Most embarrassing moment.

[Admiral Halsey]

Like the title says post your most embarrassing moment in SH4. Mine would have to be when I accidentally sank the Iowa during the invasion of Okinawa.(It was night and the seas were rough. Plus it was around the time and area the Yamato would have been on it's final suicide mission so I though it was her.)

[HertogJan]

Euhmmm... :oops:

Forgeting to switch off General quarters, had to put the sub in rest mode for 96h before the crew responded to command inputs again :-?

[Bubblehead1980]

Late Feb 1942 off Java, was trying to get around to witness the Battle of Sunda Strait, thought I found the Japanese force(it was dark, i dont use the auto id at night unless super close, plus i dove for attack) and scored four Mark 10 torpedo hits on a large cruiser, but once the flames shot up, there was old glory, clearly illuminated:/\\!! The tough old ship repaired and sailed on with a list, but 3 hours later when ran into japanese forced, was easy pickings.I sunk a light cruiser with torpedoes shortly after Houston's magazine detonated from ijn gunfire.

[c13Garrison]

Getting up to toss the wash in the dryer and forgetting to pause the game.

:/\\!!

[Aktungbby]

Getting up to toss the wash in the dryer and forgetting to pause the game.

:/\\!!
That would be multitasking: verboten der Uboot waffe where war is simple until the simple thing becomes difficult.:arrgh!:

[in_vino_vomitus]

Getting target fixated and ignoring the pinging - The angle of the searchlight beam ought to have been a clue [see photo] I'm assuming that embarrassingly stupid counts, for the purposes of this thread?

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3813/9508787996_481c42bc68_b.jpg

[pstein]

Forgetting to reload the torpedo tubes before going on a patrol and running into a small convoy with nothing to shoot at it.

[fred8615]

Running aground more times than I can remember.

[merc4ulfate]

I confess to following pstein

[Aktungbby]

I confess to following pstein
DAMAGE or collision just getting out of my own port base.:arrgh!:

[joefremont]

Plotting a course that happened to intersect with a small island, then running the boat aground at 2048x time compression. Boat wrecked, new campaign.

[grislyatoms]

Slashing through a party of fishing boats close to shore and not realizing a shore battery had us dialed in. Very little gain vs the damage taken.

Forgetting to lower air search radar mast on clear, calm days while submerged and watching targets run like rabbits when they spot it...

[c13Garrison]

Yeah, why can't that button stay lit when the mast is up, like for periscopes? :hmmm:

[Admiral Halsey]

Slashing through a party of fishing boats close to shore and not realizing a shore battery had us dialed in. Very little gain vs the damage taken.

Forgetting to lower air search radar mast on clear, calm days while submerged and watching targets run like rabbits when they spot it...

I normally don't even raise the radar mast as it seems to detect planes at maximum range even when it's lowered.

[Char]

Setting up for an attack on a Japanese taskforce full of battleships. Not watching where I'm pressing on my keyboard and Smashing "Emergency Surface" instead of "Cycle Tubes" :/\\!!

[Armistead]

I've had so many.

Here the Yamato got the drop on me, not fun having 18's pointed at you.

http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/uu235/Armistead1424/SH4Img2010-04-08_095659_908.jpg

I was off Wewak and saw a tribe, needing supplies, I thought we would pull up.

My crew, led by my Exec Wernher mutinied and took all the rafts and went to shore. I couldn't get them back on boat and returned to Pearl with only two gay crew members, Wolferz and Simmy.

I was relieved of command in port.

http://i651.photobucket.com/albums/uu235/Armistead1424/SH4Img2011-08-01_171802_360-1-2.jpg

[in_vino_vomitus]

I think we could have a winner :)

[c13Garrison]

Yeah, that Yamato, she's a sneaky bugger. Ninja skills. :up:

I see the weather was awful. I have to say, your screen-shots are amazing. That one I'd almost put on my wall. Do you document with screenshots all the time? You have so many it almost seems its just an automatic part of how you play everyday.

[Armistead]

Yeah, that Yamato, she's a sneaky bugger. Ninja skills. :up:

I see the weather was awful. I have to say, your screen-shots are amazing. That one I'd almost put on my wall. Do you document with screenshots all the time? You have so many it almost seems its just an automatic part of how you play everyday.

