Tanker Alley - Page 4

Telgriff · 05-29-07, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by ReM

There is also a fast moving merchant that appears in BE 39 at intervals...

I haven't been able to actually spot it, because it is really fast, but maybe a passenger liner...

Yep, chased that for a while and never made visual contact. Ended up stumbling upon a convoy while trying to chase the fast merchant, meaning the DD heard me coming from miles away.

Kpt. Lehmann · 05-29-07, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Brag

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Originally Posted by nikbear

Oh,I'm in the right places,just never at the right time

I'm the yesterday kaleun,as in "you should have been here yesterday,it was the biggest convoy I've ever seen"

There was a time, even in the vanilla days, when I was super happy with a 30K patrol.

Started new career with gwix and got killed twice.
Started new carreer with GWX 1.o2 , it became obsolete with 1.03.

Now, well trained and afraid--very afraid, I'm on tenth patrol and scooping great tonnages.

We grow together with GWX. The GWX ghouls ( :rotfl: ) keep tossing nasties our way. But we get better, too.

Courage, mes amis (As we say in Lorient) we will win this war

Heh heh. Now TURN OFF your map contacts and go patrol the mid-Atlantic.

Get tough with some REAL salt in your teeth!

Brag · 05-30-07, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Kpt. Lehmann

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Originally Posted by Brag

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Originally Posted by nikbear

Oh,I'm in the right places,just never at the right time

I'm the yesterday kaleun,as in "you should have been here yesterday,it was the biggest convoy I've ever seen"

There was a time, even in the vanilla days, when I was super happy with a 30K patrol.

Started new career with gwix and got killed twice.
Started new carreer with GWX 1.o2 , it became obsolete with 1.03.

Now, well trained and afraid--very afraid, I'm on tenth patrol and scooping great tonnages.

We grow together with GWX. The GWX ghouls ( :rotfl: ) keep tossing nasties our way. But we get better, too.

Courage, mes amis (As we say in Lorient) we will win this war

Heh heh. Now TURN OFF your map contacts and go patrol the mid-Atlantic.

Get tough with some REAL salt in your teeth!

Aarrgghh!!
Capt. Lehman knows how to issue a challenge

, I guess I'm gonna have to turn off map cpntacts. It's just more work, more stress. Aarrgghh

I guess I'm gonna have to paint the frog on my conning tower blur.

vwc_maxwellsmart · 05-30-07, 01:15 PM

Hi guys

I've been to the caribean to find a good tanker route on the southern coast of Curazao, tankers come from the east and west and then head to the port. Most of them are American, so it's a bit useless to go there before the US enters the war.

The sad part of the story is the long journey from Europe, but tonnages around 130 K are not uncommon.

Cheers

Avatar · 06-04-07, 12:18 PM

I sank 2 medium tankers within 24hours.
Grid BF15, near the top of the grid and a little to the right of it too.
They were both inbound to england too.

edit: cool chief status!

Canovaro · 06-05-07, 01:15 AM

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Originally Posted by azn_132

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Originally Posted by johan_d

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Translation?

U69 LEAVING LORIENT AT HIGH SPEED TO TANKER ALLEY

Johan used rotors I (A), II (A) and III (A) and no plugs

Kitzbuell · 01-16-08, 05:55 PM

I've been patrolling this area for over two weeks so far during the last weeks of November '39 through the first week of December and the only pathes I've crossed is one small and one medium merchant. I'm down to my last torpedos of this patrol and am looking to pad my tonnage totals as well. :hmm:

T.Von Hogan · 01-16-08, 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Kitzbuell

I've been patrolling this area for over two weeks so far during the last weeks of November '39 through the first week of December and the only pathes I've crossed is one small and one medium merchant. I'm down to my last torpedos of this patrol and am looking to pad my tonnage totals as well. :hmm:

Wouldn't be using GWX2.0 would you?

Brag · 01-16-08, 07:37 PM

In GWX 2.0, tanker Alley is still there but it has spread out. I just came back from there and sunk about five tankers. But you can spend a week without any traffic. It will take some more "research" to see what Big Bad Wooly (Big Boy Woolly's evil twin working in the British Admiralty dept. GWX) has done.

Sniper_Fox · 01-16-08, 10:42 PM

ill be checking out this area tomorrow, and ive locked it in as my patrol grid, ill be scowering BE until my XIB runs out of operating fuel and i have to return...

hopefully itll be as sucessful as todays patrol, if not more so... i ran out of torps and deckgun ammo... (btw how do you change your deckgun rounds manually... i wanna be able to use my Starshells... maybe you can blow sh!t up with that?

Blacklight · 01-17-08, 01:04 AM

My personal favorite hunting ground is BF17 from the northwest corner down to the middle, then a full zig zag patrol accross it's deep area. I then proceed to do a nice full out patrol of the square to the left of BF17 (BF16 maybe ? I forget). I do about 90% of this patrol underwater at a depth of about 20 meters. I'll spend as little time surfaced in these two grids as I can. This area for me is now the home of the largest artificial reef in the world. Pretty soon, the ships are going to have to plot around the area or they'll crash into it. There has to be QUITE a pile of ships down there by now considering the numbers I sink there.

Also... when I go a little bit to the west side of the letters/numbers BF17 and set a perfect south course, somewhere along the rout between there and where it intersects with squares near Girbraltar, I always run into tons of ships on that line. I assume this is part of what everyone is calling "Tanker Alley".

Brag · 01-17-08, 06:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Blacklight

My personal favorite hunting ground is BF17 from the northwest corner down to the middle, then a full zig zag patrol accross it's deep area. I then proceed to do a nice full out patrol of the square to the left of BF17 (BF16 maybe ? I forget). I do about 90% of this patrol underwater at a depth of about 20 meters. I'll spend as little time surfaced in these two grids as I can. This area for me is now the home of the largest artificial reef in the world. Pretty soon, the ships are going to have to plot around the area or they'll crash into it. There has to be QUITE a pile of ships down there by now considering the numbers I sink there.

Also... when I go a little bit to the west side of the letters/numbers BF17 and set a perfect south course, somewhere along the rout between there and where it intersects with squares near Girbraltar, I always run into tons of ships on that line. I assume this is part of what everyone is calling "Tanker Alley".

What mod are you using?

Jimbuna · 01-17-08, 08:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Brag

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Originally Posted by Blacklight

My personal favorite hunting ground is BF17 from the northwest corner down to the middle, then a full zig zag patrol accross it's deep area. I then proceed to do a nice full out patrol of the square to the left of BF17 (BF16 maybe ? I forget). I do about 90% of this patrol underwater at a depth of about 20 meters. I'll spend as little time surfaced in these two grids as I can. This area for me is now the home of the largest artificial reef in the world. Pretty soon, the ships are going to have to plot around the area or they'll crash into it. There has to be QUITE a pile of ships down there by now considering the numbers I sink there.

Also... when I go a little bit to the west side of the letters/numbers BF17 and set a perfect south course, somewhere along the rout between there and where it intersects with squares near Girbraltar, I always run into tons of ships on that line. I assume this is part of what everyone is calling "Tanker Alley".

What mod are you using?

Are you really that desperate for tonnage :p

:rotfl:

Blacklight · 01-17-08, 01:21 PM

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What mod are you using?

I use GWX 2.0

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Are you really that desperate for tonnage :p

Answer: YES !!! I WANT ALL THE TONNAGE !!! ALL THE TONNAGE IN THE WORLD !!! MUAHAHAHAAA !!!!:rotfl:

Besides that, like I said, I'm in the process of creating the largest artificial reef in the world in that area so I'm doing this for the environment !! Think of all the nice new homes that coral, fish, and other sea creatures in that area will now have !

T.Von Hogan · 01-17-08, 02:19 PM

I had a few eels left and plenty of fuel so i decided to go visit the old hunting grounds. Been there about 48 hrs now and have bagged a tanker, a passenger/cargo and a large merchant for about 16k tons.....think i will hang around for a few more days

01-16-08, 05:55 PM	#52
Kitzbuell Mate Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Birthplace of the American Navy and Marine Aviation Posts: 52 Downloads: 258 Uploads: 0	Tanker Alley I've been patrolling this area for over two weeks so far during the last weeks of November '39 through the first week of December and the only pathes I've crossed is one small and one medium merchant. I'm down to my last torpedos of this patrol and am looking to pad my tonnage totals as well. :hmm:

01-16-08, 07:37 PM	#54
Brag Navy Seal Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Docked on a Russian pond Posts: 7,072 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	In GWX 2.0, tanker Alley is still there but it has spread out. I just came back from there and sunk about five tankers. But you can spend a week without any traffic. It will take some more "research" to see what Big Bad Wooly (Big Boy Woolly's evil twin working in the British Admiralty dept. GWX) has done. __________________ Espionage, adventure, suspense, are just a click away Click here to look inside Brag's book: Amazon.com: Kingmaker: Alexey Braguine: Books Order Kingmaker here: http://www.subsim.com/store.html For Tactics visit:http://www.freewebs.com/kielman/

01-16-08, 10:42 PM	#55
Sniper_Fox Engineer Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: North of Malta, shadowing your pretty little C3 Cargo! Posts: 212 Downloads: 15 Uploads: 0	ill be checking out this area tomorrow, and ive locked it in as my patrol grid, ill be scowering BE until my XIB runs out of operating fuel and i have to return... hopefully itll be as sucessful as todays patrol, if not more so... i ran out of torps and deckgun ammo... (btw how do you change your deckgun rounds manually... i wanna be able to use my Starshells... maybe you can blow sh!t up with that? __________________ Im a one U-boat wolfpack. Ive hit the bottom of the Mediterranian at 250 metres in my VIIC and brought that babe back up, and still made it back to La Spezia. Ive sunk more destroyers than I have merchants...youll wish you never sailed into U-87s hunting grounds. When you pull into port, dont lull yourself into a false sense of security, your mines and subnets are just a petty challenge for my crew and I.

01-17-08, 01:04 AM	#56
Blacklight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,507 Downloads: 145 Uploads: 0	My personal favorite hunting ground is BF17 from the northwest corner down to the middle, then a full zig zag patrol accross it's deep area. I then proceed to do a nice full out patrol of the square to the left of BF17 (BF16 maybe ? I forget). I do about 90% of this patrol underwater at a depth of about 20 meters. I'll spend as little time surfaced in these two grids as I can. This area for me is now the home of the largest artificial reef in the world. Pretty soon, the ships are going to have to plot around the area or they'll crash into it. There has to be QUITE a pile of ships down there by now considering the numbers I sink there. Also... when I go a little bit to the west side of the letters/numbers BF17 and set a perfect south course, somewhere along the rout between there and where it intersects with squares near Girbraltar, I always run into tons of ships on that line. I assume this is part of what everyone is calling "Tanker Alley". __________________ Be my friend or be a mushroom cloud. "I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes !"

05-30-07, 01:15 PM	#49
vwc_maxwellsmart Watch Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 28 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Hi guys I've been to the caribean to find a good tanker route on the southern coast of Curazao, tankers come from the east and west and then head to the port. Most of them are American, so it's a bit useless to go there before the US enters the war. The sad part of the story is the long journey from Europe, but tonnages around 130 K are not uncommon. Cheers

06-04-07, 12:18 PM	#50
Avatar Commodore Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Way out there Posts: 603 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	I sank 2 medium tankers within 24hours. Grid BF15, near the top of the grid and a little to the right of it too. They were both inbound to england too. edit: cool chief status!

01-17-08, 02:19 PM	#60
T.Von Hogan Planesman Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: mississippi Posts: 190 Downloads: 51 Uploads: 0	I had a few eels left and plenty of fuel so i decided to go visit the old hunting grounds. Been there about 48 hrs now and have bagged a tanker, a passenger/cargo and a large merchant for about 16k tons.....think i will hang around for a few more days