Hi K-61
Thanks for your patrol news.
In the areas that you mention you are very lucky to have been able to use your deck gun.
My experiences with all patrols has been some what limited of being able to use the deck gun due rough seas.
If you had had a type IXB with the 3.7cm flak gun would you have been able to have used it to take those smaller crafts out?
I like the way the weather changes in this game after a certain time.
I also had a situation with one convoy where the fog and sea was so bad I could not pick the targets up until it was too late and they were past me.
Being on the outside these are normally the small ships and I was not going to waste torpedoes and so let the convoy go.
I was wary of the channel below Stornoway in case it was mined.
In SH5 there is always some pairs of those small trawlers running back and forth and also a DD on the bend running to and fro across the channel.
Loch Ewe is the base for AMC's and these are pretty chunky targets.
I have noticed a problem when I want to go to Ahead Flank the telegraph drops the speed to Ahead Slow.
This happens surfaced and submerged.
The best I can get is Ahead Full.
I thought at first it might be something to do with the rough weather and not damaging the engines, but then it would not happen when submerged with electric engines.
I nearly met my end when I noticed for some reason the telegraph had moved to Ahead Standard without me noticing it.
I usually delete all way points so that cannot happen.
Luckily I escaped without any damage.
I also received some hull damage a while back 77% when I did not realize until too late that one of the convoy ships in the first row hit my winter garden and also did damage to the flak gun.
All was repaired apart from the hull.
I have 3 qualified repair men now available.
Apparently I should not changed my home base just because I received new bases where available in the radio messages.
I have been told that I should have waited for a pop up whatever that is.
I have just completed a long haul back from EH92 and picked up a few loose targets heading for Gibraltar.
I am currently in Vigo refitting from a ship which means no PQ grid when I start my next patrol number 12.
Also I have to change the default number of days in port from 21 to 1 and then I need to change them back again when I reach my home port Lorient.
I have made up a spread sheet of all my destroyed ships.
I am going to use it to see where the best grid action is for when I get situations where I do not have a patrol grid.
I really like the diversity of ships available in this mod.
So far in 11 patrols I have not come across a task force yet.
I think I might head back towards Gibraltar and see what is about.
Peter
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