I did it again.......

Corsair · 01-08-07, 05:59 PM

I'm on my second patrol from Salamis, trying out manual navigation. Had fantastic weather patrolling my grid and trawling between Alexandria and Tobruk, didn't pick up a contact either visual or hydrophone (and I do checks every 3 hours with my own ears) A couple task forces reported on radio but way too far to catch up.
Headed for south of Malta then plan to ambush in the bottleneck between Sicily and Tunisia. And guess what : as soon as I got close to Malta, rain, wind and heavy fog... Might ride it out in port in Lampedusa if it lasts... Sounds like this patrol is not going the right way so far.

Funny thing, I received a radio message from BdU around Nov 10th telling me Salamis was now open for operations.

AVGWarhawk · 01-08-07, 06:50 PM

@ Nippel :rotfl: :rotfl:

Looks like one of my second patrols

. My patrols are like my sex life....I'm a two pump(patrol) chump

Iron Budokan · 01-09-07, 05:02 PM

Looks like one of my second patrols

. My patrols are like my sex life....I'm a two pump(patrol) chump

[/quote]

LOL!!

Just remember you said it first!

Iron Budokan · 01-09-07, 05:03 PM

I'm afraid the days of cutting through convoys like a razor blade and thumbing our noses at the DDs are long over. GWX put the kibosh on that.

AVGWarhawk · 01-09-07, 08:59 PM

Patrol number 3 COMPLETED!!!!!

As you can see it was a crappy patrol

Got whacked pretty good by DD. The following problems sent me home:

Boat would not stay at depth set when running 2kts, constant fight to keep my depth.
DD would not leave me alone for over 2 hours....reason being I had to keep my speed up to stop the sinking. They kept hearing me...unlike my wife

Rear torpedo room destroyed
Hull integrity...you got me, but I was not taking chances, I went home

Somewhere along the way my WO said he loves me

.....time for a new WO

Ducimus · 01-09-07, 09:18 PM

Ive come to the conclusion that your really a good sub skipper in SH3, but taking extraordinary risks that you ordinarly woudlnt do that your not mentioning in order to write dramatic after action reports.

stabiz · 01-09-07, 09:20 PM

Nah ... good `ol Hawky is just plain crazy.

01-09-07, 09:20 PM

Sunk at Patrol 5...
Hunting a Convoy near the british Eastcost in April 40... Depth: 55m
Sunk a few Merchants, dived because of detection... Was hunted for hours. 4 Excorts appeared, ~300DCs counted. Heavy damages:

That was the last Damagescreen picture. Was lying on the ground for hours. Long time no DC´s (Think they were outta ammo)

Suddenly all the guys were dead! i dunno whats happened. There was no DC hitting me etc. Suddenly - all gone...

Game wasnt over yet. I was blowing all my Ballast to get to the surface. Minutes later they made swiss cheese outta me...

My main mistake/What I have learned:
Do not use "Longer repair Times LITE". No offence to the author, but to need 1200Minutes to stop the flooding is more than just unrealistic...
Im sure that I would have survived with the usual repair times...

Aynway, I had a dramatic evening, because I already lost the escorts a few times. Just as I thought I can make it out of there... All was coming to an end.

Trygvasson · 01-08-07, 06:55 PM

Port attacks still seem to pay off in a big way, at least early in the war. Jan '40 I enter Dunkirk, and after taking out the five docked or anchored Polish V&W destroyers(who furiously pinged me but never moved), I surfaced inside the harbour, putting a total of 57000 tons of shipping to the bottoms with torps, deck gun and flak, ranging from a 24000 ton liner to a 17 ton sloop. All in the glare of the searchlights of every ship in the harbour. Gung-ho? Hell, if they can see my scope but aren't firing, might as well surface and make it all go down quickly. I was out of the harbour after two hours, leaving not a single ship afloat. /brag

Corsair · 01-08-07, 07:12 PM

Shooting non moving ships in harbours is no sport and it was not done during WW2

I just don't see the interest of doing this

01-08-07, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Corsair

Shooting non moving ships in harbours is no sport and it was not done during WW2

I just don't see the interest of doing this

The HMS Royal Oak wasnt moving as Prien hit and sank her...

