How far into your career are you? - Page 2

BasilY · 07-23-08, 11:36 PM

21st patrol on a IXB, GWX2.1. Been in Brest since starting at 1940. 4 Patrol with 100k+. 9 GC's among my crew.

It's now may of 1944. Decide to spend a month visiting the coast off Cherburg, should be quite, the allied will probably invade Calais, but not until later in the year. Theywill rather see us fight it out with the Russians. Spend my renown (30k) on some homer torps just in case I got company in shallow water.

Later, this year, I may request a transfer to the baltic to fight the Russians with a VIIC/42. This quite cruise will surely give my crew some much needed R&R.

kgsuarez · 07-24-08, 12:11 AM

Leutnant z. S. Karl Scheppmann, of 1st Flotillia, in home base at Kiel before 2nd patrol on August 9, 1939. U-11, Type IIA.

Chisum · 07-24-08, 02:24 AM

I like a thread like this, it keeps us awake !

5th campagn started in 1939.
Currently Kapitän zur See Otto Chisum
U-178 Type IX/D2
12th Flotillia based at Bordeaux.

After 18 patrols 507 977 t (497224/10753/27 aircrafts/ 3 men lost)

In the 19th patrol, actually june 1944 in South-Atlantic, 200 miles North-East of Natal and on the way home with 3 torpedos onboard.

JHuschke · 07-24-08, 04:07 AM

U-15
1st Flotilla
Kiel 1939

On our second patrol, at Sea on September 11, 1939.

Annatar · 07-24-08, 04:32 AM

After a bout of chronic restartitis I finally settled on a new career which I hope to take long term.
Leutnant z. S. Karl Giebl, sailing out of Wilhelmshave in U-52, a Type VIIB.
Got the north of Scotland as our designated area, so we went up the British east coast and hung out for a day or so in what might be the most atrocious weather I've ever seen.

This isn't the boat submerged. That's surfaced, with one of the waves coming over and pushing us down. I guess they're are a product of the seasonal waves I clicked in SH3Commander. The conning tower was spending half its time a meter or more below the surface.

After tiring of tormenting my watch crew I decided to give the rest of them some punsihment and gave an ALLARRRMMM crash dive.
And ploughed into the sea-bed at 70 meters.
Today we learned to check depth under keel before crash diving.
Frankly I think that incident alone would have been enough to demote me to cabin boy, but whatever; I struggled on, feeling pretty sheepish.
Luckily my pride was damaged more than the boat.

Since I was already playing the ignorant, houghtless oaf so well I decided to round things off by going down the Irish sea and back through Der Kanal. Not as suicidal in September '39 as the rest of the war apparently, because I got a haul of eight ships for 30,669 GRT - my best yet.
By the end I was sinking them with the deck gun.

Barely heard a squeak out of the Royal Navy. Picked up a lot on Hydrophones, but they never seemed to notice me. One destroyer came within visual range while we was sat on the surface in calm weather and good visibility, watching a large cargo sink. Didn't spot us, didn't ping us, didn't come anywhere near us. Somebody upstairs must like me.

And after all that I didn't even get a bloody medal.
Next time.

Parkera · 07-24-08, 05:30 AM

Currently running decks awash thru the english channel heading home with 1 stern torp left. Its Oct 39 and i am on my second patrol in a VIIb based in Wilhelshaven, and so far sunk 4 ships. The 5th ship i attacked was a .....Q SHIP!!!! before i knew it i was taking hit, managed to get down to 25mtr anf fix it all up. However the cost was VERY high. Hull integ 10% 6 dead inc my watch officer.

Jimbuna · 07-24-08, 06:06 AM

Do you have the Q Ship mod installed ?

If so, what was the exact location of the Q Ship :hmm:

07-24-08, 07:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Parkera

Currently running decks awash thru the english channel heading home with 1 stern torp left. Its Oct 39 and i am on my second patrol in a VIIb based in Wilhelshaven, and so far sunk 4 ships. The 5th ship i attacked was a .....Q SHIP!!!! before i knew it i was taking hit, managed to get down to 25mtr anf fix it all up. However the cost was VERY high. Hull integ 10% 6 dead inc my watch officer.

lol, why do u hate your life so much ?

english channel is not exactly the right place for u-boats to hunt around is it ?
And what was the purpose of running deck awashed the whole way I don't get this fully, sorry

Annatar · 07-24-08, 09:23 AM

Dead, second patrol. Hull failed while hiding from a Black Swan at 260 meters.
Kind of pleased actually, as I'd been having suspicions that one of the mods I installed might have removed crush depths, since most of the Type VIIs I've had before all started to take damage around 230 meters, while my last two had done 240 - 250 just fine.
An anomaly, perhaps?

