Dez. 28 `39 Hood goes down

Zakalwe · 02-23-08, 06:02 AM

On my way from Wilhelmshaven to the assigned patrol-grid CF31, Recon told me about a Taskforce sailing SSW north of the Orkneys. I was West of this position at this point and decided to try an intercept. At around 0900 the watch called out a contact ahead. At a range of around 8,000 m I identified Hood escorted from three Tribals, running 18 knots. Their course would bring me into a nearly perfect firing position, so I ordered PD. At 0940 I fired three steamers at Hood, one aimed between the two bow turrets, one between the stacks and one into the stern at a range of around 900 m. Else my aim was a little off or they saw my torps, so one torp hit admidships, one slammed into the stern and one missed or didn`t explode. I ordered to go to down to 130 m slow and silent, was very nervous as one Tribal was nearly running directly over me, but fortunatly he didn´t hear me, I was only at 30 m when he ran over me.

The next 30 minutes or so I was pinged and DCed a little, but nothing serious, then they steamed away. I ordered PD again, saw the three DDs at around 8 km and Hood at 11 km, all steaming away with 18 knots. I surfaced and followed, reloading the empty tubes. I plotted Hood and came to the conclusion that Hodd was remarkable slower than 18 knots, even following with 12 knots shortened the range. So I attempted to overtake her, always not getting nearer than 8 km. To my amazement I realized the escorts steamed away with 18 knots leaving Hood which was sailing with around 10 knots behind (bloody AI

). I overtook her surfaced, went to PD and got into a firing position at around 1,200 metres, firing my only TII admidships. I hit her perfect, speed was going down to 3 knots, but she refused to sink. Following her submerged for another one and a half hour I decided to give her the Coup de Grace. I went ahead, turned away and fired one aft torpedo into her bow. Now she came to a full stop and a fire broke out in A-Turret. 10 minutes later, she capsized and sank bow first.

One bottle of Beck`s for the whole crew.

Olt. z.S. Suhr, U-48

edit: Real life addition: At 2200 I decided to play one hour SH3 before going to bed as the TV program was ****. I switched off the PC after above mentioned episode at 0130 am....

looney · 02-23-08, 07:19 AM

Congratz drinks are on you

Steel_Tomb · 02-23-08, 08:54 AM

"I overtook her surfaced"

I hope you were out of range of her guns! If not, report to Mohr to join his suicide squad lol :rotfl:.

I've never seen Hood, one day I'll send her to the bottom!

Just thinking, do you have an exact time & date of the sinking, and the patrol grid it was in? I'm guessing its scripted... if so... huzzah! Sorry Luchens! Shes mine! :P

Zakalwe · 02-23-08, 09:02 AM

No,

not out of range, but out of sight obviously. I was on the dark side (sun behind Hood), the sea was relative rough and medium visibility, she didn`t notice me even when range dropped to 6,5 km (was a little distracted for a moment). I was very surprised it worked out. If it hadn`t she would have blown me outa the water in seconds I think. I`ll give you the grid this evening.

Z.

Brag · 02-23-08, 09:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zakalwe

No,

not out of range, but out of sight obviously. I was on the dark side (sun behind Hood), the sea was relative rough and medium visibility, she didn`t notice me even when range dropped to 6,5 km (was a little distracted for a moment). I was very surprised it worked out. If it hadn`t she would have blown me outa the water in seconds I think. I`ll give you the grid this evening.

Z.

Congratulations! We need Kaleuns like you

Zakalwe · 02-23-08, 02:23 PM

THX!

Looking at the markings I made on the map it seems I have "mirrored" the action.

I made contact with the Taskforce in AM32-8 to AM34-1, the TF was sailing ENE and I was NE of it when deciding to intercept.

Contact on Dez. 28 `39 ca. 0900 AM.

Z.

Steel_Tomb · 02-23-08, 02:36 PM

Cheers mate! I'll check that out, decided I don't like the Med after tonight's patrol lol.

UnterseeBoogeyMan · 02-23-08, 02:39 PM

Good job on being perisistent! I know how deflating it is when you make an attack on a capitol ship and he keeps steaming on. Normally you assume he will always outrun your itty bitty engines on the surface but you kept after him. Those guys are right about the guns on the Hood too. On one of my careers, one shot from a Dido wiped out the entire boat. I was bummed. So, did the bow shot happen under one of the turrets or did you hole her so many times she took on too much water, you think?
Did that shot aimed under the smokestacks ever hit there? I find a well placed shot in the boilers is the achilles heel for those battleships.

Zakalwe · 02-23-08, 03:17 PM

Actually I think Hood must have seen my torps early and was beginning to turn and accelerating so my aims wandered to the stern. The bow shot in the first attack exploded ca. under the conning tower, the shot between the stacks may have exploded at the stern behind Y-Turret. I think this one could have killed the screws on this side, slowing her down. The stern shot most likely was off, as I forgot to open the tube first.

I don`t think there were any lethal hits each on it`s own as I didn`t see any secondary explosions or such. All shots were with impact pistol active, depth set to 8,5 m btw.

In GWX 1.03 I sank KGV with 2 eels on magentic pistol btw, one under the the bow turrets, one between the stacks. She immediatly went down within minutes.

edit: But to be honest, IRL I wouldn`t have had a big chance for a second or third attack as the DDs should have stayed with the crippled BC. That near to the coast even Air support would have been called in to defend the ship.

Z.

02-23-08, 06:02 AM	#1
Zakalwe Torpedoman Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Eckernförde, S-H, Germany Posts: 113 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	Dez. 28 `39 Hood goes down On my way from Wilhelmshaven to the assigned patrol-grid CF31, Recon told me about a Taskforce sailing SSW north of the Orkneys. I was West of this position at this point and decided to try an intercept. At around 0900 the watch called out a contact ahead. At a range of around 8,000 m I identified Hood escorted from three Tribals, running 18 knots. Their course would bring me into a nearly perfect firing position, so I ordered PD. At 0940 I fired three steamers at Hood, one aimed between the two bow turrets, one between the stacks and one into the stern at a range of around 900 m. Else my aim was a little off or they saw my torps, so one torp hit admidships, one slammed into the stern and one missed or didn`t explode. I ordered to go to down to 130 m slow and silent, was very nervous as one Tribal was nearly running directly over me, but fortunatly he didn´t hear me, I was only at 30 m when he ran over me. The next 30 minutes or so I was pinged and DCed a little, but nothing serious, then they steamed away. I ordered PD again, saw the three DDs at around 8 km and Hood at 11 km, all steaming away with 18 knots. I surfaced and followed, reloading the empty tubes. I plotted Hood and came to the conclusion that Hodd was remarkable slower than 18 knots, even following with 12 knots shortened the range. So I attempted to overtake her, always not getting nearer than 8 km. To my amazement I realized the escorts steamed away with 18 knots leaving Hood which was sailing with around 10 knots behind (bloody AI ). I overtook her surfaced, went to PD and got into a firing position at around 1,200 metres, firing my only TII admidships. I hit her perfect, speed was going down to 3 knots, but she refused to sink. Following her submerged for another one and a half hour I decided to give her the Coup de Grace. I went ahead, turned away and fired one aft torpedo into her bow. Now she came to a full stop and a fire broke out in A-Turret. 10 minutes later, she capsized and sank bow first. One bottle of Beck`s for the whole crew. Olt. z.S. Suhr, U-48 edit: Real life addition: At 2200 I decided to play one hour SH3 before going to bed as the TV program was ***. I switched off the PC after above mentioned episode at 0130 am.... Last edited by Zakalwe; 02-23-08 at 06:43 AM.*

02-23-08, 08:54 AM	#3
Steel_Tomb Ace of the Deep Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Cambridgeshire - UK Posts: 1,128 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	"I overtook her surfaced" I hope you were out of range of her guns! If not, report to Mohr to join his suicide squad lol :rotfl:. I've never seen Hood, one day I'll send her to the bottom! Just thinking, do you have an exact time & date of the sinking, and the patrol grid it was in? I'm guessing its scripted... if so... huzzah! Sorry Luchens! Shes mine! :P __________________ _______________________________________________ System Spec: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz \| 4Gb Corsair XMS2 Dominator DDR2 PC-2 6400 RAM \| XFX GeForce 8800GTS 640mb PCI-E \| Creative X-fi sound card \| 250Gb HDD \| *Rest In Peace Dave, you will be missed.*

02-23-08, 02:36 PM	#7
Steel_Tomb Ace of the Deep Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Cambridgeshire - UK Posts: 1,128 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Cheers mate! I'll check that out, decided I don't like the Med after tonight's patrol lol. __________________ _______________________________________________ System Spec: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz \| 4Gb Corsair XMS2 Dominator DDR2 PC-2 6400 RAM \| XFX GeForce 8800GTS 640mb PCI-E \| Creative X-fi sound card \| 250Gb HDD \| *Rest In Peace Dave, you will be missed.*

02-23-08, 07:19 AM	#2
looney Commodore Join Date: May 2007 Location: Sneek, The Netherlands Posts: 635 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	Congratz drinks are on you

02-23-08, 09:02 AM	#4
Zakalwe Torpedoman Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Eckernförde, S-H, Germany Posts: 113 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	No, not out of range, but out of sight obviously. I was on the dark side (sun behind Hood), the sea was relative rough and medium visibility, she didn`t notice me even when range dropped to 6,5 km (was a little distracted for a moment). I was very surprised it worked out. If it hadn`t she would have blown me outa the water in seconds I think. I`ll give you the grid this evening. Z.

02-23-08, 02:23 PM	#6
Zakalwe Torpedoman Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Eckernförde, S-H, Germany Posts: 113 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	THX! Looking at the markings I made on the map it seems I have "mirrored" the action. I made contact with the Taskforce in AM32-8 to AM34-1, the TF was sailing ENE and I was NE of it when deciding to intercept. Contact on Dez. 28 `39 ca. 0900 AM. Z.

02-23-08, 02:39 PM	#8
UnterseeBoogeyMan Ensign Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: The Land of Cholla Cactus and Red Chile Posts: 224 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	Good job on being perisistent! I know how deflating it is when you make an attack on a capitol ship and he keeps steaming on. Normally you assume he will always outrun your itty bitty engines on the surface but you kept after him. Those guys are right about the guns on the Hood too. On one of my careers, one shot from a Dido wiped out the entire boat. I was bummed. So, did the bow shot happen under one of the turrets or did you hole her so many times she took on too much water, you think? Did that shot aimed under the smokestacks ever hit there? I find a well placed shot in the boilers is the achilles heel for those battleships.

02-23-08, 03:17 PM	#9
Zakalwe Torpedoman Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Eckernförde, S-H, Germany Posts: 113 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	Actually I think Hood must have seen my torps early and was beginning to turn and accelerating so my aims wandered to the stern. The bow shot in the first attack exploded ca. under the conning tower, the shot between the stacks may have exploded at the stern behind Y-Turret. I think this one could have killed the screws on this side, slowing her down. The stern shot most likely was off, as I forgot to open the tube first. I don`t think there were any lethal hits each on it`s own as I didn`t see any secondary explosions or such. All shots were with impact pistol active, depth set to 8,5 m btw. In GWX 1.03 I sank KGV with 2 eels on magentic pistol btw, one under the the bow turrets, one between the stacks. She immediatly went down within minutes. edit: But to be honest, IRL I wouldn`t have had a big chance for a second or third attack as the DDs should have stayed with the crippled BC. That near to the coast even Air support would have been called in to defend the ship. Z.