Peacetime - Oh The Boredom

krashkart · 04-10-10, 06:07 AM

I just installed GWX 3, started a new career in '39 and based with the 7th out of Königsberg.

Just came back in from our second patrol, a five day shakedown cruise around the bay. Nothing exciting. We spent most of the time fishing, and sneaking around some Polish destroyers. BdU had ordered us to sink some neutral ships. Unknown as to why... they seemed rather benign just floating there doing nothing. OTOH, if the captain of the ore hauler had looked at me just slightly more cross-eyed... yes, maybe we should have torpedoed that one.

Anyhow, we disregarded the order to engage and continued onward to a popular beachside pub.

Hopefully our third patrol will be in the same area - there is rumored to be a nudist beach somewhere near Danzig.

No, there really isn't a nude beach near Danzig... it's just to breathe life into an otherwise dull thread.

Jimbuna · 04-10-10, 06:26 AM

Bdu to Kaleun krashkart

Starting in August 39 out of Konigsberg with the 7th Flotilla and SH3 Commander set at 20 days between patrols.........

You will receive a radio message instructing you to return to base.

Hit Esc and teleport back....apply for a transfer to 1st or 2nd Flotilla....your next patrol should commence on 24th August which will allow you enough time to transit to your patrol area prior to the commencement of hostilities, which is precisely what happened in RL.

SINK EM ALL!!

pickinthebanjo · 04-10-10, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

Bdu to Kaleun krashkart

Starting in August 39 out of Konigsberg with the 7th Flotilla and SH3 Commander set at 20 days between patrols.........

You will receive a radio message instructing you to return to base.

Hit Esc and teleport back....apply for a transfer to 1st or 2nd Flotilla....your next patrol should commence on 24th August which will allow you enough time to transit to your patrol area prior to the commencement of hostilities, which is precisely what happened in RL.

SINK EM ALL!!

Good to know, that first patrol I did was one of the longest, pointless and boring patrols I've ever done

Sailor Steve · 04-10-10, 01:26 PM

I use it for my 2nd Flotilla boat at Wilhelmshaven to depart August 19th, as several real boats did. I go out on the first, reach the outer harbor, then turn around and dock again. I set Commander for 18 days in port, and on the 19the I'm ready to go.

For my 1st and 7th Flotilla boats I just start on Sept. 1, since most boats didn't go out until the war started.

Jimbuna · 04-10-10, 01:29 PM

Trust you to be different

frau kaleun · 04-10-10, 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by krashkart

there is rumored to be a nudist beach somewhere near Danzig.

Or at least there will be, once you get there. Amirite?

Jimbuna · 04-10-10, 07:08 PM

LMAO

krashkart · 04-10-10, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Or at least there will be, once you get there. Amirite?

Who... meee??

frau kaleun · 04-12-10, 02:20 PM

All I'm sayin' is, the least you could do is get a little closer to shore... making the lads swim the last quarter mile is going to result in a lot of embarrassing shrinkage.

BTW looks like the square in the trunks didn't get the memo.

krashkart · 04-12-10, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by frau kaleun

All I'm sayin' is, the least you could do is get a little closer to shore... making the lads swim the last quarter mile is going to result in a lot of embarrassing shrinkage.

BTW looks like the square in the trunks didn't get the memo.

LMAO! Good find, frau.

Although, when I consider the fates of my last seven Uboats I'd say that swimming is a good skill for the crew to have.

***

Update to my latest fateful career:

Waiting in AO98 for open hostilities with Poland: 12 days

Being the first in your flotilla to sink Polish ships: 4 torpedoes

Front row tickets to Luftwaffe bombardment of Hela harbor: 20% hull integrity

Being sunk 15 kilometers southeast of Portland, UK - surfaced and in broad daylight - by English shore batteries: Priceless

Thus ended yet another glorious career. I did bag a Southampton on the way there, though.

frau kaleun · 04-12-10, 08:27 PM

The only time I've ever been bombed by the Luftwaffe was when a bunch of pilots was drinking at the next table and one of them tossed an empty beer bottle over his shoulder. He's in Stalingrad now, which is really something considering we won't be at war with the Soviets for almost two years. My connections, let me show you them!

I started yet another new career after trying to sort out some mod issues and doing a bit of additional tweaking to my basic.cfg... 5 day shakedown cruise out of Königsberg went fine, as did the transfer to the 2nd Flotilla in Wilhelmshaven, but I forgot to set the # of days in port in Commander and found myself starting a second patrol on Aug 11 1939.

Made it to my patrol grid in good time and then did donuts in the Western Approaches for a couple of weeks waiting for orders. It's now Sept 10 and since hostilities started we've had only 3 contacts; one was too far off and moving too fast to catch and the other two turned out to be small coastal tankers. We sank them both with one shot each in the midst of a raging storm that will NOT subside.

The last time I was in these waters on Sept 10, I wasn't in these waters any more because I was already on the way home after sinking 9 ships and running out of eels for the foreward tubes. I couldn't turn around out here without practically running over yet another ship full of Tommies. Now I probably couldn't find one if I went straight up the channel with Deutschland über alles blaring out the tower hatch and a crewman dressed as Queen Victoria standing on the foredeck and mooning the oncoming traffic.

gazpode_l · 04-13-10, 09:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

All I'm sayin' is, the least you could do is get a little closer to shore... making the lads swim the last quarter mile is going to result in a lot of embarrassing shrinkage.

