well darn

[Marriott]

so i was just doing a patrol, may 1940 near the coast of england. Well a destroyer found me and proceeded to depth charge me, and after destroying my electric motors i was just sinking so i was forced to blow ballast every few minutes to keep from hitting the bottom, hard. I continued to be depth charged but each time they exploded further and further away. After a while longer the destroyer gave up and sailed back towards england. Happy i managed to survive, i then proceeded to blow ballast, only to discover i was out of compressed air! after pointlessly hitting the blow ballast button a good 2 dozen times i slowly sank to the bottom. Not very good luck in that patrol

[bigboywooly]

Originally Posted by Marriott

so i was just doing a patrol, may 1940 near the coast of england. Well a destroyer found me and proceeded to depth charge me, and after destroying my electric motors i was just sinking so i was forced to blow ballast every few minutes to keep from hitting the bottom, hard. I continued to be depth charged but each time they exploded further and further away. After a while longer the destroyer gave up and sailed back towards england. Happy i managed to survive, i then proceeded to blow ballast, only to discover i was out of compressed air! after pointlessly hitting the blow ballast button a good 2 dozen times i slowly sank to the bottom. Not very good luck in that patrol

You should have let yourself sink to the bottom anyway - as long as not too deep
Well at least you can start again

[Marriott]

Originally Posted by bigboywooly

You should have let yourself sink to the bottom anyway - as long as not too deep
Well at least you can start again

I was thinking it would have been good to just sink to the bottom (it was only around 58 m) but at the time i had flooding in 2 compartments and almost every compartment damaged, so i was sinking very fast. By the time i repaired it, i had ran out of compressed air. smart move on my part, not

[kylania]

I showed my friend the Bismark single player mission since he wasn't finding my patrol campaign very exciting. In that we managed to get depth charged and I dove to 100m. We had damage and flooding in two compartments, so I just sat there and waited to see when the DCs would stop.

About then my friend says, "Hey, weren't you at 100m?" and I look down and see us passing 160m!! We were sinking!! I redoubled our efforts on damage control and told the boat to suface. Engines on flank, aim'd upwards but still we sank slowly.. into the red.. 200m.. 220m.. 230m.. we were doomed! The hull was screeching, the younger crew was paniced, then I remembered, blow ballast!!

So I slam the emergency suface button and watch our depth.. 225m.. 227m.. 231m.. 230m.. 228m.. 225m.. we did it!!

Finally we burst through the surface into the hellish sounds of the battleships still fighting. I was busy looking down at my officers and checking that they were all fine when my friend says, "Hey, watch out for that ship behind you!" I look up just in time to see a DD full speed slam into me from behind. Our uboat tilted 90 degrees to port and starboard, dipping the watch crew into the water on each side at least 15 times!! It was like something out of a cartoon with some baby slamming down his toy left and right over and over.

Ahh such fun.

[enaceo]

Loosing electric motors or props or the batteries while being DC'd is one of the worst things that can happen to you...same thing has happened to me a lot of times...got hit engines destroyed flooding all over the placed and I had to blow balast to keep from sinking to deep ... and when the attackers finally left I was out of compressed air and down I went...