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I think you could say things went well.

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As you can see, I made it back home! Being as I only had three torpedos left, I figured I'd head back through the straight after sinking those passenger liners and head home. Upon seeing the summary, I can say that this was my most succesful patrol ever and this is my second career! I also discovered that I had made a big mistake moving through the middle of the straight. Hugging the African coast, I had no problems, moving in waters only about 20m deep. Hope this helps people trying to get through in the future! :rock:

thanks for help Tonnage_Ace,

and for your interesting post. :up:

Nice mission Tonnage_Ace :up:

Doughnuts sent me to Freetown in my brand new IX-C. Not having encountered a single ship other than the odd coastal merchant on my way there and back, I was bored and went to Gibraltar in the hope of some action. Well, action :gulp: is what I got:

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Any hopes of sending a salvo into a nice, juicy capital ship where destroyed when dc's gave me flooding and took out both periscopes, the starboard engine and, of less importance, the radio.

I was at 170 m depth and sinking due to the flooding. Increasing speed didn't help control the sinking at first. I was at exactly 231 m when I got enough water pumped out of the leaking compartments to stop me sinking when going at flank speed.

Somehow, I survived. The batteries had taken a hit, so I had to surface for recharging earlier than I'd wanted. With one engine destroyed, the boat would only charge noticeably at full or flank speed, which was kind of interesting since I had used up most of my fuel and shouldn't really go any faster than 1/3rd ahead.

I made it back to Lorient with fuel for less than 50km left and, embarassingly, all torps except two left.

All in all it was a rather exciting patrol even if I hardly scored anything. I have to go to Gibraltar again some day!

Wow xrvjorn, that looks worse than my first picture! The only benefit to that many ships on the water is when the bombers come and accidently sink a couple elco's, funny to watch while I try to escape.

Wow, what a lightshow....to bad our boot's don't do disco!

But cool Tonnage mate! :rock:

Gibralter in 44 never too risky done it in 41 but am now doing my patrols in a IXC/40 so i doubt i will enter the straights even if i reach 44 it takes 37 seconds to hit pd and pn my last patrol a Fiji caught me on the surface by the time I hit PD my hull integrity went from 100 to 15 % in 25 sec flat.God knows what's in them straights in 44 but with a tub that dives to pd in 37 secs am not that brave. not in this career anyway.

I outta grab an IX-D2, load it to the hilt with Gnat torpedoes and try it in 1944. Then run at full flank speed to get their attention and then fire all my torpedoes in order to clear the way for a U-boat breakout.

I'll call it "Operation Die Geistig Behinderten Kapitän zer See" (translation = "Operation The Mentally Retarded Captain ")


Basically what I'm saying is that going though the Mediterranean is near suicidal from mid-1943 until 1945. CG94 is the "honey hole" if you want targets that comes in and out of the Mediterranean Sea.

For Hardcore Kaleuns....How about goin' there around '45 and in your trusted IIa boat...lol :arrgh!:

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Sounds like my type of gameplay. A brilliant idea Kapitan.

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Sounds like a challenge! Heading along the African cost would be easy, but it does have a small enough sillhouette to go through the middle...I just realized that the IIa doesn't have enough fuel to get to the straight :(

Might be possible with any of the mods that add milk cows... sure would make for an amusing war diary :)

Maybe not in 45, but a IIa should be able to reach the straight from one of the french bases, it won't have the reach to get back, though.

An interesting way to end a career in style in '44 then: by taking on a one way trip to the Med in a IIA for der Fuhrer.

I'll never attempt it because 4 missions into my new campaign I'm already on the verge of pointing a pistol at the C 'in C if it'll get me out of this damned bath tub that even a transfer to the 7th flotilla wouldn't rid me of (Dec '39 and no type VII in either the 1st or 7th flotilla yet, due probably to the "historical accuracy" option I checked in SH3C).