Funniest SH4 Moment

[0167]

i'm just curious, being noob and all, but what is the funniest thing that happend to you while on patrol in SH4. Can be any nation, any boat, any circumstances, so basically, anything goes! post pics if you want.

[magic452]

Funny I'm not so sure. Stupid very much so.

I had just loaded TMO and was getting a handle on all the new keyboard and new buttons. Came across "Set Planes for deep dive" Wonder what this does? CLICK It dives the boat with no limit, no problem right? Just level the boat out Right? Wrong I was at 32X time compression and found myself at 700+ ft. before I could level out. Somehow I didn't die but made it to the surface with no damage.

In stock the "E" key is emergency surface, hit it instead of "W" and surfaced right in front of a IJN task force. Didn't survive that one.
Disabled the "E" key right afterwords.
In TMO the "E" key cycles the aft tubes, set up a stern shot. Fire 7;
Fire !: Fire 2, what the heck, I had hit "W" by mistake.

There is a small island at the entrance to Pearl (I think) ran into it not once but twice???????? Did I mention I am a slow learner?

Got a couple years experance under my belt and don't make those kind of mistakes anymore.

Magic

[Rockin Robbins]

Asashio goes for a loop (http://www.filefront.com/13327297/Closeup_Asashio_goes_for_9.wmv). I was testing my Slightly Subnuclear Cutie...:D

[Torplexed]

Making the mistake of thinking Japanese merchants are unarmed at the beginning of the war like the Allied ones...:D

[FADM Gryphon]

I've made that mistake.

[DarkFish]

Asashio goes for a loop (http://www.filefront.com/13327297/Closeup_Asashio_goes_for_9.wmv). I was testing my Slightly Subnuclear Cutie...:D
yeah modding can have great effects:)
A while ago when I was trying to make playable depth charges I got some funny problems: 1st I had premature detonations, causing my small flower CO to make pirouettes. It just kept turning around standing on its bow for about 30 secs before sinking.
When I had finally solved that problem all DCs I launched turned around when sinking, eventually ending up flying to the moon.
I managed to dig up some screenshots:
http://i525.photobucket.com/albums/cc333/DF_3852/SH4Img2008-08-21_134725_453.jpg
http://i525.photobucket.com/albums/cc333/DF_3852/SH4Img2008-08-21_151938_765.jpg

My funniest moment on patrol probably was a time when some stupid Japanese destroyer captain thoughtlessly raced towards my presumed position, not noticing the rest of the convoy was in its way. It caused a massive traffic jam all the way up to tokyo, giving me a great chance to pick out a few extra targets as none of the ships could move an inch without colliding.

[donut]

Took damage to aft.torp compartment, flooded, sub at 45% bow out of water, fired, fish jumped out of tube in to air,& hit target.:woot:Happened to quick for screen shot ,sorry but amazing !:timeout:

[Kloef]

Forgetting the actual distance(too busy with TDC) to my target and actually hitting/ramming it,as i like to creep up close this has happened to me on numerous occasions..:oops:

Refeulling at Midway and not payed attention to the plotted course,on TC and getting an enourmous framedrop near Midway not being able to stop it only by pressing an F key and get lucky,ramming into Midway and losing the boat..:damn:

Shooting an aircraft out of the sky with the Deck Gun:rotfl:

In multiplayer have both of my rudders destroyed,only able to move forwards and backwards and killing my friend with a runaway circling torpedo as he closed in to humiliate me..:rock: the silence on TeamSpeak was priceless!

Marines on a special mission,to test the new model midget sub:


http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g171/Kloef/KayakMarines.jpg

[Mush Martin]

Well it wasnt in game it was when my first prototype
Battle Flag came in from DT. with a subtle satirical homage
in it somewhere.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e368/MartinPicfix/30303030.jpg

BTW I'm Back

[Mush Martin]

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e368/MartinPicfix/HalClassPeri.jpg

[The Fishlord]

A ship hit my torpedo. No...it didn't blow up the ship. The ship hit the torpedo, side on. Don'tt hink I have a screenie of it though...Aimed it right at a juicy freighter, piled high with ammuntion, and some other idiot tries to cut across my bows after firing. I hear that dull clang and an explosion a few seconds later...

