Anyone kill a friendly? I almost did... - Page 2

Red Heat · 06-17-08, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Brag

I entered a harbour in the Canaries and found British tanker there. Since it was a dark night. I decided to gun it down and blame the incident on dissafected Portuguese fishermen.

After pumping a bunch of rounds into the tanker, the Brit sank.
That's when things got ugly. My gun crew opened up on a Partuguese patrol boat watching the proceedings. The Portuguese sank with the first shot.

All hell broke loose as shore batteries opened up.

We dove and exited the harbour leaving a message in a bottle.

You filthy ingles you leave our sardinas without oil in tanker.

A Portuguese patrol boat in Canarias Islands!?
Quite strange in did...

FIREWALL · 06-17-08, 04:32 PM

I've NEVER accidently sunk a friendly.

Frank0001 · 06-17-08, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by seafarer

Me, no, never, no sirree, not me, not my boat

Now, up north during the Norwegian campaign, I heard, just heard, stray talk and all mind you - of one of our supply ships going down from a torpeding, and there was no intell of any Tommy boats in the area, just our boats. But me and my crew were, uhh, far away. That's it, we were far away - I could tell you where, but then I'd have to kill you, and we don't want that. So just take my word for it, IT WAS NOT US, really

and it was reallly realy dark, black as pitch and all, and anyway, we weren't there so....

:rotfl: LOL:rotfl:
That really made my day, just hilarious! :rotfl:

I haven't sunk a friendly ship on purpose before, but I was trigger-happy a few times with the American vessels. When I see one, I immediately think 'USA.....Germany.....lifelong enemies'
So WHAM! there goes another...

...only afterwards realising we were not at war yet

Brag · 06-17-08, 10:33 PM

A Portuguese patrol boat in Canarias Islands!?
Quite strange in did...

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Azores

Anyway, you've seen an island you've seen the all. A naval officer knows how to differenciate an island from a continent. It takes longer to circumnavigate a continent. Are you trying to question the integrety of a U-boat commander? How dare you.

Anyway, there's a good song: Islas Canarias.

As to the Azores incident it happened in Sao Tome.

IF you can make heads or tails of this posting--congratz!

seafarer · 06-18-08, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Frank0001

I haven't sunk a friendly ship on purpose before, but I was trigger-happy a few times with the American vessels. When I see one, I immediately think 'USA.....Germany.....lifelong enemies'
So WHAM! there goes another...

...only afterwards realising we were not at war yet

We understaaand, really we do. You're confined in a dank steel tube, spending weeks and weeks at sea. Those grey seas, those grey skies. The endless storms and foul weather, the monotony of it all! The dull food, the dreary, monotonous days, watch after watch after watch, with nothing to relieve the mind-numbing dullness. You hardly know whether it's a.m. or p.m., lunch or dinner. One can hardly expect you to know what dang day it is, let alone the month or year.

Memo to BdU - we REALLY need to tighten up our selection protocols for command rank. Two notes re: requirements for command - (a) only people with enough sense to know that humans cannot see in complete darkness and hence, in zero visibilty conditions, should perhaps refrain from firing torpedoes at anything on the surface that moves, and (b) those with sufficient mental faculty to remember to look at a calendar at least once every 12 months

Frank0001 · 06-18-08, 01:26 PM

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Memo to BdU - we REALLY need to tighten up our selection protocols for command rank. Two notes re: requirements for command - (a) only people with enough sense to know that humans cannot see in complete darkness and hence, in zero visibilty conditions, should perhaps refrain from firing torpedoes at anything on the surface that moves, and (b) those with sufficient mental faculty to remember to look at a calendar at least once every 12 months

Haha nicely put :rotfl: And totally right too...

..But!

I was only off by a couple of months

seafarer · 06-18-08, 01:41 PM

Sure, sure. As I said, we veterans understaaand these things. And that whole Norwegian campaing thing, I sure, err, that other boat, must have just had a malfunction. A short circuit or something, that just happened to cause a tube (or, perhaps two) to flood, open its outer doors and fire the eel. I'm sure that kind of thing happens more then we care to admit, right?

certainly more then I'm ever going to admit, that's for sure

Frank0001 · 06-18-08, 04:17 PM

Bad luck I say! Wrong place at the wrong time. How could they blaim us for a so-called 'friendly kill'? Sure, we all sometimes pretend to attack a friendly vessel, get a solution, flood the tubes....perhaps launching one just ahead of her. I knew the captain, it's a game we play. But I never did hit her. It struck a mine, nothing to do with me, no sir. And I certainly wouldn't fire at it with the 88 when she won't go down. Nope, not me.
Did anyone notice the flags all look alike? In the heat of combat, it's often a thing to forget to check. Not that I would be in combat with a friendly vessel... The ship was probably a spy, and needed to be sunk. Not saying I sunk it, like I said, it struck a mine....

