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Grrbob25
09-13-06, 03:39 PM
I wanted to know from all you experienced kaleuns....whats the farthest you've ever gone on a patrol???
mine is with a IX-D2 from Speiza to Panang (or whatever it is) milkcowed once, the whole jouney took 5 months time at ahead slow (3 days real time) got many a good kill during that :up:
I don't have any great epic journeys to Penang under my belt yet. That is not for the faint of heart. Longest I've done was a few months meandering through the wonderful Caribbean in a IXC. That place is a tanker graveyard now. :D
PS: I noticed you're from Chicago. I was born and raised in Chicago. It's my favorite city in America by far :). I live in NYC now, but my family and I still go to Lake Geneva every August for the whole month. We usually travel back to Chicago to see old friends a few times every year. Where in Chi-town to you live? Do you ever go to Lake Geneva? I was at the corner of Clark and Belden in the Lincoln Park area. Great city.
My longes was two months in my last W@W patrol!! Near the Ivory Coast! Sure the way's not that long but i had som extended Patrol orders that covered a good chunk of the South-Atlantic!
:shifty:
Gee, was a ugly ride with lots of storm! I so wished i had a Type IID. Something that only sails in the North sea! for a brief time!;)
mr chris
09-13-06, 03:58 PM
Am currently on my longest patrol in my type VIIB. Have been out just over a month and a half game time and have just docked for a resup looking at maybe raiding the odd harbour as i make my way back to base.:arrgh!: As hunting has not been that great so far:hmm:
Penang?? Thats a long patrol, mate! :up:
Well, my longest patrol was from St. Nazaire up through the northwest passage (looking for icebergs, found none...:damn: ) then out through the bering strait ending up on the west coast af alaska. Boring trip....
Torvald Von Mansee
09-13-06, 08:37 PM
Penang?? Thats a long patrol, mate! :up:
Well, my longest patrol was from St. Nazaire up through the northwest passage (looking for icebergs, found none...:damn: ) then out through the bering strait ending up on the west coast af alaska. Boring trip....
Hmmm...it never even occurred to me that that route WOULDN'T be iced in!!!! :rotfl:
Penang?? Thats a long patrol, mate! :up:
Well, my longest patrol was from St. Nazaire up through the northwest passage (looking for icebergs, found none...:damn: ) then out through the bering strait ending up on the west coast af alaska. Boring trip....
Hmmm...it never even occurred to me that that route WOULDN'T be iced in!!!! :rotfl:
I didnt even see an icecube (except the one in my whisky-glass). It was a horrific moment: Looked like some sort of global warming melted all the ice.... :D
JSalinger
09-13-06, 10:50 PM
One can take the northwest passage? *blinks* And let me guess, there's no Milch cows off of Alaska...
Hmm, maybe you could dock at Yokosuka at convince the Japanese to give you a refuel and directions to the nearest American Task Group. :D
melnibonian
09-14-06, 06:25 AM
Hello
My longest patrol was from Lorient to Madagascar (with a small raid in Rio de Janeiro first!! :arrgh!: ) on an IXC. I was planning to go to Mogadishu refuel and then go to the pacific but unfortunately it was 1944 and the Italians switched sides half way into my trip :down: :down: . So I killed as many targets I could and return to France.
Biggles
09-14-06, 08:04 AM
My longest patrol was from Brest to the Florida Keys.....I was foolin' around over there, did a trip around Cuba and it was quite a good partol, what I can remember, I sank about 5 ships (3 I think was in the middle of the Atlantic, and 2 ships near Cuba, probably going Miami-Brazil). I did shoot down some airplanes outside Cuba too, but don't remember how many......
One can take the northwest passage? *blinks* And let me guess, there's no Milch cows off of Alaska...
Hmm, maybe you could dock at Yokosuka at convince the Japanese to give you a refuel and directions to the nearest American Task Group. :D
Thats right, mate...I recommend to use a long range sub, and not an IIA... :yep::D
I didnt detect a single ship after i sailed into the Labrador sea. Went up through davis strait and baffin bay, turned west throught the "passage", no Ice at all..
Through Beaufort sea, then bering strait, then west coast of the 49' State... NO shipping at all..... AND NO ICE!!:down::down::down:
Hmm, maybe you could dock at Yokosuka at convince the Japanese to give you a refuel and directions to the nearest American Task Group. :D
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
Grrbob25
09-16-06, 01:21 PM
I don't have any great epic journeys to Penang under my belt yet. That is not for the faint of heart. Longest I've done was a few months meandering through the wonderful Caribbean in a IXC. That place is a tanker graveyard now. :D
PS: I noticed you're from Chicago. I was born and raised in Chicago. It's my favorite city in America by far :). I live in NYC now, but my family and I still go to Lake Geneva every August for the whole month. We usually travel back to Chicago to see old friends a few times every year. Where in Chi-town to you live? Do you ever go to Lake Geneva? I was at the corner of Clark and Belden in the Lincoln Park area. Great city.
yeah chicago is pretty great, i live on the way way way south side, if i walk 2 blocks I wont be in the city anymore :D I've been to lake geneva one time, and I was so little I dont remember it :damn:
Biggles
09-16-06, 03:15 PM
I've "only" been to New York, Florida,Georgia,Utah,Colorado,Arizona,New Mexico,Nevada,and California, and I'm a Swede! Aint that neet?
