Who else is holding up the honour of the U-Boats?

[STEED]

There at the South Pole I think. :hmm:

[Brag]

You can find Spaghetti Penguins in South Africa--no penguins in northern hemisphere

[Jan Kyster]

Ducimus and Rubini ruined my patrol (do *not* edit mid-patrol)... it had a carrier down in it...

Anyway... start again, new patrol 8.

June 15, 1940.
Clear, light fog.
We take off from Bergen after a refill.
Late afternoon, between norwegian mountains...

June 16. Patrol area AN23.
1128: Swordfish! Crash dive. DC close, no damage.
1610: surfaced. 15m/s, heavy clouds...
1809: SO: merchant. One of our own.

June 17, 15m/s, clear.

June 18, 15m/s, clear. AF76
0224: rendevouz with one of our Commerce Raides.
1830: 11m/s, partial clouds, clear. Leaving AF73, heading W

June 19, 11m/s, clear.

June 20, 11m/s, clear. AF74.
0651: Swordfish! Crash dive, 45 deg evading, DC in water, close. No damage.
1103: surface. 9m/s, clear. Calm sea.
1120: Swordfish!! Long range.

June 21, 15m/s, heavy clouds. AM32.
1648: RA: convoys, grid AM36. One northbound, other southgoing.
1650: we ignore them. Not going into shallow water again...
2050: heavy rain and fog, 15m/s.

June 22 15m/s, heavy rain and fog.
0130: entering AM31
0645: 15m/s, all clear. Heavy sea.
1854: heavy clouds.
2150: entering AM24.

June 23, 11m/s, cloudy, light fog, heavy sea.
1157: sonar contact. Slow merchant. Go for intercept.
1320: first hit. Small tanker.
1322: second hit. Two missed. 4 torpedoes wasted. Tracking her in the fog, 400m behind
1344: she's finally blows up... heading west. 1309t.

June 24, 8m/s, clear. AM25.
1245: 15m/s, cloudy but clear.

June 25, 7m/s, clear. Calm sea. AM18.
Patrol course plotted for AM18-01-43-51-52
1201: message from BdU. The English channel cleared for use. Yeah, right! Good for you.
1521: RA reports enemy warship in AM78. 800km south...
1535: *if* the ship is heading Scapa Flow, we *may* cross it's course... changing to E 110.
2010: 12m/s, clear. Entered AM29.

June 26, 12m/s, clear.
0410: has reached intercept course. Heading S 210.
0820: finished fine calculating courses, *if* correct then 120km to target...
0832: RA report large, 4kts convoy in AM52, heading ENE. 280km away, but too close to land. Ignored.
0954: reached patrol area. AM51. 13m/s, clear. Diving to 15m.
1008: SO: warship bearing 010. Long range. Closing.
1011: SO: more than 7 warships. I have a listen. There is a carrier in there! Know the sound of it...
1042: has tracked carrier and plotted it's course. We head due W for interception point.
1048: periscope up. Didi closing, Hunter behind. Carrier at bearing 340. Setting all tubes at fast speed.
1050: she's closing much too fast. Open all tubes, periscope up, 600m.
1051: mark, fire tube 1, mark, fire tube 2, mark, 3, mark, 4, crash dive! New course 210.
1052: first torpedo hit! Periscope still not entirely down, see hit mid rear half of ship. Then second impact! Near propellers.
1052: She's going down!
1054: at 50m going flank. New course 210 and rigging for silent.
1055: we can hear she's sinking now. Destroyer closing. Moving fast.
1105: DC in water. 100m behind us. They don't know where we are. 110m, heading 200.
1107: more DC. 300m away.
1122: DC, more than 700m behind. Clearly they lost us. Heading 240.
1130: destroyer moving away.
1133: blow ballast. Send contact report. Quick fill, fresh air and recharge.
1138: going to 35m. Heading S 210. Prepare for long dive.
1152: new depth 80m. Took a tour through the boat, thanking everyone for great effort. 23000t Illustrious Carrier.
1406: SO reports merchant. Turns out to be a hospital ship, we turn back south. Still submerged.
1810: heading W. Entering AM43.
2245: periscope depth. Clear sky.



June 27, AM43.
0047: surface the boat. Batteries 20, CO2 3.4.
0228: 7m/s, clear.
0415: plotted a patrol course. Homing for Wilhelmshaven, 3850km.
0645: send Status Report

U-33. Position Grid AM43
Torpedoes left: 5
Cargo ships sunk: 1
Warship sunk: 1
Total tonnage: 24309
No damage, all healthy.

Oberleutnant Z. S. Janus Küster

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Brag

--no penguins in northern hemisphere

Uh-HUH! I seen lots of 'em at my zoo!

[Brag]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Uh-HUH! I seen lots of 'em at my zoo!

The only penguins we see in this zoo are the demented birds with a Scapa Flow fixation

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Brag

The only penguins we see in this zoo are the demented birds with a Scapa Flow fixation

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

This must be a new mental illness as I can not find it any where.

[Lovro]

U-46 reporting
10mi of the cost of S England just after entering the chanel; 6. Jan 1941 (0400 hrs)

Silently infiltating a port Sorrounded by 3 DD's and patrol boats... yet to be discovered.


ps. thats right I'm going in the chanel AND raiding a port at the same time.

[Corsair]

Originally Posted by Lovro

U-46 reporting
ps. thats right I'm going in the chanel AND raiding a port at the same time.

Really looking for it, ain't ya ??

[Brag]

Originally Posted by Corsair

Really looking for it, ain't ya ??

Hehe, we have another patient with Scapa suicidal syndrome (SSS)

[Telgriff]

Kaleun Griffin reporting in with his VII/B. Back on patrol after far too long a break from combat. First patrol is almost over and have not sighted a contact, extremely disappointed and will continue the hunt until I am almost out of the required fuel to get back to Lorient. Returning to base with all fish (bar the one Bernard fired before even getting to open sea), is almost as bad as sinking an axis ship!

[Mooncatt]

Originally Posted by Lovro

U-46 reporting
10mi of the cost of S England just after entering the chanel; 6. Jan 1941 (0400 hrs)

Silently infiltating a port Sorrounded by 3 DD's and patrol boats... yet to be discovered.


ps. thats right I'm going in the chanel AND raiding a port at the same time.

good god! have you gone mad??? "dr bernard report to the medical room imediatly"

[Brag]

Originally Posted by Telgriff

Kaleun Griffin reporting in with his VII/B. Back on patrol after far too long a break from combat. First patrol is almost over and have not sighted a contact, extremely disappointed and will continue the hunt until I am almost out of the required fuel to get back to Lorient. Returning to base with all fish (bar the one Bernard fired before even getting to open sea), is almost as bad as sinking an axis ship!

Depending on your present position, lots of traffic in approaches to Gibraltar (lots of enemy air activity, too)

[Brag]

Originally Posted by Mooncatt

good god! have you gone mad??? "dr bernard report to the medical room imediatly"

AAALAAAAAAAAAAAAARM! An extreme case of SSS! Bring the brain surgery kit! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[tiger_tim_34]

U-102 reporting very happily from the end of her 9th Patrol, having sunk 48K tonnes. Managed to sink all the escorts protecting a convoy then just blatted away with the deck gun at my defenseless prey. This was followed by a profitable harbour raid and then another tussle with a convoy containing large and tasty cargo vessels.

Have been studying the reduced-immersion complaints of SH4, among other reviews, and doubt I'll go anywhere near that inside of a year. If at all. Still happily addicted to this wonderful sim, and the expanding improvements of GWX.

Quick question while I'm here... why on earth would anyone trade in a Type VIIB for a Type VIIC? What are the benefits or improvements? The Type VIIC is slower and can't even dive deeper. Hmmn.

Best regards to you all.

[Telgriff]

Originally Posted by Brag

Depending on your present position, lots of traffic in approaches to Gibraltar (lots of enemy air activity, too)

Found a nice C2 that I repeatedly attacked for over 2 hours while in some major fog and heavy seas. I forgot how far into the war I was with this campaign (1943ish i think) and the c2 took more than a few pot shots at me. In the end (and in a bout of sheer insanity) I began ramming the c2. It won...just. DiD rules mean new campaign which I was after anyway, but wanted this one to go out in some rediculous fashion.