Just started my second patrol leaving Willhelmslaven when my friends called so to impress them, I 'crash-dived' in the Harbour so they could hear the 'bells', 'whistles' and general kafuffle only to hit the bottom of the sea-bed with an almighty bang and the 'we're taking damage sir' whilst the Band on the quayside played merrily away. Needless to say, with a red face, I tried to talk my way out of this embarassing situation !

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When I started playing SHIII, I sank my boat dozens of times when I crashed to pier when returning from patrol.:oops:

Not to mention leaving for patrol.
God, the annoyance before they patched the map to include those port drawings.

That band's incredible, by the way. Keeps on playing even while being blasted by heavy bombers. Amazing.

Hmm... The band´s from Titanic, the watch crew is from Titanic (not reporting icebergs). I wonder if anything else is from Titanic. :hmm:

Not really silly, but had a weird experience today, while playing the "Scapa Flow" Mission.

Snuck into the basin OK, past most of the waiting escorts, when I got spotted by a Hunt 1 DD that I'd missed. I played "cat & mouse" with him for about 10 minutes, suffering only a little repairable damage, when the rest of his buddies arrived. 3 flowers, 2 Armed Trawlers, and the Hunt 1.!!!:o
Next thing I know, all hell has broken out above the waves, while I keep popping my scope up for a look (I was playing 100% real, with no external camera). I fired a couple of hopeful torps in the general direction of the DD, but missed. Then I started hearing big explosions. Thinking I was about to be blasted out of existence, I stuck up the scope for another last look at what was going on, and guess what........the DD has only been blasting away at me with his guns, but his aim is totally crap, and he's only succeeeded in hitting 2 of the Flowers and both armed Trawlers, that were circling round me!!!!:lol: They were burning like November 5th!!
I think he must have been firing at roughly where my scope had popped up, but his gunners needed a LOT more Training!!!

I bet the Admiral was p*ssed when he got back in!!!

(btw.....I finally got rammed by the last of the Flowers and won a nice shiny Black screen with lovely orange writing!!!:down: )

cheers

Bernard just loves to play with my ballast tanks. More than once he surfaced me under a marauding DD. A few times he brought me up in the middle of an attack by B-24s and Sunderlands. Once he brought me up dead center of a TF of 4 cruisers and a Bogue. Most of them I can walk away from, but the TF one killed me, but not before I got a lucky torp hit off on the Bogue:) Don't know if it sank or not, since I got killed before it told me, but it was listing.

-Qairyl

After a successful mission I decided it was time to go back to port. I was able to avoid allied cruisers and destroyers on my way back...but just when I was about to enter the harbour (I used accelerated time :damn:) I crashed my boat to shore only a few kilometers from port :damn:

Was finishing up a succesful (i.e.lucky) patrol (with GW+Uwac) in norway and was in the fijords near narvik. taskforces and troopship convoys had been coming and going there for the last few days and i was out of torps. noticed a small TF of german destroyers shelling it out with an english TF including a fiji cruiser.

Bernard figured our little sub wouldn't draw to much attention next to our surface brethen so he popped us up and went to the deck gun to get us into some coordinated fleet action. didn't help that he popped us up between the two lines.:doh: next thing i know, bernard is happily leading the gun crew in shelling a already damaged german dd while the whole english TF turns their guns un us:damn: . a short while later were on the bottom of the fijord (external cam shows us resting close by the german dd we finished off ) with massive flooding, no engine, and no compressed air.

I play dead is dead and bernard has never let me get past "the happy times" yet:cry:.

Heh with Bernard...there's no happy time :D

My crew have gotten together and voted to load bernard into the torp tudes and fire him at the first contact we receive ( enemy, neutral or allied ) :rotfl:

Early '40,nice weather, detected convoi, nailed the 3 DD/DE's, decided to have some fun with gunning, surfaced, "Warship spotted!", got hits by light cruiser on range 500 in engine compartment and central, sunk like stone, have been dead

I really enjoy my deck gun, and if I may say so, im pretty darn good with it. I take on the ships one size down fromt the destroyers with it, by blasting their forward turrets off at about 4k out. However, my downfall was that I forgot all about the fact that they can still ram you, and they still have machine guns and depth charges. So im merrily blasting away at my second corvette (Ah, theres the name of em), while the first one is charging full speed into my conning tower. Ouch...

Heh I read this and thought of this thread.

From the records of the capture of U977

After loading provisions, celebrating May Day, and holding a flag ceremony for Hitler’s reported death, U-977 left Kristiansand on her first and last war patrol 2 May 1945 at 2200. Using her Schnorchel 3 to 4 hours each night she proceeded submerged along the Norwegian coast. On 7 May the observation periscope was damaged due to its being left up while diving. :doh:


You can read more about the one and only patrol of U-977 here

http://www.uboatarchive.net/U-977INT.htm

Hm, most stupid thing I have done?:hmm: Probably running out of fuel in the middle of the atlantic. Of course, that was the end of that career.:D

snuck into Scapa Flow past the patroling DD's and found a nice Revenge class BB and got all 5 torps into her and then silently made my way back out all the while with a smug smile when I got to the entrance again all of a sudden I'm taking damage and have broached the surface, turns out there is a net there :oops: somehow I'd snuck past it on the way in and was oblivious of it until it was to late, those lighthouse thingies armed are they :hmm: cause I was shelled and then one of the outside DD's come boiling in and wham I was reading the dead screen.

No its not the lighthouses that shelled but the coastal bunkers :yep:
Nasty things