Getting through the English Channel

Blacklight · 12-15-06, 11:43 PM

Through many efforts going between England and France heading for the Atlantic, I have discovered quite to my and my crew's dismay that the area is FULL of mines and we usually end up strapping on our water wings very fast (The ones with little duckies on them. The duckies help us float better). Is there a mostly safe way to cross through that area where the chance of hitting a mine is less ? I hate having to constantly go all the way around north of Great Britain and then into the Atlantic. It takes forever to get to some mission areas that way and the trip eats up fuel like mad.

mookiemookie · 12-16-06, 12:16 AM

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.

Swooth · 12-16-06, 12:21 AM

Geez and I went through there once without a scratch, now I just feel lucky

Jmack · 12-16-06, 12:28 AM

so i guess you're not using GW ? right ?

VIICDriver · 12-16-06, 01:02 AM

Went through there once with RuB 1.45 and that was all it took for me to learn.

Yeah I'll chime in:

STAY AWAY FROM THE ENGLISH CHANNEL!!!

12-16-06, 03:12 AM

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Originally Posted by VIICDriver

Went through there once with RuB 1.45 and that was all it took for me to learn.

Yeah I'll chime in:

STAY AWAY FROM THE ENGLISH CHANNEL!!!

I tried it three times before giving up forever. To save time, from now on we could refer to SAFTEC. (It's a bit like 'safety' but has a big C for Caution. Which reminds me of "The name's Morgan - big M, little organ").

Sailor Steve · 12-16-06, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Swooth

Geez and I went through there once without a scratch, now I just feel lucky

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Originally Posted by Morts

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!

Morts · 12-16-06, 11:38 AM

i actually did it in GW

im amazed that i didn die

Sailor Steve · 12-16-06, 11:40 AM

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:

Jimbuna · 12-16-06, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie

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:

mookiemookie · 12-16-06, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

Hey mookie...coin yer own phrase lol :rotfl:

:rotfl

idn't know who to attribute it to, and I thought it had become so famous that it was in the public domain!

Jimbuna · 12-16-06, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by mookiemookie

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Originally Posted by jimbuna

Hey mookie...coin yer own phrase lol :rotfl:

:rotfl

idn't know who to attribute it to, and I thought it had become so famous that it was in the public domain!

:rotfl: :rotfl:
salute

mookiemookie · 12-16-06, 07:23 PM

Though I kind of like Sailor Steve's acronym for it...SAFTEC

spork542 · 12-16-06, 08:16 PM

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.

Blacklight · 12-16-06, 08:30 PM

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.

12-15-06, 11:43 PM	#1
Blacklight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,507 Downloads: 145 Uploads: 0	Getting through the English Channel Through many efforts going between England and France heading for the Atlantic, I have discovered quite to my and my crew's dismay that the area is FULL of mines and we usually end up strapping on our water wings very fast (The ones with little duckies on them. The duckies help us float better). Is there a mostly safe way to cross through that area where the chance of hitting a mine is less ? I hate having to constantly go all the way around north of Great Britain and then into the Atlantic. It takes forever to get to some mission areas that way and the trip eats up fuel like mad.

12-16-06, 12:16 AM	#2
mookiemookie Navy Seal Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 9,404 Downloads: 105 Uploads: 1	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. __________________ 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.

12-16-06, 12:28 AM	#4
Jmack Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 669 Downloads: 23 Uploads: 0	so i guess you're not using GW ? right ? __________________ "victim's ? ... arent we all ? "

12-16-06, 11:40 AM	#9
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	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: __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

12-16-06, 07:23 PM	#13
mookiemookie Navy Seal Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 9,404 Downloads: 105 Uploads: 1	Though I kind of like Sailor Steve's acronym for it...SAFTEC __________________ 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.

12-16-06, 12:21 AM	#3
Swooth Mate Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 57 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	Geez and I went through there once without a scratch, now I just feel lucky

12-16-06, 01:02 AM	#5
VIICDriver Engineer Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Lynchburg, VA Posts: 203 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Went through there once with RuB 1.45 and that was all it took for me to learn. Yeah I'll chime in: STAY AWAY FROM THE ENGLISH CHANNEL!!!

12-16-06, 11:38 AM	#8
Morts Admiral Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Denmark Posts: 2,395 Downloads: 23 Uploads: 0	i actually did it in GW im amazed that i didn die

12-16-06, 08:16 PM	#14
spork542 Chief Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 328 Downloads: 18 Uploads: 0	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. __________________

12-16-06, 08:30 PM	#15
Blacklight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,507 Downloads: 145 Uploads: 0	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.