Participated in an actual surface force battle last night.

maillemaker · 02-16-12, 04:22 PM

It's June 1944. I'm sailing out of Bergen in my spiffy Type XXI, my 3rd mission.

As I'm heading southeast I pick up one of our own convoys taking supplies down to Wilhelmshaven. 3 destroyers and 7 or so merchies including a couple towing barrage balloons.

Suddenly we get a radio report of a taskforce southwest of us coming our way. So I tuck into the convoy and sail along with them.

Sure enough, we start detecting their radar - 6 or 7 destroyers heading for us. I submerge, and the battle begins. They are pounding away at my surface stuff and they back at them. I fire my Type V accousting homing torpedoes. Sadly 2 go into the same escort - that one blew sky-high!

I took out all the rest of them, too. But I got no credit for any of the kills because they were taking constant fire from my friendlies.

But I had to return to base afterwards. During my attack I got too close to one of the escorts and they dropped a can right on top of my conning tower. It destroyed the watch tower and all equipment on the tower. I could not even put people up on the bridge. With no scopes left for attack, I sailed back to Bergen for repairs.

But I felt like I had participated in a real-life convoy action and helped defend our ships against the British aggressors!

We lost 4 of our own ships.

Steve

02-16-12, 04:22 PM	#1
maillemaker Sea Lord Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 1,639 Downloads: 75 Uploads: 0	Participated in an actual surface force battle last night. It's June 1944. I'm sailing out of Bergen in my spiffy Type XXI, my 3rd mission. As I'm heading southeast I pick up one of our own convoys taking supplies down to Wilhelmshaven. 3 destroyers and 7 or so merchies including a couple towing barrage balloons. Suddenly we get a radio report of a taskforce southwest of us coming our way. So I tuck into the convoy and sail along with them. Sure enough, we start detecting their radar - 6 or 7 destroyers heading for us. I submerge, and the battle begins. They are pounding away at my surface stuff and they back at them. I fire my Type V accousting homing torpedoes. Sadly 2 go into the same escort - that one blew sky-high! I took out all the rest of them, too. But I got no credit for any of the kills because they were taking constant fire from my friendlies. But I had to return to base afterwards. During my attack I got too close to one of the escorts and they dropped a can right on top of my conning tower. It destroyed the watch tower and all equipment on the tower. I could not even put people up on the bridge. With no scopes left for attack, I sailed back to Bergen for repairs. But I felt like I had participated in a real-life convoy action and helped defend our ships against the British aggressors! We lost 4 of our own ships. Steve