View Full Version : This was scary!
I got dc`ed to hell and back by some destroyers, but managed to evade them for a breather. During the decent I noticed that the boat started sinking by itself if I ordered periscope depth. I blew ballast lots of times to maintain 100 meters.
I fixed all the minor damage, and stopped all flooding. One of the fore torpedo tubes was completely destroyed, but the flooding was gone, so it could not be that?
I fiddled away for a long time, all the time struggling to keep the boat from plummeting into critical depth, while at the same time praying that none of the depth charges hit me while I battled this strange problem.
After a long time I got a little distance between me and the destroyers, sp I gambled on surfacing. This proved to be a serious problem, since the boat would not respond unless I went flank speed and blew ballast at the same time.
When I finally got up, I noticed what was wrong. One of the tube doors where blown off! This is a first for me.
I started recording after battling this for a long time on the surface, and the compressed air was very low.
Vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoXpyQ5aqTg
Anyone had this happen to them?
It was really cool!
PS: One of the destroyers followed me for two days(!) before finally catching me. At this point I made a U-turn (no aft fish) and charged him head on. It did not go well.
RIP U-95.
mr chris
10-07-06, 11:56 AM
Uber damage Stabiz :up: can't say that has ever happened to me. But im sure it will soon as iam all ways getting badly banged about by the dd's.
Finnbat
10-07-06, 11:59 AM
I had not so serious problem as you, but had problem to keep boat levelled. So I figured after long time that I have to keep the repair team in comparment for longer time than I thought. There where water in so much that the boat was too heavy. And now a days I leave time to the team to pump it out.
Respenus
10-07-06, 01:49 PM
Hmm! Nice one!
A thought! Did you tra "manualy" closing the tube door. A.k.a. choosing your weapon officer and press the button for tube doors! It probably wouldn't help, but still it might have been usefull!
spork542
10-07-06, 01:58 PM
"Jawohl Herr Kaleun! Ausblassen!"
"Jawohl Herr Kaleun! Ausblassen!"
"Jawohl Herr Kaleun! Ausblassen!"
"Jawohl Herr Kaleun! Ausblassen!"
"Jawohl Herr Kaleun! Ausblassen!"
"Jawohl Herr Kaleun! Ausblassen!"
:rotfl:
By the way, how do you spell "Ausblassen"?
Hmm! Nice one!
A thought! Did you tra "manualy" closing the tube door. A.k.a. choosing your weapon officer and press the button for tube doors! It probably wouldn't help, but still it might have been usefull!
Yes! Tried that, didn`t work. I even opened all the other doors, closed them, and then the damaged one. Nothing. I think the door was literally blown off.
This meant I had to run decks awash without wanting to. :rotfl:
I love this game, something new happens very often.
Albrecht Von Hesse
10-07-06, 05:10 PM
Can't say I've ever had anything like that happen to me, but I have had something similar (although I didn't think to make a cool video of it :p ).
I'd gotten ash-canned from Hell and, although my hull integrity never suffered, I'd had every compartment flooding to some degree. I'd shot down, heading to 160 meters, before I got nailed, and it took ages to stop all the flooding. And all the while I had DDs circling around overhead, dropping more depth charges while I was noisily doing repairs and pumping out water.
At some point I lost the DDs. By then I was at 230 meters and steadily, albeit slowly, sinking further and further. Both dive planes were destroyed, and so was my compressor (so I had no compressed air to blow tanks). My electric engines were damaged; I could only get them at 2 knot max speed.
So there I was, with a 100% hull integrity, all compartments repaired and pumped dry . . . and dive planes stuck in a descent position, with no compressed air to blow the tanks. I set the engines at back emergency, but all that did was slow the inevitable.
It took around 30 minutes, but eventually I started hearing the dreaded breaking-glass sound as my hull started collapsing.
99% . . . 98% . . . 97% . . .
95% . . . 93% . . . 91% . . .
88% . . . 84% . . . 80% . . .
