English Channel

VIICDriver · 11-18-06, 12:17 AM

I for one doubt I am ever going there again. Have lost careers there thanks to strking mines! It's a long ride all the way around but guess that is what I'll have to do!

Hit a mine on the last one right in the middle of the "neck" adjacent to Dover.Ship sank and struck the bottom hard but was intact. Was able to actually work on her for about 10 minutes before it stated that she was lost. Can you survive a mine strike? I never have but thought I may be able to this time. Oh well was only 4th patrol. Guess I was due to begin a new one!

Back to Sep 1 1939 for me. If it takes 10 years I'll survive a war! Going second flotilla with the VII for this one. Maybe it will be fruitful.

Chuck

mookiemookie · 11-18-06, 12:35 AM

I play "dead is dead" and I have lost more than a couple careers there on my first patrol, without ever firing a shot....all because I was trying to be cute and skate through. Everytime I've hit a mine, I haven't survived. The flooding gets me every time.

No more Channel runs for me, EVER!

VIICDriver · 11-18-06, 03:11 AM

Yeah dead is dead here as well, Was fun surfing the Channel back with SH3 vanilla but that was the past. I'm not going in there anymore.

Oh well, new career is off to a great start, halfway through 1st patrol using some new listening techniques I've already bagged a large cargo, 2-C2's and a coastal. Plenty of fish left and heading now for a great hunting spot before coming back around the north of Britain for a return to Wilhemshaven.

Chuck

Jimbuna · 11-18-06, 05:50 AM

It is possible to survive a mine but often your boat is travelling at such a rate of knots you hit the next mine ahead before you know it and that usually seals your fate

One word of advice...KEEP OUT OF THE ENGLISH CHANNEL!!

SuperSoaker2000 · 11-18-06, 04:13 PM

try getting past the subnets near the islands getting into scalpa flow for a real treat :O)

Sailor Steve · 11-18-06, 05:09 PM

It's "Scapa".

Respenus · 11-19-06, 11:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jimbuna

One word of advice...KEEP OUT OF THE ENGLISH CHANNEL!!

Listen to the man of wisdom.

I would never dare to enter the channel in GWX. I dare not fight one DD, yet alone the British Holy Ground!

stabiz · 11-19-06, 12:48 PM

I have counted my deaths. I`m up to twelve now, and its december 1941.

(One death was due to drunkenness, but I guess that happened too

)

My death rate has plummeted after I stopped goint to the shallows and the channel, though, but I`m actually scared when I play nowadays.

11-18-06, 12:17 AM	#1
VIICDriver Engineer Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Lynchburg, VA Posts: 203 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	English Channel I for one doubt I am ever going there again. Have lost careers there thanks to strking mines! It's a long ride all the way around but guess that is what I'll have to do! Hit a mine on the last one right in the middle of the "neck" adjacent to Dover.Ship sank and struck the bottom hard but was intact. Was able to actually work on her for about 10 minutes before it stated that she was lost. Can you survive a mine strike? I never have but thought I may be able to this time. Oh well was only 4th patrol. Guess I was due to begin a new one! Back to Sep 1 1939 for me. If it takes 10 years I'll survive a war! Going second flotilla with the VII for this one. Maybe it will be fruitful. Chuck

11-18-06, 12:35 AM	#2
mookiemookie Navy Seal Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 9,404 Downloads: 105 Uploads: 1	I play "dead is dead" and I have lost more than a couple careers there on my first patrol, without ever firing a shot....all because I was trying to be cute and skate through. Everytime I've hit a mine, I haven't survived. The flooding gets me every time. No more Channel runs for me, EVER! __________________ They don’t think it be like it is, but it do. Want more U-boat Kaleun portraits for your SH3 Commander Profiles? Download the SH3 Commander Portrait Pack here.

11-18-06, 05:50 AM	#4
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,525 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	It is possible to survive a mine but often your boat is travelling at such a rate of knots you hit the next mine ahead before you know it and that usually seals your fate One word of advice...KEEP OUT OF THE ENGLISH CHANNEL!! __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

11-18-06, 05:09 PM	#6
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	It's "Scapa". __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

11-19-06, 12:48 PM	#8
stabiz Silent Hunter Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Norway Posts: 4,224 Downloads: 14 Uploads: 0	I have counted my deaths. I`m up to twelve now, and its december 1941. (One death was due to drunkenness, but I guess that happened too) My death rate has plummeted after I stopped goint to the shallows and the channel, though, but I`m actually scared when I play nowadays. __________________

11-18-06, 03:11 AM	#3
VIICDriver Engineer Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Lynchburg, VA Posts: 203 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Yeah dead is dead here as well, Was fun surfing the Channel back with SH3 vanilla but that was the past. I'm not going in there anymore. Oh well, new career is off to a great start, halfway through 1st patrol using some new listening techniques I've already bagged a large cargo, 2-C2's and a coastal. Plenty of fish left and heading now for a great hunting spot before coming back around the north of Britain for a return to Wilhemshaven. Chuck

11-18-06, 04:13 PM	#5
SuperSoaker2000 Watch Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 15 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	try getting past the subnets near the islands getting into scalpa flow for a real treat :O)