Phantom Convoy?

[Sonoboy]

Here's the thing:

I was on patrol in AM18 in 1940, got a message from BDU of a large convoy directly east of me just on the other side of the grid. I steamed toward it and found nothing. I went deep for a sonar check... nothing. I had saved it right after I had recieved the report on the convoy, so I loaded the save and tried looking for it again. I never did find any convoy. Is this a bug?

[seed86582]

Here's the thing:

:lol::lol: Hahaha, cant believe it! I was going to say -Exactly- that a minute ago! :lol::lol:

[nelson]

Talking of phantoms, I sneaked into Aberdeen on a cold, eerie, misty night and spotted what looked like an old tanker sitting at dock. We fired two torps into her, .....nothing, not a sound. Got a bit closer, could just make her decks out thanks to the full moon. She was a sort of creepy shimmering light blue :huh:
We opened fire with the deck gun, ......again there was no sound, except from the gun itself,.......and then,... it just vanished, like it was never there. :o
I've never seen my crew turn so white, we legged it out of there sharpish.
A word of warning to all ye bold mariners, beware the Scottish ghost tanker, stay away from Aberdeen on cold foggy nights....
Ye've been warned. :down:

[Kalach]

I've missed some of those 'small convoys' a few times because I didn't pay attention to the BdU message that said they were moving at 0kts. Maybe you couldn't hear them because they weren't moving?

[Oberon]

The Merchant Navy was trialing a new form of camoflage at the time IIRC:

http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/5638/ducks8kr.jpg

[Sonoboy]

Convoy was heading East at 6 knots.

[Hartmann]

Talking of phantoms, I sneaked into Aberdeen on a cold, eerie, misty night and spotted what looked like an old tanker sitting at dock. We fired two torps into her, .....nothing, not a sound. Got a bit closer, could just make her decks out thanks to the full moon. She was a sort of creepy shimmering light blue :huh:
We opened fire with the deck gun, ......again there was no sound, except from the gun itself,.......and then,... it just vanished, like it was never there. :o
I've never seen my crew turn so white, we legged it out of there sharpish.
A word of warning to all ye bold mariners, beware the Scottish ghost tanker, stay away from Aberdeen on cold foggy nights....
Ye've been warned. :down:


Is a new camouflage system from Philadelphia experiment

:rotfl: :rotfl:

but it has a lot of secundarie effects like the sailors that dissapears like ghosts. :-j

[nelson]

I saw that, good film, I was real disappointed when they decided not to send the jets ( F14s? ) in to take out the jap planes. :)

[Deep6]

I saw that, good film, I was real disappointed when they decided not to send the jets ( F14s? ) in to take out the jap planes. :)

Your thinking of Final Countdown.

[nelson]

I saw that, good film, I was real disappointed when they decided not to send the jets ( F14s? ) in to take out the jap planes. :)

Your thinking of Final Countdown.

What have Europe got to do with it? :rock:

[Kapitän Cremer]

The convoys and task forces spawn and disapperes at random so it is possible that it vanished just before you arrived...

However I would agree that it is suspect that it does that...Guess you could call that a bug :down:

[nelson]

It was there alright, my watch officer saw it too. It was only when we started shooting and fired torps it disappeared :o