The Second Happy Time

Vacillator · 06-04-07, 04:15 AM

Having taken charge of a nice new Type IXC (U-510, which IRL actually survived the war!), I headed to the US coast expecting lots of easy pickings. It's Feb 1942 and I'd read about very weak or non-existent defences, mostly single ships, no air cover etc.

So I arrived close to my assigned grid DB94 - boy is it shallow! On the way I've been forced down countless times by aircraft and single roving destroyers. Admittedly when these destroyers have detected me they've been rather poor at pressing a DC attack but they have forced me down. I've met two convoys (and sunk a few ships

) and seen two tramp steamers and two other single merchants, moving fast in bad seas and I couldn't intercept.

I've now crept into DB94 at PD and sat submerged for 24 hours at 18m depth. Two destroyers came close but din't pick me up. As soon as I could I went back out to sea to get decent depth under my keel.

So have I been unlucky or was my expectation not correct?

EDIT: Forgot to mention it's GWX of course, what else?

06-04-07, 04:15 AM	#1
Vacillator Frogman Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: UK Posts: 307 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	The Second Happy Time Having taken charge of a nice new Type IXC (U-510, which IRL actually survived the war!), I headed to the US coast expecting lots of easy pickings. It's Feb 1942 and I'd read about very weak or non-existent defences, mostly single ships, no air cover etc. So I arrived close to my assigned grid DB94 - boy is it shallow! On the way I've been forced down countless times by aircraft and single roving destroyers. Admittedly when these destroyers have detected me they've been rather poor at pressing a DC attack but they have forced me down. I've met two convoys (and sunk a few ships ) and seen two tramp steamers and two other single merchants, moving fast in bad seas and I couldn't intercept. I've now crept into DB94 at PD and sat submerged for 24 hours at 18m depth. Two destroyers came close but din't pick me up. As soon as I could I went back out to sea to get decent depth under my keel. So have I been unlucky or was my expectation not correct? EDIT: Forgot to mention it's GWX of course, what else? Last edited by Vacillator; 06-04-07 at 04:30 AM.