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01-18-08, 10:35 PM
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Lucky Jack
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Portsmouth
Anyone taken their uboat for a holiday there?
I've just poked U-35s nose in to see what's there and...well... So far I've had... 1) A flyby by the Luftwaffe  2) A display by the Lolwaffe  3) Parking demonstration by Dinsdale:  4) And finally, the one thing that almost made me fall off my chair in happiness:  Of course, the real trick now is to position my boat so that the torpedoes I fire don't bounce off. The weather has drawn in more, visibility is poor, so it's going to be a tough one. Fortunately for me though, I seem to have caught the Royal Navy on its day off, no problems in DER KANAL. The one warship I did see on the way to Portsmouth was a torpedo boat which fortunately didn't see me in the weather. Nimbus is truely working for Das Reich!  One word of warning to all Kaleus on Portsmouth, there IS a sub net and, the only entrance in and out is incredibly shallow that you will probably ground yourself even whilst surfaced. This means that I may have to dig my way out of Portsmouth before getting back to Lorient as quick as I can. 44,000 tonnes.... Let's hope the Torpedo Directorate doesn't fail us! U-35 out. 
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01-18-08, 10:49 PM
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Let's Sink Sumptin' !
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Ooooo. Portsmouth looks lovely. Liquid sunshine.
 I'm taking my beach holiday there.
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01-18-08, 10:57 PM
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Silent Hunter
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It's a madhouse, isn't it?
Now if I could just find a midget with some gin I'd be in business... |
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01-19-08, 08:04 AM
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Planesman
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Yep.. was in Portsmouth on the 3rd day of the war, found the HMS Hood there... and sent her to the bottom of the port.
The subnet gave me a hard time too on my exit but i was lucky and had marked my ingress on the map and had been lucky enough to hit the hole on the way in. Tool.
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01-19-08, 08:23 AM
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Navy Seal
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It's good to see the Luftwaffe flying on a crummy day.
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01-19-08, 08:29 AM
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Ace of the Deep
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I am just trying to figure out how they got there without wings? :hmm:
Sure looks like that last plane did not have any... Perhaps a secret Helicopter test? |
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01-19-08, 08:53 AM
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Ace of the Deep
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Went there too during testing but thought better of going in, weather was too nice...
and umm, Lolwaffe :rotfl:  once again I'm reminded not to drink coffee while reading this forum, now my keyboard is floating, again
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01-19-08, 09:42 AM
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Ocean Warrior
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Typical! you call in Herr Goerings flyboys just when you need them, and they turn up in Portsmouth
 . This explains why the Luftwaffe are never there when you need them.
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01-19-08, 09:49 AM
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Ace of the Deep
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Well if they're not in Portsmouth doing wingless aerobatics, they're in Biscay scaring your watch crew.. Flugzeug gesichtet!! Alaaarm!!....one quick look through the ops scope... friendlies! dammit, auftauchen, did anyone get that plane's number? coz they're buying the drinks when we get home....
 or they decide to bomb Bristol, just when you're in the middle of the port lining up to sink an auxiliary cruiser... They not only stole my credit but nearly sunk me too  oddly enough they did manage to miss all the neutral American ships...
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01-19-08, 09:55 AM
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Silent Hunter
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That second image of the wingless Junkers 88 whould make a great 'caption competition' screenshot.
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01-19-08, 03:52 PM
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Eternal Patrol
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I don't know; I think "LOLWaffe" covered it pretty well.:rotfl:
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01-23-08, 02:46 PM
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Lucky Jack
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Went back to Portsmouth in U-105...yes...you read that correct, a harbour raid in a Type IX...
I must be crazier than Balz.... However: Quote:
 Lesson learnt, don't do it kids  Some pics:  The Royal Navy goes for a joy-ride "Wave action Duuuude!!"  The prize goes down, netting me 50k  An S Class British sub gets a torpedo in the side, sunk like a rock! So, there we have it, Portsmouth raided, sirens wailing, and me scraping my fat ass over the sub net on the way out with tracers whizzing past the tower. I had intel that the Ark Royal might have been in town, hence my visit, but the Aquitania is a good second place prize Now I just have to alter a few logs because for some bizarre reason the sim has decided to forget the 35k I made before I reached the Thalia in Spain. 
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