Oh Where, Oh Where Have Those Battleships Gone...?

[Bent Periscope]

Nov. 27, 1939

Early this morning I entered Loch Ewe through a screen of 6 to 8 destroyers, Torpedo Boats and ASW Trawlers. I crawled on the western side of Loch Ewe by hugging the coast at 1kt to keep quiet while hopefully not running into and mines or subnets. Well, near 6AM I hit a subnet but suffered very little damage. The day was just breaking and I had a stationary destroyer about 500m from my sub but I chanced it and crawled over the net. My conning tower showed a little while I crawled over and the sub’s hull made all kinds of noise as it scraped the net but I finally made it and dropped back down to periscope depth. Again I crawled slowly towards the deck.

Finally I chanced a peek since the day wasn’t fully up. I am playing GWX 3.2 and was expecting to see the Battleships Revenge & Nelson per prior post. However, they were missing!!! I’ve looked all over Loch Ewe but could not find them anywhere though I remember the there were plenty of post describing where the Moored Capital Ships were located and their dates. I made this trip to show Bdu my value and show Prien that he wasn’t the only hotshot captain.

How disappointing, I came across a Modern Tanker, Small & Medium Merchant ships and off limits Hospital Boat and US Troop Transport.

There is also a floating dry dock for 26,000 tons (Can this be sunk? How much renown? How many torpedoes are needed and where do I aim?)

Of course, once I open fire on the ships, I expect all heck to break loose with the destroyers and other support ships in and near Loch Ewe. I could deal with that if the payoff was worth it but I don’t think it is.

I blame the bad intel on Goering and his flyboys with their weak recon photos.

What also upsets me is that I was tracking a big convoy and already had sunk a large tanker. It also had 3 Ore Carriers that I would have liked to sink but I let this all go since I was saving my torpedoes for those 2 battleships.

So unless that Floating Dry dock is worth tonnage and/or renown, I’ll probably just crawl back out and resume my patrol.

So are there any known Moored ships for GWX 3.2? I don’t take this as cheating since there had to be plenty of spies in GB passing on this information plus there had to be recon flights.

And what about that Floating Drydock, is it worth an attack or just a waste of torpedos?

After this experience, if I leave empty handed, I swear off entering ports.

Thanks,

BP