventually get the Patrol craft with 33% integrity
so im contiuning on and another patrol craft comes out of no where :wah:
I made it to the history books as the first U boat sunk in WW2

[Jimbuna]

I think you could do withe the Klingon cloaking device mod :hmmm:

[Hylander_1314]

"The most reckless/foolish thing you have ever done?"

Tried adjusting the depth, trim, and diving controls on MaryBeth Bruckmeister at the drive-in when i was 16! :arrgh!:

[Spitzenhund]

I think you could do withe the Klingon cloaking device mod :hmmm:

Too late for that :D

[Paulebaer1979]

I went into the harbour from Scapa Flow with my type VIIb, found and destroyed one light cruiser in the bay. Than i went near the real harbour and tried to sink the warships. I went on firing torpedos and didn´t look at the normal map. Two Flower Corvettes found me with their asdic and started to depth charging me. Bow and after depth rudder were destroyed. So i had to go outside without using them. Go to PD with the pumps, moving for a while at that depth and then stop the engines for keeping the depth. The way in took me half an hour in realtime - the way out nearly 5 hours and a lot of adrenaline :rock:

Greetings Paul

Playing SHIII with Living Silent Hunter 5.1 @ 88% realismus on Intel Core2Quad 2,83Ghz, Ati 4890, 4GB Ram, Windows Vista HP 64Bit

Sonar pettyofficer on S190, S196 and S183

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[Spitzenhund]

K new stupidest thing i have ever done that just happened i will keep it short this time.

Radio Contact Overheard. I try to intercept it i dont get any hydrophone feed even though i had my broadside turned towards the ship. I surface my U-boat not knowing the weather. i use time compression and then i get what i was waiting for "Ship Spotted" i take a look and its foggy, dark, and high seas so im wondering how my crew spotted it. i turn around and i see a Large Merchant so close to us i could touch it. 54 U-boat crew was killed that night.

IDK why these new careers i start do so horrible but my other one seems to be lucky i need to stop being a noob :|.

[Oberon]

I think that any harbour attack conducted under GWX would fall into this category. Bloody ASW trawlers... *grumbles*

I think the most stupid thing I've ever done though was my quest to sink the Aquitania. :yep: Realism was about 70-80% IIRC, had externals on and First officer doing the math. I did a harbour raid into Portsmouth in a Type IX.

Yeah...

Made it out alive though! Just...

Here's the thread, with pics:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=129266

[tigertiggs2007]

Attacking a very large task force with my VIIB near somewhere... oh well. I wasted half my torps on a battleship :rock:. Forced to surface after endless depth charging. Faced 7 DDs and a damaged RN battleship with my deck gun :damn:. BUT somehow i made it out. 2 destroyers collided together :haha: and another one scraped the edge of the RN battleship and sank. Noticed a damaged destroyer heading for me and took out its cannons with an flak :hmmm:, and then i flanked my way out. :yeah:

[tigertiggs2007]

This is plain stupidty then reckless.
After a tiring patrol in my VIIB. It was very slow because of endless patrolling hurricanes and bombers to AM32. sank 2 merchants on the way, but when i'm just about out of the dock i was attacked by 2 swordfish torp bombers :damn:. Lost 1 crew as both planes scored direct hits.
As i arrived home it was ~2am and stormy. couldn't see where i was going, i spotted the 2 lighthouses and set a course inbetween. It was slow so i fast forwarded, then i noticed something was wrong, in front of me is the harbor wall, and i am flanking towards it on 32 times speed :damn:...and you can guess what happened next...

UBOAT LOST DUE TO COLLISION...

[dinnemesis]

Was trying to reach the Bismarck but couldn't find her. Suddenly i got the message that she was sunk... Filled with grief over the great tragedy for the fatherland i decided it was time for some real Vergeltung, i started to cruise on
1024x mode. Suddenly my Watchofficer was reporting ship ahead.
I ran up to the bridge just to see 2 "newly discovered battleships shooting on me from like 2000-2500m :stare: (the watchofficer of course blamed Bernhard for the incident). Fealing that the the revenge for Bismarck was worth more than our lives I speeded up and stayed in surface mode. I launched four torpedoes and dived, with extrem damages caused to my ship. Two of my torps struck the first BB a Nelson-class, and it sunk... After having repaired my damges and seen the other BB get away, i surfaced my boat happy to have gained revenge fort the Bismarck, and begun my trip home...