Corsair · 01-08-07, 07:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nippelspanner

Quote:

Originally Posted by Corsair

Shooting non moving ships in harbours is no sport and it was not done during WW2

I just don't see the interest of doing this

The HMS Royal Oak wasnt moving as Prien hit and sank her...

It happened only one time in 1939 after which the port defenses were strongly reinforced, and in the game it's just too easy to raid ports (including replicating Prien's raid in Scapa Flow). I don't understand the reward you get from shooting torps 3 kms away on non-moving targets.
But it's just me ( not exactly, have seen some people sharing the same opinion, including Kapt Lehmann if I'm right)

andy_311 · 01-08-07, 07:39 PM

I just finished my 32nd Patrol in GWX and had the pleasure to do some Island hopping found a few mini convoys, the waters were very shallow on my return home (Penang) found myself a convoy about 20km ahead of me,prepared myself for the attack and out of nowhere came two PBY's I couldn't CD the water was too shallow so I had to shoot it out splashed 2 PBY's and then a V&W doing 35Knts came to join the party I think he hit me twice before I reached pd took the v&w out and 5 Merchants returned home with a hull integrity of 43%.

AndyW · 01-09-07, 05:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andy_311

I just finished my 32nd Patrol in GWX ...

Your 32nd patrol with GWX ???

GWX is out since X-mas, do you play nonstop for a Guiness book record?

Cheers,
AndyW

currently U-792 König, 1st patrol 12/1943 [SH3 + GWX 1.0 @ 84% realism]
Total: 10 careers, 40th sailing, 856 days at sea, 544,474 tons sunk

andy_311 · 01-09-07, 08:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AndyW

Quote:

Originally Posted by andy_311

I just finished my 32nd Patrol in GWX ...

Your 32nd patrol with GWX ???

GWX is out since X-mas, do you play nonstop for a Guiness book record?

Cheers,
AndyW

currently U-792 König, 1st patrol 12/1943 [SH3 + GWX 1.0 @ 84% realism]
Total: 10 careers, 40th sailing, 856 days at sea, 544,474 tons sunk

No I don't play none stopbut what I do I play it at work when am on nights (yes my boss knows I got it and play it) then when I get home transfer my patrols to my home pc and continue.also I useing the last of my hols up so I play around 3-4 patrols per day.

01-08-07, 05:59 PM	#1
Corsair Ace of the Deep Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Toulouse France Posts: 1,140 Downloads: 51 Uploads: 0	I'm on my second patrol from Salamis, trying out manual navigation. Had fantastic weather patrolling my grid and trawling between Alexandria and Tobruk, didn't pick up a contact either visual or hydrophone (and I do checks every 3 hours with my own ears) A couple task forces reported on radio but way too far to catch up. Headed for south of Malta then plan to ambush in the bottleneck between Sicily and Tunisia. And guess what : as soon as I got close to Malta, rain, wind and heavy fog... Might ride it out in port in Lampedusa if it lasts... Sounds like this patrol is not going the right way so far. Funny thing, I received a radio message from BdU around Nov 10th telling me Salamis was now open for operations. __________________ NYGM 3.4A / Living SH3 V5.1 + SH3 Commander

01-08-07, 06:50 PM	#2
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,303 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	@ Nippel :rotfl: :rotfl: Looks like one of my second patrols . My patrols are like my sex life....I'm a two pump(patrol) chump __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

01-09-07, 05:02 PM	#3
Iron Budokan Sea Lord Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Texas Posts: 1,778 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	Looks like one of my second patrols . My patrols are like my sex life....I'm a two pump(patrol) chump[/quote] LOL!! Just remember you said it first! __________________ "You will take on England wherever you find her ships, and you will break her power at sea." --Iron Coffins, Herbert A. Werner http://kennethmarkhoover.com

