Operation Hartmut

[Pisces]

Originally Posted by Tessa

Unless you run into a high value target, anything say aux. cruiser size or higher I wouldn't waste any more eels. Once you get into Narvik or some of the other hot spots the fjords create the perfect bottleneck that big ships can't manuever in. There'll be ample chance to take on more DD's; but best there are BB's and at least 1 flat top that are floating around at various places. Once in the action there's no shortage of targets, the biggest variable is will your torpedoes be all duds (like it was historically where 100% of the torpedoes didn't detonate properly even with impact pistols)

Then there's also the 150,000+ tons of ships that Prien found while he was there that were sitting ducks (literally, they were moored but left completely unguarded) but every torpedo he fired didn't detonate despite an expert captain aiming at a stationary target.

I don't mess with DDs when I'm around convoys. It's just that I was 'sent' there to clear the way for the invasion (somehow I didn't get any patrol orders from the MaGUI mod so I just volunteered the challenge), so any warship I was to get into contact with would be attacked. Alas it didn't work as I hoped it would. Also, I forgot to change the torpedo loadout. So I had mostly Type-1's aboard.

[Tessa]

Originally Posted by Pisces

I don't mess with DDs when I'm around convoys. It's just that I was 'sent' there to clear the way for the invasion (somehow I didn't get any patrol orders from the MaGUI mod so I just volunteered the challenge), so any warship I was to get into contact with would be attacked. Alas it didn't work as I hoped it would. Also, I forgot to change the torpedo loadout. So I had mostly Type-1's aboard.

The DD's became a Turkey shoot once I sunk the Nelson (admittedly from the pic it looks like a top-fuel dragster at max accelerator with the front wheel lifted all the way up (or forecastle in this case) the way it sank); was parked at the edge of the little pennisula to the far right (outside the photo) and sank the Nelson from that spot. I pulled backwards into the fjord and to my right so they all got jammed up as you can see in the photo.



Somehow one managed to elude a near point blank shot (~500m at 45kts) while the other three lit up like a Christmas tree as I plucked them off. Retreated back to my hiding spot to reload and wait for them to leave and their return course when they left Narvik (giving time to transfer the external torpedoes).