Stories and Patrol Logs + Screenshots and Videos (merged) - Page 9

quadraspleen · 03-30-07, 06:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cueceleches

Oh yes, it should! I got my sub sunk a couple of time because of diving in shallow waters!

Well, I've done this twice, now. No damage. When viewed from outside the boat literally passes through the rock..

It's a MagicSub, you know

cueceleches · 03-30-07, 06:56 AM

Wow...Maybe another bug? I got sunk twice yesterday while doing this to avoid detection from a destroyer in shallow waters in Japan. All my crew started screaming alerts all over the ship.

03-30-07, 07:56 AM

@cueceleches

Excellent snaps....some very good camera composition

Deep-Six · 03-30-07, 11:24 AM

I will post some of my screenies soon.

sgt.weasle · 03-30-07, 12:27 PM

I almost felt guilty sailing away.:p

AVGWarhawk · 03-30-07, 12:35 PM

No room onboard. Chew him up in the screws!!!

Wild_skipper · 03-30-07, 02:33 PM

eum on some screenshots i can see the water is transparant but i dont have it

what do i have to put on to have transparant water ?

Dowly · 03-30-07, 03:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wild_skipper

eum on some screenshots i can see the water is transparant but i dont have it

what do i have to put on to have transparant water ?

Enviromental effects must be turned on.

Dane · 03-30-07, 04:32 PM

This is the first time I have tried this on this board so hoping it works. These fellows were doing their best to locate me but I was able to sneak away

Keelbuster · 03-30-07, 04:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dane

This is the first time I have tried this on this board so hoping it works. These fellows were doing their best to locate me but I was able to sneak away

What - only 6 escorts? That's nothing. :p

MikeDixonUK · 03-30-07, 08:18 PM

Scratch one Flattop!

2 Weeks out of Java in the USS S-34, 3rd War Patrol, 1942.

We'd heard in late January that the Japanese we're massing around the Solomon Islands on their way to Australia, After afew days of little action in our Patrol Grid I decided to go have a look to see what all the fuss was about.

There's not much else to tell after that, up until the 15th of Febuary that is...

We were steaming at full speed between the Palau group and New Guineea in the early hours of the 15th, heading towards the Solomons, there'd been a lot of Japanese Air activity during the day so we wanted to get the hell out of Dodge, ASAP...

"Ship's spotted, Medium Range!"

Petty Officer Hogan was pointing at the Horizon, mouth wide open as if it was his first contact on his first Patrol. I had a look and that's when I realised what the commotion was...

Two Genuine Imperial Japanese Navy Fleet Carriers, dead ahead!

"Send an Emergency Message back to HQ! Two Jap' Carriers, full Escort, heading South West!"

I had to tell someone about what we'd seen, we couldn't let a Japanese Carrier group slip through the net, not this close to Australia...

The reply was quick, maybe too quick...

X GOOD FIND. X DO NOT ENGAGE. LEAVE AREA AND RETURN TO BASE. X

Return to base? Two weeks without any action and here I am with a main enemy Carrier group off my Port Bow and they want me to return to Base! Those are the kind of orders that were losing this war for us, and we'd had it...

"Dive, Dive, Dive! We're going in!"

The Boat slipped beneath the waves, ready to pounce.

"Up Periscope!"

I guided us towards the lead Carrier and got set up for an attack.

"Heading... 352."
"Angle on the Bow... 77."
"Range... 900 Yards."
"Speed... 16 Knots"

We let rip a Salvo of all Four Torpedoes... and then the wait...

...

"Hit!"

I heard that word three times, all well spaced hits along her Starboard side, but the Giant was still speeding along as if nothing had happened!

Then finaly the fourth Torpedo arrived on target, a hit to her aft!

She started to slow, a hit in the Engine compartment? Or maybe the screws!

She was dead in the water! The Silver Bullet!

