View Full Version : Wow! They do exist!
Richard Zapp
10-24-05, 07:53 PM
U-190 is returning from a patrol on April 1, 1943 in grid BF 16. Initial sonar contact at 23:51 local time. Contact heading was N/NE and speed was greater than 16 knots.
Unfortunatly U-190 was not in position to intercept and was not able to chase the target down.
BUT I DID GET SOME SCREENSHOTS!
:lol:
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:arrgh!:
Syxx_Killer
10-24-05, 09:07 PM
I saw my first liner, too, during my last patrol. I haven't played the game in a while, though. I forget the actual grid, but it was northwest of Ireland. I was to the northwest of the liner. I was at night and I was just sitting there in my patrol grid waiting for my time to end. The liner was travelling at 21 knots due west. I oreder flank, but my type VIIC can only do 20 knots in calm seas - it was very rough seas when the liner was spotted (winds 15 m/s). I could only do like 17 or 18 knots. I could only watch that juicy prize sail away. :damn: :damn: :hulk:
BaronVonSchnitzel
10-24-05, 09:39 PM
I'll be looking for it! :lol:
The only thing worse than not ever seeing one of the big ships is seeing one you can't attack :P
If you encounter one by itself and it's moving away too fast try to get its attention - fire a flare, surface the boat, look for a megaphone... If it sees you it may start to zig-zag about which will slow it down a fair bit :know:
U-190 is returning from a patrol on April 1, 1943 in grid BF 16.
I don't believe it! It's an April fool's day joke by the tommies, and is in fact a cardboard mockup towed by an invisible trawler :P
bookworm_020
10-25-05, 12:09 AM
I've had one of these dead bang in my sights, perfect distance, perfect setup. The fact that he was american and in a convoy made it very tempting to fire all tubes and damm the blame.
Instead, I just sent every tanker, C2 and C3 to davy jones, and had a ship full of spectator to watch :arrgh!:
America is just about to enter the war, so happy times are near again! :up:
FERdeBOER
10-25-05, 03:17 AM
A liner traveling alone? :hmm: those tommies are very confident...
U-190 is returning from a patrol on April 1, 1943 in grid BF 16.
I don't believe it! It's an April fool's day joke by the tommies, and is in fact a cardboard mockup towed by an invisible trawler :P
:rotfl: :rotfl:
Nippelspanner
10-25-05, 06:33 AM
Just a Tip:
Yesterday i was in the Bay to Liverpool with my U-97. Suddenly i had a fast merchant sonarcontact too. he made 21knots, a ugly liner... old and rusty, but 19k anyway! ^^ (2 torps, 2 hits in the fore-engineroom from 3500m distance... more luck i guess...
EDIT: uh i just forget... 30min. later, there was another liner, but too far away.
looks like liverpool is a good area for hunting down a few passengers :rotfl: (it was mid 41)
Sailor Steve
10-25-05, 11:54 AM
I'm using Rubini's Harbor Traffic Mod, and saw one docked in Wilhelmshaven while leaving for my very first patrol.
Haven't seen one at sea, though, and certainly not British.
I recently started a new career. I'm on my third patrol and have just sunk a passenger liner. I sank one on my first patrol of the same career as well.
Both were in large troop carrying convoys near Am52.
U-190 is returning from a patrol on April 1, 1943 in grid BF 16.
I don't believe it! It's an April fool's day joke by the tommies, and is in fact a cardboard mockup towed by an invisible trawler :P :rotfl:
Skubber
10-25-05, 07:16 PM
I had to book to catch this thing. Luckily we were able to cut off the angle.
http://www.frontiernet.net/~bonzoman/sh3/liner.jpg
One torp under the keel disabled it. It was my very last torp, so we had to surface and put a few rounds into the waterline. (We let all the passengers disembark into the lifeboats first, of course! :D )
http://www.frontiernet.net/~bonzoman/sh3/liner2.jpg
more images if you like:
http://www.frontiernet.net/~bonzoman/sh3/liner3.jpg
http://www.frontiernet.net/~bonzoman/sh3/liner4.jpg
http://www.frontiernet.net/~bonzoman/sh3/liner5.jpg
http://www.frontiernet.net/~bonzoman/sh3/liner6.jpg
I think the London tabloids will be kinda mad at me after that one. It is '41 and the Bismark was sunk yesterday, so we were feeling vindictive. :nope: [/url]
FERdeBOER
10-26-05, 05:27 AM
They are no passenger, they are soldiers traveling to Europe for the war!! :damn:
A liner traveling alone? :hmm: those tommies are very confident...
In fact in real life they were often travelling alone because they were faster than submarines. If I remember well top speed in SHIII for them is 30+ knots.
Skubber
10-26-05, 06:45 AM
They are no passenger, they are soldiers traveling to Europe for the war!! :damn:
Oh, I wondered why those nice English ladies were wearing unifroms and helmets. Those weren't ladies at all!! :stare:
Von Scheerbach
10-26-05, 05:15 PM
I've run into two, both off the west coast of Ireland....the first one my watch crew spotted was too far away for me to do anything.
The second time they all must have been asleep, because they didn't spot it until it was 2700 yards away (in clear weather, just some rough seas) and bearing down on me. I thought for sure it would spot me before I could get submerged, but it didn't. Fired 3 torps from about 500 yards and got 3 hits, but she wouldn't go down.....finished it off with a 4th from the stern tube.
The water was too rough to surface and use the deck gun.....
bookworm_020
10-27-05, 07:12 PM
I've Just found and sunk one!!! :D
January 7th 1942, BF 12, heading home after a successful patrol. My lookout reports a visual contact. I think it's just your standard C2, then I wake up and realize what I have found! :lol:
I'm out of torps, my nothing is going to stop me from getting this one. Man the deck gun! was the order of the day.
wait untill she's 2000 meters away, and then "open fire!"
35 rounds later, she's heading to the bottom.
What a nice way to end a patrol!! :arrgh!:
Fire a torp!
Where our of Torps, sir
Man the deck gun!
Out of deck gun rounds, sir
Man the flack!
Out of rounds, Sir
Then lay her along side, and prepair to boad!! :arrgh!: :arrgh!:
I don't think a u-boat deck gun would be enough to sink a liner in real life :hmm:
I do wish we could board their ships though :arrgh!:
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