I have a DID strange one for all of you.

GWX Gold and Latest SHCommander installed.

Early 1940 VIIb

Stalking a lg merchant off e. coast of G. Britain submerged.

Lowered peri and noticed mines. Still attacked and took out merch.

Surfaced and finished off with deckgun.

Now the strange part. I go back to map view and and plot course out of there and bump up TC to 64 at 50 km. scale

THEN IT HAPPENED. My officer icons and message window started spinning like a slot machine. :huh:

Has this happened to anyone else ?

Nope....I never play the slots :lol:

Looks good Laufen....

FIREWALL..that sounds like a glitch to me. Did you get the "You are dead" screen?

I guess not. :-?

Weird. Have never had an in-game distortion like that most of
my CTD's have been on startup.

@ LzZ It even made the spining, clicking sound.

I kid you not. :yep:

Your U boat must come with a slot machine... 3 Bernards and you have something bad happen.:lol:

When I heard the clicking I would have looked for
a cash drop.. Was your game OK or did you have to
reload????

If someone views the thread multiple times it counts once for each, I think.

I play DiD with GWX on 97% realism (have still been using the event cam though I will turn it off for next career). But I have not had a successful enough career to post. Mostly strange things happen to me. I start in 1939 with my Type II as usual. I decide I will die of boredom if I have to spend another five weeks listening to the radio and waiting for the British to get into the war (love GWX, don't love how the game starts so early) so I decide to fight against Poland. I sail to Danzig and fiddle around for a week and a half, which at least is less annoying than two and a half. Turns out GWX doesn't model the raid by the Schleswig-Holstein. Well, the harbor is still full of Polish ships for me to sink. To my amusement the harbor is German even though all the ships are Polish and the other harbors in the area are Polish. Historically Danzig did not become German for a week. The usual torpedo problems, I manage to sink only two ships with my five torpedoes. One misses while fired directly at the stack of a stationary ship with only 20 degree deflection. Huh. One predetonates, one is either set at the wrong depth or runs at the wrong depth, two hit. I sneak out underwater. I've gotten halfway to the channel into the open Baltic and suddenly two Polish destroyers materialize out of nowhere. I'm sunk when I crash into the bottom at flank speed trying to dodge depth charges. Well, the impact didn't sink me but it pretty much put the writing on the wall.

Previous to that I had the strangest career ever - set sail in 1939 with my Type II (as always), sailing past Norway I encounter some tugboat and it's towing something! I investigate and it's a Norwegian tug so I can't sink it, and there's what looks like a light ship but it's completely red, like it's made of rust. Light ship has no flag. I leave them be. Sail to England, war starts, find a perfectly stationary ship right off the coast of Scotland, ID'd as depot ship, I sink it. Sailing around for a while I manage to sink a coastal merchant and then go on a run of bad aim and run out of torpedoes. But hey I sank that depot ship ... oh wait! Debriefing says it was a neutral minelayer. A neutral what what? I spent 400 renown on fancy officers this patrol so I'm short this game anyway and there goes most of the rest of it.

Next patrol I head out, back to Scotland. Hear dolphins. Chase the dolphins all over the North Sea, those little guys really haul fin. Just before I run the dolphins down I hear a sonar contact. Oh well, duty calls! Tracking the merchant by hydrophone I finally track him down and ... it's an English fishing boat. If he is after tuna I have some dolphins for him. Unfortunately the sea is a little too rough for me to use the flak gun, there's no deck gun on this boat and I'm not shooting a torpedo at a fishing boat so today the English will receive their strategically critical mackerel.

Back to chasing dolphins. Finally run them down and get some nice screenshots. I save and reload here only to find that my watch crew has spawned clones of themselves, even though I was on the surface when I saved. OK, well at least I won't be short of crew this mission.

Back to the patrol. Scotland beckons, I'm patrolling in the North Sea east of Edinburgh. I see two destroyers. OK, wait for them to pass. I see an ocean liner, it's Norwegian. Norwegian cruise lines, typical. I sink a coastal merchant but it takes two torpedoes for some reason, leaving me with three. I get a contact report of a convoy near me, heading right for Edinburgh. They're going 9 knots and my top speed is 12. I try to chase them down before they get away. I pursue but their picket destroyer is going back and forth and I have to make a really wide berth. Suddenly another destroyer comes charging across at a 90 degree angle. I wonder if the convoy has changed course but I have to dive. Afterward I figure he's probably just a random destroyer on patrol because he passes and the convoy doesn't come with. I try to chase the convoy down but I can't pick them up again. The hydrophones on the type II are crap and you can't upgrade them.

But, I manage to pick up a lone merchant. Well, ok. I stalk this guy for probably two hours of real time because I want to plot a perfect firing solution. I trace his speed and course exactly, get ahead of him and line up the perfect shot. I fire, it goes right under him. WTF, I had it set to default depth! I fire again, it hits him right below the stack, it's a dud. Argh! I've got one torpedo left and now he's moving out of position. I fire my last torpedo and it hits him right in the propeller. He sinks. I return to base triumphantly. In debriefing I find out he was Axis. AXIS?

I'm sent to Siberia, or whatever the Germans do.

