Great Escapes

[Twitchy]

I need some cheering up, so lemme hear about your Great Escapes!

To get the ball rolling, I'll share mine.

About 10 minutes ago, I had no choice but to engage an armed trawler. That little armed trawler ended up bringing in a destroyer and two other armed trawlers. The trawlers circled me as the destroyer tried to ram me. It came on at full speed and at the last prudent moment, I hit hard port and I missed him JUST BARELY, he knocked me down 20%. I pulled out of the port and spun my guns around and fired a few shots into one of the trawlers KABOOM! The trawler exploded in a fireball. The destroyer came round to ram me again, our hulls screeched together and he knocked off another 20%. As we passed, I manned the flag gun and blew the hell out of the destroyer, taking out one of ITS flak guns. As we pulled out of the turn again, I blew the other trawler to hell and ran for home. The destroyer chased me, and tried to ram me AGAIN. I was feeling suicidal so I spun my deck gun around again and fired OVER and OVER. When he would get out of range of my deck gun, I would shoot him with my flak (for fun). He tried to ram me AGAIN. This time, I evaded it comepletely, and shot a shellinto his engine room at point blank. BOOM. FARKING BOOM! I BLEW UP THE DESTROYER WITH MY DECK GUN AND RAN FOR HOME. For no less than 500 miles I was harrassed by hurricane bombers! I shot down two of them, and made it back to base with 24 PERCENT HULL LEFT. Not ONE man was killed or injured. Its all true. No lie.

[Ula Jolly]

You really should have made yourself a hotkey for screenshooting. ;D

[Twitchy]

*Sigh* I should have. How do you do that?

[Ula Jolly]

*Sigh* I should have. How do you do that?
The default is Ctrl+F11 (placed in the root SHIII folder), but I am guessing it's easy to change that on the menu/options somewhere.

[akula_krieg]

Had one a few patrols back, in U-48 before she went down off the coast of Ireland.

Was in grid BE15, spotted a convoy at 10,000 meters on a bright, moonlit night. It was flanked by two destroyers and a corvette up front, with a trawler zig-zagging several hundred meters behind.

My positioning was unfortunate, as I was behind the convoy in moderate seas and had to play catch-up at flank. Well, the trawler spots me at 7,000 meters out and makes a hard turn. At this point, something crawled up my rear end and I decided right then and there I wasn't going to submerge and play the usual cat-and-mouse games.

I ordered the deck gun manned, turned right for the trawler and started to put ammo downrange at 6,000 meters. We were moving at each other head-on at flank speed. The gun crew performed magnificently and before the trawler could get more than two shots off, she was headed for the bottom.

This whole exchange, of course, sent the convoy into a panic and the other three escorts headed for me. The destroyer on my side of the convoy got there first. We traded fire for several minutes; he registered two hits, knocking my hull integrity down by a third. I had managed to set him aflame, but as another shell came arcing over the boat, I realized I was in over my head. I turned to face him directly so I would have a low profile, and ordered a crash-dive.

Just as the boat went under, I ordered the chief to bring us to periscope depth. The boat settled to 20 meters before coming back up. I ordered tube 1 opened, flipped up the scope, and there he was, steaming at me at a good 18 knots at 1,000 meters, 0 degree AOB.

I normally wouldn't loose an eel with such a bad firing solution, but I was feeling particularly lucky this night and fired at 700 meters. My luck held...the DD turned to avoid the oncoming torp and presented a 90 degree AOB for the eel to hit. Blew it in half.

My next problem was the other DD, approaching from the other side of the convoy. I left the scope up and turned right for him...and got lucky again. He hit a hard right to avoid a coastal merchie that had blundered into his path, providing me with a perfect solution at 800 meters. Twenty seconds later he was another flaming pile of scrap metal.

The armed trawler at the front of the convoy wasn't seen again. I'm not sure what happened to him, but he left a T3, two T2s, and several C2s and coastals wide open. I had a field day for well over six hours, and sailed away with empty tubes and over 60,000 tons chalked up.

I've tried a repeat performance of that night several times, but have gotten myself wasted every time. Guess it was just part of U-48's charm.

-akula-

[andy_311]

Not a great escape i think it was just pure luck.
Less than an hour ago encountered a large convoy in BE33 mainly consisting of Liberty cargo's,3 T3s, and 4C3s (29/01/44) befpre I got within 3000m of the convoy my stealth meter went a very dark red got to pd raised the scope and to my horror 5 DDs running straight for me 2huntIIIs,and 3V&Ws doing about 19KNTS I opened all tubes selected spread, and magnetic and fired and crash dived it both hunt IIIs and they sank the other 2 fish missed the V&Ws and continued towards the convoy. I leveled of at about 150m and hit silent running I didn't use my decoys last time I used them they found easly,anyway all I got was pinging for the next 5mis or so and then 2 more explosions i knew my fish missed the dds so what did i hit? at that time the dds broke off to investigate the exposions i didn't stick around for them to come back. i backed off to reload and have a go again on the convoy checked my log to see what I hit before and was suprised to see I was credited it 2 t3s sunk. I located the convoy and this time my meter was going green to red all the time but couldn't target a ship because by this time it was foggy and raining fired anouther fish (blind) but didn't hit a thing so I turned SW looking for clearer weather .