Attempt of Patrol TCx1

Pohl · 10-07-09, 03:02 PM

October 3, 1939

2:58 pm

So I'm sick with flu and won't be doing anything good in at least 1 week.... so I was thinking what If l try to complete a patrol in TCx1

Let the adventure begin, realism settings are 100% with GWX 3.0 & SH3 Commander

Sub is a Type VIIC from 2nd Flotilla with:
4 Officers
11 Petty officers
28 Sailors

I will only TC to match in game time with my local time in case I have to turn off PC or a major trouble.

I'll try to do a sitrep every 2~3 hours in this same thread (that's the reason of creating it in the first place)

Current orders are to patrol Grid AN13
Current grid is AN69

Jimbuna · 10-07-09, 03:06 PM

TCx1

I feel sorry for your flu

Task Force · 10-07-09, 03:13 PM

Good luck... If you suddently feel the urge to jump off your conning tower. Slowly back away from the computer...

Oberon · 10-07-09, 03:21 PM

Remember the following steps:

1) If you shave, do not for the duration of your patrol
2) If you wash, lower the amount of water you use by 9/10s and then do it only twice a week
3) Make sure that your bed is kept warm
4) If you have anyone staying with you, instruct them to periodically wake you during the night by either 1) walking past you loudly 2) yelling ALAAARM at the top of their voice and ringing a bell loudly whilst running around the room or periodically flashing a light in your face and muttering 'Sorry wrong bunk'.
5) If you have any fresh food in the house, eat that within the first week, then exist solely on tinned food.

Good hunting kaleun!

sergei · 10-07-09, 04:06 PM

Also:

Cut your mattress in half and enclose three sides of your bed. Add a roof that prevents you from sitting up (about 10 inches is a good distance) then place it on a platform that is four feet off the floor.

When sailing in rough weather smash your forehead or shins with a hammer every two hours.

Rapt0r56 · 10-07-09, 04:26 PM

Quote:

Remember the following steps:

1) If you shave, do not for the duration of your patrol
2) If you wash, lower the amount of water you use by 9/10s and then do it only twice a week
3) Make sure that your bed is kept warm
4) If you have anyone staying with you, instruct them to periodically wake you during the night by either 1) walking past you loudly 2) yelling ALAAARM at the top of their voice and ringing a bell loudly whilst running around the room or periodically flashing a light in your face and muttering 'Sorry wrong bunk'.
5) If you have any fresh food in the house, eat that within the first week, then exist solely on tinned food.

Good hunting kaleun!

Quote:

Also:

Cut your mattress in half and enclose three sides of your bed. Add a roof that prevents you from sitting up (about 10 inches is a good distance) then place it on a platform that is four feet off the floor.

When sailing in rough weather smash your forehead or shins with a hammer every two hours.

Good luck with this Phol

I would not begin x1 Tc Campaign consists of Time-Based. One Pat per day well-to-do.

Pohl · 10-07-09, 05:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oberon

Remember the following steps:

1) If you shave, do not for the duration of your patrol
2) If you wash, lower the amount of water you use by 9/10s and then do it only twice a week
3) Make sure that your bed is kept warm
4) If you have anyone staying with you, instruct them to periodically wake you during the night by either 1) walking past you loudly 2) yelling ALAAARM at the top of their voice and ringing a bell loudly whilst running around the room or periodically flashing a light in your face and muttering 'Sorry wrong bunk'.
5) If you have any fresh food in the house, eat that within the first week, then exist solely on tinned food.

Good hunting kaleun!

I can't bath due to the flu....so I'll eventually grow a beard also I have my pc pluged into my stereo to half of it's volume...so I'll hear every scream the crew makes or every time the hull starts to "crack" when submerged.

Also there's no need for someone to annoy me in the night....I have a cat

Quote:

Originally Posted by jimbuna

TCx1

I feel sorry for your flu

Hopefully between the medicines and the flu I'll avoid doing an action worth of Bernard :P

Sun is going down.....probably a few more hours, still not a ship

Pohl · 10-07-09, 08:16 PM

yawn

Still no ship on sight or report on map...went to periscope depth 1 hour ago to check if there was any ship near, nothing so far.
Will stay surfaced for 3-4 more hours, then proceed to periscope depth and go to sleep.

