My best patrol ever!

[Syxx_Killer]

Originally Posted by Kpt. Lehmann

Regarding "how they spotted you".... you should SEE the optics they've got on big military ships.

Read on "Gunnery" in the GWX manual and you will see pictures of what I mean.

Now that you mention it, I do remember seeing those optics. I forgot all about that. I downloaded the manual and read through it some when it was released a little while back. No wonder they saw me!

Originally Posted by bigboywooly

Lucky bar steward

Looking forward to part 2

I had to split the original post into two because I had to many images for one post. Part 2 is there.

I'm thinking maybe my Oblivion emblem was good luck. haha

Now watch, I bet every patrol from now on will not produce any results. The moon and stars were lined right on this one.

[Capt. Shark Bait]

sehr gut. have a beer, Herr Kaleun

[Syxx_Killer]

I think I jinxed myself with my earlier comment.

Now watch, I bet every patrol from now on will not produce any results. The moon and stars were lined right on this one.

On my latest patrol, I really stepped into it this time. My task was to patrol AM41. I had just left port a couple days earlier. I was sailing along minding my own business in grid AN45 when all of a sudden I get a warship spotted message. It is a DD. Lucky for me it was night time when I spotted it because it probably would have engaged us if it were day time. He is headed ENE. I am headed NW. I order all stop. I then order a course parallel his and then stop. I sit there watching him go by when I get a merchant spotted message. I had stumbled upon a medium sized convoy. I order silent running and go to PD. I only ever saw this one DD. I see two nice looking medium merchants heading ENE one following the other. I slug a fish into the gut of the leade medium merchant and they turn on their spot lights. I then send two more fish towards the on following. That is when I realize I really stumbled into the hornet's nest. There are at least a half dozen DDs escorting this convoy. Not like my dream convoy in my previous patrol. I lower my periscope and try to slink away. Not gonna happen. They must have spotted it because they all fired starshells above it. Then they started to ping me. I try to sneak under some other ships in the convoy, but they eventually move on. They make their first DC run - and they make it a doosey. I am still pretty shallow. I get hit hard and head towards the bottom. I thought this is it. Ended in 1939. I don't want to see what 1944 is like! Anyway, we hit bottom (138m deep) and sit there. Too bad I was running full ahead when I hit not realizing how close we were. As soon as my crew stops the flooding I decide to sit there awhile.



Look at all the contacts!



I really pissed them off!



They even sent a submarine!



They continue to drop DCs and I figure we're dead if we stay here so I order silent running secured and begin making final repairs. Then I blow some ballast and we're off. I try zig zagging every which way and they still find me. I thought we would never make it out alive. Somehow, someway, we manage to elude our tormenters. Once we did, I repaired topside damage and made a beeline for home. This was a short patrol. I'm just lucky to have survived. Oh well, at least we put two medium merchants on the ocean floor - each worth about 5000 tons.

My deck gun was destroyed so I didn't want to carry on if I needed and I didn't know how bad my hull was after that encounter.



It just goes to show how big of a change that can occur. That convoy was the total antithesis of the other one. This was my nightmare while the other my dream.