Some pictures from interesting February 1940 Patrol

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While leaving Wilhelmshaven I had Fuhrer himself saluting me ( I wonder if it is the original UBI skin or GWX team's easter egg but I find it hilarious).:


It seemed to be a really boring patrol until close to the British isles I ran into taskforce consisting of HMS Hood, HMS Rodney and Revenge class and about eight or ten destroyers. I was really greedy and tried to get all capital ships... Well, Revenge went straight to the bottom: two eels (one hitting the forward magazine) and it happened so fast that I forgot to snap a picture. Hood after getting two torpedoes (another missed) to her side started listing fairly deep but didn't stop just slowed down:


Rodney was hit by two almost misses to her aft and stopped dead in the water:


Both capital ships were surrounded by dense screen of destroyers and I got heavily pounded by them smashing all my bow torpedo tubes and attack periscope. With no eels in the tubes and on silent running I got depth charged for almost eight hours. I managed to get away from the destroyers, surfaced to the periscope depth and found the Hood getting away from the scene with probably 8 destroyers protecting her. The Rodney was sitting half way submerged without any protection in the water but would not sink. I managed silently crawl back and gave her coup de grace from my aft tube (the only one still operational).
Overall, sinking 67,000 tons in this attack is not too shabby... Too bad that Hood got away... :


On my return to the port I (for the first time in the game) saw German battle ship outside of the harbor. Meet the Hipper:


This was one of the most interesting patrols I've had in a while. Just thought I'd share it with you....

BTW if you look at the picture of Rodney, would it be possible that in real life she wouldn't sink at this point after more than 8 hours?