Go deep. Stay quiet. Come home.
Command a WWII submarine with a chart, a hydrophone and a periscope.
Command
Three instruments. One boat.
The chart shows a contact but will not name it. The hydrophone hears through the darkness and weather that blind the periscope. The periscope identifies, but raising the mast is the loudest thing you can do.
Going deep and going quiet genuinely works: prop noise, a thermal layer below 150 feet, and a silent-running step for stopped shafts. Run, or hide. You will need both.
Periscope
Periscope steady…
- Range
- 1200 yd
- Bearing
- 087°
- Speed
- 12 kts
- Type
- Cargo
- Status
- Unknown
Sonar
- Contact 1
- 800 yd
- Contact 2
- 1600 yd
- Contact 3
- ----
- Contact 4
- ----
Chart Depth 80 ft
Screenshot to come
Periscope
Hold the glass on a hull for a steady second and a half and she gets a class and a tonnage. Until then she is a bearing, and you are deciding whether that is worth a torpedo.
Screenshot to come
Sonar
It hears straight through the dark and the weather that blind the scope. Contacts light as the beam crosses them and fade behind it.
Screenshot to come
Chart
Zoom, drag and recentre over a real coastline. The chart tells you something is there. It will never tell you what.
Campaign theatres
Mediterranean
6 patrols
Malta, hot waters and heavily escorted convoys.
Atlantic
6 patrols
From the Western Approaches to Biscay and the Channel.
Baltic
6 patrols
Fjords, narrow straits and shallow water. Nowhere to hide.
From the diary
“Time doesn't move right once you're under. Just watch to watch, meal to meal. Same air, same faces.”
- The crew
- The heat
- The pubs
- The birthdays
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