Poor Fritz Appel

_Seth_ · 09-13-06, 01:49 AM

Good story, mate!

svenks · 09-13-06, 02:21 AM

I think the lesson here is:

DON'T GET GREEDY

BRGDS
Sven

Eichenlaub · 09-13-06, 05:01 AM

Tell the truth: you were feeling cocky, on top of the world, invincible...you thought you could take 'em all down didn't you?

Goodness, how often I've erred similarly!

I too often go for one ship too many.

Kind regards,

Eichenlaub

Dowly · 09-13-06, 10:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by svenks

I think the lesson here is:

DON'T GET GREEDY

BRGDS
Sven

But the BdU always messages to 'Be more aggressive'. :rotfl:

spork542 · 09-13-06, 06:49 PM

They want to sent the boat with Bernard aboard to the bottom. FAST!

Is Bernard aboard any of your boats, Dowly?

kylania · 09-13-06, 11:23 PM

Well, I resurrected good ol' Fritz and his skeleton crew to try out NYGM again. Same patrol really, DH19, a 10 day cruiser at Ahead Slow from Brest.

This time I tried out three watch shifts and two of everyone else. Seemed to work pretty well for mangement swaping everyone out at 0800, 1600 and 0000.

I got to the patrol area and finally got a radio contact about a convoy north of me, heading ESE. Did some plots, figured out that at Ahead Standard I'd meet up with them around 9pm. That was good. (Now, turns out I miscalculated horribly, it wasn't 9pm it was 1900!! So i bumped into them during daylight, but it was foggy and stormy so I wasn't too worried.

I plotted a parallel course to the convoy and started to swap people around since I'd missed their 1600 crew change. As I'm doing this someone screams "We're under attack!!" So I crash dive, turn away and hope for the best.

10-15 minutes later they are pining me, depth charges are above me, so I think I'm ok. Drop to 100m and keep going on silent run. Pinging me again, I drop deeper (really should have just plummeted from the start) and turn south.

Depth charges but I'm not worried since they'd been off before, and I'm lower and heading even deeper now. WRONG! From inside the control room I see the boat start to shudder. Damage reports flood in! Torpedo tubes damaged, something else damaged, stern quarters are flooding!

So I move my chief engineer, who is repair certified, and a full crew of rested petty officers into stern quarters since I know NYGM does repairs based on where the damage it. The little flooding icon reads 1:15 and is getting lower. I dump the rest of my off shift crew into the damage control area up top, and give them a watchman. I click on stern quarters, but there's nothing to repair?

So I have a full set of rested people led by a repair officer IN the flooded compartment, I have a full set of rested people and an officer in damage control, but there's no listed damage to fix and the flooding NEVER stops. One minute real time later I'm dead. What happened?

I forgot to turn OFF Silent Running.

Hehe

"Oops, my bad!" - Bernard.

So tonite's lessens are... Pay more attention to silent running. Plot more carefully. Don't put Bernard in charge of repairs.

Oh well, I have a save from before I met the convoy, so tomorrow we'll try things a little differently.

Zero Niner · 09-13-06, 11:28 PM

Lol, I had a good chuckle reading your posts!

mountainmanUK · 09-14-06, 03:02 AM

Good stories!! Rings a lot of bells

Jimbuna · 09-14-06, 04:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by svenks

I think the lesson here is:

DON'T GET GREEDY

BRGDS
Sven

Don't bite off more than you can chew

09-13-06, 01:49 AM	#1
_Seth_ Ocean Warrior Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: In Tromsoe, @Tirpitz' final resting place.. Posts: 3,277 Downloads: 94 Uploads: 0	Good story, mate! __________________

09-13-06, 05:01 AM	#3
Eichenlaub Electrician's Mate Join Date: May 2006 Location: Nijmegen Posts: 132 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Tell the truth: you were feeling cocky, on top of the world, invincible...you thought you could take 'em all down didn't you? Goodness, how often I've erred similarly! I too often go for one ship too many. Kind regards, Eichenlaub __________________ "Despite living in a country where soft-drugs, prostitution, gay-marriage and euthanasia are all legal, I've never felt any inclination towards any of them." When SHIV hits the scene, we should not fear the double D Geisha escort...we should welcome her...

09-13-06, 06:49 PM	#5
spork542 Chief Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 328 Downloads: 18 Uploads: 0	They want to sent the boat with Bernard aboard to the bottom. FAST! Is Bernard aboard any of your boats, Dowly? __________________ Last edited by spork542; 09-13-06 at 06:54 PM.

09-13-06, 11:23 PM	#6
kylania Silent Hunter Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 3,528 Downloads: 118 Uploads: 0	Dead! Again! :) Well, I resurrected good ol' Fritz and his skeleton crew to try out NYGM again. Same patrol really, DH19, a 10 day cruiser at Ahead Slow from Brest. This time I tried out three watch shifts and two of everyone else. Seemed to work pretty well for mangement swaping everyone out at 0800, 1600 and 0000. I got to the patrol area and finally got a radio contact about a convoy north of me, heading ESE. Did some plots, figured out that at Ahead Standard I'd meet up with them around 9pm. That was good. (Now, turns out I miscalculated horribly, it wasn't 9pm it was 1900!! So i bumped into them during daylight, but it was foggy and stormy so I wasn't too worried. I plotted a parallel course to the convoy and started to swap people around since I'd missed their 1600 crew change. As I'm doing this someone screams "We're under attack!!" So I crash dive, turn away and hope for the best. 10-15 minutes later they are pining me, depth charges are above me, so I think I'm ok. Drop to 100m and keep going on silent run. Pinging me again, I drop deeper (really should have just plummeted from the start) and turn south. Depth charges but I'm not worried since they'd been off before, and I'm lower and heading even deeper now. WRONG! From inside the control room I see the boat start to shudder. Damage reports flood in! Torpedo tubes damaged, something else damaged, stern quarters are flooding! So I move my chief engineer, who is repair certified, and a full crew of rested petty officers into stern quarters since I know NYGM does repairs based on where the damage it. The little flooding icon reads 1:15 and is getting lower. I dump the rest of my off shift crew into the damage control area up top, and give them a watchman. I click on stern quarters, but there's nothing to repair? So I have a full set of rested people led by a repair officer IN the flooded compartment, I have a full set of rested people and an officer in damage control, but there's no listed damage to fix and the flooding NEVER stops. One minute real time later I'm dead. What happened? I forgot to turn OFF Silent Running. Hehe "Oops, my bad!" - Bernard. So tonite's lessens are... Pay more attention to silent running. Plot more carefully. Don't put Bernard in charge of repairs. Oh well, I have a save from before I met the convoy, so tomorrow we'll try things a little differently. __________________

09-13-06, 02:21 AM	#2
svenks Machinist's Mate Join Date: May 2005 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Posts: 129 Downloads: 12 Uploads: 0	I think the lesson here is: DON'T GET GREEDY BRGDS Sven

09-13-06, 11:28 PM	#7
Zero Niner Ace of the Deep Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,033 Downloads: 69 Uploads: 0	Lol, I had a good chuckle reading your posts!

09-14-06, 03:02 AM	#8
mountainmanUK Sparky Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Blackburn, Lancashire, ENGLAND Posts: 154 Downloads: 23 Uploads: 0	Good stories!! Rings a lot of bells