No need for concurrent duplicate threads, but since it's actually a gameplay issue, we'll let it slide.

I always plot the Kiel Canal manually, :sunny:

It was not the dumb way I've got sunk, but dumb place, where I was caught by suprise.

Serving in Med. Flotilla I tried to pass Suez canal. After entering into canal at Port Said, I thought I will never see any hostile unit untill I reach red sea. However while approaching the Great Bitter Lake I was schoked seeing few British DD cruising around that lake :o. I tried to pass through them silently underwater, but one of the DD has picked up his course right at me, and rammed me probabaly not aware of my presence there (cuz DD maintained his cruise speed) I bet I freaked him out too ATM :haha:. From that moment action took well knows scenarious, Pings, DC, exploasions and fanfaras..

Bernard

who ?

The idiot we all blame when things go terribly wrong.

There is no possible way that any one of us who are well trained, steely eyed Kaleuns would ever make a bone headed move, push the wrong button, surface at the wrong time, run into docks, hit flank speed by mistake when stealthily making an approach with escorts nearby, not diving when Italian aircraft are spotted after they have switched sides in Sept. 1943 while cruising the Med, torpedoing a neutral, almost torpedoing a German ore carrier off the coast of Norway, etc.

Someone must get the blame and that person is the crew member on every one of our submarines named Bernard.

:)

How do you spell his name...Bernard thus, :O:

Every u-boat is issued a Bernard upon it's first cruise. He is usually stored in the forward head with the extra rations, sometimes moved to the external torpedo stores when they become available. Most kaleuns only deploy the Bernard when a scapegoat is needed to take the heat from BDU, but some less experienced, and occasionally senior ones, let him roam free, thinking the extra man power may be useful.

They soon learn.


Mine was a late war transfer from Herr Balz's boat. I figured how much damage could he do with his trumpet?

lol some good stories, I died once while exiting the port, it gave me a was destroyed by pressure, and I was on the surface with no damage, nor did I get a message saying we were under attack. Epic fail game is fail lol.

Returning home after a fairly successful patrol, got impatient to reach my pen and was crushed by one of the gates whilst playing chicken with the Wilhelmshaven locks. :nope:

lol ive done that one before lol.

Destroyed by aircraft a few miles outside of port...

You probably hit a mine. In GWX friendly ports have them too. You can locate them with one of the pull-down maps in the Nav Map screen.

I probably hold the record for the earliest case of Death By Stupidity. Earliest by game date, anyway.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...57&postcount=4

lol actualy I navigated away from the mine field. So I am really not sure what happened lol.