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Post by Stryker on Mar 27, 2005 18:45:55 GMT
How many times have you read this on the various boards .... WAA WAA .. We need a MOD so I can blow up everything  October 2, 1939 U-56 Commanded by Wilhelm Zahn fires a salvo of 3 torpedos at the Battleship HMS Nelson and watches all 3 fail to explode and bounce off the hull.. And you think you have problems ... |
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Post by Stryker on Mar 28, 2005 4:42:13 GMT
Another tale of ARGHHHHH ...
On Sept 14, 1939 U-39 fired 3 torpedos at the Carrier Ark Royal, all 3 exploded prematurely due to magnetic detonators, the U-39 was attacked by 3 DD, forced to surface and scuttled, U-39 became the first Uboat lost in action in WWII
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Post by Dominico Baggio on Mar 28, 2005 6:19:39 GMT
Muhahah that reminds me i thought the ark royal was going to be in this game. How can you have a battle of the atlantic and no ark royal!!!!!!!!  |
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Post by zak on Mar 29, 2005 22:44:14 GMT
It's weird that battleships and carriers don't have names. I sunk a battleship on a mission, think it was Queen Elisabeth, but dunno for sure...
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Post by Stryker on Mar 30, 2005 0:45:37 GMT
I believe the reason for no names.. is that there were NO historical missions to sink battleships etc.. would be a suicide mission
(the only historical mission *and it was considered a suicide mission* was Scrapa Flow, but Prein was expecting the entire home fleet to be at anchor (crappy BDU intelligence based on a fly over the week before), instead he only found the Royal Oak, a WWI Battleship to slow to keep up with the fleet and left behind along with the old aircraft carrier Pegasus, which he thought was the Repulse..
Prien fired 3 torpedos (the 4th tube failed) at the 2 ships and only 1 hit the Royal Oak and exploded, he then began to flee the area but no response came, so he turned and when back to firing position and fired 3 more (all believed to have hit) at the Royal Oak, all exploded .. he then turn the boat out and fled the area again with no response (the British not believing a Uboat could enter the flow had thought it was a boiler explosion..
The sinking of the Royal Oak was a great propaganda tool but was really of very little use to affecting the British fleet
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Post by Balks on Sept 5, 2005 23:01:23 GMT
I just sailed in Scapa Flow in October '39 and there were no ships there.  |
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