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:lol: @ Jim
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U-34 Sept. 25th 1939 06:25 - BF17 - Patrol 3 |
OK...I was just about to get on here and complain. My last seven missions have been in the worst weather I have ever been in. I not talking about the average bad weather that sometimes shows up. It started in late 1940, november I think, and every mission since, I have began and ended in the 1000m-500m visability range.
I thought this is getting old and just before scraping everything I thought " Well If I can not see anything neither can they" So to test my theroy i thought of doing the impossible, daylight surface raid at Gibraltor. Well, I got three south hamptons, a Dortshire, and a j&k. I took no damage. :o Could only see the light house light, and just kept clicking the lock button to find a target. I began the next mission, and LOW AND BEHOLD blue skies, calm weather and my guys threw their wet gear overboard.:sunny: Was it just bad luck all this time or did something get stuck in a loop? My Gibraltor mission was in June of 1941, so i had almost a solid year of crap weather, and NO deck gun. Almost an entire year, i thought i was going NUTS!!!!! |
My attempts to try and complete the war in a XXI have had to start again thanks to a virus on the system, but we're back underway.
Second Patrol - November 1939 Came across a convoy North of Ireland, managed to sneak in on the creepers, and lined up three large merchants and an ore carrier. Decided to go for maximum destruction hopefully to occur simultaneously, so unleashed a total of nine torps on my targets, turned away and started to dive. http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/4179/convoyq.jpg :arrgh!: Convoy was accompanied by just two escorts, and a waste of space submarine. |
U-34 Feb. 9th. 1940 17:54 - patrol 4
Leaving Wilhelmshafen in the sunset for grid AM11. Properly escorted: By Hipper..... U-34 Feb. 12th. 1940 14:49 - patrol 4 - grid AN15 Position: On the North Scottish coast - average-sized convoy approaching from East - the escorts (3) have been taken care of. Going up the middle..... U-34 Feb. 12th. 1940 16:24 - patrol 4 - grid AN15 Better get out of here......a Tribal approaching on the horizon.... Tribal going down........now on to the last floating merchant.... |
oh look....a lonely Vogue Class (carrier)
I already took the escorts and im heading to him with sound homing torpedoes =) no way he's surviving, now that war will be over in less than 4 months http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/t...235455_833.jpg |
Not with the big guns.....?.......:arrgh!:......
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"Das Boot" -sort of moment last night
Set up a textbook attack on a Granville freighter last night. Going to pass 500m off the bow, AOB 90 degrees starboard.
SO calling off bearing... 350...351...352...353... "sound contact lost".:o Pop up the scope... sweep from 0-350...nothing. Cut back to 5-10-15-20... then back to 350...nobody out there.:damn: I thought I was either in "The Final Countdown" or the butt of a conspiracy theory ala "Philadelphia Experiment". :88) Picked him up again visually at 40 degrees or so... didn't feel like creating another intercept so I just sank him with the deck gun. This old Kaleun must need to get his eyes checked, and the SO needs a stern talking to.:D |
U-34 April 3rd 1940 01:09 - North-East Newcastle - patrol 5
Left Wilhelmshafen on the morning of March 29th for grid AN51. Uneventful crossing except observed 3 Tribals on opposite course midway across the North Sea. They didn't see us. Bumped into a small convoy in the assigned grid. Weather was too bad to use DG so spent some valuable torpedoes on some small merchants after first having ambushed the lone escort - a C&D. Then received report of a large convoy coming up the coast. Here is: Should I try to cut in behind the lead escort on the surface or first ambush the escort on the convoy port side. We only have 4 torpedoes left but full complement of DG shells.......:06:....weather has improved....that is, for DG use.... |
I wouldn't be considering using the deck gun with escorts in the vicinity.
Why not pick two juicy merchant targets and give them a couple of eels each then scarper/quit while your ahead :hmmm: |
Had my first successful convoy attack this evening. large convoy with a big juicy Fiji class in the middle.
Decided to send a salvo of four torps off into the area most populated with boats (waited til it got to 0 gyroangle). Every single torp hit and I was already at 70m, bagged an ore carrier and severely damaged a troop transport. Escorts came after me for half an hour, so I popped up after and got one of the Black Swan's returning to convoy, back the escorts came even angrier than last time. 2 hours later I finally pop up lost the convoy, and I pick up a straggling large merchant, 2 torps in his belly and he was a goner. All torps expended we head off back to St Nazaire a happy bunch, certainly makes me feel better after my recent torpedo impact drought. |
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U-34, patrol 5, back in Wilhelmshafen - 90 % HI. |
Operation drumbeat! Off US eastern coast, attacking all ships in sight! Really juicy targets (some still with lights on), no escorts, a few airplanes, that's the deck gun feast!:woot::arrgh!:
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Save your ammo.....long way to replenish....:03:... |
Nov 1942, SE of Sicily. U-371
Encountered a small, 3 ship convoy, escorted by one DD and frigate. I sank 2 ships. It turned out that the escorts are much better than usual. No matter what I did, I couldn't get rid of them. After 2 hours of playing cat and mouse 240m bellow, I was desperate enough to try to go even deeper, down to the very limit. I found the limit at 288m :o, and lost the escorts along the way. The boat sustained some pressure damage, but nothing serious. After that I attack another small convoy and sank both ships (troop ship and landing ship tank). The next day I sank another, larger, troop ship escorted by three destroyers. So far we bagged 44,000t, and the patrol continues, with three eels still left. |
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