Stories and Patrol Logs + Screenshots and Videos (merged) - Page 283

fireftr18 · 09-13-12, 09:45 PM

Nice

Death2allofu · 09-18-12, 09:43 PM

Some nice shots gentlemen....

TwinStackPete379 · 09-18-12, 11:02 PM

latest s-18 skin. A little historical, a little fun.

TwinStackPete379 · 09-18-12, 11:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xpirex

50 ships on mission 14 without refitting... annihilated 4 entire fleets without so much as a scratch... Yawn..

Load up TMO 2.5, you'll stop yawning and wake up.

Vasri · 09-23-12, 03:45 PM

Only recently got SH4, and have only dipped my toes into the Pacific so far, but this is the story of my first patrol...

Captain's Log
S-37
December 18, 1941

On patrol in Celebes Sea, have yet to sight any enemy ships since leaving Cavite, Manila last week. Though this is my first command, the S-37 is a good boat; with a good crew as well.

December 19, 1941
1040 hours
Radio message reports a "small convoy" not far outside our patrol area. Though no mention was made of their number, I have ordered flank speed to an area along their current course, with luck, we'll be able to catch them. The crew is anxious to give the Japanese some payback for Pearl.

1525 hours
The convoy has finally moved within sonar range, but has changed course. I feel a little foolish, as they are now moving towards our assigned patrol area. We have altered course and are moving to intercept. My sonarman counts two ships, a destroyer and a large merchant.

2125
The convoy is now within visual range. I've identified the merchant vessel as a Huge European Liner, but it has two destroyer escorts instead of one, an Asashio, and another I can't see clearly enough to identify.

2315
We managed to close the distance without being detected, and have fired all four of our torpedoes into the liner. It clearly isn't long for this world, but now the destroyers are turning and coming for us. I've ordered the diving officer to make our depth three hundred feet. Let us hope that they run out of depth charges before we run out of luck.

0135
Hydrophones damaged, both periscopes damaged, batteries damaged, pumps damaged and we're taking in water in the engine room and the torpedo room. Depth is passing four hundred, and the hull groans under the strain. No choice but to blow the ballast pray.

0200
Blowing the ballast slowed our descent slightly, but we're still sinking. As we passed five hundred feet, I brought out a couple of bottles of scotch from my personal stash and have begun passing them around. One last drink for dead men.

magic452 · 09-24-12, 12:50 AM

Welcome to the boat mate.

Good story, been there and done that.

This won't be the last time for you either.

Magic

Arael · 09-24-12, 06:59 PM

June 13th, 1942.
Location: the Celebes Sea.
Weather: Driving rain, heavy fog, 15 m/s winds, 10 foot swells.
Submarine: Sargo class USS Sculpin
Mods: TMO and RSRD

I was chasing a merchant sound contact through the storm to try and keep with it until the storm abated. We were keeping pace with the sound contact when my sonar man detected another contact, a single warship. I did some calculating, and figured the warship was traveling at about 15 knots. I thought about it for a few moments, then decided to chase the warship, as something traveling that fast while alone had to be important. I turned the sub around, rang up ahead full, and started plowing towards an intercept.

I managed to get a ways ahead of the warship and turned for a forward shot. Using the active sonar and what I knew of his speed and bearing, I computed a solution and fired a spread of 3 torpedoes. All missed. Well, I wasn't about to take that, so I surfaced, chased him down again, and fired another couple torpedoes from the rear tubes. Missed again.

Convinced I had something good, I proceeded to chase that sound contact clear across the Celebes sea on the surface. The storm abated after about 14 hours, but there was still quite a fog bank. At one point we actually ended up ahead of the sound contact, which was pulling up from our rear.

Oh, crap. I rang up flank speed and turned us a gradual path out of the sound contact's path. After we got out of the way, I slowed us down and brought us alongside the sound contact.

I was able to identify the contact as a 5500 tonner type light cruiser, probably a Kuma. Fortunately, the enemy was just as blind as my crew, who didn't see that huge form sitting in the fog a mere 600 yards away.

I dropped the Sculpin back onto the Kuma's tail and followed him until he stopped and dropped anchor near Tarakan Island. Finally, a chance. I submerged and maneuvered until I was close enough for a positive identification and a "ship spotted" from my crew. Which turned out to be about 200 yards. I then retreated and set up for a stern shot from 600 yards. I fired 3 of my 4 tubes, as the last one had a mark 10 torpedo in it and I wanted a uniform salvo.

With the target not moving and the sub being a mere 600 yards away at a 90 degree angle to the ship, it was an easy shot. I fired the torpedoes in such a way that even if they tried to evade the salvo by ringing up flank or back emergency, they'd still get hit. A single torpedo hit and detonated directly underneath their aft torpedo battery. A massive explosion enveloped the ship. The cruiser took off like a startled deer, but lost engine power quickly. I was maneuvering for a finishing strike when the sonar man heard sounds of the ship sinking. Adding 5500 tons to the board.

Honestly, that was probably the stupidest thing I've done in-game until this point. Didn't remain the stupidest thing I've done in-game for long, though.

This is what my map looked like after the chase. I kept track of the cruiser's course by that looooong line, so it gives a vivid indicator of how far I chased that cruiser.

I was curious as to what ship I sunk, so I looked at all the 5500 tonner's TROMs on www.combinedfleet.com. Apparantly I sunk the Nagara-class light cruiser Kinu, which historically stopped at Tarakan on June 11th to refuel.

AndytotheD · 09-29-12, 09:55 AM

USS Permit captains log
December 10th 1941 13:40 hours

Our permit was just held down for 45 minutes by a pair of Japanese destroyers. We had made contact with a Japanese task force, consisting of a heavy cruiser, type unknown as of yet and a few merchant men headed for the Phillipines.
We reported the contact and were ordered to attack and sink the cruiser at ALL costs. The destroyers held us down long enough for the cruiser and its charges to escape. Nevertheless, come night fall we will surface, chase and destroy the cruiser.

AndytotheD · 09-30-12, 06:52 AM

Hell in Lingayen Gulf

Captain's diary
December 12th 1941 20:10

Task force sighted!
2 cruisers spotted and identified.
1 type Mogami and ont Takao class heavy cruiser.
3 destroyers and a few merchants are following and providing escort.

Will comply with COMSUBPAC's orders and will sink the Takao.

desertstriker · 10-02-12, 04:55 PM

a short clip of my modified deck gun

corsair15 · 10-18-12, 05:24 PM

USS Officer (SSN 688 class submarine)
January 1942
Pacific Ocean
North of Midway
178°E Long. 31°N Lat. (Approximately)

First I want to start out by explaining what the USS Officer was. Basically, I ran a skeleton crew of officers only with no damage control team, or watch officers. After all, running the Los Angeles mod on 13% realism is pretty much the real deal in modern submarines. Contacts on your computers screen, etc. I ran the submarine with as little crew as possible on the first run. Went into Yokosuka Harbor, and sank some cruisers, patrolled my assigned area, and returned to base.

Patrol 2:
This patrol I decided to go ahead and add a full crew to my submarine. Departed base sometime in January (I can't remember the date). My patrol orders were to transport an agent of friendly intelligence and facilitate his insertion into Tsurusaki Harbor. Of course, this was kids stuff and I managed to successfully insert the agent. At the time though, I was aiming to get the Submarine Service Medal, so I was trying to limit my tonnage to about 20,000. (PS, if anyone knows what the criteria is for all of the medals I would really love to read it. I always sink 50,000 tons or more each mission, regardless of the realism setting, so I was limiting my tonnage to gain the other medals.)

So I finish sinking about 24,000 tons of shipping, and I headed back to base. On my way back to pearl, I was just north of Midway, and I picked up a Sonar contact, I went to the surface and switched to surface search radar and picked up a huge task force. At this latitude and longitude and the date being January of 42, I figured it was a Friendly Task Force. I almost let it go, but decided I would go take a look to just to be sure. There was a thunderstorm at the time so I couldn't see anything. I got about 500 yards from a destroyer on the Task Force's port defense screen (Task force heading 285 toward Japan), and much to my dismay, that particular destroyer was Japanese. I took two shells and had about 19% hull damage. I crash dived and got behind the task force. There were three Shokaku carriers in the TF and one Kongo, and I sank each one individually with near zero visibility. After sinking the capital ships, I decided to use my last three torpedoes on the Mogami heavy cruisers that were escorting the TF. It was nearly daybreak and I had decent visibility after having followed the TF all night. I sank the first two successfully without problem. I swung around 180 degrees to sink the trailing Mogami, fired my last torpedo, and sank the ship.

After that I set dive planes for full dive, and increased to Flank Speed (35kts.) Where I screwed up, was traveling underneath the Mogami. I didn't figure it was a big deal. I sank it at about 800yards range, and got the indication "Enemy Unit Destroyed." I thought it was safe to travel underneath, completely un-aware I was about to meet certain death.

I hear explosions above my head from the command room. The Mogami is exploding. "WE'RE TAKING DAMAGE SIR!" "PRESSURE HULL HEAVILY DAMAGED" "RADAR DAMAGED" "COMPRESSOR DAMAGED" "WE HAVE FLOODING SIR!" "F10!" Hull Damage: 78% "Blow Ballast!" I get to the surface and the storm has magically disappeared, and three destroyers are closing on me like angry hornets who just had their nest incinerated. "Dive Dive Dive!" I dove without taking any hits. Unfortunately for me though, the submarine's hull had taken too much damage." "WE HAVE HEAVY FLOODING SIR!" I set depth for periscope depth, but the submarine was out of my control.

I put the engines in Back Emergency, and blew ballast yet again, but the submarine kept sinking and sinking until finally it stopped sinking at 1,656 feet. I was doomed. Oddly enough though, I made it about 20 more minutes. Finally the camera reverted to the Command Room, and everything fell apart. All is doom.

USS Officer is no more.

Stewmeat95 · 11-04-12, 11:23 PM

Much respect here for you veterans, never had a game challenged me this much.

Deployed from pearl, started a career in 1942 on 16 realism, as im still learning the ropes to sh4. I was given a mission to move to a chain of islands (the name escapes me right now) including Guam among others. After 43 hours of patrolling the area i found nothing, so after waiting for nightfall i decide a quick and hasty raid on Guam naval base. I got within 8000 m of the docks and suddenly heard a big bang and started to sink to the stern at a 30 degree angle. I blew ballast and yelled flank speed after ten minutes i surface, and in dismay see 6 merchants and about 4 fubi destroyers. I yell to my repair crew to get their ass in gear and also give the orders to man the deck guns. Several of the merchants and the DD's opened up and machine gun fire killed or wounded many of my deck crew. I turn and look to the stern and see a massive dd baring down on me, ready to ram me. I crash dive and as soon as the deck is under i begin to slip backwards again sinking at a 30 degree angle. I put the boat in flank speed and blow ballast, hoping for a miracle. The depth reports keep coming back and im just getting deeper and deeper, the boat finally ends up in a 60 degree angle falling to the floor at 6 knots, I was unable to recover and sunk in the bay of Guam that night.

(Does anyone know if there's mines at Guam? I had not sound contacts and was at periscope depth, with the scope down, at 2 knots with silent running on. Im not sure what hit me, it all happened so fast)

Good news is I saved as soon as i reached Guam so i get reload soon and try again

Hene · 11-06-12, 01:10 PM

There I was, after seeing nothing for many weeks I now had come face to face with the full might of the enemy's naval power. Two of the finest vessels of all Britain, this was the chance of a lifetime. I immediately ordered flank ahead towards the enemy, hoping to catch them by surprise. As torpedoes would have been useless against these kinds of targets, I decided to attack with my deck gun, an act of bravery very few are capable of. With winds that could break a battleship in half we had both man and nature against us, but we were not going to give up.
Closing fast towards our targets, I decided to wait until the last moment to open fire, to not to reveal us to soon. Finally, FIRE! A fierce battle began. The enemy immediately started giving us heavy resistance, not helped by the enormous waves. My crew, fighting both the overwhelming power of the enemy and the highest winds ever seen by man, were after what seemed like hours able to give a final blow to the first of the two ships. Closing towards the second one she was still giving everything she had at me. Despite being almost thrown out of the boat every ten seconds by the swells, the crew finally gave the last strike, blowing the enemy ship right in half. We had won.
An act of courage which gave me the promotion to the rank of korvettenkapitän.

Heinrich von Bot
Captain of IX type U-something

Patrol nro. cannot remember

Ships sunk:
Steam trawler
Steam trawler
For the total of 660 tons

Gilead Abyss · 11-06-12, 05:47 PM

I loved reading this gripping tale of courage, adversity, and triumph!
Truly a story to tell your wide-eyed grandchildren by the fireside; maybe the best fish(y) story I've heard.

at the mission debrief summary

Well done, Captain, and good hunting!

Hene · 11-07-12, 06:17 AM

"According to the information we have acquired from the british, korvettenkapitän Heinrich von Bot, commander of IXA type U-44 with total of 146.619 tonns of shipping sunk, has been captured on his 11th patrol sometime around September 1941. U-44 had left Lorient early in September to patrol an area west of Ireland. Shortly after getting to the patrol area the boat was intercepted by a single enemy plane. Because of the fog, by the time the plane was spotted it was too late to dive. Von Bot who was at the bridge when the attack happened, manned the AA gun himself in an attempt to save his boat from destruction, with poor results. The plane dropped two bombs which hit the rear compartment of the submarine, causing serious damage. Von Bot immediately ordered his men to leave the boat, but before everyone was out, the plane came in for another attack. Von Bot manned the AA gun again, this time distracting the enemy pilot enough for him to lose his aim and for the bombs to miss the U-boat. After having spent all of it's bombs, the plane left. Von Bot was able to get his men out of the U-boat in time, and U-44 sank with only three men who had been killed when the bombs hit. The crew of U-44 was later picked up by two British fishing boats, from which Heinrich von Bot supposedly tried to jump from into the sea six times, but was every time stopped by the crew of the ship. We have no information about the current location of von Bot or his crew."

1941 sure was a bad year for U-boat aces.

09-18-12, 11:02 PM	#4233
TwinStackPete379 Gunner Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: In my chair playing SHIV Posts: 99 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	latest s-18 skin. A little historical, a little fun. __________________

09-24-12, 12:50 AM	#4236
magic452 Sea Lord Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Reno Nevada USA Posts: 1,859 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	Welcome to the boat mate. Good story, been there and done that. This won't be the last time for you either. Magic __________________ Reported lost 11 Feb. 1942 Signature by depthtok33l

09-24-12, 06:59 PM	#4237
Arael Planesman Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: The Mitten Posts: 184 Downloads: 94 Uploads: 0	June 13th, 1942. Location: the Celebes Sea. Weather: Driving rain, heavy fog, 15 m/s winds, 10 foot swells. Submarine: Sargo class USS Sculpin Mods: TMO and RSRD I was chasing a merchant sound contact through the storm to try and keep with it until the storm abated. We were keeping pace with the sound contact when my sonar man detected another contact, a single warship. I did some calculating, and figured the warship was traveling at about 15 knots. I thought about it for a few moments, then decided to chase the warship, as something traveling that fast while alone had to be important. I turned the sub around, rang up ahead full, and started plowing towards an intercept. I managed to get a ways ahead of the warship and turned for a forward shot. Using the active sonar and what I knew of his speed and bearing, I computed a solution and fired a spread of 3 torpedoes. All missed. Well, I wasn't about to take that, so I surfaced, chased him down again, and fired another couple torpedoes from the rear tubes. Missed again. Convinced I had something good, I proceeded to chase that sound contact clear across the Celebes sea on the surface. The storm abated after about 14 hours, but there was still quite a fog bank. At one point we actually ended up ahead of the sound contact, which was pulling up from our rear. Oh, crap. I rang up flank speed and turned us a gradual path out of the sound contact's path. After we got out of the way, I slowed us down and brought us alongside the sound contact. I was able to identify the contact as a 5500 tonner type light cruiser, probably a Kuma. Fortunately, the enemy was just as blind as my crew, who didn't see that huge form sitting in the fog a mere 600 yards away. I dropped the Sculpin back onto the Kuma's tail and followed him until he stopped and dropped anchor near Tarakan Island. Finally, a chance. I submerged and maneuvered until I was close enough for a positive identification and a "ship spotted" from my crew. Which turned out to be about 200 yards. I then retreated and set up for a stern shot from 600 yards. I fired 3 of my 4 tubes, as the last one had a mark 10 torpedo in it and I wanted a uniform salvo. With the target not moving and the sub being a mere 600 yards away at a 90 degree angle to the ship, it was an easy shot. I fired the torpedoes in such a way that even if they tried to evade the salvo by ringing up flank or back emergency, they'd still get hit. A single torpedo hit and detonated directly underneath their aft torpedo battery. A massive explosion enveloped the ship. The cruiser took off like a startled deer, but lost engine power quickly. I was maneuvering for a finishing strike when the sonar man heard sounds of the ship sinking. Adding 5500 tons to the board. Honestly, that was probably the stupidest thing I've done in-game until this point. Didn't remain the stupidest thing I've done in-game for long, though. This is what my map looked like after the chase. I kept track of the cruiser's course by that looooong line, so it gives a vivid indicator of how far I chased that cruiser. I was curious as to what ship I sunk, so I looked at all the 5500 tonner's TROMs on www.combinedfleet.com. Apparantly I sunk the Nagara-class light cruiser Kinu, which historically stopped at Tarakan on June 11th to refuel. Last edited by Arael; 09-25-12 at 01:17 AM.

10-02-12, 04:55 PM	#4240
desertstriker Eternal Patrol Join Date: May 2012 Location: mod soup bar and grill Posts: 1,756 Downloads: 998 Uploads: 0	a short clip of my modified deck gun Last edited by desertstriker; 10-02-12 at 07:19 PM.

10-18-12, 05:24 PM	#4241
corsair15 Watch Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 21 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	USS Officer (The Beginning & End) USS Officer (SSN 688 class submarine) January 1942 Pacific Ocean North of Midway 178°E Long. 31°N Lat. (Approximately) First I want to start out by explaining what the USS Officer was. Basically, I ran a skeleton crew of officers only with no damage control team, or watch officers. After all, running the Los Angeles mod on 13% realism is pretty much the real deal in modern submarines. Contacts on your computers screen, etc. I ran the submarine with as little crew as possible on the first run. Went into Yokosuka Harbor, and sank some cruisers, patrolled my assigned area, and returned to base. Patrol 2: This patrol I decided to go ahead and add a full crew to my submarine. Departed base sometime in January (I can't remember the date). My patrol orders were to transport an agent of friendly intelligence and facilitate his insertion into Tsurusaki Harbor. Of course, this was kids stuff and I managed to successfully insert the agent. At the time though, I was aiming to get the Submarine Service Medal, so I was trying to limit my tonnage to about 20,000. (PS, if anyone knows what the criteria is for all of the medals I would really love to read it. I always sink 50,000 tons or more each mission, regardless of the realism setting, so I was limiting my tonnage to gain the other medals.) So I finish sinking about 24,000 tons of shipping, and I headed back to base. On my way back to pearl, I was just north of Midway, and I picked up a Sonar contact, I went to the surface and switched to surface search radar and picked up a huge task force. At this latitude and longitude and the date being January of 42, I figured it was a Friendly Task Force. I almost let it go, but decided I would go take a look to just to be sure. There was a thunderstorm at the time so I couldn't see anything. I got about 500 yards from a destroyer on the Task Force's port defense screen (Task force heading 285 toward Japan), and much to my dismay, that particular destroyer was Japanese. I took two shells and had about 19% hull damage. I crash dived and got behind the task force. There were three Shokaku carriers in the TF and one Kongo, and I sank each one individually with near zero visibility. After sinking the capital ships, I decided to use my last three torpedoes on the Mogami heavy cruisers that were escorting the TF. It was nearly daybreak and I had decent visibility after having followed the TF all night. I sank the first two successfully without problem. I swung around 180 degrees to sink the trailing Mogami, fired my last torpedo, and sank the ship. After that I set dive planes for full dive, and increased to Flank Speed (35kts.) Where I screwed up, was traveling underneath the Mogami. I didn't figure it was a big deal. I sank it at about 800yards range, and got the indication "Enemy Unit Destroyed." I thought it was safe to travel underneath, completely un-aware I was about to meet certain death. I hear explosions above my head from the command room. The Mogami is exploding. "WE'RE TAKING DAMAGE SIR!" "PRESSURE HULL HEAVILY DAMAGED" "RADAR DAMAGED" "COMPRESSOR DAMAGED" "WE HAVE FLOODING SIR!" "F10!" Hull Damage: 78% "Blow Ballast!" I get to the surface and the storm has magically disappeared, and three destroyers are closing on me like angry hornets who just had their nest incinerated. "Dive Dive Dive!" I dove without taking any hits. Unfortunately for me though, the submarine's hull had taken too much damage." "WE HAVE HEAVY FLOODING SIR!" I set depth for periscope depth, but the submarine was out of my control. I put the engines in Back Emergency, and blew ballast yet again, but the submarine kept sinking and sinking until finally it stopped sinking at 1,656 feet. I was doomed. Oddly enough though, I made it about 20 more minutes. Finally the camera reverted to the Command Room, and everything fell apart. All is doom. USS Officer is no more.

09-13-12, 09:45 PM	#4231
fireftr18 Ocean Warrior Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Kentucky Posts: 2,526 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 0	Nice

09-18-12, 09:43 PM	#4232
Death2allofu Swabbie Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 9 Downloads: 278 Uploads: 0	Some nice shots gentlemen....

09-23-12, 03:45 PM	#4235
Vasri Bilge Rat Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 1 Downloads: 14 Uploads: 0	Only recently got SH4, and have only dipped my toes into the Pacific so far, but this is the story of my first patrol... Captain's Log S-37 December 18, 1941 On patrol in Celebes Sea, have yet to sight any enemy ships since leaving Cavite, Manila last week. Though this is my first command, the S-37 is a good boat; with a good crew as well. December 19, 1941 1040 hours Radio message reports a "small convoy" not far outside our patrol area. Though no mention was made of their number, I have ordered flank speed to an area along their current course, with luck, we'll be able to catch them. The crew is anxious to give the Japanese some payback for Pearl. 1525 hours The convoy has finally moved within sonar range, but has changed course. I feel a little foolish, as they are now moving towards our assigned patrol area. We have altered course and are moving to intercept. My sonarman counts two ships, a destroyer and a large merchant. 2125 The convoy is now within visual range. I've identified the merchant vessel as a Huge European Liner, but it has two destroyer escorts instead of one, an Asashio, and another I can't see clearly enough to identify. 2315 We managed to close the distance without being detected, and have fired all four of our torpedoes into the liner. It clearly isn't long for this world, but now the destroyers are turning and coming for us. I've ordered the diving officer to make our depth three hundred feet. Let us hope that they run out of depth charges before we run out of luck. 0135 Hydrophones damaged, both periscopes damaged, batteries damaged, pumps damaged and we're taking in water in the engine room and the torpedo room. Depth is passing four hundred, and the hull groans under the strain. No choice but to blow the ballast pray. 0200 Blowing the ballast slowed our descent slightly, but we're still sinking. As we passed five hundred feet, I brought out a couple of bottles of scotch from my personal stash and have begun passing them around. One last drink for dead men.

09-29-12, 09:55 AM	#4238
AndytotheD Watch Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 29 Downloads: 27 Uploads: 0	USS Permit captains log December 10th 1941 13:40 hours Our permit was just held down for 45 minutes by a pair of Japanese destroyers. We had made contact with a Japanese task force, consisting of a heavy cruiser, type unknown as of yet and a few merchant men headed for the Phillipines. We reported the contact and were ordered to attack and sink the cruiser at ALL costs. The destroyers held us down long enough for the cruiser and its charges to escape. Nevertheless, come night fall we will surface, chase and destroy the cruiser.

09-30-12, 06:52 AM	#4239
AndytotheD Watch Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 29 Downloads: 27 Uploads: 0	Hell in Lingayen Gulf Captain's diary December 12th 1941 20:10 Task force sighted! 2 cruisers spotted and identified. 1 type Mogami and ont Takao class heavy cruiser. 3 destroyers and a few merchants are following and providing escort. Will comply with COMSUBPAC's orders and will sink the Takao.

11-04-12, 11:23 PM	#4242
Stewmeat95 Watch Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 27 Downloads: 14 Uploads: 0	Much respect here for you veterans, never had a game challenged me this much. Deployed from pearl, started a career in 1942 on 16 realism, as im still learning the ropes to sh4. I was given a mission to move to a chain of islands (the name escapes me right now) including Guam among others. After 43 hours of patrolling the area i found nothing, so after waiting for nightfall i decide a quick and hasty raid on Guam naval base. I got within 8000 m of the docks and suddenly heard a big bang and started to sink to the stern at a 30 degree angle. I blew ballast and yelled flank speed after ten minutes i surface, and in dismay see 6 merchants and about 4 fubi destroyers. I yell to my repair crew to get their ass in gear and also give the orders to man the deck guns. Several of the merchants and the DD's opened up and machine gun fire killed or wounded many of my deck crew. I turn and look to the stern and see a massive dd baring down on me, ready to ram me. I crash dive and as soon as the deck is under i begin to slip backwards again sinking at a 30 degree angle. I put the boat in flank speed and blow ballast, hoping for a miracle. The depth reports keep coming back and im just getting deeper and deeper, the boat finally ends up in a 60 degree angle falling to the floor at 6 knots, I was unable to recover and sunk in the bay of Guam that night. (Does anyone know if there's mines at Guam? I had not sound contacts and was at periscope depth, with the scope down, at 2 knots with silent running on. Im not sure what hit me, it all happened so fast) Good news is I saved as soon as i reached Guam so i get reload soon and try again

11-06-12, 01:10 PM	#4243
Hene Watch Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Finland Posts: 15 Downloads: 25 Uploads: 0	There I was, after seeing nothing for many weeks I now had come face to face with the full might of the enemy's naval power. Two of the finest vessels of all Britain, this was the chance of a lifetime. I immediately ordered flank ahead towards the enemy, hoping to catch them by surprise. As torpedoes would have been useless against these kinds of targets, I decided to attack with my deck gun, an act of bravery very few are capable of. With winds that could break a battleship in half we had both man and nature against us, but we were not going to give up. Closing fast towards our targets, I decided to wait until the last moment to open fire, to not to reveal us to soon. Finally, FIRE! A fierce battle began. The enemy immediately started giving us heavy resistance, not helped by the enormous waves. My crew, fighting both the overwhelming power of the enemy and the highest winds ever seen by man, were after what seemed like hours able to give a final blow to the first of the two ships. Closing towards the second one she was still giving everything she had at me. Despite being almost thrown out of the boat every ten seconds by the swells, the crew finally gave the last strike, blowing the enemy ship right in half. We had won. An act of courage which gave me the promotion to the rank of korvettenkapitän. Heinrich von Bot Captain of IX type U-something Patrol nro. cannot remember Ships sunk: Steam trawler Steam trawler For the total of 660 tons

11-06-12, 05:47 PM	#4244
Gilead Abyss Watch Join Date: Oct 2012 Posts: 17 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	An epic tale for the ages ^^^ I loved reading this gripping tale of courage, adversity, and triumph! Truly a story to tell your wide-eyed grandchildren by the fireside; maybe the best fish(y) story I've heard. at the mission debrief summary Well done, Captain, and good hunting!

11-07-12, 06:17 AM	#4245
Hene Watch Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Finland Posts: 15 Downloads: 25 Uploads: 0	"According to the information we have acquired from the british, korvettenkapitän Heinrich von Bot, commander of IXA type U-44 with total of 146.619 tonns of shipping sunk, has been captured on his 11th patrol sometime around September 1941. U-44 had left Lorient early in September to patrol an area west of Ireland. Shortly after getting to the patrol area the boat was intercepted by a single enemy plane. Because of the fog, by the time the plane was spotted it was too late to dive. Von Bot who was at the bridge when the attack happened, manned the AA gun himself in an attempt to save his boat from destruction, with poor results. The plane dropped two bombs which hit the rear compartment of the submarine, causing serious damage. Von Bot immediately ordered his men to leave the boat, but before everyone was out, the plane came in for another attack. Von Bot manned the AA gun again, this time distracting the enemy pilot enough for him to lose his aim and for the bombs to miss the U-boat. After having spent all of it's bombs, the plane left. Von Bot was able to get his men out of the U-boat in time, and U-44 sank with only three men who had been killed when the bombs hit. The crew of U-44 was later picked up by two British fishing boats, from which Heinrich von Bot supposedly tried to jump from into the sea six times, but was every time stopped by the crew of the ship. We have no information about the current location of von Bot or his crew." 1941 sure was a bad year for U-boat aces.