The most reckless/foolish thing you have ever done? - Page 7

flag4 · 02-01-12, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Raticon

Next up: get bold and brave, the swordfishes and Ansons are easy targets that go down easily...

those poor sailors...

...and in one moment of bad timing so will you and all your hard earned tons and crew...

les green01 · 02-01-12, 11:37 PM

this happen when i first got sh3 was cruising the english channel went to work leaving it on 1x came home and notice i was nose first into the mud the dog decided to play the game for me and hit the dive button also have found out what happens when you get to close to a burning ship,once destoyers was after me so manuver to a wounded ship and had it sink right ontop of me.

VonApist · 03-05-12, 04:27 AM

GWX, SH3Commander, 90% and I decide a raid in Halifax (mid 1940) with my VIIB U-33.

The Navigator gave me a funny look "Canada, Kaleun? This boat's engines wont run on seawater..."

"Dont worry Franz - there is always Greenland for refueling on our way back"...

Anyways, we arrive out of Halifax pretty easily, evading all destroyers patrolling. We wait 2-3 days for a change in weather and it eventually comes. Low visibility, high winds , rain. So I decide to go in and take a look.

Decks awash until we reach a position 4-5miles out of the harbour then depth 17 meters , speed 1knot silent running. We manage to stay undetected. We enter the port. 1 modern tanker and 1 large merchant in nice view on the southern docks. I send 4 eels their way (2 each) and make my way out. Both ships are hit, so after 2 hours of silent running since the weather is crappy i order decks awash to make a faster escape. We are now 7-8 miles out of the harbour moving east at 6 knots, feeling pretty happy when we bump into two destroyers heading directly TOWARSS me coming from 000. Due to low visibility I only saw them when we reached a distance of 250m.

Rammed and died...

Pretty annoying

Kafka BC · 03-05-12, 05:55 AM

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Originally Posted by VonApist

GWX, SH3Commander, 90% and I decide a raid in Halifax (mid 1940) with my VIIB U-33. ....

....Rammed and died...

Pretty annoying

Damned annoying.

They messed up Halifax in the game. In real life you would never have made it in, see my post here.

andwii · 03-05-12, 06:28 AM

New most foolish thing ive done, attacked troop ships heading for Normandy. I made it out alive though.

u35_captain · 03-06-12, 04:23 PM

Surfacing in daylight in Hartlepool to save torpedoes and using the deck gun on the shipping. To my utter amazement, no aircraft showed up at all. (Mid 1940, but still)

And then one destroyer came poking around. But I was in the harbour itself (there was no way my gunners could miss, and turns out the destroyer tried to come in to get me as I'd submerged...right where my forward torpedoes were already aiming. Damned tricky getting out of the gap between the breakwall and wharves with a sunken destroyer in my exit vector, but still.

Recklessness paid off this one time, I think.

matti95 · 03-10-12, 12:16 PM

TC x64 while getting depth charged

andwii · 03-10-12, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by matti95

TC x64 while getting depth charged

lol ive gone to 128 before while DC. As long as your confident you lost them like I was. Turns out I wasn't though, didn't die but it was scary.

Soviet Creeper · 06-02-12, 05:51 PM

I wasnt paying attention to the fact after Id gotten away from a convoy my sub was leaking a little, so I went to TC at periscope depth and BAM before I knew it I was at 150 meters and dropping like a rock. I was in a XXI with 60 percent hull integerty, so I was deperatly assigning people to my DC section and trying to de flood the sub. I went down too about 210 meters before I was able to start rising. I then limped my way back to base while evading the everything.

Worst thing is this was all caused because I got cocky in a storm and a S boat landed some shells into me with his deck gun, while I couldnt fire mine due to the storm. That Sboat is a hacker

Das Boot_U96 · 06-06-12, 07:14 PM

On my first patrol in AN47, I couldn't find anything at all in that grid.

I remember reading that Hartlepool was a port easy to sneak into, and it was.

I was literally 300m away from the stationery ships, I was at periscope depth but I did have my periscope up the entire time and the the lights were just loking at me

I managed to sink all 3 ships, one being a T2 Tanker, the other a C2 Cargo and the other a small merchant if I remember correctly. Was proud considering I'm new to this game

My battery was low though an oxygen reserves getting low, so I had to surface in their port, still not noticed somehow

maybe it was the weather? It was foggy and stormy.

5 Mins later and a warship just rams into the side of me and sinks me

Shkval · 06-08-12, 06:12 AM

Mid '43 trough the channel on surface in my IXC flank speed... calm sea, clear weather, and dozens of katalinas with the moon behind their back... i shoot down about 40... maybe 50 of them... and left without a single bullet for AA guns... then I was forced to dive... and survive...

Frenchy849 · 06-08-12, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Shkval

Mid '43 trough the channel on surface in my IXC flank speed... calm sea, clear weather, and dozens of katalinas with the moon behind their back... i shoot down about 40... maybe 50 of them... and left without a single bullet for AA guns... then I was forced to dive... and survive...

HehehAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHHHehhh...ehhh,no.

Shkval · 06-08-12, 01:44 PM

I really did that, it was like the scene from "Das Boot" when they are discovered in Gibraltar... bombs splashing everywhere, and constant drumming of AA guns, with me sitting behind 4-barreled 20mm flak... they were dropping like flies... only thing I was worried about was that some of those stupid katalinas will fall on me... there were few close ones but luckily they missed... but never again... second craziest thing was in SH4... cruising on surface in Tokyo bay, but with the "little" help of radar I managed to recharge my batteries...and dive again... although I was scared to sh..!
The most stupidest thing I ever done was (this one goes for the Darwin award) hitting the "right full rudder" instead of "left full rudder" what led me directly beneath the destroyer, which I tried to dodge, in my brand new type XXI, and I got DC directly in my mouth, sunk like a stone...

Sailor Steve · 06-08-12, 03:02 PM

Stock game or modded? Patrol bombers attacked in groups of one, and were plenty dangerous that way. The stock game gives you dozens of planes, all easy to shoot down. The supermods should fix that.

Shkval · 06-08-12, 04:06 PM

Stock of course...back then long time ago internet was dial-up and expensive as platinum... downloading GWX would last a month and my parents would hang me for my tenders for telephone bill... now with GWX I'm cautious as a sardine... SH4 was also stock...

02-01-12, 11:37 PM	#92
les green01 Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Freeman Missouri Posts: 1,784 Downloads: 1405 Uploads: 0	this happen when i first got sh3 was cruising the english channel went to work leaving it on 1x came home and notice i was nose first into the mud the dog decided to play the game for me and hit the dive button also have found out what happens when you get to close to a burning ship,once destoyers was after me so manuver to a wounded ship and had it sink right ontop of me. __________________ I'll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done. Audie Murphy

03-05-12, 04:27 AM	#93
VonApist Navy Dude Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Greece Posts: 175 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	GWX, SH3Commander, 90% and I decide a raid in Halifax (mid 1940) with my VIIB U-33. The Navigator gave me a funny look "Canada, Kaleun? This boat's engines wont run on seawater..." "Dont worry Franz - there is always Greenland for refueling on our way back"... Anyways, we arrive out of Halifax pretty easily, evading all destroyers patrolling. We wait 2-3 days for a change in weather and it eventually comes. Low visibility, high winds , rain. So I decide to go in and take a look. Decks awash until we reach a position 4-5miles out of the harbour then depth 17 meters , speed 1knot silent running. We manage to stay undetected. We enter the port. 1 modern tanker and 1 large merchant in nice view on the southern docks. I send 4 eels their way (2 each) and make my way out. Both ships are hit, so after 2 hours of silent running since the weather is crappy i order decks awash to make a faster escape. We are now 7-8 miles out of the harbour moving east at 6 knots, feeling pretty happy when we bump into two destroyers heading directly TOWARSS me coming from 000. Due to low visibility I only saw them when we reached a distance of 250m. Rammed and died... Pretty annoying __________________ "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

06-02-12, 05:51 PM	#99
Soviet Creeper Planesman Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: In the corner of shame Posts: 187 Downloads: 143 Uploads: 0	I wasnt paying attention to the fact after Id gotten away from a convoy my sub was leaking a little, so I went to TC at periscope depth and BAM before I knew it I was at 150 meters and dropping like a rock. I was in a XXI with 60 percent hull integerty, so I was deperatly assigning people to my DC section and trying to de flood the sub. I went down too about 210 meters before I was able to start rising. I then limped my way back to base while evading the everything. Worst thing is this was all caused because I got cocky in a storm and a S boat landed some shells into me with his deck gun, while I couldnt fire mine due to the storm. That Sboat is a hacker __________________ I used to be a huge submarine guy but now I'm a huge submarine girl ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Last edited by Soviet Creeper; 06-03-12 at 07:35 AM.

06-08-12, 06:12 AM	#101
Shkval Planesman Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 192 Downloads: 54 Uploads: 0	Mid '43 trough the channel on surface in my IXC flank speed... calm sea, clear weather, and dozens of katalinas with the moon behind their back... i shoot down about 40... maybe 50 of them... and left without a single bullet for AA guns... then I was forced to dive... and survive... __________________ Come closer... and die.

06-08-12, 01:44 PM	#103
Shkval Planesman Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 192 Downloads: 54 Uploads: 0	I really did that, it was like the scene from "Das Boot" when they are discovered in Gibraltar... bombs splashing everywhere, and constant drumming of AA guns, with me sitting behind 4-barreled 20mm flak... they were dropping like flies... only thing I was worried about was that some of those stupid katalinas will fall on me... there were few close ones but luckily they missed... but never again... second craziest thing was in SH4... cruising on surface in Tokyo bay, but with the "little" help of radar I managed to recharge my batteries...and dive again... although I was scared to sh..! The most stupidest thing I ever done was (this one goes for the Darwin award) hitting the "right full rudder" instead of "left full rudder" what led me directly beneath the destroyer, which I tried to dodge, in my brand new type XXI, and I got DC directly in my mouth, sunk like a stone... __________________ Come closer... and die. Last edited by Shkval; 06-08-12 at 02:04 PM.

03-05-12, 06:28 AM	#95
andwii Frogman Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Bridge of U-123 Posts: 300 Downloads: 76 Uploads: 0	New most foolish thing ive done, attacked troop ships heading for Normandy. I made it out alive though.

03-06-12, 04:23 PM	#96
u35_captain Mate Join Date: Dec 2011 Posts: 54 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	Surfacing in daylight in Hartlepool to save torpedoes and using the deck gun on the shipping. To my utter amazement, no aircraft showed up at all. (Mid 1940, but still) And then one destroyer came poking around. But I was in the harbour itself (there was no way my gunners could miss, and turns out the destroyer tried to come in to get me as I'd submerged...right where my forward torpedoes were already aiming. Damned tricky getting out of the gap between the breakwall and wharves with a sunken destroyer in my exit vector, but still. Recklessness paid off this one time, I think.

03-10-12, 12:16 PM	#97
matti95 Loader Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Finland Posts: 86 Downloads: 41 Uploads: 0	TC x64 while getting depth charged

06-06-12, 07:14 PM	#100
Das Boot_U96 Bilge Rat Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 1 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	On my first patrol in AN47, I couldn't find anything at all in that grid. I remember reading that Hartlepool was a port easy to sneak into, and it was. I was literally 300m away from the stationery ships, I was at periscope depth but I did have my periscope up the entire time and the the lights were just loking at me I managed to sink all 3 ships, one being a T2 Tanker, the other a C2 Cargo and the other a small merchant if I remember correctly. Was proud considering I'm new to this game My battery was low though an oxygen reserves getting low, so I had to surface in their port, still not noticed somehow maybe it was the weather? It was foggy and stormy. 5 Mins later and a warship just rams into the side of me and sinks me

06-08-12, 03:02 PM	#104
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Stock game or modded? Patrol bombers attacked in groups of one, and were plenty dangerous that way. The stock game gives you dozens of planes, all easy to shoot down. The supermods should fix that. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

06-08-12, 04:06 PM	#105
Shkval Planesman Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 192 Downloads: 54 Uploads: 0	Stock of course...back then long time ago internet was dial-up and expensive as platinum... downloading GWX would last a month and my parents would hang me for my tenders for telephone bill... now with GWX I'm cautious as a sardine... SH4 was also stock... __________________ Come closer... and die.