I sank the HOOD!!!!!!
 

WooHOO!!!!!

I've played this game for quite a few years and NEVER ran across her.

So last night I get a radio contact on a fast moving task force,24 knots.

I plot an intercept, thinking the usual that they'll change course and I'll never find them........

Anyhow I arrive at the intercept point, take a dip & listen, and realize that I'm perfectly positioned!

I surface and putter along at 4kts with my bow pointing in their general direction, medium visibility..........

Then the lookouts call out the lead J/K emerging from the murk.......

I dive to periscope depth.......I plot his position and course and then I plot a parallel line offset to the bearing where I hear the heavy contacts..........

I slowly position myself about 1000 meters perpendicular to that plot and wait........

Taking fast peeks with the attack scope.........

All of a sudden she emerges from the mist!!!!

I couldn't believe it. I set my eels to run at 5 meters, medium speed, impact.

I select salvo and begin to plot my solution...........

As she enters my forward quarter, relative bearing 320, open the doors, I start to fire fish........LOS! LOS! LOS! LOS!

Down scope immediately, I ring up a full bell, order a 90 degree turn to parallel her course and dive to 180 meters while reloading torpedoes................

Over the hydrophones comes the sound of 4 wonderful and distinct impacts!

Now the dogs are after me.............Not much to worry about since it's only 1940. Anyhow, I reload two fish and come back to periscope depth.

I raise the scope and she's only 1600 meters away heavily down by the bow.

AOB is 50 degrees or so. I aim one fish directly amidship between the funnels. She sees it coming and can do nothing and is lazily turning into it. AOB at time of impact was 82 degrees.

BABOOM!

A giant spout of water and flames gout from the stricken battlecruiser.

Multiple secondary explosions rake from bow to stern......

Suddenly her stern clears the sea, her propellers churning the air and she slips to her watery grave.

Nothing left but some survivors, debris, oil, and fuel fires......

I quickly calculate a Hail Mary shot aimed at one of the two Revenge class BC's left from the van....I fire two fish, then the dogs are upon me again.

I dive deeply and quickly in a decending spiral, this time the depth charges are close.

No damage though. With a few more hours of quite avoidance the pack relents and I slip on through the depths!

Nicelly written report--congratahoochies, Herr Kaleun. :D

Good report, Congradulations on helping sink the RN.:up:

Congrats and good report :up:

If your like me ... The adrenaline gets really pumping. :D

pffft! It was going to sink anyway! ;)

Nice one!

Congratulations, Sir...for your Victory and for your impressive battle report, a true exemple how the things must be DONE! :up:

Then maby the bismark wouldmt have sunk.;)

Yeah! That was cool!

Congratulation Herr Kaleun! :up::arrgh!:

Evil, evil kaleun - denying Bismarck her glory.:rock:

Bismarck was a terrifying surface raider, and Hood and Prince Of Wales were there to sink her if possible. If Hood had been sunk earlier they would have had assets on station better equiped to deal with her, and she would have been sunk earlier if anything.

Thank you Kaleuns!

I'd share pictures but I dropped my Leica on the deck and it smashed!

(Hi-res fix..)

Nice Job!Half a yea ago I found a task foce made of the Hood, two Renoun BCs, and many DDs.I hit the hood hard and also damedged a renoun but a DD got me befor I could see the end results. It was also 1940 and it was west of scapa flow.

You just had to cheat the Bismarck out of a victory, eh? :stare:

Nice one, Herr Kaleun! :up:

Now you just gave Churchill a reason to lift the pressure on the surface boys and turning on the heat on our u-boots! :stare: :arrgh!:

Congratulations, Herr Kaleu! :up:

Well done!:up:

I've only encountered one task force in all the time I have played myself and they zig-zaged away before I even got a glimpse. After I knew they had lost me I 'cheated' and used camera view to chase them down and it was a Illustrious carrier and escorts. :nope:

Perhaps better not to have known.

I'm now in the Med in '42 so maybe I'll see something.

Oblt Heinrich Beck
U-379 type VIIC
29 Flotilla, La Spezia
3rd patrol March 1942