29/12/2017
Hosted by Phila595
Wolfpack operation, North Atlantic, large escorted convoy out of Halifax bound for Great Britain.
All 3 U-Boote started in reasonable attack positions, Phila595 was furthest west, Gatordad east of his position and Lepper east of Gatordad.
Phila595 launched attack on tanker and had 1 dud and two eels to low and was immediately targeted by one of the escorts, which he tried to lure away from the convoy, it was soon joined by a second with which he had an evasion duel for the next 3 hours.
Gatordad and Lepper led a simultanious attack on a troop ship and tanker with Lepper being successful, Gatordad did infact score a hit on a tanker without success, both were then attacked by escorts, Gatordad and crew fought bravely, but sustained too much damage and was unable to stem the flooding and was unfortunately lost.
Lepper and Phila595 continued their respective duels with two escorts each, Lepper cleverly used a striken cargo ship for shelter, and at strategic moment went to periscope depth and launched a fish sinking one enemy escort.
Phila595 continued to draw the escorts away from the convoy having to evade depth charge after depth charge runs sustaining some conning tower damage, one escort departed back to the convoy leaving Phila595 and Lepper dueling with one escort each, both escorts expended all theyre depth charges, so Phila595 rose to periscope depth and sank a destroyer with one fish, then set course to assist Lepper who had by this time used all of his eels.
In a joint maneuvre Lepper and Phila595 lured the remaining escort into such a position as Phila595 could fire his remaining eels, the first one missing but striking home with the second destroying the escort.
Both U-Boote then surfaced and made for home port, Gatordad, their fallen comrade was toasted on return.
Outcome:
report-data(DELTA): REPORT WELL RECEIVED. DATA OKAY. 
Captain Merchant War Renown Status
Lepper 34276 2500 1460.0 Okay
Gatordad 0.0 0.0 0.0 Sunk
Phila595 0.0 2500 250.0 Okay
