September 1939, and lookie what I found...

[akula_krieg]

Was patrolling the convoy lanes southwest of the British Isles when I came across one monster of a convoy. For those of you who remember, I recently lost U-593 and had to restart from the very beginning with U-48. As such, I was looking for a little payback.

Well, it takes me a good eight or so hours to maneuver around the convoy and get into a suitable firing position. The seas are heavy, but I have a clear sky and a good view. I'm lining up on the lead C3 in the third column when I catch something just over the horizon...

Flip to 6x, and there she is...a Fiji cruiser, trailing the convoy at a leisurely 9 knots. This is the first large warship I've seen on patrol since I bought the game. I'm lucky enough to be in position to fire at her with a well-set fast 90 at 500 meters.

The results:

http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/8523/fiji2jpg5tl.th.png (http://img352.imageshack.us/my.php?image=fiji2jpg5tl.png)


http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/8232/fijicruiserjpg0dg.th.png (http://img374.imageshack.us/my.php?image=fijicruiserjpg0dg.png)

I still mourn the loss of U-593; however, U-48 looks to be a lucky boat. Off to rip the guts out of the rest of this convoy... :arrgh!:

-akula-

[Zero Niner]

Good hunting! :up:

[Karl-Heinz Jaeger]

Ditto! I found exactly the same thing in exactly the same place! A massive 17+merchant convoy, with 2-3 escorts. I saved at that point and haven't gotten a chance to play it since but, after saving it I surfaced and steamed right into the centre to see what was lurking and what did I find scunging along at 9knots?? Mr. I'm hard Fiji Class thats who. Also wallowing away in the distance was a Black Swan Frigate and try as I might I couldn't id the third. All spotted in seriously crappy weather, heavy rain and fog just S of Ireland along the convoy routes there. God help those merchantmen when I get home this evening!!

:arrgh!:

[akula_krieg]

There was a Black Swan out on the perimeter, he came at me a couple times but the the ocean was high enough that he never quite zeroed my position. If you and I are currently ripping apart the same convoy, the other escort is a corvette (last I saw him he was trailing about 1500-2000 meters behind the convoy). After three end-arounds, I managed to down three C3s, one C2, and the cruiser; one torp went awry, it hit something but I'm not sure what. Was down to one torp, the crew was too tired to do anything more, so I broke off contact and am on the bottom giving the men a good rest.

Good luck with the rest of that convoy, U-48 will be moving south. :arrgh!:

-akula-

[von Buelow]

I think I've found that convoy... its night though, and I'm not sure of the date (mission #5 if it matters) - I've been waiting all day to get home!!! :rock:

[Karl-Heinz Jaeger]

There was a Black Swan out on the perimeter, he came at me a couple times but the the ocean was high enough that he never quite zeroed my position. If you and I are currently ripping apart the same convoy, the other escort is a corvette (last I saw him he was trailing about 1500-2000 meters behind the convoy). After three end-arounds, I managed to down three C3s, one C2, and the cruiser; one torp went awry, it hit something but I'm not sure what. Was down to one torp, the crew was too tired to do anything more, so I broke off contact and am on the bottom giving the men a good rest.

Good luck with the rest of that convoy, U-48 will be moving south. :arrgh!:

-akula-


I got the Fiji Class, a T3 Tanker and a C3 Merchant before being spotted by the Black Swan and DC'ed to 80meters. I'd snuck right into the middle of the convoy and just waited them to come into range.

It was in very rough seas, heavy fog and rain but I managed to socre a hit with all five torps, using the impact pistol set to hit a couple of meters above the keels of the enemy ships to account for pitch and roll. I loosed two salvo shots on the T3 and the C3 respectively from 700-900meters out ,then peered aft to see if the was anything in range I could shoot the stern tube at and there was the Fiji making 9knots less than 800meters away. One torp amidships broke her in two immediately. Too bad I'd been detected by the enraged Black Swan Frigate and ended up being DC'ed down to 80metres. I was chased out of the area and decided not to give chase to save fuel for heading home.

Instead I wormed my way up the Irish Sea to the ports of Holyhead and Liverpool where Bdu sent a contact report of a large convoy not 100km from my position, moving E at 6knots(around about the 15th of September). I intercepted their track, and managed to score another 4 hits, a two torp salvo shot on a C3, which sunk and another salvo shot on a second C3, only one of which struck hardly slowing her down! Again I had a check to see what my stern tube could engage and we spot a Dido class cruiser which again we managed to sink using only one torp. So, out of 10 torpedoes we fired, we scored 9 hits!! I would have recommended my torpedo officer for a medal and a promotion if the other escorts(still unidentified) hadn't detected and sunk me.

Not bad considering it was my first ever convoy engagement in my first ever career patrol. Up until recently I was an avid SHII fan, and just got the third installment last week and been playing around with the single missions until starting my first career. Pity it was such a short one!! 34 odd thousand tonnes sunk sunk and I let a silly little escort DC me to hell in 1939. Oh the shame!!