Effigy
08-07-08, 08:50 PM
What's the longest you've ever been hunted by escorts?
I started a new career in April 44, in a XXI, with a new captain. I'm recording a journal as I go along, to maybe put together a little diary at the end of his career.
Anyway, my first and only patrol with this career so far, and I've experienced the worst/longest hunt by a DD ever in SHIII. Thanks to my notes I'm able to track the time span of this a bit better, since I was spamming TC quite a bit during this to speed things up. It was approaching 5am (my time) and I really wanted to sleep. :P
The pursuit by this insane DD lasted from April 7th at 19:10 (first hedgehogs and DC's begin to pepper my location after sinking a few ships), until April 8th at 11:52. That's what, like 16 hours game time?
:rotfl:
I did everything I could to shake this monster (only one DD after me). I used the speed advantage in the XXI to try and lose him. Nope. I expended all my decoys using the info I had been reading up on here just the day before. I was running at like 220meters, and with some damage I had taken prior to this convoy, and a few hedgehogs that hit me, this was getting extremely nerve wracking -- being that deep. I tried combinations of everything from dropping a decoy at flank, turning, then hitting silent ---- to various turning patterns while silent to get rid of this pest.
Nothing worked. He obviously ran out of munitions at some point, but continued to ping and locate me no matter what I did. Kept making his attack runs only to cruise over me and start the cycle all over again. During all this he reported me to allied aircraft, of course, and a few bombers stopped by to say hello. When I went topside with external to see what kind of a lunatic this was, I noticed he was on fire, lol. I wonder if the allied aircraft had accidently hit him with a bomb, cause I never even engaged that particular destroyer. Was hoping he'd explode, but alas...as well as having the stamina of a superhuman, he was also, apparently, very fire resistant.
:hmm:
Anyway, not complaining or asking for any tips on how to avoid this kind of a scenario. I think I've already read just about everything ever written on the subject here, in my short time on the forums. Hehe.
I know this far along into the war it's no joke, but I was just surprised at how long this particular hunt lasted (I've always been able to shake them in a reasonable amount of time), and was curious what you all have as far as longest pursuits by enemy escorts.
So, who's been pursued longer? Or have had a particularily annoying (but ultimately came away successful and safe) experience like this? I'm sure many. Would love to hear about em.
Oh, and after reading and enjoying GoldenRivet's 1x patrol, I was thankful that I wasn't on one myself in this particular scenario, hehe.
I started a new career in April 44, in a XXI, with a new captain. I'm recording a journal as I go along, to maybe put together a little diary at the end of his career.
Anyway, my first and only patrol with this career so far, and I've experienced the worst/longest hunt by a DD ever in SHIII. Thanks to my notes I'm able to track the time span of this a bit better, since I was spamming TC quite a bit during this to speed things up. It was approaching 5am (my time) and I really wanted to sleep. :P
The pursuit by this insane DD lasted from April 7th at 19:10 (first hedgehogs and DC's begin to pepper my location after sinking a few ships), until April 8th at 11:52. That's what, like 16 hours game time?
:rotfl:
I did everything I could to shake this monster (only one DD after me). I used the speed advantage in the XXI to try and lose him. Nope. I expended all my decoys using the info I had been reading up on here just the day before. I was running at like 220meters, and with some damage I had taken prior to this convoy, and a few hedgehogs that hit me, this was getting extremely nerve wracking -- being that deep. I tried combinations of everything from dropping a decoy at flank, turning, then hitting silent ---- to various turning patterns while silent to get rid of this pest.
Nothing worked. He obviously ran out of munitions at some point, but continued to ping and locate me no matter what I did. Kept making his attack runs only to cruise over me and start the cycle all over again. During all this he reported me to allied aircraft, of course, and a few bombers stopped by to say hello. When I went topside with external to see what kind of a lunatic this was, I noticed he was on fire, lol. I wonder if the allied aircraft had accidently hit him with a bomb, cause I never even engaged that particular destroyer. Was hoping he'd explode, but alas...as well as having the stamina of a superhuman, he was also, apparently, very fire resistant.
:hmm:
Anyway, not complaining or asking for any tips on how to avoid this kind of a scenario. I think I've already read just about everything ever written on the subject here, in my short time on the forums. Hehe.
I know this far along into the war it's no joke, but I was just surprised at how long this particular hunt lasted (I've always been able to shake them in a reasonable amount of time), and was curious what you all have as far as longest pursuits by enemy escorts.
So, who's been pursued longer? Or have had a particularily annoying (but ultimately came away successful and safe) experience like this? I'm sure many. Would love to hear about em.
Oh, and after reading and enjoying GoldenRivet's 1x patrol, I was thankful that I wasn't on one myself in this particular scenario, hehe.