A week ago, Balz just wouldn't load and the game would CTD.
Finally, I gave up and started a new career (Klapp). Now Balz loads okay.
Lt. Kalb writes:
We just finished recharging batteries after attacking a heavily protected convoy and Balz was conducting choir practice before sending the crew to bed.
Funker interrupted, "Convoy heading east, 7 knots."
"What's with all these convoys. This is Tanker Alley not Convoy Promenade."
"The convoys have tankers," Bernard said. "So the Admiralty authorizes them to use Tanker Alley."
"Du bist eine dumme Affe," Balz growled. "We're not a tanker, and do you think I ask permission to use Tanker Alley? You must admire me because I sink Tankers without permission."
In the early afternoon, we sat at periscope depth and let the lead corvette sail past us and maneuvered to a course perpendicular to the convoy. Balz fired an aft tube at a large freighter and two forwad tubes at a tanker.
We did half a wiggle-waggle and dove to a hundred meters.
Balz said, "We only did half a wiggle-waggle because I am testing a secret weapon." He removed his tea cozy and showed us the lead foil lining his favorite head gear. "This is a thought director. You see part of the lining is open. This way,my thoughts are projected forward in the direction I turn my head. "See the genious of my mind?"
"No," Bernard answered.
"You wouldn't."
"Hoochie-woochie," Balz sang softly and twirled. "The skipper on that escort coming at us is trying to read my mind. So I twirl and mix him up."
"Wasserbomben."
"Bernaard, you sound pathetic. It's wasserbomben, boom-boom, with emphasis on the boom-boom."
The U boat shook from nearby explosions, and Balz did his mental hoochie woochie twirl.
We got credit of 21,000 tons on that attack. and are now chasing the convoy for another hoochie-woochie boom-boom.
Hoochy woochie, twirl -->