I've hardly played in a year or more, just get the urge once in awhile and do a few patrols in my campaign. We use to have screenshot competitions over on the Ubi forum, so took a lot of SS's in my day. It was a rather competitive in it's day, so we all played with angles, anything to get good SS.

When I play serious, usually have no cams, so no SS. I guess the first few years I played I would do rather silly patrol reports, using all my friends as crew members. My patrols usually focused on my Exec Wernher and his stupidity. Probably been a year since I've done a patrol report.

I might even do another Christmas play at Subsim this year since Ubi died. It was a big hit, until Wern ruined it for everybody again.

[Admiral Halsey]

I think we could have a winner :)

So far it's between me sinking the Iowa and Armistead having the Yamato sneaking up on him.(Shouldn't his radar have given him some warning that something big was coming up fast though?)

[Armistead]

So far it's between me sinking the Iowa and Armistead having the Yamato sneaking up on him.(Shouldn't his radar have given him some warning that something big was coming up fast though?)

It's a long story, but that's a shot from a patrol long ago, chasing the Yamato. I had radar at one time, but it was destroyed here. I think I already had about 80% damage, put several in the Yamato already, out of torps, lil hope of getting home, so just went after some crazy SS's for the SS contest at Ubi.

The fact is, it was Wernher's fault. AH, here is the complete story.

http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/548757-What-a-battle-(pic-Heavy)

[Rockin Robbins]

It was September 15, 2009, a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly a pirate ship appeared on the horizon! While millions of people were starving the king lived in luxury. Meanwhile on a submarine in the middle of the Pacific Ocean near the coast of Japan, a much-decorated captain was preparing his most embarrassing moment.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=1172731&postcount=1

"It's a HUGE convoy in the middle of the South China Sea, a very large target dead center moving 20 knots, Cap, what do you figure it is?"

"We haven't got a good shot at a Jap flattop all war. Set all forward tubes for zero gyro and 20' depth. We'll shoot all six! Hey Bozo! Considering where we are, what do you think that thing is, the USS Essex?"

Wonder how Lockwood would know it's me. After all, truthfully I never saw what I shot at and never saw it sink. Coulda been a sampan for all I know. And with these weird currents, stormy condition and darkness, I coulda been anywhere, you know?

Of course in real life I wouldn't know I sank the USS Essex. I'd be fat, dumb and happy until I returned to port. Wouldn't even know enough to lie to protect myself. "Yup, Admiral, four hits out of four, radar bearings. I'm good.....damned good, sir! What? You identified what I sank, GREAT! What was it, a carrier? Hehehehe!":D

Yeah, that would be about the end of the pleasantries there, wouldn't it?:o

[c13Garrison]

Well. Yes. That would have been an...awkward handshake, when Admiral Lockwood and the MPs met you on the gangway.

But, the IMPORTANT question is, did it count towards your tonnage?? :D

[Bubblehead1980]

It was September 15, 2009, a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly a pirate ship appeared on the horizon! While millions of people were starving the king lived in luxury. Meanwhile on a submarine in the middle of the Pacific Ocean near the coast of Japan, a much-decorated captain was preparing his most embarrassing moment.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=1172731&postcount=1

"It's a HUGE convoy in the middle of the South China Sea, a very large target dead center moving 20 knots, Cap, what do you figure it is?"

"We haven't got a good shot at a Jap flattop all war. Set all forward tubes for zero gyro and 20' depth. We'll shoot all six! Hey Bozo! Considering where we are, what do you think that thing is, the USS Essex?"

Wonder how Lockwood would know it's me. After all, truthfully I never saw what I shot at and never saw it sink. Coulda been a sampan for all I know. And with these weird currents, stormy condition and darkness, I coulda been anywhere, you know?

Of course in real life I wouldn't know I sank the USS Essex. I'd be fat, dumb and happy until I returned to port. Wouldn't even know enough to lie to protect myself. "Yup, Admiral, four hits out of four, radar bearings. I'm good.....damned good, sir! What? You identified what I sank, GREAT! What was it, a carrier? Hehehehe!":D

Yeah, that's about the end of the pleasantries there, isn't it?:o

I'll never forget reading this thread, what a classic DOH moment lol.