richardphat · 06-18-08, 04:28 PM

First day i try sh3, i sank almost every axis ship because. i didnt know they were our friends......... and yet i cannon them with my deck gun shell

Frank0001 · 06-18-08, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by richardphat

First day i try sh3, i sank almost every axis ship because. i didnt know they were our friends......... and yet i cannon them with my deck gun shell

Haha nice one

Anything that doesn't shoot at you, is either friendly or neutral!
Or can't find you

richardphat · 06-18-08, 04:54 PM

What?!?!? There is nothing wrong for noob who start playing a new game

UnderseaLcpl · 06-18-08, 05:19 PM

1st day of GWX 2.0, September 39' and also my first day playing sh3. The radio comms are getting on my nerves as I try to TC to my patrol area in grid BF so I just start clicking past them figuring "I'll read 'em later it's all just fluff anyway"
Sailing through the channel I happily help a half dozen small to middling size french merchants scuttle their ships early, to save them the trouble later.
Popping to the surface to reload from the external tubes I go to work assigning sailors to the bow tubes when that damn beeping starts again and I get a new radiogram.
"Might as well go through them now, I've got a small book going here." I think, opening the newest one.....
The content, a forceful reiteration of a directive to NOT sink French ships, catches me by surprise.
"What the hell is this? Nobody ever said anything about....." My eyes turn to the dozen or so mildewing radiograms stacked in the corner.
"Oh Bloody hell."

Frank0001 · 06-18-08, 06:24 PM

Hahaha good show :rotfl:

I actually saved a neutral freighter from being hit once.
Decided to do a long shot, so couldn't quite tell the flag. Fired one away and went in Godmode to watch the torpedo hit. In doing so, I noticed it was a neutral! So I blew ballast and fired a few rounds at it (some hit). That made it zig-zag and avoid the incoming eel.

I was so glad! And I'm sure the captain and his crew was too

Kapt Z · 06-18-08, 07:04 PM

One of my first careers in stock I sank a American that was traveling in a convoy. I was charging in on the surface on a dark night and didn't bother to close enough to make out any flags. Probably carrying contraband anyway.

Since then I have come close with a lone American and a lone Italian. The Italian especially was a REAL lucky bugger.

sharkbit · 06-19-08, 07:46 AM

I hit an inbound convoy a couiple of weeks ago near the end of a patrol. Visibility was moderate at night so I didn't want to get too close. Picked my targets. Almost got gun shy-remembered a few posts about neutrals in a convoy.
Then my agression factor said "NO, NO, NO-SHOOT THE BASTARDS!"

Any neutral sailing blacked out in a blacked out convoy heading for England is fair game, loss of renown be damned.

Sank an ore carrier and got a hit on another ship(didn't see the hit-was on my way down with a destroyer charging in on me. I managed to evade after an hour, came back up, made an end around from the other side of the convoy and sank a whale factory ship (biggest ship I've sunk so far

) and a medium tanker. Slunk away on the surface this time-the escort had no clue where I was, just a bunch of searchlights and star shells off in the distance as I made my way from the convoy with all my eels expended and home.

Even after a slight hesitation about neutrals in a convoy, none of the ships I got were neutral. Next time, I won't even pause before I shoot a ship in a convoy.

06-17-08, 04:32 PM	#17
FIREWALL Eternal Patrol Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CATALINA IS. SO . CAL USA Posts: 10,108 Downloads: 511 Uploads: 0	I've NEVER accidently sunk a friendly. __________________ RIP FIREWALL I Play GWX. Silent Hunter Who ???

06-17-08, 10:33 PM	#19
Brag Navy Seal Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Docked on a Russian pond Posts: 7,072 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	A Portuguese patrol boat in Canarias Islands!? Quite strange in did... [/quote] Azores Anyway, you've seen an island you've seen the all. A naval officer knows how to differenciate an island from a continent. It takes longer to circumnavigate a continent. Are you trying to question the integrety of a U-boat commander? How dare you. Anyway, there's a good song: Islas Canarias. As to the Azores incident it happened in Sao Tome. IF you can make heads or tails of this posting--congratz! __________________ Espionage, adventure, suspense, are just a click away Click here to look inside Brag's book: Amazon.com: Kingmaker: Alexey Braguine: Books Order Kingmaker here: http://www.subsim.com/store.html For Tactics visit:http://www.freewebs.com/kielman/