BTW looks like the square in the trunks didn't get the memo.

Hmmm don't get me posting about this one!!!

nikimcbee · 04-13-10, 07:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

All I'm sayin' is, the least you could do is get a little closer to shore... making the lads swim the last quarter mile is going to result in a lot of embarrassing shrinkage.

BTW looks like the square in the trunks didn't get the memo.

Don't hit the saddle tank!

krashkart · 04-16-10, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by nikimcbee

Don't hit the saddle tank!

Jawohl!

*splash*

*BONK*

*glub glub glub*

Thus ending yet another glorious career.

***

Update from the incident at Portsmouth:

From: U-45
To: BDU

HILFE!!! Der Kaleun ist ein kompletter Idiot! Wir ließen gestrandete drei Zeiten nahe Portsmouth laufen. Er versucht, uns alle zu töten! Gott helfen uns!

I don't know the German language, so I used Babelfish to translate from English.

Fader_Berg · 04-13-10, 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by krashkart

Hopefully our third patrol will be in the same area - there is rumored to be a nudist beach somewhere near Danzig.

Maybe that's why they invented submarines in the first place... and optics too, for that matter.

04-10-10, 06:07 AM	#1
krashkart Navy Seal Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 5,292 Downloads: 100 Uploads: 0	Peacetime - Oh The Boredom I just installed GWX 3, started a new career in '39 and based with the 7th out of Königsberg. Just came back in from our second patrol, a five day shakedown cruise around the bay. Nothing exciting. We spent most of the time fishing, and sneaking around some Polish destroyers. BdU had ordered us to sink some neutral ships. Unknown as to why... they seemed rather benign just floating there doing nothing. OTOH, if the captain of the ore hauler had looked at me just slightly more cross-eyed... yes, maybe we should have torpedoed that one. Anyhow, we disregarded the order to engage and continued onward to a popular beachside pub. Hopefully our third patrol will be in the same area - there is rumored to be a nudist beach somewhere near Danzig. No, there really isn't a nude beach near Danzig... it's just to breathe life into an otherwise dull thread. __________________ sent from my fingertips using a cheap keyboard

04-10-10, 06:26 AM	#2
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,552 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Bdu to Kaleun krashkart Starting in August 39 out of Konigsberg with the 7th Flotilla and SH3 Commander set at 20 days between patrols......... You will receive a radio message instructing you to return to base. Hit Esc and teleport back....apply for a transfer to 1st or 2nd Flotilla....your next patrol should commence on 24th August which will allow you enough time to transit to your patrol area prior to the commencement of hostilities, which is precisely what happened in RL. SINK EM ALL!! __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

04-10-10, 01:26 PM	#4
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	I use it for my 2nd Flotilla boat at Wilhelmshaven to depart August 19th, as several real boats did. I go out on the first, reach the outer harbor, then turn around and dock again. I set Commander for 18 days in port, and on the 19the I'm ready to go. For my 1st and 7th Flotilla boats I just start on Sept. 1, since most boats didn't go out until the war started. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

04-10-10, 01:29 PM	#5
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,552 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Trust you to be different __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

04-10-10, 07:08 PM	#7
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,552 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	LMAO __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

04-12-10, 02:20 PM	#9
frau kaleun Rear Admiral Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Skyri--oh who are we kidding, I'm probably at Lowe's. Again. Posts: 12,706 Downloads: 168 Uploads: 0	All I'm sayin' is, the least you could do is get a little closer to shore... making the lads swim the last quarter mile is going to result in a lot of embarrassing shrinkage. BTW looks like the square in the trunks didn't get the memo.

04-12-10, 08:27 PM	#11
frau kaleun Rear Admiral Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Skyri--oh who are we kidding, I'm probably at Lowe's. Again. Posts: 12,706 Downloads: 168 Uploads: 0	The only time I've ever been bombed by the Luftwaffe was when a bunch of pilots was drinking at the next table and one of them tossed an empty beer bottle over his shoulder. He's in Stalingrad now, which is really something considering we won't be at war with the Soviets for almost two years. My connections, let me show you them! I started yet another new career after trying to sort out some mod issues and doing a bit of additional tweaking to my basic.cfg... 5 day shakedown cruise out of Königsberg went fine, as did the transfer to the 2nd Flotilla in Wilhelmshaven, but I forgot to set the # of days in port in Commander and found myself starting a second patrol on Aug 11 1939. Made it to my patrol grid in good time and then did donuts in the Western Approaches for a couple of weeks waiting for orders. It's now Sept 10 and since hostilities started we've had only 3 contacts; one was too far off and moving too fast to catch and the other two turned out to be small coastal tankers. We sank them both with one shot each in the midst of a raging storm that will NOT subside. The last time I was in these waters on Sept 10, I wasn't in these waters any more because I was already on the way home after sinking 9 ships and running out of eels for the foreward tubes. I couldn't turn around out here without practically running over yet another ship full of Tommies. Now I probably couldn't find one if I went straight up the channel with Deutschland über alles blaring out the tower hatch and a crewman dressed as Queen Victoria standing on the foredeck and mooning the oncoming traffic. Last edited by frau kaleun; 04-12-10 at 08:39 PM.