Rammstein0991
11-04-13, 10:28 PM
Using my IXD-2 (U-894) this morning I decided to go waaaaaaaaaaaay out on a limb and raid San Francisco, I figured, hey bound to be something juicy there right? :hmmm: so off I went. Got there (after sinking a victory cargo) and well, SHIP CITY there were several vessels from small split's to victory C's and even a few T3's all sitting in the open. I sank a few of those but I didnt find what I REALLY wanted, big gun warships, flat tops, etc... so (stupid as it was) I got a hairbrained idea into my empty coconut of a skull, I'd go see if I could sneak into Pearl Harbor HI.
I knew itd be almost impossible to get in, but I also knew was the caliber of targets I not could but WOULD find there, so off I go. After a while taking my time to get there (avoiding planes) I get close to Pearl and find a destroyer patrolling near the SE coast near Honolulu, I turned around and hit him with my only "Zaunkonig" from tube 5 and proceeded away from the area and towards Pearl again. Lo and behold here comes in another Destroyer who for some ungodly reason didnt notice me, I turned when I notice he had stopped (possible sonar check) and fired a TI at him at high speed on surface impact setting, just as it almost hits him he goes full throttle and turns away, I'm thinking he is turning to begin a run on me, but as I am looking at my world map to get a better look at his position I see the message "enemy ship destroyed"...he had turned AWAY from me and somehow steered right back into the path of the torpedo he had just evaded moments earlier. :har:
Deciding to try and make my run on the harbor I managed to reach the harbor entrance with no further excitement (though I noticed two VERY fast blue lines whipping back and forth over the area where those two DD's met their very stupid end). As I enter the harbor its like heaven, 4 carriers, light and heavy cruisers and the BB North Carolina. With my first two torpedos I sink the carrier near the entrance to the harbor, she let off a series of explisions and went down w/o further fuss, then I decided to turn and nail the North carolina, and so crawling along at 1 knot (SR) I managed to swing around and I fire off two at her thinking I'll probably need to hit her again....well, I didnt.
As soon as torpedo #1 hit the entire freakin thing exploded, it was like watching the worlds largest firecracker, a wall of flame from bow to stern, maybe I hit a fuel tank or something idk, but she went down. Once I got over my shock and awe, I proceeded into the harbor for one more ship to sink (by this point I had two stern tubes and the external stern reloads which had not yet been brought in due to space) I ended up nailing another carrier and then I made my way at 1 kt out of Pearl and back out to sea, arriving some time later back in Surabaya. after around 2 months at sea I had over 144K tons and I never got hit once.
The reason for my entire long little monologue there is to ask this question...Is it just me or was Pearl WAY too easy to get into, I mean as the one of if not THE most important US base in WWII you'd think thered be no way on gods green earth I as a German would get within a mile of the harbor there.
Have any of you found it this easy or am I just a weirdo with a freakish streak of luck? :o
I knew itd be almost impossible to get in, but I also knew was the caliber of targets I not could but WOULD find there, so off I go. After a while taking my time to get there (avoiding planes) I get close to Pearl and find a destroyer patrolling near the SE coast near Honolulu, I turned around and hit him with my only "Zaunkonig" from tube 5 and proceeded away from the area and towards Pearl again. Lo and behold here comes in another Destroyer who for some ungodly reason didnt notice me, I turned when I notice he had stopped (possible sonar check) and fired a TI at him at high speed on surface impact setting, just as it almost hits him he goes full throttle and turns away, I'm thinking he is turning to begin a run on me, but as I am looking at my world map to get a better look at his position I see the message "enemy ship destroyed"...he had turned AWAY from me and somehow steered right back into the path of the torpedo he had just evaded moments earlier. :har:
Deciding to try and make my run on the harbor I managed to reach the harbor entrance with no further excitement (though I noticed two VERY fast blue lines whipping back and forth over the area where those two DD's met their very stupid end). As I enter the harbor its like heaven, 4 carriers, light and heavy cruisers and the BB North Carolina. With my first two torpedos I sink the carrier near the entrance to the harbor, she let off a series of explisions and went down w/o further fuss, then I decided to turn and nail the North carolina, and so crawling along at 1 knot (SR) I managed to swing around and I fire off two at her thinking I'll probably need to hit her again....well, I didnt.
As soon as torpedo #1 hit the entire freakin thing exploded, it was like watching the worlds largest firecracker, a wall of flame from bow to stern, maybe I hit a fuel tank or something idk, but she went down. Once I got over my shock and awe, I proceeded into the harbor for one more ship to sink (by this point I had two stern tubes and the external stern reloads which had not yet been brought in due to space) I ended up nailing another carrier and then I made my way at 1 kt out of Pearl and back out to sea, arriving some time later back in Surabaya. after around 2 months at sea I had over 144K tons and I never got hit once.
The reason for my entire long little monologue there is to ask this question...Is it just me or was Pearl WAY too easy to get into, I mean as the one of if not THE most important US base in WWII you'd think thered be no way on gods green earth I as a German would get within a mile of the harbor there.
Have any of you found it this easy or am I just a weirdo with a freakish streak of luck? :o