rifleman13 · 07-24-08, 09:45 AM

Oblt. z. S. Ernst Engelhardt
Command: Unterseeboot 51
Flotilla: 2nd Flotilla, Wilhelmshaven
Reality Settings: GWX 2.1 with various mods, at 90%

1st Patrol: Sept 1 - Sept 6, 1939 (6 days)
8 sunk (2 merchant/6 warships)
11815 tons (3109/8706)
Route taken: Along British East Coast
Damage sustained: 1.9%
Hull integrity at: 98.10%

2nd Patrol: Oct 3 - Oct 17, 1939 (15 days)
11 merchants sunk, no warships sunk
35830 tons
Route taken: North of Scapa Flow, East of the Hebrides, Irish Sea, English Channel
Damage sustained: 71.44%
Hull integrity at: 28.56&
Casualties: 4 petty officers dead, 2 crew dead

3rd Patrol: In progress, started Jan 4, 1940
Location: at port, Wilhelmshaven

TOTAL TONNAGE: 47645 tonnes (38939 merchant/8706 warship)

==END OF REPORT==

Ivan Putski · 07-24-08, 09:58 AM

Leutnant z. S. Willi Lehmann, 7th Flotilla, St. Nazaire, 14th patrol, July,1941, Type VIIc, South of Ireland at the present time. Rain, heavy seas, just sank a med cargo in a night action.

Parkera · 07-24-08, 04:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Contact

Quote:

Originally Posted by Parkera

Currently running decks awash thru the english channel heading home with 1 stern torp left. Its Oct 39 and i am on my second patrol in a VIIb based in Wilhelshaven, and so far sunk 4 ships. The 5th ship i attacked was a .....Q SHIP!!!! before i knew it i was taking hit, managed to get down to 25mtr anf fix it all up. However the cost was VERY high. Hull integ 10% 6 dead inc my watch officer.

lol, why do u hate your life so much ?

english channel is not exactly the right place for u-boats to hunt around is it ?
And what was the purpose of running deck awashed the whole way I don't get this fully, sorry

I only run decks awash in the Dover straits at night, as running deck awash makes me less visable (only tower above water) and at flank i can still do 14kts. As its early war i will run the straights as they are alot of targets around, some times it worth it.

Chisum · 07-24-08, 04:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Contact

lol, why do u hate your life so much ?

english channel is not exactly the right place for u-boats to hunt around is it ?

Not in 1939 and early in the war.
It's relatively easy to cross in the chanel in this time and don't forget that is the shortest way to Atlantic...
For a type II it's very important.

Sailor Steve · 07-24-08, 07:41 PM

Type II isn't meant to go into the Atlantic. And if you can safely cross the Channel then the game still isn't realistic enough.

Kapt Z · 07-24-08, 08:20 PM

Oblt Oskar Pilsner, U-138, Type IID, Kiel, January 1941, 3rd patrol, 48,000 tons total.

07-23-08, 11:36 PM	#16
BasilY Weps Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 359 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	21st patrol on a IXB, GWX2.1. Been in Brest since starting at 1940. 4 Patrol with 100k+. 9 GC's among my crew. It's now may of 1944. Decide to spend a month visiting the coast off Cherburg, should be quite, the allied will probably invade Calais, but not until later in the year. Theywill rather see us fight it out with the Russians. Spend my renown (30k) on some homer torps just in case I got company in shallow water. Later, this year, I may request a transfer to the baltic to fight the Russians with a VIIC/42. This quite cruise will surely give my crew some much needed R&R. Last edited by BasilY; 07-24-08 at 12:19 AM.

07-24-08, 02:24 AM	#18
Chisum Seasoned Skipper Join Date: May 2007 Location: Bastogne, Belgium Posts: 716 Downloads: 86 Uploads: 0	I like a thread like this, it keeps us awake ! 5th campagn started in 1939. Currently Kapitän zur See Otto Chisum U-178 Type IX/D2 12th Flotillia based at Bordeaux. After 18 patrols 507 977 t (497224/10753/27 aircrafts/ 3 men lost) In the 19th patrol, actually june 1944 in South-Atlantic, 200 miles North-East of Natal and on the way home with 3 torpedos onboard. __________________ [http://simus-paradise.forumactif.com/silent-hunter-iii-f12/ Last edited by Chisum; 07-24-08 at 08:11 AM.

07-24-08, 06:06 AM	#22
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,522 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Do you have the Q Ship mod installed ? If so, what was the exact location of the Q Ship :hmm: __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

07-24-08, 09:58 AM	#26
Ivan Putski Captain Join Date: May 2005 Location: Memphis, Tn. U.S.A. Posts: 548 Downloads: 21 Uploads: 0	Leutnant z. S. Willi Lehmann, 7th Flotilla, St. Nazaire, 14th patrol, July,1941, Type VIIc, South of Ireland at the present time. Rain, heavy seas, just sank a med cargo in a night action. __________________ " Is He?..........Yeah..........Nothing Moving, But His Watch."

