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Old 02-02-09, 06:38 PM   #1
Freiwillige
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Default Das Boot moments

Occasionaly I will have a Das Boot moment where I get so sucked into the sim and it just feels like the movie.

Today I had a patroll out to AE71. Of course right before I arrived the weather took a turn for the worse. Visability was again almost nill and I was cursing my luck! Then BDU reports a large convoy heading just 100 kilometers north of me so the hunt begins!

Once I found the convoy it was too dark to attack. So I shadowed the convoy until dawn and headed in. Visability was almost niil still so I just headed dead center into it. the waves were massive and throwing my boat all around when my lookouts spotted a siloute against the fog in the distance. It was a corvett so I dived for a few moments and was up again on the surface when my lookouts spotted another siloutte comin at me, and then another off the port side! I turned 90 degrees port and sat for a short time before figuring my plot in the weapons officer screen and letting loose 2 in front and one to the rear. All three impacted the one in back was a heavy merchant the one in front was a Cam ship. I was watching them burn and loose steam when another ship came steaming out of the mist!

At that time the two ships I hit started firing on me so I ordered ahead flank, crash dive! But before I got under I let loose my last two forward tubes on the new mystery ship....A Tanker! Damage controll teams worked feverishly to contain the flooding as I took several heavy impacts to my rear as I was diving.
The Tanker took one head on to the bow and the other had missed although minutes later it found a new victem and sent him to the bottom. The first ship I hit with my stern torpedo finally succumbed but the other two just shrugged off my massive blows. The weather was so bad even these massive ships were having a tough time of it. And the escourts never got close as I slipped out the back.

Reloaded I head around the convoy to the front and hit her again sinking all of the wounded ships I hit the first time plus another heavy merchant! So far I have sent 40,000+ tons to the bottom! as I type this I am reloading and getting ready to hit them one more time before dark!

This is my Das Boot moment, What is yours?
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