where is Kiel?

[oppolo]

It's the 3rd mission of career, it's sept 1939 and I have to patrol the see in front of Poland, departure is Konigsberg and return to Kiel, but where is Kiel? I can't find in the map

[Red Heat]

Normaly if you set sail from Konigsberg for exemple...after you finish your war patrol you must return to base wich in this case is Konigsberg. Except if you ask to change to another Flottilla and base...
Well...Kiel its in Germany my friend!

[oppolo]

ok, found it, near the Danmark

[Pisces]

I actually had a harder time locating Königsberg. Who would have thought it was actually between Poland and Russia, current day Kaliningrad.

[mookiemookie]

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=kiel&...&ved=0CJoBELYD

[oppolo]

Originally Posted by Pisces

I actually had a harder time locating Königsberg. Who would have thought it was actually between Poland and Russia, current day Kaliningrad.

I knew that, many german cities changed the name after the IIWW when became polish, russian, Czechoslovak and lithuanian.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Prussiamap.gif

[oppolo]

hello, my mission is 23 oct 1939, starting from Kiel I have to patrol an area about south west of Ireland and then return to kiel.

after passed the Kiel canal now, after 2 or 3 days, I am north Poland direct to the english Channel, it is nigth and there is a small poland war ship, in you opinion what could I do? try to sink it or leave it and go to the assigned patrol area?

a small help please, i know very small about this game

thanks in advance

[Sailor Steve]

Normally I would leave destroyers alone, as they are a lot of trouble for a small return. That said, if he gets close enough to give you an easy shot, send him to the bottom.

[oppolo]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

if he gets close enough to give you an easy shot

thanks
what could be? 1000, 1500, 2000 meters? I play 71% realism

[Pisces]

Originally Posted by oppolo

hello, my mission is 23 oct 1939, starting from Kiel I have to patrol an area about south west of Ireland and then return to kiel.

after passed the Kiel canal now, after 2 or 3 days, I am north Poland direct to the english Channel, it is nigth and there is a small poland war ship, in you opinion what could I do? try to sink it or leave it and go to the assigned patrol area?

a small help please, i know very small about this game

thanks in advance

How do you get from Kiel to Ireland via Poland, after first going through the Kiel Kanal? Maybe you should send your Navigator back to the Academy lessons.

[oppolo]

Originally Posted by Pisces

How do you get from Kiel to Ireland via Poland, after first going through the Kiel Kanal? Maybe you should send your Navigator back to the Academy lessons.

mmm, isn't it right?

[Pisces]

Originally Posted by oppolo

mmm, isn't it right?

Yes, it is. Though rumour (scuttlebutt) has it that the Channel is bloody crowded that time of year. Not that crowded that you can 'walk on the heads of coastal swimmers' though. But that might change soon.

Anyway, you mentioned you are north of Poland. That's beyond the right edge of your screenshot. That can't be right, or along your track.

[Kongo Otto]

I wouldn't travel via "La manica" aka The Channel, be sure to find a load of RN Destroyers and Air Cover there. IIRC it was strictly forbidden to travel the Channel by U-Boots after the war began.

I travel this way:

[oppolo]

ahh ok yes yes, you are completely right, in fact i was in error, the ship i saw before it wasn't polish but duch, I was wrong with the flag

I read in the early war it was easy to go trought English Channel, at the entrance I sank a french merchant with 2 torpedos and some cannon hits, by now I am there, we'll see if I reach the assigned patrol area: AM69, it's day and whether is clear, at the return I'll do that way

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by oppolo

thanks
what could be? 1000, 1500, 2000 meters? I play 71% realism

I never shoot at merchants from more than 1000 meters, 500 if possible. As for destroyers, I don't attack them at all. If I did, I would only shoot from 1000 meters or less, and only if he was passing in front of me and didn't know I was there. This is pretty funny because back in the Silent Service days I used to dogfight with destroyers. Of course in that game you were aware of the exact position of every ship and could shoot torpedoes from any depth.

Originally Posted by oppolo

mmm, isn't it right?

I always use the real-life rule that u-boats were absolutely forbidden to use the English Channel to transit to the Atlantic. In August 1939 they didn't want the Brits to know what they were up to, and after the war started they knew that the Royal Navy's largest base, Portsmouth, was in the Channel and the Dover end would almost certainly be mined.