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Just watch out once you've had a few go down... I swear the AI comes looking for the pest at the back door. :arrgh!: I've noticed pairs of ASW Tugs, DD's and heavier air cover intently looking for me after a few good sinkings... GWX IS GREAT!!! :rock:
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Retiring my current carreer after 6 patrols.
Just discovered I shouldnt even have the radar detector or decoys yet! Not entirely sure how I managed to get them. I suspect a previous mod I was test driving had changed equipment availability dates. Kinda feels like cheating so I'm going to start a new career :DL |
I wouldnt retire just because of that mate,if it bothers you that much why not remove the radio man from his post?,it may disable the equipment for a time? :hmmm:
I certainly wouldnt retire,I would consider it a gift from the gods. Still,I can see what you mean though from YOUR perspective,it would give you an advantage where in real life you wouldnt have that luxury?,at least not yet. |
I'd already deleted the career when I suddenly realisted I could of edited the equipment out in the config file lol.
Doesnt matter though, I'd already earned promotions and iron crosses second and first class so I think my captain would of been "requested" to volunteer for training instructor duty, he was one hell of a lucky chap. Lets hope U-707 shares some of that luck as well :yeah: |
Well,good luck with U-707 :)
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Playing with all realism options set except map contacts (I like to draw interception things and etc. but I have to have to keep drawing where the ship is once spotted.) and I also have manual targetting off (tried once, ended in 1944 still with my type-II and almost 95 % of patrols without ever sinking anything).
type IIA March 1940 Done 7 patrols, 8th underway Started with 500 renown, actually got 1000 Trying to reach 2500 for a type VIIB Writing my patrols logs in the blog in my signature. |
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To be honest I have never spotted a capitol ship in a campaign ever in sh3. I spotted a cruise liner in the stock game once and sunk her but thats about it. So here's hopeing.. Will make a great christmas present (currently late nov 39) to the crew |
Strait of Gibraltar (more so inside and on towards the Med) was/still is a hive of activity,it was once a major trade hub for the British Empire and I reckon some very juicy targets could be found there,if one is brave and skillful enough to cope with the increased patrol craft in that area.
I wonder how GWX3 simulated this area?,only time will tell :arrgh!: *NO SPOILERS PLEASE* |
Patrol 5
U-35, 2 U-Boat Flotilla Saltzwedel ObltzS Peter Schmidt, Commander January 14, 1940, 02:42 Departed: Wilhelmshaven Mission Orders: Patrol grid BE59 January 17, 1940, 15:08 Grid AN 14 Ship sunk: MV Agate (Small Trawler), 98 tons Crew: 23 Crew lost: 18 January 18, 1940, 09:38 Grid AN 13 Ship sunk: SS Bradfyne (Granville-type Freighter), 4707 tons Cargo: Paper Products Crew: 84 Crew lost: 62 January 18, 1940, 11:32 Grid AN 13 Ship sunk: MV Chestnut (Small Trawler), 99 tons Crew: 13 Crew lost: 2 January 18, 1940, 18:14 Grid AN 13 Ship sunk: MV Crista (Small Merchant), 2229 tons Cargo: Mail/Packages Crew: 27 Crew lost: 11 January 20, 1940, 11:40 Grid AM 35 Ship sunk: HMS Ashanti (Tribal class), 1850 tons Crew: 191 Crew lost: 1 January 22, 1940, 09:57 Grid AM 39 Ship sunk: HMS Woolston (V&W class), 1188 tons Crew: 104 Crew lost: 4 January 24, 1940, 03:55 Grid AM 51 Ship sunk: SS Sea Tarpon (Large Cargo), 6897 tons Cargo: Phosphates Crew: 51 Crew lost: 15 January 24, 1940, 04:01 Grid AM 51 Ship sunk: SS Grafton (Large Cargo), 6898 tons Cargo: Tobacco Crew: 55 Crew lost: 26 January 24, 1940, 18:15 Grid AM 46 Ship sunk: SS Adrian (Coastal Freighter), 1873 tons Cargo: General Cargo Crew: 21 Crew lost: 12 January 25, 1940, 00:37 Grid AM 49 Ship sunk: SS Port Adelaide (Ore Carrier), 6449 tons Cargo: Coal Crew: 67 Crew lost: 32 January 26, 1940, 19:06 Grid BE 35 Ship sunk: SS Thistleglen (Granville-type Freighter), 4709 tons Cargo: Military Vehicles Crew: 105 Crew lost: 23 February 8, 1840, 11:48 Returned: Wilhelmshaven Crew losses: 0 Ships sunk: 11 Aircraft destroyed: 0 Merchant tonnage: 33959 tons Warship tonnage: 3038 tons Patrol tonnage: 36997 tons Career Tonnage: 120484 On return to