[Rockin Robbins]

And the wind-down:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=1173394&postcount=30

It was not a fun time for all. To quote my final summation shown in the post above "none of your previous achievements or lack thereof matter at all now as the charges are prepared....." Then it got worse... The link is worth a visit to see what the game does to you when you're dumb enough to pull the trigger on an unidentified American carrier....
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa293/RockinRobbins13/smileys/j5az3t-1.gif

[c13Garrison]

Wow. I accidently sank an Allied freighter once, about 1000 miles East of Austrailia (its a lost cargo ship from the Guadalcanal campaign, trust me...) and was surprised when I got to port and no-one said anything. At least I know what happens now.

[joefremont]

Had a similar experience my first patrol in the SH4 u-boat mission. Having done two campaigns for the USN I left port in my Type IX and saw on the map a contact for merchant heading in my direction colored blue, the color of every allied ship I had seen to that point. So I submerged, lined up for the attack, when my scope came up saw a big modern passenger liner in my sights. Just as I push the button to launch my torpedo one I see the the Japanese flag on top!

Oops!

Please miss, please miss, please miss, dang!

Don't sink, don't sink, don't sink, dang!

Lets sneak away and hope nobody notices. :oops:

At least I was not arrested when I returned to port.

[Bubblehead1980]

And the wind-down:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=1173394&postcount=30

It was not a fun time for all. To quote my final summation shown in the post above "none of your previous achievements or lack thereof matter at all now as the charges are prepared....." Then it got worse... The link is worth a visit to see what the game does to you when you're dumb enough to pull the trigger on an unidentified American carrier....
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa293/RockinRobbins13/smileys/j5az3t-1.gif

Yep, it happens. There was a real life incident actually, Cmdr Elliot Loughlin of the Queenfish was relieved and court martial in early 45 after he torpedoed a transport carrying POW's in heavy fog.Loughlin was convicted on one charge and was issued a letter of reprimand.Loughlin went on to obtain flag rank later in his career .

[Admiral Halsey]

I think I just topped sinking the Iowa. How you ask? I'll tell you how. I sunk myself with a friggin CUTIE!!!:damn:

[c13Garrison]

Ok, that begs for details Admiral. :D. It will hurt less if you share! :yeah:

[Admiral Halsey]

I don't have that many as it caught me off guard. From near as I can tell I launched it too soon and it locked onto my sub instead of the attacking destroyer. I didn't even know that was what sunk me until I watched the footage of the after battle report.(I had thought that the destroyer had gotten a lucky shot with a depth charge.)

[in_vino_vomitus]

If it helps I believe you're not the only one. I er.... have a friend who fired off a cutie and forgot to turn his engines off......

[Admiral Halsey]

If it helps I believe you're not the only one. I er.... have a friend who fired off a cutie and forgot to turn his engines off......

A "friend"?

[c13Garrison]

I just remembered Captain Glenn's final tour had a moment which qualifies as embarrassing.

I was trolling around Luzon Straits between missing the first convoy and missing the 2nd, just picking off the solos that tried to pass through. There was a medium/small merchant coming, and given the purple hearts the prior metchant had given me I decided surfacing across his path at 1500 yards would eventually cause me to regret the tactic. So, I set up for a torpedo shot. I figured 2 would do it.

I sat there in perfect position, and then had the thought, "you know, you have Time, and its alone; maybe use the stern tubes, and preserve forward options for later?" So, at almost the lastt moment I reversed the shot, and at an increasing range and angle I fired 5 & 6.

But, wait a minute... time to track 6 minutes??? - Doh! :/\\!! :dead: ...I forgot, I had loaded 2cuties. So, they eventually ran it down, but of course didn't sink it, and rather than waste a 3rd torpedo on it I ended up running after it and gunning it down anyway.

Dang Cuties!!!! If only someone was working on a Mk28 torp mod... *looks at JoeFremont*

:D

[in_vino_vomitus]

A "friend"?

Yes..... A friend....... Not me ... Definitely somebody else......

[Admiral Halsey]

Yes..... A friend....... Not me ... Definitely somebody else......

