I must be unlucky.

Kilamon · 03-30-06, 12:15 PM

it's March of 1940 and apparently the army has taken Norway. That's excellent news because now I can dock in Bergen but the KdU must be nuts. They sent me in my type II to patrol AN 39 (if I recall correctly), the bit just south of Kristiansand. There's nothing there. Just a bunch of neutral or friendly ships. It's almost a pleasure cruise. But then, out of nowhere, I get the usual updates for random boats, and other erata when what comes in from Helmut, the radio man, but a report of a "large stationary task force" up near Trondheim. With not a single fish fired and 75% fuel, I make my patrol report (Be more agressive, KdU says; feh!). Now, after a week of travel, this is the part that got interesting.

I found a Fiji cruiser, 2 escort DDs and 3 troop transports.

Of course, I'm in 16m deep water, the weather is piss poor and none of those boats were making any noise when I was sailing in looking for them. I practically ran in to a troop transport. Had to cut it hard to the left, dive and even then, I think we scraped a barnacle off. No collision, but man it was close. I had to sail around a little to find the other 2 transports and then, as I was sailing off to the prerequisite 301 meters, I saw a light escort destroyer but the shape was all wrong, it was too long. Sailing silently around it's aft, I found the Fiji. I'd already lost sight of the troop transports. The damned weather.

Unfortunately, I had to stop there; it was 1am real time. I'm looking forward to getting back to the save where I hadn't yet entered the area too closely. I think I'll target the fiji and the DD, see if I can eliminate the threats before I move to the troop boats. This little mission would be fantastic for a single mission, I think. Maybe it's time to investigate a mission creator. Too bad there's not a way to load a saved game to display all the boats so I could copy it to a single. This is really challenging. Maybe after this, I'll have enough renown to buy a VII boot.

Props to the GW team; I'm sure they had a hand in telling the game about this huge task force.

it's the only mod I use aaside from commander.

03-30-06, 12:15 PM	#1
Kilamon Loader Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 82 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I must be unlucky. it's March of 1940 and apparently the army has taken Norway. That's excellent news because now I can dock in Bergen but the KdU must be nuts. They sent me in my type II to patrol AN 39 (if I recall correctly), the bit just south of Kristiansand. There's nothing there. Just a bunch of neutral or friendly ships. It's almost a pleasure cruise. But then, out of nowhere, I get the usual updates for random boats, and other erata when what comes in from Helmut, the radio man, but a report of a "large stationary task force" up near Trondheim. With not a single fish fired and 75% fuel, I make my patrol report (Be more agressive, KdU says; feh!). Now, after a week of travel, this is the part that got interesting. I found a Fiji cruiser, 2 escort DDs and 3 troop transports. Of course, I'm in 16m deep water, the weather is piss poor and none of those boats were making any noise when I was sailing in looking for them. I practically ran in to a troop transport. Had to cut it hard to the left, dive and even then, I think we scraped a barnacle off. No collision, but man it was close. I had to sail around a little to find the other 2 transports and then, as I was sailing off to the prerequisite 301 meters, I saw a light escort destroyer but the shape was all wrong, it was too long. Sailing silently around it's aft, I found the Fiji. I'd already lost sight of the troop transports. The damned weather. Unfortunately, I had to stop there; it was 1am real time. I'm looking forward to getting back to the save where I hadn't yet entered the area too closely. I think I'll target the fiji and the DD, see if I can eliminate the threats before I move to the troop boats. This little mission would be fantastic for a single mission, I think. Maybe it's time to investigate a mission creator. Too bad there's not a way to load a saved game to display all the boats so I could copy it to a single. This is really challenging. Maybe after this, I'll have enough renown to buy a VII boot. Props to the GW team; I'm sure they had a hand in telling the game about this huge task force. it's the only mod I use aaside from commander. __________________ GW Mod is teh win!