Marcel
03-22-10, 03:00 PM
Hello everyone,
This is my first post, although i've been lurking ever since I played SH3 the first time a year or so ago.
First, thanks to all of you guys here who help out in such magnificent ways...mods, advice, stories...you truly make the game that much more exciting and a couple pieces of key info kept me interested enough to truly fall in love with subsims...thanks!
I just got SH4 for a song and i'm on my first patrol...loving it so far. I started in '41 out of Manila (having read that the most of the early war action takes place in this area) with a Sargo class boat.
Hello! not 150nm out of Manila when my sonarman detects a Task Force (must have been an invasion force set for Borneo) as it had around 5 DD's, 2-3 Light Cruisers and 4 troop transports.
I wasn't expecting that much opposition, but I was hungry and wanted to let off a few torps to get started so I set course intercept and went after them. I managed to sink one of the troop carriers (for a measley 1700 tons...would've thought that sinking troop carriers on the way to an invasion would be considered a high-value target), and put one torp into a DD.
Here's my initial questions for those willing to answer:
1) I went deep and silent after my shots to avoid those pesky DD's all coming at me at once.....got confirmation of the troop transport sinking before i went down, but not the DD. Later, on the nav map, it showed as a sunk ship, but I didn't get credit for it in the Captain's Log....is that normal? Do you have to actually stay up near the surface and watch a ship sink to get credit?
2) Once, later in the patrol, I was closing in on 2 un-escorted merchants when all my engine crew went to sleep at the same time...left me dead in the water....I called Battle Stations and that got us running again, but how do i call off Battle Stations now that i've left that engagement? Or do they just figure it out after awhile? I'm playing stock SH4 (no mods yet...trying to get the hang of survival first...hehe).
3) Right after the first task force, I ran smack into another (at the time, no notice from COMSUBPAC) and managed to sink 2 DD's (timed my intercept wrong and was out of range for the cruisers). These both must have been headed for Borneo since I got a message saying that Borneo was under imminant invasion about a day after my attacks...which would have put them arriving at Borneo at about that time....I find that realism so cool. I tried to radio in my contact reports while on the surface actively tracking them, but it didn't work....at least my log didn't show any sent messages...(wouldn't command want to know there were 2 task forces out there?) any thoughts?
Again, thanks for all the tutorials, videos and sense of community...without it, I doubt i'd still consider captaining a boat! As for now...I can't wait til i get off work and back on patrol...I've got a few torps left, so you know i'm still hunting....
This is my first post, although i've been lurking ever since I played SH3 the first time a year or so ago.
First, thanks to all of you guys here who help out in such magnificent ways...mods, advice, stories...you truly make the game that much more exciting and a couple pieces of key info kept me interested enough to truly fall in love with subsims...thanks!
I just got SH4 for a song and i'm on my first patrol...loving it so far. I started in '41 out of Manila (having read that the most of the early war action takes place in this area) with a Sargo class boat.
Hello! not 150nm out of Manila when my sonarman detects a Task Force (must have been an invasion force set for Borneo) as it had around 5 DD's, 2-3 Light Cruisers and 4 troop transports.
I wasn't expecting that much opposition, but I was hungry and wanted to let off a few torps to get started so I set course intercept and went after them. I managed to sink one of the troop carriers (for a measley 1700 tons...would've thought that sinking troop carriers on the way to an invasion would be considered a high-value target), and put one torp into a DD.
Here's my initial questions for those willing to answer:
1) I went deep and silent after my shots to avoid those pesky DD's all coming at me at once.....got confirmation of the troop transport sinking before i went down, but not the DD. Later, on the nav map, it showed as a sunk ship, but I didn't get credit for it in the Captain's Log....is that normal? Do you have to actually stay up near the surface and watch a ship sink to get credit?
2) Once, later in the patrol, I was closing in on 2 un-escorted merchants when all my engine crew went to sleep at the same time...left me dead in the water....I called Battle Stations and that got us running again, but how do i call off Battle Stations now that i've left that engagement? Or do they just figure it out after awhile? I'm playing stock SH4 (no mods yet...trying to get the hang of survival first...hehe).
3) Right after the first task force, I ran smack into another (at the time, no notice from COMSUBPAC) and managed to sink 2 DD's (timed my intercept wrong and was out of range for the cruisers). These both must have been headed for Borneo since I got a message saying that Borneo was under imminant invasion about a day after my attacks...which would have put them arriving at Borneo at about that time....I find that realism so cool. I tried to radio in my contact reports while on the surface actively tracking them, but it didn't work....at least my log didn't show any sent messages...(wouldn't command want to know there were 2 task forces out there?) any thoughts?
Again, thanks for all the tutorials, videos and sense of community...without it, I doubt i'd still consider captaining a boat! As for now...I can't wait til i get off work and back on patrol...I've got a few torps left, so you know i'm still hunting....