Unrealistic Temptation....

[cj95]

Okay Okay.....I admit I had to give in to temptation.


I finally upgraded from my beloved S-Boat to a Sargo.....whoa....this thing goes fast.

Makes you appreciate teh ability to waterski behind your sub when used to be 10 kts was pushing it.

Was assigned a photo recon in RAbaul of an enemy Carrier.

After sneaking past the sentries I discover....

Whoa......not one carrier but two!!!

Okay okay...in real life there would be torpedo nets up, but I admit I had to fire off a salvo of four at one...reverse directions and use the aft tubes on the other.

BOOM BOOM!

Both sank, but crazily settled ont eh bottom with their flight decks still above water....oh well....a few pumps and a whole mess of hair dryers and they'll be good as new.


I feel a bit guilty since I usually go for realism, but it was too much fun to pass up.

"Here are the photos of those carriers you wanted Admiral...oh BTW....theyare not going anywhere for a few months"

[Seminole]

Usually when we have done that, a whole herd of destroyers moseys over to express a very severe opinion of our tactics. :shifty:

How did you manage to get away with it?... :hmm:

[Orion2012]

Usually when we have done that, a whole herd of destroyers moseys over to express a very severe opinion of our tactics. :shifty:

How did you manage to get away with it?... :hmm:

I'm curious as well, every time I've attempted to harbor raid, at least without being on a stock game, I get the shallow water DC of a lifetime.

[Atony94]

Usually when we have done that, a whole herd of destroyers moseys over to express a very severe opinion of our tactics. :shifty:

How did you manage to get away with it?... :hmm:

I'm curious as well, every time I've attempted to harbor raid, at least without being on a stock game, I get the shallow water DC of a lifetime.

same here, its just impossible to escape those dc runs in shallow water.

[pythos]

Iv'e snuck in below the thermal layer, or GASP decks awash at night as close to shore as possible. On one of those I just destroyed all the sentries. Blew one up, and then waited for the next, then blew that one up.

Take a picture of the carrier, then send some fish that ship's way. Then run for, and dive into the thermal layer, and run silent.

Worked once. Once was enough.

[SteamWake]

I did the same thing in a 'stock' game a few patches ago.

Both carriers settled down on the bottom with the decks still above the waterline.

No credit for the sinking :damn:

LOL... Now that Im running with some mods Id never try that again. Hell Id be lucky to get in .. take the pics... and get out .... alive.

[Task Force]

Ive done this mission in RFB and got away with minimal damage after I sunk the carriers. Those distroyers are hard to get around, At the north of the bays mouth there is a opening in the subnet that you can get through, But watch out for mines, there are some mines that are set along the net.;)

[cj95]

Im playing RFB on 95% so no cheating there. :smug:

Basically I hugged the southern coast of the Rabaul inlet and just ran silent at 1/3 for almost half a day.

The thing that saved my bacon was the calm waters...I was able to fire from out past 6000+yards with Mk14's on slow speed and retreat a good bit before the first hit.

Luckily no duds this time:up:

The Destroyers ran into the harbor while I was trying to run out.

Plus the water is a bit deeper to the south as well.

Oh well in real life there would have been nets deployed so take it with a grain of salt.

[Task Force]

Your lucky I attempted to get out from the south once and all I found was a sub net. You must have set your torpedos at a shallow debth because they should have got stuck in the sub net.;)

[cj95]

I think I set two on the default with contact fuses and the the other two at ~20 feet or so with influence fuses.

I'm mostly amazed that I had zero duds in that whole salvo as they have been plaguing me lately.


The next day I had two circle runners in a row which needless to say made me sit up and take notice:o


I've never seen a sub net so Im not sure what to look for.

[Fishie]

Hmmmm. RFB- 95% I think

Christmas 1941 was spent in the harbor to the left of the Bungo straits, then over to the harbors on the SE side of the East China Sea.

Both times I made nighttime surface runs in fog and calm waters. Tojo wasn't expecting SS-200 (Thresher) to be there so quickly. :)

After that I was on my way to Java to refuel and check in or just go for extra tonnage (I was already VERY lucky with my torpedoes- got just shy of 38,000 tonnes of shipping) when I caught 2 heavy cruisers in the middle of the Celebes Sea, completely unescorted. Only 4 torpedoes left- all in the stern tubes.

1 was a dud, but all the rest struck home- bow, midships (right under the stack) and just afore the propeller shafts. Thing blew sky high- must have had 4 secondaries and she goes down by the port, doesn't even fully capsize- just slips down on about a 90 degree list. :arrgh!:

Refuel at Sarabaya, was gonna end the patrol there (comsubpac told me to), but the option to end it wasn't there, so I'm thinking I'm just gonna check in again, get a new location and go for broke.

Total tonnage so far- 47,000 and change (that cruiser was worth about 9,800, if I remember right). Let's see what the Thresher is made of and hit Tojo where it hurts! :arrgh!:

[Enigma]

I've handled this as stated above....fired my spreads and then immediately, and silently dropped below thermals to avoid detection. Just have to use the map and make sure you are in deeper water before taking a crack at it...