Your first sub lost... Tragic Tales. - Page 3

Sailor Steve · 10-01-11, 06:07 PM

Obviously a long way from being my first, but a couple of years ago I was stalking a merchant in the fog, went to a little higher TC and collided with it.

tigertiggs2007 · 10-02-11, 06:15 AM

Mine was very wierd, after I saved and then loaded it, a few seconds after it just said 'U-Boat Abandoning Mission' or 'U-Boat Surrenders' while it's 1939. This is very strange, can anyone tell me why?

Nerazzurri · 10-02-11, 07:38 AM

Ship sighted.........nice, an ore carrier.......submerge, get a nice angle and distance...........ship approaches the crosshairs.......I'm getting excited.......torpedoes away........bang! she's going down

What's that I see?.......a US flag........in 1939...........DOH

Reloaded of course LOL. C'mon, it's my first mission for 2 years.

Sharkbait24 · 10-02-11, 08:58 AM

I didn't lose my ship, but I came very close. I was on approach to a large convoy with a light escort, at night. I managed to get in between the columns and started blasting off torpedoes left and right. What I didn't expect was them to start zigzagging. I looked at my map and it showed one of the merchants dangerously close. I sprinted up to the bridge (we were at Decks Awash) only to find a medium tanker bearing down, seemingly unaware of us and just following his zigzag. My precious U-67 was subsequently keelhauled by the tanker, and we sank to 150m before recovering.

WWII44 · 10-02-11, 09:15 AM

I was fighting a destroyer in my old VIIC sub the U-529. I had jus barly surfaced in order to atempt to get the destroyer to ram us and tear its own bottom out from the raming. she struck the conning tower where I was and the impact threw me over board last thing i remember is the destroyer was droping depth charges. when I came to all that was left of the U-529 was a greasy oilslick and the destroyer was not to far away burning aand abandoned(I asume she blew her self up with her own deapth charges). I flip anover turned life boat and stayed there for two days befor being rescued by the U-106.

CherryHarbey · 10-02-11, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Nerazzurri

Ship sighted.........nice, an ore carrier.......submerge, get a nice angle and distance...........ship approaches the crosshairs.......I'm getting excited.......torpedoes away........bang! she's going down

What's that I see?.......a US flag........in 1939...........DOH

Reloaded of course LOL. C'mon, it's my first mission for 2 years.

Last week I had two merchants from Honduras in my sights, it was late '41 we had only been at war with them for a week. As the first torp hit, it immeadiately sunk the first ship, then a green icon appears on the map. a closer look at the second ship, reveals the these Hondurans are actually flying Argentine flags, oh dear, second torp already on the way, it hits too.
surface the boat, man the flak guns, operation clean-up.
I shall say at my war crimes trial that they shouldn't have been sailing darkened if they didn't want to be blown full of holes.

WWII44 · 10-02-11, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by CherryHarbey

...I shall say at my war crimes trial that they shouldn't have been sailing darkened if they didn't want to be blown full of holes.

I onch in '41 encountered a Whale Factory ship in the irish sea and it wosn't till I had fired my torps that I saw the US flag, She also was sporting a deck gun on her poop deck and she got one shot off at us as the torpeado struck, my defence was she breached her neutrality by caning a deck gun and that she fired on us before the torpeados hit thus rendering the netrality defence null and void.

Fish In The Water · 10-02-11, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by tigertiggs2007

Mine was very wierd, after I saved and then loaded it, a few seconds after it just said 'U-Boat Abandoning Mission' or 'U-Boat Surrenders' while it's 1939. This is very strange, can anyone tell me why?

I see you've started a separate thread for this question, so I'll just say good luck and welcome aboard!

Hinrich Schwab · 10-02-11, 10:19 PM

When I first got the game, I did a dive test past the rated limit to see how far I could go within the game, knowing it would not be realistic. I found out too late that to properly do an emergency blow, you have to hit "e" multiple times to ensure the compressed air gets sent quickly. Even at ludicrous speed, I did not come up fast enough. *POP!*

the.terrabyte.pirate · 10-06-11, 09:20 AM

First campaign in vanilla SHIII. Decided to raid Scarpa flow for the lulz. Crept neatly in ala Prien. Avoided the escorts. Found the harbour completely bloody empty. Tried to sneak out. Broached the surface. ASW Trawler. I think to myself "I'm a cunning sort. I'll rest on the seabed run silent, run deep style. Sonar will be scrambled by the seabed." Short time and precision dept charge run later and the remains of my Type II are scattered over the seafloor.

Only later via this forum did I discover that in SHIII allied sonar ignores the seafloor. I was the ideal target. I was even so newbie I hadn't changed to silent running...

10-01-11, 06:07 PM	#31
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Obviously a long way from being my first, but a couple of years ago I was stalking a merchant in the fog, went to a little higher TC and collided with it. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

10-02-11, 07:38 AM	#33
Nerazzurri Sonar Guy Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Scotland Posts: 392 Downloads: 47 Uploads: 0	Ship sighted.........nice, an ore carrier.......submerge, get a nice angle and distance...........ship approaches the crosshairs.......I'm getting excited.......torpedoes away........bang! she's going down What's that I see?.......a US flag........in 1939...........DOH Reloaded of course LOL. C'mon, it's my first mission for 2 years. __________________ GWX v3.0 Gold, Commander v3.2. WINDOWS 10, G3258 @ 3.8Ghz, 8GB RAM, GTX 960 2Gb.

10-02-11, 08:58 AM	#34
Sharkbait24 Watch Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: 200 meters below you Posts: 24 Downloads: 33 Uploads: 0	I didn't lose my ship, but I came very close. I was on approach to a large convoy with a light escort, at night. I managed to get in between the columns and started blasting off torpedoes left and right. What I didn't expect was them to start zigzagging. I looked at my map and it showed one of the merchants dangerously close. I sprinted up to the bridge (we were at Decks Awash) only to find a medium tanker bearing down, seemingly unaware of us and just following his zigzag. My precious U-67 was subsequently keelhauled by the tanker, and we sank to 150m before recovering. __________________

10-06-11, 09:20 AM	#40
the.terrabyte.pirate Navy Dude Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 176 Downloads: 52 Uploads: 0	First campaign in vanilla SHIII. Decided to raid Scarpa flow for the lulz. Crept neatly in ala Prien. Avoided the escorts. Found the harbour completely bloody empty. Tried to sneak out. Broached the surface. ASW Trawler. I think to myself "I'm a cunning sort. I'll rest on the seabed run silent, run deep style. Sonar will be scrambled by the seabed." Short time and precision dept charge run later and the remains of my Type II are scattered over the seafloor. Only later via this forum did I discover that in SHIII allied sonar ignores the seafloor. I was the ideal target. I was even so newbie I hadn't changed to silent running... __________________ A kings ransom, or a stove boat.

10-02-11, 06:15 AM	#32
tigertiggs2007 Swabbie Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Somewhere in Fremantle...I seem to be lost... Posts: 5 Downloads: 65 Uploads: 0	Mine was very wierd, after I saved and then loaded it, a few seconds after it just said 'U-Boat Abandoning Mission' or 'U-Boat Surrenders' while it's 1939. This is very strange, can anyone tell me why?

10-02-11, 09:15 AM	#35
WWII44 Navy Dude Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 177 Downloads: 151 Uploads: 0	I was fighting a destroyer in my old VIIC sub the U-529. I had jus barly surfaced in order to atempt to get the destroyer to ram us and tear its own bottom out from the raming. she struck the conning tower where I was and the impact threw me over board last thing i remember is the destroyer was droping depth charges. when I came to all that was left of the U-529 was a greasy oilslick and the destroyer was not to far away burning aand abandoned(I asume she blew her self up with her own deapth charges). I flip anover turned life boat and stayed there for two days befor being rescued by the U-106.

10-02-11, 10:19 PM	#39
Hinrich Schwab Grey Wolf Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 908 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 0	When I first got the game, I did a dive test past the rated limit to see how far I could go within the game, knowing it would not be realistic. I found out too late that to properly do an emergency blow, you have to hit "e" multiple times to ensure the compressed air gets sent quickly. Even at ludicrous speed, I did not come up fast enough. POP!