Harbour raiding and the Yamamoto

torpedobait · 05-09-12, 09:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Hylander_1314

This little mod I think can be added to TMO to make Truk a little more interesting.

Truk Corals Harbours Cities Locations

http://www.silenthuntermods.com/foru...php?topic=57.0

That link didn't work for me. Do you have another? Thanks!

torpedobait · 05-09-12, 10:05 AM

January 15-16 at the mouth of Bungo Suido received a strong radar return. Turned out to be Yamato, an Agano light cruiser, and 2 destroyer escorts. I tracked them heading southwesterly at about 18 knots. Before I could race to get ahead of them, the two escorts charged me. I sank one outright as he made a run at a decoy (see, I did learn a lesson about decoys after a bad encounter with Pete), and eventually got the other when he slowed to listen for me. Yamato still showed up on radar so I surfaced and raced after her. Got into position and at 800 yards let go all six bow tubes - 5 hits, 1 dud. Barely slowed her. Fired remaiing 2 stern tubes (all are Mark IVs) at Agano and missed. Dove deep and let Yamato manouver away. Allowing her to move out of visual range, I then surfaced and reloaded bow tubes with last six remaining MK IVs, still running south at all-ahead flank to keep Yamato in radar range. She turned directly south and held course, making only 14 knots now. So I was able to intercept her again. Fired all six tubes at about 750 yards. Six hits, but first four killed her (total of nine hits). Regrettably Agano got away, but it was still a thrill to intercept Yamato. I believe she was on her suicide run to Okinawa but have not tried to verify the dates. What great fun!

WernherVonTrapp · 05-09-12, 01:48 PM

January is too early for operation Ten-Go, the Yamato suicide mission to Okinawa. Okinawa was invaded on April Fools Day (1st) 1945.

Hylander_1314 · 05-11-12, 02:39 AM

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Originally Posted by torpedobait

That link didn't work for me. Do you have another? Thanks!

That is the only one I know of. The zipfile here at Subsim is an empty file.

05-09-12, 10:05 AM	#2
torpedobait Ace of the Deep Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Colorado Posts: 1,058 Downloads: 397 Uploads: 0	Yamato again January 15-16 at the mouth of Bungo Suido received a strong radar return. Turned out to be Yamato, an Agano light cruiser, and 2 destroyer escorts. I tracked them heading southwesterly at about 18 knots. Before I could race to get ahead of them, the two escorts charged me. I sank one outright as he made a run at a decoy (see, I did learn a lesson about decoys after a bad encounter with Pete), and eventually got the other when he slowed to listen for me. Yamato still showed up on radar so I surfaced and raced after her. Got into position and at 800 yards let go all six bow tubes - 5 hits, 1 dud. Barely slowed her. Fired remaiing 2 stern tubes (all are Mark IVs) at Agano and missed. Dove deep and let Yamato manouver away. Allowing her to move out of visual range, I then surfaced and reloaded bow tubes with last six remaining MK IVs, still running south at all-ahead flank to keep Yamato in radar range. She turned directly south and held course, making only 14 knots now. So I was able to intercept her again. Fired all six tubes at about 750 yards. Six hits, but first four killed her (total of nine hits). Regrettably Agano got away, but it was still a thrill to intercept Yamato. I believe she was on her suicide run to Okinawa but have not tried to verify the dates. What great fun! __________________ Run Silent, Run Deep, and Sink 'em All

05-09-12, 01:48 PM	#3
WernherVonTrapp Admiral Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Now, alot farther from NYC. Posts: 2,228 Downloads: 105 Uploads: 0	January is too early for operation Ten-Go, the Yamato suicide mission to Okinawa. Okinawa was invaded on April Fools Day (1st) 1945. __________________ "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." -Miyamoto Musashi ------------------------------------------------------- "What is truth?" -Pontius Pilate