You did clean up any leaking diesel, didn't you?

Practice = perfect :sunny:

:D

Yep, sucked big time at first.
Even at zero realism getting into a good position to fire an eel was more a matter of luck than judgment for me.
And my evasion procedure consisted of me crossing my fingers and hoping for the best.
Stick with it PvtJamoo, it get's easier.
And once it all falls into place, it becomes the most addictive substance known to man.

We left Bernard in charge of the cleanup operations.

I know that's not what you wanted to hear, but we had to leave him somewhere and Denmark was convenient.

I always remember how relatively easy it was to remain surfaced and shoot dozens of aircraft out of the sky....till a few mods later when I suddenly realised every patrol I undertook ended with a sinking....from aircraft :oops:

Nicely written. :yeah:

Thank you. BdU said the same thing about my patrol log. Of course I left out a few minor details, but then who doesn't?

Bernard has been given safe conduct to Sweden, where he has been given a job in the iron ore mines that supply Germany with steel.

Hope the quality of your next boat is as good as the last.

Oh SNAP!

:haha:

Well,

I suppose this explaination might help describe my 1st patrol skill .....

According to what I have learned ... the boiling point of water greatly reduces as the pressure around it drops, this effect on water is what causes "cavitation" or those bubbles you see coming off the props. Let's just say that my suckage was such ... my type VIIb looked like it was in over-carbonated water. :D

["Hey ... look at that patch of boiling sea ... you think that is some sort of magma vent over there?" ... *stoically* "No, that is U-41 ... maiden voyage."]

Got ya.
And the swedes too!

LMAO :DL

Very first patrol out of Lorient, I went at flank speed straight into the seawall:nope:
Suffice to say, that career was well and truly over....

I did that on my first patrol, too! :har::har:

Ever run at flank speed and attract your own homing torpedo? I did. Sped right along thinking everything was honkey-dorey and all of a sudden *KA-BLAMMO*! Lost the engine compartment and had no way to RTB. :yep:

OTOH, if you play it just right you can use your own engine noise to guide those homing eels back toward their intended target. Nailed a pesky destroyer that way once. :DL

4 years in - still learning. read the history books too, first hand accounts and the more factual like Michael Gannons's Operation Drumbeat. a classic!

you will know so much more about your boat and crew after reading this.

you can order it from Amazon through Subsim, got my copy for a couple of £'s...

...dont give up AND ask lots of questions :yep:

And how do we do that? :hmmm:

You can get to the subsim stor via the quick links tab at the top bar; where the user CP and downloads butons are.