Just hit 1942!
 

Hey all,

I've been playin my first and only career from the start of the war ... currently i'm using a VIIC and my crew is extremely good thanks to finding alot of T3's without escorts :) .. Funny thing is that I ahven't seen anything larger than a costal merchant now. Since I've been given IV torpedoes I've even been bold enough to fire them at DD's .. and have 100% kill rate so far with them. Their not perfect but DD's don't take much to kill.

Anyone else notice anything like this during a certain time of their career?

Wamphyri

PS .. sorry if anyone saw all those double posts .. my inet was being annoying and wasn't registering that i clicked submit .. i've goten rid of them

My only advice is if you havnt got 250mts of water under the keel in 1942 and you go looking for trouble than good luck .

Make sure you have your Swimees....on when your on the Surface..... :yep:

1942 is not as bad as 1943, but enemy detection skills do seem to bump up a couple of notches.

So now the fun begins... :arrgh!:

im now in may 1943, and my god its hard. Earlier in the war i used to laugh and planes as they dropped their single bomb 500m off to the side and wonder what you were all on about when you said they were dangerous - now i crash dive and turn as soon as i see them. As for destroyers. Single ones arnt to tricky but when you get 4 or 5 of them if i get out with only half my boat flooded and wrecked i consider myself lucky.

Its true what they say, when you get to 43/44 you forget about tonnage sunk and concentrate on survival. Its great fun though, when you survive an attack boy do you feel alive. :D

i fear the later years...word has it that it's safer at Bergen. And, supposedly, according to a russian friend of mine, you could expect to hit tankers heading to russia via the most northerly route. But I've never verified that myself...never made it to Bergen..

KB

Looks like I spoke too soon. My next patrol I've had nothing but trouble. Not from those pesky DD's but like everyone knows the planes have much better accuracy. Got 2 DC's dropped on me, 28% integrity, flooding in both forward compartments. I had everyone and their pet hampster on repair duty. I managed to get it under control and only went down a few meters below periscope depth. And that attack destroyed my deck gun and killed the 4 men i had on watch!!.. torps from here on out.

The bad thing is that i still have 75% of my torps left so this is becoming one intense patrol, not to mention that it's the worst possible weather now. can get the merchants on hydro but visual.. forget it.

Back I go to try and finish this patrol and hopefully come back in one piece.

Wamphyri