I was planning a campaign starting in April of 1942 and heading for the New York Harbor in my Type VII. I went once before and used the external camera to check the harbor before I went in. It had 3-4 medium cargo ships, 1 large troop transport liner type ship, 2 large tankers, 2-3 destroyers/destroyer escorts, and numerous tugs. All the ships were laying at anchor. My farking computer frooze up on me before I could head in though.

My question is, can I use the Harbor Traffic mod with the Grey Wolves mod? I tried one time but Jones mod enabler said it would overwrite a bunch of Grey Wolves files, so I didn't install.

Damn you guys are lucky... yesterday after 2 hours of sneaking past warships I got into Scapa Flow ... and there was nothing in it...

I decided to try Loch Ewe once again yesterday and my luck was great, 6 downed parked ships and one was glitched. A DD was in its little dock area but it was in flames! Looked like the Capt. hit reverse instead of ahead!

I am conviced that Scapa Flow is a death trap, they know every eager sub Capt wants to get famous there! hehe

Haha. That's why I used to go to Scapa so much. I'm not a war buff, and don't know much of the history. But I'd read somewhere about some dude 'the hero of Scapa Flow' and figured it was a place to look.

I don't think it's a death trap. Though I've never gone in since I MODded up. I do think Ewe is a death trap, however.
The only times I've been iced in Scapa it was due to my own stupidity.


For anyone who does Scapa much, which way do you go in? I think I went in half a dozen times before I realized there was a Western entrance. Did that one the last two times I went and it seemed a little easier. (again, that's before possible Nets and Mines.)

Umfuld,

I took out 7-8 DD's and Patrol Craft because on my way to port I was discovered by a DD. The waters in the western approach are shallow and running deep was unsuccesful. Then, more warships started to be called out by my sonarman, meaning that unless I'd get up to PD and fight the 2-3 DD's now, I'd be fighting 5 of them later. Evasion didn't work, they kept teaming up. Once at PD though, my torpedoes found their targets quite nicely. Only then could I slip away. I sunk some more warships inside Scapa as quite a few DD's gave me priceless opportunities, having beached themselves so to say. Near stationary targets were too good to pass up. Renown is not much of an issue momentarily.

The one time I entered Scapa, I did it through the western approach. Exfiltration succeeded through the southern exit (headed eastwards from there, into the North Sea).

Well, guys, I've made up my mind...I'm going for Loch Ewe next!

Kind regards,

Eichenlaub

Without sounding stupid, what happens when you run into a subnet? Do you imediately start taking dammage? Or just get stuck?

Both! You take damage and...well, you'll not really get stuck, the subnet acts like a wall in the game.

Just hit Scapa on my second patrol. Intel said battleship, but none to be found. (I love that!)

Troop transports, and some good cargo. Like a wimp though I fired two at the transport from 11,000+ m. Both hit, but she stayed up. I was already leaving, so I backed up and fired from the rear. That one hit too from about the same range. And dinged off of her. Grumble.

Anyway, I still like Scapa better. I have very little trouple there for the most part.


HEY? While I've got you reading, is it okay to sink Hospital Ships? I figure yes, but I'm not sure.

Well, I'm pretty sure you lose like 100000 renown, but be my guest!

:o

FYI. Bristol is a good raid-Jan. 42

Last night - 2 patrols, 2 battelships. No mods - virgin 1.4b.

Finished a patrol N/E of Scotland, heading home and snuck into Scapa Flow for a looky, was late December 1940 I think. Sneaked in real quiet, real slow, scraping the barnacles on the sea floor, dodging patrol patterns and lo! Found King George V sitting there, duck like :) Took 6 fish to down the sod. Took me ages to sneak out again too, for some reason the local destroyers got most persistant.

Very next patrol, heading to my patrol area in the north atlantic, just west of Ireland saw smoke on the horizon. Odd, the smoke trails were in a line, not in a box like a convoy. Do a course track. They were moving fast, their course just 2.5kms away, just enough time for me to close a little.

Periscope up, first in line was a destroyer closely follwed by Nelson!! All my Christmases at once! Just enough time to set up 2 steam and 2 electric eels (my initial load-out). One of the eels premmed and blew 1/2 way there, but a ship the size of Nelson don't dodge too well. 3 hits in the bow, must have hit a magazine, it looked like Guy Fawkes. (4th July for you targets, I mean, Yanks).

Again it took a while to slip away, the 6 escorts seemed a little annoyed. In a couple of months I'd sunk 2 years of British steel production!

I was shaking after that. Only time I'd even seen a major ship before (Fiji cruiser) was it's stern from 7k's away - heading away at a bazillion kph.

Cool beans.

I just sank my first two battleships as well. And I missed a task force by 8 or 9 km. Grumble.

Aaaaargh!

On my way to the patrol zone AM19, I encountered a handful of thick merchants and tankers. I sank 5 ships en route for a total of 44,000 BRT....but I used up all of my torpedoes doing so! No more sense in visiting Ewe.

Next patrol I was ordered to patrol in the vicinity of Reykjavik. Halfway to the patrol grid I blundered into a convoy loaded with juicy targets. I counted three Troop Transports, a T3 and a T2 as well as 2 C2's and a C3...surrounded by 5-6 Black Swans, Corvettes etc. It was somewhere in the afternoon and I made the mistake of engaging immediately. I should have waited until dusk. I fired at and hit both a TT and a T2, slowing them down. Subsequent hits did nothing to them as they all bounced off or missed. Meanwhile, the escorts did a nice job of wrecking my superstructre.
After a while, the escorts abondoned the chase and I surfaced to find that the targets I had damaged earlier had fallen out of the convoy. Without my attack scope, I was forced to finsih them off on the surface. It worked but at great cost. A day later, a Small Merchant and a Coastal Merchant were encountered in a line. Torpedoed them but their gunfire had been accurate enough...I was at Hull Strength 1%!

I aborted the patrol...

Still haven't been to Loch Ewe yet.

Kind regards,

Eichenlaub

Anouther port a bit of a challenge is Dover in May 45
There you got yourself a liner, 2 cruisers a transport

I find Wilhelmshaven to be a great hunting ground any year. Lots of fat merchants there, and the occassional battleship.

What I don't understand is, why is my renown always in the negative? Why am I being escorted by armed men to a prison cell? Why are they asking me what I'd like for my last meal? Why...

:roll:

Well worth it in my experience.

Slipped into Lock Ewe at the end of my last patrol and found HMS Fiji moored all alone and sank her with two fish. On a previous patrol I had managed to get into Merthyr with a lot of difficulty. Lots of sitting on the bottom with Corvettes and Torpedo boats circling above, then slowly into the harbour once all was dark and quiet. Final result was two cargo ships, two tankers and an armed trawler.