I had a Hollywood movie moment in SHIII last night! - Page 2

gdogghenrikson · 12-09-05, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Saturn5

Nice stories everyone, thank you. You have encouraged me to post my story:

I was cruising north of Scotland when I have spotted a lone C2. I immediately dived and closed in for the shot. I shot one acoustic homing torpedo that hit her propeller rendered her motionless. The wind was a little bit too much for my crew to use the deck gun. So I got greedy. Instead of shooting the helpless C2 with a good aimed torpedo I decided to accelerate the time and wait the wind speed to drop below 7m/s.

After a few hours my sonarman told me that there was a warship coming in fast. Looking trough the periscope I spotted one destroyer. She was obviously called for help by the C2. I lowered my periscope but the DD easily located me and started to ping. It was to late to run. And I did not leave the scene without sinking my C2. So I decided to go to 20m below the draft of C2 and I slowly inched forward so that the bow of my sub was directly beneath the C2. The DD went crazy. She knew that I was there because she could ping me but could not attack. She turned in circles around us. When she was in a good position I hit her with a good aimed acoustic torpedo from by stern tube. She was too hit by her propeller. I had two sitting ducks waiting to be plucked. This time I did not wait for the wind to go below 7m/s and sink them with my remaining torps.

Saukko · 12-10-05, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by iambecomelife

Try to fake them out. Put your rudder over to one direction, and then suddenly change to the opposite direction. It's best to only do this early in the war. Later on they'll most likely be radioing for aircraft or more capable surface escorts while you spend half an hour attempting to sink them.

Thank you, I will try.
In my current campaign, its late July 1940 and I have been ordered to grid AM68, and I decided to cross English Channel to get there. Does somebody at the BdU hate me? I'm sure there is plenty of targets there, but it is also near Liverpool, and there is a island in the middle of that grid! (Isle of Man, I believe) Looks like I'm going to have a lot of chances to practice ramming...