However after a short period at see a got a new report from my watchofficer, once again i reach the bridge and see a Heavy cruiser launching accurate shots from 3000 meters... That Watchofficer :damn:
I tried to dive but it was too late :nope:

[Raticon]

...Trying to enter Portsmouth with my II-D and find Ark Royal or something bigger, after i took down the Royal Oak i got a bit over-enthusiastic i guess...

Clear waters, bright blue sky, a lovely afternoon, what could possibly go wrong?

Wrestlig with the uboat-nets for half an hour... DD's pinging and depthcharging me like crazy and along comes half of the RAF and joins the fun, AA guy get's killed during escape and i show the whole world where i am trying to crash-dive and then bumping into the bottom of the sea in ~25-ish meters shallow waters. I may add that all my torpedoes missed or exploded against the concrete harbor docks as i even missed the stationary targets.

I actually survived and fled to Kiel, the Bdu was considering the electric chair, beheading or burning on a stake as my future career options but the Hero that sank the Royal Oak got one last chance to show his worth, as i left port they were already voting on which kind of wood the stake i was to be burned at be made of. I can only say that i am worth the pig that's painted on my conning tower.

[TDK1044]

Telling Jimbuna that the drinks are on me. :)

[Jimbuna]

Telling Jimbuna that the drinks are on me. :)

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[krashkart]

A couple of days ago I decided to chase down a convoy in bad weather. As one might expect, the first ship that I encountered in the thick fog was the convoy's tailgunner: a frigate. When will I ever learn!? :damn:

Anyway, in all truth it wasn't such a bad turn of events. While the frigate and her buddies tossed a goodly sum of ashcans all over creation in a concerted effort to kill us, we slipped away quietly and remained underwater long enough for the hostile weather to abate. Once the escorts had run out of fun things to do to us they sped away to rejoin the convoy, and I was able to resurface and make a better approach in much clearer conditions. :DL

Now I just need to work on my aim... :shifty:

[RConch]

Anytime I taken on an aircraft other than a swordfish.:nope:
I love the sound of all the flak guns going off even to no avail.
I can't resist. I love the painting I stare at behind my computer-"Aganist all Odds" by Robert Taylor. You should get a copy.
Good hunting to all!:salute:

[krashkart]

I love the sound of all the flak guns going off even to no avail.

I wholeheartedly agree. There's nothing quite like the sound of paired 37's thumping away... the sound of God and Thunder at the command of mere mortals. :D

[Raticon]

I wholeheartedly agree. There's nothing quite like the sound of paired 37's thumping away... the sound of God and Thunder at the command of mere mortals. :D

I couldn't agree more. Early in the war it's very easy IMO to pick down Ansons coming from the british isles, they only use the bombs they (sometimes) carry with them and when they do they are horribly bad. First thing: Get an officer trained to handle the pea-shooter you carry with you. Next up: get bold and brave, the swordfishes and Ansons are easy targets that go down easily...

The nasty side-effect is when you shoot down a couple planes and go bold, and take on 2 or 3 at the same time and then suddenly think you can down the whole RAF.

:nope: those poor sailors...

[Frenchy849]

It was early 1941,I spotted a large convoy in the middle of the night not far from Spain,and also saw 2 IXB as well as a VIIC that apparently sank the escorts for the cost of heavy damage and the inability to follow the convoy,the VIIC even seemed like it was submerging...
So I made the dumb decision of engaging it with the deck gun,as always...
Not any of the ships even saw me when I was at least 500 meters away from one ship.I shot a round and then bam,the projector lights and star rounds blinded the heck out of me and they started shooting,innacurately, at me,but I still kept going,until my boat took some hits,which I ordered to dive and torpedo them,when they didn't know where I was again I surfaced,shot them,took shots myself,dived and did that cycle until I had 14% hull integrity and most of the big ships in it were sunk.I met an Ore carrier after getting out of here.
Result:6 ships sunk for 35747 tons,aka my most succesful patrol,taking me to the 19th place of U-boot aces.

