Question What if by day you bottomed your boat silent running until its dark and the patrols aren't looking right at you then you blow ballast and flank it (At least thats what I would do) until sunrise then bottom and repeat.

Could this work even somewhat late into the war? (Radar will be problem I forsee)

You could do
No guarantee you wouldnt be picked up on active sonar by patrols

The mines will still get you, and chances are someone will see you even in the dark. A quote from Das Boot is appropriate here...

"Anything that floats will be on the water." :dead:

Do you use mods? With a unmodded version, there are less traffics( still Many traffics)

DON"T ATTEMPT TO GET THROUGH ENGLISH CHANNEL
THE DESTROYERS ARE DEADLY (5~6 DESTROYERS IN A PATROL GROUP) AND THERE ARE NUMBEROUS OF THEM

MINEFIELDS ARE LETHAL TOO. EVEN YOU CAN ENTER IT, YOU CANNOT GET OUT OF THIS SUCKING &*%HOLE

Your only chance and a very slim one at that would be to run at flank speed on the surface during the night....but after 40 the odds just become 'unthinkable'...go round the north of Scotland...enjoy the scenery...sink a couple on the way :D :up:

peterloo i use modded SH3

i use GW

Also sitting on the bottom for 12 hours then running at flank speed wastes time and fuel. You might as well just go the long way around; that's what they really did.

I've made it through 3 times with no problems in TWOS, and was in the middle of my 4th attempt, when I decided to do a little research as to where the channel mines are in the game. As I'm reading the comments I'm thinking "there can't be any mines in the channel, if there were, I would have hit one during the few times I have run channel" suddenly I'm brought back to the game as I hear an explosion and a lot of yelling. I guess I finally found one of the mines! Hahaha

With that this thread deserves the sub-title "Blast from the past" for attaining Necro-status.

Was about to crack a boob joke........... then saw that I already had......14 years ago. :haha: