Damn these guys are good !!

[SteamWake]

Well my Current Captiain 'Bill Eckam' finally met his demise...

late in the war January of 1944 assigned to the Formosa straights like so many times before.

We got spotted by aircraft and went deep for an hour or two, no big deal. Later the next day while heading north we pick up a convoy, crossing our path. Radar shows three ships.. Excellent ! This should be easy.

Plot the intercept and get into position. We crept along at 1 knot silent just waiting for the convoy to cross our path. As the ships got closer we popped up the scope for a quick look, one ship in range, a coastel cruiser, must be the escort... down scope...

A few minutes later BOOM BOOM wth ! Damn aircraft spotted us in the clear water. A quick check and sure enough the Coastal has turned straight for us. Dammit!

Take her deep and fast! At about 180 feet the first barrage of DC's rained down on us. Minor damage, keep diving... wheres that thermal !

We finally hit the thermal dived below it ordered silent and altered course. Checking sonar... two more warships, closing, fast! Cripes could it get worse.

After some time they had me surrounded pinging from all sides, dropping more DC's than Ive ever seen. Popping off 12 or so at a run. We try the scoot and manuver, we tried going deeper, we tried the silent running but a few cans got lucky and beat us bad. Forget the silent get that damage fixed ! Flooding fore and aft, bulkheads, etc. But the crew was getting ahead of it.

Flooding under control and other systems acceptable we returned to silent running again, altering course, keep em guessing. This went on for hours and hours. Finally i had to 'cheat' and check out the free cam. Holy smokes three DD's out there sailing in circles taking their turns at bombing us.

Hour after hour Co2 building up batteries sagging. Sometimes they got close other times not. It went on and on... they followed us for miles.

Try as he might he could not shake them. The Late Bill Eckam's luck had ran out, a series of close abord DC's wrecked the boat sending her down for good.

He was my most sucessfull Skipper to day with dozens of medals and patrols, and experienced crew all done now.

3 eliete destroyers in a convoy... bad bit of luck.

[Ivan Putski]

Know that feeling SteamWake, lost my boat recently, made it all the way to May 1945. I always play DiD, as it`s more realistic for me. Man it`s tough when you have that long of a career going, good boat, and crew, but that`s the way the chips fall. Good luck on your next campaign. Puts

[SteamWake]

On the bright side... if there is one.. we seem to have been taken by the best of the best.

We struggled for hours, every trick in the book we just could not shake them.

Thanks for the kind words.

I think my new captiain will be named Bill Feckem ! :rotfl:

[AVGWarhawk]

Cool story but sad ending to a brilliant career. What mods are you running?

[SteamWake]

Cool story but sad ending to a brilliant career. What mods are you running?

RFB & RSRD.. otherwise I probably would have got away ;)

[peabody]

I have noticed something interesting in working on the Japanese Campaign. I don't know if it's by design but the DDs each act differently.
On the US side there are 3, Somers, Clemson, and Fletcher. I have noticed a definate pattern. I tend to attract them as I try to 'rush' testing with TC.

The Somers wanders around and seems like it's lost.
The Clemson speeds directly at you from 50 miles away at 200 knots (maybe 199) and knows exactly where you are.
The Fletcher is always close, but can be avoided with several changes in direction, BUT he doesn't give up. He will follow you for miles. Long after the others have rejoined the fleet.

I know most of this from watching with the external camera, so I can see how things develop with the groups I create, to see if I should make changes.

I wonder if the same is true for the different IJN DDs?

One other tidbit, the Northampton Heavy Cruiser is the first one to head for the hills every time!! I know they are suppose to get out of there and let the DDs do their job, but he is always first even before the carriers.

Just some useless information. I don't know on the IJN DDs because when I play the Allied side, I don't use the external camera. At least not as a way to win. Occasionaly just to see some eye candy.

Peabody

[AVGWarhawk]

Cool story but sad ending to a brilliant career. What mods are you running?

RFB & RSRD.. otherwise I probably would have got away ;)

Just interested in knowing if RFB is working as designed and providing some good times to the user. Sounds like a happy user:D ...sort of...you lost your boat:-? But, if one takes the time to write a patrol, we then can assume the mod is enjoyable. You are right, probably the elite DD you encountered and they are hells spawn, especially three taking runs at you. :x

[SteamWake]

Oh yea it was fun.

Kind of strange 'convoy' though 3 DD's nothing else :hmm:

Then the plane spotting me while at periscope depth.

It was as if they were out to kill me ! :D

[Falkirion]

Steamwake you should have come up and try and got at least one of them. Or at least I would have probably given it a shot. But thats just me, tough break mate.