Guns, photon torpedoes, & Mios
 

Hi, I'm on my first SH4 career and, glitches aside, greatly enjoying it. I've been looking forward to upgrading to a 5" gun and the Mk 16 torpedo and finally received the former on this patrol. It took a failed mission to Penang (grrr) and circumnavigation of Japan from Fremantle to finally find a chance to use it, sinking three medium freighters on the Fourth of July just off the entrance to Tokyo Bay.



The power of the surface gunnery is impressive: I've since taken down Large Old Split Freighters and today three Modern Liners with the 5" alone. The two 40mm guns have destroyed several small freighters too. I'd love to try out the 5" on a Huge European Liner if I could ever find one unescorted.

Has anyone managed that?



The reason I attacked a pair of Modern Liners with a deck gun is the glitching of my 1.3 build. The torps take off at light speed and inevitably miss at point-blank range, though not always; the normal speed attacks hit as expected. I can't upgrade to 1.4 or install 1.5 on this laptop. That's being addressed but how can I transfer the current career to 1.5 on another machine?


Last, I chose Mios 4me as a user name because of the incredible convenience of the Mios base. Unfortunately, it really is incredible, because the real Mios Woendi was some 700 miles ESE of the game location. Do any of the upgrades or mods address this?

Are you playing stock game (vanilla) or modded?

Welcome aboard!
 

It's stock 1.3 from Steam (sigh). Simply cannot update it.


re: my earlier comment about gunning a Huge European Liner - according to the captain's log, we did that on a tandem attack with another large passenger carrier. Guess that answers my own question.



Btw, what's with all the angry houseboats hurtling about on fire? I've encountered at least three alone mid-ocean aflame. Once, one exploded directly above me - possibly a friendly fire accident because a plane attacked a couple minutes later.



The recognition guide lists them as gunboats. They look like P.O.ed houseboats outfitted by the NRA to me.



Question: anyone encounter friendlies in a combat zone? I haven't but there was a blue sunken icon near a convoy I shredded. The DDs were late to the show...perhaps someone else pulled them away and paid the price.