Strange mission & stranger ending...

Herr Russ · 11-06-06, 10:04 AM

Running Patched Vanilla...

Here's the scenario:
Patrol #10.. Found another convoy, but had some torpedoes this time

. Snuck in under the escort screen and went to periscope depth. Very choppy water & had a hard time seeing through the scope. Had some neutrals in the middle (open game since the escorts were armed?) . Saw a T3 in the middle (Hostile) so I fired a 3 torpedo salvo w/ a 5 degree seperation. Hit the T3 and crippled her and hit and sank a C3. Not bad for the spread.. Ducked under the crippled T3 while the escorts dropped DC's. They eventually gave up & left. Went out to about 400 meters away & fired my last fish into the T3. It bounced off her hull

Spent a day circling the crippled T3 waiting for the weather to settle so I could finish her off w/ my deck gun and get credit.. Never cleared up so I tried ramming her & blowing ballast from beneath & crahing conning tower into her keel.. No luck.. As I was running up to my patrol grid to get the extra renown, sailed right into another convoy that had a troop transport in the middle

. Here I was with a perfect set up & no eels.. Made it to my grid, patrolled for the 24 & finally headed back to Brest (Started in Wilhelmshaven but return port was changed.) .. I checked my navmap & Brest wasn't even shown.. I saved the game, went back in & still no Brest.. I should have just "Returned to Port", but I settled for "Docking at: Lorient"..

Time to leave Lorient so I cleared the dock, plotted my waypoints out of the harbor & immediately crashed into a dock.. The visual path did not match the nav map at all.. I started following the visual path out of Lorient, but according to the NAVMAP, I was going upriver.. The only way out according to the NAVMAP was through that dock!! Had to stop playing at that point so I'll pickup pierside in Lorient..

A few questions:

1. Could I have spent my torpedoes better in the convoy?
2. Does ramming/surfacing work?
3. What happened to Brest??
4. What's the deal w/ leaving Lorient??
5. Why are neutrals in an armed enemy convoy??

Thanks!!!

By the way, as you already know, this game is addictive.. Played until 0230 (Started at 1700) and work up the next morning w/ a sore wrist (Mouse hand).. 2 days later & still hurts... Dang..

11-06-06, 10:04 AM	#1
Herr Russ Officer Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: San Diego, CA. Posts: 246 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Strange mission & stranger ending... Running Patched Vanilla... Here's the scenario: Patrol #10.. Found another convoy, but had some torpedoes this time . Snuck in under the escort screen and went to periscope depth. Very choppy water & had a hard time seeing through the scope. Had some neutrals in the middle (open game since the escorts were armed?) . Saw a T3 in the middle (Hostile) so I fired a 3 torpedo salvo w/ a 5 degree seperation. Hit the T3 and crippled her and hit and sank a C3. Not bad for the spread.. Ducked under the crippled T3 while the escorts dropped DC's. They eventually gave up & left. Went out to about 400 meters away & fired my last fish into the T3. It bounced off her hull Spent a day circling the crippled T3 waiting for the weather to settle so I could finish her off w/ my deck gun and get credit.. Never cleared up so I tried ramming her & blowing ballast from beneath & crahing conning tower into her keel.. No luck.. As I was running up to my patrol grid to get the extra renown, sailed right into another convoy that had a troop transport in the middle . Here I was with a perfect set up & no eels.. Made it to my grid, patrolled for the 24 & finally headed back to Brest (Started in Wilhelmshaven but return port was changed.) .. I checked my navmap & Brest wasn't even shown.. I saved the game, went back in & still no Brest.. I should have just "Returned to Port", but I settled for "Docking at: Lorient".. Time to leave Lorient so I cleared the dock, plotted my waypoints out of the harbor & immediately crashed into a dock.. The visual path did not match the nav map at all.. I started following the visual path out of Lorient, but according to the NAVMAP, I was going upriver.. The only way out according to the NAVMAP was through that dock!! Had to stop playing at that point so I'll pickup pierside in Lorient.. A few questions: 1. Could I have spent my torpedoes better in the convoy? 2. Does ramming/surfacing work? 3. What happened to Brest?? 4. What's the deal w/ leaving Lorient?? 5. Why are neutrals in an armed enemy convoy?? Thanks!!! By the way, as you already know, this game is addictive.. Played until 0230 (Started at 1700) and work up the next morning w/ a sore wrist (Mouse hand).. 2 days later & still hurts... Dang.. Last edited by Herr Russ; 11-06-06 at 10:09 AM.