TarJak · 10-07-09, 09:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Oberon

Remember the following steps:

1) If you shave, do not for the duration of your patrol
2) If you wash, lower the amount of water you use by 9/10s and then do it only twice a week
3) Make sure that your bed is kept warm
4) If you have anyone staying with you, instruct them to periodically wake you during the night by either 1) walking past you loudly 2) yelling ALAAARM at the top of their voice and ringing a bell loudly whilst running around the room or periodically flashing a light in your face and muttering 'Sorry wrong bunk'.
5) If you have any fresh food in the house, eat that within the first week, then exist solely on tinned food.

Good hunting kaleun!

For the above numbered points add these conditions:

2. Make sure the water is salty and cold.
3. The beds must be kept warm by someone with the same bathing conditions as you. The odd louse would be worth including if available.
5. NO SHOPPING! That would be considered cheating.
6. A new condition; make sure that your clothes are kept damp and unwashed for the duration of the patrol as well.

Mopy · 10-07-09, 09:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pohl

...so I'll hear every scream the crew makes or every time the hull starts to "crack" when submerged.

Also there's no need for someone to annoy me in the night....I have a cat

Crrreeeak
Mao
Mao
Maaao
Crrreeeak
Mao
ALAAAAM!!
...
...
...
Mao

You're going to have one very interesting, surreal week. I contemplated a x1 TC patrol once.

For about 4 seconds.

Good luck with your patrol. I'll be watching this one with interest

Pohl · 10-07-09, 10:29 PM

This is the second time I'm attempting a tcx1 patrol, first one was in 1944 with a type XXI, was heading to Murmansk.....but it was going to take excesive time to just reach russian waters (around 100+ hours) .......so I quit that one :P

edit:At 11 pm I go to periscope depth and head to bed, current grid is AN 68, still no single contact, received 1 message from U-16 @ 9:49 pm claiming he sunk a merchant, will test endurance of batteries for 6~8 hours submerged @ 4 knts

Pohl · 10-08-09, 09:03 AM

Batteries down to 9% from submerged cruise frin 11 pm to 9 am @ 4 knts, not a single contact in that time, current speed is 9 knots, charging batteries 84 km until I get out of grid AN68, 24 hours until we get to grid AN48

Ping Panther · 10-08-09, 09:44 AM

Hi there Pohl,

I was just about to ask where BdU was designating your patrol zone for this TCx1 event you have going on there. Heading to AN13?

Good sailing, and good hunting!

Pohl · 10-08-09, 10:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ping Panther

Hi there Pohl,

I was just about to ask where BdU was designating your patrol zone for this TCx1 event you have going on there. Heading to AN13?

Good sailing, and good hunting!

Yes to AN13 I'm heading, I was thinking of hitting a british port..but orders are orders, hopefully weather will remain clear during the patrol.

Mopy · 10-08-09, 01:31 PM

Hmm, I was thinking last night after I logged off that it could be quite difficult when you get to attacking. You can't order your crew to get you into position and then tell them to wake you up when you're nearly there.

So, are you making full course/speed calculations and plotting intercepts - estimating the time you and your target arrive - and setting an alarm, or something like that?

10-07-09, 03:02 PM	#1
Pohl Sparky Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 157 Downloads: 31 Uploads: 0	Attempt of Patrol TCx1 October 3, 1939 2:58 pm So I'm sick with flu and won't be doing anything good in at least 1 week.... so I was thinking what If l try to complete a patrol in TCx1 Let the adventure begin, realism settings are 100% with GWX 3.0 & SH3 Commander Sub is a Type VIIC from 2nd Flotilla with: 4 Officers 11 Petty officers 28 Sailors I will only TC to match in game time with my local time in case I have to turn off PC or a major trouble. I'll try to do a sitrep every 2~3 hours in this same thread (that's the reason of creating it in the first place) Current orders are to patrol Grid AN13 Current grid is AN69 __________________ Current Careers: U-177 Type IXD2, 10th Flotilla March 13, 1943 U-3502 Type XXI, 7th/13th Flotilla April 14, 1942 100% realism, GWX 3.0, SH3 Commander 3.2

