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[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Captain Dave

I can't say, I've been ordered to maintain radio silence on this patrol.

And you radioed in to tell us you must maintain radio silence? Shades of Groucho Marx!

[Admiral8Q]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

And you radioed in to tell us you must maintain radio silence? Shades of Groucho Marx!

LMAO Steve!

Anyhow...

I started in Manila in '41 with the USS Nautilus (Narwhal's sister ship). Met a huge invasion force right off the bat and sunk two heavy cruisers. the next three patrols we're cloak and dagger missions mostly with little contacts, but recently found a Jap sub and finished him off with a salvo of three torpedoes.

[I'm goin' down]

The Admiral wants photos of naked sunbathing women. I told him that we could not find any.

p.s. delete pic of woman changing because Gunfighter sent me images from my signature which had been missing. sorry men.

[Biggley]

I'm on my second patrol, 0% realism as this is my first bash at the game, my first patrol i sunk 19K with a little damage in return. A medal for me and three for my crew. Currently i'm due north facing a convoy which is due to pass over me so I can get in and attack, I'm thinking of moving away and attacking at night. I have also done some research and found that the German WW2 ace sunk 475K ish over one and half years and so I need to get at it a lot more!

I'm thinking about atttacking a Jap task force for serious tonnage, are they dangerous?

[Harmsway!]

Last night I was on my third patrol with RSRD_RFB when my crew spotted a single merchant at dawn. I had already sunk two others but it's been a week since our last action. Well it's about time I thought.

It took a few hours to set up the attack, submerged and wait. She took two fish but was taken too long to take on water for my taste. So a third fish went in for the kill. Sure enough she started to flood. Her decks were awash and I foolishly surfaced to gloat on the final demise. Well those boys must have had their wet gear on because the began blowing me to bits with canon fire.

Sure enough we both sunk. Yes, I saved just before the battle but I think I'll let dead be dead and continue with my Battle of the Baltic career for awhile.

[Captain Dave]

Sailor Steve
/And you radioed in to tell us you must maintain radio silence? Shades of Groucho Marx!

Shhhh, I must be goingggggg!

[Bubblehead1980]

Originally Posted by Harmsway!

Last night I was on my third patrol with RSRD_RFB when my crew spotted a single merchant at dawn. I had already sunk two others but it's been a week since our last action. Well it's about time I thought.

It took a few hours to set up the attack, submerged and wait. She took two fish but was taken too long to take on water for my taste. So a third fish went in for the kill. Sure enough she started to flood. Her decks were awash and I foolishly surfaced to gloat on the final demise. Well those boys must have had their wet gear on because the began blowing me to bits with canon fire.

Sure enough we both sunk. Yes, I saved just before the battle but I think I'll let dead be dead and continue with my Battle of the Baltic career for awhile.

yea never a good idea to surface when close unless youre SURE as in report from crew that shes done. I remember reading in CLEAR THE BRIDGE by Richard O Kane that a merchant kept firing her guns as she sank into the Yellow Sea in June 1944 after TANG torpedoed her.

[G2B]

Recently had my arse handed to me just in the Luzon area late Dec 41. Found a nice convoy, couple large freighters troop ship and some small freighters, and a mess of escorts. I thought if I went to about 280 feet cruising at 1 knot in a Sargo class I could slip past the escorts and pop up in the middle of the fun. I thought the escorts had passed and started creeping up to PD, about 240 feet the pinging started all around me, sneeky buggers had me on hydra-phones and were sitting and listening, waiting we held our own for about 10 minutes trying to evade, did the yo-yo thing till the flooding would not let us yo any more. The moral of the story make sure you double check that you ordered SILENT RUNNING

[WernherVonTrapp]

My second war patrol out of Pearl running RFB/RSRDC. It's February 1942 and I've just completed a 105nm patrol assignment in the East China Sea. 96 hours of nothing. This war patrol was starting to look like it was going to end up like the last one, Fish Boat Fest 41, where I engaged a small flotilla of 6 fishing boats for an end total of 1200 tons before having to refuel. Nope, not this time. I set my sights on Itoman Harbor at Okinawa. I came in from the southwest under the cover of darkness on the 26th. Surprisingly, I found the harbor completely unguarded, save for a fishing boat and a tug. Waited for them to depart before the ravaging began. Using both torps and deck gun, I took out a Large Modern Tanker, a Medium Old Tanker, a British Medium Old Tanker, a Medium Old Split Freighter, a Large Modern Composite and even sank the little fishing boat when it returned. I lobbed some shells at a docked, small sub chaser, a MLSokuten and a Gyoraitei PT Boat but it seemed to have no effect, except the Sokuten did catch fire. Couldn't sink it though, even after a dozen direct hits. However, I only had a 3" deck gun at the time.
Nevertheless, I've already racked up over 30,000K in tonnage but only have a few torps left now and am running low on fuel again. Had to dodge a few planes including a Betty that crashed into the ocean while making it's initial bomb run on my diving sub.
I have a green crew, no radar of any kind and only a .50 cal AA gun in an aft mount.

[rein1705]

Originally Posted by I'm goin' down

The Admiral wants photos of naked sunbathing women. I told him that we could not find any.

ROLF!!