Whats more annoying

[codmander]

1. traveling 1000's of km with scope left up:huh:
2.convoy 7000 meters away -moving away with just type 2 torps:/\\!!
3. fire a torp with wrong gyro :88)
4. turning into a depth charge:nope:
5. blind watchman:hmmm:
6.deaf soundman:hmmm:
love this sim:up:

[UKönig]

you forgot to add "diving to 200m depth and leaving 1 or more of the torpedo pressure doors open"

I almost always forget to put the scope away when I am done using it.

I have also done the "target in optimal position for tube 5, but fire tube 4 instead...:/\\!! (I hate roman numerals)

[Kielhauler1961]

Ordering 'slow astern' in the heat of combat and then later returning to course and surfacing only to wonder why the boat is going backwards...:oops:

KH

[Sailor Steve]

There's a name I haven't seen in awhile! How you doing, cap'n?

Annoying? Paying too much attention to the merchant in my sights and not enough to the destroyer on a collision course right behind me.

[Zosimus]

Blind watchman is the worst.

"They're shooting at us, Captain."
"Who is shooting at us?"
"We don't know, Captain. We don't see anyone anywhere."
"Well, surely you must see the shells coming in or flying over us coming from some direction, right?"
"None of us seem to have noticed, Captain. Nor can we tell you what direction they're flying in from."

[HundertzehnGustav]

5 is de wurst.
then 6

because?
because they dconcern the defense of the boat more than the offense.

[Comvas]

Corrupt Saved Games !!!

[sharkbit]

Running into the dock at Wihelmshaven. :oops:

I got tired of forgetting to put my scope down before surfacing so I used Set Keys to make the "S" key to command surface as well as lower attack and observation scopes and order ahead standard all at the same time. Problem solved. :up:

[UKönig]

Falling on the torpedo firing button and watching one sail off into the blue, never to be seen again...
(I've program killed the game and relaunched to get my fish back rather than suffer that indignity)

[codmander]

Ordering 'slow astern' in the heat of combat and then later returning to course and surfacing only to wonder why the boat is going backwards...:oops:

KH

lol
:haha:

[codmander]

There's a name I haven't seen in awhile! How you doing, cap'n?

Annoying? Paying too much attention to the merchant in my sights and not enough to the destroyer on a collision course right behind me.

good m8 you? been at the helm here:up: since we're wintered in here in the northeast:o sh3 havnt played in years forgot what a great sim it is been havin a ball with it

[Tupolev]

Running into the dock at Wihelmshaven.

This. But not just Wilhemshaven. Pretty much any dock.

And also plugging random traffic while in the Canal at TC 128. Multitasking isn't for me...

[djogloc]

Dat moment your babe (ship) spots you and do zig-zag. LOL, I turned from calm to extreme nervous trying to pu in the right torpedo solution, goddamnit :Kaleun_Mad::Kaleun_Mad:

[Hambone307]

Repeatedly hitting the submarine nets in the shallows off Lampedusa and sinking, then reloading the save to do it five more times before figuring it out. :nope:

[Gunnarr]

Sinking a ship, and not getting credit.
And blind watchman, who cant see a destroyer shooting at us until he gets his head blown off!

That is what makes me angry.

Repeatedly hitting the submarine nets in the shallows off Lampedusa and sinking, then reloading the save to do it five more times before figuring it out. :nope:

Are the nets really that pervasive? Ive only been play for a a few weeks, with Gray Wolf Mod . Is there a real possibility of me randomly hitting a net / mine and losing my mind?

[Hambone307]

There is the possibility. I have hit nets, mines, run ashore, etc... :oops: Lampedusa is a difficult port to get in because the nets are not marked on the pull down map, and they are shallow enough that when surfaced, you hit them. I watched an AI merchant bounce into one repeatedly until it sank. :har: Just be warned, do not use time compression when approaching that port in the shallows!

