View Full Version : what is you most rediculess death in SH4?
Amazigh1337
04-30-14, 02:30 PM
i'll give it a starter,
my most rediculess death was ramming a destroyer at flank speed ahead on surface, surviving, sunken destroyer, turn hard left, end up on the beach... game over...
why can't i give my crew a day on the beach after "hard" working for the destroyer kill? :har:
Just yesterday. DCed and flooded engine room, s class. Submerged, but almost straight up and down in the water with the bow out of the water past the tubes.
Needless to say, the DD had no trouble finding me....
Admiral Halsey
04-30-14, 04:05 PM
Accidentally surfacing in the middle of a Japanese TF.
Amazigh1337
04-30-14, 04:10 PM
Accidentally surfacing in the middle of a Japanese TF.
whats wrong with saying hello? you could have come in peace !
Dread Knot
04-30-14, 05:23 PM
I embedded my sub in a tiny island I didn't notice on the charts. :oops:
Admiral Halsey
04-30-14, 06:25 PM
whats wrong with saying hello? you could have come in peace !
Well to be fair I did just sink a Kongo.
depthtok33l
04-30-14, 06:59 PM
I have a few mods installed that enhances the enemy's AI - I died in the Artillery Tutorial Mission. Sunk by a merchant ship using flak I think. :haha:
Hauling butt back to Midway, ran aground at flank speed and high TC on a small island near the atoll, right after a good patrol too. That navigator is now a supply clerk.
Just yesterday. DCed and flooded engine room, s class. Submerged, but almost straight up and down in the water with the bow out of the water past the tubes.
Needless to say, the DD had no trouble finding me....
I had that happen to me too, I managed to control my depth and fire off some more torpedoes and sink another DD, unfortunately there was a crippled BB right next to me, I tried to breach at flank, then haul away on the surface. I managed to get leveled out up on top right before the BB blasted me back to the bottom for good.
fireftr18
04-30-14, 09:30 PM
I think some tiny island while on tc. That always makes me feel stupid. :har:
Bubblehead1980
04-30-14, 09:42 PM
Way back when had stock game v 1.4. I had just read Richard O Kane's "WAHOO" for the first time and decided to try the "down the throat shot" on a charging DD after sinking a tanker with four stern torpedoes.Turned my bow into the DD, fired at 600 yards, , one missed, one hit right in the bow, DD exploded.Instead of hitting the dive button to get under the DD after firing, I hit the surface button by mistake and popped to about 35 feet before dive officer caught boat and stopped the ascent.One of two torpedoes fired hit the DD right in the down, blowing it off and causing a massive explosion, the DD was finished.However, the burning hulk (slowed but still moving at 25-30 knots ) plowed right into conning tower and side of hull where control room is, since when realized the error, was too late to dive under in such short time. Gato class sub(forgot which one) went under, hull damage went to 100, game over.
Warren Peace
04-30-14, 10:13 PM
Coming out of Pearl in my shiny new command, the USS Pike, on my first ever war cruise. Set course out of the harbor, ordered ahead 2/3rds and went to get a cup of coffee. To my horror, the crew had driven us straight into the hulk of a BB (I believe it was the Oklahoma, though I could be wrong).
merc4ulfate
04-30-14, 10:49 PM
Hedge-hogged in shallow water. The explosive concussion off the bottom lifted my U-boat to the surface where two destroyers filled me full of holes.
I was on the surface in an S-class boat, chasing after a merchant and finishing it off with a few more shells. As I pulled around to the starboard side, it opened up on us with one of those small light flak guns, and immediately did damage.
We dived quickly, but suffered so much damage, we could not get off the bottom.
oh actually, now I remember another running aground. The navigator missed the command of 'follow plotted course' and ran aground heading out of the harbor at midway at full speed.:88)
Warren Peace
05-01-14, 10:23 PM
Ah, thought of another one. Not really 'ridiculous', necessarily, but it was extremely annoying at the time. After the Pearl Harbor fiasco, I decided to run my next cruise out of Manila, no sunken hulks for my idiotic crew to drive into. Got my shiny new S-class (okay, not shiny, or new...it was a rusted hulk) and started out of the harbor. As I was clearing land-mass and about to turn north to my assigned area, my WO calls out that he's sighted an aircraft. Cool, probably allied this close to Manila, let's take a look and see what it is.
Went up on deck to wait for a visual..looking around- Oh, look at that, a Catalina! Cool.... wait, Catalina's don't have 4 engines...oh hell. Bombs, dead, sunk.
Not really 'ridiculous', necessarily, but it was extremely annoying at the time.
I see what you mean.
like three days ago. Was heading to the Solomons from Pearl.......I was passing through the Marshalls. My plotting course passed through a portion of shallow waters, and somebody beleived that putting a steel protection barrier at the middle of that shallow pond was a good idea.... :stare:
When I heard a metal crash, my sub was swinging by the middle of the hull.......... total loss....... :/\\!!
magic452
05-02-14, 12:34 AM
Pretty much ALL of the above. :o:o :/\\!!:/\\!!
Magic
fastbikkel
05-02-14, 08:49 AM
Giving the order to go deep. Only to find out i am in shallow water. The boat gets damaged on a rock, flooding as a result without the possibility to fix it.
les green01
05-02-14, 09:34 AM
I use to run into islands all the time but now use a mod that makes land different color shallow water a different color really helps call fjb color navigation map
Armistead
05-02-14, 03:30 PM
Had too many to mention, but one of my frustrating ones.. I was using my travs mod that allows you to sit on the bottom without damage, plus you can sink from the surface if flooded. Repair times can take many days.
I attacked the Center Force, sunk both Y's in the San Bern St. I took damage and would've sunk to the deeps if not in the shallows, about 300 ft. The DD's finally left. I tried numerous times to surface, but couldn't. I could make a few knots on the bottom, so slowly I crawled towards land. It took several hours until I got to where sub surfaced, basically beached. I had 3 100% flooded compartments that with travs mod could be repaired, but days. When daylight came a few planes bothered me, so I backed up in the deeps until sub was covered with water. I thought I was safe, but a plane finally saw me and bombed me causing more damage, plus called more in. I backed deeper, but one finally scored and sunk my sub.
Yeah, that would hurt, after all you went through.
I had 3 100% flooded compartments that with travs mod could be repaired, but days. When daylight came a few planes bothered me, so I backed up in the deeps until sub was covered with water. I thought I was safe, but a plane finally saw me and bombed me causing more damage, plus called more in. I backed deeper, but one finally scored and sunk my sub.
By far the most ridiculous and thrilling experience in this post! :arrgh!:
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