For those of you who think the XXI Sucks.....

Silverfox18 · 07-15-05, 06:25 AM

Well, for those of you who think the type XXI sucks...I have a little story to tell you.

I start the story and the partol in the South Atlantic...that's were the game puts me first off. On the Equator at FG. Thinking I might run into a stray merchant I string along the Equator and head a little north towards Freetown but decide to go to periscope depth and use my Snorkel.

No problem, I head west and then north above ES & ET...but NO contacts. Nothing, I'm getting nothing...oh wait something far behind me and moving Fast...too late to catch that one though. So I head north north west in the "Convoy lanes" off West Africa. Still nothing. I'm now staying out of the Super Advanced 1944 air coverage of the allies around the canary islands. Well, I think I'll head west toward the Casablanca-New York lanes.

All of a sudden I'm getting Hydrophone contact sounds of a warship and several merchants in Grid DH 78 and it's September 17th 1944.
It just so happens that I'm stumbling into a rather large convoy. I'm coasting, with snorkel, at one third which is generating about 10 knots. I spot a Destroyer in front of the convoy, he's turning and weaving, so I cut down to silent running which still gives me 6 knots with the XXI. I notice 5 lanes of ships and in the middle are the "sweet ones". I can't believe I got past the first destroyer and now I'm pretty much in the middle of the convoy. I fire my first two eels at a big T-3 tanker that looks as big as the Exxon Valdez. Then I turn a bit and fire one shot at the next T-3 which is just in front of it...and it's just as big as the other. There is a Tooop ship in front of both of the tankers and I fire two at it while turning hard a starboard. Wammo...the first two HIT...the T-3 goes up in fire and smoke and down. Then the second T-3 gets hit by the lone torp I fired at it and it to goes up in fire (one torpedo took her down).
The Troop ship gets hit by my 4 & 5 eels on it's starboard stern. It slows and burns but does not go down...that is untill I fire #6 and when that hits....the Trooper is History! A full salvo of 6 torps and bingo 3 of the biggest ships in the convoy are DOWN! My crew in the bow torpedo room is loading torps real fast (cause I'm not in silent running anymore)....and to make this long story a bit shorter.....I take out another 3 C-2 Cargo merchants and a Victory Cargo. All 4 of these are carrying tanks, planes trucks and what must have been tons of ammunition because they really BLEW!

This convoy was not easy pickings as it was guarded by a combination of 7 allied ships....Destroyers and corvettes! While I was going nuts in the middle of the convoy the ASW people were trying to find me and thought they had me caught in the middle. But the combination of one Bold 4 decoy and the rest of the convoy ships screws...explosions and general noise let me slip out with ease!

Seven of the biggest ships in the convoy....T-3's 11,654, 11,653 tons. Troop ship 8,009. 3 C-2's 6,448, 6,452, 6,445. and a Victory Cargo at 7,767. TOTAL-58,428 tons. All within 15 minutes of work. Not bad for a lousy XXI! I then spent the rest of the patrol getting around the Allied aircover as my French U-Boat bases went occupied by the Allies, considering, it was early October '44. So I snorkel'd my way west and north, through the Denmark straits and around into the Bergen Base.

All I can say is "WOW", what a patrol...especially considering the time period, Middle late '44. And it was all done in that EGG SUCKING XXI!!!! :rotfl:

Mahalo, to all and to all a good night.

sdcruz · 07-15-05, 06:35 AM

awesome narrative - im here in 1941 trying to get a way from this incessent charges and tenacious destroyers!

Cant wait for the bigger subs!

Regards
Shelton.

Damo1977 · 07-15-05, 06:59 AM

HEY HEY.............. Me don't reckon XXI sux...........me wish I get there!! Than give it a test run

ENtek-IO · 07-15-05, 08:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Silverfox18

Well, for those of you who think the type XXI sucks...I have a little story to tell you.

I start the story and the partol in the South Atlantic...that's were the game puts me first off. On the Equator at FG. Thinking I might run into a stray merchant I string along the Equator and head a little north towards Freetown but decide to go to periscope depth and use my Snorkel.

No problem, I head west and then north above ES & ET...but NO contacts. Nothing, I'm getting nothing...oh wait something far behind me and moving Fast...too late to catch that one though. So I head north north west in the "Convoy lanes" off West Africa. Still nothing. I'm now staying out of the Super Advanced 1944 air coverage of the allies around the canary islands. Well, I think I'll head west toward the Casablanca-New York lanes.

