Louvert
06-18-12, 08:53 AM
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Greetings All,
Lt. Cmdr. William Alberts and his crew returned to Pearl early this AM from five months of patrol, (Dec 9, 41 to May 14, 42). Upon returning home we were given three weeks off, and the Commander was presented the Navy Commendation Medal. Now, I need to ask, as I am new to both SH4 and the TMO/RSRDC set-up I ran this patrol in: Is a 29,700 ton total, (6 merchants and a gunboat), a respectable showing? I am manually targeting everything and running the "Realistic" setting in the campaign. However, it feels as if we were either extremely lucky or more adept at evasion than we deserve to be because half of the ships we sank were either in or very near enemy-held ports. Allow me to elaborate.
After Surabaya fell my crew and I were royally PO'd about it so we decided to try a sneak attack on anything that might be parked there. During a storm and under the cover of darkness we crept, submerged, into Surabaya from the east and found a big fat freighter moored along the nearest docks, so we slipped by, lined up our tail, and gave it both tubes and it sunk within a minute. We snuck out the back door to the west and got away as two gunboats chased around behind us trying to figure out where we'd gone.
At Singapore, we slipped in from the south and scored a freighter and a gunboat before running back out the way we'd come, to the relative safety of deeper waters.
And finally, we shot the Bungo Sudio, (or Straits if you prefer), and caught another large freighter at the mouth of Hiroshima Bay, and once more got away undetected.
I'm not saying we didn't have some serious cat-and-mouse with several enemy destroyers, but it just doesn't seem likely that we should have been able to pull all this off unscathed.
Thoughts from some of you veterans of SH4 would be much appreciated.
Cheers!
Lou
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Greetings All,
Lt. Cmdr. William Alberts and his crew returned to Pearl early this AM from five months of patrol, (Dec 9, 41 to May 14, 42). Upon returning home we were given three weeks off, and the Commander was presented the Navy Commendation Medal. Now, I need to ask, as I am new to both SH4 and the TMO/RSRDC set-up I ran this patrol in: Is a 29,700 ton total, (6 merchants and a gunboat), a respectable showing? I am manually targeting everything and running the "Realistic" setting in the campaign. However, it feels as if we were either extremely lucky or more adept at evasion than we deserve to be because half of the ships we sank were either in or very near enemy-held ports. Allow me to elaborate.
After Surabaya fell my crew and I were royally PO'd about it so we decided to try a sneak attack on anything that might be parked there. During a storm and under the cover of darkness we crept, submerged, into Surabaya from the east and found a big fat freighter moored along the nearest docks, so we slipped by, lined up our tail, and gave it both tubes and it sunk within a minute. We snuck out the back door to the west and got away as two gunboats chased around behind us trying to figure out where we'd gone.
At Singapore, we slipped in from the south and scored a freighter and a gunboat before running back out the way we'd come, to the relative safety of deeper waters.
And finally, we shot the Bungo Sudio, (or Straits if you prefer), and caught another large freighter at the mouth of Hiroshima Bay, and once more got away undetected.
I'm not saying we didn't have some serious cat-and-mouse with several enemy destroyers, but it just doesn't seem likely that we should have been able to pull all this off unscathed.
Thoughts from some of you veterans of SH4 would be much appreciated.
Cheers!
Lou
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