VIIC/41

Threadfin · 08-21-24, 08:19 AM

Started a new career, this one in U-96, January 1941 out of La Rochelle. My plan was to take the first available mission to pass through Gibraltar and transfer to the 29th at La Spezia. Did one Happy Times patrol, and hoped to get the interned officer mission before transferring. That came up next so we did it, which is key for research.

Ran the strait in early March and went to La Spezia. After just two Battle of the Med patrols, we tripped the second phase (100k), earning a blueprint and taking command of another VIIC/41, U-327 (I re-rolled the boat number a lot until I got this one).

In the first career the first /41 patrol was January 1942, so we accelerated this by six months with this plan. In career 1, I got the second blueprint form Black Pit, not knowing at the time that Atlantic Theater Operations also rewards a blueprint, or we could have done so earlier. But Black Pit is my style, anti-shipping patrols in the middle Atlantic, where Atlantic Theater Operations are special missions like agent insertion and weather station deployment. Took a few months longer, perhaps, but more in my wheelhouse. I like special missions just fine, by the way, but hunting on the convoy routes is where its at.

So far in the Med we have run wild, not seeing a single enemy warship or aircraft after making it through the strait. Three patrols, for 66, 53 and 53k. All singles, all British-flagged, no neutrals at all. All three patrols were hunting in the chokepoint between Sardinia and Tunisia, which was one of the best spots in Silent Hunter. The superb range of the hydrophones in UBOAT means we can sit in the middle and cover to both coasts. Not much can slip past.

We will enjoy this time, as the Torch landings will turn the Med in to a Allied lake. In the war, around 62 boats entered the Mediterranean, all Type VII. None left. Maybe we can be the first.

08-21-24, 08:19 AM	#1
Threadfin Ace of the Deep Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 1,163 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	Started a new career, this one in U-96, January 1941 out of La Rochelle. My plan was to take the first available mission to pass through Gibraltar and transfer to the 29th at La Spezia. Did one Happy Times patrol, and hoped to get the interned officer mission before transferring. That came up next so we did it, which is key for research. Ran the strait in early March and went to La Spezia. After just two Battle of the Med patrols, we tripped the second phase (100k), earning a blueprint and taking command of another VIIC/41, U-327 (I re-rolled the boat number a lot until I got this one). In the first career the first /41 patrol was January 1942, so we accelerated this by six months with this plan. In career 1, I got the second blueprint form Black Pit, not knowing at the time that Atlantic Theater Operations also rewards a blueprint, or we could have done so earlier. But Black Pit is my style, anti-shipping patrols in the middle Atlantic, where Atlantic Theater Operations are special missions like agent insertion and weather station deployment. Took a few months longer, perhaps, but more in my wheelhouse. I like special missions just fine, by the way, but hunting on the convoy routes is where its at. So far in the Med we have run wild, not seeing a single enemy warship or aircraft after making it through the strait. Three patrols, for 66, 53 and 53k. All singles, all British-flagged, no neutrals at all. All three patrols were hunting in the chokepoint between Sardinia and Tunisia, which was one of the best spots in Silent Hunter. The superb range of the hydrophones in UBOAT means we can sit in the middle and cover to both coasts. Not much can slip past. We will enjoy this time, as the Torch landings will turn the Med in to a Allied lake. In the war, around 62 boats entered the Mediterranean, all Type VII. None left. Maybe we can be the first. __________________ What? Behind the rabbit?