I have decided my type IIA is a lucky boat, I have never lost one. I can't say the same for my type VIIs Therefore I am going all the way with the old dugout canoe. 1939 to 1945. I figure if I keep the oil changed and let the engines warm up on cold mornings before making way I should be alright.

I have been trying to do this for 2 years. Never made it past '41.
And I just can't face starting in September '39 again.
Plus, I have never seen GWX in '42-'45. I figure there's a huge part of this game I have never seen. I hear it gets real exciting past '42 :DL
Now is the time for me to start seeing it, no matter how short lived my Kaleuns end up being..

With that in mind, I have decided that this is an excellent idea from Sailor Steve.

I bought the farm in May '40, so that's where my new career has started.
I'm now in a VIIC, about 800km west of Gibraltar.
And I gotta tell you, it sure is nice being in a bigger boat :DL

Ambitious, Joe Bob.
I wish you the best of luck :up:

Noble goal.
I recommend shifting to a IID, as it has the range capability of doing the more distant grids that you will eventualy be assigned.
If you realy like the IIA, you'll love the IID.

Not only that, but I just talked to the manager... and, well, we've never done this before, but seeing as it's special circumstances and all, he says I can knock a hundred dollars off that Trucoat. :up:

@Frau Kaleun

"Location: Midgard"
Spelling should be changed to Midgård or Midgaard.
("å" and "aa" are equivalent to eachother.)

Asgård, Midgård, og/(and) Udgård.

That letter is pronounced like the english word "oh".

Thanks, but I'm using the Anglicized spelling, since I did the same with Valkyrie.

Altho' Valkyrie may well be the "correct" spelling in one of the languages of the mythic traditions involved, I don't know. Midgard is the Norwegian spelling IIRC.

Or I could just change it to Valhalla and not worry about it. Except Valhalla's no fun, it's mostly just a bunch of dead heroes banging their fists on the tables and hollering for more mead. :O:

Still "å" or "aa" in norwegian or danish.
It gives the letter an "oh" as opposed to "ah" pronunciation.
But do as you see fit.

Valhalla: That's Odin's lodge. Fight & die daily? No thanks.
Freja's lodge is much more appealing. Loving is so much more fun.

(According to the national song, Danmark IS Freja's lodge.)

(Frigg was always my favorite.)

No, I'll take your word for it, I don't know diddly about Scandinavian languages. Somewhere I saw "and Midgard in Norwegian" but that doesn't mean it was right. :DL

You're cool.

You're comprehension of german grammar is nothing short of astounding.
Should have your danish up and running in no time.
(The grammer is much less complex than german, dutch, or english.)
(And, just two genders. Common, and neuter.)

exciting, hair-raising, frustrating, dangerous.
that's all I can tell from my experiencies so far (in April1944 for the first time in GWX).
there are DD-patrols all over, convoys got an outer screen, air-patrols all over the place, yet leaving harbour is kind of success when you get out of the pen and 10-20 Halifax-bombers circle above you!

but there are some little helpers:
a "Falke" loaded in stern-tube
a working RWR-device
staying submerged for about 20h a day (only surfacing twice for recharging)
a very very cautious approach to all assumed targets.

it's nerve-wracking. :arrgh!:

Actually it's nothing short of what I can remember from playing at learning it and what I can confirm with any source at hand. :D

:o

:timeout:

I can only pretend to learn one language at a time! :O:

Danish does sound interesting, though. I've only heard it once, when I watched Babette's Feast. It's not a language one hears at all in these parts so it was cool to hear it spoken for the first time.

I should have been 'claimed'. I'm on my fourth wartime patrol (fifth total) and playing merry Hell in AM53. Weather has been extremely cooperative (for a blessed change), no more than 5mps. So far I've sunk 15 ships for 45K tonnes, and still have 4 torpedos left (yep, when it's still 1939 me and my deck gun --weather permitting-- get a lot of exercise).

My surface torpedo attacks are always at night, and when the water is reasonable calm, I go to decks awash at around 5-7 km and very patiently creep ever closer. Almost all my torpedo attacks are at 500 meters or closer.

I was trying to maneuver just in front of a small freighter to bring my stern tube to bear (as I only have 1 bow torp left, but I still have all 3 stern ones) and I mis-turned: turned 30 degrees port, not starboard. :oops::doh:

I was already within 600 meters, and by the time I'd realized what I'd done and tried correcting it, it was far too late. I was on the bridge and got a simply horrid and terrifying view of the bow of the freighter bearing straight down at me, dead perpendicular to my beam. It stuck me right behind the conning tower and pushed me 15 meters deep . . .

. . . the silly merchant --and crew-- continued blithly sailing on . . .

. . . my watch crew somehow held their breath until I managed to re-surface . . .

. . . and I seem to have been barely dinged.

By all that's right, that impact should have been fatal. I'm grateful that it wasn't, mind you. Although things like that are also an immersion killer. :dead:

you might "correct" that in-game mistake by diving to 400m at flank speed. :D:up:

I can confirm this. :yeah: