Playing the Narwhal

[keltos01]

lurking...

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/5474/narwhal.jpg (http://img401.imageshack.us/i/narwhal.jpg/)

:D

first mission : reconnoiter Hiroshima harbor.

did a few test dives on the way, from surface to periscope depth at 8 knots took 3 minutes ! gotta train harder..

crash dives : 68 '' from surface at 8 knots, she's a sturdy but big and sluggish boat that's for sure.

sneaked in the Hiroshima bay, got shadowed by a gunboat, expended 3 torps trying to sink it. the last one did.

sneaked near the harbor at 2 knot, periscope depth since it's so shallow, periscope up : sighted flattop !

what the heck ! fired tubes one through three :

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/5474/narwhal.jpg (http://img338.imageshack.us/i/narwhal.jpg/)

she capsized and sank ! one for the home team !

next :

sighted two Kongo battleships at anchor : fired both stern tubes at one, three bow tubes at the other...

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/4872/kongo.jpg (http://img442.imageshack.us/i/kongo.jpg/)

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/794/kongo2.jpg (http://img442.imageshack.us/i/kongo2.jpg/)

Kongo 2 : notice the two gaping holes in her !

http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/8841/48684300.jpg (http://img682.imageshack.us/i/48684300.jpg/)


keltos out

[Jan Kyster]

:D
first mission : reconnoiter Hiroshima harbor.

did a few test dives on the way, from surface to periscope depth at 8 knots took 3 minutes ! gotta train harder..3 minutes... three (!)?! :o http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z15/subject_rod/smilies/faint2.gif


But... but.. the Zero fighters then?!? :stare:

Normally we pick them up on radar some 7 to 10 miles out.

In the Gato that's *just* about fine - if we do not hessitate too long before crashdive...

But three minutes... gulp! :o



Right! Bring her on then! :arrgh!:

[keltos01]

[QUOTE=Jan Kyster;1322305]3 minutes... three (!)?! :o http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z15/subject_rod/smilies/faint2.gif


But... but.. the Zero fighters then?!? :stare:
niaaaaaon ta ta ta ta ta ta :rotfl2:
Normally we pick them up on radar some 7 to 10 miles out.
radar before 1942 ???

In the Gato that's *just* about fine - if we do not hessitate too long before crashdive...
crash dive is sixty eight seconds here, roughly the same as the same size IJN I-Boats

But three minutes... gulp! :o
that is normal submerging from 8 knots... that's why you have AA guns !


Right! Bring her on then! :arrgh!:

As stated on the thread : Neal Stevens has her.

keltos

[runningdeer]

Reading that gets me fired up and wanting to play, thats cool. :ping:

Do you run at high realism, and did you get away from that port afterwards?

I would like to try the new boat. Not sure how to get it. I have only donated to the end of the year fund raiser thing and wonder if that would be enough.

Thanx.

[keltos01]

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/2184/narl.jpg (http://img87.imageshack.us/i/narl.jpg/)

Reading that gets me fired up and wanting to play, thats cool. :ping:

Do you run at high realism, and did you get away from that port afterwards?

I would like to try the new boat. Not sure how to get it. I have only donated to the end of the year fund raiser thing and wonder if that would be enough.

Thanx.


yes it should be enough.

I'm waiting for Neal Stevens to release it.

but I thought I'd show you guys how she handles !

mods :
Natural Sinking Mechanics 4.0
USS Narwhal (ss-167) v 1.8

keltos

[Sledgehammer427]

I'm playing the Narwhal in RFB (with a fix for the nonexistent crew) and man, those 6" guns are maniacal.

I sank a couple merchants within a few minutes of opening fire, and, a patrol boat that looked like an akikaze destroyer O_O

with RFB's damage model...it's an accomplishment, and a hats off to keltos and peabody, who made the guns work.

speaking of which, Keltos, have you tried angling the guns (forward gun up 1-2 degrees, stern 2-3 degrees down) so they are flush with the deck? if you don't get what I mean the pictures of the White Narwhal shows what I'm talking about. makes for good pictures :O:

[keltos01]

http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/4293/narg.jpg (http://img121.imageshack.us/i/narg.jpg/)

out of the bay just in the PO and see... only one fish left ! darn ! fire tube three at that large modern composite !

