Getting through the English Channel - Page 3

Hybris · 12-16-06, 08:53 PM

Question What if by day you bottomed your boat silent running until its dark and the patrols aren't looking right at you then you blow ballast and flank it (At least thats what I would do) until sunrise then bottom and repeat.

Could this work even somewhat late into the war? (Radar will be problem I forsee)

bigboywooly · 12-16-06, 08:57 PM

You could do
No guarantee you wouldnt be picked up on active sonar by patrols

mookiemookie · 12-17-06, 01:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Hybris

Question What if by day you bottomed your boat silent running until its dark and the patrols aren't looking right at you then you blow ballast and flank it (At least thats what I would do) until sunrise then bottom and repeat.

Could this work even somewhat late into the war? (Radar will be problem I forsee)

The mines will still get you, and chances are someone will see you even in the dark. A quote from Das Boot is appropriate here...

"Anything that floats will be on the water."

peterloo · 12-17-06, 02:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Morts

hmm ive sailed through the english channel on patrols in 1940
3 or 4 times i think
only 2 plane attacks in all. nothing really happend to the boat only a near miss with a bomb from a plane

guess U-107 is just one lucky boat

Do you use mods? With a unmodded version, there are less traffics( still Many traffics)

DON"T ATTEMPT TO GET THROUGH ENGLISH CHANNEL
THE DESTROYERS ARE DEADLY (5~6 DESTROYERS IN A PATROL GROUP) AND THERE ARE NUMBEROUS OF THEM

MINEFIELDS ARE LETHAL TOO. EVEN YOU CAN ENTER IT, YOU CANNOT GET OUT OF THIS SUCKING &*%HOLE

Jimbuna · 12-17-06, 05:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Hybris

Question What if by day you bottomed your boat silent running until its dark and the patrols aren't looking right at you then you blow ballast and flank it (At least thats what I would do) until sunrise then bottom and repeat.

Could this work even somewhat late into the war? (Radar will be problem I forsee)

Your only chance and a very slim one at that would be to run at flank speed on the surface during the night....but after 40 the odds just become 'unthinkable'...go round the north of Scotland...enjoy the scenery...sink a couple on the way

Morts · 12-17-06, 05:57 AM

peterloo i use modded SH3

i use GW

Sailor Steve · 12-17-06, 04:00 PM

Also sitting on the bottom for 12 hours then running at flank speed wastes time and fuel. You might as well just go the long way around; that's what they really did.

ryano7777 · 07-19-20, 05:02 PM

I've made it through 3 times with no problems in TWOS, and was in the middle of my 4th attempt, when I decided to do a little research as to where the channel mines are in the game. As I'm reading the comments I'm thinking "there can't be any mines in the channel, if there were, I would have hit one during the few times I have run channel" suddenly I'm brought back to the game as I hear an explosion and a lot of yelling. I guess I finally found one of the mines! Hahaha

Pisces · 07-20-20, 03:37 PM

With that this thread deserves the sub-title "Blast from the past" for attaining Necro-status.

d@rk51d3 · 07-20-20, 05:36 PM

Was about to crack a boob joke........... then saw that I already had......14 years ago.

12-16-06, 08:53 PM	#31
Hybris Officer Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Periscope Depth... Posts: 237 Downloads: 40 Uploads: 0	Question What if by day you bottomed your boat silent running until its dark and the patrols aren't looking right at you then you blow ballast and flank it (At least thats what I would do) until sunrise then bottom and repeat. Could this work even somewhat late into the war? (Radar will be problem I forsee) __________________ "His masters voice!" "FASTER! FAAAASSSTTER!" "All submariners have one universal wish regardless of nation, cause, or creed. That wish is that the boat goes up and stay up one more time then it goes down." ~Hybris 8/22/07

12-16-06, 08:57 PM	#32
bigboywooly Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Swindon, England Posts: 10,151 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	You could do No guarantee you wouldnt be picked up on active sonar by patrols __________________ My mediafire page http://www.mediafire.com/?11eoq19bq9r41

12-17-06, 04:00 PM	#37
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Also sitting on the bottom for 12 hours then running at flank speed wastes time and fuel. You might as well just go the long way around; that's what they really did. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

07-20-20, 03:37 PM	#39
Pisces Silent Hunter Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: AN9771 Posts: 4,904 Downloads: 304 Uploads: 0	With that this thread deserves the sub-title "Blast from the past" for attaining Necro-status. __________________ My site downloads: https://ricojansen.nl/downloads

12-17-06, 05:57 AM	#36
Morts Admiral Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Denmark Posts: 2,395 Downloads: 23 Uploads: 0	peterloo i use modded SH3 i use GW

07-19-20, 05:02 PM	#38
ryano7777 Nub Join Date: Nov 2017 Posts: 3 Downloads: 46 Uploads: 0	I've made it through 3 times with no problems in TWOS, and was in the middle of my 4th attempt, when I decided to do a little research as to where the channel mines are in the game. As I'm reading the comments I'm thinking "there can't be any mines in the channel, if there were, I would have hit one during the few times I have run channel" suddenly I'm brought back to the game as I hear an explosion and a lot of yelling. I guess I finally found one of the mines! Hahaha

07-20-20, 05:36 PM	#40
d@rk51d3 Sea Lord Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Adelaide, South Australia Posts: 1,951 Downloads: 207 Uploads: 0	Was about to crack a boob joke........... then saw that I already had......14 years ago.