Whats more annoying

[bstanko6]

1) literally running into absolutely no ships for entire patrol, refuel at Vigo, and still never see a ship until almost out of the refuel fuel!

2) firing a torp at a ship after setting the AOB to port, when it should have been starboard...oops.

3) watching the flak gunner on my type IXB make puffs of smoke in the air. I mean, does the flak really do anything?

[Gunnarr]

something that happened to me twice so far.

running into those puny islands that you can only see if you zoom a bit on the map. and time compression only stopping literally seconds away from impact!

[Zosimus]

Yeah that's happened to me a time or two rounding the north coast of England.

[Aktungbby]

Yup! that teeny little St Kilda Archipelego of the Outer Hebrides can lay some serious hirta on an ol' U boat!

[Rambler241]

bstanko6 said:
1) literally running into absolutely no ships for entire patrol, refuel at Vigo, and still never see a ship until almost out of the refuel fuel!

You should be able to hear them before you see them - don't you do regular sonar dips? BTW, you're not supposed to run into ships, rather fire some kind of munition at them....

2) firing a torp at a ship after setting the AOB to port, when it should have been starboard...oops.

... or not firing one by repeatedly hitting the tube selection button instead of the fire button, and wondering vot in himmel ist GOING ON!

3) watching the flak gunner on my type IXB make puffs of smoke in the air. I mean, does the flak really do anything?

My flak gunner shot down 18 Hurricanes last patrol (Sept. 1940), a record for this career. Nothing macho, gung-ho or foolhardy about that - it's risking all to submerge while under almost continuous attack. Likely result is unplanned hull and machinery modifications at best....

[20000 Leagues]

Originally Posted by bstanko6

3) watching the flak gunner on my type IXB make puffs of smoke in the air. I mean, does the flak really do anything?

I actually saw my gunner's flak hit just off the starboard wing of a Sunderland and brought it down. Then again, more often than not I've also watched flak hit and explode directly on the nose of Hurricane repeatedly and do nothing!