Bdu.....lack of posting traffic will not be tolerated (END)
 

Lets talk about U-boats, Tactics, Bernard or torpedo's! Bdu is getting worried that lack of posting traffic means to many U-boat losses in the Atlantic. All boats Report!:03:

Yeah it is quiet in here today eh?
Where is everyone?

I dunno, Been quiet lately.

Yesterday I went to play SHIII and it hard locked my machine. So I tried SHIV same result! So today I cleaned my CPU internals and found this, Broken processor fan mount. 10 lbs of cat hair and 15 pounds of good old Arizona dust!

Fan mount I rigged with with a twist tie. I bet that caused the lockups as my CPU had no pressure at the contact with the fan base.

Oddly enough I cleaned this 4 months ago!:lurk:

still on patrol mid atlantic......only place i'm safe from aircraft at the mo.

as for lack of posts....it's not as bad as when gwx gold came out.....it was like a graveyard here :haha:

Look at the viewing numbers of this forum. They're all salivating over SH5.

U-2324 (XXIII) harrassing inshore traffic off the east coast of England.

Kptl Schmidt (U-16 Type VIIC) is currently on a northward patrol pattern Grid BF77, Kptl Kramer (U-49 Type VIIB) has docked at Vigo & Obl Lange (U-45 Type VIIB) is in home port Kiel enjoying a well-deserved leave after a successful first patrol. Having been endlessly admonished by Jimbuna to "be more aggressive", I now growl loudly at every opportunity and shake my fist vigourously at approaching aircraft before diving to avoid them. Having received a congratulatory radio message from our fearless leader Neal for spotting and reporting a spam posting, I gave myself a medal (Beck's beer-bottle cap 1st class). Apart from that, all is quiet on the western front.

U-15 (IID) patrolling off of Southampton. I left bernard there of course, to help them with their war efforts!:yeah:

U-53 here...
Alister Homlier docked at the Thalia in early 1940, after the boat was sabotaged and would only turn 8 knots flank. After spending a few days refueling and getting some well needed rest, well set sail again latter on today. The idea of chewing up merchants around the straight of Gibraltar still sounds fun... then its a fast trip home through the English Channel, and finally Wilhelmshavin.
I would love to be able to play more, unfortunately.. my van jumped a tooth on the timing belt and Ive spent more than a few hours tearing it down and putting it back together. Today should be the last day for that though.

Currently January, 1942. After striking out in BF 13, my preferred hunting ground, I head to the north of Ireland to see what the AM squares have to offer.

U-54 is fruitlessly chasing shipping in the worst storm I've seen. I can only get hydrophone contact on a merchant of some sort but can't seem to get a target within my 300m or so visual bubble to point a torpedo at it.

Finally I got visual on a small merchant and started aiming a T1 at it. Then, whaddya know? A gnat of a motor torpedo boat is hosing down my decks with gunfire. I dive to PD, lose visual contact with the merchie, and wait for the torpedo boat to get bored looking for me before surfacing hours later. That boat saved the merchant, no doubt.

Still patrolling in what has been one of the more frustrating missions I've been on. Weeks at sea with a full load of eels ready to swim, but nowhere to go.

Since my present machine can't handle SH3, I'm cleaning ashtrays at BDU. Waiting for the final SH5 specs. It looks like I will be able to swing a new machine put together here in Santiago.

Right, guys, go visit Balz, little traffic there, too.:salute::salute::salute:

I'll be honest... things have been busy and i have not fired up SH3 since probably April or May.

Yes, im salivating over SHV... i still love SH3, but i feel like it is time to retire the old girl for some reason.

It is one of 3 games i currently have on my PC, but i just have not launched it lately, though i have hovered my mouse cursor over the desktop icon for a few seconds in deep thought. :smug:

She will always hold a special place on my hard drive. :salute:

Im waiting to push out to sea with my new crew in spring of 2010 :up:

Lone Wolf.............
 

September 1943: Off the north west coast of Madagascar prowling the Mozambique Channel south of the Comoros Islands.

Weather is absolutely filthy.

No radar or sound contacts.

Only one hit so far - a 'Ceramic' ocean liner. Moving fast too. No escorts heard or seen. Strange that the Allies should be so careless. They have stopped making such mistakes for a while now. Definetly wasn't a neutral vessel.

Plan to ride out the storm and maybe head toward Zanzibar or Mobassa.

Fuel situation is fine but the crew are suffering with the bad weather. The enforced lack of action is making us all stale. Even in this weather one suspects that the Allies have aircraft up looking for us. We must not relax but the beat of the engines is hypnotic when combined with the endless horizons when the weather is good.

Test fired the AA guns when the weather was good. Tracking and loading is fine.

So much ocean and so few boats. The Allies must be sailing convoys across the southern oceans with ease.

u1224 just clear of the biscai, down fore a long patrol down south.:salute:

September 1939. U-51 just bagged a 4000 ton Granville freighter at the southern end of the Irsh Sea.

U338 VIIC is back in St. Nazaire following her 4. patrol.

On 3.jul.43, at 10.14, a few hours out of port, we were attacked by RAF aircraft, with only 35 meters under the keel. For the first time, in all my carreers, I ordered the flak gun manned, flank speed, and 20 degrees rudder to starboard, towards the attack. Scarey stuff!
No damage incurred by either side, but we won, as we did manage to safely dive the boat to 25 meters.

We continued to make our way to AM41, finaly returning to St. Nazaire on 5.aug.43, after enduring much harrassment from the RAF in particular.

Patrol Results: 1 Tanker, 4 Cargoes, 25.353 GRT.

2 cargoes got away.
The 1. took 2 (out of 3) torpedoes fired at her, and kept going.
It was a daylight submerged attack, in BF17, with the target moving into the shallows.
All we could do was listen, and hope.

The 2. miss on the night of 29.jul.43.
Tryed a surface attack with my last available torpedo. Stern Tube 5.
At 1200 yard . . . he opened up on us with 2 gun mounts.
As we went to flank, I fired, and missed.
It realy came as no surprise, as I preset the range to 1000 meter, I was forced to fire too early. And he probably changed heading just enough to throw out all my calculations.
Calculations that could have been less than perfect anyway.
How he spotted us, with an aspect of never more than 30 degrees, on a dark and stormy night, is a mystery.

To bdu

U-198 under repairs in kiel and planning several updates , waiting for being transfered to a XXI type for the next phase of the atlantic war,

crew with moral but extremely fatigued for the round-the-clock patrols during three long years in hard conditions. several crew members request transfers to the Pacific, luftwaffe, and ground forces.

request permission to rest my crew and let some members to leave, repair the boat and stay as a second line boat for sporadic actions or special missions until the new XXI arrives with a low ratio of patrols for year.

Bdu- end

~To Bdu


U-139 commencing training and shakedown maneuvers in friendly waters.

~end.

To: BDU
From: U338 VIIC
10.okt.43

Returning from patrol of AM53.
95% HI.
4 ships sunk. 26.529 GRT.

At 08.40 on 29.sep.43 a Hunter Killer Group, consisting of 5 warships was encountered in AM46. U338 successfuly evaded without incident.

Enemy air activity was heavy throughout the patrol.

None of the 4 ships sunk was in convoy.
1 sinking was in AM52, with the remainder in AM53.
(1 Tanker, 2 Cargo, 1 Ocean Going Tug.)