Originally Posted by mdewals (Post 1881951) Hello, New captain reporting for duty. Just recently began playing this game and slowly getting the hang of it. Decided to report on my latest mission. Had a really boring patrol out of Brest tp BE59. Spotted nothing in there. Could have stayed longer but what the hey..... Planned a small detour back home by first going ENE towards Ireland and then down again to Brest. Hoping to spot a ship or two. Got a report on a ship and planned an intercept course. At first no contact so returned to plotted course when suddenly: "SHIP SPOTTED!". Down to periscope depth and chased the Coastal Merchant. FYI, this was at night. Went back up and decided to kill it with my deckgun. Started firing the deckgun when suddenly I spotted a second plume of smoke. :o Luckily it was a tanker. to be safe I fired a torpedo to both which both hit their target. The merchant was badly crippled but the tanked barely noticed it. Finished off both with the deckgun and went back home. There another ship was spotted. A Flower class. Back to periscope depth and fire away another torpedo. She never knew what hit her and went down right away. The rest of the trip was uneventfull sadly :( PS: Do you guys stay out much longer then the required 24 hours in your assigned sector??

Originally Posted by VONHARRIS (Post 1881672) Patrols 6 and 7 were a total disaster. Never made it out of port because of engine troubles , damaged and off centered periscopes and ..... many more Patrol 8 results http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/7...ol8results.jpg Patrol log page 1 of 2 http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/8...l8page1of2.jpg Patrol log page 2 of 2 http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/3...l8page2of2.jpg

Originally Posted by Laufen zum Ziel (Post 1882117) Very nice log keeping.

Well, yesterday's mission wasn't exactly a succes but did sink 4 ships.

I installed the Merchant Fleed mod and those baby's need a little more attention to make them go down.:oops:

My hydrophone guy spotted a warship so I dived to PD when suddenly they said they spotted a merchant. The warship wasn't anywhere.
So I pursued the merchant, a M26B. Fired a few torpedo's on it but it wouldn't go down. Then I showed my greenness and surfaced to finish him off with the deckgun.
Little did I know it was armed. And even worse, I suddenly had Clemson destroyed attacking me. Quickly dove to PD and fired my aft torpedo on the Clemson.
Not sure if the torpedo hit him or if we collided but the Clemson destroyer was a goner and I had massive flooding. Stopped it at ~135m and went back up by blowing ballast. Actually by then I discovered the Clemson was sunk:cool:

Back to PD and another round of eels for the merchant which finally sunk.

Continued to my designated area and ran into a M38B merchant. This time took some more interest in her. Fired off 1 eel and turned 180 degrees to fire a aft-eel. Down she went.

back on course navigator!!

Ran into another Clemson. Dove to PD and saw her turning into my direction. Fired 1 eel that missed followed by another that struck her hard, the boat rocked a lot. Still not going down and closing fast, another eel, my last front-eel. Blew the nose right off (not visually :( ) and she went down hard.

With only one eel left I decided to abort the mission and go home to Brest.

11540 tons won't bother me anymore :)

Originally Posted by mdewals (Post 1882423) Well, yesterday's mission wasn't exactly a succes but did sink 4 ships. I installed the Merchant Fleed mod and those baby's need a little more attention to make them go down.:oops: My hydrophone guy spotted a warship so I dived to PD when suddenly they said they spotted a merchant. The warship wasn't anywhere. So I pursued the merchant, a M26B. Fired a few torpedo's on it but it wouldn't go down. Then I showed my greenness and surfaced to finish him off with the deckgun. Little did I know it was armed. And even worse, I suddenly had Clemson destroyed attacking me. Quickly dove to PD and fired my aft torpedo on the Clemson. Not sure if the torpedo hit him or if we collided but the Clemson destroyer was a goner and I had massive flooding. Stopped it at ~135m and went back up by blowing ballast. Actually by then I discovered the Clemson was sunk:cool: Back to PD and another round of eels for the merchant which finally sunk. Continued to my designated area and ran into a M38B merchant. This time took some more interest in her. Fired off 1 eel and turned 180 degrees to fire a aft-eel. Down she went. back on course navigator!! Ran into another Clemson. Dove to PD and saw her turning into my direction. Fired 1 eel that missed followed by another that struck her hard, the boat rocked a lot. Still not going down and closing fast, another eel, my last front-eel. Blew the nose right off (not visually :( ) and she went down hard. With only one eel left I decided to abort the mission and go home to Brest. 11540 tons won't bother me anymore :)

Originally Posted by Dive! Dive! Dive! (Post 1883446) 1940 Day 1: My first patrol! Setting off from st nazaire setting course for the south end of England. After a few sweeps over a large radiance discovered a lone merchant ship. Popped one into it and he was straight to the bottom. When I turned us around to head back to our original patrol route we picked up a contact at around 10-11 at night. After a while of tailing we made visual contact further out to sea at around midnight. Day 2: Continuing with the tailing we later discovered it was a one destroyer heading out across the Atlantic. After a few hours of tailing and crossing the point of no return we fired a torpedo at its stern. The torpedo was a dud and the destroyer was on high alert. After further pursuing the destroyer out onto the Atlantic we sank it with two eels. After discovering this route I took a chance and set us a course across the Atlantic to pick off some cargo ships bound for Britian against orders. Day 3: (current day) A change of course in the Atlantic as we set a course for the "Bermuda triangle" in search of the fabled "ghost ships" at the request of one of my friends. Trying to keep him happy I defied orders and turned my U-boat into a personal yacht. It will still take a while as we are nowhere near halfway.

Originally Posted by brett25 (Post 1882610) june 1942, just made it through gibralta. we are on our way to Libya in support Rommels efforts at tobruk. Will have to refuel at Salamis:salute: