I managed to sink HMS Nelson! my first EVER encounter with a battleship

Paul Riley · 08-24-11, 12:15 PM

Just thought I would share the fantastic news of me managing to sink HMS Nelson the other night.He was a tough lad,it took 4 to stop him at which point he was sitting low in the water and starting to capsize to his portside.He needed a 5th torpedo to send him to the bottom.And the real special thing about this sinking was that he was part of a 20 ship convoy and sat bang in the middle on the 3rd lane.I attacked the convoy by shadowing for about 6 hours,moving in from the rear at night,dropped my draught to 7m and parked myself about 500m alongside him,and none of the lambs saw me,it was a textbook attack and I was really proud of myself,although I did feel bad for sinking him in the end,but I could hardly let him slip by without a fight

33.000 tonnes from the Nelson gave me a very respectable 60.000 tonnes to that particular patrol,with 10 merchants sunk,and a Knights Cross second class.Odd,I was expecting the top medal for this audacious attack,in fact I was actually expecting Doenitz to step down and place me at the helm of the KM hehehe.
Every torpedo and every round of HE ammo was used on that patrol.
I took a few screenshots of the event and will post them in the near future.

08-24-11, 12:15 PM	#1
Paul Riley Ocean Warrior Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Sheffield, England Posts: 2,679 Downloads: 165 Uploads: 0	I managed to sink HMS Nelson! my first EVER encounter with a battleship Just thought I would share the fantastic news of me managing to sink HMS Nelson the other night.He was a tough lad,it took 4 to stop him at which point he was sitting low in the water and starting to capsize to his portside.He needed a 5th torpedo to send him to the bottom.And the real special thing about this sinking was that he was part of a 20 ship convoy and sat bang in the middle on the 3rd lane.I attacked the convoy by shadowing for about 6 hours,moving in from the rear at night,dropped my draught to 7m and parked myself about 500m alongside him,and none of the lambs saw me,it was a textbook attack and I was really proud of myself,although I did feel bad for sinking him in the end,but I could hardly let him slip by without a fight 33.000 tonnes from the Nelson gave me a very respectable 60.000 tonnes to that particular patrol,with 10 merchants sunk,and a Knights Cross second class.Odd,I was expecting the top medal for this audacious attack,in fact I was actually expecting Doenitz to step down and place me at the helm of the KM hehehe. Every torpedo and every round of HE ammo was used on that patrol. I took a few screenshots of the event and will post them in the near future. __________________ Best Patrol: 10 merchants + HMS Nelson for 68.056 Tonnes Last edited by Paul Riley; 08-24-11 at 04:41 PM.