Silver, this sinking was credited to my wife and a table:doh:. The others were, shall we say, a test and tune of GWX;). I started another last night. Sunk 4 in a convoy and went on home. Escaped three DD and corvette. I got a handle on it but darn after 5 patrols and sinking after 2 outing each....one gets a complex:cry:

I'm a firm believer in submerging at my home port for two weeks and then surface like I just arrived back:up:. I just need to explain why I have a full load of torpedos:hmm: Bernard maybe.....:hmm:

Since GWX is out, then I'm doing a cowardly convoy-attack tactic: I fire all aft. torpedos (silent running) and then dive under the convoy. Worked for me this far, started september -39, am now in november -40. Hit and run tactics is the thing now mates! If I can survive this long, then YOU can!:up:

nearly sunk again on patrol nr.4 :doh:

sunk a merchant with DG. destroyer surprised and attacked me -> crash dive (merchant destroyed...)
later, i thought i was save, danger is gone... no sound contacts etc. i surfaced (without checking the horizon with the periscope)

suddenly, instantly, damage reports, pipes breaking, water´s coming in. "ship spotted!"

oops
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surived with 48% hull, periscopes destroyed, antenna too...
canceled the patrol due to eavy damage and returned to kiel. ALL torpedoes still with me... but 4 ships sunk with DG...

with SH3 ive learned "no need to be careful, they cant harm you anyway..."
with GWX ive learned "every small mistake may be the last..."
:huh:

I'm on my second patrol from Salamis, trying out manual navigation. Had fantastic weather patrolling my grid and trawling between Alexandria and Tobruk, didn't pick up a contact either visual or hydrophone (and I do checks every 3 hours with my own ears) A couple task forces reported on radio but way too far to catch up.
Headed for south of Malta then plan to ambush in the bottleneck between Sicily and Tunisia. And guess what : as soon as I got close to Malta, rain, wind and heavy fog... Might ride it out in port in Lampedusa if it lasts... Sounds like this patrol is not going the right way so far.:cry:

Funny thing, I received a radio message from BdU around Nov 10th telling me Salamis was now open for operations. :D

@ Nippel :rotfl: :rotfl:

Looks like one of my second patrols:shifty: . My patrols are like my sex life....I'm a two pump(patrol) chump;)

Port attacks still seem to pay off in a big way, at least early in the war. Jan '40 I enter Dunkirk, and after taking out the five docked or anchored Polish V&W destroyers(who furiously pinged me but never moved), I surfaced inside the harbour, putting a total of 57000 tons of shipping to the bottoms with torps, deck gun and flak, ranging from a 24000 ton liner to a 17 ton sloop. All in the glare of the searchlights of every ship in the harbour. Gung-ho? Hell, if they can see my scope but aren't firing, might as well surface and make it all go down quickly. I was out of the harbour after two hours, leaving not a single ship afloat. /brag

Shooting non moving ships in harbours is no sport and it was not done during WW2 :D
I just don't see the interest of doing this :o

The HMS Royal Oak wasnt moving as Prien hit and sank her...

It happened only one time in 1939 after which the port defenses were strongly reinforced, and in the game it's just too easy to raid ports (including replicating Prien's raid in Scapa Flow). I don't understand the reward you get from shooting torps 3 kms away on non-moving targets.
But it's just me ( not exactly, have seen some people sharing the same opinion, including Kapt Lehmann if I'm right)

I just finished my 32nd Patrol in GWX and had the pleasure to do some Island hopping found a few mini convoys, the waters were very shallow on my return home (Penang) found myself a convoy about 20km ahead of me,prepared myself for the attack and out of nowhere came two PBY's I couldn't CD the water was too shallow so I had to shoot it out splashed 2 PBY's and then a V&W doing 35Knts came to join the party I think he hit me twice before I reached pd took the v&w out and 5 Merchants returned home with a hull integrity of 43%.

Ditto. Ive TRIED Playing early war. I get bored, FAST. Yeah sure ive been depth charged before 42, but, damn they sucked. Not even close. Early war active sonar is laughable at best. Your under their sonar cone at about 200 meters. Nothing left to do but creep along at 100 RPM's or less, and wait tell they give up and go away. That, and Ive gotten away with bloody murder in night surface attacks.

The closest ive gotten to being sunk was by an aircraft out of freetown (current patro in 6/41l acutally) that appeared 4800 meters to port. Too late to dive.. Went to flank speed, then gave a full port rudder as he was about 2000 meters off. His bombs overshot me like i figured they would, straighted the rudder, crash dived, end of story.

Now.. 43-44... now were talking FUN! :D

Hey, it's my first GWX campaign, I'm checking out the new and improved realism... I completely agree that it's too easy to attack ports, since factors like currents, shore forces, muddy water and not to mention AI reaction are not present. But I had to find out, hadn't I?

Damn it!!! It happened again. This time it is a pure laugh at best!!! I leave Lorient and on the way out with some TC to get going, my idiot of a navigator hits a German merchant. Being I have no hull integrity scale anymore, I repair it and move on. I did not hit it that hard. I boogie on down to BE94 and low and behold a fat convoy:D . I do my thing and sink a pyro:up: ,damage a few others. I head for 160m and bang, smash, hiss, WTF where is all the water coming from? Oh good God! My boat was damaged more than I thought. All hands dead, ship lost, chief engineer cursed at until the boat is crushed and extinquishes all life:cry: . You guessed it.....patrol number 2:shifty:

I think I just need to stay in port and scrap barnicles or something:doh:

I have a vacant position in my boat; bilge-duster.

Just as long as I'm not the cabin boy:o

AVGWarhawk, what year, flot, and boat you using?


Not meaning to be insulting, but do you need some pointers, or are you intentionaly running around with reckless abandoned *trying* to push your luck? :D

1940 and the last one was my screw up. Hit a merchant in port, repaired it and carried on. Really did not think much about it. I went 160m after attacking a convoy and apparently my boat hull damage was way low. 160m did me in :rotfl: :rotfl: I guess I should have taken it back to the barn after hitting the merchant while I was in port:cry: for full repairs.

And the career game Before that?

Ok, i think Herr AVGWarhawk needs to go scrape the bilges. That is, he's not running around the Casino Bar with Bernard.

Your 32nd patrol with GWX ??? :huh:
GWX is out since X-mas, do you play nonstop for a Guiness book record?

Cheers,
AndyW

currently U-792 König, 1st patrol 12/1943 [SH3 + GWX 1.0 @ 84% realism]
Total: 10 careers, 40th sailing, 856 days at sea, 544,474 tons sunk