Wolfpack!? --jaw drops--
 

I had to pause my patrol and come here. This is incredible!

Two days into my fourth patrol. It's 9 January 1941, and I've left St. Nazaire heading to BE59. My lookouts call out 'submarine spotted!'

Now, as they aren't calling it out like they did for the S-boat, I assume it's one of ours. And it is.

One of ours.

One of three, to be exact.

Three of them, on the surface, slicing their way, flak-engaging, through an unescorted convoy. (Yum!)

I've some screenies of them if anyone's interesting in seeing them. For now, I'm back to the fun! :D

(This is GWX, by the way)

Damn, another whole year I have to patrol.. kust in feb 1940.

There are wolf packs... But for safety's sake... Better dive and look through the periscope to see what the sub is... I havn't seen any hostile sub yet but there are some, as shown in GWX manual...

For a S-class or Gato, fire him and salvo and tell him

"YOU ARE FIRED"

I've already spotted, and sank, an S-class sub. :D

Ok, update on the patrol: 9 ships sank, most by deck gun. The entire convoy is sunk. Three were crippled by the wolfpack prior to my arrival (and even during). At least one of the U-boats has sustained damage: riding low at the stern and visibly damaged there, too. Leads me to believe they engaged and destroyed whatever escorts might have been present before I got there.

It was amazing having other U-boats about. And at this point in the war, having no escorts around, and having the merchants unarmed it was, well . . . shooting fish in a barrel. Gonna enjoy the 'Happy Times' while I can.

Did they submerge or stay on the surface??

They stayed on the surface.

My understanding is that AI sub's will never go down. If they are surfaced, they stay that way. Would be nice though ;)

Can we see the screenshots? :up: I'd love to see something like this during one of my patrols

I think I wont see a wolfpack because Im playin in the pacific monsun uboat campaign.

Here is a pack i spotted the other day:
http://www.johannschaefer.de/images/wolfpack.jpg

:rotfl::rotfl:(Sorry, just had to....)

show the screenies

After a lacklustre patrol I decided to pay Freetown a visit and to my surprise, saw my prize target, the 24000 ton liner on fire and sinking as well as a couple of other ships. Could it have been these guys got ahead of me? GWX BTW.

Come on Albrecht...show them the goods :up:

I thought AI subs cannot fire torpedoes/engage enemies, so how comes the AI subs you saw sank ships???:o

I think he is surmising it was them.....he arrived after the fact....