Why me GWX?

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by johan_d

No sign of the luftwaffe yet, where are they!!

"Our patrol planes! Where are they? Answer that one, Herr Goering! The British have plenty of them! Talking big is all he's good for, that fat slob."

See, if you're asking that question, that means GWX is accurate!

[ReallyDedPoet]

GWX forces you to be better in everything you do, or you die.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by reallydedpoet

GWX forces you to be better in everything you do, or you die.

Ah yes, well put!!! The days of blazing into the mucho tonnage, dropping your pants at the DD are now over. Now, isn't more challenging and a little more real? I think so!

Uboat.net spells it out quite clearly....most went out on 2-3 patrols and never returned...generally starting around the end of 1942. IMHO, clearly the warships are as they should be. Is it impossible to sink tonnage, nope, looks like plenty are sinking ships and making several partrols....they are just earning their sinkings!!!!! It is a wonderful feeling being successful against a convoy and I love blasting the gramaphone now on the way home and damn it I motor all the way in to the awaiting nurses!!!! Yeah, my wife thinks I'm nuts but when I hit port guess who the girl in the brothel gets to be!!!!

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Albrecht Von Hesse

If I do, it'll be as much a matter of luck as anything else.

Yanno, I think GWX should adopt your siggy "GWX makes me feel like a condemned man....It is just a matter of when...." as their hallmark slogan, AVGWarhawk. That pretty much sums it up perfect!

Well, it is just the way I feel about when it comes to game play with GWX and I suspect the real u-boatmen felt the same way after 1942. It is only a matter of time.....

[ReallyDedPoet]

AVGWarhawk: My wife shakes her head at me as well for the amount of time I spend playing the game. Your Brothel idea gives me an idea on how I could involve her more. It will make those 2-3 month patrols much easier now!

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by reallydedpoet

AVGWarhawk: My wife shakes her head at me as well for the amount of time I spend playing the game. Your Brothel idea gives me an idea on how I could involve her more. It will make those 2-3 month patrols much easier now!

HEHE

[IceGrog]

Originally Posted by IceGrog

My first, or I should say my second GWX career, my first is a 1x and I’m not out of the bay, well my first taste of GWX battle mission (early 1940) I was heading down south from the St. Nazaire base and I received a message saying there was a large slow moving convoy heading out from England. I thought I could race up there and get in front of it when I ran into a medium size loner transport. I took it out with the deck gun, wanted to save my fish for the convoy, after sinking this one I started back to intercept the convoy when I was given more info on another ship, in my greed I took off after it. I knew I was getting a little too close to British waters but I proceeded anyway. Suddenly there was a destroyer chasing after me, I dove down to 100m and can go no deeper, haven’t able to loose him, and he’s not wasting his depth charges, it seems he only drops them when he’s right on the target. As I was trying to loose this guy, my soundman informed me that another warship was approaching, crapppppppp! I had to use my camera to see what was going to be my outcome. The new warship was a PT boat, a little speed demon, now when I run out of air I don’t think I’ll be able to come up and out maneuver the both of them. My time is running out!

I made it, can’t believe it. I kept zigzagging and I guess the Destroyer ran out of ammo, so I started to slowly rise to make sure and he didn’t drop any more. The little torpedo boat was taking side trips to where, I don’t know, so I timed my rise to periscope depth when he was gone. My attack scope was damage so I had to use the other scope, he was coming right at me 2000m. I waited until he was within the 1900m range, using the manual gauging, I sent one fish straight at him knowing he would turn from it, he turned to my starboard, I sent an another fish about 5 degrees to his port, then another one to his starboard, he avoided them all……………in my desperation I made a hard turn to my starboard side and fired my rear torpedo,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, on my! This one made a lazy horseshoe turn and got him amidships. Down he went and his little friend came back, but I guess he didn’t have the underwater eyes his big brother did, so after a while he took off. WewWWWWWWWWWW so what if it was a lucky shot

[AVGWarhawk]

Good show! I can never hit those stinking head on torpedo attacks...I just don't got it in me

[TriskettheKid]

I've had GWX only a few days now, but already I've got tons of "Why me, GWX?" moments.

My favorite was in an attempt to sneak into Loch Ewe (my favorite port to hit) in mid-1940. I had the unlucky disposition of being tracked by 2 DDs, 1 Armed Trawler, and a freaking PT boat. Luckily enough, by varying my depth, speed, and direction, I was able to hold out on the DDs and AT until they ran out of DCs.

So, I thought things were going good...until I noticed that they were circling and pinging me, just to harass me. So, I decide I'm not going to take it anymore. I raise up my periscope to gadge the shots I'd need to make. It was hard. The DDs and AT rarely got further away than 250m, and were only in front of my fore and aft tubes for a second, at best. As I'm juding angles, BOOM! My scope's damaged. I can no longer use it. So I switch to observation periscope, but only raise it up enough so that I can make out the headings.

I set up a shot with 000 gyroangle, set my fish in tube 1 to run at just under 3m, magnetic piston, fast speed. I wait and then let it loose just as the DD slices through the water in front of me. BOOM! He snapped in half!

This obviously ticks off the other ships circling me, so they start to ping me every minute. I set up a similar shot, this time for the AT, so I set the depth at just under 4m. I cross my fingers and flood the tube, watching for him in my scope (which at this point I've raised slightly more, still under the surface of the water, but high enough to peak through in the troughs. FIRE! BOOM! AT goes up in a giant blast.

The 2nd and final DD was the problem, now. It was, for whatever reason, coming directly at me from my aft, from about 800m away. I quickly set up my aft tube to fire at around 3m, slow speed, magnetic piston. I raise my scope up some more to make sure, and then CRACK! My obs periscope is knocked out, too. I finish setting up my shot, flood tube 5, and fire.

BOOM! The DD is hit, catches fire, and then goes up in a giant explosion as one of it's ammo bunkers explodes.

Wish I'd taken screenies of that. GWX sure hasn't disappointed yet. Was killed on my next patrol from a collision.

[AVGWarhawk]

Trisket...I love it...."A GWX Moment". Your ending to this patrol is like Das Boot, the poor guys get home and killed by aircraft gun fire at their own docks. All the crap they went through to end like that. Your collision on patrol #2 reminds me of that....not to glorious an end to a brilliant career

[Jimbuna]

Pray tell kaleun...what did you have the misfortune to collide with ? :hmm:

[TriskettheKid]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Pray tell kaleun...what did you have the misfortune to collide with ? :hmm:

I haven't the slightest idea. I mean, I have an idea, but I have no idea why it happened.

I was in the middle of getting DCed by some more DDs on my way in to Scapa. They caught me pretty far out, in an area where it was about 213m to the sea floor. Knowing the limits of my sub, and the limits of the mid-1940 DDs and their DCs, I made the decision to "bottom" my boat.

I ran silent, changing course, until I was about 2m from the sea floor, which was about 216m down at that point.

So I lower my speed to 1 knot as I lower my U-boat the final few meters to the sea floor. All the while, 2 more DDs have joined the search, and have DCed me. No problems yet, most either miss me, or are far too shallow. Once my Nav tells me that we're 0m from the sea floor, I call all engines stop.

So there I sit, on the sea floor, waiting for the DDs to give up. At this point, they can't see me, they're not even pinging me. Two have cut off and the remaining two were still DCing the area.

I sped up the TC to that things would hurry up (sometimes it's a real bore waiting 5+ hours for those things to give up).

Then, for no reason whatsoever, I get the death message. Not from flooding, not from anything. No. I was told I had collided with something...despite my U-boat not moving an inch.

[AVGWarhawk]

Sounds like the TC got you. The bottoming of boats can be tricky from what I hear...even at a dead stop.

[Jimbuna]

It's possible you suffered structural damage prior during the depth charge attack and were pretty close to the corresponding crush level....hitting the sea bed even ever so slightly might have just 'tipped the scales' :hmm:

It's even possible you did collide with the bottom. It does rise and fall, after all, and you might have had the misfortune of running into the bottom as it started to rise.