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Moody · 10-18-06, 08:51 AM

Ive never had any luck with task forces my current career (i play DiD) is on his 12th patrol in U-64 (a IXb) but my 11th patrol was almost my last when i ran into a task force just west of ireland - i worked out their course and went to flank to get in position - once in position I gleefully noticed it was a 3 Battleship Taskforce - all 3 Nelsons - escorted by 2 fiji Cruisers and 3 hunt destroyers - i set up for the lead Nelson and fired 2 Electric Eels aiming for her smoke stack - i then reset up quickly and fired 2 Steam torps set to fast for the second Nelson aiming just infront of the Smoke stacks.
There i was watching the timer and "Torpedo impact sir" - the 2 steam torps smacked stright into one of the fiji cruisers who in a valient attmept to save the nelson threw herself into the path. because of this the first nelson slowed down and the Electric eels impacted with her way off the engine room which caused a nasty list but not enough to slow her - the fiji sunk like a rock, not that i noticed since the Destroyers were after me and i was forced to crash dive but to no avail - 2 of the destroyers made sucessful DC attacks to my engine rooms causeing massive damage and flooding - panicing i put most the crew to control the flooding. Lukily the DC's didnt damage my hull integrity as i sank to 290m before i was able to get the flooding under control and surface. The Task force was long gone and i had to limp home at 2 knots with severe unrepairable Engine damage.

10-18-06, 08:51 AM	#13
Moody Swabbie Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 5 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Ive never had any luck with task forces my current career (i play DiD) is on his 12th patrol in U-64 (a IXb) but my 11th patrol was almost my last when i ran into a task force just west of ireland - i worked out their course and went to flank to get in position - once in position I gleefully noticed it was a 3 Battleship Taskforce - all 3 Nelsons - escorted by 2 fiji Cruisers and 3 hunt destroyers - i set up for the lead Nelson and fired 2 Electric Eels aiming for her smoke stack - i then reset up quickly and fired 2 Steam torps set to fast for the second Nelson aiming just infront of the Smoke stacks. There i was watching the timer and "Torpedo impact sir" - the 2 steam torps smacked stright into one of the fiji cruisers who in a valient attmept to save the nelson threw herself into the path. because of this the first nelson slowed down and the Electric eels impacted with her way off the engine room which caused a nasty list but not enough to slow her - the fiji sunk like a rock, not that i noticed since the Destroyers were after me and i was forced to crash dive but to no avail - 2 of the destroyers made sucessful DC attacks to my engine rooms causeing massive damage and flooding - panicing i put most the crew to control the flooding. Lukily the DC's didnt damage my hull integrity as i sank to 290m before i was able to get the flooding under control and surface. The Task force was long gone and i had to limp home at 2 knots with severe unrepairable Engine damage. Last edited by Moody; 10-18-06 at 08:56 AM.