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Dowly · 10-14-06, 07:38 AM

Here we go again! :rotfl:

WaW patrol, I think the year was 1942. I had sank only a few small merchant on that patrol and messaged FDU Herr Sebastian Hellstrom for permission to go to port of Valletta, Malta, to photograph the port defences (In WaW I we had intelligence department, but it seems that in WaWII it´s not in so big part). The weather was bad, with very low visibility. I approached Valletta from NW. I was about 3km away from the port when my hydrophone started picking up warship contacts. Five destroyers and one torpedo boat.

I creeped along the coast and I already had visual on the lighthouse lights when suddenly a DD got lucky and started to ping me. Soon everyone of the the five DD´s were on top of me. To make it even harder, it was very shallow where I was atm, max. 30m. The deeper waters were just 9km to north, but it took me almost 1½ hours (real time) to get there. In the process, I was depth charged with ALOT of DC´s, cant remember the figure anymore but it was around 100. The boat got damaged pretty badly, but I managed to reach the deep waters and lose the DD´s.

I managed to fight another day, till the next patrol I was sunk.

That has been the only time, I´ve really been scared in SHIII! My hands shook everytime a DC exploded. Priceless.

10-14-06, 07:38 AM	#6
Dowly Lucky Jack Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Finland Posts: 25,052 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	Here we go again! :rotfl: WaW patrol, I think the year was 1942. I had sank only a few small merchant on that patrol and messaged FDU Herr Sebastian Hellstrom for permission to go to port of Valletta, Malta, to photograph the port defences (In WaW I we had intelligence department, but it seems that in WaWII it´s not in so big part). The weather was bad, with very low visibility. I approached Valletta from NW. I was about 3km away from the port when my hydrophone started picking up warship contacts. Five destroyers and one torpedo boat. I creeped along the coast and I already had visual on the lighthouse lights when suddenly a DD got lucky and started to ping me. Soon everyone of the the five DD´s were on top of me. To make it even harder, it was very shallow where I was atm, max. 30m. The deeper waters were just 9km to north, but it took me almost 1½ hours (real time) to get there. In the process, I was depth charged with ALOT of DC´s, cant remember the figure anymore but it was around 100. The boat got damaged pretty badly, but I managed to reach the deep waters and lose the DD´s. I managed to fight another day, till the next patrol I was sunk. That has been the only time, I´ve really been scared in SHIII! My hands shook everytime a DC exploded. Priceless.