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Old 04-04-07, 03:01 AM   #1
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Hello ! I have fallen in love with external view under the GWX Mod. I hope you don't mind my sharing this little reverie...

She is U-27. I know because we sailed within shouting distance, each waving "Good morning" and wishing the other fair seas. Although I look and see our old UBIII, she is one of the new Type VIIs leaving for patrol. Still, the image is the same from before; the Old Man, Mother Boat, and all the Kinder. I can almost see myself as one of those youths on the bridge. The first new thing I notice is no smoke. During my stint in the navy and submersibles, our u-boat was state-of-the-art. She was the hottest thing going and had the smoke to prove it. The dock hands couldn’t wait for us to leave harbor. The audacity we must have had going into battle with a chimney on our heads. I suppose we believed we’ld pass ourselves off as a whales spout from a distance.

Obermaschinist Vorsicht said he could stop the smoke with some adjustments, but he was always overruled. Krupps lot said it would go away with running in, which it got in plenty with all the shadows we used to chase.

The maschinisten all laughed and called it our bug killer. Vorsicht didn’t laugh and called it our u-boat killer.

The smoke did stop eventually. I only hope that it started again when the boat changed hands. Let the Tommies deal with it while it stank up Harwich.

Though we are both headed east, the u-boat has left me far behind.

Sea state one. Scattered clouds. A very light wind just fills the sails of my sloop, but all the world but me seems still. The clouds stay fixed as I can scarcely see them, yet the u-boat stands out too clear to me. I would think that it would be indiscernible, probing its way from Wilhelmshaven in the pre-dawn; a late August morning with the sun still below the horizon, and a waxing half-moon and twinkling stars all vying to light their way. I tell myself: if I were younger I would be going with them.

What a thrill it would be now to serve the country, righting all the wrongs that have been done to Him.

Sea state two. No. I’ve let myself wander into the shipping lanes, and caught the low wake of a Niederlande freighter making her slow way towards port, as I should be doing while the dawn behaves slower than usual.

Yet, I see the clouds are moving, caught up in what could be a wind of change. Perhaps it will rain after all.

I have been taking these morning outings alone for some time now, the wife caught up in activities that have brightened her face once more. She remembers the hard times. We always had my pension, but it’s good to have relatives and friends off the dole. Everyone is working again. And my loves feeling of worth and acceptance when she shows her party badge makes her shine like the stars. I would have given anything to see her this way again.

The sloop still pitches as the morning darkens with the gathering clouds. I am out of the lane by the look of the lighthouses, but still riding the lumbering freighters wake. But a Master, and an able seaman are all that this boat needs. Somewhat like a boat, the Fatherland has God and a leader to bring us out of the rough seas and through the storm.

The u-boat is long gone, and I marvel at the changes that she and her crew will make in the months ahead. The boat will become a bit weathered, but perform like a precision instrument. The crew will gain that worldliness that only a life at sea can produce. The world will become calmer and wiser when it’s taught the error of its ways.

No sign of morning as I pass the freighter that augmented my diversions. She awaits her tugs, and I am at last out of her influence. Others like her will have to contend with their own diversions.

The clouds really are moving.

I will spend the day calling up old mates, and maybe gather some at the bierhaus. We’ll tell old stories, and hear of new ones. All to share the new, wise world, and a nostalgic pride and fervor for our Ubootwaffe.

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Old 04-04-07, 03:13 AM   #2
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In case you haven't seen it. Maybe this will interest you.

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Old 04-04-07, 05:54 AM   #3
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Jesus! Thats one well done movie...almost shed a tear and made my skin crawl. Thank you
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a great literary sketch!
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Great trailer
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In case you haven't seen it. Maybe this will interest you.

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Very nice trailer! I especially like the hectic camera movement in the "zentrale" while under attack. Combined with the voices it gives you a "I was there" moment. May I ask who did the movie?

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Old 04-04-07, 10:24 AM   #7
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Will someone go and get the smelling salts for Reverie....he aint responding
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Stabiz made the GWX movie
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Very impressive trailer. Wish I could get my Ethernet port to work so I could download GWX.
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Awesome trailer. I was interested to see the word "Fear" as the first word on the screen to describe the emotion behind GWX. That's spot on. Before GWX I was never afraid when I played SH3.

