bookworm_020
12-07-05, 08:36 PM
Had a great patrol and I'd like others to enjoy it as well.
I edited dates on my tops so I got homing torps a little sooner than the standard game. I just want to try them out as I don't think I be living much longer (1943 and it's getting interesting!)
Left France with four homing torps in my stern tubes and a desire to use them. Passing through AM29 I get spotted by a River Escort, so I take a shot with my homing torp and sit back to watch the show.
Yahoo! a hit. I watch her sink, knowing my crew will not fear escort ships so much now.
I get a report of a large convoy inbound to England. I do the sums and set course to intercept.
Instead of using radar, which may give me away, I dive and check for sound contacts. I pick them up and approach on silent running from the front of the convoy, sightly offset to port so the lead escort doesn't pick me up. I close till the nearest ship is less than 1000m away. 1st torp to a troop transport, 2nd to a T3, 3rd to a Victory and the 4th to a C2 which is less than 500m away. All torp were launched so they would strike around the same time.
Impact!! The C2 takes a mag torp and starts to rip itself apart, lighting up the night. In the next 15 seconds the T3 joins the C2 in spraying the convoy with metal, the Troop Transport is hit and comes to a halt, the Victory takes a blow and has a bonfire on the stern deck.
My crew are reloading the tubes as fast as they can, as soon as each tube is loaded it is sent off with love to the next taget. I work my way down the centre of the convoy, taking out a another T3 and T2 and winging a second T2. I put it out of it's misery as I exit the rear of the convoy. This brings a Flower Corvette racing toward me with vengenace on it's mind. It's dead astern, so I fire a homing torp as I crash dive and go hard aport. The time comes for a hit but all we hear is the sound of splashes as depth charges decend toward us.
BANG!! they go off near us, but the turn to port saves us from death. Sonar reports the corvette truning to come at us again so we brace for an attack which will be dead on as they have out position nailed.
BOOM! Sonar reports the Corvette has been hit! She's breaking up!! I could kiss the next boffin I meet when I get back to shore! Our homing torp has hit, and we are in the clear!
I order a course South and bring us back to periscope depth. The other escorts are to busy looking elsewhere for us, so I let the convoy steam on, which leaves the stationary Troop Transport all alone. I wasn't going to waste time closing and I wanted to save my torps for more agile prey. So surface and main deck gun was the order of the day. A single shell from 5500m and down she went. A river escort came looking for revenge, all he found was a one way trip to the sea floor (thanks again to my new best friend, one homing torp) Hearing the rest of the escorts speeding toward me with the wish to swing me from the yard arm, I headed South, on the surface with my foot to the floor. I swept in a great arc back to the location where I would intercept the convoy again. I still had a visual for a period of time as I could still see the burning Victory in the distance, but I lost sight at 9000m.
On one my regular sonar checks just before dawn I pick up the sound we were waiting for. All external torps had been trasfered indoors and we wanted to add to our score.
Using the same method as before, I enter the convoy. Picking the best targets for my steel eels I send them on their way. As I launch the the 4th eel from my forwad tubes, a Sommers destroyer who had been the lead destroyer of the convoy, veers toward me. I do a rapid stern shot with a homing torp. Just before it gets within range to detect him, he turns away. I miss him, but he missed me!
My four torps I'd fired earlier didn't miss, putting down a T3, Troop Transport and extingishing my moblie lighthouse, the Victory cargo. The fourth torp hit a Liberty ship, but she kept going, so I gave her a second, which she just shrugged off. I could almost hear her captain yelling "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" The third torp gave her death.
Running low on torps and deciding I had pushed my luck with this convoy far enough, I exited by the rear and let them sail away. I think The escort comander must have been whishing his ship had been sunk, at least he wouldn't have to face Churchill and explain!
I decided it was time to cruise home and get get some R&R and medals! On the way back I added to my tally with two coastal and a KGN, giving me a total of 16 ships and 119719 tons to my credit.
