[Bosje]

So I made another run, reloaded from the sunset east off Scapa, went around the south this time. (night, the sea is like a mirror, i can make 16 knots while not getting spotted. closest observation i had was 2200 meters, all remains quiet. hugging the coasts, sneaking my way past all the little islands etc, i sneaked past 5 patroling DDs, into the backdoor which opens southwest of the mooring, at the same point where i had ended up on my western run. there was a net, i figured i should be able to drive the boat over that thing at 1kts while blowing ballast. the game thought otherwise and decided to destroy my sub for brushing some iron cables. I was annoyed, went back in, this time straight for the big gap to the south of the mooring. submerged just off the net which is there, there is an opening in the net which brings you close to the shore lights there. so i went around the net at periscope depth, now leaving all those patrolling destroyers at least 2 or 3 km behind me. one patrolling DD in front of me, 3 DDs sitting still (the ones i had killed on my western run).

The plan was to sneak submerged to the point where Prien originally ended up, sink the 2 sleeping DDs there with bow shots while sinking the Tribal next to the Royal Oak with a stern shot. that would leave just 1 Hunt in the immediate area. try to lose that one while reloading, put 4 fish in the BB and see where things go from there. I thought it was a good plan but I didnt feel like doing the 4km sneaking in real time. I later read on these forums that time compression will result in submerged detection and indeed before i can figure out what went wrong there are 5 or 6 destroyers depthcharging me in shallow waters. as i run flank to keep alive from one run, the others hear me and make a run of their own. managed to stay alive for 10 minutes but finally i got hit hard, heavy flooding, hit the ground, dead.

so thats about 5 attempts. died on 4 of them, back in kiel after the first one but never got the kill credits. screw you guys i'm going home. i'm annoyed because i cant get in through the historical path (i presume i need GWX for that?), because the Royal Oak is all but kapseized and still has her guns manned by scuba divers, because time compression messed with my best attempt to date (inside the mooring without so much as a searchlight switching on), because my hull is destroyed by brushing along a net at 1 kts. Anyway, the date is september 3rd 1939. Im in command of a typeII, spent 2 days in the dock looking at my shiny new 2cm gun being installed, as i leave wilhelmshaven i get a funk that British shipping is now fair game and I have a boat full of new recruits. This time, I'm gonna kick some sterns.

I'll stick to DiD from now on, even if i had sunk the Royal Oak, I would have felt unsatisfied because I reloaded a saved game.

Oh wait, my first name in real life actually is 'Bernard'. Perhaps thats where the problem lies?