The only time I've ever been bombed by the Luftwaffe was when a bunch of pilots was drinking at the next table and one of them tossed an empty beer bottle over his shoulder. He's in Stalingrad now, which is really something considering we won't be at war with the Soviets for almost two years. My connections, let me show you them!
I started yet another new career after trying to sort out some mod issues and doing a bit of additional tweaking to my basic.cfg... 5 day shakedown cruise out of Königsberg went fine, as did the transfer to the 2nd Flotilla in Wilhelmshaven, but I forgot to set the # of days in port in Commander and found myself starting a second patrol on Aug 11 1939.
Made it to my patrol grid in good time and then did donuts in the Western Approaches for a couple of weeks waiting for orders. It's now Sept 10 and since hostilities started we've had only 3 contacts; one was too far off and moving too fast to catch and the other two turned out to be small coastal tankers. We sank them both with one shot each in the midst of a raging storm that will NOT subside.
The last time I was in these waters on Sept 10, I wasn't
in these waters any more because I was already on the way home after sinking 9 ships and running out of eels for the foreward tubes. I couldn't turn around out here without practically running over yet another ship full of Tommies. Now I probably couldn't find one if I went straight up the channel with
Deutschland über alles blaring out the tower hatch and a crewman dressed as Queen Victoria standing on the foredeck and mooning the oncoming traffic.
