slow_n_ez
05-08-06, 06:46 PM
I really must have pissed off command or something because after leaving port ( Brest ) October 1944 I got radio message saying " Brest is now no longer funtional as a base of operations " or something like that ... few minutes later I get a message saying my base had changed to Bergen ........ OK ... fine by me ,so I go on and do the patrol I was ordered to go do and completed it and make my way all the way to Bergen and dock there ... Mission end ....
Re outfitted my boat with fresh torpedos and flak ammo and got my crew back to the boat and in their assigned posts, we start a new patrol ....... As soon as the game loaded my watch officer screams " SHIP SPOTTED SIR ! " and imeditally we start getting deck gunned by a British Troop Transport and a Norwegian Coastal Merchant ..... I order periscope depth and pray I don't hit the bottom of the sub pen I am in and a quick look around and I think " this sure looks like Brest NOT Bregen " ... Sure enough it is ! :(
I hurry and get boat moving and get away from band playing and the pen you spawn in and order hard to starboard for a few seconds and stop about 20 meters and wait while my crew fixes a few things that was damaged ....... Wasn't too long and about 15 Liberator Bombers dropped their whole cargo into the sub pen where I was a few minutes ago :huh: plus a few bomber fighters had a go too on the spot they thought I was at .......... All the time the band played on :lol:
After things got quiet I raised periscope and sank both the troop transport and the merchant ... then ahead slow and past the sub pens was a small tanker flying a USA flag which burst into a big fireball from my torpedo that hit broadside ..... " Sound contact sir ! Warship , closing , fast , long range " ........ Great ! just what I need now especially in 12 meters of water :cry:
Read other thread about Bow shots ... my first one since it was heading right at me and no place to manuver the boat in time before she got to me .... Worked great ! must have sank in less than 2 minutes :lol:
Anyways , this is my 3 carreer and the first time I got left behind after bases get changed in the late part of the war .... was exhiliatering to say the least :D
Re outfitted my boat with fresh torpedos and flak ammo and got my crew back to the boat and in their assigned posts, we start a new patrol ....... As soon as the game loaded my watch officer screams " SHIP SPOTTED SIR ! " and imeditally we start getting deck gunned by a British Troop Transport and a Norwegian Coastal Merchant ..... I order periscope depth and pray I don't hit the bottom of the sub pen I am in and a quick look around and I think " this sure looks like Brest NOT Bregen " ... Sure enough it is ! :(
I hurry and get boat moving and get away from band playing and the pen you spawn in and order hard to starboard for a few seconds and stop about 20 meters and wait while my crew fixes a few things that was damaged ....... Wasn't too long and about 15 Liberator Bombers dropped their whole cargo into the sub pen where I was a few minutes ago :huh: plus a few bomber fighters had a go too on the spot they thought I was at .......... All the time the band played on :lol:
After things got quiet I raised periscope and sank both the troop transport and the merchant ... then ahead slow and past the sub pens was a small tanker flying a USA flag which burst into a big fireball from my torpedo that hit broadside ..... " Sound contact sir ! Warship , closing , fast , long range " ........ Great ! just what I need now especially in 12 meters of water :cry:
Read other thread about Bow shots ... my first one since it was heading right at me and no place to manuver the boat in time before she got to me .... Worked great ! must have sank in less than 2 minutes :lol:
Anyways , this is my 3 carreer and the first time I got left behind after bases get changed in the late part of the war .... was exhiliatering to say the least :D