07-24-08, 07:41 PM	#29
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Type II isn't meant to go into the Atlantic. And if you can safely cross the Channel then the game still isn't realistic enough. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

07-24-08, 12:11 AM	#17
kgsuarez Planesman Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: USA Posts: 181 Downloads: 28 Uploads: 0	Leutnant z. S. Karl Scheppmann, of 1st Flotillia, in home base at Kiel before 2nd patrol on August 9, 1939. U-11, Type IIA.

07-24-08, 04:07 AM	#19
JHuschke XO Join Date: May 2008 Location: Munich, Germany Posts: 432 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	U-15 1st Flotilla Kiel 1939 On our second patrol, at Sea on September 11, 1939.

07-24-08, 04:32 AM	#20
Annatar Machinist's Mate Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Merry Old England Posts: 121 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	After a bout of chronic restartitis I finally settled on a new career which I hope to take long term. Leutnant z. S. Karl Giebl, sailing out of Wilhelmshave in U-52, a Type VIIB. Got the north of Scotland as our designated area, so we went up the British east coast and hung out for a day or so in what might be the most atrocious weather I've ever seen. This isn't the boat submerged. That's surfaced, with one of the waves coming over and pushing us down. I guess they're are a product of the seasonal waves I clicked in SH3Commander. The conning tower was spending half its time a meter or more below the surface. After tiring of tormenting my watch crew I decided to give the rest of them some punsihment and gave an ALLARRRMMM crash dive. And ploughed into the sea-bed at 70 meters. Today we learned to check depth under keel before crash diving. Frankly I think that incident alone would have been enough to demote me to cabin boy, but whatever; I struggled on, feeling pretty sheepish. Luckily my pride was damaged more than the boat. Since I was already playing the ignorant, houghtless oaf so well I decided to round things off by going down the Irish sea and back through Der Kanal. Not as suicidal in September '39 as the rest of the war apparently, because I got a haul of eight ships for 30,669 GRT - my best yet. By the end I was sinking them with the deck gun. Barely heard a squeak out of the Royal Navy. Picked up a lot on Hydrophones, but they never seemed to notice me. One destroyer came within visual range while we was sat on the surface in calm weather and good visibility, watching a large cargo sink. Didn't spot us, didn't ping us, didn't come anywhere near us. Somebody upstairs must like me. And after all that I didn't even get a bloody medal. Next time.

07-24-08, 05:30 AM	#21
Parkera Gunner Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 91 Downloads: 99 Uploads: 0	Currently running decks awash thru the english channel heading home with 1 stern torp left. Its Oct 39 and i am on my second patrol in a VIIb based in Wilhelshaven, and so far sunk 4 ships. The 5th ship i attacked was a .....Q SHIP!!!! before i knew it i was taking hit, managed to get down to 25mtr anf fix it all up. However the cost was VERY high. Hull integ 10% 6 dead inc my watch officer.

07-24-08, 09:23 AM	#24
Annatar Machinist's Mate Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Merry Old England Posts: 121 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Dead, second patrol. Hull failed while hiding from a Black Swan at 260 meters. Kind of pleased actually, as I'd been having suspicions that one of the mods I installed might have removed crush depths, since most of the Type VIIs I've had before all started to take damage around 230 meters, while my last two had done 240 - 250 just fine. An anomaly, perhaps?

07-24-08, 09:45 AM	#25
rifleman13 Grey Wolf Join Date: May 2008 Location: Depth-charged to Kingdom Come Posts: 927 Downloads: 28 Uploads: 0	Oblt. z. S. Ernst Engelhardt Command: Unterseeboot 51 Flotilla: 2nd Flotilla, Wilhelmshaven Reality Settings: GWX 2.1 with various mods, at 90% 1st Patrol: Sept 1 - Sept 6, 1939 (6 days) 8 sunk (2 merchant/6 warships) 11815 tons (3109/8706) Route taken: Along British East Coast Damage sustained: 1.9% Hull integrity at: 98.10% 2nd Patrol: Oct 3 - Oct 17, 1939 (15 days) 11 merchants sunk, no warships sunk 35830 tons Route taken: North of Scapa Flow, East of the Hebrides, Irish Sea, English Channel Damage sustained: 71.44% Hull integrity at: 28.56& Casualties: 4 petty officers dead, 2 crew dead 3rd Patrol: In progress, started Jan 4, 1940 Location: at port, Wilhelmshaven TOTAL TONNAGE: 47645 tonnes (38939 merchant/8706 warship) ==END OF REPORT==

07-24-08, 08:20 PM	#30
Kapt Z Grey Wolf Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: ...somewhere in the swamps of Jersey. Posts: 909 Downloads: 157 Uploads: 0	Oblt Oskar Pilsner, U-138, Type IID, Kiel, January 1941, 3rd patrol, 48,000 tons total.