Sunk my first liner!

[Syxx_Killer]

I cannot believe my luck. I have had this game for a year now and have finally sunk a liner! I was ordered to patrol grid AM11. I served my 24 hours there. The seas were rough, 11m/s winds. It was cloudy. I was heading back to BF13 - one of my favorite hunting grounds. I was sailing along in AM49 when all of a sudden I hear, "Ship spotted!" Thinking nothing of it I go topside to have a look. I have just started playing the game without external cam, so no "spectacular" shots.

This is what I see in the distance:

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Hardly believing my luck I go to the UZO view:

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I order ahead flank. I ask my WE how fast the liner is going. He replies 18 knots. U-556 is giving her all. She's squeezing out 20 knots. Then I realize something. The seas have calmed down! I quickly order the gun crew to stations. I'm hoping that I can at least slow the liner down.

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As I race nearer my juicy prize, I order a salvo fired. I set the depth to 14m: magnetic. I'm dumbfounded when I watch the fish go fore and aft of the liner. I leave the fish set to magnetic pistol, but set the depth for 3m. I fire a salvo again. The torpedo that would have hit the aft part of the ship bounces off the hull. I'm getting worried now. The torpedo at the bow explodes.

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She immediately starts to list. I order my gun crew to continue shelling the vessel.

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At 15:18 she slips under the waves.

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Oddly enough, when I was viewing the nav map, the ship's speed only said medium. That's why I was so shocked when I went topside to see this liner sailing by. After the liner, I went on to BF13. The weather turned for the worse again - high winds, heavy rain and fog. I did manage to sink a small merchant, coastal merchant and T2 tanker for a patrol total of 48,470 tons. The T2 and coastal were in a "neutral" convoy. I'm happy. :lol:

[DeepSix]

Congrats! :up:

[Rosencrantz]

Think how many pretty english girls just went down... :cry:
But, C'est la querre... that's the war like...

-RC-

[zzsteven]

So that is what a liner looks like. After a year of playing have never seen one.

Congrats!

zz

[tbarak]

I saw one once too, damn well near collided with it in bad weather. No eels left to boot..love that. Followed it all the way back to its harbour without a break in the weather. Damn shame to break off the attack.

[Ducimus]

So that is what a liner looks like. After a year of playing have never seen one.

Congrats!

zz

What he said. :-j

[Syxx_Killer]

You guys will eventually get one. I never thought I would get one, either. Just hang out around AM49. I'm thinking that is a route they like to take. I saw one there once before. It was under worse circumstances, though. I spotted it in bad weather. I was in a bad position and it was going the opposite direction at 22 knots. :damn:

[Salvadoreno]

i have gotten one accidently. It was floating with a convoy and i shot a salvo at a tanker and missed. then BAM 2 hits on the Liner and it sunk. Wooho..

My 2nd encounter is still in the making. Im in the MED and just fired a hurried salvo of 4 torps with a mistake of 4 grad and scored 1 hit amidships. It slowed down out of the small convoy now im tracking it but supirsingly the escort came back towards it and is now circling around it!! :huh: Thats one smart escort!!

[Tonnage_Ace]

You guys obviously never read of my exploits in my Gibraltar! post a month back:

http://www.subsim.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=49973&highlight=

I was using the GW mod and found two liners at the head of a convoy. The entire convoy was travelling in a straight line, with C2s, C3s, Liberties in the back with the liners' travelling in the front, about a 1000m ahead of the rest. The first liner was weaving and the rest of the convoy, including the second liner remained on a straight heading. Approaching undetected, I struck, sending two fish apiece straight for the liners. I think they both went down without further action taken against them, but I think I had to fire a fifth at the head liner to send her beneath the waves.
I was playing at 92% with only free-look enabled.

That wasn't the only time I spotted liners either, many other times within convoys in the western approaches, and other times, solo, heading up throught BE 63. It seems the top half of BE has been the most fruitful for me, personally, as well as the Gibraltar Straight[on both sides that is, being that liners can 'warp away', after reaching Gibraltar, or they may simply pass through the Straight on their way to Alexandria, but it's better not to wait until they(convoy's, liners) get through the Straight to sink them].

One such encounter was about a week ago when I was patrolling the top middle of BE(which, when looking at the map provided with GW is a heavy sea traffic area). I think I was in BE 61, wind 6m/s, clouds overcast, fog heavy, around late afternoon, maybe 1500hrs. I had my radar on scan, full 360 degress, going ahead slow with TC at about 256x. My guy picked something up through the fog bearing 345 degrees, grabbing him out of the chair, I zeroed in on the contact and it said 5000m and closing! I went to periscope depth and raised my scope to it's full extent, so as not to waste time raising it when the time came...I go to the hydrophone station and monitor the sound, my guy says the contact is approaching fast so I know it's something good and upon listening in, I can hear the whir of high rpm's, something I recognise from battleships and other liners I've heard in GW. Only picking up a single contact I'm almost certain it's a liner as the only ships which sound like that and travel alone are usually liners. I ping the contact...3000m and closing fast! I get up from the station and tell my men to get ready for something big! Realizing that he's on somewhat of a 90 degree course and I'm on a 290 degree course, backing up to face his course perpindicularly, while keeping a distance of 300m+ so the torpedos can arm(did I mention one very important fact? If I didn't move, I'm pretty sure he would've run over me, while I was at periscope depth...that's how much of a freak encounter this was) would be almost impossible to do while still being able to fire at him. Therefore, I set speed at ahead flank and right full rudder, steering the boat 0 degrees. I had a type IXC so I knew that my aft tubes would be able to slow, if not sink, this liner. Coming to 0 degrees and satisfied with my distance from him and having set up the TDC manually to fire both tubes, impact, default depth and fast as they were T1s...I was ready for this beast. It breached the fog, sure enough it was a liner, coming fast and with no time to make any speed or course observations, I was left to fire by 'eyeing it'. I judged it was coming about 15kts and was 500m away, so I took aim and fired the salvo with a two degree spread. Surpisingly, not one missed, but they both hit and each were right under the smokestacks. Being that I was using GW 1.1 and UC for GW, what would've probably been a 'critical hit' wasn't, however the ship did eventually sink 15 minutes later without further action against it. I was playing at 100% at the time. Love this game.

[Slick Rick]

Good work....I have yet to spot one also....

[andy_311]

Surely not in GW? single traffic is almost non existant?

[Syxx_Killer]

The screenshots above were not from GW. I have the equivalent of 5 SH3 installations on my computer. I just swap out the data folders when I want to switch "styles." The screenshots above were from a semi-stock version of the game. No changes except patch 1.4b and some of the major bugs fixed not fixed by the patch. The other installations include: complete stock version with patch 1.4b for backup purposes, a custom modded version with HT 1.47, a custom modded version with the unified NYGM campaign, and of course a GW installation. If I get bored with one version I simply switch to another. :-j