Tanker's Paradise
 

Wow! Just wow! The year is mid-1942 and I was sent down to Cuba with my IXC. What do I find down there? Great weather and tons of unescorted and mostly unarmed tankers! I sunk 13 large T2 and T3 and a couple of smaller tankers, all with the deck gun. I also encountered only a handful of easy-to-kill Clemson destroyers and annoying Elco Torpedo boats.

There's also hardly any Allied air activity (unless you get close to places like Port of Spain etc.). I now know where U-123 (my boat) will be vacationing in the next upcoming patrols! :yeah:

BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!! http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...ies/pirate.gif

Welcome to the 'Second Happy Times'. Of course your thread title is wrong - it may be paradise for you, but hardly for the tankers.:rotfl2:

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Do you have [a] grid location[s]?

I'll need an oil tanker myself to get there in my Type IIA :har:

Good hunting though Kaleun! :yeah:

Laughed my arse off! xD

Yeah, this is Operation Drumbeat you talk about.
Usually just north of Bermuda and south east of New York, there's a convoy of 6-8 tankers with only 1 escort.
And just about 20km offshore, south of New York there's a 12.000toner passing by at a regular rotation.

Man, I must have all the luck. I am back in early 40 and can't find a damn thing aside fromt he occational coastal trafic around Ireland. I am geting desperate enuf to make an attack run on Bristol just to see if I can find some targets.

Hang around AM53 for a few days, or go to AM19 and check out the Rockall Bank for a bit. You should get at least 2-3 ships out of both areas. ;) Remember to stop and listen every few hours - drop down to PD and circle round a few times, then keep going.

LOL :salute:

Indeed. :D

But it is great to see a lack of armaments on these tankers and no pesky Allied air activity. Right now it's early 1943 in my career and already I am spending more time underwater than on the surface. With no snorkel available I am forced to travel at 1-2 knots underwater during the day and speed on the surface at night - at least when I am still off the coast of the UK / France.

Right here. Look at this map. The red line indicates my entry route and my basic travel route during my stay down there. All along this line, and with some slight course corrections due to hydrophone contacts, I encountered mostly tankers.

The red circles indicate areas where I encountered enemy aircraft. :salute:

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Maybe my IXC U-123 and your IIA can meet up somewhere in friendly waters and your IIA can have a piggyback ride on my IXC to wherever you want to go! There's plenty of space on my back!!! :D


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Thank you for this valuable intelligence information! :rock:

In my experience between 1939 and 1941, you can get some great convoy action in these areas. Getting in and out is the hard part since these areas are naturally crawling with Royal Navy warships, but I would recommend using the cover of night to sail in, go to 30 meters during the day and listen until you pick up a convoy. There are usually a number of them only a few days apart. Once you have made contact how you proceed is up to you. :yeah:

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More intelligence information! Thanks! :salute:

The area between Scapa (Orkney) and Lerwick (Shetland) islands usually provides some good lone merchants, watch out though because Destroyers hang around up there too. Going south of Scapa usually nets you more Destroyers than merchants sadly. Rarely see any convoy movement through there though.

One of my favourite spots is about 250km west of Gibraltar....convoys are frequently entering and leaving the Med http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...s/thumbsup.gif

I ventured over to that strate, between Ireland and England proper last night. I got gutted by a combo attack from some PT boats and a Empire Class Merchent; I had forgoten that those were armed and took a pounding only to be finished off by what I think was a torpido attack by the two PTs befor I could get under with a crash dive. But I did find the enemy so there is a pluss on that front.

I remember once runing into a masive convoy up by the norther tip of Scotland, just west of the Scapa islands. That was in '42 though. It seems there are a lot more targets in the west by that point int he war.

But U123 is a IXB. (The most successful IXB of the war).

Love your charts. They look so cool.

I prefer to get alot closer than that.
C'mon Jim, "BE MORE AGGRESSIVE" (kidding).