Just survived a fight with four escorts...
 

I've finally graduated to 1943, and have a new command: U-534, a Type-IXC. This is my first experience with a IX, and I've inherited a veteran crew to boot.

Ran into a convoy west of the British Isles, and attempted a night attack. Whoops. Within 7,000 meters I'm spotted and suddenly have two armed trawlers and two corvettes bearing down on me.

Now, I'm not exactly an orthodox kaleun, and I enjoy a good scrap with an escort any day...but four of 'em? I decided since they weren't full-size destroyers, maybe I could take 'em on. Manned the deck gun and waited.

Five minutes later, my gun crew nailed an ammunition bunker on the lead corvette and blew her sky-high. I managed to put a shot on the trawler moving up right behind the wreckage, but took a solid hit on the bow and decided my luck had run out. Made a crash-dive, pulled out at 20 meters and moved back up to periscope depth.

I could not have been luckier. The armed trawler and another corvette had made a hard port turn to avoid the sinking 'vette and presented a perfect 90-degree AOB at bearing 0, range 700 meters. Set up a quick snapshot on both and another minute later I had two more escorts headed for the bottom.

Stayed at PD, hit a hard starboard turn and caught the last trawler at my 180, again at a 90 AOB. Nailed the sucker with a stern tube.

Now I'm on the surface, headed for a nice, juicy, unescorted convoy that's centered on a passenger liner.

This is all at 100% realism. I've heard horror stories on this board about 1943-onwards. I must be the luckiest kaleun alive :rock:

-akula-

Congrats! The only time I run into escorts, they're always destroyers :cry:

You ARE one of the luckiest Kaleuns alive :)

Trust me on this one: 4 escorts with an accurate lock on your position, even in the early years, is quite difficult to escape.

Very lucky. Maybe had some boot LT's at the helms of those ships........... :lol:

If this is '43, that passenger liner should be stacked full of guns, and so should all the others. :D But then again, if you don't try your luck again by surfacing to pick them off with the DG, then you're quite safe. Awoooee! :up:

You think that's bad? I got molested once by 6 DD's, one pinging and his bro's taking turns at me for 2.5 hours. :o

Yes, that did hurt.

Yeah, I found that out the hard way! Closed on the surface for the passenger liner and a C2 in close trail behind it. At about 1,000 meters they both lit up on me. Did a good bit more damage to the boat, but I managed to get under fast and finished 'em off. The liner took a good half-hour to sink.

-akula-

HAHahaha! I would've panicked! :rotfl:

Well done, i hope that Tommies will read this news. :up:
imagine their look in their faces. :D

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