base I was awarded the Iron Cross, First Class as was my veteran Mechanikerhauptgefreiter, Johann-Walter Lind. The Iron Cross, Second Class was awarded to my 1WO, LtzS Kurt Myke, and to Mechanikermaat Willibald Mühlhaber. Funkmaat Gunter Domke and Sanitätsmaat Wilhelm Honsberg were both promoted from Bootsmann to Stabsbootsmann. I think I'm officially addicted now, as the thrill of bagging my first warships led to an all-nighter. Fortunately I can afford the loss of sleep today as I'd taken the whole week off work! (Actually it's probably a good thing, I've been sleeping in all week and have to be up early tomorrow for a very long day - so I need to be dead tired tonight in order to get to sleep early.) Anyway, the determination to stay up and continue the patrol paid off as I hadn't proceeded too far south and west after sinking the second destroyer when I got a report of a large convoy heading ENE towards the upper Western Approaches. Turned north for grid AM51 and was able to intercept at the front starboard corner of the four-column procession; a combination of darkness, rough seas and silent running at periscope depth allowed me to sneak in behind the Swan class patrolling ahead of the merchants and slip into position between the two nearest columns. At least two other escorts were patrolling at the rear of the formation, leaving the flanks largely unprotected. I had my eye on the third ships in the two middle columns, the two biggest ships in the convoy. I set up a fast two eel spread for each; fired on the first one from about 1800m out, and the second from maybe 2300m; honestly I'm not sure because my nerves were so on edge! Trying to keep track of the two ships I was after; trying to keep track of all the other unsuspecting merchants as they sailed ever closer to pass fore and aft of us; trying to follow the movements of the head escort from the whispers being passed up from the hydrophone station; nerve-wracking, I tell you, absolutely nerve-wracking! But OMG the adrenalin! But I got off all four torpedoes and all four hit, two per ship, as I ordered an immediate dive, then hard to port, and quickly lowered the 'scope. It seemed like only seconds later that we heard the distinct sounds of both merchants sinking into the abyss. Set course WSW, and off we went, dropping deeper and deeper as we slid through the water beneath the rest of the oncoming convoy. By the time they'd all passed over and around us, we were at 150m; the lead escort had given up looking for us, and the ones who stayed behind to patrol the area never even came close to guessing our location. Eventually they had to return to the flock and we were clear to resurface with almost 14000 tons of unlucky English shipping added to our tally. We returned to base with one lonely torpedo sitting patiently in the stern tube, having saved that and one in the fore tubes for our journey home, during which we'd been ordered to patrol just east of Scapa Flow for 24 hours if our fuel reserves were sufficient. They were, but the weather refused to cooperate. A fierce winter storm lashed at our little boat all the way through the Nordsee, and visibility was almost nonexistent; so much so that we couldn't make out the ships of a large convoy moving through the area despite the hydrophone reports that indicated they were almost right on top of us. At the time we still had the one eel waiting in a fore tube, but with only that and the stern tube available, going up against an escorted convoy with barely 100m beneath our keel and less than 2000m visibility seemed like a very foolhardy undertaking, so we reported the contact, dropped to 80m and ran silent out of there. We did come across a lone coastal freighter several hours later, and fired off a shot from a fore tube that just missed her bow as she turned away from its trajectory. Whether she somehow managed to spot our 'scope in the waves, or was simply getting bounced around too much in the storm to keep a steady course and depth, I'm not sure. Heaven knows it was all we could do to stay on course on the surface. By the time we returned to base the wind had died down somewhat, but the cold rain persisted with a vengeance. Nevertheless, a highly successful patrol from which all hands returned happy and healthy. And, yeah, I think I better turn up the realism a notch, since I'd like to be promoted to Kptl before my luck runs out. :O: |
Just sailed out.
