Naval Battle of Guadalcanal-Screenshots...final thread.

[Bubblehead1980]

After the wild nighttime melee of 14/15 November, I patrolled looking for survivors and ships adrift then headed for Tulagi to refit and and set off to Dutch Harbor, Alaska, my new home port(not by choice). While docked next to the tender, an IJN air raid of 30-40 Bettys once again hit Tulagi Harbor.I managed to escape this time and dive, but the harbor suffered heavy damage.The large submarine tender was badly damaged and listing, as well as on fire, the armed trawler next to her sunk by bomb hits, the T3 tanker, sunk.An older four stacker DD on harbor patrol was also sunk.I surfaced later and headed for Midway, where I fueled before finally reaching Dutch Harbor, Alaska.Some shots from the last air raid...

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[MKalafatas]

Nice!

[MarkCt]

On the map, the red X,s are enemy sunk and I guess the blue are friendly sunk but what are the black X's ?

[Hylander_1314]

I've seen the black sunken ship icon appear if a ship sinks from being rammed, or the weather sinks them, or they run aground. Usually means destroyed but not by enemy fire.

Also saw it happen to task force I fired into. A Fuso BB ran over a friendly DD, and that was the icon that appeared on the map.

[Ruff EL]

what mods you runnin bubblehead? i dont have those cities on guadalcanal listed....all i have is Hoinara or something like that

[Bubblehead1980]

On the map, the red X,s are enemy sunk and I guess the blue are friendly sunk but what are the black X's ?

Black X's were various cruisers and DD's of both USN and IJN that went down during the fight when outside my visual range or when I was submerged dodging depth charges.Noticed it happening a few times.Saw some planes crash when following them on air search(SD) radar via the map but they crashed, left the gray ship sunk marker so have concluded its what the map shows, if it does(occasionally does not leave a mark at all) when a unit is sunk or shot down outside your visual range...ie your lookouts or scopes.

[Bubblehead1980]

what mods you runnin bubblehead? i dont have those cities on guadalcanal listed....all i have is Hoinara or something like that

TMO 2.5 and RSRD.RSRD is what adds the great battles, not sure if lurker ever got mod of the year for RSRD, but he sure deserved it.You must be running stock?

[Ruff EL]

thought i was runnin tmo 2.5 and rsrdc but apparently only tmo 2.5 was activated....changed it now, but i gotta start a new career to see all the goodies