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KRiPtiCz
10-01-11, 10:00 AM
im normally never awake at this time, how are the waters
Well, depends on what part of the world you are....
KRiPtiCz
10-01-11, 10:05 AM
Well, depends on what part of the world you are....
ha U.S its currently 10:05 am
Oh over here in Germany it is already 0511 PM :salute:
East Coast, traffic is quite dense from Portland down to FL...and air sovereignty, :yep:
Jimbuna
10-01-11, 06:22 PM
Hang around about 100km east of Halifax....and fill yer boots.
Fish In The Water
10-01-11, 08:13 PM
im normally never awake at this time, how are the waters
Warm and inviting...
Not to mention, full of allied wrecks! :03:
09Mar41
1500hrs
U-97 sank two large merchants from a fast inbound convoy NW Rockall Bank. Evaded escorts no dc's, no damage. Lost contact with convoy. Running ahead on surface to try and regain contact.
Himber, Oblt.
going to bed.:zzz:
Altered some of the history of WW2 by sinking a Brooklyn Class Cruiser, then sinking his escort friend, was on the way back to St. Nazarie, after refueling and restocking from U461 we I got a report of a convoy heading east north east, slow. I set up an intercept course, went silent running and snuck right into the middle of the convoy. It was then I noticed the Crusier, and he was going to run into a perfect shot with my stern tube, so alle Maschinen zu stoppen! so then I waited for the right moment, opened the tube door right before hand and then shot. Hit her in the bow and down she went. Then the escort friend got sunk by my magnetic tube. After this I went and destroyed the rest of the convoy. Was a good run.
Jimbuna
10-02-11, 09:17 AM
Altered some of the history of WW2 by sinking a Brooklyn Class Cruiser, then sinking his escort friend, was on the way back to St. Nazarie, after refueling and restocking from U461 we I got a report of a convoy heading east north east, slow. I set up an intercept course, went silent running and snuck right into the middle of the convoy. It was then I noticed the Crusier, and he was going to run into a perfect shot with my stern tube, so alle Maschinen zu stoppen! so then I waited for the right moment, opened the tube door right before hand and then shot. Hit her in the bow and down she went. Then the escort friend got sunk by my magnetic tube. After this I went and destroyed the rest of the convoy. Was a good run.
Pictures or it didn't happen :smug:
Pictures or it didn't happen :smug:
Roger that!!
Well my Patrols are a bit cursed now. I find only small ships, and after i have no eels left, there are convoys full of carriers and battleships. :shifty:
soopaman2
10-02-11, 12:00 PM
I just killed 2 fishing boats, hows that for honor? :down:
If you have to catch the big fish, you give more energy and not lethargic, get more involved in the game and do not use TC ... so you can bring up the level of the GRT :arrgh!:
the southern tip of north afica is almost a virtual dead zone. I can't wait till 1942 then BdU will send me to rich hunting grounds of America and I can trully utilize my type IX at her full potential.
Jimbuna
10-02-11, 01:25 PM
the southern tip of north afica is almost a virtual dead zone. I can't wait till 1942 then BdU will send me to rich hunting grounds of America and I can trully utilize my type IX at her full potential.
If your anywhere near North Africa simply drop anchor 250 km west of Gibraltar and many a convoy will come your way.
If your anywhere near North Africa simply drop anchor 250 km west of Gibraltar and many a convoy will come your way. "drop anchor"....riiiiiight :har:
If your anywhere near North Africa simply drop anchor 250 km west of Gibraltar and many a convoy will come your way.
BdU has been sending me way south of there near Freetown. we encountered one convoy but sun no mechants due to being tagteamed by five blackswan destroyers.
Jimbuna
10-02-11, 01:36 PM
BdU has been sending me way south of there near Freetown. we encountered one convoy but sun no mechants due to being tagteamed by five blackswan destroyers.
You don't have to go where Bdu send you....use a bit of creative initiative and follow your instincts.
Fortune favours the brave http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif
You don't have to go where Bdu send you....use a bit of creative initiative and follow your instincts.
Fortune favours the brave http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif
they don't even reward you for patroling your assinged grid.
Jimbuna
10-02-11, 03:09 PM
they don't even reward you for patroling your assinged grid.
If your playing GWX....then no they don't but they do in stock/vanilla.
