Situational Awareness is a Must!

rifleman13 · 06-14-08, 09:43 PM

It's Feb 1940:

I'm stalking a convoy in a Type IXB around Eastern England and I think I was detected by a C&D Destroyer. So dove to periscope depth, all stop, and (at Manual Targeting on) torpedoed the sucker with my stern tube torpedo. Then the sonar guy screamed out there's another DD coming from ahead of me so I looked and it's coming in fast. Just observing the incoming DD, the Chief Engineer alerted me to damage to the stern compartments. Huh? Still at periscope depth and all stop. Looked through the observation scope (Had the Green Atlantic mod on) and I can see, not clearly that darned C&D destroyer whacking my stern off! So, all ahead, blow ballast! Sunk to the bottom at 30m (North Sea) and...

"U-boat destroyed by collision"
Game Over!

Doh!

seafarer · 06-15-08, 09:25 AM

Momentum's a b*tch sometimes, ain't it.

NealT · 06-15-08, 10:59 AM

One of the reasons I never, ever stop...

06-14-08, 09:43 PM	#1
rifleman13 Grey Wolf Join Date: May 2008 Location: Depth-charged to Kingdom Come Posts: 927 Downloads: 28 Uploads: 0	Situational Awareness is a Must! It's Feb 1940: I'm stalking a convoy in a Type IXB around Eastern England and I think I was detected by a C&D Destroyer. So dove to periscope depth, all stop, and (at Manual Targeting on) torpedoed the sucker with my stern tube torpedo. Then the sonar guy screamed out there's another DD coming from ahead of me so I looked and it's coming in fast. Just observing the incoming DD, the Chief Engineer alerted me to damage to the stern compartments. Huh? Still at periscope depth and all stop. Looked through the observation scope (Had the Green Atlantic mod on) and I can see, not clearly that darned C&D destroyer whacking my stern off! So, all ahead, blow ballast! Sunk to the bottom at 30m (North Sea) and... "U-boat destroyed by collision" Game Over! Doh!

06-15-08, 09:25 AM	#2
seafarer Commodore Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 622 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Momentum's a btch sometimes, ain't it. __________________ My Father's ship, HMCS Waskesiu (K330), sank U257 on 02/24/1944* running SHIII-1.4 with GWX2.1 and SHIV-1.5 with TMO/RSRDC/PE3.3 under MS Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP1 ACER AMD Athlon 64x2 4800+, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 400GB SATA HD Antec TruePower Trio 650watt PSU BFG GeForce 8800GT/OC 512MB VRAM, Samsung 216BW widescreen (1680x1050) LCD

06-15-08, 10:59 AM	#3
NealT Ace of the Deep Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: 2 Meters Below Jimbuna Posts: 1,060 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	One of the reasons I never, ever stop...