Before the War (GWX 2.1)

[Slateford-5]

Started a whole new career and upgraded to 2.1 yesterday, so I started out on Aug 1 1939.

MY first assigned patrol was to BF10 which (if I am not mistaken) doesn't actually exist!

Anyway, I sailed around the British mainland, back to Wilhelmshaven and transferred to Kiel. Patrol 2 starts late on 29 August. I sail around the harbour a bit, taking in the sights. A large Polish cargo is spotted late afternoon on 31 August, heading East: It's less than 12 hours until things kick off with Poland, so I shadow this ship and the moment Warsaw turns red on the nav map, I sink her: Is that really bad form?

This got me wondering: If I so timed it that I was in inner Scapa Flow, salvo 1-4 primed on the biggest thing I could spot an hour before war with Britain on September 3, and again as soon as the map legend turned grren to red, I let rip and turned about sharpish, would that be considered cheating by people? In fact, could it even be done i.e. would I be attacked on the way in?

Any thoughts?

[Brag]

I went into several British and French harbours before war started without problems.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Slateford-5

Started a whole new career and upgraded to 2.1 yesterday, so I started out on Aug 1 1939.

MY first assigned patrol was to BF10 which (if I am not mistaken) doesn't actually exist!

Anyway, I sailed around the British mainland, back to Wilhelmshaven and transferred to Kiel. Patrol 2 starts late on 29 August. I sail around the harbour a bit, taking in the sights. A large Polish cargo is spotted late afternoon on 31 August, heading East: It's less than 12 hours until things kick off with Poland, so I shadow this ship and the moment Warsaw turns red on the nav map, I sink her: Is that really bad form?

This got me wondering: If I so timed it that I was in inner Scapa Flow, salvo 1-4 primed on the biggest thing I could spot an hour before war with Britain on September 3, and again as soon as the map legend turned grren to red, I let rip and turned about sharpish, would that be considered cheating by people? In fact, could it even be done i.e. would I be attacked on the way in?

Any thoughts?

Yes it could be done and no, you wouldn't be attacked because war had not yet been declared.

Is it cheating ?.....Debatable. You could claim you had insider information of the commencement of hostilities.

Besides, it's hardly realistic is it.....a German U-boat sailing into the Home Fleet anchorage.

The million dollar question though is...are there any units scripted in Scapa prior to the beginning of hostilities

[GoldenRivet]

of course in real life im sure the sight of a German U-boat coasting along into a british port would have accelerated hostilities against the British i might think.

Imagine a North Korean submarine surfacing in new york harbor. things would get stressful.

PS Brag... check your PM inbox

[PhantomLord]

Originally Posted by Slateford-5

Started a whole new career and upgraded to 2.1 yesterday, so I started out on Aug 1 1939.

MY first assigned patrol was to BF10 which (if I am not mistaken) doesn't actually exist!

Anyway, I sailed around the British mainland, back to Wilhelmshaven and transferred to Kiel. Patrol 2 starts late on 29 August. I sail around the harbour a bit, taking in the sights. A large Polish cargo is spotted late afternoon on 31 August, heading East: It's less than 12 hours until things kick off with Poland, so I shadow this ship and the moment Warsaw turns red on the nav map, I sink her: Is that really bad form?

Same happened to me yesterday. First patrol assigned to BF10 (its like BF55 or was it BF56? - they dont exist). Sneaked up a large cargo short before war declaration to poland. Two hits short after the radio message received that we are at war with poland.
The second large cargo sunk a couple of hours later without any sinking credit or renown... First time this problem occurs. I had no upgrades before starting this patrol.

However... many ships will follow... who cares about the missing 10k tons?

[tearsofwrath]

first i want to thank you for the tremedous effort to bring us GXW 2.1

been playing GWX 1.x and 2.0 and now of course 2.1.

i also got the metioned sector BF10 as my target area. it doenst exist. any idea why we got this sector?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by tearsofwrath

first i want to thank you for the tremedous effort to bring us GXW 2.1

been playing GWX 1.x and 2.0 and now of course 2.1.

i also got the metioned sector BF10 as my target area. it doenst exist. any idea why we got this sector?

Sectors/patrol grids are given in a perely randomised fashion....much better to use SH3 Commander and choose your own

[STEED]

August 20th 1939

The RN are not at home, sod it.

I wanted to take some snap shots before the war but no the RN were not playing ball.

[Brag]

Portsmouth was a dissapointment outside an armed trawler, the RN was absent.
Umm, armed trawler? The Brits must be preparing for war.