I just tried RFB 2.0 and had no crew, can you pm me the fix ?

no the guns aren't flush with the deck..

keltos

[keltos01]

http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/8514/nard.jpg (http://img709.imageshack.us/i/nard.jpg/)

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/6222/nars.jpg (http://img257.imageshack.us/i/nars.jpg/)

http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/2961/nar.jpg (http://img253.imageshack.us/i/nar.jpg/)

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/2961/nar.jpg (http://img407.imageshack.us/i/nar.jpg/)


night deck gun attack

[Ducimus]

:yeah: :up::up:

[keltos01]

:yeah: :up::up:

:):DL:D :D:D:D

[Jan Kyster]

My nerves! :o


http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/2961/nar.jpg (http://img253.imageshack.us/i/nar.jpg/)


quoted for greatness! :up:http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z15/subject_rod/smilies/faint2.gif

You're killing me, man! :o

Or perhaps that's the new procedure dealing with destroyers when we have those big 'uns? :|\\

Glad I'm not crew on your boat! :rotfl2:

[keltos01]

we survived with minor damage from two shell hits, moved on to sink the other DD the same way, and the freighter they were escorting.

I noticed that when the DD got close I couldn't depress my guns enough to hit it? but real close I could :DL

I have a smoking great crew !

keltos

[SteveUK]

Stunning! it's the only way to discribe what you guys have done. :rock: The time and patience that you all have put into this is amamzing.

Thank you so much for making a great game even better. :salute:

[keltos01]

please post some patrol reports here!


keltos

[Sledgehammer427]

http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo351/Fastrat91/SH4Img2010-03-03_194348_953.jpg
Momi down!
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo351/Fastrat91/SH4Img2010-03-01_225149_056.jpg
cool sunset picture with the sun reflecting off the pressure hull

[Hitman]

Slow to dive? Who does need to dive when you have two 6 inch guns? :D

[sergei]

Do they elevate high enough to take on evil TMO aircraft? :DL

[keltos01]

Do they elevate high enough to take on evil TMO aircraft? :DL


you got two ma deuce for that ! :har:

keltos

[keltos01]

Asiatic fleet mission (see Narwhal thread for patch)

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/1212/mogami.jpg (http://img440.imageshack.us/i/mogami.jpg/)

Deployed northwest of the Philipines right in the path of an invasion force composed of three (3) Mogami heavy cruisers and a batch of DDs and small passenger carriers.

In RL the best targets would've been the passenger carriers as they had soldiers aboard, in a dynamic campaign too, but here I went for the fat target !

hit har three times out of 5 torpedoes, then sank two approching DDs with the stern tubes, thank God for those !, and managed to hit two more DDs and sink one small passenger carrier.

this was stock 1.5, now trying RFB 2.0 and RSRD

keltos out

[Sledgehammer427]

here's a status update from my most recent patrol.
setting out on 12/7 from pearl, RFB+RSRDC, I was ordered to patrol near Luzon, instead of taking a direct route I decided to take a more roundabout course, employing the Nautilus' range.
just south of wake 2-3 weeks into my patrol I get a bunch of Warship spotted messages. Oh god, a task force and I'm in this fat pig of a submarine!
now I'm not too up-to-date with the Furutaka class cruisers...but, I think the entire class is in this task force!
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo351/Fastrat91/SH4Img2010-03-23_185435_000.jpg
after a quick solution on the closest one (bottom left hand corner of the pic above) I fired a full spread of the bow tubes...and to my surprise, they ALL exploded!
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo351/Fastrat91/SH4Img2010-03-23_190220_296.jpg
after that, I saw a lot of these, only one cared to act like they noticed me, but since I wasn't going to waste any M2 ammo I just let it pass.
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo351/Fastrat91/SH4Img2010-03-23_192003_203.jpg

Current tonnage, 9,000, continuing to objective patrol off Luzon. :D

[keltos01]

http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/7853/kwajalein.jpg (http://img716.imageshack.us/i/kwajalein.jpg/)

passing kwajalein, in a new boat since the patch for RFB 2.0 isn't there yet :O:


keltos

[Hotmanandre]

here's a status update from my most recent patrol.
setting out on 12/7 from pearl, RFB+RSRDC, I was ordered to patrol near Luzon, instead of taking a direct route I decided to take a more roundabout course, employing the Nautilus' range.
just south of wake 2-3 weeks into my patrol I get a bunch of Warship spotted messages. Oh god, a task force and I'm in this fat pig of a submarine!
now I'm not too up-to-date with the Furutaka class cruisers...but, I think the entire class is in this task force!
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo351/Fastrat91/SH4Img2010-03-23_185435_000.jpg
after a quick solution on the closest one (bottom left hand corner of the pic above) I fired a full spread of the bow tubes...and to my surprise, they ALL exploded!
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo351/Fastrat91/SH4Img2010-03-23_190220_296.jpg
after that, I saw a lot of these, only one cared to act like they noticed me, but since I wasn't going to waste any M2 ammo I just let it pass.
http://i391.photobucket.com/albums/oo351/Fastrat91/SH4Img2010-03-23_192003_203.jpg

Current tonnage, 9,000, continuing to objective patrol off Luzon. :D

At what to a fashion there is such periscope?

[keltos01]

those are the binoculars

keltos