SH5 players, Introduce yourself: roll call II

Flappy · 11-12-16, 04:24 AM

Thanks guys.

Warms the heart to see everyone still as helpful and good spirited here as I remember. Helps especially given all the riots we're having here in far-lefty sesesh-ville. I won't be baited by political sentiments and frankly they don't belong here anyways, but I will go so far as to say I find it humorous that California and(the Portland Area of)Oregon think they can secede from the Union.

Enough of that and back on target to say.....I'm currently sorting out SH5 with Wolves of Steel 1.06. Successfully sank a merchant and continued with patrol off coast of England. Made patrol grid, patrolled until contact with 5 ship small convoy which I proceeded to attack until I was in turn attacked by AC which damaged me enough to affect my ability to maintain proper trim due to flooding in the forward torpedo room. Lost the boat which became unmanageable and slammed into the bottom at about 40 meters or so with the loss of all hands. In hindsight, I tarried far too long on station surfaced attempting to close ship number 5 to be able to identify it and got caught out by a quickly scrambled response AC with not enough water under my keel to be able to crash dive effectively. Bad luck, greed and bad timing killed all those fine young men and a wiser Skipper would've bugged out sooner. I had the mission complete, just got greedy and pushed my luck too far.

So as far as immersion goes this gets pretty good marks in my book anyways and a heart-felt "well-done" to vdr1981 and all concerned. Quite a good bit harder and I really should have "appreciated" the tonnage I did get!

11-12-16, 04:24 AM	#11
Flappy Swabbie Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Tigard,Oregon U.S.A. Posts: 11 Downloads: 34 Uploads: 0	Danke Danke Thanks guys. Warms the heart to see everyone still as helpful and good spirited here as I remember. Helps especially given all the riots we're having here in far-lefty sesesh-ville. I won't be baited by political sentiments and frankly they don't belong here anyways, but I will go so far as to say I find it humorous that California and(the Portland Area of)Oregon think they can secede from the Union. Enough of that and back on target to say.....I'm currently sorting out SH5 with Wolves of Steel 1.06. Successfully sank a merchant and continued with patrol off coast of England. Made patrol grid, patrolled until contact with 5 ship small convoy which I proceeded to attack until I was in turn attacked by AC which damaged me enough to affect my ability to maintain proper trim due to flooding in the forward torpedo room. Lost the boat which became unmanageable and slammed into the bottom at about 40 meters or so with the loss of all hands. In hindsight, I tarried far too long on station surfaced attempting to close ship number 5 to be able to identify it and got caught out by a quickly scrambled response AC with not enough water under my keel to be able to crash dive effectively. Bad luck, greed and bad timing killed all those fine young men and a wiser Skipper would've bugged out sooner. I had the mission complete, just got greedy and pushed my luck too far. So as far as immersion goes this gets pretty good marks in my book anyways and a heart-felt "well-done" to vdr1981 and all concerned. Quite a good bit harder and I really should have "appreciated" the tonnage I did get! __________________ "It's not the size of the wave, it's the motion of the ocean."