Ever gotten into a firefight with something else than a PT boat or merchant?

[Safe-Keeper]

Just wondering how many here have been forced to shoot it out with an armed ship (except Elcos or late-conflict Merchants - we've all been there) due to inability to dive?

I was playing the Grey Wolves super-mod, and I was entering Scapa Flow on the surface in broad daylight (forgetting that radar, the naked eye, and hydrophones work through solid rock in Silent Hunter III). I was detected by a destroyer, and while trying to make my way out of the narrow passage I was in (the Southern-most of the Eastern passages), out of desperation I manned the VIIB's deck gun and ordered it to start shooting at the approaching destroyer.

The game ended as a tie. I grounded the sub once (u-turns in narrow passages are hard), but ended up, fortunately, behind a barricade ship for cover as the destroyer closed in. Then my assailant ran herself aground and the game crashed.

Who else?

[stabiz]

Me, but not because I had to. I wanted to try it out at full speed at night. It was a Flower Corvette(?) I think, and I decided to give it a little 88mm love. Unfortunately I got some crazy love back, and got wet.

You mentioned u-turns ... My worst episode was deep in the port of Curacao with an XXI. Somehow the french navy saw/heard me when I had my fat back to the sea, and I had to make a u-turn - at periscope depth - with a docked T3 on each side. The XXI turns as well as a derailed train, so there was not much warpaint left when I finally could put it in second gear. I think I actually scraped along one of the walls for a full two minutes.

The subsequent road rage made me fire alot of torpedoes after hasty and sloppy measuring. Great game, this.

[Hartmann]

I only fight in surface if is necesary

i was sneaking through gibraltar but i found a heavy scorts presence,i was detected and depth charged ,unable to scape, so i surfaced in the middle of the fog at flank speed and i had to sink a fast boat with the 20 mm and 37 mm heavy flak.

finally i scaped with a member of the crew wounded and little hull damage by gunfire

this wasnt me but my dad ( the one who bought the game and got me hooked ) anyways after he missed with a torpedo(against a flower 'vette he surfaced and shot at it with you guessed, his flak gun (fyi it was behind him[He had shot a aft torpedo]) anyways it caught up and hit him from the back and pushed him at about 10 knots for a couple minutes before it broke off and slid along his side (with my dad going full auto on his flak gun lol) , at this point the flower pulls ahead and turned and he pulled his uboat around to chase him and finished him off with his deck gun :p

[Kruger]

I love to shoot flower corvettes whenever I get the chance to do that. I surface to their stern, where they can't shoot back with their forward deck gun. Whatever turn she tries to make, I allways stay on her back....she is shorter and more maneouvrable, but I have the advantage of speed. Her AA shells can't reach me at 1500 metres, by my deck gun ravages her stern. It all ends up as a sea dog fight . Unless somebody comes to help her....she is doomed. This dog fight usually takes much time, because she does sharp turns, adn so do I at flank speed. This ruins my gunners aiming every time, and a lot of shells go waisted.

[HunterICX]

With my IXB U-706 Vs Nelson Destroyer

Scores
IXB - 0
Nelson - 1

that bloody ship just came out of no where....dôh Sonar-Radio room not occupied by crew and I had no watch crew on the deck... (dont ask me why.)
Suddently I see on my map that there is an Ship...and I looked checked distance...and 5 second later my Sub Icon turned red and he started to shoot...and I ofcourse Shot back

[JU_88]

Look at my sig, enuff said.

[bookworm_020]

Ramming is for wimps!

I want to weld a giant hook on my conning tower, so I can tear them up as I sail under them.

Beats a mag topedo any day!

My Ex-Wife....

[Sir Big Jugs]

I once engaged in a gunfight with a KING GEORGE V!!!

Guess who won. . .:rotfl:

[I was outta torps]

[Hawk_308]

Originally Posted by JU_88

Look at my sig, enuff said.

Man I needed that , yesterday at work I was having a really bad day. I got to reading this thread , flipped to page 2 saw your post/sig and got to laughing so hard it hurt. Thanks man