HMS Hood - so near yet so far
 

Well after numerous patrols all starting in different years, and on my 2nd GWX 3.0 patrol I finally sight HMS Hood. I couldn't quite believe it! It was as I was submerged that my hydrophone operator picked up a small convoy of warships, so I decided to plot an intercept and see what I could see. This is when things didn't go my way:damn: Firstly it was abysmal weather - heavy seas, heavy cloud and less than 9km visibility, and secondly thorough hydrophone soundings, I (roughly) worked out the convoys speed and rough heading, which turned out to be around 25knts heading AWAY from me.
So in this poor weather I didn't have much chance of catching up to get into a decent firing position, and all i saw of the Hood was a silhouette of it on the horizon almost mocking me.:nope:

Someday, I WILL sink the Hood...............

I heard a lot of people wishing find and hunt Capital ships...like H.M.S. Hood...
It looks like the hunting for "Moby Dick" him self! :o :D :lol:

Hehe, we shall get the HMS Hood yarr!

I had pretty similar problems in my first 3.0 patrol. Got a report on the Hood and got it on the hydrophones, but horrible weather kept me from ever getting into an attack position.

i got the hood on my 3rd patrol in 40' :cool:
sneaked into the firth of clyde and there she was, 3 torps and down she went:smug:

Cheer up mate! I'll let you know that your sighting didn't go to waste! I sank the Hood the other day, as did 4 other kaleuns!



Wait a minute....

I personaly sunk the Royal Oak several times inside of Scapa Flow, and the H.M.S. Nelson one time, and it was a great feeling! :smug:

I feel kind of guilty. In my current career I've sank:

• the HMS Rodney off the coast of Spain,
• a Southampton class light cruiser that was escorting a convoy coming westbound out of the Canal
• I'm working on another Nelson class in the Ofotfjord at the Battle of Narvik. I've crippled her and she's only making 5 knots. I'm waiting for dark to surface and get in position for the coup de grace.

All about being in the right place at the right time, i suppose.

My favourite is the Warspite when around the Narvik area.

http://www.dailymotion.com/Dayrton/v...ood_videogames


4 torpedos at 7 700 meters, 3 impacts, bye bye darling.

:p

(push your brigtness full 'cause it's a very black nignt)

i was just thinking why don't they show some nice screenshots and you posted a movie , well done :up:

Seven thousand meters? :o Mein gott, talk about a long shot! (rhyme lol)

Yes, seven thousand and seven(maybe five ?) hundred meters.
But I made a mistake 'cause I fired 3 T1 and...1 T2 who can't go so far away !
That explain why only 3 impacts.

It was a very great moment of my subsimer live and all is related here:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...=140610&page=2

:cool:
(I see 7500 in the report, it's possible. The screen says 7770)