Pictures or it didn't happen :smug:
http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww291/sopranosaxman/2011-10-01_00003.jpg
your lucky, because I actually took one. lol
Jimbuna
10-02-11, 04:02 PM
SINK EM ALL!! http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif
soopaman2
10-02-11, 04:06 PM
Everyone here is posting conquests...
I just got sunk... I did all the things your supposed to do to evade trouble...:oops:
Trouble just found me (trouble=lucky depth charge set deep)... I was one of the 30000 out of 40000 I suppose. :yep:
Jimbuna
10-02-11, 04:48 PM
Never give up...keep on trying http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif
Everyone here is posting conquests...
I just got sunk... I did all the things your supposed to do to evade trouble...:oops:
Trouble just found me (trouble=lucky depth charge set deep)... I was one of the 30000 out of 40000 I suppose. :yep:
just because the game says your dead dosn't mean you can reastart in the same year and got out again.
U-Falke
10-02-11, 05:48 PM
just because the game says your dead dosn't mean you can reastart in the same year and got out again.
yes, you 've got to restart in aug 1939 inside a canoe and with realistic crew.... go back to Danzig :D:D
Fish In The Water
10-02-11, 06:22 PM
I just killed 2 fishing boats, hows that for honor? :down:
Thanks for that. Now I'll sleep good tonight knowing the little fishes are safe. :03:
KRiPtiCz
10-04-11, 04:30 PM
I just killed 2 fishing boats, hows that for honor? :down:
love the fishing boat scare as soon as i hear it i periscope depth find it (beat my head on the hull) then surface and shoot at it with my deck gun
Pretty, some BB, and two CL, and some DD, an ordinary day, :arrgh!:
Sailor Steve
10-04-11, 07:49 PM
they don't even reward you for patroling your assinged grid.
Why would they reward you for following orders? :sunny:
Fish In The Water
10-04-11, 09:04 PM
Why would they reward you for following orders? :sunny:
Cause hardly anyone does and doing so makes you stand out from the crowd? :D :O:
Sailor Steve
10-04-11, 10:31 PM
Cause hardly anyone does and doing so makes you stand out from the crowd? :D :O:
:rotfl2: :yeah:
Of course if that's the case I should be promoted to Admiral after my first patrol. :sunny:
Jimbuna
10-05-11, 10:23 AM
:rotfl2: :yeah:
Of course if that's the case I should be promoted to Admiral after my first patrol. :sunny:
Back in the cook house with you...tis time to peel the spuds.
http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/1536/img2006081421565.gif
I love these moments...."SHIP SPOTTET!!!" Then the dramatical battle music starts. You go to Periscope depth and search. THEN! SUDDENLY! a sailing ship...... :o deeper LI fast! silent running!!
soopaman2
10-05-11, 10:46 AM
I am having a stellar run of luck in early 1940. Every torpedo I fire hits head on (or abeam). Every airplane is missing, then dying to my amazing gunners. I circled around and sunk a destroyer who was depth charging me for HOURS!
43k+ tonnage with 6 forward and 2 aft eels left.
My square is uneventful at the moment and plan on raiding French ports and shipping until I expell all ordinance. I will award extra medals to my gunners (deck and flak) as well to my torpedo officer. (thanks sh3 commander)
I hope I didn't jinx myself with this.:D I aint back at port yet:03:
I usually die horribly after I get happy about good patrols.:har:
I am having a stellar run of luck in early 1940. Every torpedo I fire hits head on (or abeam). Every airplane is missing, then dying to my amazing gunners. I circled around and sunk a destroyer who was depth charging me for HOURS!
You don't have GWX, do you? :D A Destroyer would sink you within a few seconds. But sadly "Alberich" doesn't work the way likeit did in real :(
soopaman2
10-05-11, 11:23 AM
You don't have GWX, do you? :D A Destroyer would sink you within a few seconds. But sadly "Alberich" doesn't work the way likeit did in real :(
No sir, not on this run, I have 2 installations on my computer and know better to attempt destroyer hunting and deck gun games with GWX :haha:
Sailor Steve
10-05-11, 12:47 PM
You don't have GWX, do you? :D A Destroyer would sink you within a few seconds. But sadly "Alberich" doesn't work the way likeit did in real :(
How well did it work in real life? Are there sufficient reports saying it worked? A great many u-boats were sunk in that period. Did they have it or not?
