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Originally Posted by misha1967
Thanks! 
It's one of the things I do to add immersion. Think up background stories that fit, more or less, with what's going on in the game. And then sometimes I just go plain silly  |
I do that from time to time, depending on how humorously sour a patrol goes. In SH3 I had a bad habit of beaching my sub near Portsmouth, much to the delight of the coastal defense guards. Nearby citizens held a community picnic while we tried to jigger the boat off the banks with borrowed planks and towing trucks. Eventual capture of my crew led to Good Times for the constables, and a local newspaper headline summed up our glorious attack on the harbor:
Local Heroes: Gerry Submarine Aids Spring Plowing
...complete with a full-page picture of our Uboat rolled over on its side in a pasture like a dead whale.
I'm surprised that BdU gave me another command after that. The longshoremen in the area had made Admiral Doenitz aware of our presence when they wrote to him and told him that they could hear our Uboat clanging and scraping over the anti-sub nets shortly before we plowed our way out of the water. They even told him to either start training our crews or stop sending Uboats to England, that simple.
Some days it's tough being a Kaleun.
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Clipping from the paper that day:
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"Even the Yanks can sail better than that", one local man told the Portsmouth Herald after a German Uboat beached itself near the harbor on Monday, apparently in an attempt to defect to the United Kingdom; although the constabulary will not yet release details as to why the German crew decided to...