Whermacht02
06-11-2006, 09:00 AM
Hello everyone. This is the first thread that I open. And i want to share this with you, my fellow captains. I've been playing this game for around 3 or 4 months now. I enjoy every minute of it, but until now, I was only able to find lone merchants and convoys. But yesterday... Ohh yesterday.
I set out from Brest on june 1944 (dont remember the exact date). I have a Type IXC and i was going to patrol around AM27. A few hours (game time) into the patrol, i was going though the south-east corner of BF15, when my radioman warned me of a radar contact. I usually find lone merchants on that area, so I diverted from my original route and went to check the contact. Suddenly, my watch officer screams "VISUAL CONTACT - 025 DEGREES!!". I check on that with my UZO and I was able to find a lone ship, different from the ones that I've been atacking so far. As i got closer, I noticed that I found a lone PASSENGER LINER!!! 24000 tons of steel, sitting in front of my U-Boat. Like never before, my mouse and my fingers where lightning-quick to assign crew to my deck gun. I got up to 1000 mtrs and started firing AP rounds at the water line. After 16 shots, the liner was already listing to the left, so to save ammo, i turned on the time comp. The liner listed more and more, but it would not sink. After those 16 shots and 1:30 hours of time compression, the bastard was still afloat. So i decided to go around, to the other side. When I reached my position I started firing AP rounds again. After the first 3 shots, my watch officer spotted inbound planes: 4 Sunderlands. I thought "damn, this cant be happening now, not right now with this BIG LINER here...". So, instead of diving and leaving to safety, I stood there to fight for my war trophy. I quickly placed my 4 flakgunners on their stations and stoped firing to the liner. I ordered FIRE AT WILL to the flakgunners, while I took comand of my twin 3.7cm flak. We where able to shoot down the first Sunderland off a distance. The second was also destroyed but on its way down, it made a kamikaze run to my aft quarters. Luckily, he failed miserable and crashed short, some 10 mtrs behind my boat. The other 2 were able to make their runs. One bomb hit my aft quarters and the other hit near the conning tower, giving that "screen blurred" effect. Now i was having a total adrenaline rush!!!. When they came back for their second run, both Sunderlands where filled with lead!!. After assembling some damage control parties and repairing the sub, I went to get my trophy. I made 10 more shots to the liner, and put on the time comp. The list that he had to the left started to be corrected because of the holes that I made on her right side... After a while she started to sink, I mean she was going down like a U-boat that is doing dive procedures. When the water reached the deck, the aft started to came out of the water like in titanic. Wow, what an amazing view. I carried on with my patrol, sinking 14 other ships. I still have 9 fishes and 20 HE rounds, so the death toll can go up a little bit more. But the rest of the patrol was nothing compared to my encounter with that liner!!!
Now, let me apologize for the length of this post, but I wanted to put the biggest amount of detail on this. And I also know that this may be boring to some of you (the more experienced ones), but it was a great thrill to me!!! Thnx for your time reading this!!!
P.S.: By the way, does anybody know if there is a mod that will ONLY increase the amount of warships - task forces on the game?? Im happy with the game as it is, I have only added a few mods (Merchan variety pack, Full vulnerability mod), but i want to came across a lot more of warships, perhaps BB or CV groups.
I set out from Brest on june 1944 (dont remember the exact date). I have a Type IXC and i was going to patrol around AM27. A few hours (game time) into the patrol, i was going though the south-east corner of BF15, when my radioman warned me of a radar contact. I usually find lone merchants on that area, so I diverted from my original route and went to check the contact. Suddenly, my watch officer screams "VISUAL CONTACT - 025 DEGREES!!". I check on that with my UZO and I was able to find a lone ship, different from the ones that I've been atacking so far. As i got closer, I noticed that I found a lone PASSENGER LINER!!! 24000 tons of steel, sitting in front of my U-Boat. Like never before, my mouse and my fingers where lightning-quick to assign crew to my deck gun. I got up to 1000 mtrs and started firing AP rounds at the water line. After 16 shots, the liner was already listing to the left, so to save ammo, i turned on the time comp. The liner listed more and more, but it would not sink. After those 16 shots and 1:30 hours of time compression, the bastard was still afloat. So i decided to go around, to the other side. When I reached my position I started firing AP rounds again. After the first 3 shots, my watch officer spotted inbound planes: 4 Sunderlands. I thought "damn, this cant be happening now, not right now with this BIG LINER here...". So, instead of diving and leaving to safety, I stood there to fight for my war trophy. I quickly placed my 4 flakgunners on their stations and stoped firing to the liner. I ordered FIRE AT WILL to the flakgunners, while I took comand of my twin 3.7cm flak. We where able to shoot down the first Sunderland off a distance. The second was also destroyed but on its way down, it made a kamikaze run to my aft quarters. Luckily, he failed miserable and crashed short, some 10 mtrs behind my boat. The other 2 were able to make their runs. One bomb hit my aft quarters and the other hit near the conning tower, giving that "screen blurred" effect. Now i was having a total adrenaline rush!!!. When they came back for their second run, both Sunderlands where filled with lead!!. After assembling some damage control parties and repairing the sub, I went to get my trophy. I made 10 more shots to the liner, and put on the time comp. The list that he had to the left started to be corrected because of the holes that I made on her right side... After a while she started to sink, I mean she was going down like a U-boat that is doing dive procedures. When the water reached the deck, the aft started to came out of the water like in titanic. Wow, what an amazing view. I carried on with my patrol, sinking 14 other ships. I still have 9 fishes and 20 HE rounds, so the death toll can go up a little bit more. But the rest of the patrol was nothing compared to my encounter with that liner!!!
Now, let me apologize for the length of this post, but I wanted to put the biggest amount of detail on this. And I also know that this may be boring to some of you (the more experienced ones), but it was a great thrill to me!!! Thnx for your time reading this!!!
P.S.: By the way, does anybody know if there is a mod that will ONLY increase the amount of warships - task forces on the game?? Im happy with the game as it is, I have only added a few mods (Merchan variety pack, Full vulnerability mod), but i want to came across a lot more of warships, perhaps BB or CV groups.