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gazpode_l · 04-13-10, 09:50 AM

Has anyone had much luck with the Irish sea, a triangle between Holyhead, Dublin and Milford Haven (Not marked on Sh3)

I've been finding plentyful contacts along that stretch

and bagged my third merchant in a month there, my second in Barely 12hrs!

AND I was sure I heard twp or THREE DIFFERENT sets of screws with my own ears when i manualled used the hydrophones, so there is clearly more out there who want to come and play with me tonight!

frau kaleun · 04-13-10, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by gazpode_l

Has anyone had much luck with the Irish sea, a triangle between Holyhead, Dublin and Milford Haven (Not marked on Sh3)

So far in my limited experience (haven't made it past mid-1940 yet) I've had the best luck in and around grids AM52 & 53 in the upper Approaches, and the western half of sector BF in the lower Approaches.

Tyically I haven't had to go much further inland than that looking for targets, this last now-defunct career being the exception, however it was storming unmercifully for the last week of it so who knows what was out there that we just couldn't see.

Once I passed through the AM grids on my way south to my patrol station in the lower Approaches just as hostilities opened with GB, ended up using a third of my eels and quite a bit of gun ammo before I got any farther south. Prey was plentiful. Still had two torps for the stern tube when I passed through again on the way home, used those and the rest of the deck gun ammo on what I found there. As I recall we even finished off a couple of ships with the flak gun because we had nothing else left to shoot at them.

krashkart · 04-13-10, 12:44 PM

Haven't been through the Irish Sea again since installing GWX, but when I played the stock game I usually had luck there. Daytime could be a pain with regular patrols of Hurricanes swooping in. After awhile they were like swarms of mosquitoes. :\

A trick I learned is to find a shipping lane and follow it. I hit one in '43 on a long haul to New York City, followed it all the way into US waters and found a fair amount of traffic along the way. Pretty sure it was either the Liverpool-Halifax or England-Halifax route - probably the former.

Jimbuna · 04-13-10, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Hey, have you ever heard my Jimbuna impression? It goes something like this:

STAY OUT OF THE ENGLISH CHANNEL!

sergei · 04-13-10, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Hey, have you ever heard my Jimbuna impression? It goes something like this:

STAY OUT OF THE ENGLISH CHANNEL!

Just spotted this.

pickinthebanjo · 04-13-10, 05:18 PM

Thats not bad advice

The first time I played the game I had an uneventful patrol then decided to rush the english channel.
I took out like 5 torpedo boats and had a deck gun battle with 3 destroyers

it's a wonder I made it out after sinking them

Now after I got GWX I don't think thats even possible anymore, made it quite realistic

Sailor Steve · 04-13-10, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by pickinthebanjo

made it quite realistic

Good. No submarine is going to survive a gun battle with even one destroyer.

nikimcbee · 04-13-10, 07:19 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.

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.

frau kaleun · 04-16-10, 12:08 PM

That's okay, I understand your crew's been running your orders through there trying to make sense out of them since about your third day at sea.

You know, IIRC there was a u-boat commander who died or had to be removed from action due to injuries sustained when he dove off the boat to take a swim during a lull in the action. Didn't clear the side of the boat and cracked his noggin.

krashkart · 04-16-10, 12:13 PM

Geez, that poor guy.

frau kaleun · 04-16-10, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by krashkart

Geez, that poor guy.

Yep. Found it:

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Kptlt. Rolf Mützelburg died on 11 September, 1942 in a freak accident. Taking the opportunity to go swimming in the Atlantic southwest of the Azores, he dived from the conning tower and struck the deck with his head and shoulder when the boat lurched suddenly in the swell.* The doctor from the Milk Cow U-462 arrived the next day, but too late, and Rolf Mützelburg was buried at sea on 12 September, 1942 in position 36.14N, 31.21W.

*Teddy Suhren in his biography states that Mützelburg hit the saddle tanks and not the deck though.

http://www.uboat.net/men/muetzelburg.htm

04-13-10, 09:50 AM	#16
gazpode_l 中国水兵 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Chelmsford, Essex Posts: 280 Downloads: 50 Uploads: 0	Irish Sea Has anyone had much luck with the Irish sea, a triangle between Holyhead, Dublin and Milford Haven (Not marked on Sh3) I've been finding plentyful contacts along that stretch and bagged my third merchant in a month there, my second in Barely 12hrs! AND I was sure I heard twp or THREE DIFFERENT sets of screws with my own ears when i manualled used the hydrophones, so there is clearly more out there who want to come and play with me tonight!

04-13-10, 12:44 PM	#18
krashkart Navy Seal Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 5,292 Downloads: 100 Uploads: 0	Haven't been through the Irish Sea again since installing GWX, but when I played the stock game I usually had luck there. Daytime could be a pain with regular patrols of Hurricanes swooping in. After awhile they were like swarms of mosquitoes. :\ A trick I learned is to find a shipping lane and follow it. I hit one in '43 on a long haul to New York City, followed it all the way into US waters and found a fair amount of traffic along the way. Pretty sure it was either the Liverpool-Halifax or England-Halifax route - probably the former. __________________ sent from my fingertips using a cheap keyboard Last edited by krashkart; 04-13-10 at 08:17 PM.

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krashkart Navy Seal Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 5,292 Downloads: 100 Uploads: 0	Geez, that poor guy. __________________ sent from my fingertips using a cheap keyboard

04-13-10, 05:18 PM	#21
pickinthebanjo Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Canada Posts: 651 Downloads: 282 Uploads: 0	Thats not bad advice The first time I played the game I had an uneventful patrol then decided to rush the english channel. I took out like 5 torpedo boats and had a deck gun battle with 3 destroyers it's a wonder I made it out after sinking them Now after I got GWX I don't think thats even possible anymore, made it quite realistic

04-16-10, 12:08 PM	#25
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	That's okay, I understand your crew's been running your orders through there trying to make sense out of them since about your third day at sea. You know, IIRC there was a u-boat commander who died or had to be removed from action due to injuries sustained when he dove off the boat to take a swim during a lull in the action. Didn't clear the side of the boat and cracked his noggin.