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Old 12-16-06, 11:23 AM   #16
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That's right that this bloody Channel is not a piece of cake. This one was close (and a lot of people above !) :

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Old 12-16-06, 11:30 AM   #17
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Geez and I went through there once without a scratch, now I just feel lucky
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hmm ive sailed through the english channel on patrols in 1940
3 or 4 times i think
only 2 plane attacks in all. nothing really happend to the boat only a near miss with a bomb from a plane

guess U-107 is just one lucky boat
If you're playing the stock game the Channel is very easy, which is totally unhistorical. The better mods make it more like it really was, i.e. DEADLY!
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Old 12-16-06, 11:38 AM   #18
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i actually did it in GW

im amazed that i didn die
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Old 12-16-06, 11:40 AM   #19
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Actually it's easy in GW or NYGM: just leave Wilhelmshaven early in the morning of September 1, 1939 at flank speed and make sure you're through the Channel before September 3.:rotfl:
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Old 12-16-06, 11:42 AM   #20
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well i did it in 1940
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Old 12-16-06, 11:45 AM   #21
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I know, I was just making a funny.
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Old 12-16-06, 11:56 AM   #22
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i know
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Old 12-16-06, 11:59 AM   #23
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I went through in 1940 as well after being ordered to re-base at Brest.

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Old 12-16-06, 03:58 PM   #24
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We have a little saying around here:

STAY AWAY FROM THE ENGLISH CHANNEL

If you're going to try it, the only way I could see you making it would be to hug the coast of France and pray that no trawlers spot you. You're in shallow waters there and most likely wouldn't have any room to dive. Attempting to go through the middle of the Channel is suicide with the mines and the DDs and the Elcos and the airplanes.
Hey mookie...coin yer own phrase lol :rotfl:
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Old 12-16-06, 04:05 PM   #25
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Hey mookie...coin yer own phrase lol :rotfl:
:rotflidn't know who to attribute it to, and I thought it had become so famous that it was in the public domain!
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Hey mookie...coin yer own phrase lol :rotfl:
:rotflidn't know who to attribute it to, and I thought it had become so famous that it was in the public domain!
:rotfl: :rotfl:
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Old 12-16-06, 07:23 PM   #27
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Though I kind of like Sailor Steve's acronym for it...SAFTEC
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Old 12-16-06, 08:16 PM   #28
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I went through there three times without a scratch in a IXB. Sank 100k tons there and only there. Needless to say, I was pretty new to the game. This was in GW 1.0.
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Old 12-16-06, 08:30 PM   #29
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Okay.. I'm going to stay the hell out of the Channel !!!
(I somehow miraculously survived a ride through there last night... and there were not many naval ships about nor did any planes come after me. I guess they thought any sub jocky trying to go through there would be a suicidal idiot. You should have seen my crew's faces when I ordered "Full steam ahead into the channel")
It was fun watching the mines pass perilously close to my boat from external view.
I hope that Great Britain cleaned up after themselves well and that there still aren't any of those mines still hanging out there in RL.
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Old 12-16-06, 08:48 PM   #30
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Yep the odd mine has turned up over the years
Dont forget the Germans mined too
In the channel and close to ports

Something you may come across if you use GWX and are stupid enough to use the channel after 40
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