By this time the Escorts were frantically searching the area for me, they didn't have a clue where I was but I dove deeper, the Carrier wasn't going anywhere and I needed to reload my Torpedoes. It would be risky but I wasn't going to let this one slip... I dove as deep as I thought was possible, and there we waited...

What seemed like a lifetime passed as my crew was just finishing tube four, I took her up to Periscope Depth on her port side to see what was happening, She looked as dead as when I left her, but then... 1 Knot... 2 Knots... all the way to 8 Knots!

"Damn it they've started her up again! They can't get away now! Not after all of this!"

I went to Flank Speed and Spun her around full rudder to Starboard, anything just to get one more shot at that beast!

We were nearly in position when the Carrier's Search light hit our Periscope, we'd been spotted...

All of a sudden every Escort in the group turned towards us guns blazing, but none of that mattered anymore.

This was our last chance, we'd either take her down or die trying, and then...

As suddenly as they'd started the Carrier's Engines failed!

"My God! Now! Fire them all, Now!"

I screamed to my crew as we let go our 3 loaded tubes and dove once more out of sight...

"Hit!"

Too soon... a miss-fire? Or an enemy ship screening the Carrier?

Then afew seconds later...

Two more hits!

We heard a ship groaning as it headed towards the Sea bed, but our Celebrations were cut short by the Depth Charges of the Escorts, now out for revenge.

Afew hours passed of loud, but ineffective Depth Charge attacks before I had the courage to surface again.

It was daylight by then and the sea was calm, for once I decided to follow my orders, leave the area and return to Base!

I'm not sure if the ship we sunk was the Carrier, or if it was a Screening unit...

All I do know is that this is the last time I, and indeed anyone, has seen the IJN Hiryū...

flyingdane · 03-30-07, 08:19 PM

Sunsets.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...-2007_13-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...-3-2007_13.jpg

BlackSpot · 03-31-07, 04:54 AM

Rough seas...

(Problem is the boat, at times, is totally out of the water)

Chrall · 03-31-07, 09:32 AM

Can't get much darker.

Gamma 50.

Dizoak · 03-31-07, 12:37 PM

December 14th, 1941

Four days into our patrol of the Luzon Straight, the USS Saury picks up high-speed screws heading right across our path, plotting the intercept tells us that they will pass only 1.5 km away from our bow tubes.

Perfect. The sub sits at periscope depth, skulking, when we spot smoke on the horizon and soon enough, what must have been a surface support group steams into view, 8 destroyers in a wedge formation in front and sides, and forming the center division, two Kongo class battleships and two Takao class heavy cruisers.

Replotting their course, I now found that they would pass away, just out of optimum range at about 2.5 km, so in order to lessen my chances for a dud or prematature explosion, i set a new course....and then my crew kicks the sub into ahead-standard. OH CR*P! all stop! all stop! rig for silent running!

at this point, the three nearest destroyers (apparently not all THAT stupid) kick it into high gear and start pinging me like crazy, as they're closing i line up a shot on the nearest one, open tube 1 and shoot. as soon as tube 1 fires, im lining up shots on the center division, two fish for the Kongo and one for the Takao.

that destroyer cant be more than 800 meters at this point
CRASH DIVE! CRASH DIVE!
as we're sinking rapidly into the black, we hear the first explosion.
then, slightly later as we're leveling off at 60 meters, we hear three more.

i can only say i wish i had taken screenies...cuz you'll never believe any of it.

all my torps hit home. the first destroyer snapped in two and went down in about 30 seconds after impact. the Kongo took two torps aft of the bridge, one of which hit the prop shaft right where it exits the hull tearing a huge freakin hole in engineering, she immediately heeled over to about 20 degrees and went dead in the water, a thick black pall of smoke billowing from her aft gun deck.

i didnt even see the Takao get hit, when i saw the Kongo, i noticed another ship rolling over and heading down, quickly pausing the game for a second i zoomed in and there she was, a huge hole right beneath the bridge.

as i snuck away, the destroyers were trying to DC me to death but i was too deep.

so net total: one of each (DD,CA,BB)

03-30-07, 11:24 AM	#124
Deep-Six Sonar Guy Join Date: May 2005 Location: Dallas, TX Posts: 399 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	I will post some of my screenies soon. __________________

03-30-07, 12:35 PM	#126
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 27,343 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	No room onboard. Chew him up in the screws!!! __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

03-30-07, 04:32 PM	#129
Dane Mate Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Minnesota Posts: 56 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	First time posting a pic This is the first time I have tried this on this board so hoping it works. These fellows were doing their best to locate me but I was able to sneak away

03-30-07, 08:18 PM	#131
MikeDixonUK Swabbie Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 5 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	Scratch one Flattop! 2 Weeks out of Java in the USS S-34, 3rd War Patrol, 1942. We'd heard in late January that the Japanese we're massing around the Solomon Islands on their way to Australia, After afew days of little action in our Patrol Grid I decided to go have a look to see what all the fuss was about. There's not much else to tell after that, up until the 15th of Febuary that is... We were steaming at full speed between the Palau group and New Guineea in the early hours of the 15th, heading towards the Solomons, there'd been a lot of Japanese Air activity during the day so we wanted to get the hell out of Dodge, ASAP... "Ship's spotted, Medium Range!" Petty Officer Hogan was pointing at the Horizon, mouth wide open as if it was his first contact on his first Patrol. I had a look and that's when I realised what the commotion was... Two Genuine Imperial Japanese Navy Fleet Carriers, dead ahead! "Send an Emergency Message back to HQ! Two Jap' Carriers, full Escort, heading South West!" I had to tell someone about what we'd seen, we couldn't let a Japanese Carrier group slip through the net, not this close to Australia... The reply was quick, maybe too quick... X GOOD FIND. X DO NOT ENGAGE. LEAVE AREA AND RETURN TO BASE. X Return to base? Two weeks without any action and here I am with a main enemy Carrier group off my Port Bow and they want me to return to Base! Those are the kind of orders that were losing this war for us, and we'd had it... "Dive, Dive, Dive! We're going in!" The Boat slipped beneath the waves, ready to pounce. "Up Periscope!" I guided us towards the lead Carrier and got set up for an attack. "Heading... 352." "Angle on the Bow... 77." "Range... 900 Yards." "Speed... 16 Knots" We let rip a Salvo of all Four Torpedoes... and then the wait... ... "Hit!" I heard that word three times, all well spaced hits along her Starboard side, but the Giant was still speeding along as if nothing had happened! Then finaly the fourth Torpedo arrived on target, a hit to her aft! She started to slow, a hit in the Engine compartment? Or maybe the screws! She was dead in the water! The Silver Bullet! By this time the Escorts were frantically searching the area for me, they didn't have a clue where I was but I dove deeper, the Carrier wasn't going anywhere and I needed to reload my Torpedoes. It would be risky but I wasn't going to let this one slip... I dove as deep as I thought was possible, and there we waited... What seemed like a lifetime passed as my crew was just finishing tube four, I took her up to Periscope Depth on her port side to see what was happening, She looked as dead as when I left her, but then... 1 Knot... 2 Knots... all the way to 8 Knots! "Damn it they've started her up again! They can't get away now! Not after all of this!" I went to Flank Speed and Spun her around full rudder to Starboard, anything just to get one more shot at that beast! We were nearly in position when the Carrier's Search light hit our Periscope, we'd been spotted... All of a sudden every Escort in the group turned towards us guns blazing, but none of that mattered anymore. This was our last chance, we'd either take her down or die trying, and then... As suddenly as they'd started the Carrier's Engines failed! "My God! Now! Fire them all, Now!" I screamed to my crew as we let go our 3 loaded tubes and dove once more out of sight... "Hit!" Too soon... a miss-fire? Or an enemy ship screening the Carrier? Then afew seconds later... Two more hits! We heard a ship groaning as it headed towards the Sea bed, but our Celebrations were cut short by the Depth Charges of the Escorts, now out for revenge. Afew hours passed of loud, but ineffective Depth Charge attacks before I had the courage to surface again. It was daylight by then and the sea was calm, for once I decided to follow my orders, leave the area and return to Base! I'm not sure if the ship we sunk was the Carrier, or if it was a Screening unit... All I do know is that this is the last time I, and indeed anyone, has seen the IJN Hiryū... Last edited by MikeDixonUK; 03-30-07 at 08:51 PM.