Edit: Just a friendly PSA: if you hit a mine, it will scare the crap out of you. I hit one sneaking into a port on the south end of England. I had my headphones in listening to a destroyer 200m off my starboard bow when all of a sudden, BOOM! Reports of severe flooding and multiple casualties. Lost my boat in seconds.

[T.Von Hogan]

#4 would hurt, but #1 is inexcusable!

[Aktungbby]

T.Von Hogan! After a silent run!:Kaleun_Salute:

[Rambler241]

Sailing through areas which must be teeming with targets, wondering why you ain't getting any radio contacts, only to realise there's no radioman on station!
Firing a torpedo at a marginal angle in desperation, and you haven't opened the tube door! The delay results in a miss, of course.
A sonar man who can't apparently hear the roar of a nearby convoy, when you have to lift the 'phones off your ears to reduce the deafening din.

The time we ran into a fishing boat in the North Sea - literally. I was alerted while re-plotting our course by a loud screeching, grinding noise. On the bridge, I find we're pushing a fishing boat (enemy of course) gradually underwater. The bridge crew (all experienced, no fatigue) are still scanning the horizon. When we get back to Kiel, there'll be some changes in crew and disposition - mark my words. Even worse, I get no points for sinking an enemy vessel!

[T.Von Hogan]

T.Von Hogan! After a silent run!:Kaleun_Salute:

Thank you Sir!

[Kommandant_Wesser]

When you fire all your foward torpedoes and most of them are duds :Kaleun_Mad:

[Aktungbby]

When I return all the way almost to port after a high tonnage successful mission and run aground or am sunk by a patrol bomber!

[scott_c2911]

Spending an hour closing into a really nice firing position on a convoy full of tankers and a BB (900m AOB 90') for the weather to suddenly close in so that visibility is reduced to 400m. I thought I was leaning on my e-cigarette for a moment it happened so fast. I literally checked my solution and got back on the periscope and there was nothing there. Then I hear a loud ping...

[bstanko6]

1) literally running into absolutely no ships for entire patrol, refuel at Vigo, and still never see a ship until almost out of the refuel fuel!

2) firing a torp at a ship after setting the AOB to port, when it should have been starboard...oops.

3) watching the flak gunner on my type IXB make puffs of smoke in the air. I mean, does the flak really do anything?

[Gunnarr]

something that happened to me twice so far.

running into those puny islands that you can only see if you zoom a bit on the map. and time compression only stopping literally seconds away from impact!

[Zosimus]

Yeah that's happened to me a time or two rounding the north coast of England.

[Aktungbby]

:sign_yeah: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Outer_Hebrides_UK_relief_location_map.jpg)Yup ! that teeny little St Kilda Archipelego of the Outer Hebrides can lay some serious hirta on an ol' U boat! :Kaleun_Wink:

[20000 Leagues]

3) watching the flak gunner on my type IXB make puffs of smoke in the air. I mean, does the flak really do anything?

I actually saw my gunner's flak hit just off the starboard wing of a Sunderland and brought it down. Then again, more often than not I've also watched flak hit and explode directly on the nose of Hurricane repeatedly and do nothing! :hmmm:

[Rambler241]

bstanko6 said:
1) literally running into absolutely no ships for entire patrol, refuel at Vigo, and still never see a ship until almost out of the refuel fuel!

You should be able to hear them before you see them - don't you do regular sonar dips? BTW, you're not supposed to run into ships, rather fire some kind of munition at them....

2) firing a torp at a ship after setting the AOB to port, when it should have been starboard...oops.

... or not firing one by repeatedly hitting the tube selection button instead of the fire button, and wondering vot in himmel ist GOING ON!

3) watching the flak gunner on my type IXB make puffs of smoke in the air. I mean, does the flak really do anything?

My flak gunner shot down 18 Hurricanes last patrol (Sept. 1940), a record for this career. Nothing macho, gung-ho or foolhardy about that - it's risking all to submerge while under almost continuous attack. Likely result is unplanned hull and machinery modifications at best....