Hi all you flak-happy kaleuns!
To go back to the original 'Happy Hunting grounds' thread...even tho' the new 'contacts' map sounds very exciting and I can't wait to try it out
Got back from a seriously BAD day at work in a foul mood, and decided to give those pesky Tommies what for ! Fired up vanilla SH3 (Apple iMac 2Gig, 73% realism - no manual targetting), and set of in my type 1X, with type 3 control tower (2 zwillings and 1 heavy 37mm which is damned near useless except for fishing boats)
Couldn't be bothered to drag all the way accross to New York - so set off for BF13 from St.Naz as I read here that it had a good tanker lane in it.
However, as I passed Cornwall an Elco PT boat and, a Hunt DD and a V & W got in my way - followed a few mins after by 2 armed Trawlers. I vented my anger and blew thru' them all in a matter of a few minutes (real time) - and only 2 eels used.
The Armed trawlers came right at me, side by side, but my valiant 105mm deck gun made very short work of them, I think about 9 rounds total. Both sank side by side -virtually at the same time. I didn't surface until they were within 800 metres. The 2nd one took a round of HE directly from the bow, about 2 metres above the deck which blew away the wheelhouse, stack, boiler room and the deck gun all in one (lucky) shot. only needed 2 more rounds of AP under the bow, and a bit of flak fire, to sink her. He He!
Proceeded to BF13, but not patient enough to wait for the tabnkeerrs - got onyl a couple in the 3 days I was there. However, the Sunderlands, and few Hurri's, just kept on coming - usually a little after sun-up. Sometimes in groups of 6 at a time - and I think I got all of the last bunch of 6 that came together...
I must admit that I find Sunderland killing really EASY....but my tip for you is DON'T fire at them when they dive at you (maybe 5 or 6 rounds to put them off their aim) - but save your ammo and shoot at the A$$ of them Immediately as they have passed over you, a clean kill almost every time. Works for Fighters also, but for B24's you need to CRASH dive! In all I got 26 Sunderlands and a few Hurri's before i ran out of ammo.
Unfortunately I also lost several of my valiant crew including my Flak gunner of 16 patrol experience, 5 or 6 sailors, and 3 or 4 more killed and seriously injured during damage control. May they all rest in peace.
Not sure why report says no creww lost, as I definitely needed to visit the Barracks and do some serious recruiting when I got back to St.Naz !! Poor old U-69 was alo pretty beat-up and it took several months to bring here back to life from 26% hull integrity and replace 1 gun that was destroyed.
BUT, we dealt the 'Island Monkeys' in their little puddle-jumping airplanes a serious blow today that they won't forget in a hurry ! Hopefully, (thanks to Dowly's vertrieb) I hope that I have managed to post a few screenies below...
PS: I'm sure this won't be so easy in GWX, which I will graduate to in next couple of weeks.
Happy Hunting to all Kaleuns!
Mike C
Proud captain of U-69