Sure it was.

[in_vino_vomitus]

In the words of a former President: "I have no recollection of it at this time....."

[Admiral Halsey]

I have one last thing to say. Who knew that 95 pounds of torpex was so dangerous?

[Armistead]

Another fun moment in the Solomons. Think it was the day after the Battle of Savo. I had taken damage and had DD's all over me. I had a Kongo dead on the water, so hid under it. The DD's wouldn't leave and US planes started bombing the Kongo. It finally hit me, the Kongo could blow, so I risked taking off. I had got about 50 yards away when a US plane scored big and the Kongo blew, killing me.

Probably worse, I was hiding under a enemy ship in a convoy, using it as a block in shallow water. A jap plane trying to bomb me, hit the merchant, which was loaded with ammo and blew it up, killing me also.

[Admiral Halsey]

Another fun moment in the Solomons. Think it was the day after the Battle of Savo. I had taken damage and had DD's all over me. I had a Kongo dead on the water, so hid under it. The DD's wouldn't leave and US planes started bombing the Kongo. It finally hit me, the Kongo could blow, so I risked taking off. I had got about 50 yards away when a US plane scored big and the Kongo blew, killing me.

Probably worse, I was hiding under a enemy ship in a convoy, using it as a block in shallow water. A jap plane trying to bomb me, hit the merchant, which was loaded with ammo and blew it up, killing me also.

Why didn't you try to dive deeper? That plus having gone 50 yards might have been just enough to save you.

[Armistead]

Why didn't you try to dive deeper? That plus having gone 50 yards might have been just enough to save you.

Sub was bad shape, dived deep as I dare.

[TorpX]

Probably worse, I was hiding under a enemy ship in a convoy, using it as a block in shallow water. A jap plane trying to bomb me, hit the merchant, which was loaded with ammo and blew it up, killing me also.
I suspect that the Jap pilot would have some explaining to do:

Really, officer Saki ? You couldn't have just waited until he moved out a hundred meters past the ship? You know, a new Kaiten unit is forming, and they could use a man of your caliber...

[in_vino_vomitus]

I suspect a promotion would be in order - destroying the ship in order to save it is pretty hardcore...........

[Armistead]

I couldn't count the times exploding ships have killed me in my earlier days, worse, in storms.

Heck, my last storm battle, I was shooting by bearing at a ship with my 40's, then the ship came out of the fog, so deck gun fired, ship loaded with ammo, blew and killed us. You need to be about 300 yards min not to die when a loaded ship explodes.

[Admiral Halsey]

I couldn't count the times exploding ships have killed me in my earlier days, worse, in storms.

Heck, my last storm battle, I was shooting by bearing at a ship with my 40's, then the ship came out of the fog, so deck gun fired, ship loaded with ammo, blew and killed us. You need to be about 300 yards min not to die when a loaded ship explodes.

That reminds me of a 3 day battle in a storm I once had. I used the hydrophones to get the bearing of the ship and using that information I would surface and take pot shots with the gun while not even seeing what I was shooting at. Of course on the last day I finally got the ship to sink and it was closer then I realized and when it blew up it sank me.

[Char]

Remembered another one. was Hiding below a Crippled Carrier once and the Destroyer went "F IT" and rammed it trying to get to me...Sunk the carrier which didn't explode but ended up Pile driving me right in the Conning tower,Dragging me with it below my crush depth.

[Admiral Halsey]

That is one of the many reasons I never hide under a wounded ship.

[Aktungbby]

Teleporting up to the bridge (SHIFT-U) of my uboat and forgetting to immediately open the hatch before any thing else! When fired upon, the delay with my matrosen's 'arsen' in the way of the cursor, enables the enemy to get hits before I can submerge out of harm's way. :arrgh!:

[TorpX]

I was chasing after a lone merchant in the Java Sea. We were not in a favorable position, so it was either surface and persue, or let it go. We surfaced and while chasing at max. speed, were firing the 4 inch. gun and getting hits.

The enemy ship was constant helming to make it harder to hit, but we started to gain ground. There was no return fire. After we got a good number of hits, I decided to move off his starboard side to administer the coup de grace. As we did this, they opened up on us, using a light flak gun previously unseen. I immediately ordered a crash dive, but it was too late. The damage was already done. We hit bottom, and attempted to effect repairs. As our boat flooded, we could hear the enemy ship sinking... mutual destruction!

[Admiral Halsey]

Ah MAD the only thing that stopped the US and USSR from launching their nukes at each other.

[merc4ulfate]

05-06-1943

40'59N, 11'52W

1205

USS Bogue (CVE-9) with a company of 6 Clemson Class Destroyers on anti submarine warfare exercises southwest of Ireland.

I picked up radar signals to the northeast and dove the UBoat.
Assessing heading I turned 180 160 meters all ahead flank. Sea State was very rough.

I order ahead slow when I felt the group was within range.
Periscope depth ... as I reached the surface scope up tube one outer doors opened the Carrier was 20 degrees starboard of my position at about 2000 meters. I was well inside the screen and the lead destroyer had already passed.

I did the calculations in my head from a visual only. I fire 1,2,3 at angle 30,35,35 and tube 4 at angle 40 degrees.
Torpedo 1,2,3 all passed astern while tube 4 hit the starboard bow.:yeah:

I was frustrated :/\\!!at my calculations but dove to 160 meters all ahead flank. Sonar seems to have the carrier slowing. Passing perpendicular to its last known course I order hard over to starboard. I could hear the escorts coming in behind me but I was sure my depth and speed would have me well in front of their attack position when they arrived.

All ahead slow. Waiting ... carrier sonar bearing slowing and decreasing in range. Depth charges in the water approximately 2000 meters astern. They did not hear me.:har:

:rock:ALL AHEAD FLANK:rock:

The carrier sound signature was very slow and I went to periscope depth to have a look. The carrier was at 010, in her zig-zag she had positioned herself right in front of me and I was staring at her stern, full on. I adjusted coarse to make her 000. FIRE 1!!

Torpedo 1 struck hard on her stern right on the rudder and screw.:yeah: I order 160 meters ahead slow :salute:knowing the attention of the escorts would now be diverted to my position. All quite!!:yep:

As I slowly drifted downwards and now under the crippled carrier :shifty:...
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she sank like a rock:huh: and with speed I had never seen from a warship. She struck my bow :/\\!!instantly destroying all bulkheads in the compartment and even at Flank speed there was little I could do but level us out as we passed 400 meters and imploded like a fragile and cracked egg in the hands of a devilish sea child.

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[Admiral Halsey]

Ouch.

[theelite1500]

Trying to cut across a friendly TF and getting t-boned by a battleship.
I survived, but 5 minutes later tried to cut in front of a carrier... that did not end well.

Stop judging me, it was my first patrol ever. It lasted 2 days.

[Bubblehead1980]

Trying to cut across a friendly TF and getting t-boned by a battleship.
I survived, but 5 minutes later tried to cut in front of a carrier... that did not end well.

Stop judging me, it was my first patrol ever. It lasted 2 days.

LOL I was searching for US TF in Coral Sea in May 42 once, so could see the IJN air attack, it was dark, raining, heavy fog, no radar at the time, was texting on my phone, did not see the lag that occurs when large tf or convoy is near, next think I hear was "ship spotted 060!" , about 200 yards away was the Lexington, plowing on at prob 20 knots, could not avoid it her, ran right over my S boat, put hull damage at 85, pushed me under water, sub rolled over, almost capsizing, then popped up, the massive props hit the sub, sent hull damage to 100, all over:/\\!!

[merc4ulfate]

Dear god bubblehead ... talk about becoming fish food ... minced and everything.

[Admiral Halsey]

LOL I was searching for US TF in Coral Sea in May 42 once, so could see the IJN air attack, it was dark, raining, heavy fog, no radar at the time, was texting on my phone, did not see the lag that occurs when large tf or convoy is near, next think I hear was "ship spotted 060!" , about 200 yards away was the Lexington, plowing on at prob 20 knots, could not avoid it her, ran right over my S boat, put hull damage at 85, pushed me under water, sub rolled over, almost capsizing, then popped up, the massive props hit the sub, sent hull damage to 100, all over:/\\!!

I doubt the crew on board the Lady Lex even noticed they hit something.