[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by aj906

Yesterday I had a catastrophic failure that I can't explain...

I was in the middle of the north sea at 100 metres in my Typ XXI when all of a sudden there is a huge explosion. I check F7 and the conning tower is ruined completely - both periscopes, radar, sonar, radio all destroyed - the forward batteries are destroyed and the radio room destroyed and the control room and forward bunk house damage. The thing was, my hull damage only reduced to 98% and there was no water leakage. I use external views for screen shots so dived down to see if I was in a minefield or something (though I highly doubted it) and there was nothing so the only thing I can think of is the forward batteries exploded. Needless to say I had to immediately turn around and put to port which, without the "eyes" of sonar was a very tense thing given all the destroyer groups I'd noted in the region..

Has this every happened to anyone else?


Something else I have also noticed is that sometimes when I spawn in base or load a saved mission, I get "radar destroyed" messages despite having had no combat or reason for it to be destroyed. I do have malfunctions and sabotage set, but U-2518 must be the most accident prone boat in the whole U-boatwaffe.. Every time I go out, something fails or, like yesterday, blows up.

I'm only using GWX3.0 Gold

The chances are you were in a sparsely populated minefield....the east coast of Britain has quite a few.