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02-18-08, 04:49 PM
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Electrician's Mate
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Sinking a Light Ship - Anyone done this?
I was patrolling in the Bristol Kanal in U-2547. Yes, that's why I ventured so close to English territory...it's a type XXI LOL! Anyway I spotted a lightship with a coal tender sitting near by keeping it company. I sent 1 torpedo into the lightship, and when that didn't do the trick, I surfaced and finished it off and sank the coal tender with my .2cm flakzwilling machine guns. However, the lightship did not show up in the recognition manual (I thought I remembered seeing them in an older version of GWX??) AND I did not get credit for the sinking! I'm confused. My rationale is that it's my job to do anything I could do to disrupt naval and merchant shipping off the coast of England, and sinking a navigational aid like a lightship would be well within my job description as a Kaluen in the Kriegsmarine.... correct? Or was I wrong to sink the little lightship? Does that make me a vicious pirate? HAHAHA!! I like the sound of that!!
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02-18-08, 05:14 PM
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Navy Seal
 Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Docked on a Russian pond
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Lightships helped U-boat navigation, too.
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02-18-08, 05:29 PM
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Navy Seal
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Sinking ships off the Australian coast
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I sank them in a previous version of GWX. I did get credit for them, but they were stubbon little suckers to sink!
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02-20-08, 11:01 AM
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Bosun
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I took one out w/ my deck gun on a British Isles patrol...took MANY, MANY waterline hits before she sank...
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02-20-08, 11:21 AM
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Lucky Jack
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02-20-08, 02:38 PM
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Chief of the Boat
 Join Date: Feb 2006
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A pointless waste of ordnance IMO....and a virtual sitting duck
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02-20-08, 04:26 PM
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Ocean Warrior
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Well... it does kill the lights so you get nice complete darkness for your attack.
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02-20-08, 04:34 PM
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Sea Lord
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Location: Adelaide, South Australia
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Took out the ships sitting around it, then went for the lightship. Stubborn blighter wouldn't damage, catch fire, or even list, let alone sink.
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02-20-08, 05:13 PM
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Chief of the Boat
Join Date: Feb 2006
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One did try to warn one
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02-20-08, 07:17 PM
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Eternal Patrol
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Your probably the reason I ran into the rocks.
Benard Mai werden in Ihrer zweiten Befehl.
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02-20-08, 07:22 PM
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Lucky Jack
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Yep tried it once, I think was my first patrol with GWX 2.0. Closed in to ~1000m at night on pretty rough seas, fired a spread of 2+1 torpedos, missed with all, pressed ESC and went to play IL2.
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02-20-08, 07:27 PM
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Captain
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Dowly, when I have a less than perfect night, I do the same thing, usually get shot down there too. LOL
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02-20-08, 07:30 PM
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Lucky Jack
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 BTW Here's your bill from Bdu Cough up 40,000 Reich Marks or we're send the fat man round.
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02-20-08, 08:44 PM
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Stowaway
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Well...if it's night time and you hear a ship then surface..don't try to head to the lightship..its a trap! There will be destroyers awaiting your approach to it! Kill the bastards for pete's sake! They are helpful to us..but there is a little brit on the top of that boat who keeps walking he will report. And why doesn't he fall!
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02-21-08, 01:10 AM
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Ocean Warrior
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