JSalinger
09-18-06, 07:35 PM
Now that I think of it, I think my farthest patrol has been to...*thinks some more* I want to say the west coast of India in early 1944 in my IXD2 (also turned out to be my last patrol...got swarmed by two British DDs and a Free French corvette coming back to Lorient in May of '44). Very little shipping there, Kaleuns. I think I bagged two coastal merchants there and that was it (nice deck gun practice though).
Now into my second career, I'm in December of 1942, on what number patrol I can't remember, but I'm in a IXC patrolling the Brazillian coast. Current tonnage is something like 154,000 tons (poor, I know). Let's sink more of der Englander schwein!
What about a trip around the world? would that be possible with a long-range sub and some serious fuel-saving? Since SHIV dont have a world map, we got to do it in SHIII..... Someone up for the challenge?? :D:D:rock:
My longest patrol was my famed Monsoon cruise during WaW I:
http://radioroom.wolvesatwar.org/viewtopic.php?t=4248
The farthest I went was east of New Guinea :hmm:
CCIP, where'd you get the skin for your IX/D2? The conn looks nice, I like it. Looks like there's 2 U-181's out on the high seas. LOL Upon upgrading from the IX/C I received my IX/D2 as U-181.
For the farhtest patrol I've ever been on, it's Lorient to Capetown to patrol Grid 58 in a VII/B. Talk about trying to save fuel, with no resupply available either. :roll:
andy_311
09-19-06, 04:31 PM
My longest patrol was in a IXD2 Lorient to Penang
Cdre Gibs
09-19-06, 09:25 PM
Departed St. Nazaire.
Pass through the Pillars of Hercules.
Traversed the Med
Busted through the Suez
Traversed the Red Sea
Crossed the Indian Ocean
Raided around Australia (found lots of ships in the Bass Straights)
Resup at Penang
Passed north of PNG
Crossed the Pasific, Island hopping - not many Islands either (didnt find many ships, 2 maybe)
Checked out Pearl - Nothing there.
Pass through the Panama Canal
Raided along the Eastern Seaboard of the USA/Canada
When level with St. Nazaire - crossed the Atlantic back to base
Have repeated this 3 times now with slight variations. Takes a long time.
Well the poster did say - "Join the Kriegsmarine and see the World" ;)
CCIP, where'd you get the skin for your IX/D2? The conn looks nice, I like it. Looks like there's 2 U-181's out on the high seas. LOL Upon upgrading from the IX/C I received my IX/D2 as U-181.
It's a hybrid of fubar's normal IXD skin and the tower from his late war IXC skin. You can find these at realsimulation :up:
The farthest I've been to on a Type VII was off Brasil, with resupply from a Milk Cow. The farthest I've been to on a Type II was around Rockall bank, although I keep meaning to have an experimental career where I'd use it to scoot around from resupply to resupply (I'll probably never get to it).
The furthest I'll be on a IXB/C will be this WaW patrol off Capetown :D
JSalinger
09-20-06, 08:47 PM
Gibs, that is pretty epic...really did go around the world! LOL
Question: How'd you successfully get through the Suez Canal? I thought the Tommies had the place smothered with airbases and escorts and shore guns...
Cdre Gibs
09-21-06, 01:31 AM
Easy, I waited untill I had foul weather at night for cover. Used the dark, fog and rain to help hide me as I ran the Suez. Visability gets down to around 100m- 200m at night in a pea soup like that. I then surface and hit flank and RUN for all I'm worth. The only thing is, I pray like mad I dont litteraly run into something or some1! :)
1's I'm safely a ¼ of the way into the Suez I can slow down and conserve fuel. No traffic scripted/spawns that far in land/up the canal..
Biggles
09-21-06, 08:26 AM
Crossed the Pasific, Island hopping - not many Islands either (didnt find many ships, 2 maybe)
Checked out Pearl - Nothing there.
Pass through the Panama Canal
Raided along the Eastern Seaboard of the USA/Canada
When level with St. Nazaire - crossed the Atlantic back to base
Have repeated this 3 times now with slight variations. Takes a long time.
Well the poster did say - "Join the Kriegsmarine and see the World" ;)
Is it possible to go from,say Australia to Pearl Harbor just like that??? the Direct route? Don't you have to go all the way from south Pacific and take the route south of America????
Captain Nemo
09-21-06, 10:06 AM
I must say that I didn't realize that the whole of the world was mapped in SHIII (only been playing SHIII for a couple of months). It's a pity that the ice cap isn't modelled in the game as previous posts seem to suggest. I've seen icebergs in single missions why don't they appear in career mode?
Nemo
Laffertytig
09-21-06, 12:38 PM
whats the highest TC u guys use to do long patrols? ive heard anything above 256x and u get weird aircraft behaviour
Captain Nemo
09-22-06, 04:26 AM
whats the highest TC u guys use to do long patrols? ive heard anything above 256x and u get weird aircraft behaviour
I think I read somewhere on the forum that TC in excess of 256 means that the game misses waypoints and therefore you have less chance of encountering aircraft. I can confirm this as I always used to use 1024 but never seemed to bump into any aircraft. Since using only 256 or less I have encountered quite a few enemy planes. I think this might also apply to random ship encounters as well. The downside of course is that it takes forever to get anywhere.
Nemo
DanBiddle
09-22-06, 04:51 AM
Well, seeing as I'm still really new to this game, my only career so far has been in Type II boats, although hopefully the French bases will open up soon so I can move up a class.
My longest patrol was halfway up the coast of Norway in U-24, and I came back with very little fuel remaining :P
Nothing like all your epic cruises, but it seemed a long way to me!
Cheers,
Dan Biddle
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