Now where did I put that broom......
I edited dates on my tops so I got homing torps a little sooner than the standard game. I just want to try them out as I don't think I be living much longer (1943 and it's getting interesting!)
Left France with four homing torps in my stern tubes and a desire to use them. Passing through AM29 I get spotted by a River Escort, so I take a shot with my homing torp and sit back to watch the show.
Yahoo! a hit. I watch her sink, knowing my crew will not fear escort ships so much now.
I get a report of a large convoy inbound to England. I do the sums and set course to intercept.
Instead of using radar, which may give me away, I dive and check for sound contacts. I pick them up and approach on silent running from the front of the convoy, sightly offset to port so the lead escort doesn't pick me up. I close till the nearest ship is less than 1000m away. 1st torp to a troop transport, 2nd to a T3, 3rd to a Victory and the 4th to a C2 which is less than 500m away. All torp were launched so they would strike around the same time.
Impact!! The C2 takes a mag torp and starts to rip itself apart, lighting up the night. In the next 15 seconds the T3 joins the C2 in spraying the convoy with metal, the Troop Transport is hit and comes to a halt, the Victory takes a blow and has a bonfire on the stern deck.
My crew are reloading the tubes as fast as they can, as soon as each tube is loaded it is sent off with love to the next taget. I work my way down the centre of the convoy, taking out a another T3 and T2 and winging a second T2. I put it out of it's misery as I exit the rear of the convoy. This brings a Flower Corvette racing toward me with vengenace on it's mind. It's dead astern, so I fire a homing torp as I crash dive and go hard aport. The time comes for a hit but all we hear is the sound of splashes as depth charges decend toward us.
BANG!! they go off near us, but the turn to port saves us from death. Sonar reports the corvette truning to come at us again so we brace for an attack which will be dead on as they have out position nailed.
BOOM! Sonar reports the Corvette has been hit! She's breaking up!! I could kiss the next boffin I meet when I get back to shore! Our homing torp has hit, and we are in the clear!
I order a course South and bring us back to periscope depth. The other escorts are to busy looking elsewhere for us, so I let the convoy steam on, which leaves the stationary Troop Transport all alone. I wasn't going to waste time closing and I wanted to save my torps for more agile prey. So surface and main deck gun was the order of the day. A single shell from 5500m and down she went. A river escort came looking for revenge, all he found was a one way trip to the sea floor (thanks again to my new best friend, one homing torp) Hearing the rest of the escorts speeding toward me with the wish to swing me from the yard arm, I headed South, on the surface with my foot to the floor. I swept in a great arc back to the location where I would intercept the convoy again. I still had a visual for a period of time as I could still see the burning Victory in the distance, but I lost sight at 9000m.
On one my regular sonar checks just before dawn I pick up the sound we were waiting for. All external torps had been trasfered indoors and we wanted to add to our score.
Using the same method as before, I enter the convoy. Picking the best targets for my steel eels I send them on their way. As I launch the the 4th eel from my forwad tubes, a Sommers destroyer who had been the lead destroyer of the convoy, veers toward me. I do a rapid stern shot with a homing torp. Just before it gets within range to detect him, he turns away. I miss him, but he missed me!
My four torps I'd fired earlier didn't miss, putting down a T3, Troop Transport and extingishing my moblie lighthouse, the Victory cargo. The fourth torp hit a Liberty ship, but she kept going, so I gave her a second, which she just shrugged off. I could almost hear her captain yelling "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" The third torp gave her death.
Running low on torps and deciding I had pushed my luck with this convoy far enough, I exited by the rear and let them sail away. I think The escort comander must have been whishing his ship had been sunk, at least he wouldn't have to face Churchill and explain!
I decided it was time to cruise home and get get some R&R and medals! On the way back I added to my tally with two coastal and a KGN, giving me a total of 16 ships and 119719 tons to my credit.
Now where did I put that broom......