Patrol 14, February 6 - February 21, 1944

(I tried to get a XXI and advance the date to mid-summer to represent the training and so forth, but after several attempts I finally said screw it and sailed in February, which is way too early to get a XXI, but there you go).

We took command of U-2502, a new type XXI elektroboot, outfitted with lots of fancy gadgets, and with half a load of acoustic torpedos, set sail on our fourteenth patrol. With exceptional submerged speed, 23 torpedos all stored internally, fast auto-reload, and many other nifty features we were certain we could put a serious dent in the Allied navies.

One week into the patrol we reached a good position on a River, and sank him with a type IV Falke.

Moving north a week later through AM42 we picked up a task force that eventually became one Nelson class BB with ten!! escorts. I thought about turning tail, but tried to make an attack. Reached a good position, but too good, and the starboard flank escorts began echo ranging on U-2502 before we could fire. One ran over the top of us, exploding. Several men on board U-2502 were killed, and flooding was severe. Several more escorts took turns adding to the damage and U-2502 was sunk with all hands on February 21, 1944 by ramming and depth charges.

The career of Oberleutnant z. S. Wilhelm Hofmann, and the crew of U-49/U-94/U-553/U-2502

http://home.comcast.net/~dbond41/OJ14log.jpg


Patrols=14
TonnageSunk=358009.000000
MerchantTotalTonnage=0.000000
WarshipsTotalTonnage=358009.000000
ShipsSunkNb=84
MerchantTotalShipsSunk=0
WarshipsTotalShipsSunk=84
PatrolCraftSunk=3
CorvetteSunk=1
FrigateSunk=2
DestroyerEscortSunk=4
DestroyerSunk=61
MineSweeperSunk=0
LightCruiserSunk=4
HeavyCruiserSunk=0
EscortCarrierSunk=2
AircraftCarrierSunk=1
BattleCruiserSunk=0
BattleShipSunk=5
MineLayingShipSunk=0
AuxiliaryCruiserSunk=1
PlanesDownNb=5

Career was played with all realism settings checked aside from auto-map.

A real good story:up:

Regards
Dieter

Wow mate, I must say this is pretty good. :rock::up:

Nice one :up:

With around 360k Military Tonnage sunk, that British probably had you on their black list! :yep:

I wish i had luck with all those battleships :(
 

It seems that you go only out for BB's and cruizers, and DD...

Nice story!!! keep it up!!!

Thanks for the comments. In this career, yes, after only BB, CL and DD, carriers and patrol craft. But that was the idea, to attack only warships and see how well I could do, see how long we could survive. A crazy premise to be sure, but fun nonetheless. I gained alot of practice in targeting the fast moving warships. In most careers I avoid warships for the most part, aside from battleships, which I always do everything I can to get in on them.

This was the first career that I really gave electric torpedos a proper shake. I thought that my accuracy would suffer with the slower torpedos, but it just didn't prove to be the case, and we hit with roughly 90% of shots in this career.. There is no doubt using electrics goes a long way toward keeping your boat undetected. The AI certainly seems able to home in on the tracks when using steamers. Now, after April of '40, I use electrics exclusively, and frequency of counterattacks have dropped drastically.