There are some minefields round the heligoland area. I got caught with that once aswel. As for the cat on board, bad omen, and a female on board, even worse!!!! Good reading :)
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Last fish Last big kill
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I'm ending my 25th patrol. It's mid Dec 43. I plan to back in port for Christmas.
I have but one fish left in a forward tube. What do you know.... Radio contact large convoy just west of me heading for me. Part of me says...You have one torpedo, this is going to be a well escorted convoy. Do you want the risk or just sail on and find a solo strageler to sink on the way to port.... Or do you risk it? They gave me torpedoes to use on enemy shipping... I turn west and tell my crew we are going in! My sound man tells me of 7 escorts and a warship in the middle of the convoy? What could be in the middle? I proceed with caution. When in position I raise my scope ever so little and there it is... A Bogue class escort carrier! Ah the frustration... Only one torpedo. Must make it count. Target for hull impact at 6m depth just behind the bow area.. Fish away now crash dive! We're going to have LOTS of company in a few minutes. My reward? "She's going down!" Yes one fish the last fish bags me a 15k ton escort carrier and I slink off out of the midst of the convoy to head home victorious... Radian |
U-2502 - XXI - Oberleu z.S. Müller - Nov. 060629 1944 - AN13 - Patrol 7 |
U-2502 - XXI - Oberleu z.S. Müller - Nov. 09 1944 - Bergen - Patrol 7 |
Just after finishing a 40000t patrol with wild forays into CG9x and the Portuguese coast, I tried to reload to discover that the entire save is apparently corrupt since it keeps crashing on my loading attempts.
Oh well, now for another campaign... |
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I found the solution to the other puzzle, too: damage without enemy action. Ahem, if we had proper nautical charts on board, I'd have seen at first glance that the Celtic Sea is only between 50 and 100m deep in many places. I guess we probably hit the sea bottom :oops: Helmut |
Still working on manual attacks. I almost hit a ship on this patrol!
because I was submerged and running flank. damn schooners. |
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U-2502 - XXI - Oberleu z.S. Müller - Nov. 231041 1944 - Bergen Approaches - Patrol 8 |
Admiral Scheer, Septemper 3rd, 1939. We left Wilhelmshaven at midnight on the first and are currently heading towards the entrance of St George's Channel to conduct raids on British shipping. We spotted a tramp steamer on the 2nd but it was Norwegian and didn't attack though Bernard thought we should. Will update if anything happens.
Admiral Scheer, Septemper 4th, 1939. Sunk a small Polish freighter in grid AN 47. We are continuing towards the entrance of St George's Channel and will continue to update as events require. |
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Cool, Admiral - some pictures? |
allright...
my second campaign has startet again 100% we are now in the atlantic north west of england in the deep zone my crew didnt saw so far the enemy we are high motivated with the currently best brand new u-boat the viic and got our own rules at sea we will never use the funk communication and only surface at night me and my crew still ask us why so many country´s declartion of war against our beautiful country... all what we currently do is to be very carefully waiting and of course listen to music watch this >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_bvN...ature=youtu.be << http://s1.directupload.net/images/140107/ochegmww.jpg |
Strange CTD's
My last couple of patrols have been marred by a strange sort of CTD's. Every time a homing torpedo hits a Flower class the game CTD's. On the last occasions I have saved just before impact, started anew after the CTD - the same happens every time. It does not happen when other vessel types are hit or other torpedo types are used on the Flower class. Correction - now it CTD's with all torps hitting a Flower corvette. |
U-2502 - XXI - Oberleu z.S. Müller - May 071400 1945 - Bergen U-boat base |
Nice read.
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6/22/1943
Oblt. Henne, U-507, type: IXC we departed Lorient on the 4/6/1943 and are now cruising in FP47 on our way back home after patrolling our assigned grid GR91 (Capetown). we've never been assigned that far away from Europe and until now we only had little success. 5 lone merchants were downed (we still have 8eels left), but all our usual tactics don't work anymore (sneaking into a convoy between lead escort and first side-escort), because detection abilities have greatly improved. we must adapt and stay outside of convoys and shoot from longer ranges which harms our hit-rates. the times when we sank 10ships or even more a patrol are gone forever. last weeks' radio-messages were even worse than our current situation: many of our Kameraden were lost at sea by escorts and planes. the fate of war has turned against us. yesterday we even lost our skilled flak-gunner (Gefreiter Endelmann) due to an air-attack by a catalina which we assumed to take down. bad, very bad decision made by me. I'm now obliged to explain my misjudging to his parents in a personal letter. very sad task! http://i42.tinypic.com/16jgh11.jpg cruising into sunset http://i42.tinypic.com/152nj3c.jpg my U-boot, she is perfect! |
After nearly two years away I decided to re-install the game. Several hours of screaming at the computer, I finally managed to sort my stupid Win7 problems and get it running with GWX 3.0
I had planned to make a really detailed AAR post but as is usually the case with this game I got engrossed and completely forgot to do it. Oh well, first mission back, Oct 39. 4.10.39. 2205 Grid AN 79 Ship sunk! HMS Birmingham (Southampton class), 10725 tons. Crew: 1092. Crew lost: 633 2212 Grid AN 79 Ship sunk! SS Kana (Tramp Steamer), 2015 tons. Cargo: General Cargo. Crew: 21. Crew lost: 17 2220 Grid AN 79 Ship sunk! HMS Stoke City (ASW Trawler), 1100 tons. Crew: 50. Crew lost: 33 5.10.39. 0544 Grid AN 79 Ship sunk! SS Umkuzi (Large Merchant), 11075 tons. Cargo: Copper Ore. Crew: 103. Crew lost: 23 0643 Grid AN 76 Ship sunk! SS Glen Head (Coastal Freighter), 1869 tons. Cargo: Grain. Crew: 20. Crew lost: 5 0900 Grid AN 84 Ship sunk! MV Warwick Deeping (Small Trawler), 98 tons. Crew: 13. Crew lost: 7 1131 Grid AN 84 Ship sunk! SS Politician (Large Merchant), 11076 tons. Cargo: Wine/Spirits. Crew: 93. Crew lost: 39 7.10.39. 1955 Patrol results Crew losses: 0 Ships sunk: 7 Aircraft destroyed: 0 Patrol tonnage: 37958 tons Not too shabby even if I do say so myself. :arrgh!: |
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I bet your crew had a good celebration following that sinking...:Kaleun_Cheers: KH |
They certainly deserved it heh, I put my last eel and 100+ deck gun rounds in her before she went down.
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For me, it is November 1939. My u-boat is back on patrol after having to abort the previous patrol, due to the radio and sonograph being destroyed, as well as the deaths of the surface watch. I am currently stalking a convoy, plotting targets to sink :arrgh!:
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