Odd place to find a ship

GreyFox · 08-14-08, 09:19 PM

So I decided to start a new career, and on my first patrol after performing my assogned mission I decide to take a look into Loch Ewe in my Type IIA. I sneak to within a few kilometers of the base and decide to cheat and use the external view to check out some flames near the town. Only the flames were coming from a ship that was sitting well inside the town on top of a few buildings.

I would have taken some pictures, but a V&W destroyer started depth-charging me. I was at PD and the depth of the water was only 13 metres, so I ordered 12 metres and hoped for the best. Well one Depth charge went in the water near my stern and blew, and the stern of my boat came out of the water as the bow hit the bottom. Well I'd had enough of that and ordered hard to port and the V&W obligingly came across my bow at 400 metres and was put down by a torpedo.

Interestingly another destroyer was sunk at a pier there.

That was a good patrol, though that a C2 cargo took 3 torps to put to the bottom - I put two into her but she simply refused to sink even though she was at a 60 degree angle to the water and at times part of her bridge was beneath the waves, forcing me to deliver a coup de grace.

Sailor Steve · 08-14-08, 09:30 PM

To take pictures in that situation, pause the game. External view will let you zoom around while the game is paused.

Oh, did I say WELCOME ABOARD?

nirwana · 08-15-08, 05:10 AM

The C-2 is indeed a tough little ship to sink by torps. Sometime it comes to my mind that it has easy to be sealed compartments like in our days. I now hit those boogies in the tailsection approx. 10m from the rudder. I no longer have to wait 2+hrs for its destruction or sacrify more eals in extream cases.

bookworm_020 · 08-17-08, 08:58 PM

Welcome aboard!

You do get the occasional thing whith a ship sunk or blended into a pier if you saved too near a port and then reload at a later stage.

Good luck and good hunting!

08-14-08, 09:19 PM	#1
GreyFox Swabbie Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 12 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Odd place to find a ship So I decided to start a new career, and on my first patrol after performing my assogned mission I decide to take a look into Loch Ewe in my Type IIA. I sneak to within a few kilometers of the base and decide to cheat and use the external view to check out some flames near the town. Only the flames were coming from a ship that was sitting well inside the town on top of a few buildings. I would have taken some pictures, but a V&W destroyer started depth-charging me. I was at PD and the depth of the water was only 13 metres, so I ordered 12 metres and hoped for the best. Well one Depth charge went in the water near my stern and blew, and the stern of my boat came out of the water as the bow hit the bottom. Well I'd had enough of that and ordered hard to port and the V&W obligingly came across my bow at 400 metres and was put down by a torpedo. Interestingly another destroyer was sunk at a pier there. That was a good patrol, though that a C2 cargo took 3 torps to put to the bottom - I put two into her but she simply refused to sink even though she was at a 60 degree angle to the water and at times part of her bridge was beneath the waves, forcing me to deliver a coup de grace. __________________ If you ever find that violence doesn't work, you haven't used enough.

08-14-08, 09:30 PM	#2
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	To take pictures in that situation, pause the game. External view will let you zoom around while the game is paused. Oh, did I say WELCOME ABOARD? __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

08-17-08, 08:58 PM	#4
bookworm_020 Navy Seal Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Sinking ships off the Australian coast Posts: 5,966 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Welcome aboard! You do get the occasional thing whith a ship sunk or blended into a pier if you saved too near a port and then reload at a later stage. Good luck and good hunting! __________________ "There is always one person in any organization who knows whats going on, That person must be fired"

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08-15-08, 05:10 AM	#3
nirwana Sonar Guy Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 380 Downloads: 17 Uploads: 0	The C-2 is indeed a tough little ship to sink by torps. Sometime it comes to my mind that it has easy to be sealed compartments like in our days. I now hit those boogies in the tailsection approx. 10m from the rudder. I no longer have to wait 2+hrs for its destruction or sacrify more eals in extream cases.