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Zedwardson · 08-28-10, 02:15 PM

Well, Hans Friedrich call in a lot of favors, and is now commander of U-122, a Type IXB, his old watch officer took command of U-27 (I dismissed him and selected some crew to go with him) so with a lot of fresh faces, U-122 took a patrol out, with orders to return to France at the new sub base in Lorient.

Out on patrol, nothing, so headed to the the southern Atlantic coast of spain to see if I could find a convoy. Picked one up on headphones, and headed towards it for a night attack, and suddenly some clouds lifted, and I was in the middle of a large convoy. Wheeling the targeting around, I started to throw out torps as fast as I could find a target. Lo and behold, I had a Southampton class in front of me at 2800 meters, so I sent two eels towards it, and unleashed the other four at merchantman, since I was out of eels ready, I crashed dived as my work had been done, and the last thing i needed to be is run over by a merchant.

Four explosions followed, and my sound man confirmed three ships sinking. Then I suffered a horrific depth charging, at first they where well away, but a few hit up front, and I had dropped from 90 meters to 130 meters before dewatering stabilized my boat after the convoy had past, I came to the surface radio'ed home, and found some calm water and unloaded the stored torps and went back to hunting, had a another convoy come to me, and it was fun to see another IX attach the convoy, though it didn't last long of the surface, I misjudged the attack (Should of gone quiet and let them come to me instead of going after them, and twice attacked the convoy with three torps to merchantman, and leaving tube four to the charging escort(s) before crash diving. The 2nd time around I took out a Black swan, and I had a hit or two, but no sinkings, and with plenty of escorts and only two stern torpedo's, I headed home.

BdU informed me that I sunk a Large cargo, a Granville-type, and the Southampton class in my nighttime attack, and now have Oaks on my Knights cross!

Aug 1940, 47 ships sunk, 38 merchants, and nine warships, including the HMS Rodney and HMS Newcastle.

08-28-10, 02:15 PM	#1552
Zedwardson Sparky Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 154 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Well, Hans Friedrich call in a lot of favors, and is now commander of U-122, a Type IXB, his old watch officer took command of U-27 (I dismissed him and selected some crew to go with him) so with a lot of fresh faces, U-122 took a patrol out, with orders to return to France at the new sub base in Lorient. Out on patrol, nothing, so headed to the the southern Atlantic coast of spain to see if I could find a convoy. Picked one up on headphones, and headed towards it for a night attack, and suddenly some clouds lifted, and I was in the middle of a large convoy. Wheeling the targeting around, I started to throw out torps as fast as I could find a target. Lo and behold, I had a Southampton class in front of me at 2800 meters, so I sent two eels towards it, and unleashed the other four at merchantman, since I was out of eels ready, I crashed dived as my work had been done, and the last thing i needed to be is run over by a merchant. Four explosions followed, and my sound man confirmed three ships sinking. Then I suffered a horrific depth charging, at first they where well away, but a few hit up front, and I had dropped from 90 meters to 130 meters before dewatering stabilized my boat after the convoy had past, I came to the surface radio'ed home, and found some calm water and unloaded the stored torps and went back to hunting, had a another convoy come to me, and it was fun to see another IX attach the convoy, though it didn't last long of the surface, I misjudged the attack (Should of gone quiet and let them come to me instead of going after them, and twice attacked the convoy with three torps to merchantman, and leaving tube four to the charging escort(s) before crash diving. The 2nd time around I took out a Black swan, and I had a hit or two, but no sinkings, and with plenty of escorts and only two stern torpedo's, I headed home. BdU informed me that I sunk a Large cargo, a Granville-type, and the Southampton class in my nighttime attack, and now have Oaks on my Knights cross! Aug 1940, 47 ships sunk, 38 merchants, and nine warships, including the HMS Rodney and HMS Newcastle. __________________ SH3 - GWX3 & Commander 3.2 Realism- 43%, D.I.D. (I play with unlimited fuel and with Auto-ID targets)