Getting through the English Channel

spork542 · 12-16-06, 08:16 PM

I went through there three times without a scratch in a IXB. Sank 100k tons there and only there. Needless to say, I was pretty new to the game. This was in GW 1.0.

Blacklight · 12-16-06, 08:30 PM

Okay.. I'm going to stay the hell out of the Channel !!!
(I somehow miraculously survived a ride through there last night... and there were not many naval ships about nor did any planes come after me. I guess they thought any sub jocky trying to go through there would be a suicidal idiot. You should have seen my crew's faces when I ordered "Full steam ahead into the channel")
It was fun watching the mines pass perilously close to my boat from external view.

I hope that Great Britain cleaned up after themselves well and that there still aren't any of those mines still hanging out there in RL.

bigboywooly · 12-16-06, 08:48 PM

Yep the odd mine has turned up over the years
Dont forget the Germans mined too
In the channel and close to ports

Something you may come across if you use GWX and are stupid enough to use the channel after 40

Hybris · 12-16-06, 08:53 PM

Question What if by day you bottomed your boat silent running until its dark and the patrols aren't looking right at you then you blow ballast and flank it (At least thats what I would do) until sunrise then bottom and repeat.

Could this work even somewhat late into the war? (Radar will be problem I forsee)

bigboywooly · 12-16-06, 08:57 PM

You could do
No guarantee you wouldnt be picked up on active sonar by patrols

mookiemookie · 12-17-06, 01:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Hybris

Question What if by day you bottomed your boat silent running until its dark and the patrols aren't looking right at you then you blow ballast and flank it (At least thats what I would do) until sunrise then bottom and repeat.

Could this work even somewhat late into the war? (Radar will be problem I forsee)

The mines will still get you, and chances are someone will see you even in the dark. A quote from Das Boot is appropriate here...

"Anything that floats will be on the water."

Jimbuna · 12-17-06, 05:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Hybris

Question What if by day you bottomed your boat silent running until its dark and the patrols aren't looking right at you then you blow ballast and flank it (At least thats what I would do) until sunrise then bottom and repeat.

Could this work even somewhat late into the war? (Radar will be problem I forsee)

Your only chance and a very slim one at that would be to run at flank speed on the surface during the night....but after 40 the odds just become 'unthinkable'...go round the north of Scotland...enjoy the scenery...sink a couple on the way

Morts · 12-17-06, 05:57 AM

peterloo i use modded SH3

i use GW

Sailor Steve · 12-17-06, 04:00 PM

Also sitting on the bottom for 12 hours then running at flank speed wastes time and fuel. You might as well just go the long way around; that's what they really did.

ryano7777 · 07-19-20, 05:02 PM

I've made it through 3 times with no problems in TWOS, and was in the middle of my 4th attempt, when I decided to do a little research as to where the channel mines are in the game. As I'm reading the comments I'm thinking "there can't be any mines in the channel, if there were, I would have hit one during the few times I have run channel" suddenly I'm brought back to the game as I hear an explosion and a lot of yelling. I guess I finally found one of the mines! Hahaha

12-16-06, 08:16 PM	#1
spork542 Chief Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 328 Downloads: 18 Uploads: 0	I went through there three times without a scratch in a IXB. Sank 100k tons there and only there. Needless to say, I was pretty new to the game. This was in GW 1.0. __________________

12-16-06, 08:48 PM	#3
bigboywooly Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Swindon, England Posts: 10,151 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	Yep the odd mine has turned up over the years Dont forget the Germans mined too In the channel and close to ports Something you may come across if you use GWX and are stupid enough to use the channel after 40 __________________ My mediafire page http://www.mediafire.com/?11eoq19bq9r41

12-16-06, 08:53 PM	#4
Hybris Officer Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Periscope Depth... Posts: 237 Downloads: 40 Uploads: 0	Question What if by day you bottomed your boat silent running until its dark and the patrols aren't looking right at you then you blow ballast and flank it (At least thats what I would do) until sunrise then bottom and repeat. Could this work even somewhat late into the war? (Radar will be problem I forsee) __________________ "His masters voice!" "FASTER! FAAAASSSTTER!" "All submariners have one universal wish regardless of nation, cause, or creed. That wish is that the boat goes up and stay up one more time then it goes down." ~Hybris 8/22/07

12-16-06, 08:57 PM	#5
bigboywooly Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Swindon, England Posts: 10,151 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	You could do No guarantee you wouldnt be picked up on active sonar by patrols __________________ My mediafire page http://www.mediafire.com/?11eoq19bq9r41

12-17-06, 04:00 PM	#9
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Also sitting on the bottom for 12 hours then running at flank speed wastes time and fuel. You might as well just go the long way around; that's what they really did. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

12-16-06, 08:30 PM	#2
Blacklight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,507 Downloads: 145 Uploads: 0	Okay.. I'm going to stay the hell out of the Channel !!! (I somehow miraculously survived a ride through there last night... and there were not many naval ships about nor did any planes come after me. I guess they thought any sub jocky trying to go through there would be a suicidal idiot. You should have seen my crew's faces when I ordered "Full steam ahead into the channel") It was fun watching the mines pass perilously close to my boat from external view. I hope that Great Britain cleaned up after themselves well and that there still aren't any of those mines still hanging out there in RL.

12-17-06, 05:57 AM	#8
Morts Admiral Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Denmark Posts: 2,395 Downloads: 23 Uploads: 0	peterloo i use modded SH3 i use GW

07-19-20, 05:02 PM	#10
ryano7777 Nub Join Date: Nov 2017 Posts: 3 Downloads: 46 Uploads: 0	I've made it through 3 times with no problems in TWOS, and was in the middle of my 4th attempt, when I decided to do a little research as to where the channel mines are in the game. As I'm reading the comments I'm thinking "there can't be any mines in the channel, if there were, I would have hit one during the few times I have run channel" suddenly I'm brought back to the game as I hear an explosion and a lot of yelling. I guess I finally found one of the mines! Hahaha