06-18-08, 01:41 PM	#22
seafarer Commodore Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 622 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Sure, sure. As I said, we veterans understaaand these things. And that whole Norwegian campaing thing, I sure, err, that other boat, must have just had a malfunction. A short circuit or something, that just happened to cause a tube (or, perhaps two) to flood, open its outer doors and fire the eel. I'm sure that kind of thing happens more then we care to admit, right? certainly more then I'm ever going to admit, that's for sure __________________ My Father's ship, HMCS Waskesiu (K330), sank U257 on 02/24/1944 running SHIII-1.4 with GWX2.1 and SHIV-1.5 with TMO/RSRDC/PE3.3 under MS Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP1 ACER AMD Athlon 64x2 4800+, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 400GB SATA HD Antec TruePower Trio 650watt PSU BFG GeForce 8800GT/OC 512MB VRAM, Samsung 216BW widescreen (1680x1050) LCD

06-18-08, 04:17 PM	#23
Frank0001 Chief Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 317 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	Bad luck I say! Wrong place at the wrong time. How could they blaim us for a so-called 'friendly kill'? Sure, we all sometimes pretend to attack a friendly vessel, get a solution, flood the tubes....perhaps launching one just ahead of her. I knew the captain, it's a game we play. But I never did hit her. It struck a mine, nothing to do with me, no sir. And I certainly wouldn't fire at it with the 88 when she won't go down. Nope, not me. Did anyone notice the flags all look alike? In the heat of combat, it's often a thing to forget to check. Not that I would be in combat with a friendly vessel... The ship was probably a spy, and needed to be sunk. Not saying I sunk it, like I said, it struck a mine.... __________________ Snipers of the Seas One eel - one Kill

06-18-08, 05:19 PM	#27
UnderseaLcpl Silent Hunter Join Date: May 2008 Location: Storming the beaches! Posts: 4,254 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	1st day of GWX 2.0, September 39' and also my first day playing sh3. The radio comms are getting on my nerves as I try to TC to my patrol area in grid BF so I just start clicking past them figuring "I'll read 'em later it's all just fluff anyway" Sailing through the channel I happily help a half dozen small to middling size french merchants scuttle their ships early, to save them the trouble later. Popping to the surface to reload from the external tubes I go to work assigning sailors to the bow tubes when that damn beeping starts again and I get a new radiogram. "Might as well go through them now, I've got a small book going here." I think, opening the newest one..... The content, a forceful reiteration of a directive to NOT sink French ships, catches me by surprise. "What the hell is this? Nobody ever said anything about....." My eyes turn to the dozen or so mildewing radiograms stacked in the corner. "Oh Bloody hell." __________________ I stole this sig from Task Force

06-18-08, 04:28 PM	#24
richardphat Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 682 Downloads: 17 Uploads: 0	First day i try sh3, i sank almost every axis ship because. i didnt know they were our friends......... and yet i cannon them with my deck gun shell

06-18-08, 04:54 PM	#26
richardphat Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 682 Downloads: 17 Uploads: 0	What?!?!? There is nothing wrong for noob who start playing a new game

06-18-08, 06:24 PM	#28
Frank0001 Chief Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 317 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	Hahaha good show :rotfl: I actually saved a neutral freighter from being hit once. Decided to do a long shot, so couldn't quite tell the flag. Fired one away and went in Godmode to watch the torpedo hit. In doing so, I noticed it was a neutral! So I blew ballast and fired a few rounds at it (some hit). That made it zig-zag and avoid the incoming eel. I was so glad! And I'm sure the captain and his crew was too __________________ Snipers of the Seas One eel - one Kill

06-18-08, 07:04 PM	#29
Kapt Z Grey Wolf Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: ...somewhere in the swamps of Jersey. Posts: 909 Downloads: 157 Uploads: 0	One of my first careers in stock I sank a American that was traveling in a convoy. I was charging in on the surface on a dark night and didn't bother to close enough to make out any flags. Probably carrying contraband anyway. Since then I have come close with a lone American and a lone Italian. The Italian especially was a REAL lucky bugger.

06-19-08, 07:46 AM	#30
sharkbit The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 1,529 Downloads: 334 Uploads: 0	I hit an inbound convoy a couiple of weeks ago near the end of a patrol. Visibility was moderate at night so I didn't want to get too close. Picked my targets. Almost got gun shy-remembered a few posts about neutrals in a convoy. Then my agression factor said "NO, NO, NO-SHOOT THE BASTARDS!" Any neutral sailing blacked out in a blacked out convoy heading for England is fair game, loss of renown be damned. Sank an ore carrier and got a hit on another ship(didn't see the hit-was on my way down with a destroyer charging in on me. I managed to evade after an hour, came back up, made an end around from the other side of the convoy and sank a whale factory ship (biggest ship I've sunk so far) and a medium tanker. Slunk away on the surface this time-the escort had no clue where I was, just a bunch of searchlights and star shells off in the distance as I made my way from the convoy with all my eels expended and home. Even after a slight hesitation about neutrals in a convoy, none of the ships I got were neutral. Next time, I won't even pause before I shoot a ship in a convoy.