Your greatest escape from a Destroyer

Liam C · 11-15-12, 12:46 AM

Anyone have any cool stories about a near miss with a destroyer, I have one.

So three are chasing me, one starts pinging me. I fire my aft torpedo and it hits him and it sinks. It swerves in front of another so that one has to stop.
I flank speed ahead for a while until the aft torpedo is ready again.Another destroyer pings me, fire aft torpedo and he's sunk.
so now I have just one destroyer left, I hard to starboard and so does he. I stopped to avoid going right under him and reverse. Now he is in front of me so I fire tube 1 and 4. Both hit him and sink him. I surface the the boat and return to base safely.

11-15-12, 03:22 AM

Doesn't sound like it was greatest to me

Liam C · 11-15-12, 05:30 AM

Or coolest.

Red October1984 · 11-15-12, 07:29 AM

I've got some good ones posted somewhere

One was how I escaped 2 destroyers and 3 frigates in 30 meters of water.

The other was how I managed to crash 2 destroyers together.

Jimbuna · 11-15-12, 12:39 PM

I tend to surface and throw empty beer cans at them...that usually does the trick.

BossMark · 11-15-12, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

I tend to surface and throw empty beer cans at them...that usually does the trick.

No doubt it'll be Newcastle brown

Ancient Mariner · 12-27-12, 03:48 AM

I have a few from back in the day....jeez I sound old

Attacked a convoy escorted by a bb,managed to sink her(after my escape and with 1 good tube),a few of the merchies and at least 1 absolute lucky kill fired by listening in on the hydrophone. Was rammed a perisocpe depth knocking out my eyes,lost 3 fwd tubes eventually lost 4th fwd,some good crew were seriously wounded. Managed to blind fire and sink that destroyer. After a bit of evasion I skulked off and started my attack again,I needed to get that Battleship.....She was sunk using the rear tube on the surface(night,crap weather)luckily she went down on that eel too....dont think a type 7 crash dives faster than a shell....

Cybermat47 · 12-27-12, 04:07 AM

Is it alright to post events from SH5 here? Because I've got one involving me, 20 destroyers, fog and Reykjavik.

Hinrich Schwab · 12-27-12, 08:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Cybermat47

Is it alright to post events from SH5 here?

I would think so...if you are using the AI mod.

Sailor Steve · 12-27-12, 11:28 AM

I would think no. Start a thread there if you want. On the other hand it's a matter of choice for the other posters in this thread, and I've been wrong before.

desertstriker · 12-27-12, 02:15 PM

i would have to say when i hit a task force with probly 10 DDs and several battleships. well i sank 3 of the battleships and had the DDs left all 10 bearing down on me i launced my acustic torpedos hit 4 hit the DDs leaving me with 6 and i dove and turned straight towards them and hit silent running the over shot me by about 1000 meters. i then ordered an all stop and just sat there sinking slowly. never figured out why their pinging never found me. didn't think the albriecht was that good.

11-15-12, 12:46 AM	#1
Liam C Swabbie Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 11 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Your greatest escape from a Destroyer Anyone have any cool stories about a near miss with a destroyer, I have one. So three are chasing me, one starts pinging me. I fire my aft torpedo and it hits him and it sinks. It swerves in front of another so that one has to stop. I flank speed ahead for a while until the aft torpedo is ready again.Another destroyer pings me, fire aft torpedo and he's sunk. so now I have just one destroyer left, I hard to starboard and so does he. I stopped to avoid going right under him and reverse. Now he is in front of me so I fire tube 1 and 4. Both hit him and sink him. I surface the the boat and return to base safely.

11-15-12, 07:29 AM	#4
Red October1984 Airplane Nerd Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Texas Posts: 6,243 Downloads: 115 Uploads: 0	I've got some good ones posted somewhere One was how I escaped 2 destroyers and 3 frigates in 30 meters of water. The other was how I managed to crash 2 destroyers together. __________________

11-15-12, 12:39 PM	#5
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,661 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	I tend to surface and throw empty beer cans at them...that usually does the trick. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

12-27-12, 03:48 AM	#7
Ancient Mariner Torpedoman Join Date: May 2009 Location: Somewhere north of Auckland Posts: 114 Downloads: 80 Uploads: 0	I have a few from back in the day....jeez I sound oldAttacked a convoy escorted by a bb,managed to sink her(after my escape and with 1 good tube),a few of the merchies and at least 1 absolute lucky kill fired by listening in on the hydrophone. Was rammed a perisocpe depth knocking out my eyes,lost 3 fwd tubes eventually lost 4th fwd,some good crew were seriously wounded. Managed to blind fire and sink that destroyer. After a bit of evasion I skulked off and started my attack again,I needed to get that Battleship.....She was sunk using the rear tube on the surface(night,crap weather)luckily she went down on that eel too....dont think a type 7 crash dives faster than a shell....

12-27-12, 04:07 AM	#8
Cybermat47 Willing Webfooted Beast Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Australia Posts: 5,408 Downloads: 300 Uploads: 23	Is it alright to post events from SH5 here? Because I've got one involving me, 20 destroyers, fog and Reykjavik. __________________ Historical TWoS Gameplay Guide: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?p=2572620 Historical FotRSU Gameplay Guide: https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho....php?p=2713394

11-15-12, 03:22 AM	#2
Troublous_Haze Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Doesn't sound like it was greatest to me

11-15-12, 05:30 AM	#3
Liam C Swabbie Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 11 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Or coolest.

12-27-12, 11:28 AM	#10
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	I would think no. Start a thread there if you want. On the other hand it's a matter of choice for the other posters in this thread, and I've been wrong before. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

12-27-12, 02:15 PM	#11
desertstriker Eternal Patrol Join Date: May 2012 Location: mod soup bar and grill Posts: 1,756 Downloads: 998 Uploads: 0	i would have to say when i hit a task force with probly 10 DDs and several battleships. well i sank 3 of the battleships and had the DDs left all 10 bearing down on me i launced my acustic torpedos hit 4 hit the DDs leaving me with 6 and i dove and turned straight towards them and hit silent running the over shot me by about 1000 meters. i then ordered an all stop and just sat there sinking slowly. never figured out why their pinging never found me. didn't think the albriecht was that good.