So I'm not just playing death-is-death, I'm also playing court martial-is-court martial.

Sigh.

Fluffysheap
 

Sounds like a lot of tough luck. If they ever assign you
to another boat maybe things will get better. At least
you are still alive. I would hate to have to do a Death
Card posting on you.

Notice to myself: Never enlist on Fluffysheap's boat :)

P.S.: I once had a patrol in a IX B boat in Sept. 40 were all my 21 Torps missed. At least 10 of them were clear duds.

Cheers,

Name: WERNER SIMONS
Geburtsdatum: 28AUG15
Geburtsort: KÖNIGSBERG
Einberufungsdatum: 01APR34 (CREW 34)

Beförderungen
24JAN35 SEEKADETT
01SEP35 FÄHNRICH Z. S.
01MAI37 OBERFÄHNRICH Z. S.
01OKT37 LEUTNANT Z. S.
08JAN40 OBERLEUTNANT Z. S.

Auszeichnungen
31AUG39 EISERNES KREUZ ZWEITER KLASSE
26SEP39 DEUTSCHES KREUZ
05NOV39 EISERNES KREUZ ERSTER KLASSE
06APR40 RITTERKREUZ
28JUL40 RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB
07DEZ40 RITTERKREUZ MIT EICHENLAUB UND SCHWERTERN

Abzeichen
16AUG39 U-BOOT-FRONTSPANGE
18OKT39 U-BOOTABZEICHEN
Versetzungen
25DEZ38 U-Boot Flottille Weddigen (Kommandantenausbildung)
02AUG39 7./13. U-Flottille (8 Feindfahrten)
11DEZ39 2. U-Flottille (9 Feindfahrten)

Kommandierte U-Boote
02AUG39 U-99, Typ VIIB (5 Feindfahrten)
11OKT39 U-73, Typ VIIB (6 Feindfahrten)
04MAI40 U-923, Typ VIIC (6 Feindfahrten)

Feindfahrt Daten Versenkte Schiffe
(Handelsschiff/Kriegsschiff) Tonnage (BRT/TO)
(Handelsschiff/Kriegsschiff) Anmerkungen 1 02AUG39 - 04AUG39 (3 Seetage) 0 (0/0) 0 (0/0)
2 14AUG39 - 16AUG39 (3 Seetage) 0 (0/0) 0 (0/0)
3 30AUG39 - 31AUG39 (2 Seetage) 0 (0/0) 0 (0/0)
4 25SEP39 - 26SEP39 (2 Seetage) 0 (0/0) 0 (0/0)
5 27SEP39 - 28SEP39 (2 Seetage) 0 (0/0) 0 (0/0)
6 11OKT39 - 18OKT39 (8 Seetage) 1 (1/0) 10367 (10367/0)
7 26OKT39 - 05NOV39 (11 Seetage) 1 (1/0) 2253 (2253/0) U-Boot beschädigt (R. 98.33%)
8 10NOV39 - 27NOV39 (18 Seetage) 4 (4/0) 8476 (8476/0)
9 11DEZ39 - 08JAN40 (29 Seetage) 4 (4/0) 43866 (43866/0)
10 01FEB40 - 20FEB40 (20 Seetage) 4 (4/0) 10334 (10334/0)
11 12MRZ40 - 06APR40 (26 Seetage) 3 (3/0) 14504 (14504/0) U-Boot beschädigt (R. 63.23%)
12 04MAI40 - 18MAI40 (15 Seetage) 1 (1/0) 8449 (8449/0)
13 19MAI40 - 01JUN40 (14 Seetage) 0 (0/0) 0 (0/0) U-Boot beschädigt (R. 52.80%)
14 21JUL40 - 28JUL40 (8 Seetage) 1 (1/0) 5081 (5081/0)
15 28AUG40 - 12SEP40 (16 Seetage) 3 (3/0) 29777 (29777/0)
16 05OKT40 - 20OKT40 (16 Seetage) 2 (2/0) 3110 (3110/0) U-Boot beschädigt (R. 99.18%)
17 02DEZ40 - 07DEZ40 (6 Seetage) 6 (5/1) 26291 (25341/950) U-Boot verloren
GESAMT: 17 Feindfahrten (199 Seetage) 30 (29/1) 162508 (161558/950) 0 abgeschossene Flugzeuge
48 Besatzungsverluste
Inhaltsübersicht
Oberleutnant z. S. Werner Simons und U-923 gingen am 07DEZ40 verloren.

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Operated against a Large Convoy just SW of Britain together with a Type IXB boat.

U-923 is assumed lost on its 17th patrol.

Werner Simons - R.I.P.
 

I've already deleted my DID losses, but here are their quick details.

Oblt Rolf Stegmeyer
U-432, type VIIC
1st Flotilla
2 patrols, 4 merchant ships sunk, 23,290 tons
Lost 05Jan42

Oblt Heinrich Beck
U-379, type VIIC
29th Flotilla
5 patrols, 20 merchant ships sunk, 85,281 tons
Lost 27Jun42

Oblt Oskar Pilsner
U-456, type VIIC
7th Flotilla
3 patrols, 7 merchant ships sunk, 41,165 tons
Lost 07Apr42


RIP