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oh look....a lonely Vogue Class (carrier)
I already took the escorts and im heading to him with sound homing torpedoes =) no way he's surviving, now that war will be over in less than 4 months http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/t...235455_833.jpg |
Not with the big guns.....?.......:arrgh!:......
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"Das Boot" -sort of moment last night
Set up a textbook attack on a Granville freighter last night. Going to pass 500m off the bow, AOB 90 degrees starboard.
SO calling off bearing... 350...351...352...353... "sound contact lost".:o Pop up the scope... sweep from 0-350...nothing. Cut back to 5-10-15-20... then back to 350...nobody out there.:damn: I thought I was either in "The Final Countdown" or the butt of a conspiracy theory ala "Philadelphia Experiment". :88) Picked him up again visually at 40 degrees or so... didn't feel like creating another intercept so I just sank him with the deck gun. This old Kaleun must need to get his eyes checked, and the SO needs a stern talking to.:D |
U-34 April 3rd 1940 01:09 - North-East Newcastle - patrol 5
Left Wilhelmshafen on the morning of March 29th for grid AN51. Uneventful crossing except observed 3 Tribals on opposite course midway across the North Sea. They didn't see us. Bumped into a small convoy in the assigned grid. Weather was too bad to use DG so spent some valuable torpedoes on some small merchants after first having ambushed the lone escort - a C&D. Then received report of a large convoy coming up the coast. Here is: Should I try to cut in behind the lead escort on the surface or first ambush the escort on the convoy port side. We only have 4 torpedoes left but full complement of DG shells.......:06:....weather has improved....that is, for DG use.... |
I wouldn't be considering using the deck gun with escorts in the vicinity.
Why not pick two juicy merchant targets and give them a couple of eels each then scarper/quit while your ahead :hmmm: |
Had my first successful convoy attack this evening. large convoy with a big juicy Fiji class in the middle.
Decided to send a salvo of four torps off into the area most populated with boats (waited til it got to 0 gyroangle). Every single torp hit and I was already at 70m, bagged an ore carrier and severely damaged a troop transport. Escorts came after me for half an hour, so I popped up after and got one of the Black Swan's returning to convoy, back the escorts came even angrier than last time. 2 hours later I finally pop up lost the convoy, and I pick up a straggling large merchant, 2 torps in his belly and he was a goner. All torps expended we head off back to St Nazaire a happy bunch, certainly makes me feel better after my recent torpedo impact drought. |
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U-34, patrol 5, back in Wilhelmshafen - 90 % HI. |
Operation drumbeat! Off US eastern coast, attacking all ships in sight! Really juicy targets (some still with lights on), no escorts, a few airplanes, that's the deck gun feast!:woot::arrgh!:
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Save your ammo.....long way to replenish....:03:... |
Nov 1942, SE of Sicily. U-371
Encountered a small, 3 ship convoy, escorted by one DD and frigate. I sank 2 ships. It turned out that the escorts are much better than usual. No matter what I did, I couldn't get rid of them. After 2 hours of playing cat and mouse 240m bellow, I was desperate enough to try to go even deeper, down to the very limit. I found the limit at 288m :o, and lost the escorts along the way. The boat sustained some pressure damage, but nothing serious. After that I attack another small convoy and sank both ships (troop ship and landing ship tank). The next day I sank another, larger, troop ship escorted by three destroyers. So far we bagged 44,000t, and the patrol continues, with three eels still left. |
U-34 - Kaleu Georg Eckhardt - April 8th. 1940 18:53 - patrol 6
Left Wilhelmshafen this afternoon for grid AN23 (South-West of Stavanger). The Wilhelmshafen area is reeking with activity. He111's on their way to recce the North Sea and.....a supply convoy - for Norway...?...- escorted by a T35 |
U-34 - Kaleu Georg Eckhardt - April 13th. 1940 06:17 - patrol 6 |
@Leandros
You mustn't be playing GWX3.0 then? :hmmm: |
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I believe it is called 2.1...?...I haven't dared fiddling with my SH.....something bad always happens....:cry:.... |
U-34 - Narvik Approaches April 13th
It proved to be Nelson....the second of consecutive TII hits...... .....created some very angry destroyers.... ...ooops, that one really shook our tailend.... .....and some very frustrated..... ....where is he..... http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...lsoHeeling.jpg |
U-34 - Kaleu Georg Eckhardt - April 13th. 1940 20:20 - patrol 6
Still on the bottom of the OfotFjord beside a sunken British destroyer. This is getting creepy, 7 angry RN destroyers are still swirling around on the surface like crazy hens. We had reckoned they would leave after a couple of hours but it has now been more than 8 hours - and we are getting short on oxygen. Sometime this evening/night we seem to have to try getting away. We have a little handicap, though, the attack periscope is stuck and the observation scope is very sticky. We have plenty of torps but shall have problems defending ourselves due to the scope problem. There is a little swell building up. Any suggestions...?....:hmmm: ....crazy hens.... 22:56 ...totally crazy.... |
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Can you go silent speed out of there, in a zig-zag pattern? |
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Well, we can always zigzag but with 1-2 knots speed not to be detected they have plenty of time to saturate the area with pings.... |
I think you are doomed. :dead:
There's one thing I would try before raising the white flag: shoot at DDs using hydrophones to aim. Magnetic detonators to avoid hitting at some obscure angle, if you know their drafts. But this probably wouldn't work because they are pretty close, judging by the screenshot, and the eels may not arm. :hmmm: |
Leandros,I think the words that describe your situation rhyme with 'Clucking Bell':o:dead::rotfl:......Shallow water cup final,DD's 1,U-boats 0.:timeout:Best of luck chap:03:
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