I died (39-42 Dec, IXC).

[Falkirion]

Hard luck mate. DID can be a pain at times. I'm thinking of avoiding Gibraltar in my current campaign due to the high presence of things that can murder me.

[GREY WOLF 3]

No wonder nobody ever raided Gibraltar

Did you not see that big sign KEEP OUT

[KL-alfman]

I'm ordered to DJ21 which makes me uneasy at all.
BdU is surely expecting me to attack convoys in that area and I will obey to orders. but I've already decided that I'll stay submerged during the day and will only surface at night. if wheather is bad only batteries will be charged twice a day otherwise I'll stay down.
it's the only way to evade the massive air-cover, imho.

(call me chicken-hearted! )

[Dissaray]

Gibralter is a fun place to play, not the port though that place is scary. But there is nothing like hunting and being hunted at the same time in shalow water.

If you find your self snaged in one of those pesky nets again you could always try simply backing up. It dosen't work all the time but some times you can avoid having to pop up.

[kasperl]

You tried port raiding in a IX?
How can a sea cow expect itself to be neglected by others...

Used a IXB for a round trip into The Med, and back out.
That was crazy enough.
But, INTO Gibralter?!
That's nuts!

(I don't even have the guts in SH3, to try what Prien did, for real.
That's one brave man.)

[frau kaleun]

(I don't even have the guts in SH3, to try what Prien did, for real.
That's one brave man.)

I just tried it on a first combat patrol (2nd overall) of a new career in which I was testing out some mod combos as I'd been having n00b issues with using them. Okay, I didn't try sneaking into SF proper, just tried cruising by there at very close range to see what the RN was up to, because I'd just spent I don't know how long in grid BF-something with precious little excitement.

Was sneaking by with decks awash in the black of night and doing just fine until I decided to fire a torpedo at a destroyer. Oh well, it was just a "test career," lol.

Altho my escapade did result in the loss of 3 of their ships total. The one that I hit went down almost instantly. Then I was trying to dodge constant depth charges and taking major damage in 60-70 m of water for a while with three more of them zeroed in on my position. Given the damage estimates, we weren't going to get flooding under control before they blew us to pieces with more depth charges. So I figured WTH and waited until the RN was at least moving away and came up fast - better to die on the surface, IMO.

Ping ping ping, and had two destroyers making right for me as we emerged, and I'm not sure what exactly happened but when I switched to external view it looked like one of them had run right into or over our stern and the other had in turn rammed her from behind. Or maybe they dropped depth charges and then couldn't get away fast enough because I surfaced right into their path.

Anyway, we took 'em both down with us.