Disasterous yet very stupid mistake
 

I was playing last night, and I had the delight of sinking a Large Cargo in U-55, it was a submerged attack during daylight hours in the reasonably shallow waters of the Bay of Biskay. Now this is where it gets stupid. Having put the big boy out of commission. I decided to return to course and speed up TC a bit!

LMAO BIG mistake!

Underwater, the U-boat turned straight underneath the sinking hulk, the ship, actually landed on top of the back end of the sub! I wish I had a photo to prove it, but the back end of the sub was so busted up, you wouldn't credit it! U-55 went striaght to the bottom and eventually rested on the sea floor at 198m

Thankfully with the one electric engine that still worked, I was able to get out from the underside of the ship!

So eventually clonk! There I was on the bottom. Damage crew working like government mules to sort it out! :rotfl:

After a fair amount of time, the flooding in the aft torpedo room, electric room, diesel room was stopped. *phew*

Damage report:
Aft Torpedo tube destroyed.
Compressor Destroyed.
Starboard Diesel Destroyed.
Decoy Launcher Destroyed.
Flak Gun Destroyed.

LOL "Does anything on this heap still work?!" I asks exasperated at the screen, as if expecting my chief to reply to me. But he didn't.

Using what little compressed air was left and with about 80% power left in my batteries reaching the surface was possible, then it was flank speed all the way back to St Nazaire! Luckily encounters with planes was minimal, had a hell of a lot of luck I did! Maybe I need to trade in my VIIB I think its a bit obsolete now - either that or the sub needs to trade in its captain!:lol: :lol:

Goodness.

I'll be you had some 'splaining to do when you got back to base.:huh:

lol don't feel so bad, I've made that mistake too! :oops:

-Indy

I usually wait until she sinks before going to TC..........

I've hidden from escorts under ships I've left dead in the water. The creaking noises grow louder and then I suddenly realize to my horror that my cover is sinking on top of me. The revenge of the merchant...All ahead flank! :lol:

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: thats funny. waiting under a ship.

Hey, I've been actually considering this too! :oops:
Does it work?

I think that it does, but, its very very dangerous. The back end of U-55 was smashed to pieces and considering Im now in mid 1943, mistakes like that are very costly! That time of the way you need everything working at 110% lol

It doesnt really keep you from being detected, but it does save you from getting DC'ed since they cant reach you :)

Fancy relying on cover from a defenceless merchant :p

Once i was dced and when i thought the attack stoped i surfaced,ploted course to base because of the dmg and i saw the boat doesnt go where i want.A minute of consideration and i found out that the rudder has been copletely blown out to piecec :rotfl:

The other thing that happens, damaged ships may explode. So, if you're too close...:nope:

yeah, that's a funny one. Gotta be one of a kind...lol..

I've lost track of how many times I have screwed up in various way, and it cost me every time.

That TC thing has gotten me into more dang problems. I have slowed waaayyyy down in my usage of it. I find myself using 2-4-8 with a high of 64 more and more lately. However, it does drag the game on longer.

You did well to make it back though...commendable Herr Kaptian...

I've done some very stupid things, worse one was as I was leaving Lorient in my brand new type IX/C, I very stupidly set TC to 128 not plotting a course and - WHAM! straitght into the sea wall.
Suffice to say my career was over after BDu found out:damn:

I crashed into an Elco once when i was going 500+ TC.

Sh3 Commander = Hooray.


Sunk it though.

Hid under a damaged tanker once
The DD still tryed to DC me
Sunk the tanker with DC and stole my kill

:nope:

Then turned attention on me :damn:

In a similar sort of situation, in stock SH3, I was loitering underneath a small merchant doing 4 knots (very slow convoy) matching its course then shooting my rear and front eels straight forward and back at the merchies there, almost a guarantueed hit...

And so it turned out, they both sunk, what I hadn't counted on was the zig-zag behaviour after being hit which resulted in a C3 from an entirely different lane plowing straight into my conning tower while I was trying to find out how to manually reload torpedoes...:o

Worst non-combat mishap however was a convoy I attacked when it had just started a general course change, when a ship got hit they all started zigzagging while changing course, complete mayhem, then apparently another C3 decided it was way off course, stepped on the gas to get back in line and plowed into my poor boat going 20 knots

lots of screeching metal on metal noises but no survivors :cry:

oh and had I mentioned being sunk by a tug?

Can I just say one thing?

HA HA!!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Just came back from a long patrol with my shiny new VIIB (october '39) and a rather green crew.

It was rather boring since the weather was exceptionally crappy...

Anyway, while being on my way back, south of the shetlands, I spotted a small freighter chugging merrily right into a decent AOB.

Kaleun: Periscope depth!

Raised the periscope and started to take a bearing on the steamer.

I suddenly noticed my detection meter going red (yeah, I'm still using it...:oops: ). Since my sonarman didn't inform me on any other ships in the vicinity, I thought: "Well, must be a bug then".

Slowly moving into a perfect position to launch an eel, I suddelny heard high revving screw noises getting louder and louder.

Kaleun: What the...
*Spins periscope around*
Kaleun: ENEMY DESTROYER APPROACHING! ALAAAAAAAAARM! :huh:
*chugga-chugga-Chugga-Chugga-CHUGGA-CHUGGA-SPLASH-SPLASH-SPLASH*
Bernard: Wasserbomben! :88)
Kaleun: http://static.px.yelp.com/bphoto/isV...eWAy5RTulGCg/m
Kaleun: Depth under keel?!?
NO: 80 meters!
Kaleun: http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/b...1136869006.jpg

Thank god the destroyer's crew must've been even dumber than my bunch o' twonks because they tossed the ashcans anywhere but not even close to my sub.

I quietly snuck away into deeper waters...

Memo to myself: Never -ever- trust the guy with the headphones. :nope:

Iv playing at full realism, ..hm make one hydrophone sweep completely by yourself? Just to make sure...

I've always heard covoys on my GHG before my crew ever noticed that there was a contact at all.