Gotta toot my horn...

Greystone · 11-25-20, 08:51 PM

If you guys want to have some fun racking up tonnage and you're playing the U-boat portion of the game..
I got orders to proceed to west of Australia & sink 5K tons. Did so & hung around because I noticed a fair amount of enemy sightings show up on the map (KW5 & KW8 general area). The merchant traffic invariably turned out to be 4 to 5 merchants per convoy and non of them had escorts. The date was around Sept.-Oct. '43.
I'd pick out the merchants that probably had defensive fire (Liberty ships, etc.) & sink with torps, then surface & finish off the rest with the deck gun.
There'd invariably be one or two that surprised me with return fire I didn't expect but their aim was so bad it wasn't a real problem.
I wound up sinking 28 merchant ships for 104,119 tons, expending all torps. Gotta be up front though; I had the Extra Ammo mod. Without that, I doubt I would've had enough deck gun ammo to pull off that much tonnage.
As the Klingons would say though; It was glorious...

Mad Mardigan · 11-25-20, 10:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Greystone

If you guys want to have some fun racking up tonnage and you're playing the U-boat portion of the game..
I got orders to proceed to west of Australia & sink 5K tons. Did so & hung around because I noticed a fair amount of enemy sightings show up on the map (KW5 & KW8 general area). The merchant traffic invariably turned out to be 4 to 5 merchants per convoy and non of them had escorts. The date was around Sept.-Oct. '43.
I'd pick out the merchants that probably had defensive fire (Liberty ships, etc.) & sink with torps, then surface & finish off the rest with the deck gun.
There'd invariably be one or two that surprised me with return fire I didn't expect but their aim was so bad it wasn't a real problem.
I wound up sinking 28 merchant ships for 104,119 tons, expending all torps. Gotta be up front though; I had the Extra Ammo mod. Without that, I doubt I would've had enough deck gun ammo to pull off that much tonnage.
As the Klingons would say though; It was glorious...

Have to say, it would be interesting, to see how you'd do... without that extra ammo mod... just saying...

M. M.

les green01 · 11-27-20, 04:44 PM

might sound wrong but i wouldn't be tooting my horn using a extra ammo mod

11-25-20, 08:51 PM	#1
Greystone Sparky Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: San Francisco area Posts: 155 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 0	Gotta toot my horn... If you guys want to have some fun racking up tonnage and you're playing the U-boat portion of the game.. I got orders to proceed to west of Australia & sink 5K tons. Did so & hung around because I noticed a fair amount of enemy sightings show up on the map (KW5 & KW8 general area). The merchant traffic invariably turned out to be 4 to 5 merchants per convoy and non of them had escorts. The date was around Sept.-Oct. '43. I'd pick out the merchants that probably had defensive fire (Liberty ships, etc.) & sink with torps, then surface & finish off the rest with the deck gun. There'd invariably be one or two that surprised me with return fire I didn't expect but their aim was so bad it wasn't a real problem. I wound up sinking 28 merchant ships for 104,119 tons, expending all torps. Gotta be up front though; I had the Extra Ammo mod. Without that, I doubt I would've had enough deck gun ammo to pull off that much tonnage. As the Klingons would say though; It was glorious...

11-27-20, 04:44 PM	#3
les green01 Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Freeman Missouri Posts: 1,735 Downloads: 1375 Uploads: 0	might sound wrong but i wouldn't be tooting my horn using a extra ammo mod __________________ I'll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done. Audie Murphy