The Exclusive IX U-Boat club

[Ubåtskapten]

I'm in a IXC doing some paukenschlag in die nähe von die Vereinigte Staaten, more specificly, just lurking outside the gates of New York.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Ubåtskapten

I'm in a IXC doing some paukenschlag in die nähe von die Vereinigte Staaten, more specificly, just lurking outside the gates of New York.

I am on my way to join you Jan42 lets teach these Americans a lesson.

[NealT]

Originally Posted by STEED

I am on my way to join you Jan42 lets teach these Americans a lesson.

Here! Here! That's the spirit! Give them heck (until May 45 anyway...)

[Ubåtskapten]

Originally Posted by STEED

I am on my way to join you Jan42 lets teach these Americans a lesson.

I'm sorry to disappoint you but...
Erich Hofmann and the crew of U-66 have now come to rest in the U-Boot Valhalla.

After having left France in early September we noticed that the fuel consumption was to high for any longer patrol time outside the US so after some ships sunk we refuelled at U-461(i think it was).

To make a long story short, the increasing harassments from radar equipped escorts and planes made it clear that the second happy times was soon to be over. After having intercepted a convoy in late October U-66 attacked and sunk one Whale factory ship and a Liberty freighter. But due to depth keeping problems when running anything slower than 3 knots we were subsequently attacked by several escorts.
U-66 was struck at 236m 19:16 29 October 1942 by several depth charges. All hands lost.

The Malfunctions and sabotage option in SH3Cmd really makes it harder to survive when you get this kind of problems at the heat of battle. Harder, but more realistic in my opinion.

Guess it's back in 1939 again to enjoy some happy times for a while.

[KeptinCranky]

Oberleutnant Bernhard (random names *shrug*) Trossen

Sailing a Type IXb out of Wilhelmshaven from March 1940 onward

1st patrol, to gibraltar, never got there sunk several ships north of Ireland, then intercepted a convoy heading west south of Ireland, bagged me a large merchant and 2 whaling factories ran out of fish, visited Bessel at Vigo to restock

2nd patrol, back to willi, found another convoy south of Ireland, hurt that pretty badly, only 1 dd escort, and an auxilliary cruiser, sunk that as well, bagged me yet another whaling factory ship, life is going to be good for the whales, got home just in time for things to get messy in Norway

3rd patrol, Joined the efforts of the suface ships in Norway, bagged me 3 tribal DDs and a Fiji cruiser just sitting there in some fjjord, unfortunately the flyboys had already sunk all the stationary troopships , then on the way out I ran into another whaling factory, what is it with these things, that went to the bottom for the whales to laugh at, then I ran into a taskforce in heavy fog, managed to make them steam nearly over me at 20 kts, had something really big pass right in front of my bow at 700 meters, fired a full spread, 3 hits, couldn't even see what it was, just that it sounded big, during evasion of angry DDs I got the message "she's going down", turns out I managed to sink HMS Illustrious with hydrophone only shot . Went back to Wilhelmshaven because out of fish and crummy weather, got a Knight's Cross for that. I also got myself a Black Whale on the Conning tower because of the whaling ships, If I manage to sink one more I'll get me a White Whale

"...and if his chest had been a mortar he would have burst his heart upon it.." -from Moby Dick

4th patrol, after some time on a propaganda tour set out from Wilhelmshaven to patrol AN84 (yes they're evacuating Dunkirk and all that but please, why not send the type II guys my boat's far to big for the southern North Sea) ran into a mine both periscopes and hydrophone wrecked, I'm blind and deaf underwater... also lost most of my diesel, managed to save the sub though, limped back to Wilhelmshaven for repairs. ah well...

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

plz give me sme dates and places of those convoys

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Ubåtskapten

I'm sorry to disappoint you but...
Erich Hofmann and the crew of U-66 have now come to rest in the U-Boot Valhalla.

I shall sink a large ship in honour of U-66.

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

Originally Posted by STEED

I shall sink a large ship in honour of U-66.

sink a battleship

il take a fiji

[STEED]

Just got back from round one of Drumbeat what a lot of rotten weather and as I sail home for the first time I get good weather, bloody typical that.

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

somtimes luck isnt on your side

like me... i have this game already over a year...
i went on a iceberg and convoy search...
today i saw my first convoy but still no iceberg

[TteFAboB]

In.

Just got my IXB. I'm loving it. Aiming for the IXD2.