01-09-07, 05:03 PM	#4
Iron Budokan Sea Lord Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Texas Posts: 1,778 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	I'm afraid the days of cutting through convoys like a razor blade and thumbing our noses at the DDs are long over. GWX put the kibosh on that. __________________ "You will take on England wherever you find her ships, and you will break her power at sea." --Iron Coffins, Herbert A. Werner http://kennethmarkhoover.com

01-09-07, 08:59 PM	#5
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,303 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Patrol number 3 COMPLETED!!!!! As you can see it was a crappy patrol Got whacked pretty good by DD. The following problems sent me home: Boat would not stay at depth set when running 2kts, constant fight to keep my depth. DD would not leave me alone for over 2 hours....reason being I had to keep my speed up to stop the sinking. They kept hearing me...unlike my wife Rear torpedo room destroyed Hull integrity...you got me, but I was not taking chances, I went home Somewhere along the way my WO said he loves me .....time for a new WO __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

01-09-07, 09:18 PM	#6
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	Ive come to the conclusion that your really a good sub skipper in SH3, but taking extraordinary risks that you ordinarly woudlnt do that your not mentioning in order to write dramatic after action reports.

01-09-07, 09:20 PM	#7
stabiz Silent Hunter Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Norway Posts: 4,224 Downloads: 14 Uploads: 0	Nah ... good `ol Hawky is just plain crazy. __________________

01-09-07, 09:20 PM	#8
Nippelspanner Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Sunk at Patrol 5... Hunting a Convoy near the british Eastcost in April 40... Depth: 55m Sunk a few Merchants, dived because of detection... Was hunted for hours. 4 Excorts appeared, ~300DCs counted. Heavy damages: That was the last Damagescreen picture. Was lying on the ground for hours. Long time no DC´s (Think they were outta ammo) Suddenly all the guys were dead! i dunno whats happened. There was no DC hitting me etc. Suddenly - all gone... Game wasnt over yet. I was blowing all my Ballast to get to the surface. Minutes later they made swiss cheese outta me... My main mistake/What I have learned: Do not use "Longer repair Times LITE". No offence to the author, but to need 1200Minutes to stop the flooding is more than just unrealistic... Im sure that I would have survived with the usual repair times... Aynway, I had a dramatic evening, because I already lost the escorts a few times. Just as I thought I can make it out of there... All was coming to an end.

01-08-07, 06:55 PM	#9
Trygvasson Seaman Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 38 Downloads: 12 Uploads: 0	Port attacks still seem to pay off in a big way, at least early in the war. Jan '40 I enter Dunkirk, and after taking out the five docked or anchored Polish V&W destroyers(who furiously pinged me but never moved), I surfaced inside the harbour, putting a total of 57000 tons of shipping to the bottoms with torps, deck gun and flak, ranging from a 24000 ton liner to a 17 ton sloop. All in the glare of the searchlights of every ship in the harbour. Gung-ho? Hell, if they can see my scope but aren't firing, might as well surface and make it all go down quickly. I was out of the harbour after two hours, leaving not a single ship afloat. /brag

01-08-07, 07:12 PM	#10
Corsair Ace of the Deep Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Toulouse France Posts: 1,140 Downloads: 51 Uploads: 0	Shooting non moving ships in harbours is no sport and it was not done during WW2 I just don't see the interest of doing this __________________ NYGM 3.4A / Living SH3 V5.1 + SH3 Commander

01-08-07, 07:39 PM	#13
andy_311 The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Oldham, Lancs,England Posts: 1,312 Downloads: 82 Uploads: 0	I just finished my 32nd Patrol in GWX and had the pleasure to do some Island hopping found a few mini convoys, the waters were very shallow on my return home (Penang) found myself a convoy about 20km ahead of me,prepared myself for the attack and out of nowhere came two PBY's I couldn't CD the water was too shallow so I had to shoot it out splashed 2 PBY's and then a V&W doing 35Knts came to join the party I think he hit me twice before I reached pd took the v&w out and 5 Merchants returned home with a hull integrity of 43%.