Scapa raid again

THE_MASK · 06-08-13, 04:53 AM

Scapa raid
weather medium fog very dark
sighted headland 2200 hours puts us in the right location
can see lightbouy heading left hope intelligence is correct
nearly ran aground as night time extremely dark with medium fog
sighted next lightbouy heded left of bouy
crew sighting many ships
large ship ahead should be capital ship in this area as intelligence has it here
fired 4 torps all duds
closer to ship and is not capitol ship wasted 4 torps but were duds
very dark so cannot make anything out
searchlights appearing everywhere

V13dweller · 06-08-13, 06:17 AM

That is an interesting story, all my torpedoes malfunctioned as I attacked what was supposedly a capitol ship and ended up being an armed merchant carrier, lucky day for that cruiser.

Fifi · 06-08-13, 07:31 AM

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Originally Posted by sober

crew sighting many ships

In medium fog?
Had same conditions recently (stock DE medium fog) and had to close battleship (i know where he is everytime lol) up to <1000m to see it in the dark and fog (and barely could say it was a battleship).
With my IRAI fog visi tweaked to = 1, can't lock anything till i see it...and crew can't see anything more than me now!
So, meaning i went to middle of scapa without any visual contact reported!
Fired 4 torpedoes, 3 impact and 1 dud...good enough for the sinking

Saw some search lights too, and quite sure the battleship had some lighten.
He knew probably i was here.
Didn't have any problem to make it out and escape.

Cpt. Grouch · 06-10-13, 02:30 PM

Sounds like you were having a bad night.

On the other hand, sounds exciting too!

Did you survive?

Somehow I feel like my own scapa raid could have gone just has awry had I not been lucky. My own experience with just 1 raid under my belt is that 9/10ths of the raid involves pure luck. Simply, its out of your hands! Very terrifying!

06-08-13, 04:53 AM	#1
THE_MASK Ace of the deep . Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 9,226 Downloads: 901 Uploads: 73	Scapa raid again Scapa raid weather medium fog very dark sighted headland 2200 hours puts us in the right location can see lightbouy heading left hope intelligence is correct nearly ran aground as night time extremely dark with medium fog sighted next lightbouy heded left of bouy crew sighting many ships large ship ahead should be capital ship in this area as intelligence has it here fired 4 torps all duds closer to ship and is not capitol ship wasted 4 torps but were duds very dark so cannot make anything out searchlights appearing everywhere Last edited by THE_MASK; 06-08-13 at 08:01 AM.

06-08-13, 06:17 AM	#2
V13dweller Grey Wolf Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Perth, Western Australia Posts: 768 Downloads: 101 Uploads: 2	That is an interesting story, all my torpedoes malfunctioned as I attacked what was supposedly a capitol ship and ended up being an armed merchant carrier, lucky day for that cruiser.

06-10-13, 02:30 PM	#4
Cpt. Grouch Watch Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 24 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	Sounds like you were having a bad night. On the other hand, sounds exciting too! Did you survive? Somehow I feel like my own scapa raid could have gone just has awry had I not been lucky. My own experience with just 1 raid under my belt is that 9/10ths of the raid involves pure luck. Simply, its out of your hands! Very terrifying!