The Black May Patrol

[mookiemookie]

As luck would have it, my sailing orders are to leave Lorient in my Type IXC on April 30, 1943 and head to Freetown.

Yes, that's right, the game is throwing me into Black May. And not only throwing me into Black May, but I'm also in the boat that's got the least chance of surviving it.

So I leave base in trusty ol' U-519, knowing what I know, thinking that this patrol will most likely be my last. I try to play historically, so when I'm attacked by a Wellington in the Bay of Biscay, I follow Onkel Karl's "Fight Back" order and do precisely that. I shoot him down, but not before taking some minor damage to the boat.

A couple days later I come across a three ship convoy, escorted by a single Tribal class. By now, everyone's got radar so I have to take a long shot at the fat large merchant in the lead of the convoy. Luckily one of two torpedoes hit and he goes down by the bow. The storm covering my escape means that the poor Tribal class has no chance of finding me skating away at 100 meters. Ha ha!

As I make my way down the Spanish coast, I'm only a week into May and already starting to get flooded with radio messages to BdU from various boats that all share the same basic message: "Attacked by destroyers. Damaged. Flooding." It's not good for morale.

I'll keep this thread updated with screenshots if I can remember to take them!