Map with mined areas!

[frau kaleun]

stop it man yer killin me

[Red Heat]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

The real intelligent Kaleuns carried trained seagulls similar to the carrier pigeons used by the army.

You are too much...lol...stop it!

[Capt. Morgan]

NYGM places the historical East Coast Barrage mine fields (1940-44) like this...



Their documentation states that the locations of these particular minefields were published in an effort to reduce accidental merchant sinkings, so the Germans new of their general locations too - hence their appearance on you u-boats nav. map. I would think other mods place them in the same general areas as well.

BTW, I came across an interesting article on the North-Sea mines here...http://www.seaclimate.com/2/2_14.html. there were a lot of them!

[Gabucino]

Next project: seek out a surface mine, wait for a DD, make noise, hide under mine.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Capt. Morgan

NYGM places the historical East Coast Barrage mine fields (1940-44) like this...


Their documentation states that the locations of these particular minefields were published in an effort to reduce accidental merchant sinkings, so the Germans new of their general locations too - hence their appearance on you u-boats nav. map. I would think other mods place them in the same general areas as well.

BTW, I came across an interesting article on the North-Sea mines here...http://www.seaclimate.com/2/2_14.html. there were a lot of them!

What about the Northern and channel minefields? (I'm referring to the picture)

[Capt. Morgan]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

What about the Northern and channel minefields? (I'm referring to the picture)

Well, it's a map with some of the coastal minefields shown.


My guess is that only the minefields that would have been known to the Germans at this time are displayed on the Nav. map. I always assumed that there were others for me to discover on my own. The NYGM people would know for sure.

[timwatson]

I've ventured into Scapa 8 times using the west entrance. Mines are the only real threat unless one is careless enough to surface within visible distance of shore batteries.

My solution: set course within 95m of the south shoreline (at the base of the cliffs running east/westerly. Once near the island which has a searchlight and gun casement on its western verge, you are clear to proceed. Only one Elco naval unit patrols this area.

Once past the "narrows" and just past the 5 casement shore battery, there you will find one anchored DD and the prize: a 33,000 ton Floating Drydock to the south of the DD.

I avoid the DD's asdic by taking a long range (roughly 3km) T2 contact pistol shot set at 1m depth to avoid the submarine net positioned about 300m north of the Floating Dock. The dock's orientation is always within about 30 degrees of your eel's track line, and it is always stationary.

By the time torpedo detonation occurs, I am already headed back to the west Scapa Flow entrance at silent speed. I also take the precaution to have previously marked the plotted course before navigating the minefield so as to replacate the exact course used during the inbound leg.

Sad to annouce since the beginning of 1942 the game isn't placing the dock at this location.

I'm beginning my 11th mission, and have sunk 1.9 million tons to date.

Hopefully this will help your endeavors, and I hope to hear of your successes!

kaleun Rolfe Hass

Originally Posted by floundericiousWA

I've encountered that in both GWX and vanilla SH3 and that ***t is HAIR RAISING!

I was snooping the west entrance to Scapa in early 1940 the next patrol after pulling a duplication of Prien's feat...when I left in late '39, the run out that west channel was wide open (aside from frantically dodging the elco boats and trying to reach open water before the shore batteries could see me).

When I came back in early '40, I was snooping and happened to see a mine as the periscope was going up...

I went to external view and I was sitting in a pocket between several mines (it gave me the "how the hell did I not hit ANY of them!?!!?" reaction) and ended up slowly backing out then hauling butt out to clear waters.

The only way to deal with it is to avoid known minefields and trust that you'll slide between any mines you come across...if you're wrong, that'll be all she wrote in short order!

[Jimbuna]

33,200 ton but only a miserly 30 renown