Escort commander more pussy than me!

[Foghladh_mhara]

I think I've met the ultimate coward. Its jan 1940. Stumbled across a convoy off the north of ireland and after my usual cautious, will I wont I approach decided to attack on the surface. From what I can see theres only one escort although i cant be sure of the type cos he keeps running away! Set up on their port side at 2000m and fired 2 eels. 2 hits on 2 merchants which was a bit of luck cos i was aiming for 1 ship! Both now stationary but afloat. I then turned 180 and ran away. I mean retreated in a tactical way. Escort cruises on. I came back and decided to find a diff target I'll shell the disabled ones later. Medium merchant, 2 torps down she goes. Escort turns towards me I run away again and he turns back! Resisting the urge to fire a few rounds into his bridge in case I awaken a beast! Start shelling the two stricken merchants at close range while the crew reload the torps keeping an eye on my friend but apart from zig zagging with the convoy he's not interested. Down go the 2 ships. I put on full flank and race up the port side for another attack.
Now I've got 5 torpedoes in their tubes (4 really cos i cant hit jack with the stern tube with manual targeting), 4 hours i reckon till daylight and a chickens**t escort. I take out a pyro ship at the back of the crowd..... still nothing!!!!!! Now I'm not complaining because plenty of his friends would have no problem sinking my ass but I do feel a bit embarrassed for the RN. Its not like he cant see me he's only 3000m away and conditions are perfect. At this point I decided to go to bed but tonight theres gonna be a massacre! Sweet revenge for all the times I've gone down cursing. Is this a glitch or are there really stupid escorts programmed in? I smell an Iron Cross:yep: dont think theres enough tonnage there for a Knights Cross:damn:

[Zero Niner]

If only I were so lucky... :(
Encountered a convoy off the east of England, Mar 1940. Got an intel update on a convoy that's within intercept range, so I do that.

First ship I detect is the flank escort (the starboard one), a V&W. I approach to 2km undetected and and fire a TII. It hits, and she goes down. I proceed on & spy a medium merchant, the rest are 1 small merchie & tramp steamers.

About to launch another attack when lookouts detect 2 more escorts approaching, at roughly ten and two o'clock. No choice, dive & slink away. But not before a good dc pasting.

This was a night surface attack btw, no moon. Later on I surface & do an end around, sink the small merchant, cripple the medium one which I shadow & subsequently sink by gunfire, after the convoy (& escorts) sail on.

[Foghladh_mhara]

I intend to grab this opportunity believe me. Was very cautious because I got sunk by an escort here in a convoy attack in an earlier career. Same deal only saw 1 escort but mind you he sank me pretty fast so there may have been more felt like he was using guided charges. One pass, bye bye birdie:cry: but now the worm has turned:hulk:

[leeclose]

It's got to be a glitch, i mean any time i attack a convoy the escorts are all over me like a rash.:ping: How ever i suppose during ww2 there would have been Skippers of escorts who thought is my ship worth getting sunk weird one.

[hyperion2206]

I think I've met the ultimate coward. Its jan 1940. Stumbled across a convoy off the north of ireland and after my usual cautious, will I wont I approach decided to attack on the surface. From what I can see theres only one escort although i cant be sure of the type cos he keeps running away! Set up on their port side at 2000m and fired 2 eels. 2 hits on 2 merchants which was a bit of luck cos i was aiming for 1 ship! Both now stationary but afloat. I then turned 180 and ran away. I mean retreated in a tactical way. Escort cruises on. I came back and decided to find a diff target I'll shell the disabled ones later. Medium merchant, 2 torps down she goes. Escort turns towards me I run away again and he turns back! Resisting the urge to fire a few rounds into his bridge in case I awaken a beast! Start shelling the two stricken merchants at close range while the crew reload the torps keeping an eye on my friend but apart from zig zagging with the convoy he's not interested. Down go the 2 ships. I put on full flank and race up the port side for another attack.
Now I've got 5 torpedoes in their tubes (4 really cos i cant hit jack with the stern tube with manual targeting), 4 hours i reckon till daylight and a chickens**t escort. I take out a pyro ship at the back of the crowd..... still nothing!!!!!! Now I'm not complaining because plenty of his friends would have no problem sinking my ass but I do feel a bit embarrassed for the RN. Its not like he cant see me he's only 3000m away and conditions are perfect. At this point I decided to go to bed but tonight theres gonna be a massacre! Sweet revenge for all the times I've gone down cursing. Is this a glitch or are there really stupid escorts programmed in? I smell an Iron Cross:yep: dont think theres enough tonnage there for a Knights Cross:damn:

I know it's rather impossible;) but could the escort been neutral, a US Navy ship e.g.? That would explain why you weren't attacked.

[bigboywooly]

:hmm:
You may have something there Hyperion
Were the ships sunk icons red ?

[High Voltage]

Were they flying the Swastika? If so...:nope::nope: and no Knight's Cross for you my friend.

Just teasing, but keep us posted as to what happens in the follow-up.:yep:

[hyperion2206]

:hmm:
You may have something there Hyperion
Were the ships sunk icons red ?

