Stories and Patrol Logs + Screenshots and Videos (merged)

[USS Santa]

Originally Posted by Gunfighter

End Of A Working Day

Salute to Kriller2 and Team

How did you get that flag on your boat?

[Gunfighter]

@ USS Santa You see the little guy at the rear of tower well he walked to the end of the boat and ?????????????Just kidding :rotfl: photo shop,reflection is copy and paste and adjusted.

"End of the Boat" The RFB guys are gon'a shoot me for that "The Stern of the boat"

[USS Santa]

it's really look so cool, photoshop do the trick :rotfl:

[Kruger]

It was a beautiful misty morning in Tinian. Until two juicy Maru's exploded while being moored. Ine of them was actually low on water, full of ammunition.

http://img291.imageshack.us/my.php?i...1921053xy3.jpg




Somehow I don't seem to be capable of inserting ain image here....I'm blond. Help me.

[Seminole]

Originally Posted by Diopos

Seminole you're playing with loaded dice!!!!! :rotfl: :rotfl:

Now are you sure it was a Jap TF???:hmm: :hmm: :hmm:

1. thats what the external camera is for....
2. thats why I play with it on....that plus the ability to enjoy all the super SH4 graphics...


Besides..if it had happened to be a friendly convoy it would have gotten just what it deserved for being <50 miles from the entrance to Rabaul in June 1943...

[Syxx_Killer]

Destiny Awaits



Looking Back



Ahead Full



Silence Is Broken



Don't know why I came up with the corny titles. The bottom shot was the last from that patrol. USS Tirante was sunk by a couple DEs. I launched six torpedoes at two ships then dove deep (400 ft.) and ran silent. I was making my escape and the convoy seemed a ways off. I was well below the thermal layer. All of a sudden all hell breaks loose. Some how one of those dumb DEs could hear me creeping along at 2 knots at 400 feet. I dove to 450 feet and tried every which way to loose him. He called one of his friends and it wasn't long until one of them got a lucky hit. That made me so mad. There is no way they should have heard me! They were off in the distance and somehow picked me up. I decided to play dead-is-dead so USS Tirante is now on eternal patrol.

[Torps]

Originally Posted by kriller2

Thanks , nice screenshots Torps and Syxx Killer

@Syxxkiller how did you get the crew looking like that on the submarine - is it stock?

Had to disable everything to get my sun looking right but it works and looks great Kriller.

[ShalashakaDS]

Im new to this comunity and sub simulation and this is my first post, im not posting a doubt or anything like this since this foruns have done a great jog getting my mind rid of most doubts that i could have. Im pretty sure someone must have post something similar but its my history now.


Found this in my second patrol in the entire carrer, i had just dropped an spy near yokosuka and decided i wouldnt go home with only 2 small fishboats sunk, so i decided to take a look at near harbors, and there she was with other 2 heavy cruiser just standing there waiting for a torpedo...


...and thats what i got, 10 torpedos later,luckly, only one dud (playing with USS Grampus, fired my fore tubes, dived a bit more, went under her, fired my after tubes, i also happened to sunk the heavy cruisers but forgot to take pictures of those(i try to play with everything as much realist as possible, but i just cant turn off external view...))

This one i just found pretty, hope someone will enjoy this pics, otherwise, sorry for the useless post.

[Nisgeis]

Very nice shots ShalashakaDS! . I like the one where the victim is deeper than the sub .

[chief.kaiser]

Just started a new career starting out in a S boat, at first i thought it was a piece of **** but now i love it.

The S-37 was given the task of a resupply mission out of Manilla. I quickly completed my objective but "forgot" to call it in. I like going freelance. I recieve news that japan are about to invade Borneo so i set up a course and pottle along at 8 knots

I arrive and begin my standard patrol pattern. 5 hours later a recieve word that a ship is spotted, cant see what it is yet. I work out its rought direction and set an intercept course. Its a Large European Liner headed for Borneo with 3 escorts. I dive and get into position as best i can. 3000 yards away, would have liked to have been closer but oh well. I set up 4 fish and fire them all, 2 at the engine room area, 1 aft and 1 to the bow. The bow torp ripped the bottom of her bow off and left her looking like a shark, the two torps heading for the engine room impact and blow the ship in half. Im already at 200 feet and heading away at this point.

Not a bad start. 18000 tons, more than i expected in my S boat

I set course for port, already happy with my haul.

14 hours later a new contact, ship spotted. I go to the TDT and i cant believe my eyes Another European Liner! This one unescorted.

I order flank speed, however this target is ahead of me and traveling at 12 knots, i cant pull more than 8 out of my S boat no matter how much i rock foward in my chair trying to gain some momentum :p

I break off the persuit and feel very disapointed.

Im now 50 miles from Manilla when i recieve word that its being bombed almost constantly, i have a new base in Java. Ok time to turn around.


29 hours later.... Ship Spotted Sir. I move to TDT and spot what?......... You guessed it. ANOTHER European Liner!. Yet again unescorted and this time im ahead of her.

I set up a intercept and charge flank speed at her projected course. Just got in range as she crosses my bow, 4 torps away in same pattern as before. Another 18000 tons on the board


Ok time to head home, the drinks are on me.

2 days later we get multiple ships spotted on the horizon. Well im happy with my haul and i only have 4 torps left. I dive to 200 feet and rig for silent, intent on passing under this convoy undetected.

While under the convoy i notice just how many contacts there are and decide to pop up to periscope depth quickly and have a peek.

I cant believe my eyes, the persicope breaks water and what do i see? A Shokaku carrier bearing 005. Turns out i was under a huge task force of 3 carriers, a couple of battleships, lots of destroyers and a few merchants.

I fire all 4 torps at the carrier infront of me and dive deep.

All 4 torpedoes impact and the carrier begins to lean to the left. 10 minutes later shes upside down and ive chalked up another 28000 tons.

I get out of this mass of ships suprisingly easy and head home, reporting 5 convoys on the way back.


I get to port with 65530 tons scored up and not a single scratch on my sub.

Not bad for a Pig boat

Ill admit that 99% of this patrol was pure luck and the other 1% historcial inaccuracys:p

[NarcAngel]

Well, I've never really had much success ramming ships, even this one at 21 knots, the bastard just wouldn't sink. I had a row of nice torpedoes in my stern section but all the torps were stuck because of a previous encounter, one shell crippled that section. Had not one single bow torp left and was very limited on shells, and worse, the sea was so bad that I would miss 2-3 shots I'd fire each time. Oh! I'll also play party pooper by saying that there is something utterly wrong when I can unram the ship when my stern is up in the air, thus I have no propulsion and yet, I just put on full reverse and reversed! That's what I call thick air!



Ya know, I just realized something... I was trying to ram a OIL TANKER... isn't this like trying to light a match inside a gas bottle making factory?

[Ivan Putski]

Not much holding him together.

[SteamWake]

Lemme guess he was still doing 10 knots

[Ivan Putski]

No, surprised me, he lost speed, usually does`nt happen, I put a fish from the stern tube in him, finished him off.

[Sailor Steve]

Still and all, that's a great shot.