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scandium · 03-15-06, 12:10 PM

In my prior campaign I'd started with a type VIIb (7th flotilla in Sept 1939) and eventually, after transferring to the 2nd flotilla, upgraded to a IXb then IXc and with those boats I always fired an initial two torp spread at C2s (I was using auto targetting then). Most of the time both torps would hit it, and, though it didn't always sink it, it would cripple it making quick and easy to swing around and fire a stern torp for the coup de grace.

I got pretty bored in that campaign by Nov '92 and voluntarily "retired". After 10 exciting patrols in my IIVb in the Noth Atlantic between scapa flow and regions just north of the Bay of Biscay, all 7 of my type IX patrols were between Gibraltor and Free Town. Thus, no convoys, no "action". The most excitement I'd seen during my time in type IXs were the first time I got surprised (on my 13th partol and 3rd in the IXb) by an air attack after sailing out of Lorient, and in the ensuing battle a bomb was dropped close enough to kill my two flak gunners and damage the guns and conning tower (my WO was spared, thankfully) and the second time was when returning home the Freetown area and got surprised by a flower corvette southwest of Gibraltor (in medium fog, he was 2000 meters away and already firing on us before my lookouts spotted him). No casualties in that encounter but my only one with a warship in seven consecutive type IX patrols.

So I retired thinking that should a similar situation again occur, at least if I'm using manual targetting I'll have enough to do to keep me interested. In a similar theme I also installed, for the first time, SH3 Commander and IUB. I'm also at, officially, ~92% realism as I'd forgotten that in addition to the event cam I have the periscope stabalizer turned on now too (to make the stadiometer a little easier to use in rough seas when calculating range).

03-15-06, 12:10 PM	#6
scandium Ace of the Deep Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,098 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	In my prior campaign I'd started with a type VIIb (7th flotilla in Sept 1939) and eventually, after transferring to the 2nd flotilla, upgraded to a IXb then IXc and with those boats I always fired an initial two torp spread at C2s (I was using auto targetting then). Most of the time both torps would hit it, and, though it didn't always sink it, it would cripple it making quick and easy to swing around and fire a stern torp for the coup de grace. I got pretty bored in that campaign by Nov '92 and voluntarily "retired". After 10 exciting patrols in my IIVb in the Noth Atlantic between scapa flow and regions just north of the Bay of Biscay, all 7 of my type IX patrols were between Gibraltor and Free Town. Thus, no convoys, no "action". The most excitement I'd seen during my time in type IXs were the first time I got surprised (on my 13th partol and 3rd in the IXb) by an air attack after sailing out of Lorient, and in the ensuing battle a bomb was dropped close enough to kill my two flak gunners and damage the guns and conning tower (my WO was spared, thankfully) and the second time was when returning home the Freetown area and got surprised by a flower corvette southwest of Gibraltor (in medium fog, he was 2000 meters away and already firing on us before my lookouts spotted him). No casualties in that encounter but my only one with a warship in seven consecutive type IX patrols. So I retired thinking that should a similar situation again occur, at least if I'm using manual targetting I'll have enough to do to keep me interested. In a similar theme I also installed, for the first time, SH3 Commander and IUB. I'm also at, officially, ~92% realism as I'd forgotten that in addition to the event cam I have the periscope stabalizer turned on now too (to make the stadiometer a little easier to use in rough seas when calculating range).