Campaign 1

[Keltos]

Battlereport of Heinrich 'Cap' Urban, #1381, host and Br.

 

Campaign mission 1 started at 05.03.2003 at GMT+1 10:30 pm.

 

DD:

Heinrich`Cap`Urban / HMS Cayton Wyke / surv / 1 kill / 1st fleet,desron 6

Smudger / HMS Puffin / surv / 0 kill /

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Safe convoy

 

 

Subs:

Ironwolf / U-31 / kia / 0 kill / 0 tons

Keltos / U-37 / surv / 1 kill / 7176 tons

 

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Convoy started at 05:30 and ended at 07:45.

Weather was calm. Convoy of 2 vessels guarded by 2 DDs steaming with 7 - 8 knts.

 

The destroyers got first sub contact after 06:15 and soon located both subs. Torpedo attacks at 06:26 hit a friendly vessel which didn't belong to the convoy at 06:28 and send it down to the ocean floor. Kill credit to U-37. More torpedoes didn't find their targets and posed a thread to all vessels.

 

Steaming towards contact positions to force the subs down and prohibit more attacks the 2 DDs managed to let the convoy go along.

 

HMS Puffin controled sub U-31 well and held it down but the sub stayed near the convoy.

 

After 07:00 HMS Cayton Wyke left sub U-37. It was more than 4000 yards behind the convoy and so not posing any thread. The 2 DDs had to take care of sub U-31 still in position for a good shot.

 

HMS Cayton Wyke approached and attacked the sub in a first attempt. Both DDs could not prevent the sub to shot a last torpedo which didn't hit. At 7:20 HMS Cayton Wyke rammed sub U-31 and dropped a few dcs.

 

Going after the well hiding and turning sub took another 10 minutes to get into a good position. At 07:29 HMS Cayton Wyke dropped all his remaining dcs and killed U-31.

 

Sub U-37 didn't manage to come near the convoy in time again.

The convoy was safe.

 

Good Game.

 

 

Trovo che la Survival Campaign sia divertente, vedremo se le prossime missioni offriranno le stesse emozioni :s01: :s02: