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Started a new campaign after finishing my original career with a IXD2, so time for a new game! Type VIIb, Williamshaven home base, grid square AN68.
My type VII, U47 had a successful day today! It is end of september/ early october 1939 in my current career. Frustrated that nothing but neutral shipping has been in my grid square and not to mention that square is a waste of a Type VII, I decide to head up to hunt off the north coast of Scotland. As I was passing just off the west coast of Scapa Flow submerged on September 20th or so, I was contemplating sneaking into the base just as the real U-47 did, when my hydrophones operator indicated he had a fast moving contact headed our general direction. Fearing it could be a destroyer, I set all my torpedoes accordingly. I turned south, and headed tword the sound source raised the periscope and was surprised and excited to see what was on the surface. It was HMS Hood! And she had a friend along with her, the HMS Nelson! They both were steaming east heading for the channel between Hoy island and the Scottish mainland to Scapa Flow and were about 2500M right in front of me in perfect position. :D (lucky me!) I fired 2 torpedoes at each and waited for what seemed like an eternity for impacts and reloads. The first two hit the HMS Hood, one in the engine compartment, and the other where her propeller shafts meet the hull. I turn my attention to the impacts on HMS Nelson next. Two impacts, both in the engine room. Nelson keeps steaming on however, while Hood comes to a grinding halt. I had already turned my U-boat around and fired another torpedo into Nelson from my stern tube. This one jams the rudder hard to port and HMS Nelson starts to make a large circle. I turn the sub around again and my first tube is reloaded. I fire one more torpedo into Nelson amidships and she starts to capsize. Now I turn my attention to the HMS Hood. I wait for tubes 2 and 3 to reload, and fire them at Hood's B turret magazine......one prematurely explodes, :wah: the other impacts and a huge explosion rips the Hood in half. (magazine explosion?) I look back to the Nelson, who is on my starboard side and see she is going down very slowly. I am about to put her out of her misery when destroyers show up and start hunting me. I dive and crawl along the sea floor to the west. I hear explosions after 15 minuets or so that did not sound like depth charges. I come to the surface after shaking the destroyers off, raise my periscope and see Nelson is gone! I decided to return to port at this point since my torpedo's are running low and the seas are too choppy to use my deck gun. sitting in port now, lots of medals to give to the crew. Hope the next patrol goes this well. Will probably grab a IXB u-boat next. I like my type IX's more, and now I have the renown for one. |
U 71 patrol 4
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...DeZGIZC1Zk/pub
contains a description of a convoy attack using H.sie's wolfpack mod - however the pack did not materialize ("out of fuel") |
6-12-1940
Patrol Log. Kptlt. Egon Roth. As I am writing this My boat U-99 is steaming ahead standard south of Ireland through grid BF16 on our way to our preferred hunting grounds of AM51 and AM52, as I write this a freshly killed British merchantman lay sunken behind us as we slip off into the night. The choice to patrol through the northern Irish waters was a practical one due to the large amount of British shipping moving through here (Ironically to avoid risking being attacked in the "English" channel). Strangely enough much of the shipping there consists of lone merchantmen, sometimes in a pair but most often alone. I cannot deny that U-99 is a good boat with a good crew, but, being a type VII as it is, the range and torpedo count hampers us to a frustrating degree. But that may soon change. During the award ceremony for my last German cross I found myself the recipient of the unexpected honor of having my medal presented by "Uncle Karl" himself, this was for my latest patrol in the AM grid which totalled no less than 54,000 tons of enemy shipping (including one Tribal class destroyer), after the presentation ceremony Donitz and I spoke and he then asked me if there was anything he could do for us in light of our service to Germany, and I DID have one thing I wanted. I mentioned to him about my...reservations about the limitations of the Type VII in regards to endurance and firepower and how my crew and I were unhappy with how this limited our ability to patrol. Donitz nodded, told me he sympathized with our predicament and then went on about his business and I mine. Two days later, as I sat in my office at the pens of Lorient I received a phonecall ordering me to the commandants office, once there I was approached by one of Donitz's officers from BdU who informed me that pending the results of U-99's next patrol I could become eligible for one of the new (and larger) ocean going type IX boats, and that if I performed well enough on this last mission then I would be ordered back to Willhelmshaven to assume command of my new boat with orders to sail her back to Lorient to resume duties once there. I can only hope our past success over the last year will continue on this patrol, with luck perhaps I can convince BdU to allow me to transfer my crew with me, without them I wouldn't have had the successes I have, I look out for the boys under me. ================================================== ====== Hope that didnt suck TOO bad, lol :D |
U 71 patrol 5
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U-021 on patrol, Eastern British coast
On 2nd patrol, September '39. Got into Scapa and sunk Royal Sovereign battleship. As we were making our egress in VERY shallow waters, we were set upon by 4 destroyers and 2 MTBs. After 45 minutes of cat & mouse, 3 destroyers broke away, but 1 destroyer (V&W) and 1 MTB were more persistent. The destroyer stopped to listen so I turned on her and put 2 eels into her keel and that was that.
