Just Brilliant !

[Fahnenbohn]

Nice job !!!

Now, try to stay alive when leaving this hellish lair ! The Kriegsmarine needs brave sailors like you !

[Von Due]

Originally Posted by Fahnenbohn

Nice job !!!

Now, try to stay alive when leaving this hellish lair ! The Kriegsmarine needs brave sailors like you !

Got back to Wilhelmshaven with 16 shells for the main gun left after a slightly uneventful return trip around the Shetland islands. Avoided 2 destroyers at safe distances and dodged a spotter plane. Managed to sink a coastal tanker and a merchant for some extra 4200. Total tonnage 270,000++.

13 Iron Cross, 2nd class
3 Iron Cross, 1st Class
4 U boat clasps
If I get more U Boat war badges I will need a bigger boat.

4 promotions.

This was probably the hardest patrol I can remember ever doing and one I will not do again in a good while. Back to hunting random merchants and convoys for a while.

PS I kind of feel sorry for this Swordfish (I suppose it was) coming in to Loch Ewe only to find his landing strip and parking space at an unhealthy angle. I wonder where he went off to next.

PPS Sometimes, the GWX radio messages can be a bit silly. I sail U-47 and received a message from 47 that he had sunk the Royal Oak. I had no idea I did!! Another thing is, those messages can be a bit excessive at times. Over a period of 3 minutes I received 7 or 8 messages. Makes it challenging to keep TC up to get back before I die of old age.

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Cmdr Log

 

[Fahnenbohn]

Originally Posted by Von Due

This was probably the hardest patrol I can remember ever doing and one I will not do again in a good while. Back to hunting random merchants and convoys for a while.

Yeah, i believe you !

Originally Posted by Von Due

Another thing is, those messages can be a bit excessive at times. Over a period of 3 minutes I received 7 or 8 messages. Makes it challenging to keep TC up to get back before I die of old age.

Try this :
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=1385
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=1386

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I really liked to read your adventures, dude ! Maybe, you could join us at DEF. You would have your own thread where you would be able to relate all the incredible and also sometimes terrible events that could happen during your patrols !

If you want to learn more about, just click on my signature.

F.

[Von Due]

Originally Posted by Fahnenbohn

Yeah, i believe you !



Try this :
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=1385
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=1386

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I really liked to read your adventures, dude ! Maybe, you could join us at DEF. You would have your own thread where you would be able to relate all the incredible and also sometimes terrible events that could happen during your patrols !

If you want to learn more about, just click on my signature.

F.

Thanks for the kind words. It started off as me being highly annoyed and it turned out to be quite the adventure.

As for DEF, I had a look but right now I can't really commit myself to anything like that. Real life and all. Thanks for the invite though.

As for the 4th patrol, I am sent through the channel to BF15 and thought I would pay Dover a visit. Not much there except a Southampton guarded by an ASW and what I believe is an elco. Arrived early morning before sunrise and started inspecting the net. It was a very nice gesture of the British to leave a gap between the southern peer and the net, just wide enough to get a VIIB through. Took a bit of plotting but I'm through and am about to fix her position for a shot to what I hope is her magazine.

Then there is the escape. Something is patrolling in the Dover straight. With luck they are elcos and ASWs. Got all day to listen to them if need be.

[Fahnenbohn]

Originally Posted by Von Due

As for DEF, I had a look but right now I can't really commit myself to anything like that. Real life and all. Thanks for the invite though.

No problem, Sir !

Originally Posted by Von Due

It was a very nice gesture of the British to leave a gap between the southern peer and the net, just wide enough to get a VIIB through.

Nice find !

Originally Posted by Von Due

Then there is the escape. Something is patrolling in the Dover straight. With luck they are elcos and ASWs. Got all day to listen to them if need be.

Surface, and shoot'em with the deck gun ! I've always done that, and that's fun, believe me ! Fortunately, the torpedo boats in SH3 ... never attack with torpedoes !

[Von Due]

Originally Posted by Fahnenbohn

Surface, and shoot'em with the deck gun ! I've always done that, and that's fun, believe me ! Fortunately, the torpedo boats in SH3 ... never attack with torpedoes !

Hah, I might be mad but I'm not suicidal the deck gun is for lone merchants only for me. Small ones get a few rounds from the AA gun.

That the torpedo boats never fire their torpedos, reminds me of stock subs apart from your own. Do they ever dive?

The AI subs never dive but the merchants do, with a little help, that's pretty backwards.

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There was nothing but ASWs and torpedo boats that I could see. Felt good.

 

On my way to Dunkirk now to see if that large tanker is still there and possibly see how much a French destroyer can take.