I finally sank a Battleship!!!!
 

I've been playing SH3 and GWX since day one and I've only encountered a battleship a few times.:roll: All of those times I was either out of torps or I got spotted and never got a shot off:damn: .

...Well not this time;)

I was just west of the Rockall Banks when I got a convoy sighting report.

The U-99 (us the U-99:yep: ) races south to intercept!

Smoke on horizon!
That's no freighter...it's a destroyer and its heading straight at us!

Torpedo eins...los
...hit! scratch the lead corvette!

I'm now ahead of the convoy, right in the middle! a perfect attack position...

...picking targets...
4 whale factory ships..2 small tankers.... and a large shadow...
HMS Nelson!!!!:/\\k: :ahoy:

Make ready tubes 1-3, set depth 12 meters:lurk:
Torpedo eins....los
zwei...los
drei.... los

waiting.....
torpedo one...passes under battleship, as does 2 and 3!
#@$%^#@!!!
I set the torps 1/2 a meter too deep! @#$$ing bad luck
I reset number 4 a half meter shallower...los
Periscope spotted and destroyed by gunfire! @#$%@%$# not @#$$ing again observation scope damaged!:damn:
A hit, in the magazine!!!

The battleship slows to a stop.:up:

I go deep to reload and ditch the escort looking for me.

I circle around and surface to repair the observation scope.

Battleship spotted, dead in the water! Dive!
Scope is spotted again!! Ahail of gunfire from the wounded beast...

Not this time Mr. Battleship!
Fire one!
Fire two!
........
:lost:
2 hits!
Iron Crosses for everybody! Beer's on the Captain;)

Another five and your be even with me. :yep:

Well Done. :up:

How you managed to reaload the torps so fast.Or you waited convoy to pass and leaving the BB ?

The convoy left the area. I think about six hours had passed.:cool:

BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!! :lol:

http://s224.photobucket.com/albums/d...de/th_1170.gif

Kudos nikimcbee!!! I know how hard it is to find a task force to begin with much less sink a BB.

Here are some pix of my last two patrols.

Liner

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...gog/Liner1.jpg

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...gog/Liner3.jpg

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...gog/Liner2.jpg

Bogue Carrier

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...gog/Bogue1.jpg

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/f...gog/Bogue2.jpg

Since we're sharing:

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/2863/54997726ek2.png

I've sank a few. But it never gets old, does it? It's a special feeling sending one to the bottom

Yeeeeaahaaaaaaaa!

NELSON!!!! :rock: My favorite fish-food :rock:
Congratiulations!

Congrats! Now you have to sink it's evil twin Rodney cuz it'll be gunning for revenge. :cool:

You can knock off large numbers of merchants, make escorts depth charge the wrong area of ocean and down half the RAF with your 20mm pop gun. But nothing, repeat nothing, beats the thrill of sinking a large capital ship!:arrgh!:

Well done!:rock:

My congratulations to you...you are truly an example for the rest of us lowly Lt. to follow.

Just curious, what realism setting were you on? I am asking so I know what I have to aspire to.

Congrats
Lucky your scope was repairable

Have been in a similar position but with only the uzo to use
:dead:

Ziepel's Victories (82% Difficulty)
 

Casablanca Class

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g1...6-47-44-34.jpg

Passenger Liner

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g1...8-01-59-70.jpg

HMS Rodney

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g1...3-42-21-25.jpg

American Battleship (can't remember the class)

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g1...3-54-56-71.jpg

HMS Anson

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g1...8-50-20-67.jpg

Stealth hunter do I see in your 2nd Photo That you have a XXI class?

American BB is the iowa class. Please dont tell me its the NJ becuase thats my ship!!!:stare:

That airplane is about to fall into the drink...someone had better catch it!

Way to go nikimcbee! Nice story too! :up: :up: :up:

Nice story, I like it. :up:

Gute Jagd,
Paco.

Don't worry about the Rodney, I got her last night :D

I was bouncing around in the middle of a howling gale when I managed to intercept (read: blundered into) a convoy. Working on the theory that I couldn't see anything, so they couldn't see me, I surfaced and tried to find something to sink in the murk. All of a sudden, a gigantic shadow loomed up about 400 metres in front of me, heading right across my bows. I caught sight of a number of VERY large guns before snap shooting two torpedoes at the stern, raising the U-56's battle cry of "Run away!!' and crash diving. There were two explosions and the Rodney seemed to be unable to decide to catch fire or just fall apart, so it did both. Within two minutes it had gone, just leaving behind a number of mystified escort Swans asking each other if they had seen the BB that was there a minute ago :D

Yeah, that was taken in one of Ziepel's later patrols.