Ooops! Lets brush that one under the carpet.

Foghladh_mhara · 02-05-08, 04:22 PM

I guess I need to concentrate a little more with GWX 2. I got the opportunity to do my first real patrol since resurrecting my pc and I've noticed one or two slight differences. Started the career in sep 1940 based out of St Nazaire. Patrol area assigned in DH54. First of all I got spotted by a merchant at 4500m in crap weather running with decks awash. No way he could have seen me that fast. I had literally seen his masts (and I mean literally since I was waiting for him to appear) when he opened fire... and hit me with his first round!! Damaged the hull and both periscopes. WTF!!

I limped away and decided to continue with my patrol after making repairs and cursing my luck. Then lo and behold while doing a hydrophone check off the azores in a storm I picked up a merchie short range, medium speed. Up scope and saw a blacked out small merchant about 1000m of my port side, guestimated a speed of 9 knots and fire. Big bang that lit up the storm. Unfortunately it also lit up the Rising Sun flag fluttering from the mast

I think I may be in trouble

02-05-08, 04:26 PM

Ummmm . . . yes, I think we should award you a free mulligan for that last one.

NealT · 02-05-08, 05:12 PM

Sounds like time for a new career

TomcatMVD · 02-05-08, 05:19 PM

Who let Bernard Man the TDC!!!

Blacklight · 02-05-08, 06:03 PM

All the flags look the same to me at night. I just go by "If they aren't lit up... they're gonna get pegged !"

Gaijin · 02-06-08, 10:29 AM

Is fear rith maith ná drochsheasamh.

Foghladh_mhara · 02-06-08, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Gaijin

Is fear rith maith ná drochsheasamh.

Believe me, a futile stand has never been one of my faults

Running away is one of my finest attributes. Has stood me very well in life

Brag · 02-06-08, 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Foghladh_mhara

I Unfortunately it also lit up the Rising Sun flag fluttering from the mast

I think I may be in trouble

Fogh,
You have this thing for neutrals

Foghladh_mhara · 02-06-08, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Brag

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Originally Posted by Foghladh_mhara

I Unfortunately it also lit up the Rising Sun flag fluttering from the mast

I think I may be in trouble

Fogh,
You have this thing for neutrals

Well to my credit I did refrain from sinking the 2 Argentinians who passed my bow the next day (although I did have a perfect 90 AoB solution

) I had never seen a Japanese ship in GWX before and therefore none of what happened was my fault. Its all in my report

Brag · 02-06-08, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Foghladh_mhara

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Originally Posted by Brag

Quote:

Originally Posted by Foghladh_mhara

I Unfortunately it also lit up the Rising Sun flag fluttering from the mast

I think I may be in trouble

Fogh,
You have this thing for neutrals

Well to my credit I did refrain from sinking the 2 Argentinians who passed my bow the next day (although I did have a perfect 90 AoB solution

) I had never seen a Japanese ship in GWX before and therefore none of what happened was my fault. Its all in my report

Dooon't cry for me, Argentinaaaaa. Better luck in the following days

Sailor Steve · 02-06-08, 05:29 PM

What report? You weren't there, you didn't do it and they can't prove anything. It's not like they can identify the torpedo.

It must have been a British sub.

Laufen zum Ziel · 02-07-08, 12:43 PM

No lights at night I sink them. If I get close trying to see what nation they are and they light me up with search lights I sink them. If the are neutral I figure that I did them a favor by getting rid of one stupid Captain.

Wunsch der Briten wurden als dumm, wie einige der Neutralen.

Sniper_Fox · 02-08-08, 01:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Foghladh_mhara

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gaijin

Is fear rith maith ná drochsheasamh.

Believe me, a futile stand has never been one of my faults

Running away is one of my finest attributes. Has stood me very well in life

bah, never run from merchants, if you do, thats just poor captainship. just to 20 m and you cant be hit, make your repairs, then reposition yourself, blow ballasts and then flank speed into his midships from 90AOB, fire your eel at roughly 1000m and youll blow that baby to peices.

armed merchants are overexaggerated in their danger. if they know your there you just gotta get close to blow it up... or duke it out in a gun duel, which is highly notrecommended, unless you know how to out manouver it, and zigzagwell

GoldenRivet · 02-08-08, 01:55 AM

I have had little trouble with armed merchants. Their fire is generally innacurate over 1500 meters and they have a hard time spotting surfaced slow moving u-boats.

Really no reason you shouldn't be able to get within 1500 meters at night without being spotted. Day is another story, they can spot you up to 16km away.

Better luck next time and remember... Virtually every ship out there in stock SH3 is British.

But with GWX it could be any nationality... Check those flags!

Jimbuna · 02-08-08, 07:55 AM

Blame it on the Brits

02-05-08, 04:22 PM	#1
Foghladh_mhara Commander Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Kent Posts: 473 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Ooops! Lets brush that one under the carpet. I guess I need to concentrate a little more with GWX 2. I got the opportunity to do my first real patrol since resurrecting my pc and I've noticed one or two slight differences. Started the career in sep 1940 based out of St Nazaire. Patrol area assigned in DH54. First of all I got spotted by a merchant at 4500m in crap weather running with decks awash. No way he could have seen me that fast. I had literally seen his masts (and I mean literally since I was waiting for him to appear) when he opened fire... and hit me with his first round!! Damaged the hull and both periscopes. WTF!! I limped away and decided to continue with my patrol after making repairs and cursing my luck. Then lo and behold while doing a hydrophone check off the azores in a storm I picked up a merchie short range, medium speed. Up scope and saw a blacked out small merchant about 1000m of my port side, guestimated a speed of 9 knots and fire. Big bang that lit up the storm. Unfortunately it also lit up the Rising Sun flag fluttering from the mast I think I may be in trouble __________________ The beauty of not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise without any of the stress that might normally precede such a venture

02-05-08, 05:19 PM	#4
TomcatMVD Weps Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: MVD, UY Posts: 359 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	Who let Bernard Man the TDC!!! __________________

02-05-08, 06:03 PM	#5
Blacklight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,507 Downloads: 145 Uploads: 0	All the flags look the same to me at night. I just go by "If they aren't lit up... they're gonna get pegged !" __________________ Be my friend or be a mushroom cloud. "I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes !"

02-06-08, 10:29 AM	#6
Gaijin Helmsman Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Ireland. Posts: 102 Downloads: 20 Uploads: 0	Is fear rith maith ná drochsheasamh. __________________ SH3 1.4/GWX Gold/SH Commander Thallium/84% Realism

02-06-08, 05:29 PM	#11
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	What report? You weren't there, you didn't do it and they can't prove anything. It's not like they can identify the torpedo. It must have been a British sub. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

02-05-08, 04:26 PM	#2
Albrecht Von Hesse Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Ummmm . . . yes, I think we should award you a free mulligan for that last one.

02-05-08, 05:12 PM	#3
NealT Ace of the Deep Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: 2 Meters Below Jimbuna Posts: 1,060 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	Sounds like time for a new career

02-07-08, 12:43 PM	#12
Laufen zum Ziel Eternal Patrol Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Hiding on the bottom Posts: 1,783 Downloads: 853 Uploads: 457	No lights at night I sink them. If I get close trying to see what nation they are and they light me up with search lights I sink them. If the are neutral I figure that I did them a favor by getting rid of one stupid Captain. Wunsch der Briten wurden als dumm, wie einige der Neutralen.

02-08-08, 01:55 AM	#14
GoldenRivet Subsim Aviator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 8,726 Downloads: 146 Uploads: 0	I have had little trouble with armed merchants. Their fire is generally innacurate over 1500 meters and they have a hard time spotting surfaced slow moving u-boats. Really no reason you shouldn't be able to get within 1500 meters at night without being spotted. Day is another story, they can spot you up to 16km away. Better luck next time and remember... Virtually every ship out there in stock SH3 is British. But with GWX it could be any nationality... Check those flags! __________________

02-08-08, 07:55 AM	#15
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,473 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Blame it on the Brits __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!