One p*ssed off Black Swan...
 

Yesterday I pulled off what I consider to be my best convoy attack ever. We were sailing in CO 42 around 1:30 (game time), Oct. 1941. The moon was full & the sea was calm (1m waves). My lookouts spotted a 3-ship convoy: 2 Coastal Freighters escorted by a single Black Swan at about 14,000m. We raced towards it & got to within 2500m then submerged. Slowed to 1/3 to avoid detection. Targetted the first freighter with a T1 set to 8m. That torpedo detonated midships & looked like it did some major damage so I went for the 2nd freighter. Hit her just below the bow which was enough to sink her too. While I was going after the 2nd freighter the 1st one exploded & sank. Now the Black Swan springs to life and starts looking for us; guess we spoiled their peaceful Mediteranean evening.:D After about 20 minutes (real time) she gave up & sailed off.

Still using GWX 2.1. Hopefully the mailman brings 3.0 this week. I've been reading all the posts & I'm looking forward to it.

Good job obliterating that convoy! Not a large one, but still it's good to see the escorts going home without the ships they were supposed to protect. :up:

Thank you.:) Although they were only coastal freighters (would've been nice if they had been something bigger) I like to think that I may have cost that Black Swan skipper his command.:D

Actualy the coastal freighters are my favorite ships. Always go down after one torpedo hit, with a big kaboom. :D

Continuing the same patrol I hit & sank a 12,000+ ton large merchant that was very heavily guarded by 3 Black Swans. She must have been carrying someone or something important to have that many escorts.:hmm: This time it was much harder to evade them; they kept me down for a good hour or so before they finally gave up. Finished the patrol by destroying a Black Swan (the last ship in a 4 ship convoy; the merchants were too far ahead of me to attack them without putting my boat in a very dangerous position).

I came across a small convoy like yours, but I sank all of them including the escort!:arrgh!: Can't waste gift tonnage!:up:

Should be reading of your GWX3.0 convoy exploits shortly ;)

Always? How come I always seem to meet the exceptions?:shifty: (2, 3 of them any way)

I wouldn't know, but almost every time I hit her, she would sink immediately. Only a few times she took some time to go down. It seems that the stern is her most vulnerable part.

Same here, the one coastal ship [Coastal tanker] I've seen so far took several hits to bring down.

Bah, I'm sure he comes up with an idea.


-Where's the merchants you were escorting?!
-What merchants? Did we have ships to escort? All I know is that there were a couple of ships following us around for awhile, and then they just vanished...I thought it was a bit strange but I ignored it;)

Can you get GWX 3.0 on a disk? :huh:

With the kind people we have on this forum, everything's possible. :up:

Well he did.....shortly after he PM'd me :lol:

Jim was kind enough to offer to send me a copy after I'd asked if anyone would be willing to send me 3.0 on disk. I have dial-up & it would have taken days for me to get the mod. I tried to keep quiet about it because I didn't think that he'd like fielding a bunch of requests from other people asking him to do the same for them.

Started a new 3.0 Med career today. So far I've sank a Black Swan in CO51. She was leading 4 other escorts (no merchants). They were really p*issed when she sank. Had us in the centre of a "wagon wheel" for some time with searchlights blazing, starshells & depth charges: the works!! I really didn't think that we were going to make it but we got away safely. Destroyed an ore carrier in the same grid square about 6 hours later. So far I have 10,000+ tons which isn't a bad start for a Med patrol...