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kk20 · 11-12-10, 05:58 AM

Ditched the vanilla and installed GWX3 (yey!) 84% realsim - just the officer assistance and manual targetting disabled (im not good enough for total realism quite yet!)

New mod so new career 1940 with a VIIC 2nd flotilla U-93

First patrol, quite eventful for a shakedown cruise. Ordered to patrol the north atlantic we didnt quite get there. Got a report of a small convoy so decided to investigate. calm seas and great visibility. Sighted convoy and set up shop ahead and 90 degrees at periscpe depth. Only one DD escort on the far side of the convoy. Sent 1 eel each into 4 coastal merchants and knuckled diving to 50m at silent. DD came over to my side and gave me a right kicking. Took a big chunk out of the forward battery and diesel engines. Heavy damage to command but luckily no fatalities or injuries. Didnt dare dive further. Depth charges moved away. Lost contact with DD so came up to periscope. DD was 1000m resuming course astern. Chanced my rear eel set to high speed magnetic. Hit a wonderful astern shot almost taking the rear off the DD. She went down to davy jones bum first. Due to the damage we decided to limp back to port. Still 8400T merchant and a 1350T DD to our maiden voyage.

Patrol 2 went marginally better. Ordered to redirect to lorient and ordered to patrol the channel. Great. Saw a juicy pair of merchants unescorted. 2 eels each saw them go down. One was an ammo carrier as it blew sky high with a hit amidships - the second eel was unnecessary it seemed. After a horrific 15ms storm a lone merchant sighted. 2 eels into her from the surface at 500m, however she wasnt alone, a pair of alco boats managed to hole the side and yet again the forward batteries and diesel engines were hit. Bad flooding but with the storm rendering flak and deck gun out of service I had no choice but to dive. Luckily depth under keel was 50m as we soon settled on the floor with man on board shoring up the crippled boat. After an agonising 30mins repair the flooding had gone and once again we set sail. Put into port at cherborg for repairs (52% hull!).

Patrol 3. Freshly repaired out of cherborg with calm seas we resumed our trip out of the channel to lorient. A troop carrier with an alco escort proved no problem. 2km periscope attack put 2 eels into the ship and a surface attack dusted the deck gun off to sink the alco. In the crews jubilation the watch missed the ASW trawler who seemed to have little in the way of tactical knowledge of submarines - failing to weave as an eel took her broadside. 2 more alco boats fell prey to the deck gun (and flak). Another ASW trawler as sent to their maker again failing to weave. By the time we docked in lorient, 1 8400t merchant and 7 warships to our name without a scratch. The crew were happier.

11-12-10, 05:58 AM	#1831
kk20 Watch Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 23 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Here we go. Ditched the vanilla and installed GWX3 (yey!) 84% realsim - just the officer assistance and manual targetting disabled (im not good enough for total realism quite yet!) New mod so new career 1940 with a VIIC 2nd flotilla U-93 First patrol, quite eventful for a shakedown cruise. Ordered to patrol the north atlantic we didnt quite get there. Got a report of a small convoy so decided to investigate. calm seas and great visibility. Sighted convoy and set up shop ahead and 90 degrees at periscpe depth. Only one DD escort on the far side of the convoy. Sent 1 eel each into 4 coastal merchants and knuckled diving to 50m at silent. DD came over to my side and gave me a right kicking. Took a big chunk out of the forward battery and diesel engines. Heavy damage to command but luckily no fatalities or injuries. Didnt dare dive further. Depth charges moved away. Lost contact with DD so came up to periscope. DD was 1000m resuming course astern. Chanced my rear eel set to high speed magnetic. Hit a wonderful astern shot almost taking the rear off the DD. She went down to davy jones bum first. Due to the damage we decided to limp back to port. Still 8400T merchant and a 1350T DD to our maiden voyage. Patrol 2 went marginally better. Ordered to redirect to lorient and ordered to patrol the channel. Great. Saw a juicy pair of merchants unescorted. 2 eels each saw them go down. One was an ammo carrier as it blew sky high with a hit amidships - the second eel was unnecessary it seemed. After a horrific 15ms storm a lone merchant sighted. 2 eels into her from the surface at 500m, however she wasnt alone, a pair of alco boats managed to hole the side and yet again the forward batteries and diesel engines were hit. Bad flooding but with the storm rendering flak and deck gun out of service I had no choice but to dive. Luckily depth under keel was 50m as we soon settled on the floor with man on board shoring up the crippled boat. After an agonising 30mins repair the flooding had gone and once again we set sail. Put into port at cherborg for repairs (52% hull!). Patrol 3. Freshly repaired out of cherborg with calm seas we resumed our trip out of the channel to lorient. A troop carrier with an alco escort proved no problem. 2km periscope attack put 2 eels into the ship and a surface attack dusted the deck gun off to sink the alco. In the crews jubilation the watch missed the ASW trawler who seemed to have little in the way of tactical knowledge of submarines - failing to weave as an eel took her broadside. 2 more alco boats fell prey to the deck gun (and flak). Another ASW trawler as sent to their maker again failing to weave. By the time we docked in lorient, 1 8400t merchant and 7 warships to our name without a scratch. The crew were happier.