Now,this was not realistic!

VonApist · 04-28-11, 01:17 PM

"Don't want to hammer but... This is exactly why you did it, it was ok to do it so, what could possibly go wrong? "

What i meant is that i took the risk in the context of the game. What other risk is there? We are all armchair skippers, unless somebody believes that he really has a grasp of what it was to be ACTUALLY patrolling in a sub. All the discussion is in the context of the game...

The destroyers where sloppy attacking and then taking a LONG time to circle and pass over. This gave me windows of opportunity to attack. I was not damaged during the depth charges. I took damage at my last attack to the destroyer and from some fire from a merchant. Just to set the record straight...

At the end of the day, if you want me to put it this way..if in reality a german uboat commander would come back and say : "Hey Karl D, i spotted a convoy but i got chased away. 0 torpedoes fired, 0 ships sunk. I will be in the nightclub, let me know in 3 weeks which is my next patrol grid" he would face the firing squad. A couple of skippers did actually...they were supposed to get there and fight. And fighting didn't mean to down the odd defenseless merchant - not after 1941 anyways.

04-28-11, 01:17 PM	#18
VonApist Navy Dude Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Greece Posts: 175 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	"Don't want to hammer but... This is exactly why you did it, it was ok to do it so, what could possibly go wrong? " What i meant is that i took the risk in the context of the game. What other risk is there? We are all armchair skippers, unless somebody believes that he really has a grasp of what it was to be ACTUALLY patrolling in a sub. All the discussion is in the context of the game... The destroyers where sloppy attacking and then taking a LONG time to circle and pass over. This gave me windows of opportunity to attack. I was not damaged during the depth charges. I took damage at my last attack to the destroyer and from some fire from a merchant. Just to set the record straight... At the end of the day, if you want me to put it this way..if in reality a german uboat commander would come back and say : "Hey Karl D, i spotted a convoy but i got chased away. 0 torpedoes fired, 0 ships sunk. I will be in the nightclub, let me know in 3 weeks which is my next patrol grid" he would face the firing squad. A couple of skippers did actually...they were supposed to get there and fight. And fighting didn't mean to down the odd defenseless merchant - not after 1941 anyways. __________________ "Submariners are a special brotherhood, either all come to the surface or no one does. On a submarine, the phrase all for one and one for all is not just a slogan, but reality.” -- VADM Rudolf Golosov