When I raised the OBS, the MTB was burning also so I assume it must have been close to the destroyer when she blew. Currently sailing the east coast looking for ToO, 3 torps left and around 60 88mm shells. We shall see what the day brings!! :D |
U-4 type IIA
August 1st 1939 weather at port calm........ first patrol task in area AN52 after completing Naval academy and securing promotion as captain of first boat :woot:. Proceeded from kiel to designated patrol area at head slow (this rust bucket hasn't got the legs for anything faster :/\\!! ) Not much action on the way, a few neutral nation single merchants ducked down below as not to be see and reported. Patrolled designated area for 24 hours, crew a little green around the gills as the east coast of scotland hasn't sent us any nice weather. radio report of a British warship heading SSW right at us, crew in high spirits as our first kill could be a RN warship :D . August 10 1939 weather cleared with large swells No sign of RN warship crew and my self a little disappointed :( . Watch crew have just reported a single british merchant liberty class, radioed in contact report and have started to shadow merchant, managed to jump ahead during the night and set up an ambush, sent 2 torps in one premature detonation about 200 meters out :06: second hit right underneath her keel and broke her back she went down quick, fuel reserves at 50% now time to head back home. ALARM :o RN frigate spotted lucky enough on 90deg course to our own. Dived down to periscope depth 3 torps spread, 5834m out FIRE, torps running straight and true, then all three premature detonation :hmmm:, one fish left and the frigate has spotted the detonations. crash dived to 90 feet silent running (danger deep any flooding and we will hit crush depth before we can say fatherland. hmm frigate has ignored us or lost contact with us she is sailing away. No need to test our luck homeward bound again. docked at kiel on august 11 1939 11 days at sea 2343 tons sunk party in the bar tonight :woot: |
Well another eventful day on the British east coast. We came across a collection of contacts off the coast around Blyth. 2 or 3 warships and 1 merchant. We decided to engage the merchant so we set up an ambush with the hydro and got her! Only 2400 tons but another result. Out of torps now so will be putting into Heligoland for restock/refuel.
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BuD Urgent message......... To any boats in the vicinity of AN 18 to look out for U-4 last reported location 26 km off the scottish coast shadowing x3 destroyer
convy........ feared destroyed all hand lost....... (oh well back to the drawing board :cry:) |
hats off to U-4:Kaleun_Salute: you will be missed.
...or rather BELATED hats off since I'm past 1939 :haha: |
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A little luck is always nice....
17th of September 1939, U-33, Oblt.z.S August Jungmann:
Accidentally ran into a large convoy on my return journey south of Ireland. Took me way too long to realise it was escorted by a battleship. Snuck into the convoy. Should have waited for darkness (note to self). Got discovered a couple of minutes to soon. The battleship (later identified as the HMS Rodney) opened fire and managed to hit a tanker instead, setting it ablaze. With rudders hard port i fired my last three eels in a salvo towards the diverging Rodney and dived. Three hits. The crew cheered. In my exhilaration I forgot to alter course. With the escorts on my tail and at 80 meters depth I thought I was being depth-charged but then followed a loud screeching sound. At this point I had to cheat a little by having a look in the periscope (you can see things at 80 meters depth under water? Really?). Turns out I was hit by the sinking battleship dragging the boat down. With serious damage to the bow section and heavy flooding, the boat was out of control. I thought that was it, but soon after the boat hit the seabed at about 155 meters depth. More damage being sustained. Destroyer circling above and the desperately working to shore up the dying boat, I took a look in the persicope again. Only a few meters away, the HMS Rodney was neatly sat beside me on the bottom of the sea... (I do wish I had remembered to take a screenshot, but I was literally sweating in my chair). Finally managed to stop flooding while being depth-charged and a couple of hours of evading the destroyer/s the boat finally surfaced in a quiet starlit night on calm seas. Upon arriving home, I gave the enitre crew two months off. Bad call. My chief engineer got himself killed in a barbrawl a copule of weeks later.... (Sorry for the long (and first) post. This might be commonplace, but felt I had to tell the tale... |
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Thanks for sharing :arrgh!: And welcome to the forum :) |
Was quite nervewrecking (strange how one emerges one self in this game).
1st Battleship on 100% Got lucky with my guestimeates after they altered course. Still don't know how the boat survived. Think it was about 15-20secs till collapse in the bow compartment at the worst. |
I'd say colliding with a sinking battleship at 80m depth is worth passing on to the forum!!
That bad luck is right up there with my collision with a shot-down bomber. Right into the Turm!! We gotta learn to hit the screenshot buttons faster!!! T |
End of 2nd patrol Oct 1939
After resupply at Heligoland, we returned to our hunting ground on the east of England. Back around Tyne & Blyth, during the routine hydro sweep, we encountered a new contact approaching from the south. Ambush was set and another Hog Island (4400 tons) was ours.
We have mopped up a few coastal and fishing boats with the 88, but off Grimsby another contact was discovered heading towards us. As it was night, we closed on the surface to engage with the deck gun, but we were unaware that a destroyer was lurking just over the horizon. Crash dived as it approached and went silent. The merchant had been heavily damaged and slowed to a crawl by our shell hits, so we were able to keep in contact with her until the destroyer gave up the hunt. Once the destroyer was out of earshot, we surfaced again and finished off the merchant with another few rounds. Out of torps and now heading for home to bring this patrol to an end. Campaign results in 2 patrols so far 2 warships, 9 merchants for a total of 57884 tons, most of which were sunk on this last patrol. |
Weirder & weirder
January 20th 1940, U-33, Oblt.z.s August Jungmann
This career just gets weirder and weirder. On passage north of the British Isles on to the designated patrol grid southwest of Ireland, my 2WO spotted a warship. I started my plotting to determine range etc. It soon turned out it was stationary. A quick rumage through the naval charts revealed a small speck of an island at the very south of grid AM34, northeast of the Hebrides. Through the periscope it became clear that the ship had run aground. Almost felt a little bad for the poor souls aboard as we quickly dealt with the Southampton-class cruiser. This time I remembered to take a screenshot (Having all the time in the world...) It's not to obvious, but the black just below the horizontal recticle is a small land tounge. http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/pict...pictureid=7002 |
It never stops amazing me how many surprises this ancient game can deliver :)
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