All of a sudden I'm getting Hydrophone contact sounds of a warship and several merchants in Grid DH 78 and it's September 17th 1944.
It just so happens that I'm stumbling into a rather large convoy. I'm coasting, with snorkel, at one third which is generating about 10 knots. I spot a Destroyer in front of the convoy, he's turning and weaving, so I cut down to silent running which still gives me 6 knots with the XXI. I notice 5 lanes of ships and in the middle are the "sweet ones". I can't believe I got past the first destroyer and now I'm pretty much in the middle of the convoy. I fire my first two eels at a big T-3 tanker that looks as big as the Exxon Valdez. Then I turn a bit and fire one shot at the next T-3 which is just in front of it...and it's just as big as the other. There is a Tooop ship in front of both of the tankers and I fire two at it while turning hard a starboard. Wammo...the first two HIT...the T-3 goes up in fire and smoke and down. Then the second T-3 gets hit by the lone torp I fired at it and it to goes up in fire (one torpedo took her down).
The Troop ship gets hit by my 4 & 5 eels on it's starboard stern. It slows and burns but does not go down...that is untill I fire #6 and when that hits....the Trooper is History! A full salvo of 6 torps and bingo 3 of the biggest ships in the convoy are DOWN! My crew in the bow torpedo room is loading torps real fast (cause I'm not in silent running anymore)....and to make this long story a bit shorter.....I take out another 3 C-2 Cargo merchants and a Victory Cargo. All 4 of these are carrying tanks, planes trucks and what must have been tons of ammunition because they really BLEW!

This convoy was not easy pickings as it was guarded by a combination of 7 allied ships....Destroyers and corvettes! While I was going nuts in the middle of the convoy the ASW people were trying to find me and thought they had me caught in the middle. But the combination of one Bold 4 decoy and the rest of the convoy ships screws...explosions and general noise let me slip out with ease!

Seven of the biggest ships in the convoy....T-3's 11,654, 11,653 tons. Troop ship 8,009. 3 C-2's 6,448, 6,452, 6,445. and a Victory Cargo at 7,767. TOTAL-58,428 tons. All within 15 minutes of work. Not bad for a lousy XXI! I then spent the rest of the patrol getting around the Allied aircover as my French U-Boat bases went occupied by the Allies, considering, it was early October '44. So I snorkel'd my way west and north, through the Denmark straits and around into the Bergen Base.

All I can say is "WOW", what a patrol...especially considering the time period, Middle late '44. And it was all done in that EGG SUCKING XXI!!!! :rotfl:

Mahalo, to all and to all a good night.

XXi · 07-15-05, 08:14 AM

Hopefully I`ll manage to survive untl I`m given an occasion to use the XXI.
So long, I`m sparing the renown for IX D 2.

Syxx_Killer · 07-15-05, 08:35 AM

I just acquired the XXI, too. At the moment I am trying to get away from the same dumb Sunderland that keeps killing me. I run submerged @ 5 knots. I always have to snorkel to replace oxygen, before the batteries. While snorkeling, the same stupid Sunderland keeps killing me. Even if it isn't to be seen anywhere. The snorkel is like a bone or something. "Go fetch!"

In the mean time I started a different campaign to used the IXD2. At the moment I'm down near Capetown.

Konovalov · 07-15-05, 09:03 AM

Nice story. Something to keep me going since I don't have my PC to play SHIII.

Sulikate · 07-15-05, 09:22 AM

I also bought the XXI, yesterday, and I made one patrol with it... result: 28000K of tonnage!!! hahaha. XXI rules

Duli · 07-15-05, 10:17 AM

No it doesnt. When you play with high realism, that stupidly long recharging time will kill you because you wont even now, when the aircrafts starts attacking you. You will only hear explosions and KIA screen.

Silverfox18 · 07-15-05, 02:45 PM

Glad most of you liked my patrol story. I'm still a bit giddy over what happened.

The reason I posted the title the way I did is because I was tired of seeing people knock the XXI. Syxx_Killer & Duli I too had major allied aircraft on my butt most of the time. I was sooooo pissed at the stupid "Air coverage" ( most of the air attacks I got were really not Historically correct, sorry to use that term) that sent 10 0r 11 Sunderlands to attack me all at once I finally got a small mod that made things right. The Air coverage mod (I think by Gizzmo) put things in perspective...usually two (really tough) planes attacking after they did spot you. You also had to stay down at slow speed and change course drastically.

For this particular patrol...for some strange reason, it started me way down off of Africa on the Equator. For those of you who think I started this campaign in '39...think again. In this game you can start careers in '39, '40, '41, '42 or '43. I started this one in '43 as I have a career for each year going!

Thanx all for reading about an astounding patrol.....
Mahalo:

VilniusNastaviick · 07-15-05, 03:03 PM

Quote:

t's September 17th 1944.

Hmm, the day Operation Market Garden began.

Awesome fish story man

Caleb · 07-15-05, 03:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Duli

No it doesnt. When you play with high realism, that stupidly long recharging time will kill you because you wont even now, when the aircrafts starts attacking you. You will only hear explosions and KIA screen.

