The last patrol I had I was sent to grid BF13, patrolled it for 24 hours and headed north between the coast of Ireland and Great Britain...Needless to say this was a hasty and careless mistake to plot a course for home through the North Channel and back around to the North Sea.
Just as soon as I made it to the mouth of the North Channel I came across a large convoy in heavy seas and near zero visibility, close to 20 ships in the convoy were picked up by my sonarman and the majority were destroyers.
I pulled up my periscope to take aim at a merchant 200 yards off my stern so I waited until she was 395 yards away to fire a torpedo. I fired and watched my torpedo hit its target with a few tense moments of being pinged. Merchant sunk, problem over, right?
Wrong!!!
Swung my periscope around to the bow and here comes another ship. It was so close I couldn't tell what it was, and it was almost ontop of me! So here I was, running at 11 meters below the surface with another ship about to collide, the inevitable happens but my sub is merely pushed aside.
By this time I had just about enough of this. I was being pinged, visibily was crappy at best and the waves and rain made it difficult to locate my next target. I wasn't in the best of moods so I sulked back through St. George's Channel and headed home.
I just wish I hadn't deleted the save I made during that game because now I have to do this patrol all over again
Sorry for the rant, just had to vent...
Does anyone else go out of their way to try going through the English or North Channels for a little extra fun or is this seen as being careless?