I love GWIII (Patrol 7 Report)

Synthfg · 04-02-09, 06:29 AM

Summer 1940, Sailing south down the east coast of the UK in U-48 (VIIB), a few miles off Lowesoft when I run Smack Bang into a Convoy coming north, Send a Contact report and go to Periscope Depth, Take out 2 V/W's and an A/B that are forming the front Escort then Take out an Empire Type Freighter and a Ore Carrier, on my forst pass through, missing out on a 2nd ore carrier because of a straight dud eel

Now have the remaining escort (a single A/B and 3 echo's closing in on me) miss the A/B with my last 2 internals and think I'm in the dreck, when a couple of Goering's boys turn up in HE-111's and whilst they concentrate on the Merchies rather than the A/B which would have been more useful, the distraction allows me to slip away inshore, tho the A/B get's one of the HE's

Once clear I surface, reload the 2 externals before charging off in a looping path around what I project the convoys path will be) only to run smack bang into that A/B comming south, thought I'd missed him with my last forward torp, but it explodes jsut behind him and obviously breaks something because he comes to a halt.

I charge off north again surface as soon as I am out of range and soon come up behind the convoy, several ships buring due to the earlier Air attack,

The echo's have dissapeared and the convoy is unescorted, My gun crew has a field day, helping itself to an empire freighter ( that fired back the b'$£%") an Large Merchant and 3 small merchies, before the ammo ran out,

Sailing through a scene of devistation, burning hulks still going down, life rafts all ofver the shop and the large merchant having settled to the bottom with its top works still showing I was wondering what to do about the last 4 merchants when another 8 or 9 He's turn up and treat me and my crew to an display of precision bombing,

With only one torpedo remaining in the aft tube, decided proceeding to my assigned patrol grid was pointless so made course for Kiel, home for tea and medals

Unfortunatly forgot to get screen shots,

Jimbuna · 04-02-09, 07:01 AM

BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!!

Laufen zum Ziel · 04-02-09, 02:51 PM

Tea? Are you sailing in the right direction?

RoaldLarsen · 04-02-09, 09:57 PM

Who is going to sight convoys if you aren't in your assigned patrol grid?

TheDudTorpedo · 04-03-09, 12:31 AM

Forgetting the screen shots is unacceptable!

Hehe

Synthfg · 04-04-09, 12:09 PM

Fair Enough U48's 8th War Patrol took us to AN81, again just of the small port of Lowesoft, in Mid July 1940. After reaching our patrol grid we received reports of a convoy to our north west, making its way around Norfolk as we moved up the coast to investigate we spotted a asw trawler silhouetted against the rising sun at 7500m, Using the shroud of darkness we closed to within 3000m before opening fire with the deck gun on our unsuspecting prey, she barely got a shot off before exploding in flames and sinking to the bottom, Charging off to the NW we soon sighted a Black Swan leading 2 lines of merchants, sending off a quick contact report we dived to periscope depth and engaged, the Black Swan was soon dispatched by a single eel, rapily followed by a Large Tanker, One in the bows and one in the stern had her down, Next a large merchant received one in the side as did a granvile type freighter, tho both remained afloat, at this point a Black Swan which had been trailing the convoy appeared on the scene, a snap shot out of the rear tube missed, but some skilled piloting put us in the middle of the confusion of the 2 burning merchants and a coastal freighter that had gotten tangled up and alowed us to evade his depth charge attack, just as goerings boys turned up and missed everything However whilst manoeuvring to fire at the Luftwaffe the Swan put itself across our stern tube which due to some herculean efforts from the reload crew was ready to shoot again within 5 mins, down went the swan, and with the convoy now unescorted, it was surface time and let the gun crew loose.

Once the convoy was a sequence of flaming wrecks we turned out to sea to return via our original grid to Kiel, only for our lookouts to spot smoke on the horizon, another ASW trawler escorting a coastal merchant, with only 40 rounds left for the main gun we closed on the trawler and opened fire, again dispatching it before its unsuspecting crew could draw bead on us, before turning on the coastal merchant for a bonus victim, Once the action was over I took a look over the side only to spot

The upper works of the ASW trawled we destroyed at the start of this less than 3hrs previously, 45000 tonnes, not a bad mornings work

04-02-09, 06:29 AM	#1
Synthfg Sparky Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 154 Downloads: 64 Uploads: 0	I love GWIII (Patrol 7 Report) Summer 1940, Sailing south down the east coast of the UK in U-48 (VIIB), a few miles off Lowesoft when I run Smack Bang into a Convoy coming north, Send a Contact report and go to Periscope Depth, Take out 2 V/W's and an A/B that are forming the front Escort then Take out an Empire Type Freighter and a Ore Carrier, on my forst pass through, missing out on a 2nd ore carrier because of a straight dud eel Now have the remaining escort (a single A/B and 3 echo's closing in on me) miss the A/B with my last 2 internals and think I'm in the dreck, when a couple of Goering's boys turn up in HE-111's and whilst they concentrate on the Merchies rather than the A/B which would have been more useful, the distraction allows me to slip away inshore, tho the A/B get's one of the HE's Once clear I surface, reload the 2 externals before charging off in a looping path around what I project the convoys path will be) only to run smack bang into that A/B comming south, thought I'd missed him with my last forward torp, but it explodes jsut behind him and obviously breaks something because he comes to a halt. I charge off north again surface as soon as I am out of range and soon come up behind the convoy, several ships buring due to the earlier Air attack, The echo's have dissapeared and the convoy is unescorted, My gun crew has a field day, helping itself to an empire freighter ( that fired back the b'$£%") an Large Merchant and 3 small merchies, before the ammo ran out, Sailing through a scene of devistation, burning hulks still going down, life rafts all ofver the shop and the large merchant having settled to the bottom with its top works still showing I was wondering what to do about the last 4 merchants when another 8 or 9 He's turn up and treat me and my crew to an display of precision bombing, With only one torpedo remaining in the aft tube, decided proceeding to my assigned patrol grid was pointless so made course for Kiel, home for tea and medals Unfortunatly forgot to get screen shots,

04-02-09, 07:01 AM	#2
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,473 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!! __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

04-02-09, 02:51 PM	#3
Laufen zum Ziel Eternal Patrol Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Hiding on the bottom Posts: 1,783 Downloads: 853 Uploads: 457	Tea? Are you sailing in the right direction? __________________ RIP Laufen zum Ziel

04-02-09, 09:57 PM	#4
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04-03-09, 12:31 AM	#5
TheDudTorpedo Machinist's Mate Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Adelaide, Australia Posts: 128 Downloads: 23 Uploads: 0	Forgetting the screen shots is unacceptable! Hehe __________________ Download GWX 3.0 Gold here : http://www.thegreywolves.com/ Download SH3 Commander 3.2 here : http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...do=file&id=733

04-04-09, 12:09 PM	#6
Synthfg Sparky Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 154 Downloads: 64 Uploads: 0	Fair Enough U48's 8th War Patrol took us to AN81, again just of the small port of Lowesoft, in Mid July 1940. After reaching our patrol grid we received reports of a convoy to our north west, making its way around Norfolk as we moved up the coast to investigate we spotted a asw trawler silhouetted against the rising sun at 7500m, Using the shroud of darkness we closed to within 3000m before opening fire with the deck gun on our unsuspecting prey, she barely got a shot off before exploding in flames and sinking to the bottom, Charging off to the NW we soon sighted a Black Swan leading 2 lines of merchants, sending off a quick contact report we dived to periscope depth and engaged, the Black Swan was soon dispatched by a single eel, rapily followed by a Large Tanker, One in the bows and one in the stern had her down, Next a large merchant received one in the side as did a granvile type freighter, tho both remained afloat, at this point a Black Swan which had been trailing the convoy appeared on the scene, a snap shot out of the rear tube missed, but some skilled piloting put us in the middle of the confusion of the 2 burning merchants and a coastal freighter that had gotten tangled up and alowed us to evade his depth charge attack, just as goerings boys turned up and missed everything However whilst manoeuvring to fire at the Luftwaffe the Swan put itself across our stern tube which due to some herculean efforts from the reload crew was ready to shoot again within 5 mins, down went the swan, and with the convoy now unescorted, it was surface time and let the gun crew loose. Once the convoy was a sequence of flaming wrecks we turned out to sea to return via our original grid to Kiel, only for our lookouts to spot smoke on the horizon, another ASW trawler escorting a coastal merchant, with only 40 rounds left for the main gun we closed on the trawler and opened fire, again dispatching it before its unsuspecting crew could draw bead on us, before turning on the coastal merchant for a bonus victim, Once the action was over I took a look over the side only to spot The upper works of the ASW trawled we destroyed at the start of this less than 3hrs previously, 45000 tonnes, not a bad mornings work