03-30-07, 08:19 PM	#132
flyingdane Weps Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 355 Downloads: 33 Uploads: 0	Sunsets. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...-2007_13-1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...-3-2007_13.jpg __________________ It denos't mtater waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, it's olny iprmoatnt taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelms.Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

03-30-07, 06:56 AM	#122
cueceleches Seaman Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Madrid, Spain Posts: 34 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	Wow...Maybe another bug? I got sunk twice yesterday while doing this to avoid detection from a destroyer in shallow waters in Japan. All my crew started screaming alerts all over the ship.

03-30-07, 07:56 AM	#123
Uber Gruber Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	@cueceleches Excellent snaps....some very good camera composition

03-30-07, 12:27 PM	#125
sgt.weasle Watch Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: creston bc canada Posts: 23 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I almost felt guilty sailing away.:p

03-30-07, 02:33 PM	#127
Wild_skipper Electrician's Mate Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: belgium Posts: 140 Downloads: 96 Uploads: 0	eum on some screenshots i can see the water is transparant but i dont have it what do i have to put on to have transparant water ?

03-31-07, 04:54 AM	#133
BlackSpot Lieutenant Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Shropshire UK Posts: 266 Downloads: 21 Uploads: 0	Rough seas... (Problem is the boat, at times, is totally out of the water)

03-31-07, 09:32 AM	#134
Chrall Sailor man Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Sweden Posts: 46 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	Can't get much darker. Gamma 50.

03-31-07, 12:37 PM	#135
Dizoak Sailor man Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Grid Reference CA Posts: 47 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	December 14th, 1941 Four days into our patrol of the Luzon Straight, the USS Saury picks up high-speed screws heading right across our path, plotting the intercept tells us that they will pass only 1.5 km away from our bow tubes. Perfect. The sub sits at periscope depth, skulking, when we spot smoke on the horizon and soon enough, what must have been a surface support group steams into view, 8 destroyers in a wedge formation in front and sides, and forming the center division, two Kongo class battleships and two Takao class heavy cruisers. Replotting their course, I now found that they would pass away, just out of optimum range at about 2.5 km, so in order to lessen my chances for a dud or prematature explosion, i set a new course....and then my crew kicks the sub into ahead-standard. OH CR*P! all stop! all stop! rig for silent running! at this point, the three nearest destroyers (apparently not all THAT stupid) kick it into high gear and start pinging me like crazy, as they're closing i line up a shot on the nearest one, open tube 1 and shoot. as soon as tube 1 fires, im lining up shots on the center division, two fish for the Kongo and one for the Takao. that destroyer cant be more than 800 meters at this point CRASH DIVE! CRASH DIVE! as we're sinking rapidly into the black, we hear the first explosion. then, slightly later as we're leveling off at 60 meters, we hear three more. i can only say i wish i had taken screenies...cuz you'll never believe any of it. all my torps hit home. the first destroyer snapped in two and went down in about 30 seconds after impact. the Kongo took two torps aft of the bridge, one of which hit the prop shaft right where it exits the hull tearing a huge freakin hole in engineering, she immediately heeled over to about 20 degrees and went dead in the water, a thick black pall of smoke billowing from her aft gun deck. i didnt even see the Takao get hit, when i saw the Kongo, i noticed another ship rolling over and heading down, quickly pausing the game for a second i zoomed in and there she was, a huge hole right beneath the bridge. as i snuck away, the destroyers were trying to DC me to death but i was too deep. so net total: one of each (DD,CA,BB)