The english channel - Page 3

Tool · 01-01-07, 09:35 AM

I had a patrol in AN73 and didn't feel like sailing all the way around, so I went up thru the channel, and was harrassed big time, but made it thru. After finishing a very successfull (25k ton) patrol I only had 2 fish left so I said, "why not.. let's go back down thru the channel". Sailed right thru in March of 42 at night, on the surface. No one bothered me the entire sail back to Lorient. Maybe I'm just lucky..

Tool.

Jimbuna · 01-01-07, 10:33 AM

What's your conning tower emblem ? a black cat and a horseshoe

Iron Budokan · 01-01-07, 10:43 AM

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Maybe I'm just lucky..

Haw! You think?

Tool · 01-01-07, 11:24 AM

Heheh. Sometimes I get lucky.. other times not so much.

Now I'm hunting in the Strait of Gibraltar, on my way south to my patrol area in EK74. Going to stop off at the islands for a reload on my way there as I'm getting low on fish and out of AA ammo. So far my taly on this trip is about 14k tons and 5 airplanes shot down.

Was lucky and off the Northwest tip of Spain I ran into 3 merchants and a lone escort at night. A well placed torpedo knocked out the prop on the escort so I chased down the merchants and sunk them with my deck gun then returned and used one more torpedo to put the escort to the bottom. But then the weather got nasty and it damn near made me seasick up on the bridge.. so the hunting has slowed down a bit.

I LOVE GWX.

Tool.

bigboywooly · 01-01-07, 11:55 AM

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Unfortunately the SH3 engine doesnt work that way
AI sensors work through land and buildings etc
In RL the sea floor SHOULD make it difficult for them but not in SH3

Sounds like you are boned either way

Yep found that out the hard way no of use hit each other though in early war shouldn't there accurracy be way of I wasn't the only one there?

Eh ?????????

...Looks like some hard new years partying....
I think he means; Yes, i found that out the hard way. Non of us hit each other, though. In early war; shouldnt their accuracy be way off? I wasnt the only one there.
This is what it looks to me..

Ahh a translation to English by a Norwegian :rotfl:
Thanx Seth
I guess all that whiskey my end made it harder to understand :hmm:

01-01-07, 02:09 PM

How safe is that little channel just south of Scapa Flow? Should I go even further north and go around those little islands (or through) as well? I ran that little channel, and like the English Channel is had a lot of activity. How ever, unlike the English, only one boat harrassed me and it left after to depth runs. A few others showed up to help in the hunt, but they too left right away. Is there much difference between the boats in both places, or did I just get really lucky?

Jimbuna · 01-01-07, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Swany6mm

How safe is that little channel just south of Scapa Flow? Should I go even further north and go around those little islands (or through) as well? I ran that little channel, and like the English Channel is had a lot of activity. How ever, unlike the English, only one boat harrassed me and it left after to depth runs. A few others showed up to help in the hunt, but they too left right away. Is there much difference between the boats in both places, or did I just get really lucky?

You should be fine as long as you take it carefully...theres an airbase roundabouts so travel submerged as much as possible

bigboywooly · 01-01-07, 03:44 PM

Personally I would go around the top of scapa
There are plenty of patrols between Scapa and mainland Scotland

Jimbuna · 01-01-07, 03:52 PM

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Personally I would go around the top of scapa
There are plenty of patrols between Scapa and mainland Scotland

Well we're feeling brave today...we just drew with Man Utd lol

bigboywooly · 01-01-07, 04:06 PM

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Personally I would go around the top of scapa
There are plenty of patrols between Scapa and mainland Scotland

Well we're feeling brave today...we just drew with Man Utd lol

Yeah I see
2 all eh
Well a points a point

Even Leeds managed a winning start to the year

_Seth_ · 01-01-07, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by bigboywooly

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Originally Posted by _Seth_

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Originally Posted by bigboywooly

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Originally Posted by andy_311

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Originally Posted by bigboywooly

Unfortunately the SH3 engine doesnt work that way
AI sensors work through land and buildings etc
In RL the sea floor SHOULD make it difficult for them but not in SH3

Sounds like you are boned either way

Yep found that out the hard way no of use hit each other though in early war shouldn't there accurracy be way of I wasn't the only one there?

Eh ?????????

...Looks like some hard new years partying....
I think he means; Yes, i found that out the hard way. Non of us hit each other, though. In early war; shouldnt their accuracy be way off? I wasnt the only one there.
This is what it looks to me..

