Darn...D-Day didn't happen

[DeePsix U-48]

June 3rd, 1944. I'm sailing back twords my harbor when I happen to realize the date. I thought to myself, June 5th at about 2300, I should see a huge convey crossing just north of the normandy beachhead. So I adjust course and find that at current speed I will be in the path of D-Day taskforce with 2 hours to spare. After some duck and dodge with patroling Clemson and V&W destroyers in the channel, I reached the area just north of normandy and set up a patrol root, looping back and forth over the areas where the invasions beaches were to be. As I sat and waited, hoping that suddenly a large convey or two full of troop transports and battleships and cruisers would appear, but I cant have all my wishes come true. With no luck I set back twords breast.

To bad...I had a mess of torpedoes waiting for the Allies. I could have saved france :yep:

~DeePsix
Commander U-48

[JohnnyPotPie]

really! how lame is that, i was curious if they put things like that in the game... :down: :down:

[CWorth]

I know there is a mod that adds the D-Day landings somewhat modeled as well as other historical events like the Bismarks cruise and her battles.

I just cannot for the life of me remember which one..

[2019]

I beliefe that this mod was called "Real World mod"
It can be found in the download section on this site.

[joea]

If you use RuB there is the Ops mod included which I believe adds D-day ops (and others).

[diver]

With no luck I set back twords breast.


sounds like you got very lucky :D

all right I've had my fun. I'm allowed one immature post a week right?

[SmokinTep]

I did the same thing once and was surprised that nothing was there.

[vils]

be glad of the non D-day activity, or your sub would have been at David Jones locker for sure. If remembered correctly, BDU sent 24 subs there as counter meassure, none made it through.. allthough some returned hvy damaged by air before they got even near the zone.. 1 made it to norway i think.

[Woof1701]

be glad of the non D-day activity, or your sub would have been at David Jones locker for sure. If remembered correctly, BDU sent 24 subs there as counter meassure, none made it through.. allthough some returned hvy damaged by air before they got even near the zone.. 1 made it to norway i think.


Hah! By June 1944 I will have my Typ XXI and will stop the invasion all by myself *lol*

[Hitman]

June 3rd, 1944. I'm sailing back twords my harbor when I happen to realize the date. I thought to myself, June 5th at about 2300, I should see a huge convey crossing just north of the normandy beachhead. So I adjust course and find that at current speed I will be in the path of D-Day taskforce with 2 hours to spare. After some duck and dodge with patroling Clemson and V&W destroyers in the channel, I reached the area just north of normandy and set up a patrol root, looping back and forth over the areas where the invasions beaches were to be. As I sat and waited, hoping that suddenly a large convey or two full of troop transports and battleships and cruisers would appear, but I cant have all my wishes come true. With no luck I set back twords breast.


May be your performed too well in your previous actions and have changed the course of History :rotfl:

No just joking :up: It is a pity that there is not more historical accurancy, but fortunately there are mods out there to solve this :up:

[Oberon]

Perhaps the Germans found a stealth fighter through a time machine and changed the course of history to win WW2?
Or an alien race of time travellers stuck on 20th century earth have used their technology to help Germany invade America, thus preventing D-Day?

;) ;) ;) ;) ;)

[FAdmiral]

You watch too much televison.....


JIM

[Sailor Steve]

The old World Mod did have a small handful of ships at Normandy. The Ops mod doesn't yet, but it's being worked on; also the Dunkerque evacuation.

[Hartmann]

They don¨t land because the kriegsmarine sunk too many ships.

The allied run out of ships and the only way to land is by air or swiming :-j

[Nefarious]

Im on Patrol 8 of a new career, and on patrol 7, I spent 47 days at sea to wait for the Evacuation at Dunkirk.

:nope:

[panthercules]

Well, I found myself at sea in my Type VIIb a few days ago off Scotland during the first week of April, 1940. Two weeks of reaching and patrolling my assigned zone and the area near Scotland had yielded nothing so far - not even a sound contact :(

In an unexpected encounter, I had just stumbled across my good buddy and fellow Kaleun Thomsen that morning, who had just left from Kiel and told me that our gallant forces were gathering to launch an invasion of Norway in a few days.

Thomsen was carrying secret orders from BdU for all available U-boats to proceed to patrol areas off Norway to intercept the task forces and troop transport convoys the British were expected to send there in response to our invasion, so I immediately altered course and set off for Norway.

I spent the rest of the month patrolling up and down the Norwegian coast and hanging around outside various Norwegian ports, especially ones that hadn't yet fallen to our troops. I managed to sink one Norwegian C2 that was fleeing a port as our troops advanced, but that was the only ship I was able to spot the entire patrol.

However, I did get inundated with a ton of task force and warship spotting reports (both enemy and friendly) all up and down the coast and between England and Norway - just my bad luck that they always just happened to be out of reach and I was never in a position to be able to intercept any of them. Leads me to believe though that RUB1.43 must have added something historically-oriented to have caused that much apparent activity in that area during that time frame.

Having exhausted my fuel (and my crew) from my 6 week patrol, I had to return to Kiel for refit with almost a full load of torps. Now, it's the first of June 1940, and I'm heading back out from Kiel to see if I can help intercept some of the British naval forces ferrying troops and supplies across the Channel. Scuttlebutt among the crews in Kiel indicated that our Panzer forces have broken through to the Channel coast and bottled up the BEF in Dunkirk, and the British are attempting to mount an evacuation. Hopefully, there'll be something there for my boat to sink when we get there :)

[Nefarious]

Hopefully, there'll be something there for my boat to sink when we get there :)

Well if youre using the same mods I use (RUB 1.43) Then you wont see it.

Nothing....Zilch.....Zip........

Patroled the English Channel Near Dunkirk, from Late May to Mid June 1940. Cities and Ports were captured. But no ships sailed to and from Dunkirk.

[joea]

Well this would have to be added in the scr file. Maybe the Ops people can add it in their next version. I myself always avoid the channel like the plague.

[sergbuto]

I know there is a mod that adds the D-Day landings somewhat modeled as well as other historical events like the Bismarks cruise and her battles.

I just cannot for the life of me remember which one..

U-boat War Ace (Wolfpack) mod-campaign includes "Overlord" operation and Omaha beach.

[Nefarious]

Well this would have to be added in the scr file. Maybe the Ops people can add it in their next version. I myself always avoid the channel like the plague.

I try to avoid it as well....

But I didnt want to miss the evacuation :arrgh!: