Close call!
 

Last night I was doing the convoy attack exam to re-acquaint myself with SH3. I had penetrated to the centre column & sunk the lead escort. I hit the C2 with a torp, but only managed to damage, not sink it. Then I manoeuvred to get my stern tube to bear on the ships in the outer column.
I guess I concentrated too much on the map, when I took a look ou tthe periscope I saw nothing but the hull of a ship.
This was how close I was to colliding with it. fortunately emergency back & full left rudder prevented an embarrasing incident :D
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...atwasclose.jpg

Uff! Check your :ping: next time :D

I'm sure we all had such close encounters.

I remember taking the exam myself, not so long ago and I managed to sunk the Armed Traveler and a C2. But a completely forgot to see the destroyer. And it found me. Out of the blue "Destroyer in attack run!". I go into the outside view, and it was couple hundred metres away from me. CRASH DIVE! I just just managed to dive and to miss hitting him. But then a DC hit the hull (not next but on it). You can guess what happened. I got a compartment filled with water, even before I can't to deep.

And I also had the next misses like yours and hits, when a destroyer hit your conning tower with its hull and you lose all you flak guns!

I was a strange world outhere and we can be gratefull we can also restart the game. The real Keluens didn't have a save function :dead:

amen to that!;)

Im usually alerted to such an encounter by a loud crashing sound followed by jets of water and wimpering crew.

:oops: I had the same thing, but then on the surface....
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/7789/wthgv9.jpg

Hey, I have been runover... so there!:p

My favorite is crusing the surface in bad weather with limited visibility.

"Ship Spotted !.... half a second later.... BOOM Crash !"

I usually use tactic launching torpedoes in the middle of convoy, sometimes cargoships "block" escorts and their own noise hide my boat's noise. But there is a price to pay as I often return port with scratches and bruises in my u-boat's hull and conning tower. :lol:

last time a DD run over me he went to the bottom of the sea:smug:

Mine too......:o

Funny that this actually happened to Peter Cremer in U-333.....his target (a tanker with avgas - ouch!) altered course 90 degrees at the last minute. Cremer raised periscope only to see BLACK - the side of the ship!

Ran him over and did plenty of damage. He did point out that, had he hit the tanker at that range, the explosion of its cargo would most likely have killed all involved - his boat and the tanker!

This is my closest close call ever...I peeked out for a second just to see what my new boat looked like underwater (had never used an XXI much before) and this is what I was greeted with!

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-Qairyl

Oh yeah i have had this myself with stock SH3, sitting on the surface ready with deck gun..when watchcrew shout "Ship Spotted" i turn around only to see a C3 running over my Aft deck..I'm sure Bernard was manning the watch crew station :lol:

:o wow... thats crazy.

For some reason, mines in SHIII scare me more than anything else... they are just so creepy.

Got to love the close calls with mines, In World War 1 more U-boats were lost to mines than any other cause.

Reminds me of a Churchill quote,

"There is no greater thrill than to be shot at, without result":o