Bubblehead1980
05-20-12, 05:47 PM
TMO 1.5 RSRD.I added the DD Harusame to Wewak and some harbor traffic, as well as the unescorted four ship convoy in the area that Wahoo attacked so when in area could get into the famous "14 hour running gun battle" with on 26 January 1943 as well as some other traffic.I lucked up and got the Wahoo when I started a career with a Gato in December 1942, I skipped first patrol then was ordered to leave port on January 3, 1943.I hung out around the Brisbane area(transferred there from Pearl, wish could transfer before patrol, then end patrol at new port, one thing stock game did have right), conducted "training", tested out torpedoes(new settings for prematures, worked just like I planned, much more realistic behavior) then departed on January 16, 1943 to check out Wewak.Arrived off Wewak(Kairiru Island) at 0200 on January 24, 1943, I took her down.Also must note, the Longer Sinking Times mod by Bilge Rat, really has improved things.Ships sink much more realistically.
I chose to take the same route Wahoo did(from what I have been able to look up) and ascertain from K Okane's description in his book "WAHOO", come through the strait between Mushu Island and the coast of New Guinea.Moving in at 3 knots, I watched the sun rise via the scope and continued on.Around noon I was nearly into the harbor, I raised the scope and spotted a DD in the distance( I gave the DD very random routes so I was not sure where he would be other than in the harbor, make things interesting, also he was set to elite) After about 20 minutes, sound reported a warship closing, I ordered GQ and upped the scope.I ascertained the DD would come close and did not want to get stuck where I was, so went to the bottom and ahead flank for a run to the NE(roughly) to the where had a little water to play in.I made it without being detected and avoided the DD.About an hour later, here comes the DD again, I decided to attack as he would prevent me from reconnoitering the harbor.I fired 3 torpedoes at him when he was on a perfect strait course, two prematurely exploded, one missed astern when he sped up, he turned and charged me.
The quote "That's all right, we'll shoot the SOB down the throat" from Dudley Morton came to mind.We turned in into the charged DD which was making 30 knots now and lined up the scope(amazingly, unlike most escorts in TMO, he was not zigging while closing, just making a direct charge for my scope) Soon he was pinging and within 1000 yards, at around 650 yard, I fired all 3 torpedoes, ordered a dive , flank speed and right full rudder.The depth gauge read 90 feet(near the bottom) when two fish hit, followed by a massive explosion.Back at scope depth, the DD was finished.:arrgh!:
My battery was at 50 percent now and with no element of surprise, did not want to get caught by more patrols, I decided to set a course to exit.I set a course of assigned area off Palau(actually did get orders to patrol Palau-PI shipping lanes) when at 1100 on January 26, 1943(RL Wahoo actually found the convoy at 0740 or so) radar made contact and could see smoke in the distance.We went to GQ and soon attacked the four ship convoy.I attacked first with my stern tubes, planning to get between the two leading ships, hit one with bow tubes, other with stern tubes, but the tanker(bow target) took wild evasive action soon as the freighter(stern target) alerted about the torpedoes she was going to ingest momentarily.Two stern fish hit, badly damaging the freighter, the ships scattered and zigging wildly(set them to Vet and Elite, made it challenging) soon I had a big troopship, , I fired scoring two hits, I fired two more, which prematured, fire two more, which hit, she slowed took an angle by the stern and sink surprisingly quick.
I then went after a smaller freighter and sank her.The tanker was too far off and my battery took low to chase her submerged.I surfaced, chased and finally was ahead of the tanker.I approached, crossed her path and finished her off with two fish from stern tubes, one hit under her stack, other under the bridge, she was finished.A en entire four ship convoy, wiped out.Total game time, this was about a 9 hour engagement, real time was less thanks to TC.
I went to Palau with four fish left, two bow, two stern, attacked a lone ship twice, all four prematured, I returned to port and ended patrol.Really was a fun and challenging patrol.
Noye:I thought that I hit the keys to capture a SS before shooting the DD but apparently in the excitement did not do so, so I have the aftermath only.
