Stories and Patrol Logs + Screenshots and Videos (merged)

[Nokia]

Well it's time again for me to spam this thread
Here is some pics i have taken recently.

[Lagger123987]

Originally Posted by Nokia

I love the is peeture!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!

[Elder-Pirate]

Made in America.



Cant say that about much here in the States anymore.

[sqk7744]

Originally Posted by Incandescent

Can someone help me find a software peice which allows me to record from the screen and audio too?

Thanks.

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Are you looking for:
FRAPS video capture http://www.fraps.com/

[sqk7744]

Originally Posted by Nokia

Well it's time again for me to spam this thread
Here is some pics i have taken recently.

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Hmmm, looks like a top secret towed array

[AVGWarhawk]

Some truly awesome screenshots fellas. I swiped a few for my desktop

Keep'em coming!

[bookworm_020]

Great pics guys! It makes me drool to play the game (my computer is in storage as I just got married)

[sqk7744]

Originally Posted by bookworm_020

Great pics guys! It makes me drool to play the game (my computer is in storage as I just got married)

Does the storage unit have an outlet and wifi?

Best of luck m'8!

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by bookworm_020

Great pics guys! It makes me drool to play the game (my computer is in storage as I just got married)

Just married? You won't be playing for a good long while. Took me 13 years to convince my significant other that this is my drug and I need several hours daily to satisfy my cravings.

She went and found a boyfriend Good luck!

[DS]

Diary of Lt. Cmdr. Hinman, USS Bowfin
88% realism with manual TDC, using Flavoured to Taste and Realistic Battery mods.
(Continued from Above)

January 13, 0028 Hours
Now sitting at all stop on the convoy's new track, waiting for it to come into view. Radar is still tracking them North West of us. The boat is gently riding the swells, the diesels softly murmuring at idle. The smoking lamp is out on deck. I am taking not chances after the last aborted approach.

0035 Hours
Convoy is close enough to dive now. Bowfin quiets slips below the surface and waits, a hole in the water. She is rigged for silent running, at all stop. The only sound is the soft hum of the NAV gyros. Lighting is rigged for red. The entire crew is wondering if Bowfin will take her revenge this time.

0046 Hours
Convoy coming into visual range with the attack ‘scope now. I am slight out of position in relation to the convoys predicted plot, and order back 1/3, “and make that quietly now!’

0105 Hours
Position is good. “All stop!” Starting the plot. Convoy is in same formation, 4 merchants line abreast, trailed by two centred and back, with three escorts arranged at front and sides for formation. According to my plot on the main chart, convoy course is still 155 degrees, speed 9 knots. They are no longer zig-zagging. I decide to take the lead starboard side ship, a medium freighter, and the lead ship one column in, a small freighter. I start the target plots on both. For the first target, when she is at the firing point, the angle on the bow will be starboard 53, range 1nm, speed 9 knots. The chart is a mess of plot and range lines and circles. The targets are approaching the plotted firing points fast. Time is running out. I use the same solution for the second target, adjusting the range by periscope stadimeter.

0115 Hours
Time to shoot! Taking the second target first, as she leads from the aspect of my firing point. Final bearing and range is taken by periscope and fed to the TDC.
“Fire 1! Adjust 1 degree spread left! Fire 2! Adjust 1 degree spread right! Fire 3! Shifting targets to closer target 1! Bearing, mark! Range, mark! Fire 4!” wait… “Fire 5!” wait… “Fire 6!”

All bow tubes are empty, and I go to check the the stop watch when there is a loud CRUNCH, BOOM! First torpedo has hit the far target! Cheers in the boat! I spin the periscope back to that target. There is a small amount of flame and smoke.

CRUNCH, BOOM! A water geyser shoots up, the ship visibly slows, and then another huge explosion (secondary) and fire ball! That ship is done for. The third torpedo does not hit, apparently missing aft.

I put the attack scope back on the near target in time to see torpedo 4 hit her ¼ back from the bow. CRUNCH, BOOM! Another flash, and geyser of water, this time middle of target. Flames and smoke now. CRUNCH, BOOM! Torpedo 6 takes her right in the bow, almost missing forward. The ship explodes and sinks quickly. The time is 0118 hours, 13th of January, 1944. USS Bowfin has made her first kills.

Five out of six hits. Not bad for manual TDC if I do say so myself. I order down scope, ahead 1/3, right full rudder, and take her down to 440 feet. It is time to clear out before the escorts are on me again.

0130 Hours
The escorts seem to be off their game this time. Maybe Bowfin has broken their confidence. There is no pinging, no depth charges. The escorts appear to be manoeuvring about according to sonar bearings, while the convoy continues on. I continue to creep away at 440 feet, ahead dead slow, still on silent running. The crew is all smiles now.

0512 Hours
The convoy has moved on, and are just edging out of passive sonar range. The escorts never found us. I order us to PD for a quick look.

0520 Hours
No ships in sight. Going to radar depth for a sweep. Nothing on radar. “Surface!”

0527 Hours
Convoy regained on radar, 16.2 nautical miles South East of us. The sun will be rising soon, but two Japanese freighters will never see the rising sun again.

The day is young. Bowfin continues the hunt…

[DS]

Sadly, Bowfin was lost less than 6 hours later when, after being forced off the approach on a Fuso Battleship, she came under furious depth charge attack by multiple escorts. She survived the first few rounds unscathed, but a near miss caused flooding in the forward torpedo room as she crept along at 480 feet. Repair teams went to work, and she increased speed to compensate for flooding. A second round of charges proved deadly, destroying a section of hull in the aft torpedo room. No amount of emergency blowing at that point could reverse her slowly sinking, and her hull imploded at 729 feet at 1119 hours, January 13, 1944.

RIP Bowfin.

A sad moment in a great sim.

[AhhhFresh]

I don't know what the policy for linking to other forums here is, but on another gaming website I've started an AAR (actually more of a "during action report" since I'm writing it as I go) for a career in an S-boat starting June 12th 1942 out of Brisbane.

You can check it out here: Oh Sugar!

You'll have to register if you want to make comments in the thread, and all comments are welcome, but you can lurk and read.

[kikn79]

DS,
I love your writing style. I was rivited during the entire story.

Thanks for contributing!!

I am really enjoying everyone's stories. They are very entertaining.

Chuck

[Scheisskopf]

yea DS your stories pwn

too bad about the bowfin too

[Paajtor]