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Dissaray · 04-12-10, 01:26 PM

I've never been much for surface attacks, even in the bad weather. The most excitment I have had in an attack was on a huge convoy, I didn't get a good count on the number of ships but it had to have 7 coloms and around 8-10 rows. It was only escorted by four distoyers, I pitied them the chore of gaurding all those ships, and that made it all the more easy to do my work.

I used a dog leg aproch, coming into the convoy submerged from the front at silent runing and zero speed; very sneekey. I had ploted the convoys course and knew the speed from the contact reprot, though I checked it with a fixed wire measure and a ploted calculation. I ran out ahead of them a few thousand meters on the surface, just out of visual range and went to parascope depth facing the convoy head on and waited for them.

The lead distroyer crused in and then made a circle and changed position, taking lead position on the colom I intended to focus most of my attack on. It was too late to move, I was well with in detection range and only dared to move at 1 or 2 knots and would have been ramed so I had to hold fast. I watched on the nav map as this sonar contact edged ever closer with each sweep of the hydrophones. Them came closer and closer and I thought for sure that they were eather going to hit me or detect me and blast me into a fine paste. I watched as the line got ever shorter and pased the 500m mark, then 450. At this point I had to stop playing and get a drink. Then I came back, all stealy nerved again and the distroyer passed by at it's closest point of between 300 and 250m, right off the bow. They never knew I was there, or if they did they surely didn't show it.

The convoy held some good targets, large tankers, a whale ship, a hand full of liberty ships and some large freighters. Wanting to get the most for my five torpidos I had loaded I decided that I was going to make simultanious contact shots. It was just my luck that all the forward tubes struk and detonated all within a second. I had a pair of steamers and electrics up front and a high speed electric in the aft tube. I shot the two forward electrics at the ships in the nearest colom first, taking out a jucy pair of oil tankers; all fire, explosions and shrapnel. One busted in half despite it being a contact shot and not an under keel and the other rolled over while on fire due to hevy port side flooding. The second pair of shots were the steamers aimed the next colom over, a liberty ship and a large freighter. They were set for top speed and both found the mark, cripling the liberty and sending the freighter nose in and under. My aft shot took the fule bunker of the whale ship and she sucumb to fires while I was trying to not die at the hands of angry escorts.

Then it was crash dive and hide, an hour or so later I came back up to finish the liberty and then went home. Damages sustained by a worryingly effective depth charge attack renderd half of my torpido tubes inoperable and busted my parascope and deck gun. Good times dancing with the Tommies that was.

04-12-10, 01:26 PM	#8
Dissaray 中国水兵 Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 280 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	I've never been much for surface attacks, even in the bad weather. The most excitment I have had in an attack was on a huge convoy, I didn't get a good count on the number of ships but it had to have 7 coloms and around 8-10 rows. It was only escorted by four distoyers, I pitied them the chore of gaurding all those ships, and that made it all the more easy to do my work. I used a dog leg aproch, coming into the convoy submerged from the front at silent runing and zero speed; very sneekey. I had ploted the convoys course and knew the speed from the contact reprot, though I checked it with a fixed wire measure and a ploted calculation. I ran out ahead of them a few thousand meters on the surface, just out of visual range and went to parascope depth facing the convoy head on and waited for them. The lead distroyer crused in and then made a circle and changed position, taking lead position on the colom I intended to focus most of my attack on. It was too late to move, I was well with in detection range and only dared to move at 1 or 2 knots and would have been ramed so I had to hold fast. I watched on the nav map as this sonar contact edged ever closer with each sweep of the hydrophones. Them came closer and closer and I thought for sure that they were eather going to hit me or detect me and blast me into a fine paste. I watched as the line got ever shorter and pased the 500m mark, then 450. At this point I had to stop playing and get a drink. Then I came back, all stealy nerved again and the distroyer passed by at it's closest point of between 300 and 250m, right off the bow. They never knew I was there, or if they did they surely didn't show it. The convoy held some good targets, large tankers, a whale ship, a hand full of liberty ships and some large freighters. Wanting to get the most for my five torpidos I had loaded I decided that I was going to make simultanious contact shots. It was just my luck that all the forward tubes struk and detonated all within a second. I had a pair of steamers and electrics up front and a high speed electric in the aft tube. I shot the two forward electrics at the ships in the nearest colom first, taking out a jucy pair of oil tankers; all fire, explosions and shrapnel. One busted in half despite it being a contact shot and not an under keel and the other rolled over while on fire due to hevy port side flooding. The second pair of shots were the steamers aimed the next colom over, a liberty ship and a large freighter. They were set for top speed and both found the mark, cripling the liberty and sending the freighter nose in and under. My aft shot took the fule bunker of the whale ship and she sucumb to fires while I was trying to not die at the hands of angry escorts. Then it was crash dive and hide, an hour or so later I came back up to finish the liberty and then went home. Damages sustained by a worryingly effective depth charge attack renderd half of my torpido tubes inoperable and busted my parascope and deck gun. Good times dancing with the Tommies that was.