How Depressing...

deepboat · 07-25-08, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by U-46 Commander

with the SH3 World mod, I always go through the channel. Lots of tonnage there mates!

I guess it depends on what kind of tonnage you're talking about. Shefffield steel or Krupp stahl!

U-46 Commander · 07-25-08, 09:40 PM

This is without the GWX mod. In the SH3 World mod, there are no mines that i know of, and few patrol vessels-just lots of PT boats!

UnderseaLcpl · 07-26-08, 04:24 AM

Not so pathetic. worse mistakes have been made. Not by me, of course. But hypothetically a Kaleun could, say, hit a German mine on his way out of Wilhelmshaven, or be rammed by his own destroyer escort. I mean, you could even crash dive into the bottom and forget to assign damage control crews and eventually sink. Of course, I'm just guessing. Never happened to me. Nope.

Wreford-Brown · 07-26-08, 07:44 AM

I'm still happily running through Der Kanal in 1941, but only in my 'arcade' career in a XXI.

GoldenRivet · 07-26-08, 03:26 PM

The canal route is possible.

that said... i dont recommend it to anyone, i have not entered the canal in any serious career since the release of GWX - the first version.

you dont tug on superman's cape...

You dont piss in the wind...

you dont pull the mask of the ol' lone ranger...

- and you dont go into the canal!

rls669 · 07-26-08, 08:20 PM

In GWX 2.1 I took my XXI through the Channel in summer of 1944 for her maiden voyage -- and obliterated a heavily escorted convoy along the way. I guess I was lucky I didn't hit a mine but the destroyers weren't any worse than normal. Of course a XXI with a nice assortment of homing torpedoes didn't hurt.

I also got way, way too near the east coast of England in a IXD2 the patrol before that, following a convoy report I received as I transited the North Sea out of Bergen. 15m/s wind and huge waves must make for poor sonar conditions in 40m of water, as I escaped (to my utter amazement). I think every square meter of the sea in a 10km radius got hedgehogged during that debacle. Just not (quite) at the exact same time I was occupying it

So late war Channel forays are survivable . . . if not exactly recommended.

07-25-08, 09:40 PM	#2
U-46 Commander Lieutenant Join Date: May 2008 Location: The absolutely most exciting state!! Iowa! Posts: 251 Downloads: 53 Uploads: 0	This is without the GWX mod. In the SH3 World mod, there are no mines that i know of, and few patrol vessels-just lots of PT boats! __________________ "Loved By Few, Hated By Many, Respected By All."-The U-boats.

07-26-08, 04:24 AM	#3
UnderseaLcpl Silent Hunter Join Date: May 2008 Location: Storming the beaches! Posts: 4,254 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Not so pathetic. worse mistakes have been made. Not by me, of course. But hypothetically a Kaleun could, say, hit a German mine on his way out of Wilhelmshaven, or be rammed by his own destroyer escort. I mean, you could even crash dive into the bottom and forget to assign damage control crews and eventually sink. Of course, I'm just guessing. Never happened to me. Nope. __________________ I stole this sig from Task Force

07-26-08, 07:44 AM	#4
Wreford-Brown Sea Lord Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: In sight of Stonehenge Posts: 1,750 Downloads: 51 Uploads: 26	I'm still happily running through Der Kanal in 1941, but only in my 'arcade' career in a XXI. __________________ All my mods are available at MediaFire: SH3 Mods Other modders SH3 mods SH4 Mods ...you can't please all of the people all of the time...

07-26-08, 03:26 PM	#5
GoldenRivet Subsim Aviator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 8,726 Downloads: 146 Uploads: 0	The canal route is possible. that said... i dont recommend it to anyone, i have not entered the canal in any serious career since the release of GWX - the first version. you dont tug on superman's cape... You dont piss in the wind... you dont pull the mask of the ol' lone ranger... - and you dont go into the canal! __________________

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07-26-08, 08:20 PM	#6
rls669 Torpedoman Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 117 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	In GWX 2.1 I took my XXI through the Channel in summer of 1944 for her maiden voyage -- and obliterated a heavily escorted convoy along the way. I guess I was lucky I didn't hit a mine but the destroyers weren't any worse than normal. Of course a XXI with a nice assortment of homing torpedoes didn't hurt. I also got way, way too near the east coast of England in a IXD2 the patrol before that, following a convoy report I received as I transited the North Sea out of Bergen. 15m/s wind and huge waves must make for poor sonar conditions in 40m of water, as I escaped (to my utter amazement). I think every square meter of the sea in a 10km radius got hedgehogged during that debacle. Just not (quite) at the exact same time I was occupying it So late war Channel forays are survivable . . . if not exactly recommended.