How long in game at 100% does it take to recharge the batteries, in real live i believe it was around 3 or 4 hours.

Duli · 07-15-05, 03:35 PM

In game, its about 12h from 50% to 99.999999999999%. There is a bug, and the batteries wont recharge fully, so you have to manualy click onto the "normal propulsion" button, so that you can get full power from the engines. Also the snorchel radar doesnt work, you keep getting "Radar destroyed" message, when you start a patrol. The boat would be really good without those bugs, but now it just isnt. Also, I play at 94% difficulty, and I was really looking forward to this boat, when I started my second career in 39 (Ive succesfully finished my first one, which I started in 1940), but then I was dissapointed with this small, but at the same time, if you play without the external camera, very big bugs.

Silverfox18 · 07-15-05, 05:37 PM

Duli, you are right about the bugs and they need to be fixed. The one with the Radar Destroyed.....is a real bad one (I get it too) and one that needs to be taken care of. BUT IT'S STILL AN AWSOME BOAT compared to all others!

Silverfox18 · 07-15-05, 06:03 PM

Whenever I see things like the XXI is handicaped...I shake my head and ask the question...deal with the game bugs, move on and work the boat like the masterpiece it is. Read my patrol report. Gee, I hope Caleb gets his report sightings site going soon!

07-15-05, 06:25 AM	#1
Silverfox18 Watch Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Haleiwa, Hawaii Posts: 29 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	For those of you who think the XXI Sucks..... Well, for those of you who think the type XXI sucks...I have a little story to tell you. I start the story and the partol in the South Atlantic...that's were the game puts me first off. On the Equator at FG. Thinking I might run into a stray merchant I string along the Equator and head a little north towards Freetown but decide to go to periscope depth and use my Snorkel. No problem, I head west and then north above ES & ET...but NO contacts. Nothing, I'm getting nothing...oh wait something far behind me and moving Fast...too late to catch that one though. So I head north north west in the "Convoy lanes" off West Africa. Still nothing. I'm now staying out of the Super Advanced 1944 air coverage of the allies around the canary islands. Well, I think I'll head west toward the Casablanca-New York lanes. All of a sudden I'm getting Hydrophone contact sounds of a warship and several merchants in Grid DH 78 and it's September 17th 1944. It just so happens that I'm stumbling into a rather large convoy. I'm coasting, with snorkel, at one third which is generating about 10 knots. I spot a Destroyer in front of the convoy, he's turning and weaving, so I cut down to silent running which still gives me 6 knots with the XXI. I notice 5 lanes of ships and in the middle are the "sweet ones". I can't believe I got past the first destroyer and now I'm pretty much in the middle of the convoy. I fire my first two eels at a big T-3 tanker that looks as big as the Exxon Valdez. Then I turn a bit and fire one shot at the next T-3 which is just in front of it...and it's just as big as the other. There is a Tooop ship in front of both of the tankers and I fire two at it while turning hard a starboard. Wammo...the first two HIT...the T-3 goes up in fire and smoke and down. Then the second T-3 gets hit by the lone torp I fired at it and it to goes up in fire (one torpedo took her down). The Troop ship gets hit by my 4 & 5 eels on it's starboard stern. It slows and burns but does not go down...that is untill I fire #6 and when that hits....the Trooper is History! A full salvo of 6 torps and bingo 3 of the biggest ships in the convoy are DOWN! My crew in the bow torpedo room is loading torps real fast (cause I'm not in silent running anymore)....and to make this long story a bit shorter.....I take out another 3 C-2 Cargo merchants and a Victory Cargo. All 4 of these are carrying tanks, planes trucks and what must have been tons of ammunition because they really BLEW! This convoy was not easy pickings as it was guarded by a combination of 7 allied ships....Destroyers and corvettes! While I was going nuts in the middle of the convoy the ASW people were trying to find me and thought they had me caught in the middle. But the combination of one Bold 4 decoy and the rest of the convoy ships screws...explosions and general noise let me slip out with ease! Seven of the biggest ships in the convoy....T-3's 11,654, 11,653 tons. Troop ship 8,009. 3 C-2's 6,448, 6,452, 6,445. and a Victory Cargo at 7,767. TOTAL-58,428 tons. All within 15 minutes of work. Not bad for a lousy XXI! I then spent the rest of the patrol getting around the Allied aircover as my French U-Boat bases went occupied by the Allies, considering, it was early October '44. So I snorkel'd my way west and north, through the Denmark straits and around into the Bergen Base. All I can say is "WOW", what a patrol...especially considering the time period, Middle late '44. And it was all done in that EGG SUCKING XXI!!!! :rotfl: Mahalo, to all and to all a good night.

