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[Havan_IronOak]

Finally settled on using the following mods for this campaign.

Improved Stock Environmentv2
Dark Recognitionmanual
Max Optics IV for SH4 1.5
OM_SH3_Command_Keys (from the OpMun mega mod)
3000 Meter Bearing Tool (1920x)

It all seemed to work great in a mini-test, so i started a real u-boat campaign.
First T3 Tanker I encountered I got to within 1000 Meters and couldn't lock on target - too foggy!
Even though I'd opted for assisted-targeting I adjusted using manual controls and got 2 for 2 hits.
Of course, being that close it was easier.

Next contact, another T3 Tanker still too foggy, 2 misses outta 2 surfaced and gunned em down.
If I couldn't see them, they couldn't see me well enough to target guns. Not a single shot returned.

Third contact two large freighters.
Set up on auto (lock worked fine once the fog cleared) fired on first and set up a solution on second.
As I was finishing set up for second, planes dove in and sank both ships! I was robbed!

I'm STILL not sure that my assisted targeting is working as planned but... on with the voyage.
Gives a whole new meaning to "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead"

btw... the u-boat captain's name is Alex T Sinkstöff

[Spraug]

Originally Posted by Hambone307

After picking off 13,000 tons of merchant shipping and 1 Betty, we returned home with our torpedo reserves exhausted. The Admiral was less than satisfied when he saw the condition of the boat and the kill list. He court marshaled me on the spot, stripped me of my command, and threw me in the brig to think about my failure while I await my court hearing.

Not that that helps, but I thought you did quite well. No idea what the brass expected, though. Maybe you got too familiar with someone's daughter in your career before you got that command and they wanted to get rid of you. So they give you a suicide mission and when you still come back, they kick you out.

[Sniper297]

Second patrol out of Manila in a Sargo class ran across a task force 250 miles east of Saigon;

Starboard column 1 FUSO BB 1 ISE BB 1 medium tanker
Center column 1 FUSO BB 2 SHOKAKU CVs
Port column 1 large tanker 1 MOGAMI CA 1 FURUTAKA CA

Maneuvered between center and starboard tracks facing about 45 degrees off course to fire stern tubes first, the escorts had decided to do sweeps instead of doing their job screening the task force, so the front was wide open - no destroyers even in sight. Game plan was to fire one stern tube each at the two SHOKAKU carriers then two at the center FUSO, shift to bow tubes hanging a hard right to fire two at each of the starboard column BBs. FUSO leading the center column saw my periscope and turned on a searchlight so there went the plan.

Fired one at the first SHOKAKU anyway, then three at the center FUSO, then followed the rest of the plan and fired two each at the FUSO and ISE in the starboard column. Went deep to reload. Two hits on the center FUSO, third fish missed astern and hit the first SHOKAKU instead. Meanwhile the one I fired at the first SHOKAKU missed her astern and hit the second SHOKAKU instead. I think I got at least one hit on each of the two BBs in the starboard column, but in all the confusion it could have been two on each, three on one and one on the other, or two on one, one on the other, and the fourth missing both and hitting a tanker or something instead.

After reloading came back up and fired at a FUSO, missed and hit a MOGAMI instead. Fired another at a FURUTAKA and missed, that one hit a SHOKAKU and sank it. Fired a second at the FURUTAKA and hit, stern tubes at another SHOKAKU and another FUSO.

Eventually fired 20 of 22 fish, 21 hits and one miss if you don't count the misses that got lucky and hit something that was overlapping behind the actual missed target. Sank 2 FUSO, 1 ISE, 2 SHOKAKU, 1 FURUTAKA, 1 MOGAMI, and apparently somehow sank a FUBUKI destroyer in the process. Nearly 40 minutes running around the middle of this task force before the first destroyers showed up so not many depth charges and only light damage.

I'd rather be lucky than good.

[Hambone307]

Originally Posted by Spraug

Not that that helps, but I thought you did quite well. No idea what the brass expected, though. Maybe you got too familiar with someone's daughter in your career before you got that command and they wanted to get rid of you. So they give you a suicide mission and when you still come back, they kick you out.

Well, after the admiral caught me with his daughter and I got my mission orders, I figured that he was punishing me in the worst way possible. I had hoped the tonnage I brought back would be the ticket I needed, but after scrapping my boat, not completing my mission, and losing so many crew, court martialing me was a much sweeter revenge than simply writing "KIA" in my profile!

[Spraug]

Originally Posted by Hambone307

Well, after the admiral caught me with his daughter and I got my mission orders, I figured that he was punishing me in the worst way possible. I had hoped the tonnage I brought back would be the ticket I needed, but after scrapping my boat, not completing my mission, and losing so many crew, court martialing me was a much sweeter revenge than simply writing "KIA" in my profile!

I knew it!

[LUKNER]

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[Leandros]

I'm new to SH4 - I have played SHIII for some years. I'm mainly interested in using the ME to create some particular pictures and scenarios. What I found interesting was that there are torpedo planes - never found that in SHIII.

I wasn't sure if they actually worked but I've had it confirmed now after a lot of trial and error. A couple of Pictures below:

Hit:



Going down:



It was a torpedo hit - not a bomb!:



I wasn't aware that the USAF flew Lancasters in the Pacific..........Which amplifies my disappointment on the relatively sparse aircraft inventory in SH4. This one ditched:





Fred

[Crannogman]

Originally Posted by Leandros

I'm new to SH4 - I have played SHIII for some years. I'm mainly interested in using the ME to create some particular pictures and scenarios. What I found interesting was that there are torpedo planes - never found that in SHIII.

I wasn't sure if they actually worked but I've had it confirmed now after a lot of trial and error. A couple of Pictures below:

Hit:



Going down:



It was a torpedo hit - not a bomb!:



I wasn't aware that the USAF flew Lancasters in the Pacific..........Which amplifies my disappointment on the relatively sparse aircraft inventory in SH4. This one ditched:





Fred

Nice! But that's probably a B-24 Liberator - with the horizontal stabilizer lowered, dorsal gunner moved aft...

[TorpX]

I wasn't aware that the USAF flew Lancasters in the Pacific..........Which amplifies my disappointment on the relatively sparse aircraft inventory in SH4.

RSRDC adds a number of aircraft models to the game.

[Leandros]

Originally Posted by TorpX

RSRDC adds a number of aircraft models to the game.

Thank you - what is RSRDC, please?

Fred

[Leandros]

Originally Posted by Crannogman

Nice! But that's probably a B-24 Liberator - with the horizontal stabilizer lowered, dorsal gunner moved aft...

I'm afraid it's not. It's a Lancaster - nice, too. With its typical raised cockpit, Merlin inline V-engines and the horizontal stabilizer well forward of the B-24's. Not so easy to see in the picture but quite clear in the air.

Fred

[Leandros]

More on the plane types: I Believe they use the Vindicator as dive bomber and torpedo plane. More correct would have been the Dauntless and Devastator. This scenario was in January '42.

I have version 1.4.0

Fred

[TorpX]

Originally Posted by Leandros

Thank you - what is RSRDC, please?

Fred

RSRDC is Run Silent Run Deep Campaign. There are separate versions for stock, RFB, and TMO mods. I don't know if it can be used with v1.4, though.

[Armistead]

should be a version of rsrd for 1.4 in the mods dl. Was also TMO 1.4 there as well....

[depthtok33l]

Sōryū Carrier docked in Hiroshima


Torpedoed!


Goodnight Irene!