Stay clear from sinking ships in GWX

[Katana]

First of all, congrats to the GWX mod team for their work :up:. Since GWX 2 came out, I haven't been patrolling the Pacific in SH4. The one (of many) thing I love is the damage model. The other night I torpedoed a costal freighter and got the 'ship is sinking' message. I then surfaced and and ended up pretty close to the sinking freighter. Then all of a sudden BOOM!! It was like the 4th of July. I lost 2 crew members on the watch tower, lost both periscopes and antenna, lost the radio room, and pretty well every compartment was flooding with hull damage at 81%. I must be out of my mind, but I LOVED IT! I can just imagine what would have happened if I was next to a large tanker.

So again thanks to the GWX team for making a great game even greater.

[Jimbuna]

If you have received the ship sinking message prior to surfacing, I am suprised you are being fired on :hmm:

[Oberon]

If you have received the ship sinking message prior to surfacing, I am suprised you are being fired on :hmm:


I think he means that he was damaged from an explosion from the sinking ship. I've had that too but thankfully not as bad as Katana.

[Katana]

As Oberon said, it was from the secondary explosions. Think I have to add more medics for future patrols :oops:.

[difool2]

Anybody ever been hit by a sinking ship as it is plummeting to the bottom?

[melnibonian]

Anybody ever been hit by a sinking ship as it is plummeting to the bottom?
I was hit by a sinking merchant once, and I hit another sinking ship as I was trying to avoid being depth charged by a Destroyer. Since those good old days I learn my lesson and I'm a bit more careful now ;) :D

[Jimbuna]

If you have received the ship sinking message prior to surfacing, I am suprised you are being fired on :hmm:


I think he means that he was damaged from an explosion from the sinking ship. I've had that too but thankfully not as bad as Katana.

Ah!! right....Gotcha :up:

[Abd_von_Mumit]

First of all, congrats to the GWX mod team for their work :up:. Since GWX 2 came out, I haven't been patrolling the Pacific in SH4. The one (of many) thing I love is the damage model. The other night I torpedoed a costal freighter and got the 'ship is sinking' message. I then surfaced and and ended up pretty close to the sinking freighter. Then all of a sudden BOOM!! It was like the 4th of July. I lost 2 crew members on the watch tower, lost both periscopes and antenna, lost the radio room, and pretty well every compartment was flooding with hull damage at 81%. I must be out of my mind, but I LOVED IT! I can just imagine what would have happened if I was next to a large tanker.
Yesterday I lost 3 crew members from a falling funnel of a sinking ship blown to pieces. :damn: The boat also got damage, but not so serious as yours. Now I consider ending my career if I find that in such circumstances a commander would be punished for his carelessness. :/

And you are right - the new damage model is amazing and the sinking ships that are still dangerous add much to the game. It's fantastic. :rock:

[Sniper_Fox]

Anybody ever been hit by a sinking ship as it is plummeting to the bottom?

when i made my crossing through gibraltar, the V&W i mortally wounded when i was being depthcharged came across my bow from port to starboard after i was able to lift my boat fromt he bottom... bastard nearly took me out!

[Sailor Steve]

Anybody ever been hit by a sinking ship as it is plummeting to the bottom? Take a look through the early pages of the "SH3 Screenshots" thread. There are a couple of guys who took pictures of their subs being dragged to their graves by merchants (and one battleship).

As for explosions, I was once killed by a tanker I was shelling. I got too close, and it took me with it when it went up...and this was in the Gunnery Training Course!

[gimpy117]

don't be within 200m when they blow as well, i 20mm a samll merchant and it blew up, killing me!

[Venatore]

:o ok then

[The Milkman]

Anybody ever been hit by a sinking ship as it is plummeting to the bottom? I was hit by a sinking merchant once, and I hit another sinking ship as I was trying to avoid being depth charged by a Destroyer. Since those good old days I learn my lesson and I'm a bit more careful now ;) :D


I was depth charged by a plane once and my u-boat twirled underwater. like spun upside-down a few times.

[Nico71]

Something strange happened to me yesterday! I've hit a merchant and watched some violent explosions on the ships deck after the torpedo struck, so it was obviously an ammo ship. I surfaced while the ship sunk and moved slowly closer, to about 500 meters. A minute or two after the ship had disappeared below the waves I've heard a number of explosions, but couldn't see anything, then damage reports came in. With every explosion, by boat took more and more damage. I could barely escape. Seems as if the ship exploded half way to the bottom and almost took me with it! Then.......CTD!

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

well, if the damage model is good (actualy it is, but this cant be done anyway) then i should have had a IIC instead of a VIIC on my last patrol, damn merchant refused to sink, was out of torpedos and weather was to bad for the gun... sollution ? INDEED! i rammed it :D

unfortunatly it didnt work so well and i lost half the boat's hull %, merchant ? was still floating arround :shifty:

eventualy waited 2 days for the weather to clear up, surfaced and spend 80 shells in the bugger (he was dead after 5 but what the heck... was angry at it)

[Sniper_Fox]

your a patient mf, i woulda just marked its spot and its drift and figureout how far itll move per hour... then oncei came back from my patrol i'd sink the bugger if i could find it.

if it was close to my patrol square... then again... i doubt id find it anyway... yer out of eels too... so i probably would have just left the bastard and went back to port:-?

save some sailors lives for once!:hmm:

[stabiz]

I was once almost sunk by a sinking DD I dint even fire on! My only explanation was that it must have crashed with another DD, or blown his own rear off.

[JScones]

Stay clear from sinking ships in GWX
:hmm: But I thought sinking ships was the aim of the game?

:rotfl: Sorry, couldn't resist.

[Stealth Hunter]

I rammed a freighter once and got stuck in the rigging. Managed to get my crew inside, but escaping was in vain. Back Emergency and Ahead Flank both failed. She split in half, and I ended up going for quite a ride, thinking all the while, "She's toying with me... the BITCH! THE BITCH!" She went into the air, and I got even more entangled in the rigging. As she went down, so did I. Fortunately, I managed to escape at 220 meters. Blew ballast and went home. Great day with 11,000 tons, save for a shaken crew and slightly damaged U-boat.

[NealT]

Anybody ever been hit by a sinking ship as it is plummeting to the bottom?

No...and I have been very close...it is very strange...

[Cohaagen]

Near the end of WWI, Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière's sub became trapped under a sinking ship he'd just bagged and was nearly dragged to the bottom :huh:

[Philipp_Thomsen]

There was a time that I was dragged by a sinking large merchant to the deeps... IIRC the ship hitted the bottom at 250m with me still under it... but I manage to escape as the stern of the merchant hitted the bottom first and my boat was close to the bow. =)