I know, I was just making a funny.

i know

I went through in 1940 as well after being ordered to re-base at Brest.

Regards,

Grell

Hey mookie...coin yer own phrase lol :rotfl: :up: :arrgh!:

:rotfl:Didn't know who to attribute it to, and I thought it had become so famous that it was in the public domain! :up:

:rotfl: :rotfl:
salute :up:

Though I kind of like Sailor Steve's acronym for it...SAFTEC :yep:

I went through there three times without a scratch in a IXB. Sank 100k tons there and only there. Needless to say, I was pretty new to the game. This was in GW 1.0.

Okay.. I'm going to stay the hell out of the Channel !!!
(I somehow miraculously survived a ride through there last night... and there were not many naval ships about nor did any planes come after me. I guess they thought any sub jocky trying to go through there would be a suicidal idiot. You should have seen my crew's faces when I ordered "Full steam ahead into the channel")
It was fun watching the mines pass perilously close to my boat from external view. :D
I hope that Great Britain cleaned up after themselves well and that there still aren't any of those mines still hanging out there in RL.

Yep the odd mine has turned up over the years
Dont forget the Germans mined too
In the channel and close to ports

Something you may come across if you use GWX and are stupid enough to use the channel after 40

Question What if by day you bottomed your boat silent running until its dark and the patrols aren't looking right at you then you blow ballast and flank it (At least thats what I would do) until sunrise then bottom and repeat.

Could this work even somewhat late into the war? (Radar will be problem I forsee)

You could do
No guarantee you wouldnt be picked up on active sonar by patrols

The mines will still get you, and chances are someone will see you even in the dark. A quote from Das Boot is appropriate here...

"Anything that floats will be on the water." :dead:

Do you use mods? With a unmodded version, there are less traffics( still Many traffics)

DON"T ATTEMPT TO GET THROUGH ENGLISH CHANNEL
THE DESTROYERS ARE DEADLY (5~6 DESTROYERS IN A PATROL GROUP) AND THERE ARE NUMBEROUS OF THEM

MINEFIELDS ARE LETHAL TOO. EVEN YOU CAN ENTER IT, YOU CANNOT GET OUT OF THIS SUCKING &*%HOLE

Your only chance and a very slim one at that would be to run at flank speed on the surface during the night....but after 40 the odds just become 'unthinkable'...go round the north of Scotland...enjoy the scenery...sink a couple on the way :D :up:

peterloo i use modded SH3

i use GW

Also sitting on the bottom for 12 hours then running at flank speed wastes time and fuel. You might as well just go the long way around; that's what they really did.

I've made it through 3 times with no problems in TWOS, and was in the middle of my 4th attempt, when I decided to do a little research as to where the channel mines are in the game. As I'm reading the comments I'm thinking "there can't be any mines in the channel, if there were, I would have hit one during the few times I have run channel" suddenly I'm brought back to the game as I hear an explosion and a lot of yelling. I guess I finally found one of the mines! Hahaha

With that this thread deserves the sub-title "Blast from the past" for attaining Necro-status.

Was about to crack a boob joke........... then saw that I already had......14 years ago. :haha: