Das boot moment....i love it!!!!!

[von hally]

Patrol 7.

Dec 16, 1941

Weather- Heavy rain, visibility poor.

Intercepting convoy bound for Irish sea.

Depth 7m

On the bridge, glasses pressed to my eyes....watch officer yells "ship sighted" (in german...of course)...i leap to the UZO...rain lashing my battered weather beaten face....the spray and wind combine to create one hellish wall of murky water. I turn the UZO toward the last location yelled by the watch officer....silently giggling to myself, confident that i'm invisible at this depth and in this baltic weather.
I've only two eels left in the fore tubes...and one in the aft.
using all my guile, i've managed to position myself between columns in the convoy.

o.k...it was pure luck that im between columns

I spot the sillhouette of a giant iron cow floating some 900m port ahead...."Ready Exec?....fire tubes 1 and 4"...two eels surge from the tubes toward the doomed vessel.

sonarman calling out contacts from other merchants approaching....but i know i've only 3 torps left...i'm not greedy...this ones getting both!!!

Still silently giggling to myself........now...time to fire the stern torpedo.......i spin round with the UZO....290deg....260deg....WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!!!!

The giant image of a destroyers bow looms in the UZO at only 50 metres away...its ghostly white shape cutting through the inky black seas with ease......ALAAAAARMMM!!!!....the destroyer cuts into the boat as i slam the hatch shut......."Boat Takes damage" "FLOODING!!!!" cries all around......the boat falls away sharply...but i manage to control the flooding.
i know that i'm doomed if i stay under, so surfacing in this weather is my only option, after manouvering away from the fuss, i repair enough to keep the boat tight and dive to depth.
....but boy....what a feeling of fear and horror i got when i spun that uzo around to find that facing me.

i bloody love this game.....i't been a while since i had that kind of cinematic experience

and you know what the last thing i thought as i crash dived...that bugger didn't turn on her spotlight's till the very last second.......salute to you tommies!!!

this never gets boring

[bojan811]

That was a close call...
Adrenalin rush I Love It!!!

[von hally]

Originally Posted by bojan811

That was a close call...
Adrenalin rush I Love It!!!

One of my nine life's gone

[Laufen zum Ziel]

Good read. Glad you & crew made it.

[von hally]

Originally Posted by Laufen zum Ziel

Good read. Glad you & crew made it.

lo mate

just amazed that things like this happen still

my crewe are getting experienced enough to know that that was my fault for nearly sending us to the bottom

[FIREWALL]

@ von hally That is the kind of patrol I live for.

[von hally]

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

@ von hally That is the kind of patrol I live for.

yeah mate, after one or two scary moments on the six previous patrols...this was a grey hair moment!!!!

as i said...spinning round with the uzo...was just like a scene from das boot! C*****D myself

[Jimbuna]

BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!!

[FIREWALL]

I use tc to force bad weather when I'm tracking a convoy just to try and have the adrenalin rush of such an attack.

[von hally]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!!

:rotfl::rotfl: hard to do that chief...when a DD is ramming you!!!!!

besides...hard to appear aggressive when your woolen underpants are extrememly heavier than usual

[bojan811]

Originally Posted by von hally

:rotfl::rotfl: hard to do that chief...when a DD is ramming you!!!!!

besides...hard to appear aggressive when your woolen underpants are extrememly heavier than usual

woolen underpants!!!

[von hally]

Originally Posted by bojan811

woolen underpants!!!

yeah man

just read iron coffins, woolen underpants were standard issue

itchy itchy scratchy scratchy....without going to the madams

[maxextz]

what you should do is play it in the dark with headphones on
years ago i used to play doom3 that way and its pretty scary it could maybe add more to the game experience.

[von hally]

Originally Posted by maxextz

what you should do is play it in the dark with headphones on
years ago i used to play doom3 that way and its pretty scary it could maybe add more to the game experience.

max...if i did that with the patrol i wrote about at the start of this post...i'd be in a state mental hospital with a big indian right now...being force fed pill's whilst screaming..."DD...Dive...rig for red.....return to course...surface the boat...." they would think i'm the new lord mountbatten..i can hear the nurses now..."of course you are a u-boat commander....of course you are in the middle of the battle for the atlantic....now just swallow these and everything will be o.k"

Originally Posted by von hally

max...if i did that with the patrol i wrote about at the start of this post...i'd be in a state mental hospital with a big indian right now...being force fed pill's whilst screaming..."DD...Dive...rig for red.....return to course...surface the boat...." they would think i'm the new lord mountbatten..i can hear the nurses now..."of course you are a u-boat commander....of course you are in the middle of the battle for the atlantic....now just swallow these and everything will be o.k"

Is that what happens when they catch guys like us?
An outstanding moment, and an outstanding read.