I hate NYGM

[Deimos01]

Thats right I said it! After spending 4hours real time penetrating a convoy I managed to get off a spread of torpedoes only to get jumped by one of the escort screen whom I did not see sneaking up on me. Thus began a 5 hour real time, (18 hour game time) ordeal in which the 1st attacking escort called in 2 more friends who all depth bombed me till their racks were dry. At this point (around 12 hours into the reaming) a HK group happened to pass by and join in the fun making a total of 8 attacking DDs. Low on batteries and CO2 approaching toxic levels I was forced to surface in the midst of them. Thus ended the career of Janosh Ferenzy after only 3 patrols.

Contrary to the post title I am really enjoying NYGM dispite the fact that it is kicking my arse Ive found it to be a very engaging challenge. Good work guys!

[kylania]

I had a similar thing happen in a 'pretend' career I started. 1945 and I tried to sneak through the English Channel with a snorkeling XXI!

After hitting three mines I finally came to a dead stop directly in front of a fourth mine. I was actually kissing you, you could hear it scraping the hull as I slid down to the sea floor, 37m down.

No matter what I did I couldn't get my elec engines to kick back on, even though all repairs (except a destroyed front battery) was repaired. I finally tried to CO2 enough to get the snorkel out of water so I could diesel away, but surfaced by accident catching the attention of an armed trawler.

Within moments I had a trawler and two destroyers taking turns depth charging me as I sat there nudged against the mine cable and at least three other ships coming!

After three or four runs it was obvious they weren't going to kill me, since they were dropping too shallow. Finally I got bored and blind shot a torpedo after one of the destroyers passes. Somehow it not only hit, but it also sunk the destroyer!! Yay!!

Still bored though I decided to surface again and flak gun it out since I was out of useable torpedos. Somehow my gun crew managed to get into position before the hatch was destroyed by fire from the three ships nearby now. I got one round of flak off before I had to rearm, but couldn't due to damage.

Above water now I made a run for it, my damaged disels running at flank at 6kts.. heh I got about 550m away and crash dove coz like thats what you do right? At just under periscope depth I was destroyed by pressure! (think I was at 6% HI or something)

[Deimos01]

Heh, Im actually having a lot of fun with it ATM. If I can just get out of 1942 I'll actually feel like Ive accomplished something.

The convoy attack I spoke of when I got jumped by the escort was a very Das Boot moment. Running full speed, all torpedoes away..."Whats that? Oh no a destoyer! Its Firing on us! ALLAAAAARRRRRRM!

[Sailor Steve]

Those are all good reasons to "hate" any mod, or game. I'm glad you're all having so much fun. DTB and his team have reason to be proud, and I'm sure they are.

[Steeltrap]

I've dived right in (aka gone off the deep end....) and started with NYGM. Couldn't be bothered with 'vanilla'.

It's good - very good. I particularly like the aircraft menace.

Can't speak about the escorts. Haven't actually FOUND a convoy yet. Only escorts I've seen are individual groups of 2-3 DDs going here and there (especially NW of Scapa - that area's a nightmare).

Will have to get GW one day.....

[Hueywolf123]

I read in a book once about one particular U-boat who was chased for a constant 26hrs through the north sea by one Destroyer. He was eventually done over by the destroyer, but how jangled would your nerves have been?

[CCIP]

A single puny Corvette had me pinned down off Capetown in my IX recently. For 15 hours straight, no less

I was already thinking of surfacing and trying to outrun him (since he ran out of DCs long before), when he suddenly lost me. Phew :p

[Tuddley3]

That sounds realistic to me, probably how it really was sometimes. I wonder what the longest "real" battle was ever recorded ?

[Jimbuna]

Don't know the answer to that but I wonder if it was anything like the 1957 film 'The Enemy Below'?

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Don't know the answer to that but I wonder if it was anything like the 1957 film 'The Enemy Below'?

The film was based on a book. The surface ship in the book was a British corvette. The book was written by a guy who was there. The story is fiction but he saw a lot.

I've read of one U.S. sub that was depth-charged for 18 hours, but was lying on the bottom and they dropped at random just hoping to get lucky.

[Ducimus]

If "Iron Coffin's" is any indicator, im guessing in the neighborhood of 35 hours, which was really stretching their undewater endurance, on the border of aphyxiation. The allies knew a uboat can only stay down so long, and ofthen they'd attack until a boat was forced so surface.

Now personnaly i LOVE a good depth charging in SH3, but i have my limits into how many consecutive real life hours ill spend playing it. For me, 5 hours or whatever is just too long.

[CCIP]

Mind you, the 15-hour charging took me no more than 50-80 minutes to play through. Once the corvette obviously ran out of charges, I upped the TC.

[SubConscious]

I was pursuing a small convoy in October 1939 at night on the surface when I got spotted by a Black Swan Frigate. So before I dive, I line up a bow tube to shoot 1/2 meter under the Frigate, figuring that it's probably going to detonate well before the ship anyway, but it's worth a shot.

Rather than charge straight at me like the vanilla SH3 escorts are wont to do, this one starts zig-zagging as it closes the distance! Gotta love the improved AI...