Shots from Wewak:
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_000142_412.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_000209_497.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_000210_168.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_000258_011.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_000258_497.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_000458_109.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_000536_286.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_000537_036.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_000559_875.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_000925_308.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_000934_743.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_000942_381.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_001124_310.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_001135_503.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_001140_993.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_001154_253.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_001305_926.jpg
Will continue in another thread...
I chose to take the same route Wahoo did(from what I have been able to look up) and ascertain from K Okane's description in his book "WAHOO", come through the strait between Mushu Island and the coast of New Guinea.Moving in at 3 knots, I watched the sun rise via the scope and continued on.Around noon I was nearly into the harbor, I raised the scope and spotted a DD in the distance( I gave the DD very random routes so I was not sure where he would be other than in the harbor, make things interesting, also he was set to elite) After about 20 minutes, sound reported a warship closing, I ordered GQ and upped the scope.I ascertained the DD would come close and did not want to get stuck where I was, so went to the bottom and ahead flank for a run to the NE(roughly) to the where had a little water to play in.I made it without being detected and avoided the DD.About an hour later, here comes the DD again, I decided to attack as he would prevent me from reconnoitering the harbor.I fired 3 torpedoes at him when he was on a perfect strait course, two prematurely exploded, one missed astern when he sped up, he turned and charged me.
The quote "That's all right, we'll shoot the SOB down the throat" from Dudley Morton came to mind.We turned in into the charged DD which was making 30 knots now and lined up the scope(amazingly, unlike most escorts in TMO, he was not zigging while closing, just making a direct charge for my scope) Soon he was pinging and within 1000 yards, at around 650 yard, I fired all 3 torpedoes, ordered a dive , flank speed and right full rudder.The depth gauge read 90 feet(near the bottom) when two fish hit, followed by a massive explosion.Back at scope depth, the DD was finished.:arrgh!:
My battery was at 50 percent now and with no element of surprise, did not want to get caught by more patrols, I decided to set a course to exit.I set a course of assigned area off Palau(actually did get orders to patrol Palau-PI shipping lanes) when at 1100 on January 26, 1943(RL Wahoo actually found the convoy at 0740 or so) radar made contact and could see smoke in the distance.We went to GQ and soon attacked the four ship convoy.I attacked first with my stern tubes, planning to get between the two leading ships, hit one with bow tubes, other with stern tubes, but the tanker(bow target) took wild evasive action soon as the freighter(stern target) alerted about the torpedoes she was going to ingest momentarily.Two stern fish hit, badly damaging the freighter, the ships scattered and zigging wildly(set them to Vet and Elite, made it challenging) soon I had a big troopship, , I fired scoring two hits, I fired two more, which prematured, fire two more, which hit, she slowed took an angle by the stern and sink surprisingly quick.
I then went after a smaller freighter and sank her.The tanker was too far off and my battery took low to chase her submerged.I surfaced, chased and finally was ahead of the tanker.I approached, crossed her path and finished her off with two fish from stern tubes, one hit under her stack, other under the bridge, she was finished.A en entire four ship convoy, wiped out.Total game time, this was about a 9 hour engagement, real time was less thanks to TC.
I went to Palau with four fish left, two bow, two stern, attacked a lone ship twice, all four prematured, I returned to port and ended patrol.Really was a fun and challenging patrol.
Noye:I thought that I hit the keys to capture a SS before shooting the DD but apparently in the excitement did not do so, so I have the aftermath only.
Shots from Wewak:
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_000142_412.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_000209_497.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_000210_168.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_000258_011.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_000258_497.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_000458_109.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_000536_286.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_000537_036.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_000559_875.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_000925_308.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_000934_743.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_000942_381.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_001124_310.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_001135_503.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_001140_993.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_001154_253.jpg
http://i407.photobucket.com/albums/pp152/jstringr1685/SH4Img2012-05-20_001305_926.jpg
Will continue in another thread...