[Pacman_77]

Taking on destroyers - any type and size - surface engagements of course using the 40mm flak gun, its rapid fire rips up the tin cans with ease.

OR

sitting idle on the surface on the high side of a listing stationary battleship while picking off the destroyer screen with deck armaments. Battleships provide excellent protection against shells from destroyers!!

OR

Managing to briefly stay abeam with a Destroyer (few yards apart) and partially surfaced while an angry battleship on the opposite side is pumping out shells and giving the "protective" escort a right royal pummelling!!! The only downside is that the kill is not credited to you but it's still worth a laugh!!!

[flag4]

Next up: get bold and brave, the swordfishes and Ansons are easy targets that go down easily...


:nope: those poor sailors...


...and in one moment of bad timing so will you and all your hard earned tons and crew...:dead:

[les green01]

this happen when i first got sh3 was cruising the english channel went to work leaving it on 1x came home and notice i was nose first into the mud the dog decided to play the game for me and hit the dive button also have found out what happens when you get to close to a burning ship,once destoyers was after me so manuver to a wounded ship and had it sink right ontop of me.

[VonApist]

GWX, SH3Commander, 90% and I decide a raid in Halifax (mid 1940) with my VIIB U-33.

The Navigator gave me a funny look "Canada, Kaleun? This boat's engines wont run on seawater..."

"Dont worry Franz - there is always Greenland for refueling on our way back"...

Anyways, we arrive out of Halifax pretty easily, evading all destroyers patrolling. We wait 2-3 days for a change in weather and it eventually comes. Low visibility, high winds , rain. So I decide to go in and take a look.

Decks awash until we reach a position 4-5miles out of the harbour then depth 17 meters , speed 1knot silent running. We manage to stay undetected. We enter the port. 1 modern tanker and 1 large merchant in nice view on the southern docks. I send 4 eels their way (2 each) and make my way out. Both ships are hit, so after 2 hours of silent running since the weather is crappy i order decks awash to make a faster escape. We are now 7-8 miles out of the harbour moving east at 6 knots, feeling pretty happy when we bump into two destroyers heading directly TOWARSS me coming from 000. Due to low visibility I only saw them when we reached a distance of 250m.

Rammed and died...

Pretty annoying

[Kafka BC]

GWX, SH3Commander, 90% and I decide a raid in Halifax (mid 1940) with my VIIB U-33. ....

....Rammed and died...

Pretty annoying

Damned annoying.

They messed up Halifax in the game. In real life you would never have made it in, see my post here (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=190510).

[andwii]

New most foolish thing ive done, attacked troop ships heading for Normandy. I made it out alive though.

[u35_captain]

Surfacing in daylight in Hartlepool to save torpedoes and using the deck gun on the shipping. To my utter amazement, no aircraft showed up at all. (Mid 1940, but still)

And then one destroyer came poking around. But I was in the harbour itself (there was no way my gunners could miss, and turns out the destroyer tried to come in to get me as I'd submerged...right where my forward torpedoes were already aiming. Damned tricky getting out of the gap between the breakwall and wharves with a sunken destroyer in my exit vector, but still.

Recklessness paid off this one time, I think.

[matti95]

TC x64 while getting depth charged :woot:

[andwii]

TC x64 while getting depth charged :woot:

lol ive gone to 128 before while DC. As long as your confident you lost them like I was. Turns out I wasn't though, didn't die but it was scary.

[Soviet Creeper]

I wasnt paying attention to the fact after Id gotten away from a convoy my sub was leaking a little, so I went to TC at periscope depth and BAM before I knew it I was at 150 meters and dropping like a rock. I was in a XXI with 60 percent hull integerty, so I was deperatly assigning people to my DC section and trying to de flood the sub. I went down too about 210 meters before I was able to start rising. I then limped my way back to base while evading the everything.

