U-51's War Diary
U-51's WAR DIARY
A while back I wrote up a full War Diary, or KTB, for a patrol to the US coast. Well, I read it again recently and so enjoyed reliving a patrol that I thought I'd do another! Also there's been a bit of chat on some threads about people's different motivations in playing, so some after that realistic immersive experience while others might just be after a relaxing submarine-style game with a bit more of an arcadey feel for it - and everything in between. Hopefully, as well as being mildly entertaining, you can see a few of the decisions that were taken and I'd love to hear what you think! As with the last one, I've dressed it up a bit - it's written 'in character' and with a few colourful details added, especially with regards sinkings and speaking to crew etc. It's about 10 pages but you can just scroll through and find the big blocks of solid text ... they're the sinkings! This was the start of a new DID tour, my first character is Josef Lutzow starting in Sept 1939. Enjoy! U-51's WAR DIARY |
A superb read sir, has a feel of the period KTBs and love the "colour" elements such as the description of the SS Joy Tyrolt
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Very nice! Ever since I saw someone do it with Aces Of The Deep I've been a fan of writing my adventures as actual patrol reports, rather than stories. I've never used anything like your official-looking KTB, but the result is similar.
One question: What method do you use to determine your four-number grid coordinates? I zoom the main chart until it matches the little 9-square example on the GWX pull-down chart, and measure as close as I can. :sunny: |
A good first patrol of the war!
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Keep these KTB's coming :up: Following Prize rules, too. Great :)
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Very good patrol report.
I admire your patience and courage to write the whole thing. It has all the neccesary details. Well done.:up: |
Thanks for taking the time to read, everyone! Appreciate the comments as well. Writing these up obviously makes a patrol a LOT longer, more like six hours real time as opposed to two. But I'm going to try and do a full KTB patrol for at least the first boat in my DID campaign.
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Amazing writing, I liked this diary even more than your previous one. I'm looking forward to reading a new KTB in late war when a patrol is more about surviving the endless waves of hunter-killer groups and aircraft.
One question: do you use any mod that weather during your patrol changes so often? |
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I don't use a weather mod, but I remember thinking how lucky I was with it. No storm lasted longer than about 48hrs, not sure weather that was my proximity to land or not. I believe GWX makes the weather more changeable, however - but even factoring this in the weather was unusually good with a few brief storms. |
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Your welcome! Glad to help out.
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Not posted in a long time, but I do still have email alerts set up...
It was just created on MS Word, if you PM me I can email you a template to get started. Have you read U-Boat attack logs? Most of the format and style I got from there: https://www.amazon.co.uk/U-Boat-Atta.../dp/184832118X |
KTB
There is my KTB (6th War patrol - Operation Drumbeat patrol to the US East Coast):
https://transfiles.ru/0p1m7 |
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