Awww.. RIPPED OFF!

[maillemaker]

Yup, I'm using commander, and yup, visiting a u-boat fixes your boat. You just lose the ability to issue any game-generated promotions, awards, or qualifications, and you don't get to choose your torpedo loadout.

I'm just wondering if stopping at u-boats and giving yourself a 3-day delay gets you more patrols over the war than going back to base for the game-generated port delay.

Here is my patrol record from my last go:

http://i.imgur.com/mSIolDa.png

Steve

[Tonnage_Ace]

Originally Posted by maillemaker

Yup, I'm using commander, and yup, visiting a u-boat fixes your boat. You just lose the ability to issue any game-generated promotions, awards, or qualifications, and you don't get to choose your torpedo loadout.

I'm just wondering if stopping at u-boats and giving yourself a 3-day delay gets you more patrols over the war than going back to base for the game-generated port delay.

Here is my patrol record from my last go:

http://i.imgur.com/mSIolDa.png

Steve

Ya you'll spend more time at sea if you take advantage of the milch cows and sh3 commander's 'days spent in base' setting. The default is 20-28 days and you will jump forward a month if you choose a different uboat or upgrade the one you have.

That's why I love GWX, you can intercept a convoy multiple times, empty your torpedo's and then rendezvous with a friendly in the middle of the night, drink champagne, eat fish salad and figs while your crew passes over fresh TI's and loads them in my boat.

That's a pretty illustrious career, did you sink any battleships? I saw you sank 95000 tons of warships one patrol

I came close to losing my mind 3 patrols ago:

I got some Intel about a convoy south of Greenland headed south west at nine knots. I moved to intercept and saw through the fog the first ships start to appear. I saw what looked like 4 smoke stacks on top of a large silhouette, my first thought was that it was the Aquitania. I couldn't hit her though because she was nestled in the middle of the convoy but I did hit 3 other ships with 2 sinking. I retreated after my first salvo and moved at flank speed parallel to the convoy's course, moved into position and waited for 20 minutes until I could see signs of movement. Searched through my UZO and couldn't spot that big ship again, it totally disappeared!

Could have swore I saw her though, maybe the convoy split up after my first engagement?

[maillemaker]

I don't think I encountered any battleships that career. But I did take out 3 or so Bogue class carriers and a Fiji class, as well as countless escorts once I got acoustic homing torpedoes.

Steve

[maillemaker]

Well, I guess I did. I went back and looked at the record for that patrol and I sank:

0344 Patrol 18
U-123, 2nd Flotilla
Left at: March 3, 1941, 03:44
From: Thalia 1132 Grid CG 95

Ship sunk! Medium Merchant 01, 5099 tons 1720 Grid CG 96
Ship sunk! HMS Ashanti (Tribal class), 1850 tons. Crew: 250. Crew lost: 232 1731 Grid CG 96
Ship sunk! HMS Gloucester (Southampton class), 10725 tons. Crew: 954. Crew lost: 467 1741 Grid CG 96
Ship sunk! HMS Diamond (C&D classes), 1375 tons. Crew: 182. Crew lost: 20 1755 Grid CG 96
Ship sunk! HMS Birmingham (Southampton class), 10725 tons. Crew: 1051. Crew lost: 861 1802 Grid CG 96
Ship sunk! HMS Devonshire (London class), 13300 tons. Crew: 962. Crew lost: 836 2008 Grid CG 96
Ship sunk! HMS Nelson (HMS Nelson), 36000 tons. Crew: 1472. Crew lost: 1148 2026 Grid CG 96
Ship sunk! Dobbin (Small Depot Ship), 6250 tons. Cargo: Military Stores. Crew: 131. Crew lost: 106 4.3.41. 0150 Grid CG 96
Ship sunk! HMS Norfolk (Dorsetshire class), 13300 tons. Crew: 905. Crew lost: 27 0159 Grid CG 96
Ship sunk! HMS Brimnes (ASW Trawler), 1100 tons. Crew: 47. Crew lost: 18 0200 Grid CG 96
Ship sunk! SS Carrier Pigeon (Medium Cargo), 5091 tons. Cargo: Coal. Crew: 65. Crew lost: 13 8.3.41. 0231 Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 11
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonnage: 104815 tons


Grid CG96 looks like it might be Gibraltar - I might have harbor raided.

Steve

[Tonnage_Ace]

Love watching those big ships roll over in open sea or listing slightly to port and then slipping forward into the abyss. It's carthartic or something, maybe I've spent too many days at sea