Worst thing is this was all caused because I got cocky in a storm and a S boat landed some shells into me with his deck gun, while I couldnt fire mine due to the storm. That Sboat is a hacker :nope:

[Das Boot_U96]

On my first patrol in AN47, I couldn't find anything at all in that grid. :zzz:

I remember reading that Hartlepool was a port easy to sneak into, and it was.

I was literally 300m away from the stationery ships, I was at periscope depth but I did have my periscope up the entire time and the the lights were just loking at me :hmmm:

I managed to sink all 3 ships, one being a T2 Tanker, the other a C2 Cargo and the other a small merchant if I remember correctly. Was proud considering I'm new to this game:rock:

My battery was low though an oxygen reserves getting low, so I had to surface in their port, still not noticed somehow :haha: maybe it was the weather? It was foggy and stormy.

5 Mins later and a warship just rams into the side of me and sinks me :damn:

[Shkval]

Mid '43 trough the channel on surface in my IXC flank speed... calm sea, clear weather, and dozens of katalinas with the moon behind their back... i shoot down about 40... maybe 50 of them... and left without a single bullet for AA guns... then I was forced to dive... and survive...

[Frenchy849]

Mid '43 trough the channel on surface in my IXC flank speed... calm sea, clear weather, and dozens of katalinas with the moon behind their back... i shoot down about 40... maybe 50 of them... and left without a single bullet for AA guns... then I was forced to dive... and survive...
HehehAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHHHehhh...ehhh,no.

[Shkval]

I really did that, it was like the scene from "Das Boot" when they are discovered in Gibraltar... bombs splashing everywhere, and constant drumming of AA guns, with me sitting behind 4-barreled 20mm flak... they were dropping like flies... only thing I was worried about was that some of those stupid katalinas will fall on me... there were few close ones but luckily they missed... but never again... second craziest thing was in SH4... cruising on surface in Tokyo bay, but with the "little" help of radar I managed to recharge my batteries...and dive again... although I was scared to sh..!
The most stupidest thing I ever done was (this one goes for the Darwin award) hitting the "right full rudder" instead of "left full rudder" what led me directly beneath the destroyer, which I tried to dodge, in my brand new type XXI, and I got DC directly in my mouth, sunk like a stone...

[Sailor Steve]

Stock game or modded? Patrol bombers attacked in groups of one, and were plenty dangerous that way. The stock game gives you dozens of planes, all easy to shoot down. The supermods should fix that.

[Shkval]

Stock of course...back then long time ago internet was dial-up and expensive as platinum... downloading GWX would last a month and my parents would hang me for my tenders for telephone bill... now with GWX I'm cautious as a sardine... SH4 was also stock...

[utops]

Reloading externals when shadowing convoy 16.000 km away was pretty stupid.
Black Swan DE spots me and i cannot surface and max speed was 4kts
All hands lost.

GWX/h.sie patch

[Soviet Creeper]

Heh, once i went to reload externals. Then got caught by a trawler and torp boat. I was lucky enough to kill them with a mix of deck gun and flak. Not before suffering some hull damage though D:

[GT182]

On patrol in Grid BF 15 Oct of 1940... and getting ready to take on the HMS Hood, shadowed by 5 Tribal Class destroyers or more. I've only counted 5 but the hydrophone is showing more contacts.

[utops]

Reloading externals when shadowing convoy 16.000 km away was pretty stupid.
Black Swan DE spots me and i cannot dive and max speed was 4kts
All hands lost.
GWX/h.sie patch
QFC

[Dive! Dive! Dive!]

Taking on 2 Revenge class battleships at surface with deck gun.
Wish me luck!

[SubConscious]

Taking on 2 Revenge class battleships at surface with deck gun.
Wish me luck!

If you win, go after the Rodney & Nelson! 8^ )

I've gotten into a gunfight with an armed trawler (once you pick off the poor soul manning the AAA gun in the bow, it's a pretty easy fight), but that's about the limit of my gumption. I admire your moxie!

[les green01]

seems like lately im doing too many stupid stuff but why stop when your on a roll i guess lol

[Dive! Dive! Dive!]

