The idiot we all blame when things go terribly wrong.

There is no possible way that any one of us who are well trained, steely eyed Kaleuns would ever make a bone headed move, push the wrong button, surface at the wrong time, run into docks, hit flank speed by mistake when stealthily making an approach with escorts nearby, not diving when Italian aircraft are spotted after they have switched sides in Sept. 1943 while cruising the Med, torpedoing a neutral, almost torpedoing a German ore carrier off the coast of Norway, etc.

Someone must get the blame and that person is the crew member on every one of our submarines named Bernard.

:)

How do you spell his name...Bernard thus, :O:

Every u-boat is issued a Bernard upon it's first cruise. He is usually stored in the forward head with the extra rations, sometimes moved to the external torpedo stores when they become available. Most kaleuns only deploy the Bernard when a scapegoat is needed to take the heat from BDU, but some less experienced, and occasionally senior ones, let him roam free, thinking the extra man power may be useful.

They soon learn.


Mine was a late war transfer from Herr Balz's boat. I figured how much damage could he do with his trumpet?

lol some good stories, I died once while exiting the port, it gave me a was destroyed by pressure, and I was on the surface with no damage, nor did I get a message saying we were under attack. Epic fail game is fail lol.

Returning home after a fairly successful patrol, got impatient to reach my pen and was crushed by one of the gates whilst playing chicken with the Wilhelmshaven locks. :nope:

lol ive done that one before lol.

Destroyed by aircraft a few miles outside of port...

You probably hit a mine. In GWX friendly ports have them too. You can locate them with one of the pull-down maps in the Nav Map screen.

I probably hold the record for the earliest case of Death By Stupidity. Earliest by game date, anyway.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...57&postcount=4

lol actualy I navigated away from the mine field. So I am really not sure what happened lol.

Maybe you hit a larger boat.

Bad Bernard
 

After putting two torpedoes onto a small merchant from 500m, I received the "she' going down" signal. I instructed Bernard to return to course and set about rearming my torpedoes, setting the watch and radio my status. When I hear the tearing of metal and I am taking damage. I go to check my status and see damage from the bow to the command area red and filling with water. Repair crews to to the damage area. I check with the Watch officer and find no ships in sight. Not a DD??? Finally I go on deck and find my ship lodged behind the stack of the sinking merchant and unable to repair the damage. I join her in the cold depths of the Atlantic.

BAD BAD BERNARD!!:damn:

Coming back from my 1st patrol, had braved the English Channel, and sunk 3 ships - all British, whilst coming back to Wilhelmshaven (on the surface) I was on 8x TC and got the usual ship spotted message, normal for that area, as there is usually quite a bit of traffic. Went to 1xTC & had a look - small German cruiser - VERY close by. All of a sudden & without provocation they started firing on me, I couldn't get away & ended up dead!

I am on SHIII downloaded from Steam, on Windows 7 - GWX 3.0 - anyone any idea what might've gone wrong or was it simply a glitch?

I had only recently saved the game so I tried again & made it back to port with only one weird happening - as I was about to enter the dock entrance, I started taking damage - I thought here we go again - but had a look outside to find a large Destroyer which had been moored at the quay had exploded & was sinking. No sign of enemy ships or planes around - that was another strange happening. Again, anyone any clues?

I am v.new to this game & only just learning the ropes but finding it hugely enjoyable & atmospheric.

Good Hunting...

In rough weather ships often smack into the quay and take damage, sometimes until they sink... pretend it's sabotage :)

WELCOME ABOARD! :sunny:

In GWX you start in August 1939 - one month before the war started. The purpose is to get some training in, and at that time all ships are neutral. You sink one, you become the enemy of everybody for the next 24 hours.


When and where did you last save the game? If you save within sight of port when you reload all ships lose their waypoints and crash into things.

Nah my save was in open water before you navigate into the Wilhelmshaven area so I don't think that would be it.

Strange that no-one fired on me the 2nd time though, not consistent.

I'll play..
 

In my first foray into this game many moons ago I navigated my way into the middle of a lightly guarded convoy. I was merrily sinking everything in sight when the last Destroyer got on my tail. I thought "hey I'll disguise my signature by ducking beneath the nearest sinking ship they'll lose me". Well they lost me alright but the sinking hulk got me. Silly me.

Worf

WELCOME ABOARD! :sunny:

And yeah, that'll do it. :dead:

You can take comfort in the knowledge that the greatest u-boat ace ever, Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, very nearly died from that same mistake.

Went back to Kiel through the canal, had my Navigator plotting the headings, wasn't satisfied, redid some headings and hit a bridge just short of Kiel. :damn:

dumbist ways to die
 

Surfacing next to a distroyer??

Chugging along I had been down at 13m for some time, I decided to surface to get some air to the boat (I was in a storm and had submerged for a more comfy ride during the night). My sonar-man had not reported any contacts for some time so I didn't even bother checking the periscope. I surfaced and BANG!!! American "c" class distroyer pounds me to kingdom come!

I say "C" Class as It was a class of vessel I've not encountered before. Will look it up and msg back!