Good bases to raid?
 

I am heading back from a fairly decent 5th patrol in Febuary 1940. Have six fish left and have sunk 20000 tons of allied shipping. Heading back around the north of Britian. Is there usually anything in Scapa FLow? What about the sub base in the Shetlands? Thanks for any info :arrgh!:

Depends what version you're playing...

Don't look at me my IX boat is far too big for that sort of thing. :lol:

Don't look at me either, I apply the rule : don't get in places with shallow waters and enemy warships... and also because is was historically not done, except once with a long study and before the defenses were beefed up.

I'm not going either. You won't catch me voluntarily going into Shallow water

No takers for the suicide club. :hmm:

My brother on his second Patrol in U-6 (IIA) raided hartlepool Harbour and got away with it. :) He had an excellent haul out of that. He got an Iron Cross from it!

I went to Loch Ewe in my IID (forget its number now... :( ) and got away with it. I have never been to scapa flow though.

Mind you, the Type II's are the boys for harbour attacking in early war. Can't beat em!

5th patrol is getting a bit late for harbor raiding. I usually do Scapa as a rite of passage on my 2nd patrol. Sort of a Darwin thing. After that, I have too much invested in my Kaleun for such reckless acts.

That being said, a lot of your success will depend on the weather. From what I've experienced, the perfect weather would be relatively low visibility but with calm seas. If you have rough seas its really hard to keep your conning tower from getting spotted in the shallows.

yeah i decided just to head home and stumbles upon a convoy. it was along the east coast of Britain but in only 70m of water. 3 destroyer escorts. said "what the hell" and fired 3 torps at 2400m and 2 hit and sunk a cargo. only had one shot left so i decided to head to 50m and head home silent. destoryers looked for a bit but never found me. i was pleased to get away as I am playing GWX. GOod times. 45000 tons this partrol.

quick question. am almost home but I stumbled upon a Britsh schooner sailing from French coast. Would there be a reason to take it out with my deck gun? Perhaps on the possiblity it is carrying spies or something? :p

:hmm: If it flies the Br flag then sink it
Flak works good for those also

That's cos it was guarded by monkeys :rotfl:

Also keep in mind the whole East Coast of England is mined, so getting to those places is risky business...:yep:

If it flies the Union Jack it dies, no matter what ship it is!

Davey Jones hasn't been paid in a while...

I think that raids are done in part because of a long patrol, or proximity. You find yourself in crappy low visability. Been there done that. Then you get into these mods and raids past early '40 are on the insaine side. If you must, bad weather works in your favor, sometimes.

People raiding ports suffer from SSS (suicidal Scapa synrome)
Dr. Bernard is standing by to treat them. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: