Aquitaine
09-26-07, 05:48 PM
Just started playing SH4 recently. Played Silent Service as a kid and other than a brief bout with 688 Attack Sub (as a slightly older kid) haven't had much experience with submarine sims. Downloaded the great TMaru (lite) mod from this site which took care of a lot of irritating things.
Thought I would share something that just happened. On my third or fourth patrol out from Pearl, I'd run into nothing but convoys -- currently my third. Nearly used up all of my guns 'n butter before even arriving at my destination! The last convoy had an 'Auxiliary Subchaser' along with a 'Medium Composite European Freighter', both of which seem to prefer to fire on me as often as possible. During broad daylight in good weather, I'd learned to shadow them until nighttime.
In this case, it was fairly early morning and I didn't feel like waiting all day just for two ships, so I took a closer look at the Subchaser and it seemed like it had only one gun. Well, I thought, I only have one gun and I'm a better shot than the computer, so I surfaced the ship about 2500 meters out, turned right for him, and opened fire with my 3" bow-mounted deck gun on my Gato. I was down to about 15 shells of each type when I started.
I hit him maybe 10 times before he finally decided to just head right for me. He had a couple of fires going but was moving at a pretty good clip. I decided, what the hell, rather than do a halfass attempt at diving out of his way after brazenly engaging in a shooting match with an ASW ship, I'll go whole hog and probably reload when everything goes south.
So I hit flank speed. Even those small subchasers look pretty big when they're bearing down on you.
When I rammed it (or it rammed me - not sure who gets credit for ramming whom) the sub basically gets tossed aside like a rag doll (which was what I thought would happen). What happened next was remarkable: the subchaser bursts into flames and immediately sinks, while I have light damage to my forward bulkheads that is repaired in a minute or so.
I suppose I just did enough damage with the guns that he didn't have enough of a hull left to mow me over, or is this just a bug? Anybody ram anything bigger with any success?
Thought I would share something that just happened. On my third or fourth patrol out from Pearl, I'd run into nothing but convoys -- currently my third. Nearly used up all of my guns 'n butter before even arriving at my destination! The last convoy had an 'Auxiliary Subchaser' along with a 'Medium Composite European Freighter', both of which seem to prefer to fire on me as often as possible. During broad daylight in good weather, I'd learned to shadow them until nighttime.
In this case, it was fairly early morning and I didn't feel like waiting all day just for two ships, so I took a closer look at the Subchaser and it seemed like it had only one gun. Well, I thought, I only have one gun and I'm a better shot than the computer, so I surfaced the ship about 2500 meters out, turned right for him, and opened fire with my 3" bow-mounted deck gun on my Gato. I was down to about 15 shells of each type when I started.
I hit him maybe 10 times before he finally decided to just head right for me. He had a couple of fires going but was moving at a pretty good clip. I decided, what the hell, rather than do a halfass attempt at diving out of his way after brazenly engaging in a shooting match with an ASW ship, I'll go whole hog and probably reload when everything goes south.
So I hit flank speed. Even those small subchasers look pretty big when they're bearing down on you.
When I rammed it (or it rammed me - not sure who gets credit for ramming whom) the sub basically gets tossed aside like a rag doll (which was what I thought would happen). What happened next was remarkable: the subchaser bursts into flames and immediately sinks, while I have light damage to my forward bulkheads that is repaired in a minute or so.
I suppose I just did enough damage with the guns that he didn't have enough of a hull left to mow me over, or is this just a bug? Anybody ram anything bigger with any success?