Did US Navy ships escort english convoys that early? I could imagine that they did near their eastcoast, but off the coast of Ireland?:hmm:

[Foghladh_mhara]

Goddang it! I was hoping for a response more along the lines of 'your prob just a fantastic skipper who is making perfect use of moonlight and skill to stay undetected!' A glitch kind of takes away the gloss a bit. Ship sunk icons were red and cant imagine a german convoy sailing towards liverpool!!! Any last hopes its a dumb escort before I restart the patrol?

[hyperion2206]

Goddang it! I was hoping for a response more along the lines of 'your prob just a fantastic skipper who is making perfect use of moonlight and skill to stay undetected!' A glitch kind of takes away the gloss a bit. Ship sunk icons were red and cant imagine a german convoy sailing towards liverpool!!! Any last hopes its a dumb escort before I restart the patrol?

You're surely an outstanding Kaleun:yep:, but I've always been fascinated by such "riddles".:smug::doh:

[leeclose]

I just think its real funny that after all this time that SH3 is still kicking out what i call weirdies:up:

[Rykaird]

That is odd.

I had two destroyers run themselves aground the other day while trying to get me in a harbor. Hilarious.

By the way, I find your language in your thread title somewhat objectionable. You should have said "Escort commander more pussified than me." Please, we have some standards, you know.

[leeclose]

Here's another trick sail as close to land/harbour wall as you can and DD's/etc will promptly run themselfs aground so much for the uber ai lol:rotfl:

[d@rk51d3]

I'll occasionally get an escort / harbour defense that will just circle me, pinging me for ages, but just won't attack. After a long time the air defences come in, and I figured that he was just reporting my position, but the bombing starts miles away from my position. Go figure.

[leeclose]

Yup i've had that happen to raided dunkirk and had 2 DD's pinging away at me for a solid hour while i basically blew the place to bits and enver so much as fired at depth charge mind you they took plenty of pot shots at my scope.:ping:

[bigboywooly]

Yup i've had that happen to raided dunkirk and had 2 DD's pinging away at me for a solid hour while i basically blew the place to bits and enver so much as fired at depth charge mind you they took plenty of pot shots at my scope.:ping:

Well they wont DC you as they are docked
:rotfl:
The game isnt smart enough to " move " docked ships
If you place a ship in port without docking it but 0 speed then chances are it will be UNDER the port when rendering is complete

Guess thats why the Devs left ports empty

[leeclose]

Nope theese guys were moving and there were 2 docked.

[bigboywooly]

:hmm: GWX 1.02 ?

[leeclose]

Yup 1.02 which im pretty impressed with:up:

[bigboywooly]

Well part of it worked then
:rotfl:
At least you have other ships arrive on scene now
Now why dont they DC :hmm:

Were they DD or patrol craft

[leeclose]

Ok working from memory here one i think was a V&J the other was a armed trawler:hmm:

[bigboywooly]

Ok thanx
Most odd
Not sure were the V&W came from :rotfl:
The trawler yes

[Foghladh_mhara]

Restarted the patrol. Not much point in pushing up the realism if that crap happens. Besides since I opened my big mouth and mentioned glitch I couldnt really come in here shouting 'I've sank 600000 tonnes!' although that estimate may be a bit high. Still looking good for the new patrol. 1 tramp, 1 small and not a torp fired yet. Lining up a bead on a large merchie now, even have him silhouetted against the moon. He looks very pretty in a manly, gonna kick your ass kinda way! If i figure out how to post screenshots i might put it up here. That is if i figure out how to take a screen shot first:yep:

[leeclose]

Hit printscreen theres a button somehwere on the keybpard for it.

[hyperion2206]

Restarted the patrol. Not much point in pushing up the realism if that crap happens. Besides since I opened my big mouth and mentioned glitch I couldnt really come in here shouting 'I've sank 600000 tonnes!' although that estimate may be a bit high. Still looking good for the new patrol. 1 tramp, 1 small and not a torp fired yet. Lining up a bead on a large merchie now, even have him silhouetted against the moon. He looks very pretty in a manly, gonna kick your ass kinda way! If i figure out how to post screenshots i might put it up here. That is if i figure out how to take a screen shot first:yep:

Ctrl + F11 and you've got a screenie saved in your SH3 folder.:up:

[bigboywooly]

Or get yourself a 3rd party program
I use screenhunter

Put the pics in a folder of my choice and saves as JPG
Plus lots more options

I use imageshack to host my pics
There is a good explanation in the 2 pic threads in the SH3 section of how to upload

[leeclose]

Fraps is another good one so you can even make movies of all the fun bits(sinking skimmer):up:

[Foghladh_mhara]

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/6453/sh3img3320070367859ut9.png
Now does that ship look like its going down? It did. I sank it, personally sat at the gun. Watched it disappear below the waves. And no icon, nothing in captains log. Theres gremlins at work here i tell ya!! Its my tramp steamer by the way

[leeclose]

I've had that happen to me once kinda annoying and to top it all off i was heading back to wili ten mins ago at x1024 to turn round to see your dead you collided with another ship no warning no nothing another funny wee gwx glitch maybe.:down: