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Originally Posted by CCIP
Over a million tons with DiD? 
That just kills. I wouldn't get that even if I tried. |
Cheercsh. Yea. She was a biggy. I didn't even realize it until Ducimus posted the 1 mil challenge, then I checked and realized I was damn close. I barely got over it though. I started at the very beginning of the war, and kept the VIIB all the way through. I don't remember ever being attacked by an airplane in the whole campaign. I managed to spend a lot of time around halifax and the carribean. I used all the Utankers that became available. Though unrealistic, I did 4 or 5 reloads on the one that sits off of halifax. That took up most of 1942. I spent the rest of the year out in the middle of the north atlantic using that Utanker that appears there. I spent a good part of 1943 out of bergen, finding NOTHING in the Arctic sea or the Denmark strait. It was balls-up. When my schnorkel finally arrived, I transferred back to 10th flotilla, and they gave me a grid way over in the carribean. Weird, given that i was still sailing my trusty old VIIB. But there was a Utanker half way, so I decided to give her a go. Hit a convoy on the way. It was nice - I used TIVs for the first time. The first one never picked up the scent of the escort (I guess she was moving too slow). The next time, I was being chased away from the convoy by a black swan. I lead her at flank so she was barely gaining at 180, and fired a TIV set below the keel. It finally found her and blew just in front of the propellers. At first it didn't seem serious, but she slowed, and finally her stern went way under and took her down. I never got the 'she's going down' message, indicating that the game itself was surprised by this subtle, but vicious kill
At the Utanker, I, refueled,rearmed, and headed for Curacao. I hit a small convoy (large cargo, small merchant) and used up 5 torpedoes on the large cargo. She was a bear. Then I follow up on a sound contact and it's a convoy. I had never seen one there either (gap directly north of Curacao). I never got to see what was in it either. From the silhouettes, it looked like medium cargos. 3 lines of ships, 3 deep (8 or 9 total) with at least 4 escorts. And at least one of those bastards had hedgehogs. And, once again (this always happens to me), I got the insta-crunch death following a hit. I can't remember the last time I had to deal with flooding...think it was in multiplayer Sub-vs-Sub. Anyway, on I go.
I'm trying the IXC because I wanna explore the carribean and the gulf of mexico a bit. Never been there, and the SCR/RND layer looks active there. And I've hunted the western approaches dry. I expect it to be a bit dicey (TW2), but for the beginning I'm going to be a bit balsy in order to see how far I can push things. I'm starting Mid-41 because the early years are so damned boring. One thing I might go after is the DC damage fix so that I'm less likely to get the insta-crunch. It's damned frustrating.
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