Is this realistic?

[ruskoz]

I tryed the Gibraltar single mission and had one hell of a hard time staying on the suface to charge up my batteries. I found a little bay to the north and went in a circle under the cover of night but after a while I was discovered and dived. The depth was only 50m so soon enough they were all over me.

So began the worst pounding ever recorder. :)

After 1hr my sub was dead in the water sitting on the bottom 50m. For the next 5hrs the crew gave it there all to repair and to stop countless leaks. In the end all was lost.


Im using GW mod and was wondering if the subs should take a @ss beating like the one I just got and hold up for as long as my did?

[Saukko]

Well, there was a U-boat that took 600+ depth charges and survived, I don't remember that boats number, so I can't give you a link to uboat.net. *sigh*

As far as I know, only a direct hit would destroy a U-boat, so usually they just dropped enough DCs to damage the boat beyond crews ability to repair it. Not a nice way to go...

So it sounds pretty realistic to me.

[Heibges]

There are really some amazing stories about the condition in which uboat skippers managed to bring damaged boats back to port.

[CCIP]

There are really some amazing stories about the condition in which uboat skippers managed to bring damaged boats back to port.

:yep:

Just check the U-333 (can someone find an article on that famous patrol?) and the picture for it. The boat was so damaged that it not only couldn't dive - it couldn't even withstand a strong storm! But still got back to base :huh:

http://uboat.net/boats/u333.htm

[Heibges]

I read Cremer's book "Uboat Commander", and I remember that he had some really terrible/terrific luck depending on how you look at it. All kinds of whacky stuff happened to him.

But I guess since he survived the war, where he also fought as an infantry commander in the spring of 1945, that his luck was pretty good after all.

[Kaleun]

Hi,

@ saukko: the most depth charges dropped on one U-Boat was indeed 600+, it was actually 678 - have a look at the last paragraph of

http://www.uboat.net/allies/technical/depth_charges.htm

Here's the boat in question:

http://www.uboat.net/boats/u427.htm

Kaleun

[Saukko]

Thank you, herr Kaleun. I remembered reading that, but I couldn't remember the boats number.

(I'm watching and "enjoying" U-571 right now. :lol: )

[dize]

my recent career was ended by a destroyer, with his first dc run. two charges exploded close to my conning tower and hull. i was dead immediately. i was at ~100m. no chance to do anything. i could take a short look at the damage control screen, and it was all red, and every1 was dead.