Moments of complete frustration

[Eagle Eye]

1. just got my new IXB and was submerged listening for contacts. This is in BE 36 on my way further out into the Atlantic. My Hydrophone picks up three merchants travelling south east straight at me. they're traveling in two in one row then another off to their port. I set my boat right between their plot bow tubes at the row of two stern tubes set to take out the other, I raise my scope and can't believe my luck 2 large tankers and a large merchant! As I'm about to release my eels I notice they're ITALIAN!!! No escort and sailing extremely close to England this is in 41?

2. I caught a British fiji crusier parked in a fjord during the German invasion. Shallow water but no escorts in sight so I get myself into a perfect firing position, 700 meters
90 degree angle to target. Fire to eels, both hits, one hits rear magazine and the crusier explodes!!! I watch her go down stern first she settles with bow out of the water and I don't get credited with the sinking. I fire 3 fish into her bow trying to get her to go under no luck

Anyone else with frustrtating stories???

[High Voltage]

Large Tanker picked up on sonar, spent close to 45mins real-time setting up for the perfect shot, all dials tuned-in, range calculated and Gyros set...and at 500m I spot the swastika..
She almost deserved to go down for doing that to me.

Hit HMS Nelson with 4 torps in THICK fog, (visibility 200m), had to dive to evade DD's, when I surfaced, no sign of the convoy, and never picked up the scent...

[azn_132]

Originally Posted by High Voltage

Large Tanker picked up on sonar, spent close to 45mins real-time setting up for the perfect shot, all dials tuned-in, range calculated and Gyros set...and at 500m I spot the swastika..
She almost deserved to go down for doing that to me.

Hit HMS Nelson with 4 torps in THICK fog, (visibility 200m), had to dive to evade DD's, when I surfaced, no sign of the convoy, and never picked up the scent...

Did u sink the Nelson?

[AndyW]

Originally Posted by Eagle Eye

Anyone else with frustrtating stories???

There's a formula:

Big fat Tanker or Passenger liner
+ only two or three torps left
+ bad "no gun" weather
= frustration of not being able to sink an immobile, almost dead, crippled target.

Once I was so frustrated that I tried to ram the swimming wreckage to sink it until my hull was down to 10% - did not work. At least the BdU couldn't complain that I wasn't agressive enough.

Cheers,
AndyW

[Morts]

i was hunting 2 large tankers
first i fired 1 torpedo at each but they did not hit and the weather was "no-go" for deck gun
so i surfaced to catch up (they where doing 15-18 knots)
and suddently my watch crew yells SHIP SPOTTED
and i was like, yea bernard right infront of us
lets just say that it was a DD comming up from behind and ramming me then dropping depth charges
and stupidest
sound wasnt on
i didn realize that before i died

[Khourieat]

Originally Posted by AndyW

There's a formula:

Big fat Tanker or Passenger liner
+ only two or three torps left
+ bad "no gun" weather
= frustration of not being able to sink an immobile, almost dead, crippled target.

Once I was so frustrated that I tried to ram the swimming wreckage to sink it until my hull was down to 10% - did not work. At least the BdU couldn't complain that I wasn't agressive enough.

Cheers,
AndyW

I've also had this happen, NOT fun

[codmander]

My aim with manual tdc TOTALLY STINKS latly talk about frustrated and keeps getting worse partrol 11 --90,000 tons ewww nygm 2.4 is tough and tops for realism no more u boat ace,,, top of the list stuff

[RawRecruit]

Out on patrol from Kiel, over the top of the UK and now heading down to Ireland. not found a single merchant and been harrassed by aircraft most of the journey. Then a storm whips up for days on end and visibility is about 300m. At this point I finally get a contact on the hydrophones...the hunt is on...I close it down slowly but surely using the 'phones...finally get a visual...and it's the largest merchant ship I've laid eyes on in ages...pity it's a hospital ship!

[Finback]

Coming home from a particularily successful cruise, I decided to sail into the inner harbor with my chest all puffed up. Went to get a cup of coffee. Just as I got back to my computer the boat hit the end of the pier and sank. Everyone died.

And of course I hadn't saved.

[High Voltage]

AZN_132,
when I surfaced, there was no sign of her, but if I'd crippled her, she could've been bobbing like a cork 400m from me and I wouldn't have seen her!

[azn_132]

Originally Posted by High Voltage

AZN_132,
when I surfaced, there was no sign of her, but if I'd crippled her, she could've been bobbing like a cork 400m from me and I wouldn't have seen her!

I guess bernard was in ur boat then.

[Jimbuna]

If you didn't get credit for the kill then it's possible/probable she came to the end of her waypoint and disappeared off the map

[CaptainAsh]

hehe
Not later than friday night... career, mid April 1940...
Well, I was ordered to patrol AN44 and I m always trying to do what I m ordered... still, April 1940 is a good month to hunt some big fast screw between Norway and Scapa Flow. So, I m out of Kiel and planed a cruise to norway and then a long patroling cruise between Trondeihm and Scapa Flow. 25 meters deep for 10 minutes every 4 hours... got a lot of fast track! none that I can ambush
Reach Scapa Flow with nothing!
Well... doesn t matter, let s take a tour into Scapa then...
For Scapa I have a basic tactic. I m entering by the main entrance (south) at night then go north to the port, then go west to the isle, then east to the other side, then south and bye bye... worked like a charm 2 or 3 times now...
Well, it worked as nice as the last times... but nothing in scapa flow!!! just 2 damn destroyer patroling the bay... I dislike engaging patrolling destroyer inside Scapa... too dangerous...

So I went out, and planed a path along the british cost before going to the Kiel canal... as I was planning for my journey hope with 9 of my torpedoes (first time I head home with more than 2 of them ), the fog went out... 10 minutes after "Ship spotted!"....
A destroyer 200 meters in front of me and heading right on me! Got ramed and sunk by direct depth charge hit less than 1 minute after spotting him and after the worse patrol I ever played :hmm:

[Ducimus]

Heavy waves from the usual 15 kt winds constantly dunking the periscope. I particuarlly love this when im making my final observation's before firing, and am suddenly blind as a bat for an agonizingly long time.

[Gezoes]

Originally Posted by Finback

Coming home from a particularily successful cruise, I decided to sail into the inner harbor with my chest all puffed up. Went to get a cup of coffee. Just as I got back to my computer the boat hit the end of the pier and sank. Everyone died.

And of course I hadn't saved.

:rotfl:

Well, at least you made it out to sea. I was jumped just outside Bergen and was bombed. Headed back to base with major damage... we were back for lunch, the band was still packing up

This was the first patrol ever in GWX btw

I'd say something was different... :rotfl: