Worst death in game.
 

I've heard it said that dying in a depth charge attack is the worst way to die.. I agree. But in the game, what is the crappiest way your ship went down?

I was setting up an attack run on a convoy off of Rockal submerged. Weather was windy and foggy. I popped up the scope and did a 360 look around and found nothing. I surfaced and was hit by a destroyer commingt up from the rear. Didn't have time to crach dive. He fired 2 rounds... first tookout the conning tower and crew and the second destroyed the aft torp room. I was then rammed and went to the bottom.

mines...

i hit a mine off of scapa sunk to the bottom but managed to get pumped out and patched up ehough to start heading for home

so i think ive survived and i home free little do i know there a minefield just southwest of helgoland

critical flooding herr kaleun!!!!

all hands abandon ship!!!

u-51 went down within sight of home shores in water less than 20 metres deep and within sight of friendly mine sweepers:nope:

That is a bummer!:nope:

indeed

the north sea is awfully cold:nope:

I was in a heavy fog moving slow. I had a sonar contact and knew I was coming up on a convoy and I was trying to feel my way into it. Then, without warning, a DD came steaming out of the fog and rammed me. Flooding. Panic. Screams. Damage control parties drowning in shattered compartments and then for laughs the DD decided to lay a pattern of depth charges.

It was a really messy death.

A Foggy day near the east coast of England. I was running with high time compression on. All of a sudden I get the message "ship spotted, sir." The moment I get to the bridge I see one of those armed trawlers 150m away. One second later, before I could even think about crash diving, the first shell hit me.:dead:

Being sunk on the surface by an armed trawler early in the war was somehow embarrassing.

Speaking of TC deaths. I was cruising along in 1024 TC about 70km from any land off western UK when All at once I am dead. Never even dropped out of TC so not sure what happened. Only thing I can think is there are a couple places that are not land but are shallow, maybe 8 to 10m. So I probably hit bottom. Only I was on the surface and the game should have at least came out of TC you'd think. Although I was lagging a bit at the time as well. :O: I don't view it as an actually death just computer stupidity!

There is a micro-island between Scotland and the Hebrides. You have to zoom in to see it, and it apparently doesn't register with the watch officer as land.

I've hit that island atleast twice.... Damn, I hate that island. :mad:


What is with all these Destroyers comming out of no-where? The brits must have a successful Philadelphia Experiment of their own.

While leaving port hit the c button by mistake :06: and ended up in the mine defences:cry: what a big bang that followed :wah: :wah:

My worst death was cause of a yankee sniper decided to join the US navy...
With 11% Integrity, after a convoy attack and being loaded with almost 90.000GRT
in a complete calm and clear weather, the DD fired a lucky shot at nearly 7km far...
Hit amidships. :damn:

I have the same problem very often when I'm running along the English coast submerged (oddly enough never on the surface). I guess there are mines.:nope:

Testing escorts sonar....hid underneath a cargo I had fatally wounded in 30metres depth and got crushed as it hit the sea bed, making me the filling in the sandwich. :oops:

Bingo. You both hit mines.

It's happened to me often enough. Generally, if you are on the surface you are safe from the anti-submarine mines, but if the seas are rough I suppose you could "bounce" into one.

I've had several decent GWX careers ended near the British Isles because of mines.

The only time you are safe from them is in deep water. Doesn't matter if you are 70 KM from land, in both World Wars the British layed mines in the upper reaches of the North Sea to try and close it at least partially. These minefields weren't very effective, but they did get the occasional u-boat that happened to be unlucky enough to bump into one of them.

Masts
 

I usually shot from 350 to 400 yds, Just fired my last shot at a BB, and crash died to avoid a Dd, In the process I lost my bearings UW, and when I looked,why I heard scraping and grinding, and diving deep fast, The BB had rolled onto me and then dragged me down with her.