Through The Lion's Teeth

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Rykaird

December, 1940

I have received my new boat – a type IXB. She seems to have enough torpedoes to sink the entire British fleet

I like your thinking.

[Jimbuna]

Your prize awaits you

[Mush Martin]

Go in on the surface at 1/3 ahead at midday.

you never know.

More seriously

I found that the units patrolling the straight came up one at a time
politely although there is a taskgroup in there somewhere I either
managed to avoid them or they were so spread out I didnt recognize
them. I actually went through at Battle depth at night. and
either routed around them in space or routed around them in time.
didnt really have much trouble.

there is a current in the Real world but I dont think it affects you in sh3
full ahead is same speed east or west all things being equal.

[Iron Budokan]

Originally Posted by Mush Martin

Go in on the surface at 1/3 ahead at midday.

you never know.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

[Finback]

Originally Posted by Mush Martin

Go in on the surface at 1/3 ahead at midday.

you never know.

Creeping speed. You burn less fuel.

[Rykaird]

[quote=Finback]

Originally Posted by Mush Martin

Go in on the surface at 1/3 ahead at midday.

you never know.quote]

Creeping speed. You burn less fuel.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

So the consensus on getting past the Straits of Gibraltar is a ten step plan:

1) Go in at mid-day;
2) In calm seas;
3) On the surface;
4) At all ahead slow;
5) With both periscopes fully raised;
6) Pinging regularly for depth;
7) With the gramophone blairing the hit song "Churchill is A Human Warthog"
8) Firing the deck and flak guns periodically;
9) Sending regular position reports to the British, coupled with chatty comments about their dubious parentage and bad dental hygiene;
10) And lastly, with a target symbol for my side emblem.

We should add this sage advice to the Wiki . . .

[Tessa]

Being addicted to port raiding I spend a lot of time sitting and waiting for traffic to pass between movements. Though it can take a very long time (irt) you can count on the ships momentum to keep you moving for awhile, even if the traffic is so bad you can only muster bursts of slow at silent your ship will still keep moving for a few more meters. If you get lucky and get a chance where all traffic is moving away from you at long range you can hit flank speed and then cut the engines which should get you a hundred meters or better safely. Though there are no real ocean current ingame as mentioned, your boat still is subject to P=MV

[Brag]

[quote=Rykaird]

Originally Posted by Finback

Thanks for all the suggestions.

So the consensus on getting past the Straits of Gibraltar is a ten step plan:

1) Go in at mid-day;
2) In calm seas;
3) On the surface;
4) At all ahead slow;
5) With both periscopes fully raised;
6) Pinging regularly for depth;
7) With the gramophone blairing the hit song "Churchill is A Human Warthog"
8) Firing the deck and flak guns periodically;
9) Sending regular position reports to the British, coupled with chatty comments about their dubious parentage and bad dental hygiene;
10) And lastly, with a target symbol for my side emblem.

We should add this sage advice to the Wiki . . .

You forgot: 11) Have Bernard on watch with a megaphone.

[Sailor Steve]

[quote=Brag]

Originally Posted by Rykaird

You forgot: 11) Have Bernard on watch with a megaphone.

12) Have your crew standing on deck in dress uniforms lined up in the shape of a giant swastika.