Outcome: not much really.
I managed to score a few hits below the waterline but it probably only did minor damage. We got hit by something (unsure what) and we ended up sinking but we pulled up at the last sec (:o moment) and we had suffered huge damage but the sinking had saved us. Now to try again! :rock:

[SubConscious]

Can you tweak the config file to give yourself nuclear warheads for your deck gun? I don't see how you're going to win that battle otherwise. ;)

What would be neat is if you could hide behind merchant ships and let the battle wagons sink them for you.

Ages ago I had my boat in a horrible storm that just went on and on. I stayed at depth as much as possible, but had to come up periodically for air & recharging. On one of these trips up, I surfaced just astern of a Rodney class battleship. I could see the screws coming up out of the water, but was so close that they couldn't shoot me - if they saw me at all.

This got me thinking: Do you suppose there is a minimum distance for their secondary armament? What if you surfaced right next to the battleship?

[VONHARRIS]

Outcome: not much really.
I managed to score a few hits below the waterline but it probably only did minor damage. We got hit by something (unsure what) and we ended up sinking but we pulled up at the last sec (:o moment) and we had suffered huge damage but the sinking had saved us. Now to try again! :rock:

Most possible 15 in shells
It is a miracle you survived.

[Dive! Dive! Dive!]

Absolute amazing!

The two split up about 3-4 hours after our engagement. They are either looking for me or going to different ports. They are separated by quite a bit now (assuming. My hydrophone and sonar are non-existent.). After tailing the one I hit earlier. I surfaced and began pumping some rounds into it. I got in real close without getting hit and as mentioned above,the rounds stopped. It was easy pickings and after near-exhausting my deck gun ammo. The poor ship began to sink. It took a while (a few hours) but I had won! Now for the next one! :cool:

[SubConscious]

I suspect that Donitz issued you a Monitor, not a U-boat. Next time please take some screen shots, as I'd love to see an engagement of that sort. ;)

Congrats!

[Dive! Dive! Dive!]

I have it on Steam. So that could be pretty easy for the one I am currently tailing. But I am taking turns between SH III and DW so it usually takes about a day for me to kill a single ship because I have other things to do. But alas, do not worry! My brave (mostly dead) crew are a credit to the Kriegsmarine! :salute:

[desertstriker]

oh jeeze i have done more than my fair share of stupid stuff in SH3
1 running SH3 and looking at my email. you cant hear ship sigted and BWOOOMMM nice present from a DD.
2 attacking a convoy head on that ended baddly
3 my most favorit taking on a HC with my deck gun

[Maceaciadh]

i have had my fair share of stupid attacks but i guess most people have. i have taken on 5 sunderland scout planes easily enough, they are slow and huge so a heavy flak rips them apart.... so long as they miss on their first attack run

also managed to destroy a c class destroyer once, it kept shooting my watch tower doing small amounts of damage and not the water line. mind you this was vanilla, i am sure GWX would have been so much less forgiving.

never been brave enough to take on a cruiser though :haha:

[Mowgli]

I do not know if this attack earlier this evening was stupid or not but it was certainly scary, especially as I am playing DID.

On passage from Canada to Ireland and I find myself directly in the path of a convoy in a storm 15 in early 1941.

I dive down to 20 metres smack in the centre in my type IX. I open all tubes, set all to impact and reduce the eels running depth, go to silent and head straight down the centre.

I track the escorts, wait for them to pass and turn hard to starboard to position front and stern for 90 degree attacks on whatever I see when I reach periscope depth.

As I order midships and my scope not yet through the surface, there is a huge scraping and I switch to external (which I try not use but I like the graphics once the shots are done). A small freighters bows come down on my stern and I scrape away thinking Im done so switch straight to my scope.

However I figure to take something with me and fire off two eels at a large freighter.

I spin the scope 180 and fire at another large vessel - at this point I am not even sure I have a stern torpedo room but fire anyway then rush to my damage control/crew page to find there is no damage and no crew losses.

3 of the 4 eels hit and both vessels go down and I dive deep and let the convoy roll over me and wait till they pass.

I am now shadowing the convoy but this time will try a different attack pattern.

Just wish Id had time to get a screen shot.