Stories and Patrol Logs + Screenshots and Videos (merged)

[MonTana_Prussian]

Nice one Gunfighter!

This was a dark and rainy night off Palawan passage. I picked him up on radar,but did not get a visual until 500 yards away:




And my new conning tower after a refit in Brisbane,September 6,1943:

[JonB]

I started a new campaign with TMO 1.7.

First mission, I left Manilla port heading north in order to drop off some supplies. As you all know, Manilla is under attack quite early in the game. With this in mind I figuered I might make it up north and back again before the port was lost...

Just about a 100 Nm from Manilla my watchmen spotted a taskforce. O MAN, IT WAS HUGE! I never seen that large taskforce before...
So I reported the contact and dived to periscope depth. I immedietly began lining up for the attack. The taskforce consisted of 3 heavy cruisers (cant remember the name though), about 7 escorts and about 10 frieghters...

When they were in range, I let loose of all my four torpedoes at the first heavy cruiser and then started a U-turn. I scored two hits wich was enough.

As the escorts didn´t know where I was, I unleashed my four stern torpedoes at the second heavy cruiser. This time all hitted.

By this time, the escorts had figuered out where I was and made me dive.
With them all (5 of them) above, I started another U-turn in order to disapear back into the convoy


Sudddenly, I realized that the third, and last, heavy cruiser was within range so I waited untill all escorts were heading away from me, then I ordered "Ahead flank" and "persicope depth". I managed to get to the surface without them reaching me, fired off all bow torpedos wich had been reloading during the time.... "YES!" 3 out of 4 found there target wich ment that the last heavy cruiser was a gonner.

I dove below the thermal layer before ordering "Silent running" and started my route out of there...



After that day, I reloaded and refuled, completed 4 more tasks (all stay within 108 Nm for 4 days) and sank another 9 warships.
All in all, 33.000 tons of warships.


Btw, a question. For all this I got the silver star I think it was. What is the requerements for a gold star???
Coz that was one of my best runs yet. And bloody fun as well...

[MonTana_Prussian]

Question...I've noticed that some of you are able to get really close up SS's,and I can't seem to get closer than the above conning tower shot. Is ther a way to zoom in closer?

[Hmuda]

TMO allows to zoom as much as you want (no limit whatsoever, you can "noclip" through everything if you want to). I'm sure RFB works the same way as well.

[MonTana_Prussian]

Thanks,I'll have to investigate that.

[ShadowHawk]

Hi,

I'm not much of a poster on any forum but I was trying some screenshotting myself and was wondering if they are any good.
My game resolution is 1024/768 and I resized the shots to 800/600

My crew and I on a calm first legg of the patrol:



The prey:



I managed to sink three carriers and a cruiser untill the dd's pushed me down and gave me a real hard time

Cheers and happy hunting

[Ivan Putski]

Nailed a German warship last patrol.

[Hmuda]

Couple of shots I made since my last batch.

"Sumthin down there."








And lastly: a u-boat going to the bottom after getting hit by two of my fishes.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by ShadowHawk

Hi,

I'm not much of a poster on any forum but I was trying some screenshotting myself and was wondering if they are any good.

Any good? The first one is gorgeous, and the second, while not as lovely, is still excellent.

[MonTana_Prussian]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Any good? The first one is gorgeous, and the second, while not as lovely, is still excellent.

I agree very nicely done!

[Red Devil]

Damn! Spotted a Task Force on my radar, did an end around set up lovely to find





A US Task Force!! Solomon Sea south of Rabaul. Feb 1943

[Sailor Steve]

"General quarters! General Quarters! All hands man your battle stations!"

