OMG!!!
 

I was on my patrol and I dived to check my hydrophone. The hydrophone picked up a lone merchant so I surfaced to attack. I looked around on the UZO and spotted not just a convoy and not just a large convoy but two large convoys either side of me short range. I was spotted by about 30-40 escorts about 10-15 could open fire due to bad weather. I fired off the last of my eels and sunk one ship before diving to evade escorts but they've already won because my batteries are low and my u-boat is badly damaged. About 10-15 warships are dropping DC's and about 20-30 are closing in to drop some more. :o

Any help?

Put your head between your legs and kiss your arse good bye :smug: How deep is the water you're in? Silent running, no more than ahead flank and zigzag your way out of there. Change depth often :yep:

Shows you the wisdom of always making a sweep with your scope before surfacing.

I once got caught between three convoys in the area between Ireland and the Hebrides, where the convoys have to funnel through to approach Britain. It's a good hunting ground until massive air cover drives us away. I had been hunting one convoy and was flanking it when I saw the lead escort from an outbound convoy approaching. No choice but to dive; then a third convoy appeared! I had no option to attack and would not have if I could; with that many escorts available it would have meant certain death. I went quiet and as deep as I could. When it was clear I hauled out of there.

Unless you are extremely lucky, you are dead. Chalk this one up to experience and console yourself with the notion that "it's only a game."

Got you back!
 

Weiss Pinguin I guess my chances are like-

one of these
http://www.justducks.co.uk/Images/Sp...ter%20Duck.jpg
Vs
one of these

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...al_Service.jpg

Well, I think I'm screwed.

K-61 I did do a sweep should of put that in sorry but the weather was so bad could barely see. I was just able to make out a ship that looked like a T3 tanker and it was.
I only could see the convoy once we surfaced.

In that case you shouldn't feel like such a dumbkopf. What time of the war are you patrolling? From late 41 onward I consider all surface targets to be armed and do not risk surfacing until I can visually confirm that the target has no guns.

1943 But I know my boat can handle a few armed merchants or a cocky warship. I sunk the Revenge surfaced with only my deck gun, now I'm looking for some other Battleships, they're not as all powerful as they're cracked up to be. Once you get the big guns off you're good, all they are now is a very fast armed merchant. (Except the fleet carriers, attacking them surfaced is suicide even I have limits :dead:)

why waste deck gun ammo, surely the flak gun would have done the trick?

:o

What level are you playing on, and with what mods? A submarine's gun is useless against the 5" guns of a destroyer, let alone 8 15" guns on a battleship. In real life that 3.46" popgun would bounce of the turret armor of a battleship and barely scratch the paint.

More like :DL

http://clouddragon.files.wordpress.c...3/deadduck.jpg

:haha:

More like one of these:
http://www.thenewparentsguide.com/wo...bber-ducky.jpg

vs one of these:
http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/d...-explosion.jpg

actually maybe not that bad, just need lots of luck. Let us know how it goes :arrgh!:

You're gonna need a bigger duck.

http://sparklette.net/archives/635/angle.jpg

Weiss Pinguin is was going to use a nuke but one of the heavyist battleships ever made would do.

jimbuna lol

Sailor Steve 100% realism with GWX, I've got very good aim and I lot of time, it was a 24 hour battle of surfacing firing and diving over and over again from 7000m then later 400m after I got his guns off.

CherryHarbey go try that see what :haha: and tell me!
(I might try that myself lol)

"You're gonna need a bigger duck."
:rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2:

Update: I've sunk to about 150m before becoming stable again, still ok some of the escorts left but still about 20 left but is hard to judge due to the fact theres so many! :arrgh!:

Haha looks like the whole Allied navy is after you. Wait a bit and the carriers will come join the party too :D

Too late :rotfl2: I died because my NA is an idiot "depth under keel is over 1000m" I dive to 200m hit the bottom at 175m destroyed the boat.:doh:

But I did loss the escorts :yeah:

So you sank Revenge with your deck guns over a 24-hour period from 7000m away?

I think we may have to cut off your ration at the Night Club.

1) to my knowledge, Revenge tends to shoot back. Accurately. With far bigger guns.

2) Revenge usually has a group of friends with it who are also armed and particularly good at swatting flies.

3) Revenge usually travels faster than a surfaced VIIB at flank speed, and you say you were diving and surfacing, reducing your average speed to far under flank.

And I have never seen a T3 Tanker in GWX... only in stock.

So... let's put that schnapps down and order a cup of hot coffee, eh?

1) Yes, she did and I lost many a man to her

2)Yes, Good at swatting flies and very good at catching eels too

3)It was spotted at 7000m and sunk at 400m

4)It looked like one, but everyone makes mistakes good job I didn't sink it and find out it was a random fishing boat or something.

Cool I get schnapps:D

So, not only did you sink Revenge, using your deck gun, in a flank-speed race over a 24-hour period, at 7000m to 400m, but you also sank her escorts using torpedoes? In GWX at 100% realism?:har:

Hey, I buy it 100%. Not sure Uncle Karl will.

Believe it or not I was actually out to get a convoy so all I had were Fats in the forward and a Fat in the stern, its a simple trick let them spot you dive to PD let them come then set the fats to um....search? the area premature, all hit but most were duds I reloaded hit the rest attacked the Revenge.

(Same thing I do with convoys)

and I didn't race her I just dodged her rams after I got her guns off.

Oh OK, so instead of engaging the Revenge in running deck-gun fight for 24 hours, in which you also killed her escorts by torpedo, you ... what... reloaded and what?

And capital ships don't try to ram you. Other than shooting at you and zigzagging, they don't take tactical measures.

Why don't you just take us through the engagement play-by-play. Because what you are describing is one for the history books.