So frustrating

Saukko · Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 51 Location: Finland

I started a new career with 100% difficulty, my boat was a type IIA and got a pretty good start on my first patrol sinking a small merchant and transport, then I got a radio contact to yet another enemy ship and I managed to find it in a storm (repeteatly diving, stopping engines and listening), and it was a large cargo! I launched my two last torpedoes, both hit but she wouldn't sink. So there I was, a 17000+ ton target dead in the water just begging to be shot, and I don't have any torpedoes left, and I couldn't even use the 20 mm flak because of the storm.

I stayed there for some time but I left eventually. But soon after that I got the "target destroyed" message, nearly two hours after the ship was hit, and I got credits for it!

It is Finnish but ship types a pretty clear, I don't remember better patrol in a type II sub. So I sailed to Wilhelmshaven thinking all the medals and renown...
But when I docked, I got no credits at all! This is the first time that this has happened to me, and it was a such a good patrol, and to make things worse I didn't save during patrol.
Argh, I wanted to kill myself. I think I will start a new career, I don't want to continue that one...

DeepSix · Joined: 27 Mar 2005 Posts: 802 Location: DB22

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but that looks like a German commerce raider; could it be that you sank a friendly?

Einzelganger · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 51 Location: The Netherlands

DeepSix · Joined: 27 Mar 2005 Posts: 802 Location: DB22

No... but I'm not running any merchant mods either. Maybe my eyes are just getting bad as I age.... Very Happy

zzsteven · Joined: 23 Feb 2001 Posts: 155

Sure looks like an English flag to me.

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Keelbuster · Joined: 17 Oct 2005 Posts: 263 Location: TO, ON

Type IIa - is that 3 torpedoes or 5? Either way, that's the reason I can't handle the II. With TW, you might get 1 ship per patrol. Arg.

And, {sigh} I miss the days when a large cargo was 17k. With my mod arrangement (TW), it's like 6k or something. For a while I had a mod setup (rub 1.44?) that gave 17k per large cargo, and I almost sh*t myself when I sunk the first one and saw the tonnage. It was a great time in the channel. Now I'm looking forward to the 8k i get for a Large Tanker.

Kb

U-Bones · Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 56 Location: Ground Zero

[quote="Keelbuster"]Type IIa - is that 3 torpedoes or 5? Either way, that's the reason I can't handle the II. With TW, you might get 1 ship per patrol. Arg.

And, {sigh} I miss the days when a large cargo was 17k. With my mod arrangement (TW), it's like 6k or something. For a while I had a mod setup (rub 1.44?) that gave 17k per large cargo, and I almost sh*t myself when I sunk the first one and saw the tonnage. It was a great time in the channel. Now I'm looking forward to the 8k i get for a Large Tanker.

Kb[/quote

I agree, some tonnage comparisons between ships are comical.

spork542 · Joined: 21 Mar 2006 Posts: 27

17k tons? :hmm: Strange how a T3 tanker is bigger than that yet half the tons. :doh:

Keelbuster · Joined: 17 Oct 2005 Posts: 263 Location: TO, ON

indeed.

Sailor Steve · Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:06 pm Post subject:

WWII aircraft carriers are bigger than battleships, yet displace less tonnage.

It depends on what they're carrying; steel weighs more than oil.

On the other hand, I agree: 17,000 tons was a bit much.

CptGrayWolf · Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 158 Location: Montreal, Canada

Nice screenshot! Thumbs Up

I can feel the rain running down my back.