I actually have a question?

RConch · 03-31-17, 09:36 AM

Been playing GWX for years, but it has never happened to me yet.

Has anyone had a destroyer ram them?

Is the AI able to do this? Or just peels off and shoots\DC your sub. Kind of a "survival" instinct.

Just curious.

Philipp_Thomsen · 03-31-17, 09:39 AM

lol

I can't think of a single encounter where the destroyer DIDN'T try to ram me.

RConch · 03-31-17, 11:18 AM

Really. LOL.

I have had them "run over" me at periscope depth, never on the surface.

Just my good luck.

Gargamel · 03-31-17, 01:20 PM

Early-mid '40, I was making the rounding around the Orkneys, heading for the North Atlantic, probably cutting it too close to land though.

Dead flat and calm seas, zero visibility due to heavy fog. Putzing along at about 12 knots. All of a sudden, lookouts are screaming alarms, I pop up to the bridge and there, about 50 meters behind us, was a destroyer, perfectly cutting across our wake. Couldn't find it in the binocs quick enough quick to get a stern shot off, and so I peed a little, and dove. They apparently never saw us.

That's the closest I ever came to getting rammed by a destroyer, and how I learned to run submerged in zero visibility states.

bstanko6 · 03-31-17, 01:35 PM

It has happened to me on few occasions. Especially near harbors.

fumo30 · 04-01-17, 01:34 AM

Uragan-class monitor rammed me on surface at Black Sea after it expended all it's depth charges and then waited me to surface.

UKönig · 05-02-17, 01:16 AM

Off the coast of North Africa, running hell for leather out of the Gibraltar straight, on the surface, in the middle of the night. U-99 I think it was at the time, I'm trying to slip away with the dark and the coastline to obscure the sub. No chance. 4 torpedo boats attacking us, two destroyers inbound and two more Corvettes on the way, with another answering the call from Gibraltar itself. I can't quite recall which class/ship did the job, but he came steaming at me from 30° bow right at 34 knots. The boat took the hit so hard that it rolled us completely over.
Next message: U-boat destroyed by collision, you are dead...

03-31-17, 09:36 AM	#1
RConch Captain Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: No. Virginia Posts: 619 Downloads: 518 Uploads: 0	I actually have a question? Been playing GWX for years, but it has never happened to me yet. Has anyone had a destroyer ram them? Is the AI able to do this? Or just peels off and shoots\DC your sub. Kind of a "survival" instinct. Just curious. __________________ "Noch und Noch" Prowling the Nord Atlantik with GWX 3.0.

03-31-17, 09:39 AM	#2
Philipp_Thomsen Old Gang Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Drunk at the whorehouse Posts: 2,278 Downloads: 146 Uploads: 0	lol I can't think of a single encounter where the destroyer DIDN'T try to ram me. __________________ To each his own

03-31-17, 11:18 AM	#3
RConch Captain Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: No. Virginia Posts: 619 Downloads: 518 Uploads: 0	Really. LOL. I have had them "run over" me at periscope depth, never on the surface. Just my good luck. __________________ "Noch und Noch" Prowling the Nord Atlantik with GWX 3.0.

03-31-17, 01:20 PM	#4
Gargamel Lucky Sailor Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Rome Posts: 4,273 Downloads: 81 Uploads: 0	Early-mid '40, I was making the rounding around the Orkneys, heading for the North Atlantic, probably cutting it too close to land though. Dead flat and calm seas, zero visibility due to heavy fog. Putzing along at about 12 knots. All of a sudden, lookouts are screaming alarms, I pop up to the bridge and there, about 50 meters behind us, was a destroyer, perfectly cutting across our wake. Couldn't find it in the binocs quick enough quick to get a stern shot off, and so I peed a little, and dove. They apparently never saw us. That's the closest I ever came to getting rammed by a destroyer, and how I learned to run submerged in zero visibility states. __________________ Luck is a residue of Design.

03-31-17, 01:35 PM	#5
bstanko6 Admiral Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Murwik Naval Academy Posts: 2,130 Downloads: 390 Uploads: 13	It has happened to me on few occasions. Especially near harbors. __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] BSTANKO6'S SH5 NAVAL ACADEMY http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPbe...W2NArCA/videos DISCORD https://discord.gg/6tFeTSUmVc

04-01-17, 01:34 AM	#6
fumo30 Grey Wolf Join Date: Jan 2016 Posts: 872 Downloads: 15 Uploads: 0	Uragan-class monitor rammed me on surface at Black Sea after it expended all it's depth charges and then waited me to surface.

05-02-17, 01:16 AM	#7
UKönig Captain Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Posts: 495 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Off the coast of North Africa, running hell for leather out of the Gibraltar straight, on the surface, in the middle of the night. U-99 I think it was at the time, I'm trying to slip away with the dark and the coastline to obscure the sub. No chance. 4 torpedo boats attacking us, two destroyers inbound and two more Corvettes on the way, with another answering the call from Gibraltar itself. I can't quite recall which class/ship did the job, but he came steaming at me from 30° bow right at 34 knots. The boat took the hit so hard that it rolled us completely over. Next message: U-boat destroyed by collision, you are dead... __________________ Because I'm the captain, that's why!