What's your record patrol?

[Tessa]

Originally Posted by Missing Name

...that looks beautiful. And you said the deck gun got some use?

Used the deck gun till it was dry, trying to maneuver around that area submerged is extremely difficult. Ironically it provided difficult at times having to manuever backwards enough to hit below the waterline and not hit another ship or burning wreck.

Too much later in the timeline when all merchants are armed makes getting into this area nearly impossible. Only with the most severe/zero visibility weather (and nightime) do you have any hope of getting through, the route isn't mined but extremely shallow. If you don't go down the middle you ground you end up beaching your boat.

[desirableroasted]

Originally Posted by Tessa

Used the deck gun till it was dry, trying to maneuver around that area submerged is extremely difficult. Ironically it provided difficult at times having to manuever backwards enough to hit below the waterline and not hit another ship or burning wreck.

Too much later in the timeline when all merchants are armed makes getting into this area nearly impossible. Only with the most severe/zero visibility weather (and nightime) do you have any hope of getting through, the route isn't mined but extremely shallow. If you don't go down the middle you ground you end up beaching your boat.

Well done! In real life, they would have invented a new medal just for you.

What sort of ASW did you get in there? And how did you ever get out?

[Tessa]

Originally Posted by desirableroasted

Well done! In real life, they would have invented a new medal just for you.

What sort of ASW did you get in there? And how did you ever get out?

First you need to get into Halifax harbor (which is pretty easy), go up the western side around all the docks and then head NE to the little river that you see that goes North to a large lake. Best done at night when you can travel on the surface (in the river) and avoid shore battery detection, the worse the visibility the easier it is to sneak through. Once on the river don't try to use the map to plot a course, to keep from beaching your boat you'll need to do it all by eye.

Around the harbor there's the usual ASW of a couple trawlers. There's some shore batteries at the mouth of the river though once your moving up the river itself I've never encountered any. Getting into the lake is extremely awkward and (even early on) there will be a few armed merchants there so once you manage to make the 90 degree turn you'll need to submerge and sink them first. Getting out is a lot easier since you can (provided you sink all the armed merchants) go out the whole way on the surface, then exit the same way (don't go down the east side of the harbor otherwise you hit some nasty subnets as wake up some DD's that are sitting nearby). All the ships are stationary and its deep enough that you can move around and check out which ships are armed via your periscope and then start taking those out first.

[FIREWALL]

I sank over 1 million tons on 1 patrol at 200% realism and DiD.

My Subs name is Pinocchio.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

I sank over 1 million tons on 1 patrol at 200% realism and DiD.

My Subs name is Pinocchio.

[Gerald]

Name: Peter Von Veiss,total tonnage sank a little over 5.8 million GRT,60% Realism.



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[Obersteuermann]

72k GRT. Couple of whale factory ships, 2 or 3 Empire-type freighters, HMS Fiji, HMS Nelson, and a Cyclops-type merchant with hundreds of masts.

I got the Fiji by raiding Scapa Flow. Once only! The very last thing any captain should go through is having the boat beach herself in plain sight of a coastal defence battery ... thank god the gunners were asleep.