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U-32 patrol diary
March 24, 1940 Sailed out of Wilhelmshaven
Day 2 Sank Granville type freighter Day 4 Sank Small freighter Day 6 Sank Granville and Small freighter Day 7 Nothing but empty sea Day 8 Nothing but empty sea Day 9 Nothing but empty sea Day 10 Nothing but empty sea Day 11 Nothing but empty sea Day 12 Nothing but empty sea Day 13 Nothing but empty sea Day 14 Nothing but empty sea Day 15 Nothing but empty sea Day 16 Nothing but empty sea Day 17 Nothing but empty sea Day 18 Nothing but empty sea Day 19 Nothing but empty sea Day 20 Nothing but empty sea Day 21 Nothing but empty sea Day 23 Nothing but empty sea Day 24 Nothing but empty sea Day 25 Nothing but empty sea Day 26 Nothing but ... :doh: :damn: |
Whereabouts are you located :hmm:
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This is the chart of my patrol, dots represent sunk ships :arrgh!: http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/7...board01uu1.jpg |
Wow, you must be a ballsy one, taking the Channel! :up:
Anyway, the lack of ships is clearly your fault, you're not aggressive enough?! ;) |
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Welcome to the real world of Sub patrols!:up:
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I'll continue my patrol while the fuel permits... |
are you sure to do regular hydrophone checks? the ships are probably there but with bad weather and all, the watch crew may need a hand :)
or perhaps the English are so scared of a Channel-runner that they halted all merchant traffic on the Atlantic :arrgh!: |
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Regarding the weather, I had my share of storms, but also had some fine weather, with unlimited visibility. Quote:
If that's the case, next time I'll go around Greenland. :lol: |
Use the compass to draw a circle 18km across.
Drag the compass until the circle you've drawn fills the western end of the Gibraltar channel. Put your sub in the middle of the circle at periscope depth. Wait for contact. Sink contact. Repeat until torpedoes and deck gun ammo gone. Rearm at Thalia (or home base if Thalia not deployed). Repeat. |
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Well, my luck finaly changed. It started with a disaster - my saved game was corrupted (although I saved away from land or ships :hmm:). I reloaded a previous save (5-6 days game time earlier), and detected a small French convoy; Large Merchant and Medium Cargo, escorted by Armed Trawler. I stayed on surface and sank both merchants. As I was leaving the scene, I enjoyed watching the Trawler's futile attempts to locate me with the searchlight... :arrgh!: |
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Keep it up and I'll let you buy me a drink :D
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On each patrol I go to periscope depth as I leave the harbour and work out what the detection range of my hydrophones is - it differs with the experience of the radio room crew. Once I have this info I can draw a circle of the right radius and know that I can detect anything inside this circle. It's just part of my shakeout routine at the start of each patrol along with test firing the guns etc. |
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@Wreford-Brown Drawing various detection circles is part of my tactics also. :yep: But I usualy do the sound check myself, because I can hear a propeler noise long before my SO does, from about 30km. |
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