[Capt.Warner]

Well one time I was playing expansion pack and a bomber was coming at me and shot it down and paused me game and when I came back the plane collided with my sub.it was not pretty,what are the odds!!!!LOL

[Armistead]

Talk about modding, after playing around this carrier did fine until I attacked it, then it bounced around forever before sinking.

http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/uu235/Armistead1424/SH4Img2009-07-17_013102_656.jpg

[FADM Gryphon]

I started this campaign with the Tang and knew is real life she was lost and I have been waiting for the following message. ComSubPac has sent me a message stating I am over due and presumed lost. I hate to tell them but I am exactly where they sent me area A5 to patrol a 108nm for the next four days. All joking aside, a moment of silence for the USS Tang SS-306 and her crew on eternal patrol.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=59&pictureid=404

[Sledgehammer427]

Actually, most of my funny SH4 moments happen in RL...while playing SH4...
lets see...
RFB once got me so jumpy...my phone rang next to my hand and i jumped, resulting in me falling off my PC chair to my friends death by laughter

When eating dinner downstairs, I live on the upper floor, I would leave my volume turned up to the point where I could hear it downstairs, Imagine my parents' confusion when you would hear a muffled "ship spotted" followed by their son setting his food down and tearing up the stairs

I once forgot to reset my X-Y coords when i would import a model so i would load up the game and discover to my horror that my sub is sticking halfway out of the water:o

EDIT:
@Mush, i fell out of my chair laughing when i saw that picture, thats a movie you really only want to see twice.

[Prophet]

Mine was funnier more for the others in the room at the time than me, although I did laugh later.

I had gotten pounced on by a pair of Vals, so I was darting around while my AA crew tried to pick them off. They got one pretty good and sheared off its tail, so that it started spiraling in. I was on the bridge doing evasive maneuvers at the surface, just concentrating on the rudder control, when all of a sudden the Val that had just got shot down crashes right into my bow, cartwheels into the air, then comes back down and hits the sea. It freaked my out, just hearing the totally random loud CLANG and then seeing the Val spinning comically in the air, but I immediately assumed I'd taken damage and went to check. There was no damage though, I guess "debris" and things like that don't constitute things that can damage your boat, fortunately (or unfortunately, for the realism).

Also, my brother happened to be in the room watching when all this happened. He was on the floor laughing.

[Anthony W.]

Yep, I ran out of AA ammo with a bomber attacking... So I made good use of the deck gun.

I took a lot of hits on the bow and went to periscope depth. I didn't stop diving nose first. Emergency surface didn't work. At about 436 feet I took a gamble. I leveled the plains and went to back emergency, and I backed out of the water.

I sank two ships with one torpedo when 2 destroyers were going to make a formation attack. I took out the steering of 1 ship and the other one slammed into it; snapping them both in half.

[magic452]

Anthony W Good hit, but strange. Only yesterday I had a 7,000 ton freighter T bone a DD and both sailed on as if nothing happened.

I'll post a pick later if I have time.

http://i621.photobucket.com/albums/tt296/Magic452/Tboned.jpg

Magic

[magic452]

Here is an odd one.

http://i621.photobucket.com/albums/tt296/Magic452/TwoShips.jpg

Magic

[Anthony W.]

Wow. This was weird. Some sloop rammed me and I immediately sank with almost no damage.

I had a boat capsize and I waited for an hour and it just mooned me(lol). I even sailed between the masts. I had to put 4 torpedoes into it to finish the job.

I hit a destroyer with an ADCAP and it did a stern stand but never totally sank because the water was too shallow; just stood there with the bow sticking straight up out of the water.

I ran aground and the destroyer followed suit.

I had 6 of 6 torpedoes fail to explode.

I got up to 21kts and jumped a capsized ship.

A ship sank on top of me.

I launched a tomahawk from a Walther by some odd occurrence.

[Prophet]

I just had one the other day.

Was coming up on a 2-freighter convoy, had only 3 torpedoes left after a hectic patrol, so I had every intention of sneaking up behind them and taking them down with the deck gun.

Well, at some point the convoy changed course on me, and when I decided to surface and start blasting I was suddenly at 90 degrees to their collective starboard. Oops.

Well of course the lead freighter is armed, so I quickly evade to port to get out of view of the gun. In the process of turning I thought it best to get some rounds on that lead ship and make things easier when the time came. So I clicked to the deck gun, aimed at the ship, and hit spacebar. Suddenly I hear "Firing tube 4!"

Come again?

Turns out I didn't go to the deck gun station, just single-clicked the icon and started aiming with the binoculars from the bridge (where I had been before). Oops x2. No, I'm not an idiot. Yes, I am pretty absent minded.

Lo and behold, here comes the second freighter right across my bow. I'm still hard to port, and I'm afraid that I might hit the thing, but suddenly it explodes and I hear "Torpedo impact!" It was hit right in the midsection below the engine room, and it was sunk in about 20 seconds.

If only I could have turned around to the deck watch and said "I meant to do that!" :har:

[moha14881]

Talk about modding, after playing around this carrier did fine until I attacked it, then it bounced around forever before sinking.

http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/uu235/Armistead1424/SH4Img2009-07-17_013102_656.jpg

At the very least there are no aircraft still stuck by super duper glue on the deck!!!:k_rofl::k_rofl:

[Sailor Steve]

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a325/SailorSteve/ThreadNecromancy_zps88ed9d33.jpg (http://s14.photobucket.com/user/SailorSteve/media/ThreadNecromancy_zps88ed9d33.jpg.html)