GWX changed all that.
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Old 04-05-07, 06:20 AM   #11
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Very impressive trailer. Wish I could get my Ethernet port to work so I could download GWX.
Surely there is someone on your island that could burn it to disc for you matey
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thanx for the info bigboywooly, I already guessed.
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I'm beginning to think "whew !" after every download...but that was worth it !
Beautiful work ! And the surprises in the program keep coming !!!
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Had to take a break from the campaign just to spend some time playing.
Even put TC to some good use.
August 1940. Assigned to AN34 in an engine upgraded VIIB.
24 plus hours of spotting fishing boats and schooners for the Luftwaffe, and my patrol is finally finished. Not one bite.
So considering the date :hmm: , let's see how Norway is holding up.
Refueled at Trondheim. No action to be found. Lots of Kreigsmarine destroyers making sure of that.
But wait ! What's this at the top of the chart ? Tommy's still got a playground to the north. Let's pay them a visit !
Longyearby. If no one has tried it yet, use my tactic.
Didn't know about minefields, so stayed in the middle of the channel. But patrols are rampant ! Discovered ?! WHAT!?#@! And they're using ASDIC, too.
Depth charged for two hours. 97% hull integrity after laying doggo at 164 meters.
So much hustle and bustle overhead that I had to get an external view peek.
Scads of armed trawlers, torpedo boat, and two Flowers. Lucky for me the torpedo boats kept getting in the way of the depth charging.
Eventually cleared and began moving directly south towards the harbor entrance. Silent speed, 3 knots, slow ascent.
A heavy / troop transport parked outside the harbor, pointed north. She will be my cover as I sign in for a large cargo and a large tanker lined up on the east side of the harbor. Two eels to sink the cargo, and then the party starts over again. But I snuggle close to the transport and I'm left undiscovered. Their frustration gets the best of them this time, and I haven't long to wait. I can't get a line up on the tanker without going into the harbor, which I do. There are to harbors. The main one to the east which I am turning around in, and an adjoining one to the west.
Backing up to put the tanker in my sights, and I wish I had saved that second torpedo. Tanker must have been empty and full of fumes. One BIG fireball, and she's done.
And the west harbor is making noise. Armed trawler firing AA guns. At the buildings between us ! But a strange idea came over me. Reverse motors. Back into the corner slip, and recharge batteries, and replenish air (both half gone). With decks awash the boat should stay low enough to be unobtrusive. The hotshot potshot must have seen my periscope. I had it fully extended. Still, what about the buildings. Of course ! There are people in them, reporting the sighting !
Yet as soon as I'm parked and at seven meters, sounds of the party animals returning. It was incredible ! The breakwater running east and west in front of me ?
Two Flowers charged me from that direction without stopping. No more Flowers.
Sailors bodies flew everywhere. Lifeboats hurled from their davits. Torpedo boats ran wild and smacked into piers, exploding. Armed trawlers took up positions east and west, firing guns until their ammunition was spent. And I never saw so much Blue-on-blue before. One trawler had backed itself onto the western outer shore, behind it a torpedo boat out of the water and nosed into the sand, burning. That trawler destroyed two other trawlers which came in the line of fire, and damaged three other vessels. From the east three patrol craft singularly crept into the harbor. One tried nosing into the outside slip, but fire from the east struck and set it askew at the pier before it exploded. The other two, ammo spent, bought it in their prowl outside my slip. One with a torpedo, 437 ft. The other when I popped to the surface with the deckgun. After everybody killed one another more or less, and I sound detected reinforcements (afraid I would get blocked in at the pier), I decided to retreat. Had to pop up and shell one outside my door who had been playing possum. Threaded our way through three wrecked Flowers (creak, groan), and torpedoed a trawler at the corner of the outer east breakwater. Reinforcements sounding closer. Up to six knots at periscope depth. Lined up on the heavy transport, and she bought it with two eels. Smoke on the horizon east and west. Made way due north, Atlas Echolot getting a workout while it could. I was two hundred meters north and eighty meters deep when the first depth charges went off outside the north breakwater.
Sixteen sunk, countless damaged, but I was only responsible for six of them.
Due to gunfire, hull integrity was reduced to 84% (slow diving). Batteries and air replenished with the seven meter stature, and used it on newcomers to get them spending their ammo. A clean getaway. What a blast !:rotfl:
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