Run into a large convoy "escorted" only by an aux cruiser

kasperl · 01-07-10, 10:45 PM

It's July 1940 now, southwest of Ireland, wonder how come there were no destroyers, they're a piece of cake without one.
After sinking the cruiser with two eels I surfaced in broad daylight amidst more than two dozens of merchant ships and picked my targets as i like, firing with my deck gun after torpedoes run out. However I had to leave the larger part of the convoy on their way after I had nothing left to pour on them. How I wished I had chosen a IX at that time...

Dissaray · 01-07-10, 11:15 PM

Ah the joys of randomly generated shiping convoys. I wish I was that lucky durring my last convoy attack. The escorts nearly killed me out right but ran out of depth charges befor they could finish the job. They did manage to nearly take me out with flooding and in the process distroyed both my engins and most of my torpido tubes. And they did all that with just two charges.

Sailor Steve · 01-08-10, 12:48 PM

That's the beauty of a quality random campaign. It sometimes happened that way in real life, especially that early in the war when the RN was still seriously hurting for escort materiel.

Jimbuna · 01-08-10, 04:39 PM

Make hay whilst the sun is shining...dark skies aren't too far off

urfisch · 01-08-10, 04:42 PM

right, you where lucky!

in 1940 the escorts where still less fitted with ships. was one of the best years for the boats. there also where many "lone riders", single merchant ships - you can sink them all with your deck gun. but leave the battlefield soon, or some destroyer will meet you.

better was only the "golden era" also called "the lucky time", when operation "paukenschlag" started. the patrols of the american shore in 1941.

kbak303 · 01-08-10, 09:39 PM

wow I haven't been that lucky...current campaign 2 convoys in 3 patrols, all escorted by a smattering of Hunt and Tribal, with the first having the Rodney along, Aug 1940
did take out the HMS Rodney, one torpedo hit, one a dud, list to starboard and then finished her off the next day...then lost the convoy after one Hunt kept me down better part of a day and a half...

I'd love to find one with just an aux hanging around...just rolled into 1941 so probably won't

01-07-10, 10:45 PM	#1
kasperl Seaman Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 32 Downloads: 23 Uploads: 0	Run into a large convoy "escorted" only by an aux cruiser It's July 1940 now, southwest of Ireland, wonder how come there were no destroyers, they're a piece of cake without one. After sinking the cruiser with two eels I surfaced in broad daylight amidst more than two dozens of merchant ships and picked my targets as i like, firing with my deck gun after torpedoes run out. However I had to leave the larger part of the convoy on their way after I had nothing left to pour on them. How I wished I had chosen a IX at that time...

01-08-10, 12:48 PM	#3
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	That's the beauty of a quality random campaign. It sometimes happened that way in real life, especially that early in the war when the RN was still seriously hurting for escort materiel. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

01-08-10, 04:39 PM	#4
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,525 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Make hay whilst the sun is shining...dark skies aren't too far off __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

01-08-10, 04:42 PM	#5
urfisch Sea Lord Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Deep down in Germany Posts: 1,969 Downloads: 42 Uploads: 0	right, you where lucky! in 1940 the escorts where still less fitted with ships. was one of the best years for the boats. there also where many "lone riders", single merchant ships - you can sink them all with your deck gun. but leave the battlefield soon, or some destroyer will meet you. better was only the "golden era" also called "the lucky time", when operation "paukenschlag" started. the patrols of the american shore in 1941. __________________

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01-07-10, 11:15 PM	#2
Dissaray 中国水兵 Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 280 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	Ah the joys of randomly generated shiping convoys. I wish I was that lucky durring my last convoy attack. The escorts nearly killed me out right but ran out of depth charges befor they could finish the job. They did manage to nearly take me out with flooding and in the process distroyed both my engins and most of my torpido tubes. And they did all that with just two charges.

01-08-10, 09:39 PM	#6
kbak303 Seaman Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 41 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	wow I haven't been that lucky...current campaign 2 convoys in 3 patrols, all escorted by a smattering of Hunt and Tribal, with the first having the Rodney along, Aug 1940 did take out the HMS Rodney, one torpedo hit, one a dud, list to starboard and then finished her off the next day...then lost the convoy after one Hunt kept me down better part of a day and a half... I'd love to find one with just an aux hanging around...just rolled into 1941 so probably won't