140,000 tons

Took my IXD2 to a chokepoint in the Caribbean. Patrolled this 60KM gap at schnorkel/electric and intercepted mostly T3's. Twice I caught 2 sailing together. Barely had enough fuel to get home to Lorient, but lots of medals and promotions were awarded. I let the Coastals and C2's sail by.

A hair over 275k. Was lucky enough to find a Task Force at dock in Loch Ewe that included a few BBs and, IIRC, a pair of carriers. Then, with my remaining torps, I lucked into a convoy with a heavy cruiser, two cruise ships, a few tankers, and cargo ships.

Impressiv.
I'm only near 100 000 tns with carefull to not fired to little ship...
Is somewhere a cheat code to rearm the U-Boot ??
Maby by editing the cfg before starting the save ?
:-?

Nah, for me it was really just luck....and GWX.

I did no rearming, and no cheats.

I just got really really really lucky. Of course, when I ended the patrol I only had AA ammo left.

I don't get it, do you guys make most of your kills with deck gun or something? I'm lucky if I can sink 5 ships in a single patrol.

You have to bear in mind luck can play a big part during a patrol :yep: ....and yes, I know of at least one person who has tweaked the cfg file to carry 10,000 deck gun shells and zero reload times :nope:

Get a convoy, learn how to sink big ships with one eel (1/3 hit from astern for me), sink 5 Groser Ladung (12k?) and/or Groser Tanker (17k) and here you go with the scores... reload tubes and repeat. I don't carry my deck gun anymore...

That it is far too easy to earn tonnage was one of my few beefs with SHIII. Patrol results ranging from 60-250k are able to be attained with regularily, when only 34 commanders were able to sink more than 100k in an entire career. This is one of the few things that SHIV does better (at least at this time), as the AI is a lot better at detecting you prior to the attack, making the act of sinking that much more difficult.

Yeah, that's unrealistic in deed so now I just shoot 2 eels into big targets like in RL, sinks faster, I sink less ships, eventually after month+ hunt I came back with lots of eels just to simulate a great patrol with 60k...

324,000 (about)

2 convoys, 1 Revenge battleship, and 1 passenger liner.:dead:

82000 BRT,winter 1940 with my U-48.Sunk 12 ships from the total number of 15 in the convoy.First I sunk two eskorts and then surface attacks against the rest + the deck gun inferno...Played the whole attack in real time....from 00:00 till 5:30am:rock: :arrgh!: :lurk:

120,000 GWT in 60% realism in GWX 1.02

I was in the area around Curacao and Cuba in December 1941 with a IXC. I was lucky to encounter loads of Tankers. The weather was good enough to use the deck gun so a few ships went down that way. The whole patrol lasted 82 days.

always :arrgh!:
my torpedo's are for emergency's

What about when the weather stinks? What do you do then? Throw Bernard?
:rotfl::rotfl:

why you think i have a lugher ? as toy ?
i force my crew on the deck gun till i say the weather is bad :arrgh!:

No really how do you use the flack and the DG in bad weather? :hmm: Alter the CFG files?:hmm:
And the AA shouuld be exemt from the bad weather rule as the amount of times I've being stuck without my Zweilling 20mm with a sundrland swooping down for the kill, grrrrr........ :x

Have just completed my first patrol in SH3. Sunk just under 47,000 tons (9 ships). 5 of them were small merchants which I encountered here and there on my way to patrol. I suppose I should save my torps for something bigger.

Congratulations anyway,it's a nice score:up:

I think that you were historically accurate. Real life captains didn't hold off on the fish in hopes of finding something bigger. If they came across a 2000 tonner, they sunk it. They didn't let it go by so that they would have torpedoes left over to sink bigger ships.

Most I ever got in one patrol was about 90k, in a type XXI in '45.