Let's have a moment of silence

xlbob · 05-20-07, 11:50 PM

U 45, her newly promoted KapitantLeutnant, receiver of Knight cross with sword and oak leave, along with the crews, were lost at sea on May 28, 1940 during their 6th patrol.

After finishing my patrol on the assigned grid, I headed to Western approcah to patrol the area. Somewhere North east of Rockall bank, I received a convoy report heading North east. I quickly set an intercept course. Later the crews reported a ship sighting, a Black swan, so I went to periscope dept and rigged for silent running. When the balck swan passed by, I took a peek at the convoy, and there it was ... HMS Revenge (or is it Revenge class?) in the convoy.
Juicy target!

After the peek and decided to focus on HMS Revenge I decided to go deeper to 40 m deep, and wait for the convoy to get within firing range. Open all torpedo tubes and wait.

And then ... without any warning at all, there was no asdic ping, my radioman got wounded! And there's flooding in the boat. There was no sound of DC explosions at all!! I was at 1x TC, and no, I don't use SH3 commander so I don't have the "sabotage" option

My boat just went deeper and deeper. I sent my crews to repair the damage and control the flood ... but all the noises of the reapir process, brought the Black swan to my position and starting to drop DCs.

I went deeper, flood got worse and there's nothing the damage control team could do to stop the flood. The boat just went deeper out of control ... I blow out the balast tank twice to rise the boat, but to no avail .... and finally the boat reached crush depth and imploded

Man, I really hate it when I have to go back to September 1, 1939 and start all over again

05-20-07, 11:50 PM	#1
xlbob Gunner Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Jakarta, Indonesia Posts: 99 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Let's have a moment of silence U 45, her newly promoted KapitantLeutnant, receiver of Knight cross with sword and oak leave, along with the crews, were lost at sea on May 28, 1940 during their 6th patrol. After finishing my patrol on the assigned grid, I headed to Western approcah to patrol the area. Somewhere North east of Rockall bank, I received a convoy report heading North east. I quickly set an intercept course. Later the crews reported a ship sighting, a Black swan, so I went to periscope dept and rigged for silent running. When the balck swan passed by, I took a peek at the convoy, and there it was ... HMS Revenge (or is it Revenge class?) in the convoy. Juicy target! After the peek and decided to focus on HMS Revenge I decided to go deeper to 40 m deep, and wait for the convoy to get within firing range. Open all torpedo tubes and wait. And then ... without any warning at all, there was no asdic ping, my radioman got wounded! And there's flooding in the boat. There was no sound of DC explosions at all!! I was at 1x TC, and no, I don't use SH3 commander so I don't have the "sabotage" option My boat just went deeper and deeper. I sent my crews to repair the damage and control the flood ... but all the noises of the reapir process, brought the Black swan to my position and starting to drop DCs. I went deeper, flood got worse and there's nothing the damage control team could do to stop the flood. The boat just went deeper out of control ... I blow out the balast tank twice to rise the boat, but to no avail .... and finally the boat reached crush depth and imploded Man, I really hate it when I have to go back to September 1, 1939 and start all over again __________________ xlbob GWX v 2