The Type IX mystique...
 

I decided to see what all this fuss about the Type IX is all about, so I dutifully applied for a transfer to the 2nd Flotilla in Lorient. I didn't have *QUITE* enough renown for a IXB, so I had to make two more patrols in my trusty VIIB (this is late 1940/early 1941).

So, finally I had enough renown, and got myself a IXB. While I was out on my first patrol, my wife came in the room, and said "You're always on that computer. Who do you think you are?"

So I said "I'm Hardegen".

She said "I've got a headache", and left...

Welcome to married life as a Kaleun. I always get that response, either that or doors slamming louder by the minute until the inevitable depth charge attack from her:cool:

Yep
 

save your marriage Kaleun, get headphones.

Type IXB is a really good boat to grab early in the war as it stays competitive
for a long time, however it is withdrawn in mid 44 just in time to switch to a
type XXI and If you can take the absence of a single deckstorage spot
it is a fine boat and not buying a IXC will save you some prestige for later
when its time to upgrade to type XXI.

In Type IX-XI Uberboot mod I have had to make type IXB available for the
entire war as IXB (1939) is basis for the Cruiser Sub.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=104792

MM:arrgh!:

Read it out loud this time...

(bits of a poem rewrite i did awhile ago, orginal version was Galloping ghost of the Japanese coast)

I look flat and fat, a seacow at that,
All alone with no one at my side,
But we'll tell you a story of battle and glory,
As enemy waters we ride.

I've been stuck on a rock, felt the depth charge's shock,
Been north to a place called St John's,
and I've sunk me two freighters atop the equator
Hot work, but the sea was cold blue.

I've cruised close inshore and carried the war
to the sleeping giant the japanese awakened,
While they sent out their planes, i could hear New Orleans,
So I stayed, and listened to the tunes.

Then destroyers came sounding and depth charges pounding
My submarine crew took the test.
Far in that far off land there are no friends on hand,
To answer a call of distress.

Bwahahahahahahaha! :rotfl:

Ach, a wife that hears the puns you don't mean to make...

No silly
 

Its not pun its entendre a much more subtle martial art.

Hard again.
MM

Marital or martial? As an unmarried man I'm given to understand there's little difference.

Damn im slow today, that pun totally went over my head - at an altitude of 50,000 feet at mach 3+ :roll:

Well....I was just plottin' my course :ping: to flank and outrun two lonely merchants...I was on the bridge, with my cigarette :|\\:arrgh!:...just anticipating the attack. In the meantime, my girlfriend was just leaving her bunk. In the exact moment that I was taking a final bearing and ordering a PD, my living room zentrale hatch opens...I look at her and feel lile ordering "Aft Johan !!!!!" but she says first :Are you retarded or something ? :88) You've been playing this for five hours" I press escape and say " But honey...this is history :rock:" She says. "Well...keep playing history with me, and you'll get real history "


Scheisse

Johan? someone called me?

My wife calls me "herr Kaleun" these days.. "time to go to bed herr Kaleun" and such..
Maybe I am lucky!
I wont explain further on the torpedo in the water part after this.:rock:

:rotfl: nice. or the :rotfl: "tubes opening" phrase

Give her a DVD of Sex in the City, watch it with her for a while, she will eventually allow you to play because she knows you would rather do that. Why? Because she would rather be watching and sobbing alone too.

Make up in bed after a small patrol. Replace DVD's for anything she really likes herself from time to time.

:ping:

That's why I never take women aboard. I don't have to maintain separate loo for them and all that stuff. And noone makes me mad when I approach my prey... :rotfl: