oh CRAP! What the blazes just happened???

Kapt Z · 10-13-08, 10:00 AM

April 7, 1942
0200hrs
approx 500 mi W of Ireland
Heavy seas, Heavy fog, heavy rain

U-456 steaming due E, recharging batteries. Game running at 256tc. I'm reading a magazine when suddenly all hell breaks loose! Reports of heavy damage, system failures, flooding.....! I drop my mag and rush to the damage control station only to see half the after compartments destroyed and crew dead. I try and make it to the bridge, but we all die before I can get there. Screen says something about collision?!? I don't even know what hit us, destroyer? cargo ship? I expected this kind of thing from a aircraft, but hoped to have more warning for a ship, even in a storm, than that. Maybe a destroyer with who picked us up on radar and charged straight on through the storm at us???

Oh, well 'dead is dead' and on to a new career.

I'll bet lots of subs were lost during the war and their crews never knew what hit them. You're just there one minute and gone the next. ouch.

10-13-08, 10:00 AM	#1
Kapt Z Grey Wolf Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: ...somewhere in the swamps of Jersey. Posts: 909 Downloads: 157 Uploads: 0	oh CRAP! What the blazes just happened??? April 7, 1942 0200hrs approx 500 mi W of Ireland Heavy seas, Heavy fog, heavy rain U-456 steaming due E, recharging batteries. Game running at 256tc. I'm reading a magazine when suddenly all hell breaks loose! Reports of heavy damage, system failures, flooding.....! I drop my mag and rush to the damage control station only to see half the after compartments destroyed and crew dead. I try and make it to the bridge, but we all die before I can get there. Screen says something about collision?!? I don't even know what hit us, destroyer? cargo ship? I expected this kind of thing from a aircraft, but hoped to have more warning for a ship, even in a storm, than that. Maybe a destroyer with who picked us up on radar and charged straight on through the storm at us??? Oh, well 'dead is dead' and on to a new career. I'll bet lots of subs were lost during the war and their crews never knew what hit them. You're just there one minute and gone the next. ouch.