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Hinrich Schwab · 01-05-12, 01:56 AM

I finally got around to doing this mission. It was every bit as rough as I thought it would be. At the time of this writing, I am still leaving the area where I sank the Huge European Liner, which is the main target. I positioned myself within the area where the convoy and prepared for my attack. I miscalculated the bearing of the target ship and found I would be too far away for a perfect range 90 deg. AOB shot, so I had to rely on the TDC. I fired my four front tubes and quietly began my dive to 190 meters, knowing the escorts would hear my torpedoes soon enough. Not halfway through the run, I hear everyone's favorite sound.

*PING*

I immediately dumped a BOLD canister and hit ahead flank. In the span of three minutes, I am knuckling and changing speed everywhere while I hear all five ships banging away with sonar. I will tell you folks that having five VERY ANGRY destroyers hammering away at you at once is not fun. Fortunately, the decoys did their job and distracted the closest escorts. As they are dropping charges, I find out the hard way that at 1 knot, I am unable to go deeper than 197 Meters. I guess I did not have enough speed to have the planes offset the pressure that deep. Obviously, speeding up was not an option. Either I escaped or I was dead since I could not go deeper. Only a stray depth charge grazed my boat, shaking up my deck gun crew and scratching the deck gun and sonar coating. I came to periscope depth about 45 minutes before writing this post to see how many of the five escorts I lost. I found one of the Tribals 3600 yards away with its engines off waiting for me to surface. Never saw that before and I am glad I saw him first. I still have my kill and I am creeping away, relatively safe for now. I doubt I will accept another one of these missions as the escorts mean business and have the gear to make life miserable. At least I am still going. (Realism ~75%)

EDIT: Well, I made it back and apparently I did well as I just got U-796, a Type XVIII Walter U-Boat (which, of course, historically never saw the completion of its construction)

01-05-12, 01:56 AM	#8
Hinrich Schwab Grey Wolf Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 908 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 0	I finally got around to doing this mission. It was every bit as rough as I thought it would be. At the time of this writing, I am still leaving the area where I sank the Huge European Liner, which is the main target. I positioned myself within the area where the convoy and prepared for my attack. I miscalculated the bearing of the target ship and found I would be too far away for a perfect range 90 deg. AOB shot, so I had to rely on the TDC. I fired my four front tubes and quietly began my dive to 190 meters, knowing the escorts would hear my torpedoes soon enough. Not halfway through the run, I hear everyone's favorite sound. PING I immediately dumped a BOLD canister and hit ahead flank. In the span of three minutes, I am knuckling and changing speed everywhere while I hear all five ships banging away with sonar. I will tell you folks that having five VERY ANGRY destroyers hammering away at you at once is not fun. Fortunately, the decoys did their job and distracted the closest escorts. As they are dropping charges, I find out the hard way that at 1 knot, I am unable to go deeper than 197 Meters. I guess I did not have enough speed to have the planes offset the pressure that deep. Obviously, speeding up was not an option. Either I escaped or I was dead since I could not go deeper. Only a stray depth charge grazed my boat, shaking up my deck gun crew and scratching the deck gun and sonar coating. I came to periscope depth about 45 minutes before writing this post to see how many of the five escorts I lost. I found one of the Tribals 3600 yards away with its engines off waiting for me to surface. Never saw that before and I am glad I saw him first. I still have my kill and I am creeping away, relatively safe for now. I doubt I will accept another one of these missions as the escorts mean business and have the gear to make life miserable. At least I am still going. (Realism ~75%) EDIT: Well, I made it back and apparently I did well as I just got U-796, a Type XVIII Walter U-Boat (which, of course, historically never saw the completion of its construction) Last edited by Hinrich Schwab; 01-05-12 at 09:49 PM.