Chaulk one up to Muprhy

Ducimus · 10-13-06, 09:31 PM

Mr Murphy,.. You know the guy the who wrote that damniable law? I think he just took command of my latest career game.

Got bored with being in 40/41 so i started a new career in march 42, U-517, IXC, 2nd flot, with a patrol grid of DC12. I planned from the start that this would be a long cruise, so from the get go, as soon as i cleared the shelf in biscay bay i started running submerged to save fuel and avoid aircraft, surfacing only long enough to charge batteries. I kept this routine tell i exited biscay bay 5 days or so later.

After about 20 days in game, i started coming up to the US east coast. Hadn't quite reached burmuda yet but was getting close to it. I resumed my routiine of maximum submerged running to save fuel while enroute, surfacing at about 2100 local time and submerging at 0500. I did this for about three days.

After taking a week to clear biscay bay, another 20 crossing the atlantic and another 3 creeping up to the US east coast (but not having reached it yet) disaster struck. At 2100 hours i went to periscope depth, scanned the skies. Partially cloudy, partial moon, calm ocean. Surfaced. Not even three mins later my WO is panicked and calls " Aircraft spotted medium range!" . Medium range my ass, that plane was about 1400 to 2000 meters off our starboard bow. Too late to dive, to late to man the guns, i ordered flank speed and hard port rudder. U-517 lurched ahead with aggonizing sluggishness in a bid to be a hard to hit moving target.

One second later. KABOOOM. I hear an explosion and secondary explosion, vision on the deck is blurred and i see a man go down, and a HUGE water gieser on the starboard side.. Getting a quick damage report one of the batteries is desroyed, several wounded men, moderate flooding in the bow torpedo room and crew quarters, port rudder destroyed, the fuel bunkers are ripped open, but only minor hull integrity loss. At this point i had to make a decision, stay on the surface or risk diving. Not want to give up, Gambling that the flooding was controllable and considering the hull was nearly fully intact, i decided to risk a crash dive and to 70 50 meters and get the flooding stopped rather the bomp there like a cork for the planes.

Only the flooding didnt stop, and neither did the boat. U-517 nosed down at a steep angle, and decended into the depths all too quickly. The flooding in the bow compartment had increased and was out of control. Looking more closely at the damage, the bow planes were destoryed, the boat was completly out of control. On top of this both fore and aft batteries were destroyed.

I couldn't stop her decent.

10-13-06, 09:31 PM	#1
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	Chaulk one up to Muprhy Mr Murphy,.. You know the guy the who wrote that damniable law? I think he just took command of my latest career game. Got bored with being in 40/41 so i started a new career in march 42, U-517, IXC, 2nd flot, with a patrol grid of DC12. I planned from the start that this would be a long cruise, so from the get go, as soon as i cleared the shelf in biscay bay i started running submerged to save fuel and avoid aircraft, surfacing only long enough to charge batteries. I kept this routine tell i exited biscay bay 5 days or so later. After about 20 days in game, i started coming up to the US east coast. Hadn't quite reached burmuda yet but was getting close to it. I resumed my routiine of maximum submerged running to save fuel while enroute, surfacing at about 2100 local time and submerging at 0500. I did this for about three days. After taking a week to clear biscay bay, another 20 crossing the atlantic and another 3 creeping up to the US east coast (but not having reached it yet) disaster struck. At 2100 hours i went to periscope depth, scanned the skies. Partially cloudy, partial moon, calm ocean. Surfaced. Not even three mins later my WO is panicked and calls " Aircraft spotted medium range!" . Medium range my ass, that plane was about 1400 to 2000 meters off our starboard bow. Too late to dive, to late to man the guns, i ordered flank speed and hard port rudder. U-517 lurched ahead with aggonizing sluggishness in a bid to be a hard to hit moving target. One second later. KABOOOM. I hear an explosion and secondary explosion, vision on the deck is blurred and i see a man go down, and a HUGE water gieser on the starboard side.. Getting a quick damage report one of the batteries is desroyed, several wounded men, moderate flooding in the bow torpedo room and crew quarters, port rudder destroyed, the fuel bunkers are ripped open, but only minor hull integrity loss. At this point i had to make a decision, stay on the surface or risk diving. Not want to give up, Gambling that the flooding was controllable and considering the hull was nearly fully intact, i decided to risk a crash dive and to 70 50 meters and get the flooding stopped rather the bomp there like a cork for the planes. Only the flooding didnt stop, and neither did the boat. U-517 nosed down at a steep angle, and decended into the depths all too quickly. The flooding in the bow compartment had increased and was out of control. Looking more closely at the damage, the bow planes were destoryed, the boat was completly out of control. On top of this both fore and aft batteries were destroyed. I couldn't stop her decent. Last edited by Ducimus; 10-13-06 at 09:33 PM.