Welp...I died for the first time.

Sunfighter · 03-08-10, 11:19 PM

Came upon this lovely unescorted group during my carrier hunt mission. Tons and tons of lovely targets, and of course I had full deck gun and torpedo ammo. There only defense was light machine gun fire and blinding spotlights at me.

I sunk nearly a dozen of them. After nearly 2 hours of toying with them I had 1 torpedo left. I tried for a one hit wonder on a large tanker, took it down to a tiny sliver of life annoyingly. But i figured oh well. Ill pack it up and head home with a nice haul. I start to plot course out of there not really paying attention to what was going on in real time. As im plotting course lines all the way back to Germany. I hear burning slightly...and then the sound of a tanker engine.......then the screeching metal of a tanker ship ramming me and sending me to my doom.

Too be honest this is the second time a tanker has taken aim to ram me, the first time i moved out of the way just in time, This one though, after i bagged a lot of kills (didnt save of course inbetween)...got that convoys revenge. It is a sad state for the game that I am more afraid of tankers then destroyers...but that is the case. Wonder if I will ever run into such a meaty convoy again. Look at that.....NO ESCORTS! ARG!

Arclight · 03-08-10, 11:42 PM

You don't fear escorts because you avoid them.

At least tankers don't have high calibre weapons, depth-charges or make 35 knots.

The 1 time I got killed was after attacking a convoy in shallow water. DD picked me up on active, and rammed the CT on his run. Had to surface due to flooding, got wasted on the surface.

Nick Holden · 03-08-10, 11:45 PM

Your laser target designator made it easy for them to line you up.

Bubblehead1980 · 03-08-10, 11:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Nick Holden

Your laser target designator made it easy for them to line you up.

that can be turned off right? Did u boats attack on surface when it was still light out?

malkuth74 · 03-09-10, 12:44 AM

Yeah watch merchants. They have tried to ram me dozens of times. Just get out of the way and you will be all set.

Also If they see your periscope and your causing damage to others, they will try to ram you that way too. Almost was rammed at periscope depth once when I was busy concentrating on killing a bunch of others. Then I was looking around and noticed a big transport about 300 meters away heading right for me. LOL.

Good stuff.

03-08-10, 11:19 PM	#1
Sunfighter A-ganger Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 78 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Welp...I died for the first time. Came upon this lovely unescorted group during my carrier hunt mission. Tons and tons of lovely targets, and of course I had full deck gun and torpedo ammo. There only defense was light machine gun fire and blinding spotlights at me. I sunk nearly a dozen of them. After nearly 2 hours of toying with them I had 1 torpedo left. I tried for a one hit wonder on a large tanker, took it down to a tiny sliver of life annoyingly. But i figured oh well. Ill pack it up and head home with a nice haul. I start to plot course out of there not really paying attention to what was going on in real time. As im plotting course lines all the way back to Germany. I hear burning slightly...and then the sound of a tanker engine.......then the screeching metal of a tanker ship ramming me and sending me to my doom. Too be honest this is the second time a tanker has taken aim to ram me, the first time i moved out of the way just in time, This one though, after i bagged a lot of kills (didnt save of course inbetween)...got that convoys revenge. It is a sad state for the game that I am more afraid of tankers then destroyers...but that is the case. Wonder if I will ever run into such a meaty convoy again. Look at that.....NO ESCORTS! ARG!

03-08-10, 11:42 PM	#2
Arclight Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Land of windmills, tulips, wooden shoes and cheese. Lots of cheese. Posts: 8,467 Downloads: 53 Uploads: 10	You don't fear escorts because you avoid them. At least tankers don't have high calibre weapons, depth-charges or make 35 knots. The 1 time I got killed was after attacking a convoy in shallow water. DD picked me up on active, and rammed the CT on his run. Had to surface due to flooding, got wasted on the surface. __________________ Contritium praecedit superbia.

03-08-10, 11:45 PM	#3
Nick Holden Swabbie Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Santa Cruz Mountains Posts: 8 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Your laser target designator made it easy for them to line you up. __________________ USS Sea Tiger - "We sunk a truck!"

03-09-10, 12:44 AM	#5
malkuth74 Sonar Guy Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 377 Downloads: 20 Uploads: 0	Yeah watch merchants. They have tried to ram me dozens of times. Just get out of the way and you will be all set. Also If they see your periscope and your causing damage to others, they will try to ram you that way too. Almost was rammed at periscope depth once when I was busy concentrating on killing a bunch of others. Then I was looking around and noticed a big transport about 300 meters away heading right for me. LOL. Good stuff. __________________