What Has Been Your Highest Tonnage Total?
 

What has been your highest tonnage total for a given patrol?

0-20,000
21,000-40,000
41,000-60,000
61,000-80,000
81,000-100,000
100,000+

List your realsim % for your patrol.
List your boat type.
Year and month (if memory serves)


By the way this is my unscientific way of finding out how much harder 100% realsim is compared to say 50%.

Come on mates it's in the name of SCIENCE :know:

27,500 (Small tanker, armed trawler, C2, 2xcoastal merchant, T2 and two destroyed destroyers that I didn't get renown for :up:
45% (Hey! I'm on my first career!!)
VIIB
July, 1940. (Outside and inside Hartlepool)

80k plus some peanuts... at 94% but this career was unfortunately ended by a DC from a stinking CLEMSON class... :damn:

88000

I think it was 1941. Can't remember all the details but anyway, after taking out a couple of C2s and a destroyer on the way to the patrol grid, I bumped into a convoy and took out the corvette escorts. Then I surfaced and used the deck gun and the rest of my torpedos to sink everything else. Almost.

I play at 55%. Type VII.

Trick is to sink C2s and C3s with one shot.

around 68k


33% 1942

VIIB :up:

88,000 VIIB 1939 54%
My present patrol http://www.subsim.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=41135
is likely to finish with a higer score as long as I survive.

Sarge

164,000 VIIB 1942 64%

Heading to the U.S>, I met up with 6 lone passenger liners and sank them each with a single shot to the bow (they were all steaming east at 15 kts). Finished my patrol by encountering a nice convoy with T3's.

BTW, in 1940 I sank a complete convoy including the escorts for a total of 18 ships (had to finish off many of them with the deck gun as I ran out of fish).

scrapser

180k,
3 Brit Battleships, 1 escort carrier, 1 pass liner, 1 Type 2 tanker (w/deck Gun), 1 type 3 tanker, 1 c3 (with deck gun), and lastly a aux Crusier


U-110 Patrol 23, 60% realism, Early 1942, North Alantic

120,188 tons
Realism? Not sure, but guess it'd be around 75-80+ %. (event cam, WE assistance & stabilized scope on)
Type VIIB
November- December 1940.

Current patrol, though, could be the best so far. 77,000 tons bagged, huge convoy/ task force about to show up, 9 torps left. IXB, July 1942, realism as above.
Oh yeah: no campaign affecting mods.

Never made it over 100k yet. Been close a few times. My current career, 20 patrols, I am averaging about 60k, and that with 3 patrols in a type II.

From reading some of your replies if the u-boats were as successful as a whole much like you guys, the French would be speaking German today.

Man, you guys rock :rock:

:/\rlz:

32000 for me :smug:

Thank you sir, LOS!

Patrol 2


10/16/39 from Kiel
Type VIIB
Total Tonnage ~ 71500 12merchants, one destroyer - yes, I found a convoy and it wasn't guarded. The destroyer was my first victim and was by itself.

44% Realism

Just finished my most recent patrol and broke the 100,000 mark. More luck than skill.
106,000 VIIB 1940 54%

Sarge

Care to give an AAF? :D I wish there were more stories around here.

AAF ???

29th Patrol on transfer to 7th Flotilla St. Nazaire from 2nd Flotilla Wilhemshaven. Patrol Area BB94 April 29, 1942 to May 20, 1942 Type IXC at about 50% Realism.

From previous Patrols in CA38 from 2nd Flotilla I found the Passenger Liner lanes out of New York/Boston area on a 45 degree line from about BC77 to BE36. My last patrol in 2nd Flotilla (28th Patrol) was 11 ships totaling 213,045 tons.

My last Patrol (the 1st in 7th Flotilla) the 29th patrol totaled 242,184 tons in 11 ships. I actually got tired of sinking Passenger Liners and had to save at least 8 torps before I even got to my assigned patrol area of BB94. I passed up at least 5 more Passenger Liners on the way in and passed up at least 6 more on the way out as I had decided to hunt Convoys in NE BF and SE AL.

I use 2 T-1 G7a torps set for 6m depth, impact pistol and aim right under the stack. In general, the first torp blows up the ship but I always use 2 just to be sure at just under 1000 meters and about 2-6 degrees off of 90 degrees. I try to set up at 95 degrees to her line of travel so I don't have the "Torpedo Bounce" problem.

They always run at 15 Kts and I have run into 2 running about 1 hour apart on the same course line. The 2 general course lines are only about 25-30Km apart so I just run down the center of them and when I get a "Radio contact report" I start to run 1000m off the line she's in and wait til she's sighted by my watch crew or I get a Hydrophone contact.

Hunting Passenger Liners is so easy that they should be only 5,000 tons so it's harder to rack up the tonnage. My last 2 patrols I've received 5 Gold Crosses eace patrol to hand out, I think I've only got 5 or 6 Seamen that don't have them now.

At 90-100% realism it shouldn't be a problem breaking 100,000 tons hunting Passenger Liners.

does the realism level affect the number of liners you meet?? Care to share the rout you hunt?