Who has tried Invading Reykjavik Iceland

[Reece]

Hi, I was doing some weather tests and decided to patrol AE47, what a haul, due to distance I had to crawl all the way to conserve fuel!
When I got there the place was literally crawling with armed trawlers in sets of 3 ships, you have to experience this to believe it!!
I thought since I'm here I may as well try an invasion of Reykjavik, it took a lot of diving/surfacing and a long time to get through, this shows my markings for the various groups of crawlers that were a direct threat and their paths:

Well I made it through and sunk 2 Hunt I destrovers, a small & medium freighter, there was a Large tanker there but it was already destroyed!
So the question is "do you feel lucky", if so and you have a little time to spare then grab a bottle of rum, a few asprins, and give it a go!
Cheers.

[Brag]

Running for King of The Harbour Raiders?

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

Originally Posted by Brag

Running for King of The Harbour Raiders?

anyone mentioned me ? :p

yes i have done that more then once when i am in that area, it is a good training ground for avoiding detection while submerged

[Nightshadow]

I use Sh3gen when i reach my patrol area. Many mission is about checking harbors out. I will say that Loch Ewe for me was the killer, no chance that I ever will get into that harbor nothing of value as far as I could see. In the start of the war Calais have a english and a French modern tanker there at least those times I happen to come past. Well I enjoy deep waters now:hmm: Since there are sooo many convoys out there that are ready for a quick hit and run and you are ready for a deep silent run. I have been in harbors with less than 7 metre off water not funny at all

[Wreford-Brown]

You need to check out Gibraltar in April 1940. You can run below the layer (160m or deeper) to the Rock of Gibraltar then creep into the harbour area. HMS Nelson (33k tons) and a small depot ship (6500 tons) on the north western side and three Southampton/London class (10-13k tons each) on the north eastern side along with three static destroyers. In the harbour itself there's another Southampton class plus a troop transporter, modern tanker, large and medium cargo and a few other small ships. Watch out for torpedo nets on the northern side of the harbour - I took a lot of damage when I hit one net and broke the surface for a few seconds as those capital ships have a shedload of firepower (but can't traverse very quickly). Torpedo nets in general seem to finish about 2 submarine widths from the harbour walls in any port, so I sneak in by running very close to the harbour walls.
The only things protecting Gib are the static surface ship's guns and 2 or 3 ASW trawlers and Isles class, all of which seem to be either blind and deaf or just stupid. Ran out of internals in the IXB and have had to extract to reload externals and go back in. If the protection is as dopey as it was last time, I'll easily clear 100k tons and get away with my boat intact.

[Reece]

@ Brag, I think you have done your fair share!! The best ever raid so far was Valletta!
@ Kaleu. Jochen Mohr, some training grounds, I mentioned going there with a bottle of rum, not a case!
@ Nightshadow, I actually got through Loch Ewe during the night, the boat sort of jumps over the nets with very little damage, I was hoping the task force would be there but no such luck!
@ Wreford-Brown, I'll have to give Gibraltar a go, I assumed invading that port would be pure suicide!

[NealT]

I have been in and out of Scapa and Loch Ewe so many times it is like a walk in the park anymore. Using Type VII or Type IX.
I have been in and out of Dunkirk several times...but always with a II.
I have been in and out of Reykjavik several times. Type VII.
I have been in and out of Most Eastern US ports several times...always Type IX.
I have been in and out of most South American harbors...again Type IX.
Never made it inside Tobruk or Alexandria.
Made it in Valletta - never made it out.
Made it in and out of Gibraltar...Type VII.

My favorite used to be Loch Ewe...particularly during 1940.
Now, I like to pop into Scapa whenever possible...always a good place for a kill.

BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!

[STEED]

Did it in stock many moons ago but never in GWX.

[DirtyACE]

I just did my first trip to Iceland durring my first patrol on an IXB sub. This was in March 1940, so US was not in the war yet. As I rounded the penninsula, my sonar operator detected a large convoy. Most of them were small and medium ships, but there was a whale factory in there. The convoy had an escort of 3 black swans. As I laid an ambush, one of the swans promptly ran itself onto the shore and was destroyed, before I even fired a single torpedo.

Anyway, I put one electric torp in the bow of the whale factory from almost 3 km. From my experience in GWX1.03, this usually sent them to the bottom as the bow would start to fill up with water it would plow the whole ship deeper and deeper, but to my surprise that didn't happen, it just kept sailing on with the convoy. After a quick *sigh* we had to wait for the escorts to stop looking around for us before we could start flanking the convoy again. We did this and laid another trap, this time we put a steam torp into the whale factory's boiler room causing an explosion and sinking it. This was the only action I took against this convoy. I waited for them to sail off before continuing to Reykjavik.

Upon arriving, I discovered that there was really nothing worth sinking in the harbour. There was a large US tanker but I couldn't touch it, yet. I turned around and started my voyage back to hunt at the entrance of the St. George's Canal.

I didn't even get a chance to round off the penninsula again when my sonar operator picked up a numerous contacts heading in my direction, another large convoy. This one, however, several good size ships. Two whale factories, three large cargos, a small ocean liner, a troop transport, and a couple medium tankers.

I made up my mind to targe the largest ships again, so the whale factories. Laid another ambush fired a magnetic torp at the first ship which detonated directly underneathe the middle of the ship but it didn't seem like the ship even flinged. The second ship received an impact torpedo to the bow, but once again it kept sailing like nothing happened. I'm having somewhat of bad luck with hits on this patrol, I'm thinking to myself. I was hoping to quickly down two ships and start heading back, but it looked like it wasn't in the cards. By the way, this convoy was sailing in the direction of US. I was also concerned with my fuel as I didn't want to do too many flanking maneuvers this far from home.

Before we could start flanking this convoy for the second time I had to evade the escorts. I heard them pinging and I thought they found me. I heard depth charge splashes but when they detonated it was some distance off, so I breathed a sigh of relief. We continued on silent running for a bit more until the escorts gave up, then we quickly ploted a parallel course and flank speed.

We were really gunning it for about 100 km with a couple of hydrophone checks to see that the convoy was still on course. After the third hydrophone check we realised that the convoy had altered its course by about 30 degrees and we were too far in front. Quickly we figured out the new course and flanked for another 80 km. This felt like a hell of a chase, but at the same time the fuel situation was in the back of my mind. I just had to have at least a couple of kills so as not to have waisted the fuel in vain.

The ambush was finally set after almost 200 km of pursuit. This time I got right into the convoy in between the first and second rows of ships. As the two whale factories passed by in front of me, I put a second torpedo into each which sent them both to the bottom. I was also in such a good position that I couldn't resist to launching a torpedo at a large cargo. The torpedo hit it just infront of the superstructure and caused a fire.

I had another concern at this time and it was whether I'd be detected by the escorts as the weather was very clear and calm, but I think by using an electric torp on the first whale factory confused everyone as to where I was since there was no trail of bubbles.

I stuck around a bit to listen whether the large cargo would sink and it did. Afterwards the crew was in creat spirits as our hunt was very fruitful, then we charted a course back to familiar waters.

[JCB]

Maybe a bit OT, but could you guys tell me if harbour raiding is something I can do in stock SH3? The few ports I have visited have been empty...

[d@rk51d3]

Originally Posted by JCB

Maybe a bit OT, but could you guys tell me if harbour raiding is something I can do in stock SH3? The few ports I have visited have been empty...

From memory, all ports in the stock game are empty. - Sorry.

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

Originally Posted by d@rk51d3

From memory, all ports in the stock game are empty. - Sorry.

they are