[magic452]

A very brief History of the USS Narwhal SS-167


USS Narwhal SS-167 Under the command of Captain William Bligh.
Depart Manila Harbor 10 DEC. 1941 Supply drop to Southern Formosa
11 Dec. 1941 18:43 Sound reported multiple contacts bearing 20 ̊
Landing Task Force for Lingayen Gulf, Luzon.
Night periscope Attack, Fired 6 torpedoes 3 hits 2 duds and 1 miss.
Sank two Tydhie Maru 1730 ton troop transports.
Evaded 6 escorts and followed the TF into the Gulf. They had circled the wagons
and was unable to penetrate the escort screen, Boat reported lost 11 Dec 1941


USS Narwhal II SS-167A Under the command of Captain N. S. Good
Depart Manila Harbor 10 DEC. 1941 Supply drop to Southern Formosa
12 Dec. 1941 04:35 Sound reported multiple contacts bearing 05 ̊
Landing Task Force for Lingayen Gulf, Luzon.
Night periscope Attack, Fired 6 torpedoes 3 hits 2 duds and 1 miss.
Sank two Tydhie Maru 1730 ton troop transports.
Evaded 3 escorts and did not followed the TF into the Gulf.

Continued north up the coast of Luzon.
11 Dec 1941 18:05 Sound reported multiple contacts bearing 25 ̊
The very same composition as the first. They had also circled the wagons
Night periscope Attack, Fired 6 torpedoes 2 hits 3 duds and 1 miss.
Sank one Tydhie Maru 1730 ton troop transport. 1 Damaged.
USS Narwhal reported lost 12 Dec 1941


USS Narwhal III SS-167A Re-commissioned SS50/50
Under the command of Captain Will E Makit
Depart Manila Harbor 10 DEC. 1941 Supply drop to Southern Formosa
12 Dec. 1941 04:35 Sound reported multiple contacts bearing 05 ̊
Landing Task Force for Lingayen Gulf, Luzon. (OK so I know they were going to be there)
Night periscope Attack, Fired 6 torpedoes 3 hits 1dud and 2 miss.
Sank two Tydhie Maru 1730 ton troop transports.
Evaded 3 escorts and did not followed the TF into the Gulf.

Continued north up the coast of Luzon.
11 Dec 1941 18:05 Sound reported multiple contacts bearing 330 ̊
The very same composition as the first. They had also circled the wagons
Night periscope Attack, Fired 6 torpedoes 2 hits 2 duds and 2 miss.
Sank one Tydhie Maru 1730 ton troop transport. Evaded escorts and Continued north to Formosa.

13 Dec 1941 07:22 Sound reported multiple sound contacts 01̊
Identified as 2 DD escorts and 1 Kiturn troop transport.
Day periscope attack, 4 bow torpedoes fired 2 hits , 2 duds.
Kiturn Maru sank at 08:12
USS Narwhal reported lost 13 Dec 1941.
( I reloaded this attack maybe 10 times and could not beat these two guys, they were on me every single pass. Nothing worked )

My 4th. patrol was more successful. Played out as above but didn’t find the Kiturn Maru but a Horai Maru with 2 escorts, which I sank and later I got a Buzyn medium tanker with the deck gun. I ran into the very some Kiturn Maru and this time I managed to sink it and get away with little damage. With only 2 torpedoes left headed home. Ran across a Conte Verdi huge transport but didn’t sink it with 2 fish. Though I had it dead in the water and was going to wait out the escorts but it was making about 2 Knots so I gave up and RTB. On the way I sank another Buzyn Maru with the deck gun for a total of 41,500 Tons all troop transports and tankers. Not too bad considering the poor start I got. These were my first patrols with 1.5 and TMO 163 at 90%

Magic

[Armistead]

I was east of Tawi Tawi patrolling the small shipping lane beside Joli..what I consider the honey hole. Here comes the largest Convoy I've ever run into, about 50 ships. Never ran into one this large, it was the Java Invasion force. I went deep and came up in the center. It was early 42 and luckily I had a full load of M10.s. Not one dud and all the ships were loaded with cargo and ammo. Usually one torp did the trick. I just ran at flank speed in the middle, going deep to reload and the DD's never got close. Sank about 12.

[Speedo]