Real Time Patrol (1x TC), First attempt!

[Philipp_Thomsen]

La Rochelle, France. Autumn, 1941.

Yes, you heard this before, but it's true. Im starting a new patrol, and I have nothing planned for the next 3 days, as I'll be alone in my house, and I do have 2 computers, both with internet, so I decided to start a real time patrol (1x TC) in the living room computer, wich is plugged into a 40" Sony Bravia, while I can work and do the rest of my stuff in the other computer, including use the internet to post the patrol here, as it goes, like reports to Bdu. The computer is also linked to a sound system, I kinda have a home-theater PC in the living room. The sound is 5.1 with speakers around the living room, where I'll just throw a mattress in the floor, and sleep there. In that small place, surrounded by sofas, and a few feet away from the kitchen, I'll have my own uboat. If something is spotted, they will yell and I'll wake up, otherwise I'll just sleep with the sound of the waves. I installed a red bulb as a light in the living room, while the rest of the house will remain all lights out.

The game clock is set to my real life clock, so its night here, night there.

I've done the first 18 hours of the day without posting anything here, but I was writing it down, to put all at once. From now on, one new post on regular basis, reporting anything interesting.

Day 1.

La Rochelle, France. January, 1942. Im using WAC 4.1, in wich the 3th flotilla is placed at La Rochelle, just like in Das Boot. Left with my VIIC at 2am of January 8th, the designed grid patrol is BF42. Went northest, passed St. Nazaire in the first light of the morning. Went west. Bearing 275. Ahead 2/3.

Nothing on sight.

18:55, submarine spotted. SS Class. 13 km away, 8kts. Quadrant BF6472. We went down, 25 meters. Submarine passed on my right, 6.7km away. Surfaced. Strangely this submarine was way too close to the French coast. Reported submarine position, heading and speed to Bdu. Kept course.

20:13, lost track of submarine. Waited half hour, nothing on hydrophones. Returned to the surface, resumed course to patrol grid.

21:42, some nice old tunes in the gramophone, while I was having my dinner. Rice, brown beans, smashed potato, chopped meat, orange juice. (for real).

Day 2.

01:33, Currently grid BF5552, course 279, speed 10kts. Reading a book. "Die Geheimnisse der Weisen von Sion", or "Protocols of the Sages of Zion", published by Gottfried zur Beck, in Charlottenburg in 1920. Of course my edition is not so old, it was published in 2001, but its not an easy book to find. Very interesting book, tho... Full of truths.

[Pohl]

from my personal experience and my Real Time patrol, it will be a very good experience for you, specially if you come back to a nice sunset and see the weather change...no words to describe such feeling

[Abd_von_Mumit]

Are your "Protocols of the Sages of Zion" comments real ones or part of the role-play, impersonating believing-Nazi commander?

[Philipp_Thomsen]

5:33, went to 25 meters, no sign of a soul on hydros. Im going to a short sleep in my bunker, with a very loud volume so i can wake up with the screaming. Some tunes on the gramophone, easy to sleep like this.
Quadrant is BF5514.


@Abd_von_Mumit, No, Im actually reading the book while I play. I started reading the book 2 days ago, very good book. And Im not nazi, Im just open-minded.

[Damo]

All credit to you for doing this, I've often wondered about whether I should have a go at this but never have the time to. I often leave the game running real time when I go to bed and haven't got to worry about getting up next morning. More often than not I'm woken up by a sound contact at 3 am and next thing you know, I'm sneaking away from a decimated convoy with all torpedoes spent and the sun's coming up outside. No other game has ever got me to do crazy stuff like that, lol.

Good luck to you Phillip, but you say you have 3 days free, what happens when you reach the end of 3 days? You will carry on as normal with TC or will you keep it at 1x when you do get on the PC? 3 days is a mere flash in some of the patrols I do (min 30 days).

[Pohl]

What Damo said, I suggest that you TCx1 once you're far away from home base, higher chance of enemy contact, It took me near 6~8 days to complete my TCx1 Patrol and all I saw was 1 small merchant and airplanes

[Abd_von_Mumit]

Originally Posted by Philipp_Thomsen

[B][COLOR=yellowgreen]@Abd_von_Mumit, No, Im actually reading the book while I play. I started reading the book 2 days ago, very good book. And Im not nazi, Im just open-minded.

Suggested lecture:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pro...Elders_of_Zion
This book may be interesting as a historical document that had a strong impact on human minds and behaviours, but calling this forgery "Full of truths" is rather not sign of being open-minded in my opinion.

It was first published in 1903 in Russia, and scholars now commonly share opinion that it is a tsar secret police forgery intended to point the people to a "common enemy of humanity": Jews. It helped to build wide support for antisemitism, it was widely used by Nazi propaganda. Suggesting here that it's a valuable book to read, without mentioning all the above, should not take place. This is why I decided to interrupt your thread - this is too important to be just ignored. Thousands of innocents died because of this book.

[Gabucino]

Originally Posted by Abd_von_Mumit

This is why I decided to interrupt your thread

You shouldn't have done that, because I disagree. And this thread is not the place for this.