10-07-09, 03:06 PM	#2
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,500 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	TCx1 I feel sorry for your flu __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

10-07-09, 03:13 PM	#3
Task Force Rear Admiral Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: SPACE!!!! Posts: 10,142 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	Good luck... If you suddently feel the urge to jump off your conning tower. Slowly back away from the computer... __________________ Task Force industries "Taking control of the world, one mind at a time"

10-07-09, 08:16 PM	#8
Pohl Sparky Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 157 Downloads: 31 Uploads: 0	yawn Still no ship on sight or report on map...went to periscope depth 1 hour ago to check if there was any ship near, nothing so far. Will stay surfaced for 3-4 more hours, then proceed to periscope depth and go to sleep. __________________ Current Careers: U-177 Type IXD2, 10th Flotilla March 13, 1943 U-3502 Type XXI, 7th/13th Flotilla April 14, 1942 100% realism, GWX 3.0, SH3 Commander 3.2

10-07-09, 10:29 PM	#11
Pohl Sparky Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 157 Downloads: 31 Uploads: 0	This is the second time I'm attempting a tcx1 patrol, first one was in 1944 with a type XXI, was heading to Murmansk.....but it was going to take excesive time to just reach russian waters (around 100+ hours) .......so I quit that one :P edit:At 11 pm I go to periscope depth and head to bed, current grid is AN 68, still no single contact, received 1 message from U-16 @ 9:49 pm claiming he sunk a merchant, will test endurance of batteries for 6~8 hours submerged @ 4 knts __________________ Current Careers: U-177 Type IXD2, 10th Flotilla March 13, 1943 U-3502 Type XXI, 7th/13th Flotilla April 14, 1942 100% realism, GWX 3.0, SH3 Commander 3.2 Last edited by Pohl; 10-07-09 at 10:53 PM.

10-07-09, 03:21 PM	#4
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	Remember the following steps: 1) If you shave, do not for the duration of your patrol 2) If you wash, lower the amount of water you use by 9/10s and then do it only twice a week 3) Make sure that your bed is kept warm 4) If you have anyone staying with you, instruct them to periodically wake you during the night by either 1) walking past you loudly 2) yelling ALAAARM at the top of their voice and ringing a bell loudly whilst running around the room or periodically flashing a light in your face and muttering 'Sorry wrong bunk'. 5) If you have any fresh food in the house, eat that within the first week, then exist solely on tinned food. Good hunting kaleun!

10-07-09, 04:06 PM	#5
sergei Sea Lord Join Date: May 2008 Location: London UK Posts: 1,788 Downloads: 405 Uploads: 29	Also: Cut your mattress in half and enclose three sides of your bed. Add a roof that prevents you from sitting up (about 10 inches is a good distance) then place it on a platform that is four feet off the floor. When sailing in rough weather smash your forehead or shins with a hammer every two hours.

10-08-09, 09:03 AM	#12
Pohl Sparky Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 157 Downloads: 31 Uploads: 0	Batteries down to 9% from submerged cruise frin 11 pm to 9 am @ 4 knts, not a single contact in that time, current speed is 9 knots, charging batteries 84 km until I get out of grid AN68, 24 hours until we get to grid AN48 __________________ Current Careers: U-177 Type IXD2, 10th Flotilla March 13, 1943 U-3502 Type XXI, 7th/13th Flotilla April 14, 1942 100% realism, GWX 3.0, SH3 Commander 3.2

10-08-09, 09:44 AM	#13
Ping Panther Lieutenant Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: the armpit of the Mid-Atlantic / Quadrant CA42 Posts: 262 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Hi there Pohl, I was just about to ask where BdU was designating your patrol zone for this TCx1 event you have going on there. Heading to AN13? Good sailing, and good hunting!

10-08-09, 01:31 PM	#15
Mopy Torpedoman Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 118 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	Hmm, I was thinking last night after I logged off that it could be quite difficult when you get to attacking. You can't order your crew to get you into position and then tell them to wake you up when you're nearly there. So, are you making full course/speed calculations and plotting intercepts - estimating the time you and your target arrive - and setting an alarm, or something like that?