07-15-05, 06:35 AM	#2
sdcruz Loader Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 84 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	awesome narrative - im here in 1941 trying to get a way from this incessent charges and tenacious destroyers! Cant wait for the bigger subs! Regards Shelton. __________________ MORS OMNIA VINCIT

07-15-05, 08:14 AM	#5
XXi Ensign Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Warsaw, Poland / Nagoya, Japan Posts: 227 Downloads: 20 Uploads: 0	Hopefully I`ll manage to survive untl I`m given an occasion to use the XXI. So long, I`m sparing the renown for IX D 2. __________________ lasciate ogni speranza... voi, chi entrate

07-15-05, 09:03 AM	#7
Konovalov Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: High Wycombe, Bucks, UK Posts: 2,811 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	Nice story. Something to keep me going since I don't have my PC to play SHIII. __________________ "In a Christian context, sexuality is traditionally seen as a consequence of the Fall, but for Muslims, it is an anticipation of paradise. So I can say, I think, that I was validly converted to Islam by a teenage French Jewish nudist." Sheikh Abdul-Hakim Murad (Timothy Winter)

07-15-05, 09:22 AM	#8
Sulikate Grey Wolf Join Date: May 2004 Location: South Korea Posts: 834 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	I also bought the XXI, yesterday, and I made one patrol with it... result: 28000K of tonnage!!! hahaha. XXI rules __________________ Se flutua e não fala quack, afunde-o!

07-15-05, 06:59 AM	#3
Damo1977 Captain Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Adelaide, South Australia Posts: 487 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	HEY HEY.............. Me don't reckon XXI sux...........me wish I get there!! Than give it a test run

07-15-05, 08:35 AM	#6
Syxx_Killer Admiral Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Michigan, USA Posts: 2,387 Downloads: 21 Uploads: 0	I just acquired the XXI, too. At the moment I am trying to get away from the same dumb Sunderland that keeps killing me. I run submerged @ 5 knots. I always have to snorkel to replace oxygen, before the batteries. While snorkeling, the same stupid Sunderland keeps killing me. Even if it isn't to be seen anywhere. The snorkel is like a bone or something. "Go fetch!" In the mean time I started a different campaign to used the IXD2. At the moment I'm down near Capetown.

07-15-05, 10:17 AM	#9
Duli Planesman Join Date: May 2005 Location: Novo mesto, Slovenia Posts: 198 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	No it doesnt. When you play with high realism, that stupidly long recharging time will kill you because you wont even now, when the aircrafts starts attacking you. You will only hear explosions and KIA screen. __________________

07-15-05, 02:45 PM	#10
Silverfox18 Watch Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Haleiwa, Hawaii Posts: 29 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	Glad most of you liked my patrol story. I'm still a bit giddy over what happened. The reason I posted the title the way I did is because I was tired of seeing people knock the XXI. Syxx_Killer & Duli I too had major allied aircraft on my butt most of the time. I was sooooo pissed at the stupid "Air coverage" ( most of the air attacks I got were really not Historically correct, sorry to use that term) that sent 10 0r 11 Sunderlands to attack me all at once I finally got a small mod that made things right. The Air coverage mod (I think by Gizzmo) put things in perspective...usually two (really tough) planes attacking after they did spot you. You also had to stay down at slow speed and change course drastically. For this particular patrol...for some strange reason, it started me way down off of Africa on the Equator. For those of you who think I started this campaign in '39...think again. In this game you can start careers in '39, '40, '41, '42 or '43. I started this one in '43 as I have a career for each year going! Thanx all for reading about an astounding patrol..... Mahalo:

07-15-05, 03:35 PM	#13
Duli Planesman Join Date: May 2005 Location: Novo mesto, Slovenia Posts: 198 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	In game, its about 12h from 50% to 99.999999999999%. There is a bug, and the batteries wont recharge fully, so you have to manualy click onto the "normal propulsion" button, so that you can get full power from the engines. Also the snorchel radar doesnt work, you keep getting "Radar destroyed" message, when you start a patrol. The boat would be really good without those bugs, but now it just isnt. Also, I play at 94% difficulty, and I was really looking forward to this boat, when I started my second career in 39 (Ive succesfully finished my first one, which I started in 1940), but then I was dissapointed with this small, but at the same time, if you play without the external camera, very big bugs. __________________

07-15-05, 05:37 PM	#14
Silverfox18 Watch Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Haleiwa, Hawaii Posts: 29 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	Duli, you are right about the bugs and they need to be fixed. The one with the Radar Destroyed.....is a real bad one (I get it too) and one that needs to be taken care of. BUT IT'S STILL AN AWSOME BOAT compared to all others!

07-15-05, 06:03 PM	#15
Silverfox18 Watch Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Haleiwa, Hawaii Posts: 29 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	Whenever I see things like the XXI is handicaped...I shake my head and ask the question...deal with the game bugs, move on and work the boat like the masterpiece it is. Read my patrol report. Gee, I hope Caleb gets his report sightings site going soon!