Bad Timing

the.terrabyte.pirate · 05-10-08, 11:55 PM

I started a new career with GWX 2.1, and began in the August peace. I took my type VIIB from Wilhelmshaven and headed out to our assigned patrol grid BF 17. "Ahh", says I, "Let's do a channel run now while it's peacefull and take in the sights." So I head on through the channel watching the merchant ships sail hither and thither without a care in the world. My crew and I practise some torp attacks to break up the boredom. We get to our patrol grid, spend 24 hours looking for whales, and then head back up through the channel at ahead full, and back to dock at Wilhelmshaven. We were in a hurry to head back as we'd run out of hot chocolate.

After returning, we put back to sea on the 28th of August. Again, our patrol grid was BF 17. There must be something in that particular square of ocean that interests my superiors. "Well", says I, "It will be quicker to head back through the channel again." Rumours of war are circulating, so this time I decide to conserve my fuel and we head out at 8 knots. We are approaching dover on the 31st when we receive word that early the following morning we will be at war with Poland. Well, we won't have enought time to retrace our steps, so we decide to go ahead. I figure that even if Britain declares war, it won't be for a few days, but tensions are on edge so we submerge and continue through the channel. i hope we'll be on station at the outbreak of the war.

Well, seems that I should have paid more attention to my history class. I get a message from BDU advising that we can now target british shipping. I take a look at my map to discover that the friendly green neutral britain and france is now an angry red britain and france. I'm now halfway through the channel, surrounded by enemies, at the start of the second world war. The fat merchants I saw on the first patrol have vanished and been replaced by fleets of asw trawlers and elco torp boats.

Everyone on U-51 now thinks I'm an idiot, and we're all about to die on the first day of the war. How inglorious.

05-10-08, 11:55 PM	#1
the.terrabyte.pirate Navy Dude Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 176 Downloads: 52 Uploads: 0	Bad Timing I started a new career with GWX 2.1, and began in the August peace. I took my type VIIB from Wilhelmshaven and headed out to our assigned patrol grid BF 17. "Ahh", says I, "Let's do a channel run now while it's peacefull and take in the sights." So I head on through the channel watching the merchant ships sail hither and thither without a care in the world. My crew and I practise some torp attacks to break up the boredom. We get to our patrol grid, spend 24 hours looking for whales, and then head back up through the channel at ahead full, and back to dock at Wilhelmshaven. We were in a hurry to head back as we'd run out of hot chocolate. After returning, we put back to sea on the 28th of August. Again, our patrol grid was BF 17. There must be something in that particular square of ocean that interests my superiors. "Well", says I, "It will be quicker to head back through the channel again." Rumours of war are circulating, so this time I decide to conserve my fuel and we head out at 8 knots. We are approaching dover on the 31st when we receive word that early the following morning we will be at war with Poland. Well, we won't have enought time to retrace our steps, so we decide to go ahead. I figure that even if Britain declares war, it won't be for a few days, but tensions are on edge so we submerge and continue through the channel. i hope we'll be on station at the outbreak of the war. Well, seems that I should have paid more attention to my history class. I get a message from BDU advising that we can now target british shipping. I take a look at my map to discover that the friendly green neutral britain and france is now an angry red britain and france. I'm now halfway through the channel, surrounded by enemies, at the start of the second world war. The fat merchants I saw on the first patrol have vanished and been replaced by fleets of asw trawlers and elco torp boats. Everyone on U-51 now thinks I'm an idiot, and we're all about to die on the first day of the war. How inglorious. __________________ A kings ransom, or a stove boat.