Horrible luck with my new career

Incubus · 10-22-06, 02:10 AM

So I started a new career, so I could try out the type IX boats. My plan was to use an unupgraded type VII until I had enough renown to kit out a IX. I had an awesome first patrol.

Second patrol, 1st attempt, sank a few tankers using cannon fire to save torpedoes. On the way back, blunder into a convoy, and get ready to ambush. I'm in perfect firing position, I have a full load of torpedoes...and the phone rings, I had time compression on, somehow an escort detects me and is practically on top of me, I crash dive, get hit by ONE depth charge, and visit Davy Jones' locker

2nd attempt: No convoys, but lots of single large ships. First ship I encounter is a passenger ship in broad daylight

once again try and save my eels, and empty half my ammo worth of cannon fire sinking it (its 1940, so many big ships are still unarmed). Later sink several more tankers, and find 4 more T3/T2 tankers in a relatively small proximity on the map. I surface, then go into the crew management screen to reassign my watch officer and...the GAME CRASHES

and being the idiot I was I hadn't saved. Grrr I could have cleared 60,000 tons which would have been a personal record, and doing it so early in the career would have been great for the medals awarded to crew members and the renown to quickly get a type IX.

10-22-06, 02:10 AM	#1
Incubus Planesman Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 195 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Horrible luck with my new career So I started a new career, so I could try out the type IX boats. My plan was to use an unupgraded type VII until I had enough renown to kit out a IX. I had an awesome first patrol. Second patrol, 1st attempt, sank a few tankers using cannon fire to save torpedoes. On the way back, blunder into a convoy, and get ready to ambush. I'm in perfect firing position, I have a full load of torpedoes...and the phone rings, I had time compression on, somehow an escort detects me and is practically on top of me, I crash dive, get hit by ONE depth charge, and visit Davy Jones' locker 2nd attempt: No convoys, but lots of single large ships. First ship I encounter is a passenger ship in broad daylight once again try and save my eels, and empty half my ammo worth of cannon fire sinking it (its 1940, so many big ships are still unarmed). Later sink several more tankers, and find 4 more T3/T2 tankers in a relatively small proximity on the map. I surface, then go into the crew management screen to reassign my watch officer and...the GAME CRASHES and being the idiot I was I hadn't saved. Grrr I could have cleared 60,000 tons which would have been a personal record, and doing it so early in the career would have been great for the medals awarded to crew members and the renown to quickly get a type IX.