The Exclusive IX U-Boat club

[unterseemann]

Yep! U-110 type IX-B may 1941, 4 patrols 265000 tons sunk (GWX and 100% of course!)
Type IX for ever!

[Telgriff]

Originally Posted by The_Rus

Yea me too , hey since this is the IX club can we talk about our IX accomplishments. Well I nearly sunk a whole convoy single-handily.

Thats was my plan except DD's kept showing up. Got 4 Swans and a Flower Corvette. STILL trying to get away from the hornets nest I stirred up and trying not to die from multiple DC attacks.

If I survive, there better be something good in the convoy....

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

Originally Posted by Telgriff

Thats was my plan except DD's kept showing up. Got 4 Swans and a Flower Corvette. STILL trying to get away from the hornets nest I stirred up and trying not to die from multiple DC attacks.

If I survive, there better be something good in the convoy....

lets make a online wolf pack with a large convoy and elite expirience

now that would be a good idea to test eachother

[The_Rus]

Well the convoy I ran into had only a Black Swan and a Corvette. So sent the BS to the bottom and sunk the corvette with gun fire. I had 2 fish a stern and 1 forward. I had of100 deck gun ammo. This convoy is in early 40-41, and had 5-6 C3's and a 3-4 large merchants. So I aim under the wheelhouse of the C3's and sunk like 4 and with a help of a fish sunk 3 large merchants. Then was heading out two planes tried to bomb me but I got under and sunk one medium tanker with the final two fish. This was the first patrol I got 100K GWX or vanilla. So I was very happy.
I might add a little story with Bernard that damaged my U-boat on the same patrol. I was in a convoy and had sunk a Southampton class and a couple of merchants and cargos. Bernard thought he would like to take her topside. Needless the British welcomed me with open arms and guns.:hmm: I barely got her under and we fired Bernard out of the torpedo tubes as a diversion.

[JohnnyBlaze]

a late joining to the IX party! Still at sea with my U-83 IXB boat and had some trouble with radio transmissions.. (Bernard handling the equipment)

The party still open?


Tho I probably should update my sig..

[STEED]

It's time to sail around the world and see what I can bag.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Hartmann

I love type IX boats

i can´t live withouth 22 torpedoes

When you progress to the IXD2 you'll get 26

[fastfed]

I am so excited!! I just transfered to Lorient, and got myself a nice new IXC!!

Its loading right now, a little nervous going to such a big boat, wish me luck on my first IXC patrol

[fastfed]

This boat is awesome!! I don't know how anyone would want anything else but the IXC


I am sad about one thing though, the open hatch mod

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by fastfed

I am so excited!! I just transfered to Lorient, and got myself a nice new IXC!!

Its loading right now, a little nervous going to such a big boat, wish me luck on my first IXC patrol

Get a grip kaleun......Doenitz is on the other side of this monitor :rotfl:

[Ubåtskapten]

I'm in a IXC doing some paukenschlag in die nähe von die Vereinigte Staaten, more specificly, just lurking outside the gates of New York.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Ubåtskapten

I'm in a IXC doing some paukenschlag in die nähe von die Vereinigte Staaten, more specificly, just lurking outside the gates of New York.

I am on my way to join you Jan42 lets teach these Americans a lesson.

[NealT]

Originally Posted by STEED

I am on my way to join you Jan42 lets teach these Americans a lesson.

Here! Here! That's the spirit! Give them heck (until May 45 anyway...)

[Ubåtskapten]

Originally Posted by STEED

I am on my way to join you Jan42 lets teach these Americans a lesson.

I'm sorry to disappoint you but...
Erich Hofmann and the crew of U-66 have now come to rest in the U-Boot Valhalla.

After having left France in early September we noticed that the fuel consumption was to high for any longer patrol time outside the US so after some ships sunk we refuelled at U-461(i think it was).

To make a long story short, the increasing harassments from radar equipped escorts and planes made it clear that the second happy times was soon to be over. After having intercepted a convoy in late October U-66 attacked and sunk one Whale factory ship and a Liberty freighter. But due to depth keeping problems when running anything slower than 3 knots we were subsequently attacked by several escorts.
U-66 was struck at 236m 19:16 29 October 1942 by several depth charges. All hands lost.

The Malfunctions and sabotage option in SH3Cmd really makes it harder to survive when you get this kind of problems at the heat of battle. Harder, but more realistic in my opinion.

Guess it's back in 1939 again to enjoy some happy times for a while.

[KeptinCranky]

Oberleutnant Bernhard (random names *shrug*) Trossen

Sailing a Type IXb out of Wilhelmshaven from March 1940 onward

1st patrol, to gibraltar, never got there sunk several ships north of Ireland, then intercepted a convoy heading west south of Ireland, bagged me a large merchant and 2 whaling factories ran out of fish, visited Bessel at Vigo to restock

2nd patrol, back to willi, found another convoy south of Ireland, hurt that pretty badly, only 1 dd escort, and an auxilliary cruiser, sunk that as well, bagged me yet another whaling factory ship, life is going to be good for the whales, got home just in time for things to get messy in Norway

3rd patrol, Joined the efforts of the suface ships in Norway, bagged me 3 tribal DDs and a Fiji cruiser just sitting there in some fjjord, unfortunately the flyboys had already sunk all the stationary troopships , then on the way out I ran into another whaling factory, what is it with these things, that went to the bottom for the whales to laugh at, then I ran into a taskforce in heavy fog, managed to make them steam nearly over me at 20 kts, had something really big pass right in front of my bow at 700 meters, fired a full spread, 3 hits, couldn't even see what it was, just that it sounded big, during evasion of angry DDs I got the message "she's going down", turns out I managed to sink HMS Illustrious with hydrophone only shot . Went back to Wilhelmshaven because out of fish and crummy weather, got a Knight's Cross for that. I also got myself a Black Whale on the Conning tower because of the whaling ships, If I manage to sink one more I'll get me a White Whale

"...and if his chest had been a mortar he would have burst his heart upon it.." -from Moby Dick

4th patrol, after some time on a propaganda tour set out from Wilhelmshaven to patrol AN84 (yes they're evacuating Dunkirk and all that but please, why not send the type II guys my boat's far to big for the southern North Sea) ran into a mine both periscopes and hydrophone wrecked, I'm blind and deaf underwater... also lost most of my diesel, managed to save the sub though, limped back to Wilhelmshaven for repairs. ah well...