Your worst Depth Charging

[nikimcbee]

What's the worst depth charging you've ever endured and lived to tell the tale.

How much damage did you sustain?

How many depth charges were dropped?

What kind of escort(s) did you tangle with.


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[desertstriker]

3 hours of 4 destroyers they where 2 tribals and a hunt 1 and 2 circling as i attempted to get away depth charges droped well i have no idea.
damage well see this
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2052172&postcount=11032

half the crew either dead or injured.

[jimmyjam25]

Chased by 3 destroyers till they ran out of depth charges. It was hours of out-manoevering them. Then I had to sink all 3 of them with torpedoes which took a very long time! So hard to gain enough distance to even take a shot. Was intense! Long live SH3GWX!

[Montekidlo]

I think my worst DC attack was the very first back in 2006, perhaps even on my first, out of many, patrols. The feeling was terrible, as I'm capable to remember. Sonar sound alone made my hands shiver and in some point I really had no clue what should I do because the panic was so intensive. With cold sweated palms I used to pause the game often just to take some time to thing about actions I should take as captain to escape those evil destroyers.

I still remember my first death in SH3. I was starring at the monitor, watching at death screen silently for about 3 minutes. I couldn't believe my boat was destroyed.

[u crank]

I don't like getting depth charged. It scratches the paint on my U-boat.

:O:

[vanjast]

Also a long time ago...

I was bounced around '43 by a single escort (or destroyer) near the convoy.
Very soon I had definitely 3 of them (maybe 4) above playing 'tag' with me.
No idea what they were as I play at 100%

One would sit there pinging me and the others would attack. They'd take turns. It lasted for around 8 hours Real Time - I got to bed very late :arrgh!:
DC count.. no idea, I stopped counting, but they were salvos of around 4 - 8 each time... I don't think they ran out of DCs.

I spent the whole time at the sonar station, tracking each ship and avoiding each attack. I suffered un-repairable scope (both) damage, so after creeping away deep and slow.. I managed to escape after around 12 hours under, to return to base.

The best experience I've had in the game. :up:

[Montekidlo]

One would sit there pinging me and the others would attack.




I couldn't be so sure on 100% realism to say that one would sit pinging.. :)

Unless I wished to be my story more exiting than ir actually was lol :)

[vanjast]

He was sitting there alright.. I'd follow his attack... then he'd buzz off to one side then stop engines. Then his pinging began... you'd get dual/triple pings happening.. then the one that was stationary.. suddenly came to life and would beam down on me.. this attack cycle would continue for hours.

It was a known method used - The Creeping Attack.. I think it was called.
:)

[Montekidlo]

If your are chased by 3 or more destroyers it might happen that one of them stops because they can't attack all in the same time. Destroyers also has a collision threat triggers among their ships so if collission threat happens one of the desroyers usually stops or gives reverse and stops for some time before re-engages the attack. But this is only coinsidence when such situation occurs :)

It might look as if the destroyer who stops does listening or pinging action like it was a smart AI, but the truth is more simple about these events :)

[desertstriker]

To bad the AI cant be upgraded

[cuthy2k]

From last night:

I have a little spot that I like to sit in off the coast of Northern Ireland, east of LondonDerry opposite the Scottish Island of Kintyre which has a pot of deep water.

I'm sitting there, using GWX 3 Gold picking off lone merchies early 1940 with the deck gun and larger ones using carefully aimed torps for 1 hit kills (hit the front mast, ship takes on water as it sails and goes down about 1-2 hours later).

Bored off the many ore carriers that pass through when all of a sudden sonar goes mental with many contacts approaching fast from the West heading into the safety of the British Isles.

I get into position, up scope... HMS Hood and a Revenge class battleship with 7 (yes SEVEN!) escorts. I consider chickening out and breaking off the attach, but then again, this opportunity dosent come along that often!

All 4 tubes flooded... 2 at each battleship. 4 hits! :o

The escorts then go mental! I fired from 4000m and as soon as the last torp left the tube I dived to 70m and headed in the opposite direction. A couple minutes later, an escort finds me and calls his brothers and sisters to the party.

3 hours RL they hunted me, depth now 150m. I tried every trick I could but there were 2 escorts sitting 1000 and 1300m away from the rest listening and coordinating the attacks for the others. The escorts were clambering over me like bank holiday traffic at the beach with lots of reversing and course changes.

I was only hit once, causing minor damage to the flak gun. 3 hours later, I somehow escaped! My tactic: sitting a few meters above the bottom on silent running and zero movement. The escorts must have gotten spooked by a false reading as they started DC'ing a contact a couple hundred meters away and kept at it. After 30 minutes of no sonar my way, I crawled off.

After all that, I didnt get one of the battleships who limped off with the decks almost awash :shifty:

[U1260]

My worst depth charging didn't come from escorts, but from aircraft...coming back from a patrol mid 1942 in a VIIc (U553) I was surprised in the Bay of Biscay and got hit by four wabos that knocked out my starboard engine, damaged the port to about 50%, killed several of the crew, reduced my hull integrity to 30% and caused a LOT of flooding that still I still am surprised I managed to make the repairs and slip into port. To add insuly to injury I was sunk next patrol by planes south of Iceland:doh:

[vanjast]

The escorts must have gotten spooked by a false reading as they started DC'ing a contact a couple hundred meters away and kept at it

AFAIK false bottom readings are not implemented in SH3.. which is a pity.
I've never seen a task force :wah:

[Luno]

Chased by 3 destroyers till they ran out of depth charges. It was hours of out-manoevering them. Then I had to sink all 3 of them with torpedoes which took a very long time! So hard to gain enough distance to even take a shot. Was intense! Long live SH3GWX!

Emphasis added. Is that even possible? :hmmm:

[BulSoldier]

yes they can run out of ammo. Usually that is the way i get out most of the time.