Yep . . . starts off slow, but once it starts . . .
--sighs--
hyperion2206
10-07-06, 05:32 PM
"Jawohl Herr Kaleun! Ausblassen!"
"Jawohl Herr Kaleun! Ausblassen!"
"Jawohl Herr Kaleun! Ausblassen!"
"Jawohl Herr Kaleun! Ausblassen!"
"Jawohl Herr Kaleun! Ausblassen!"
"Jawohl Herr Kaleun! Ausblassen!"
:rotfl:
By the way, how do you spell "Ausblassen"?
Since you asked, here it is spelled correctly: "ausblasen".:know:;)
I am uploading the dying moments of U-95 now. It is so strange how you sometimes forget what you did in extreme circumstances. :huh: Prepare for clumsy stabiz.
No music, no nothing, just the death of a badly battered sub with nowhere to go:
Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooUWfC5UNcQ
Part2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdjezfFKCRQ
SubSerpent
10-07-06, 08:59 PM
Damn Stabiz, looks like Das Boot on crack!!:o
What were you thinking taking on a DD on the surface?
Wait a minute...Was this another Bernard movie in the making?
Hehe, its what happened after the first clip. The destroyer chased me for one (or two) days. He was doing 19-20 knots, and I was doing 20 at flank speed. Suddenly he sped up a bit and started shelling me, and I had nowhere to go. (I dont think the battered hull could take more dc`ing, so I decided to gamble. It obviously failed. In addition I did not know if I would be able to submerge again, with regards to the blown torpedo hatch.)
Has anybody else had a destroyer on their tail for that long?
I hoped he would keep his distance until we made it to Lorient. I would love to see him fight THAT crowd.
Alas ... U-95 is dead. Long live U-67!
heheeheh, that was totally suicidal man:rotfl:
Albrecht Von Hesse
10-07-06, 10:08 PM
I'm not sure, as it's hard to see, but it looks as if you still had water in your bow quarters. If so, that's why you had trouble staying on the surface and trouble staying trimmed when submerged.
Nope, no water in there. I had a small amount of water in the middle of the boat, but that was gone pretty fast.
I honestly wonder if loseing a door on a uboat could make it flood uncontroably?
Respenus
10-08-06, 08:33 AM
Yes if Bernard was in the torpedo room. He forgot to close the inner door and then the loading hatch from the inside of the boat. He then locked himself in the bow torpedo room and didn't tell aynone what he had do.
So the crew was clueless to what is going on, meanwhile their boat was being flooded!
HunterICX
10-08-06, 09:11 AM
:smug: It seems that Stabiz had a Torpedo Bernard.
He fired an torpedo without opening the doors....:nope:
NIGHTFIGHTER
10-08-06, 03:48 PM
My heart go's out to you Stabiz, but the surface attack can work, when i came across my first convoy i was so bussy counting cargo ships i knew nothing untill the splashes started around my boat, and i thought what the hell and ordered the gun crew into action, took aim myself and lobbed a shell in the direction, now i dont know if it was pure luck or HMS Hood but it blew it completely out of the water, it broke in two and sank!!! i then went back to the conning tower and remember even the watch team had a look of shock on thier faces.
NIGHTFIGHTER
10-09-06, 06:19 PM
Yep GW's i then stayed on the surface attacked two transports before the other escort turned up, went to periscope depth went dead in the water, used the hydrophone to watch him as he went round and round me, set torp depth to 2 then when he came round to my 180 LAUNCH! and boom!! No more escorts.
Steeltrap
10-09-06, 06:46 PM
Yep GW's i then stayed on the surface attacked two transports before the other escort turned up, went to periscope depth went dead in the water, used the hydrophone to watch him as he went round and round me, set torp depth to 2 then when he came round to my 180 LAUNCH! and boom!! No more escorts.
Wouldn't give you much hope of that in NYGM!
vBulletin® v3.8.11, Copyright ©2000-2025, vBulletin Solutions Inc.