The channel looks tempting!
 

Contrary to all common sense I'm considering a submerged passage through the channel. BdU in his wisdom has given me a patrol in BE99. Thats off the north of Spain! Gonna take me two weeks to get there. I'm sure theres plenty I could be doing off the coast of... say Denmark. I think he's pissed with me:yep:

What year is it ?

If its at the time of the French surender you can keep to the French coastline
If you must run surfaced do it decks awash so dive time is quicker

DONT play with the MTB or trawlers
They will only call in plenty of back up

Best of luck

You will need it

AH there goes a mad man after my own heart best of luck to you and your crew:up:

Jan 1940. Third patrol. More worried about mines than ships. Could go around but I get sidetracked too easily. I'll end up shelling trawlers off iceland or something:D

Foghladh_mhara, I just love your style you remind me of myself when i play:arrgh!::arrgh!:

Your dead. :dead:

But hay if you want a short life who am I to stop you. :rotfl:

I never got past Calais... :D

Was my first time playing GWX, the Channel used to be my usual route but you learn fast!

I had the same mission - Spain - on my third patrol out of Wilhelmshaven in a VIIB. Went through Der Kanal in order to save fuel. I did make it, but it was hairy.

I recommend using low TC. Run as much submerged as you can - surface at night and only after personally checking the hydrophone.

By the way, do you know why the Channel is so shallow? It's the mountains of corpses piled up.

As to the title of your post, the Channel may look tempting, but she's really a husky voiced woman with a bulge in the wrong place.

I've been through the english channel several times with no problems.

My best tip to give to you, is stay within the deepest parts of the channel. If you encounter a PT boat, sink it quickly with a deck gun or crash dive then correct the depth to your desire level. Leave DDs' alone and if you come across a tempting merchant, sink it too then dive/cruise and wait till night fall to recharge on the surface.

If you encounter planes, throttle your boat to the maximum and shoot them down with the flak gun. After a few rounds with the planes, dive the boat to 20m and cruise till night fall.

Simple as that.

I have almost 25 patrols in my current career, and have made many safe passages through the channel.

~
!Lieutenant-Senior MP
U-3

Who am I kidding. I've been bitching for weeks about not making it to my second patrol now when I get to number three I'm heading through the English channel. Maybe on the way back:yep:

What mods are you using Mad Professor ?

If you're playing SH3 with the GWX mod...

STAY AWAY FROM DER KANAL!!!!

Trust me on this... :huh:

Yeah, um hmm stay away from the Channel. But if you must go through it, plot your course and stick to the coast. And do not go after those small ships, Trawlers, those are death traps, they always have bigger and badder back up around. Go decks awash, and go through it fast. But be careful when you dive, some spots are really shallow and when you say crash dive, you will go deep. good luck, Where should i send the flowers to your funeral???

Its Oct 1939,second patrol.Too late to try it on this patrol, but many of our officers and crew have glorious ideas of being the first to try the KANAL.Thank God our commander is a studious man who believes only the living sink tonnage.

Josef Roost seaman
U1 Somewhere off Irish coast

Pissed with you? He must hate you more than Bernard. Before you take the Kanal. Hock all your things and send me the money. Take your girlfriend's address and send it to me. Will me your bycicle, your gramophone and that gold watch you got after graduating from Flensburg. Ah and don't forget to send me those 50 Reichsmarks you owe me.:stare: