(Story) The wondrous tales of Erik Jaeger

vegeta020 · 12-05-15, 02:36 PM

Thanks everyone for your kind words. Honestly, I am having a blast with this game so far

We kept patrolling BF17. The sea was getting worse with every passing moment. In the meantime one of the sailors found the ammunition for the damn cannon stashed somewhere in the torpedo room. I guess Bernard was really really drunk when they were rearming the sub.

The tone of the messages on the radio changed. There was much less confusion and it seems like other subs started doing their jobs. The whole crew rejoiced when HMS Courageous was sunk on 17th of September by U-29.
I honestly hope that i might be able to sink myself a carrier one day.

After a few hours we heard a sound contact and went to intercept it. I hoped to get myself another ship. After a hour of waiting we finally had a visual contact even though the overall visibility was really poor. And what a beautiful sight it was. One Medium Cargo and one Intermediate Tanker.

But problems started almost immediatelly. First I made a horrible mistake of submerging too late and they started their evasive maneuvres. But even though that happened i was able to calculate almost perfect firing solution. Or so i thought. I fired two torpedoes. And they both went in completely wrong direction

(Honestly i still don't get TDC, if I'm firing on the target that is going from left to right, what is the right way to configure bearing?)

But as we've found the fricking ammo we can put it to good use. Right?

Again i yelled. Surface the boat! Flank speed! Chase them!
I manned the cannon myself and fired. First shot caused a big explosion on the tanker. How do you like my HE shells now?
As it began to swerve from it's initial course, we caught up with the cargo ship and gave it good pounding until it gave up and went to Davy Jones's locker.
The weather was so bad that sometimes the waves would fully cover the cannon

I was afraid that they would be able to call for help because this process took over ten minutes and we chased them close to Ireland, but sinking of the tanker didn't take much time. I went back to the bridge and let my boys have some fun.
The ships were: SS Talisman (5104 tons) and MV Aletta (3490 tons)
Even thought it was a really messy fight and it could've been much easier I was proud because i have sunk almost 10k tons.
The weather was getting really bad now. Soon the visibility was awful. We patrolled our grid for another 15 or so hours and I wanted to start a return trip, because we were running kind of low on fuel.
I wanted to check the sites where we sunk last four ships to check if I would get really lucky and stumble upon one or two more. And I'll be damned, when we came to the first site we heard a sound contact, but sadly it didn't include any indications of bearing. I made a wild guess and we chased ghosts for almost 10 hours.
Then we picked up another contact, but this time with a bearing, set up a trap for it, but the visibility was so poor that probably in 10 hours we spent waiting for it to pass by it went through the fog. As I've seen that the we won't be getting anything more done on this trip. And there was a tiny problem that my engineer told me that I have 25% fuel left

We started our return trip and I first ordered 1/3 ahead but then i realized that i don't want to get caught on the north of England if the visibility improved, so i ordered full speed ahead through the middle of Northern Isles. Even though it wasn't the smartest thing to do, and even though we encountered sound contacts, the visibility was so damn bad that we probably snuck by a warship or two

And then in the middle of the North Sea, I was informed that i have 0% Diesel Fuel. I started panicking and ordered 1/3 speed ahead. Luckily it seems Fritz (my engineer) was drinking again. He was drinking A LOT. Because when I asked my navigator for the estimate how long can we run on those Fritz's 0% on 1/3 speed, the estimation was around 1300 kilometers.

We had to go through the Kiel kanal. And there was when the worse happened. I was lying on my bed, watching the sonarman spin that damn hydrophone wheel around. And then i heard a loud bang and a lot of screeching. Damn First Officer marooned the sub on the bank of Kiel kanal because he was so damn incompetent and he couldn't find the path around the bridge. The damage was luckily (for him) easily repaired, and we finally came to Kiel for much needed rest.

[NOTES]
Again, thank you for your support so far.

I am honestly shocked my first patrol went this good and I hope it will remain like that. I wanted to include some screenshots but Fraps made everything pitch black

I think my tonnage (15567 tons) is not so bad for a first time player

I hope you enjoyed it so far, there is more to come

12-05-15, 02:36 PM	#5
vegeta020 Swabbie Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: Zagreb, Croatia Posts: 8 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	End of Patrol 1 Thanks everyone for your kind words. Honestly, I am having a blast with this game so far We kept patrolling BF17. The sea was getting worse with every passing moment. In the meantime one of the sailors found the ammunition for the damn cannon stashed somewhere in the torpedo room. I guess Bernard was really really drunk when they were rearming the sub. The tone of the messages on the radio changed. There was much less confusion and it seems like other subs started doing their jobs. The whole crew rejoiced when HMS Courageous was sunk on 17th of September by U-29. I honestly hope that i might be able to sink myself a carrier one day. After a few hours we heard a sound contact and went to intercept it. I hoped to get myself another ship. After a hour of waiting we finally had a visual contact even though the overall visibility was really poor. And what a beautiful sight it was. One Medium Cargo and one Intermediate Tanker. But problems started almost immediatelly. First I made a horrible mistake of submerging too late and they started their evasive maneuvres. But even though that happened i was able to calculate almost perfect firing solution. Or so i thought. I fired two torpedoes. And they both went in completely wrong direction (Honestly i still don't get TDC, if I'm firing on the target that is going from left to right, what is the right way to configure bearing?) But as we've found the fricking ammo we can put it to good use. Right? Again i yelled. Surface the boat! Flank speed! Chase them! I manned the cannon myself and fired. First shot caused a big explosion on the tanker. How do you like my HE shells now? As it began to swerve from it's initial course, we caught up with the cargo ship and gave it good pounding until it gave up and went to Davy Jones's locker. The weather was so bad that sometimes the waves would fully cover the cannon I was afraid that they would be able to call for help because this process took over ten minutes and we chased them close to Ireland, but sinking of the tanker didn't take much time. I went back to the bridge and let my boys have some fun. The ships were: SS Talisman (5104 tons) and MV Aletta (3490 tons) Even thought it was a really messy fight and it could've been much easier I was proud because i have sunk almost 10k tons. The weather was getting really bad now. Soon the visibility was awful. We patrolled our grid for another 15 or so hours and I wanted to start a return trip, because we were running kind of low on fuel. I wanted to check the sites where we sunk last four ships to check if I would get really lucky and stumble upon one or two more. And I'll be damned, when we came to the first site we heard a sound contact, but sadly it didn't include any indications of bearing. I made a wild guess and we chased ghosts for almost 10 hours. Then we picked up another contact, but this time with a bearing, set up a trap for it, but the visibility was so poor that probably in 10 hours we spent waiting for it to pass by it went through the fog. As I've seen that the we won't be getting anything more done on this trip. And there was a tiny problem that my engineer told me that I have 25% fuel left We started our return trip and I first ordered 1/3 ahead but then i realized that i don't want to get caught on the north of England if the visibility improved, so i ordered full speed ahead through the middle of Northern Isles. Even though it wasn't the smartest thing to do, and even though we encountered sound contacts, the visibility was so damn bad that we probably snuck by a warship or two And then in the middle of the North Sea, I was informed that i have 0% Diesel Fuel. I started panicking and ordered 1/3 speed ahead. Luckily it seems Fritz (my engineer) was drinking again. He was drinking A LOT. Because when I asked my navigator for the estimate how long can we run on those Fritz's 0% on 1/3 speed, the estimation was around 1300 kilometers. We had to go through the Kiel kanal. And there was when the worse happened. I was lying on my bed, watching the sonarman spin that damn hydrophone wheel around. And then i heard a loud bang and a lot of screeching. Damn First Officer marooned the sub on the bank of Kiel kanal because he was so damn incompetent and he couldn't find the path around the bridge. The damage was luckily (for him) easily repaired, and we finally came to Kiel for much needed rest. [NOTES] Again, thank you for your support so far. I am honestly shocked my first patrol went this good and I hope it will remain like that. I wanted to include some screenshots but Fraps made everything pitch black I think my tonnage (15567 tons) is not so bad for a first time player I hope you enjoyed it so far, there is more to come