Ahh a translation to English by a Norwegian :rotfl:
Thanx Seth
I guess all that whiskey my end made it harder to understand :hmm:

:rotfl::rotfl:You were not the only one, mate,believe me...I had a hard time just writing here on the forum last night..

azn_132 · 01-02-07, 03:10 AM

Man... My next patrol on my other career is at BF32 in the english channel in march of 1941. Which I fought off a DD which was destroyed by help from Ju-88s and a flower which I destroyed if my deckgun. Curently Im in Cherbourg fixing my boat u-666.

KevinB · 01-02-07, 05:07 AM

There was a time (Happy Times) in GW when I could get through the Channel by hugging the French coast. But now with GWX I tried it once and didn't last five minutes before I was fish food.

azn_132 · 01-02-07, 05:24 AM

At least I made it back home in Lorient.

johan_d · 01-02-07, 10:33 AM

Got thru in feb 1940, now on the way back, same month, just one torpedo left, they are loading it at the moment.
Got stormy weather on the first passage, but sheisse, now the sea is calm.. closing to cherbourgh now..

Fingers crossed.

01-01-07, 09:35 AM	#31
Tool Planesman Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 189 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I had a patrol in AN73 and didn't feel like sailing all the way around, so I went up thru the channel, and was harrassed big time, but made it thru. After finishing a very successfull (25k ton) patrol I only had 2 fish left so I said, "why not.. let's go back down thru the channel". Sailed right thru in March of 42 at night, on the surface. No one bothered me the entire sail back to Lorient. Maybe I'm just lucky.. Tool. __________________ 309th Wild Ducks www.56thvfw.com

01-01-07, 10:33 AM	#32
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,475 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	What's your conning tower emblem ? a black cat and a horseshoe __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

01-01-07, 11:24 AM	#34
Tool Planesman Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 189 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Heheh. Sometimes I get lucky.. other times not so much. Now I'm hunting in the Strait of Gibraltar, on my way south to my patrol area in EK74. Going to stop off at the islands for a reload on my way there as I'm getting low on fish and out of AA ammo. So far my taly on this trip is about 14k tons and 5 airplanes shot down. Was lucky and off the Northwest tip of Spain I ran into 3 merchants and a lone escort at night. A well placed torpedo knocked out the prop on the escort so I chased down the merchants and sunk them with my deck gun then returned and used one more torpedo to put the escort to the bottom. But then the weather got nasty and it damn near made me seasick up on the bridge.. so the hunting has slowed down a bit. I LOVE GWX. Tool. __________________ 309th Wild Ducks www.56thvfw.com

01-01-07, 03:44 PM	#38
bigboywooly Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Swindon, England Posts: 10,151 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	Personally I would go around the top of scapa There are plenty of patrols between Scapa and mainland Scotland __________________ My mediafire page http://www.mediafire.com/?11eoq19bq9r41

01-01-07, 02:09 PM	#36
Swany6mm Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	How safe is that little channel just south of Scapa Flow? Should I go even further north and go around those little islands (or through) as well? I ran that little channel, and like the English Channel is had a lot of activity. How ever, unlike the English, only one boat harrassed me and it left after to depth runs. A few others showed up to help in the hunt, but they too left right away. Is there much difference between the boats in both places, or did I just get really lucky?

01-02-07, 03:10 AM	#42
azn_132 Grey Wolf Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 950 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Man... My next patrol on my other career is at BF32 in the english channel in march of 1941. Which I fought off a DD which was destroyed by help from Ju-88s and a flower which I destroyed if my deckgun. Curently Im in Cherbourg fixing my boat u-666.

01-02-07, 05:07 AM	#43
KevinB Planesman Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Milton Keynes Posts: 195 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	There was a time (Happy Times) in GW when I could get through the Channel by hugging the French coast. But now with GWX I tried it once and didn't last five minutes before I was fish food.

01-02-07, 05:24 AM	#44
azn_132 Grey Wolf Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 950 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	At least I made it back home in Lorient.

01-02-07, 10:33 AM	#45
johan_d Samurai Navy Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 556 Downloads: 113 Uploads: 1	Got thru in feb 1940, now on the way back, same month, just one torpedo left, they are loading it at the moment. Got stormy weather on the first passage, but sheisse, now the sea is calm.. closing to cherbourgh now.. Fingers crossed.