Raptor_Pilot
09-17-15, 02:20 PM
So, I started a new career after I finished building my latest installation of GFO + a few mini mods.
Started with my favorite Sargo-Class, the U.S.S. Sculpin, and sailed out of Manilla Bay on my first patrol. On the way to Luzon I made contact with a Task Force containing a couple Cruisers, a whole flock of Destroyers, and a long line of Troop Transports and Liners.
I fire off a contact report, and promptly receive orders to attack. I pass under the forward Destroyer screen, and bite off a couple Transports at the back of the column. The escorts go ballistic, so I decide to quit while I'm ahead. I spent the next few days hounding a convoy up in Luzon, then return to base when all my torpedoes are expended.
The turnaround time at base is only two days because the Japs have neutralized Manilla. I get my orders for the next patrol, photo recon enemy carriers in Manilla Bay. Yes, I technically started the patrol in hostile territory.
So the photo recon goes without a hitch, I'm already in the bay to start with, so I dodge the one Destroyer protecting the two Escort Carriers, take my photos, then get a brilliant idea.
Since I'm already here, why not just sink the carriers and be done with it?
Naturally, my crew jumps at the chance to sink some big fat targets currently sitting inactive and stationary. I end up firing off 12 torpedoes, but thankfully these are the early war Mark 14 torpedoes, so only 4 of them actually hit the targets and detonate.
Needless to say, that wasn't enough to sink the carriers, and rather than sit around reloading my tubes, I man the deck gun, and go to work. About 65 rounds later, both carriers have exploded and sank.
Meanwhile, the Destroyer I'd dodged catches up to me. Being in shallow water, the only way to escape is to fight my way out. A swirling gunfight erupts, and I manage to sink the Destroyer.
I limp away towards the entrance to Manilla bay with 75% hull damage, and a laundry list of repairs. I figure I'll head straight to Java, and call it a patrol. I sneak past the two Destroyers guarding the entrance to the bay and hit open water.
At this point I figure I'm home safe, but when the sun comes up, my radar detects an incoming aircraft. I dive to periscope depth, hoping I won't flood and sink, and I turn up the Time Compression to wait for 10 minutes before surfacing.
When I go to surface the boat, I accidentally click the wrong side of the depth control, and thanks to the TC being turned up, my boat dives to 165 feet before I can stop it.
Realizing my mistake, I click Emergency Surface as fast as I can, and just as we get back to the surface, my submarine floods and sinks.
Everyone is dead and the career is over, all because the depth control gauge is too damn small! :wah:
Now I don't have to tell you, but the previous saved game was from the start of the patrol, which means I need to do everything all over again! :doh:
So does anyone else have a story where a simple mistake got everyone killed? I'd like to know I'm not the only one.
Started with my favorite Sargo-Class, the U.S.S. Sculpin, and sailed out of Manilla Bay on my first patrol. On the way to Luzon I made contact with a Task Force containing a couple Cruisers, a whole flock of Destroyers, and a long line of Troop Transports and Liners.
I fire off a contact report, and promptly receive orders to attack. I pass under the forward Destroyer screen, and bite off a couple Transports at the back of the column. The escorts go ballistic, so I decide to quit while I'm ahead. I spent the next few days hounding a convoy up in Luzon, then return to base when all my torpedoes are expended.
The turnaround time at base is only two days because the Japs have neutralized Manilla. I get my orders for the next patrol, photo recon enemy carriers in Manilla Bay. Yes, I technically started the patrol in hostile territory.
So the photo recon goes without a hitch, I'm already in the bay to start with, so I dodge the one Destroyer protecting the two Escort Carriers, take my photos, then get a brilliant idea.
Since I'm already here, why not just sink the carriers and be done with it?
Naturally, my crew jumps at the chance to sink some big fat targets currently sitting inactive and stationary. I end up firing off 12 torpedoes, but thankfully these are the early war Mark 14 torpedoes, so only 4 of them actually hit the targets and detonate.
Needless to say, that wasn't enough to sink the carriers, and rather than sit around reloading my tubes, I man the deck gun, and go to work. About 65 rounds later, both carriers have exploded and sank.
Meanwhile, the Destroyer I'd dodged catches up to me. Being in shallow water, the only way to escape is to fight my way out. A swirling gunfight erupts, and I manage to sink the Destroyer.
I limp away towards the entrance to Manilla bay with 75% hull damage, and a laundry list of repairs. I figure I'll head straight to Java, and call it a patrol. I sneak past the two Destroyers guarding the entrance to the bay and hit open water.
At this point I figure I'm home safe, but when the sun comes up, my radar detects an incoming aircraft. I dive to periscope depth, hoping I won't flood and sink, and I turn up the Time Compression to wait for 10 minutes before surfacing.
When I go to surface the boat, I accidentally click the wrong side of the depth control, and thanks to the TC being turned up, my boat dives to 165 feet before I can stop it.
Realizing my mistake, I click Emergency Surface as fast as I can, and just as we get back to the surface, my submarine floods and sinks.
Everyone is dead and the career is over, all because the depth control gauge is too damn small! :wah:
Now I don't have to tell you, but the previous saved game was from the start of the patrol, which means I need to do everything all over again! :doh:
So does anyone else have a story where a simple mistake got everyone killed? I'd like to know I'm not the only one.