Bad Weather Disappointment!!

[Lato79]

While on patrol off the eastern coast of Indochina my sonar man picked up a single contact, which turned out to be a Japanese merchant, alone, headed for Camranh Bay. I closed to within visual range, which was tricky as the seas where very heavy, but the sky was clear and visibility good. I actually laughed to myself that you could see the ship pitching about in the waves. Bow up first then stern, from a good 10nm away. I began to set up my approach and accelerated ahead of him on his plotted course and pulled up perpendicular about 2000y off and began readying my tubes. All this time I was getting my sound man to relay contact details. And was also checking the sonar bearing plot on the map. All of a sudden the sonar contact goes dead, the bearing indicator dissappears and to my surprise on the map a little ship sunk icon turns up!? I immediately surface the boat and head over at flank speed to investigate but nothing. I can only presume she sank in heavy seas?... Really interested to know if anyone else has had this or anything similar happen?

[Raider M]

Yes. I've seen them sink in heavy seas. Also seen some sink for no obvious reason. I never get credit for them. Maybe they hit a stray mine or were lost to "operational causes" like a main hatchway gave in or ballast suddenly shifting. I figure there's a war on and strange things happen. Cheers.

[cdrsubron7]

While on patrol off the eastern coast of Indochina my sonar man picked up a single contact, which turned out to be a Japanese merchant, alone, headed for Camranh Bay. I closed to within visual range, which was tricky as the seas where very heavy, but the sky was clear and visibility good. I actually laughed to myself that you could see the ship pitching about in the waves. Bow up first then stern, from a good 10nm away. I began to set up my approach and accelerated ahead of him on his plotted course and pulled up perpendicular about 2000y off and began readying my tubes. All this time I was getting my sound man to relay contact details. And was also checking the sonar bearing plot on the map. All of a sudden the sonar contact goes dead, the bearing indicator dissappears and to my surprise on the map a little ship sunk icon turns up!? I immediately surface the boat and head over at flank speed to investigate but nothing. I can only presume she sank in heavy seas?... Really interested to know if anyone else has had this or anything similar happen?

I've also had it happen to me many times. I won't go as far to say that it is a known bug, but it seems like I've seen it happen in all of the different versions of SH4 and even with the mega mods.

[max-peck]

Pretty sure it is down to bad weather - somehow causes damage to the hitpoints of the ship

Has happened to me more than a few times

I consider it a realism feature :03:

[Lato79]

I never got credit for sinking it. There was no entry in the Captains log. Just a grey ship sunk marker on the map. I suppose I could have free viewed it to the bottom of the sea to try and find it. But I couldn't be bothered to look for that needle.

[fireftr18]

I was trying to sink a ship, I think in the Solomon's. I had just fired a torpedo, then witnessed an Allied plane drop one bomb on her. I watched as the ship slipped beneath the waves. I didn't get the credit.

[Lato79]

I was trying to sink a ship, I think in the Solomon's. I had just fired a torpedo, then witnessed an Allied plane drop one bomb on her. I watched as the ship slipped beneath the waves. I didn't get the credit.

ROBBED!!

[getbac]

I had a couple sink, have no clue why and lost one to a plane one time. Swore he gave me a smile and the finger as he flew off :hmmm:

[MKalafatas]

I watched a battleship mow down three escorting destroyers. Think that must have been the stock game because BB's are pretty rare in TMO/RSRDC.

[Egmont]

I've had it too where all of a sudden I have no sound contact, and I think it's conditions at sea drowning out engine noise, or the target is alerted and perhaps killing engines, even though that might not be a wise choice by their captain.
Finding their bearing and pinging manual on visual will still establish sonar contact and the ship will reappear on the grid.
But if it did go down entirely weather related, perhaps it was a perfefct storm moment you got into there?