Came back on 8th patrol with type IIA U-22 on April, 9th 1940 Ordered in December, 15h 1937, the U-99 was laid down March, 31th 1939. After tests, she was commissioned April, 18th 1940 Took command of the U-99 type VIIB on April, 10th 1940, moved with crew to Willemshaven on 11th and took control of U-99 on 22th 1940 at 06:00 Sailed with U-99 to Kiel, got her fitted with type II torpedoes. Departed for 9th patrol and U-99 first patrol, brand new ship, April 23th 1940 at 06:45 U-22 was transfered to another command and left for her patrol a week ago. Bdu sent us a message on April, 25th 1940 at 08:02 to inform us U-22 failed to report and came back from patrol. I left U-22 for U-99, U-22 went to sea for her first patrol without me and she will never come back... |
:wah: Ouch man that's gotta hurt.
RIP, U-22. |
The radio message was a slap in the face.
Spent two years with the U-22, from 1st august 1939 (one month before the war even started !) to April, 9th 1940 Done 8 patrols with her, sending to the bottom of sea 30283 tons. I took the U-99, sailed outside of the Kiel kanal and the message announcing the loss of U-22 reached me. :wah: |
Almost got killed on my 9th patrol, first time with my U-99, brand new type VIIB
May, 19th 1940 03:00 En route to Kiel. Spotted warship medium range in grid AM64. Started shooting at us, ordered crash dive. Depth charged. Dived to 80, then 100, then 120 meters. Warship circles and depth charges us. 03:44 : Warship has given up and his heading south. Setting depth to 80 meters, running silent running for one hour. Then periscope check and surface if possible. 06:06 : Spotted ship while on surface. Ordered crash dive. Will remain below water until night. 23:00 : Spotted warship. This place is crawling with patrol boats and destroyers. They know we are travelling the passage and want us sinked. 23:30 : Took a depth charge directly on side of Bow Torpedo. All four torpedo tubes are destroyed, and pressure doors destroyed. Could not block flooding from tubes : ordered evacuation of Bow torpedo quarters, and pressure door is now closed. Bow torpedo quarters are fully flooded, but ballast tanks are still working, helping level the ship. We have no wounded. 23:42 : We have bottomed the ocean floor. Engines are stopped. Destroyers are circling around and throwing depth charges. Ordered full stop and silence. -- May, 20th 1940 00:10 : Another depth charge close to us. Flooding in bow quarters. Bow torpedo flooding is increasing. We hear their sirens on top of us. 00:14 : Flooding in bow torpedo tubes under control. Damage team working on bow quarters. Raising depth to 30 meters and moving away. 00:17 : Stern is moving up but bow remains on ocean floor. Depth remains at 39 meters. Trying to move the sub up. 00:22 : Warship still running around. No ping, no depth charges. We are waiting. Will have to blow ballast to surface. 01:07 : Blowing ballasts. 01:11 : We are on surface. Ordering full ahead speed. We have three dead : Bootsman Gert Eppen, Matrosengefreiter Henning Hansen and Harald Clausen. Two heavily wounded : Eberhard Hauber and Wilhelm Schulz. 01:39 : Water has been pumped out of Bow Quarters. But we cannot dive again or we will bottom the ship. The Bow torpedo is full of water reducing our speed. Chief engineer is taking care of wounded and then will try to path the Bow Torpedo if possible to increase level of bow. -- May, 21th 1940 08:50 : Chief engineer has finished working on the bow compartement. We have a huge hole on the right, the depth charge must have exploded very close. We have welded metal plates to try to avoid too much water pouring in and slowing us down, but the compartement is flooded. We have moded all recipients we could find, filled with air, to that compartement to level it higher than sea line. Boat is almost level and we are running at 12 knots to Kiel. If any aircraft catches us on surface, we might not make it. -- May, 22th 1940 19:34 : Aircraft attacking us from stern. Ordered flak gun to fire. Speed to flank ahead. -- May, 23th 1940 06:00 We buried at sea our three dead. 11:01 - BdU orders to stop any use of the magnetic pistols henceforth. -- May, 26th 1940 00:52 : We are below 10 % fuel We are 50 Km from Kiel. 03:24 : We have reached Kiel. End of patrol. Sunk 1 tanker 4 cargo ships 1 warship Total tonnage : 26165 tons 3 dead Been awarded Iron Cross, First Class Damage to Uboat has been very high. Hull integrity loss is estimated to 85 % |
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IIDs can, and realy have, done North Atlantic patrols. (And it's a nice boat). |
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