Wow xrvjorn, that looks worse than my first picture! The only benefit to that many ships on the water is when the bombers come and accidently sink a couple elco's, funny to watch while I try to escape.

Wow, what a lightshow....to bad our boot's don't do disco!

But cool Tonnage mate! :rock:

Gibralter in 44 never too risky done it in 41 but am now doing my patrols in a IXC/40 so i doubt i will enter the straights even if i reach 44 it takes 37 seconds to hit pd and pn my last patrol a Fiji caught me on the surface by the time I hit PD my hull integrity went from 100 to 15 % in 25 sec flat.God knows what's in them straights in 44 but with a tub that dives to pd in 37 secs am not that brave. not in this career anyway.

I outta grab an IX-D2, load it to the hilt with Gnat torpedoes and try it in 1944. Then run at full flank speed to get their attention and then fire all my torpedoes in order to clear the way for a U-boat breakout.

I'll call it "Operation Die Geistig Behinderten Kapitän zer See" (translation = "Operation The Mentally Retarded Captain ")


Basically what I'm saying is that going though the Mediterranean is near suicidal from mid-1943 until 1945. CG94 is the "honey hole" if you want targets that comes in and out of the Mediterranean Sea.

For Hardcore Kaleuns....How about goin' there around '45 and in your trusted IIa boat...lol :arrgh!:

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Sounds like my type of gameplay. A brilliant idea Kapitan.

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Sounds like a challenge! Heading along the African cost would be easy, but it does have a small enough sillhouette to go through the middle...I just realized that the IIa doesn't have enough fuel to get to the straight :(

Might be possible with any of the mods that add milk cows... sure would make for an amusing war diary :)

Maybe not in 45, but a IIa should be able to reach the straight from one of the french bases, it won't have the reach to get back, though.

An interesting way to end a career in style in '44 then: by taking on a one way trip to the Med in a IIA for der Fuhrer.

I'll never attempt it because 4 missions into my new campaign I'm already on the verge of pointing a pistol at the C 'in C if it'll get me out of this damned bath tub that even a transfer to the 7th flotilla wouldn't rid me of (Dec '39 and no type VII in either the 1st or 7th flotilla yet, due probably to the "historical accuracy" option I checked in SH3C).

Maybe this has all been covered a long time back but...

I tried hugging the Spanish coast on the way into the straights - expecting the opposition to avoid Spanish territorial waters (Spain was neutral after all). The british evidently didn't see it that way.

What really p#ssed me off was the fact that the approaches to Gib seem to be protected by shore based watch posts on Spanish territory! I really don't think Franco would have agreed to that.

Oh! While I'm on this tack. When leaving places like Willhelmshaven & Brest at night, the whole place is lit up like a fairground. No evidence of a blackout anywhere.
Don't these people know that there's a war on?