Time Bomb? Strange GWX event
 

Lt. Otto Kalb writes:

I'm not going to mention the events that led Captain Balz to nearly go beserk and led us to follow a tanker in fog and rain.

We maintained station 300 meters behind the tanker, barelly seeing it's stern in the fading light. Balz leaned on the bulwarks mumbling, "I'm going to hoochie your woochie, you bastard."

Finally he gave the order to fire one magnetic.

The torpedo ran true. But time elapsed and nothing happened.

"No, boom-boom, no boom-boom," Balz mumbled and buried his face in his arms.

This was the third torpedo we launched against the tanker without positive results.

"Shall we sing the hoochie-woochie song?" Bernard asked.
"Get off my bridge, you swine," Balz shouted back.

I took another look at the zizagging tanker, knowing that in a few minutes we would lose him in the darkness. I wasn't about to suggest to launch another torpedo and lit my pipe.

An explosion racked the tanker. I looked at my watch, it couldn't possibly be our torpedo.
The monster sank.

My only possible explanation is that the torpedo got tangle up with something on the ship and stayed underneath until the self-destruct activated.

Stranger than GWX?

A mine perhaps :hmm:

Perhaps Bernard's tampering with the detonation timer actually pays off. Any other time and it would be exploding in your own sub's tube.

Odd
Have seen fish go between the ship and rudder but keep going

Most odd indeed

Perhaps the new cloaked phase inverter from the 24th century?

(Star Trek Stuff that is...)

Dont you get it ? Its a magnetic torp,when it is close to metal objects (expet the uboot) it sticks to the hull and when enough time has elapsed it goes boom-boom.:hmm:

Well really i never saw a thing like that.The strangest i saw was a torpedo hitting the screw and being launched in oposite direction :)

Torpedo shooting 101?
 

Sooooo, the great Balz is a little focused on his torpedo's, eh? ;)
Doesn't like his 88mm? ;)
Was last one in his class of midshipman during his 3 months at artillery school in Swinemünde, eh?

Who is he, to raise questions about the always failure-free almighty torpedos of the Torpedoinspektion der Deutschen Kriegsmarine, eh?

There were NEVER-EVER ANY failures with torpedos! They were letter perfect. It was just that the crews were not properly qualified, to lazy to read a manual or plain stupid.
(Litteraly, this is a quotation of one admiral.. :D)

:rotfl: :rotfl:

The question as yet unasked: "Did you get the renown for the kill?":hmm:

....."Or was it the Renown that killed you?" http://imgcash2.imageshack.us/img476...jawdropbq0.gif

Simple really.

The ever-stupendous Balz forgot to order the plasma to be rerouted through the secondary EPS conduits... resulting in a tear of the space-time continuum.

I'll bet that he doesn't make that mistake again though.

Not until he fits his boat with a deflector dish and heisenberg compensators anyway :D

which makes me wonder, where if you get right down to it, on a U-boat are the jefferies tubes?

Those are right next to the mass converters. Most of them lead to the gravity drive.

Hmm, so not part of the sanitary facilities then :D

I'd better get my Chief Engineer outta there....:rotfl: