Tell us what you are upto in your current campaign - Page 288

grislyatoms · 08-31-12, 06:49 PM

175 meters. Deep as I dared go. Bow and stern torpedo crew did not take it well at all. Hmm.

sublynx · 08-31-12, 11:50 PM

Thanks grislyatoms! I try to write the report trying to follow Dönitz's orders:

http://uboatarchive.net/BDUOrder501A.htm

Lots of repetition but at the moment I can't imagine playing without keeping a detailed report

STEED · 09-01-12, 07:21 AM

I started a new career in Oct44 in a Type VII/41 I'm based up in Norway, exact location slips my mind at the moment.

First patrol against a convoy coming from Russia and that was a real stinker! I will never understand how the heck I survived that one. Took out a couple of Escorts and two medium cargo ships. Dec-Feb I mainly been attacking the Russian small convoys, better odds making it to the end of the war.

palatum · 09-02-12, 05:49 PM

Just had my first "in the middle of convoy" experience. What a rush! Foul weather, heavy winds, zero visability, and managed to get inside the columns. Twisting and turning to get decent solutions. No time or need to set course, I used the rudder actively for the first time. I travelled parallell to the convoy for some time, then turned 90 degrees and fired at targets coming in sight. Then rinse and repeat. I actively used binos to search for targets, as they didnt show up on the map. I have map contacts enabled, but it didnt help much, and I didnt need them, I was so close that targets were filling up the whole FOV of the UZO. I even had manual targeted shots at ships running parallell to me, with decent luck, 2 out of 3 hits.

Eventually a corvette showed up as I was on an attack run, and I managed to fire the torp at a merchant, then squeeze just ahead of him, leaving the corvette to take a detour around him. Good fun, and around 24000 GWT and 4 red ships

sublynx · 09-10-12, 10:42 AM

Here's the latest war diary of U-29:

http://i.imgur.com/Y045I.jpg

My commander Schröter got assigned a desk job by SH3Commander.

I continue playing with U-29, now with Ob.lt.z.s. Günther Ebler as the U-boat's new captain

LemonA · 09-14-12, 09:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sublynx

Here's the latest war diary of U-29:

http://i.imgur.com/Y045I.jpg

My commander Schröter got assigned a desk job by SH3Commander.

I continue playing with U-29, now with Ob.lt.z.s. Günther Ebler as the U-boat's new captain

The secretary of OKM has us inquire why it took more than 5 hours 33 minutes to identify the approximate number of destroyers in one convoy?
In similar cases, it took other ship crews significantly less time (" Twenty minutes later they had managed to get an idea of what was against them ").

OKM Berlin, den 30.09.40

sublynx · 09-14-12, 01:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LemonA

The secretary of OKM has us inquire why it took more than 5 hours 33 minutes to identify the approximate number of destroyers in one convoy?

That was the official explanation. The unofficial explanation is that as I've become accustomed to GWX's lightly defended convoys I have a bad habit of not paying much attention to the escorts. Maybe I should try NYGM for a change

LemonA · 09-14-12, 05:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sublynx

My commander Schröter got assigned a desk job

These are more likely to have been the real causes of the dismissing of Ob.lt.z.s. W. Schroeter:
1) 13.9.40. One of the heads of OKM, K. Dönitz, made a number of comments regarding to the activities of u-29l on the 6th of their patrols (KTM-report No. 4313 ).
2) 30.9.40. The secretary of OKM sent a written question to commander of U-29 with the request for information on this subject.
3) 01.10.40. The reply letter from Schroeter was returned as undeliverable due to incorrect addresses.
4) 06.10.40. Without any expressed reason Schroeter was informed in writing by OKM (Berlin, Tirpitzufer 1), that he will be taking up a new post on 07.Oct'40 in Duesseldorf, Adlerstraße 74 ...

Grun Teufel · 09-14-12, 05:50 PM

Every year I play silent hunter 3 until the war ends or I get killed. I play it almost like it is a hunting season. Currently, I'm starting my 3rd patrol on the 12th of February, 1940 and I am casting off to grid AN52 in a type VIIB after a recent transfer to Wilhelmshaven.( which I am happy about because I hate going in and out of Kiel.)

More later with tonnage and what all happened at sea. Happy Hunting!

sublynx · 09-15-12, 01:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LemonA

These are more likely to have been the real causes of the dismissing of Ob.lt.z.s. W. Schroeter:

Oh well, that's military life for you... At least Schröter made it alive

Hopefully Ebler reads addresses more carefully.

ijnfleetadmiral · 09-20-12, 08:05 PM

Kurt Hossel Strikes Again!
Target Practice for U-123

In what is probably the most daring strike of the war yet, U-123 under Oberleutnant zur See Kurt Hossel, attacked the harbor of Reykyavik, Iceland on 3 August 1940. The crowning achievement of this attack was the sinking of Southampton-class light cruiser H.M.S. Sheffield, sunk at anchor without warning. Other ships destroyed include:

1 A/B-class Destroyer
1 C/D-class Destroyer
1 Large Merchant
1 Medium Cargo Ship
1 Small Merchant

For this daring attack, Hossel has been awarded the Diamonds to his Knight's Cross. We of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht salute Oberleutnant zur See Hossel and the entire crew of U-123, for they are truly Grey Wolves of the Deep!

ijnfleetadmiral · 09-21-12, 10:49 PM

Gibraltar Attacked!
U-123 Strikes British Mediterranean Stronghold

Kurt Hossel and U-123 have outdone themselves yet again. On 27 September 1940, after successfully attacking a convoy and sinking a Large Merchant and a Granville-type Freighter, followed by the sinking of a Large Cargo Ship near the Western entrance of the Strait of Gibraltar, U-123 penetrated the heart of the anchorage itself, sinking TWO Southampton-class CLs at anchor, along with a Tribal-class Destroyer.

Our intrepid Hossel then began his escape, but decided to make one final periscope observation on his way out. The fortunes of war once again smiled on U-123 as there, at anchor, with no escorts in sight, sat battleship H.M.S. Nelson. Six torpedoes were fired and the Nelson exploded with a blast that shook the harbor, capsizing to starboard and sinking within minutes. U-123 escaped in the subsequent chaos, and arrived at her new base at Lorient on 1 October, having sunk over 83,000 tons in one patrol.

In recognition of Hossel's stunning achievement, our beloved Fuhrer Adolf Hitler ordered a special grade of the Knight's Cross created. It is therefore our pleasure to announce Oberleutnant zur See Kurt Hossel as the first-ever recipient of the Golden Oak Leaves, Swords, & Diamonds to the Knight's Cross. We of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht salute the crew of U-123 and their commander, the newly-crowned "Prien of the South"!

TheDuke233 · 09-23-12, 07:02 AM

Recently in SHV, I was doing a photo recon of anchored enemy carriers in the Solomons...Snuck into shallow water camera range and alearted a Jap DD.. I had no option other than to shoot down the throat.. I fired a 3 torpedo spread and scored two hits, sending him to meet honorable ancestors..Got my recon photos and as I was doing a 180 for deeper water I heard another torpedo impact from the one that missed the DD...I thought I had hit the carrier as it was in the same direction I fired..Later in deeper water, I upped scope and observed smoke and flames on the horizon from the direction of the carriers...At 10K+ more yards and in deeper water I surfaced...Very soon thereafter I had an extreamly PO'ed Jap destroyer headed right at me, lobing shells while blazing and smoking away!! I had scored a very lucky hit with the missed torpedo on another DD I hadn't even seen!!

...Dropped down below the thermocline, went silent and snuck away...10K+ more yards and a distant blazing DD in the periscope rear, I surfaced again...Yeah...you guessed it...Here he comes right at me with a bone in his mouth...Back deep and quiet, coming to periscope depth to cross the gap and into the deep sea channel, I surfaced again at about 15K..

.Here he comes from out of sight range, still blazing and smoking but with a full head of steam...Enough is enough...This guy was going to chase me all the way back to Pearl Harbor...Another spread from my rear tubes and he went down...Prob a glitch in the software, but with a little imagination, it could have been a Jap DD with radar....Man, I love the sub sim games!!! Need to find some DVD's of the "Silent Service" TV program of the late 1950's early '60's...B&W film, but I never missed and episode...

VONHARRIS · 09-28-12, 09:11 AM

Patrol No 3 of current career
January 20 1940
Just off Wilhelmshaven en route to AL 63
Hearing to the theme of Das Boot on gramophone

Congratulations to Kurt Hossel and U-123 for their last achievement.

BootsmanBoof · 09-28-12, 09:49 AM

Patrol 15 out of Lorient, Late Oct1940, U-46 type VIIB. Came across a convoy 2 days out of port, took out 2 destroyers from range with the deck gun, and then took my time blasting the merchants for around 50,000 tons in a couple of hours of daylight surface attacks LOL, was a little hairy with merchant deck gun and MG fire and the boat took some damage, but not one crew member was harmed.

I play GWX with SH3, and although taking out escorts is not my usual realistic method of gameplay, I thought what the heck.

Home 4 days after departure, awarded Knights Cross with Swords & Oak Leaves, now approx. 250,000 tons sunk.

08-31-12, 06:49 PM	#4306
grislyatoms Medic Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 169 Downloads: 31 Uploads: 0	175 meters. Deep as I dared go. Bow and stern torpedo crew did not take it well at all. Hmm. __________________ "Na Männer...alles klar?"

08-31-12, 11:50 PM	#4307
sublynx Sea Lord Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: In the conning tower of my VIIC scanning the sea through the periscope Posts: 1,698 Downloads: 173 Uploads: 7	Thanks grislyatoms! I try to write the report trying to follow Dönitz's orders: http://uboatarchive.net/BDUOrder501A.htm Lots of repetition but at the moment I can't imagine playing without keeping a detailed report __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] NYGM+H.sie v16+Stiebler 4C+MaGui WS

09-01-12, 07:21 AM	#4308
STEED Lucky Jack Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Down Town UK Posts: 27,695 Downloads: 89 Uploads: 48	I started a new career in Oct44 in a Type VII/41 I'm based up in Norway, exact location slips my mind at the moment. First patrol against a convoy coming from Russia and that was a real stinker! I will never understand how the heck I survived that one. Took out a couple of Escorts and two medium cargo ships. Dec-Feb I mainly been attacking the Russian small convoys, better odds making it to the end of the war. __________________ Dr Who rest in peace 1963-2017. To borrow Davros saying...I NAME YOU CHIBNALL THE DESTROYER OF DR WHO YOU KILLED IT!

09-10-12, 10:42 AM	#4310
sublynx Sea Lord Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: In the conning tower of my VIIC scanning the sea through the periscope Posts: 1,698 Downloads: 173 Uploads: 7	U-29 patrol 8 Here's the latest war diary of U-29: http://i.imgur.com/Y045I.jpg My commander Schröter got assigned a desk job by SH3Commander. I continue playing with U-29, now with Ob.lt.z.s. Günther Ebler as the U-boat's new captain __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] NYGM+H.sie v16+Stiebler 4C+MaGui WS

09-14-12, 05:50 PM	#4314
Grun Teufel Watch Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: BB56 Posts: 26 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Every year I play silent hunter 3 until the war ends or I get killed. I play it almost like it is a hunting season. Currently, I'm starting my 3rd patrol on the 12th of February, 1940 and I am casting off to grid AN52 in a type VIIB after a recent transfer to Wilhelmshaven.( which I am happy about because I hate going in and out of Kiel.) More later with tonnage and what all happened at sea. Happy Hunting! Last edited by Grun Teufel; 09-14-12 at 06:03 PM.

09-02-12, 05:49 PM	#4309
palatum Seaman Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Near Tirpitz' final grave Posts: 40 Downloads: 62 Uploads: 0	Just had my first "in the middle of convoy" experience. What a rush! Foul weather, heavy winds, zero visability, and managed to get inside the columns. Twisting and turning to get decent solutions. No time or need to set course, I used the rudder actively for the first time. I travelled parallell to the convoy for some time, then turned 90 degrees and fired at targets coming in sight. Then rinse and repeat. I actively used binos to search for targets, as they didnt show up on the map. I have map contacts enabled, but it didnt help much, and I didnt need them, I was so close that targets were filling up the whole FOV of the UZO. I even had manual targeted shots at ships running parallell to me, with decent luck, 2 out of 3 hits. Eventually a corvette showed up as I was on an attack run, and I managed to fire the torp at a merchant, then squeeze just ahead of him, leaving the corvette to take a detour around him. Good fun, and around 24000 GWT and 4 red ships

09-20-12, 08:05 PM	#4316
ijnfleetadmiral Ensign Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Corinth, MS Posts: 231 Downloads: 116 Uploads: 0	Kurt Hossel Strikes Again! Target Practice for U-123 In what is probably the most daring strike of the war yet, U-123 under Oberleutnant zur See Kurt Hossel, attacked the harbor of Reykyavik, Iceland on 3 August 1940. The crowning achievement of this attack was the sinking of Southampton-class light cruiser H.M.S. Sheffield, sunk at anchor without warning. Other ships destroyed include: 1 A/B-class Destroyer 1 C/D-class Destroyer 1 Large Merchant 1 Medium Cargo Ship 1 Small Merchant For this daring attack, Hossel has been awarded the Diamonds to his Knight's Cross. We of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht salute Oberleutnant zur See Hossel and the entire crew of U-123, for they are truly Grey Wolves of the Deep! __________________ "It does not matter how the enemy travels, in convoy, in pairs, or alone...I will find him and sink him wherever he is."

09-21-12, 10:49 PM	#4317
ijnfleetadmiral Ensign Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Corinth, MS Posts: 231 Downloads: 116 Uploads: 0	Gibraltar Attacked! U-123 Strikes British Mediterranean Stronghold Kurt Hossel and U-123 have outdone themselves yet again. On 27 September 1940, after successfully attacking a convoy and sinking a Large Merchant and a Granville-type Freighter, followed by the sinking of a Large Cargo Ship near the Western entrance of the Strait of Gibraltar, U-123 penetrated the heart of the anchorage itself, sinking TWO Southampton-class CLs at anchor, along with a Tribal-class Destroyer. Our intrepid Hossel then began his escape, but decided to make one final periscope observation on his way out. The fortunes of war once again smiled on U-123 as there, at anchor, with no escorts in sight, sat battleship H.M.S. Nelson. Six torpedoes were fired and the Nelson exploded with a blast that shook the harbor, capsizing to starboard and sinking within minutes. U-123 escaped in the subsequent chaos, and arrived at her new base at Lorient on 1 October, having sunk over 83,000 tons in one patrol. In recognition of Hossel's stunning achievement, our beloved Fuhrer Adolf Hitler ordered a special grade of the Knight's Cross created. It is therefore our pleasure to announce Oberleutnant zur See Kurt Hossel as the first-ever recipient of the Golden Oak Leaves, Swords, & Diamonds to the Knight's Cross. We of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht salute the crew of U-123 and their commander, the newly-crowned "Prien of the South"! __________________ "It does not matter how the enemy travels, in convoy, in pairs, or alone...I will find him and sink him wherever he is."

09-23-12, 07:02 AM	#4318
TheDuke233 Swabbie Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 5 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	Jap Radar?? Recently in SHV, I was doing a photo recon of anchored enemy carriers in the Solomons...Snuck into shallow water camera range and alearted a Jap DD.. I had no option other than to shoot down the throat.. I fired a 3 torpedo spread and scored two hits, sending him to meet honorable ancestors..Got my recon photos and as I was doing a 180 for deeper water I heard another torpedo impact from the one that missed the DD...I thought I had hit the carrier as it was in the same direction I fired..Later in deeper water, I upped scope and observed smoke and flames on the horizon from the direction of the carriers...At 10K+ more yards and in deeper water I surfaced...Very soon thereafter I had an extreamly PO'ed Jap destroyer headed right at me, lobing shells while blazing and smoking away!! I had scored a very lucky hit with the missed torpedo on another DD I hadn't even seen!! ...Dropped down below the thermocline, went silent and snuck away...10K+ more yards and a distant blazing DD in the periscope rear, I surfaced again...Yeah...you guessed it...Here he comes right at me with a bone in his mouth...Back deep and quiet, coming to periscope depth to cross the gap and into the deep sea channel, I surfaced again at about 15K...Here he comes from out of sight range, still blazing and smoking but with a full head of steam...Enough is enough...This guy was going to chase me all the way back to Pearl Harbor...Another spread from my rear tubes and he went down...Prob a glitch in the software, but with a little imagination, it could have been a Jap DD with radar....Man, I love the sub sim games!!! Need to find some DVD's of the "Silent Service" TV program of the late 1950's early '60's...B&W film, but I never missed and episode...

09-28-12, 09:11 AM	#4319
VONHARRIS Konteradmiral Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Greece Posts: 1,992 Downloads: 300 Uploads: 0	U-65 IXB Patrol No 3 of current career January 20 1940 Just off Wilhelmshaven en route to AL 63 Hearing to the theme of Das Boot on gramophone Congratulations to Kurt Hossel and U-123 for their last achievement.

09-28-12, 09:49 AM	#4320
BootsmanBoof Mate Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Australia Posts: 56 Downloads: 64 Uploads: 0	Patrol 15 out of Lorient, Late Oct1940, U-46 type VIIB. Came across a convoy 2 days out of port, took out 2 destroyers from range with the deck gun, and then took my time blasting the merchants for around 50,000 tons in a couple of hours of daylight surface attacks LOL, was a little hairy with merchant deck gun and MG fire and the boat took some damage, but not one crew member was harmed. I play GWX with SH3, and although taking out escorts is not my usual realistic method of gameplay, I thought what the heck. Home 4 days after departure, awarded Knights Cross with Swords & Oak Leaves, now approx. 250,000 tons sunk. __________________ "Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners." Sir Winston Churchill.