Sinking the HMS Hood
 

Whew! That was tough!! But I did it though!:up: 48,360 tons of battle ship sitting partially submerged at the piers at Plymoth!

It was funny, I was bored (that's normally what makes my crew start to scream and run around in panic. The Captian's bored? Oh god no! We're gonna die!) and decided to see if I could sneek into Plymoth, was hoping for a troop ship maybe.

Only thing guarding the harbor entrance was a armed trawler and one little Elco! So I slipped on in (just missing the sub net! I saw that later on the way out!), got close and looked around through my scope.

I about dropped a brick! At first all I saw a was a lousy few small merchants, but there she was! The HMS Hood!

I sent 3 torpedos her way, and heard them detonate, but not impact! WTF???

Torpedo net! Cripes!

I waited for my reload, and this time set the depth of the topedos to 1 meter. Sure enough, they skimmed over the top of the net and slammed into the Hood's hull! Ha!

Took about 5 to sink her as I could only hit her bow at an acute angle!

That was FUN!

:up:Nice to hear your making your contribution against the English aggresors!

I caught a HMS Hood class ship at Scapa in Sept. 1939 one time :up:

I can tell you that it is a great achivement to sink the Hood. I've done it myself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5F-X...8F86D4&index=0. Check out that vid.:rock:

Hood was my first ...
 

Congratulations!
When I started my current career in a type IIB HMS Hood was my one and only success in the first war patrol.

6.September 1939 AN16 HMS Hood

I planned it only as a recon mission but voila... and suddenly there was this unresistable urge ... you know :D
Took all ammo that I had

Are there more captains out there with Hood on their list?

I just couldn't believe that they only had one armed trawler and one elco patroling the harbor! That was PPP (p*ss poor planning) on their part!

Nope, have yet to even see her yet. Seen the Nelson plenty of times tho - not sunk her tho.

Yep, twice in Plymouth, and once on her way to attack the Bismarck.

Yep, got her, on my first ever Patrol with GWX, took 3 eels, 2 impacts hitting below B turret and just aft of the funnels and the third magentic right underneath the engine room to crack her in half, make her blow up and sink in minutes.

This was in AN49 IIRC, her escorts eventually took me to the cleaners for my deed but it was worth it :)

Just gives you a warm feelling way down in your ballast tanks, don't it.

I put Her down once Nov of either 39 or 40 off SW Ireland. And once again between Lerwick and Norway Whilst we were protecting our Northen Brothers from English expansionist aggression.

No, only 2 Revenge class BBs.
And a Nelson class BB left dead in the water, but no more torps. :( :damn:

Never seen the Hood in game yet. :( Only in the museum.

you'll have a chance to meet up with the Hood again if you take part in the naval battles around the Norway Invasion in April of 1940. you have to be northeast of the UK submarine base and West/Northwest of Trondheim. You will catch the Hood as part of a battle group initially steaming towards Narvik. It is ringed by destroyers, but through a gap, you can fire off a salvo at her. I did this with 4 torpedoes. 1 missed, but the other 3 hit where it counted and took her down. Sadly, in that career I met my demise at the hands of a Swordfish close to the Eastern English coast. In my 9th life, I look to do this again.

I'm also still waiting for my first Hood sighting. But I have sunk a Nelson class and since yesterday also a Revenge class. :arrgh!:

Never seen the Hood but I did sink the Ark Royal just northwest of Malta in Mid 41 :rock:

Using GWX, I once stumbled into Scapa Flow in late 1939 and met the holy trinity - aka HMS Hood, HMS Nelson, HMS Revenge.

Took all my torps, but went home with three huge notches on my belt - only to just receive the EK II.

Still, the adrenalin rush was worth it.