My point is that there is not enough evidence one way or the other to say for certain how effective it was. Or is there? I don't know, which is why I'm asking.
You don't have GWX, do you? :D A Destroyer would sink you within a few seconds. But sadly "Alberich" doesn't work the way likeit did in real :(
lol not necessarily, on my last patrol I had about 6 of them DCin me for a whole night until morning, and I didnt take any damage.
My point is that there is not enough evidence one way or the other to say for certain how effective it was. Or is there? I don't know, which is why I'm asking.
Well i am sure you heard about U-480. It was never able to be detected by ASDIC becaus it absorbed the Frequency of the ASDIC, so they didn't were able to detect the submarine with it. There is a Documentation about U-480 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaVaqcm3vBI) also with some facts about it but it is on german without subtitles.
The british navy were able to catch a message of the germans where U-480 wrote "Alberich works!" but they didn't even know what Alberich was to this time. They first though it is some kind which makes the submarine more survival against Depth Charges and just after long time they recognized that it is some kind of stealth technic. U-480 was never found becaus even modern sonars couldn't detect it. It was found after a fishingboat lost its net at the submarine. Before no one knowed where U-480 sunk.
lol not necessarily, on my last patrol I had about 6 of them DCin me for a whole night until morning, and I didnt take any damage.
I am talking if you are surfaced and try to destroy the Destroyer with your Deckgun like in the odd movie U-571 :O:
Sailor Steve
10-05-11, 05:25 PM
Well i am sure you heard about U-480. It was never able to be detected by ASDIC becaus it absorbed the Frequency of the ASDIC, so they didn't were able to detect the submarine with it.
No, I had not heard of it, which was why I asked. It was only tested on two u-boats that I could find, and it did seem to be quite effective. That said, this site says that the echo reduction was only about 15%.
http://www.uboataces.com/sonar-coating.shtml
On the other hand the Wiki article claims it reduced sonar effectiveness from an optimal range of 2000 meters to around 300 meters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anechoic_tile
And it's used on all modern subs, so it must have some advantages.
I'm only suggesting that it shouldn't make you invisible. Harder to find, sure, but no impossible. As to how the game works, I have no clue, never having been outside 1940.
No, I had not heard of it, which was why I asked. It was only tested on two u-boats that I could find, and it did seem to be quite effective. That said, this site says that the echo reduction was only about 15%.
http://www.uboataces.com/sonar-coating.shtml
On the other hand the Wiki article claims it reduced sonar effectiveness from an optimal range of 2000 meters to around 300 meters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anechoic_tile
And it's used on all modern subs, so it must have some advantages.
I'm only suggesting that it shouldn't make you invisible. Harder to find, sure, but no impossible. As to how the game works, I have no clue, never having been outside 1940.
Well in the video they say, a Destroyer was steaming right above U-480 and was using Asdic but didn't found them. Later in the war they found the frequency of the Alberich. I think since Silent Hunter 3 is a simulation it should also use the advantages, not only the disadvantages. Remember U-480 was found through luck. No one even knowed that a submarine sunk in this region.
Sailor Steve
10-06-11, 10:55 AM
Well in the video they say, a Destroyer was steaming right above U-480 and was using Asdic but didn't found them. Later in the war they found the frequency of the Alberich. I think since Silent Hunter 3 is a simulation it should also use the advantages, not only the disadvantages. Remember U-480 was found through luck. No one even knowed that a submarine sunk in this region.
Destroyers sailed right above u-boats and didn't find them on many other occasions, and they didn't have it. This article raises the interesting question of how much U-480's escape had to do with the coating and how much was due to the skill (or lack thereof) of the asdic crew.
http://books.google.com/books?id=gDP8T7d-iskC&pg=PA53&lpg=PA53&dq=alberich+coating&source=bl&ots=FuJaznauPD&sig=vXY17vjm_5u6VpBJkDM9TuSRpF8&hl=en&ei=Us6NTvatCce1sQKkwOS3AQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CEQQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=alberich%20coating&f=false
You say you want realism, but how realistic is it to have alberich at all? How many u-boats were actually treated? How many escapes can be attributed to alberich? In the old statistician's saying, "Once is not a trend".
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