bah!

Ducimus · 11-05-06, 02:11 AM

If your worried about 42, - 43 and 44 might have you in a bundle of nerves.

My best career ever was U-184. Started in Jan42, i retired it in Jan45 cause i was just loosing intrest. But this particuarl career had 11 patrols with 687 days at sea. Longest patrol being 123 days. Whats intresting to note is my tonnage went down and down as the war went on. Patrol 9 saw 6 ships sunk. Patrol 10 saw 3 ships sunk, Patrol 11 saw NOTHING sunk at all. Once the allied air cover has you snorkelling all the time, you've pretty much lost. Without being able to manuever on the surface, you really dont have much chance of getting into a good firing position, so you end up sinking whatever happends to blunder accross your path. Surfacing to do an end-round attack is like playing russian roullete with 3 rounds in the cylinder.

11-05-06, 02:11 AM	#3
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	If your worried about 42, - 43 and 44 might have you in a bundle of nerves. My best career ever was U-184. Started in Jan42, i retired it in Jan45 cause i was just loosing intrest. But this particuarl career had 11 patrols with 687 days at sea. Longest patrol being 123 days. Whats intresting to note is my tonnage went down and down as the war went on. Patrol 9 saw 6 ships sunk. Patrol 10 saw 3 ships sunk, Patrol 11 saw NOTHING sunk at all. Once the allied air cover has you snorkelling all the time, you've pretty much lost. Without being able to manuever on the surface, you really dont have much chance of getting into a good firing position, so you end up sinking whatever happends to blunder accross your path. Surfacing to do an end-round attack is like playing russian roullete with 3 rounds in the cylinder.