wetwarev7
10-13-05, 10:18 AM
Ok, I'm a noob and I just installed RuB. Has anyone else noticed the NO sounds a lot like Sulu?
Anyways, heading to my patrol area, I pick up a merchant ship on the hydrophones, and move to intercept. It's a dark and stormy night, perfect for sneak attacks, except I can't see a thing on deck due to Rub's textures(?). And the light glaring off my screen :lol:
I don't entirely trust my new watch crew to see past the end of thier binoculars, so I stop for sound checks twice as often as I normally do. The result? I am actually able to move ahead of the target and run parrallel to it's course before I intercept it. A first for me!
Unfortuantley, at this time, I can't gauge distance on the hydrophones, and medium/short/long range calls just don't cut it, so I'm running at periscope depth, and I'm looking and looking, and the sound ops telling me the targets' at short range, but I'm not seeing it, till something big obscures my view.
Wtf?
Did my watch officer not make it into the hatch in time, and is even now hanging onto the scope for dear life?
I zoom out the scope and see the most beautiful sight I've ever seen. A merchant vessel almost fills the scopes view, she's so close! I can even make out the British flag, so I call for battle stations, have the Weapons Officer do some calculations, and notice with glee that we are running exactly parallel with each other, with her off my port side at 343m! A perfect interception!
Wait a mintue....I can't turn and shoot this close.
But I'm smart. I've been reading the Subsim boards and all the tutorials I can get my hands on. I vaguely remember reading a tut from Wazoo or Whatzit or whatever his name is. I take some readings, and mark my position and the targets' relative position on the nav map. I wait a few minutes. (3.25 to be exact) I take some more readings, drop the scope and mark the map and start doing some figureing.
It works! Oh great day these tutorials really work! I now know where the ships going to be, when it's going to get there, and how fast it's going! I order flank speed, bearing ten degrees starboard until she disappears into the fog again, then back on a paralell course. I order to surface, berate the CE for trying to charge the batteries at a time like this, and go to plot an easy course to reintercept an easy 90 degree torp shot at 700m.
Wait a minute.......
How the heck am I supposed to shoot a target I can't see? And it's too dangerous to shoot at 350m. I'd likely not have enough time to plan the shot once I'd gotten her back in my sights, or the torp wouldn't arm in time, or I'd blow myself up in the process.
I thought then the hardest thing to do was to just let it go.
I muttered a short curse, not wanting to give up a target that I worked so hard to intercept and had worked out so incredibly well. The crew of that merchant vessel would never know how close they came to visiting Davy jones' locker. I go topside and order standard speed and return to course. The engines' roaring subsides, and we turned hard to port.
Directly into the path of the oncoming vessel.
"Dive! Dive! Full power! Knuckle left!" :o (Stupid twitchy mouse finger) "Dammit! Hard to starboard!!! Where's the stupid button for emergency dive?!? Prepare for impact!!!" My officers calmly inform me, "Opening tube one" "Rudder amidships" and I find myself sitting stupidly at the hydrophone station.
Later, I go outside for a smoke:
Wife:"Are you having fun with your game?"
Me:"MfF."
Wife:"Why are you shaking like that?"
Me:"I almost sank my sub. I don't want to talk about it..."
After a while, I go back inside and notice that I'm not too terribly far from my assigned patrol area, so I TC over to it till the CE informs me we are down to 50% battery power and I remember submerged and TC don't mix. I order us to surface and go topside. It is then that I realize I could have just come up behind the merchant and nailed his engines. At 350m, I couldn't have missed, and at slow speed the torp would have time to arm itself, I would have been at a safe distance at emergency reverse after launch, and I wouldn't have embarrased myself in front of the crew.
I thought then that it was the hardest thing to do to not reload the game.
I sighed, noticing the weather had much improved and went into the crew screen, assigned my watch officer, set the crew to "surface cruise" and thought about my near miss.
I then find myself looking at my desktop. The dreaded "suface cruise" CTD. And I hadn't saved in a while.
As I enter my assigned patrol area, I realize that the hardest thing I had done was to not go after that merchant as I had passed him for a second time in the calmest weather.....
Anyways, heading to my patrol area, I pick up a merchant ship on the hydrophones, and move to intercept. It's a dark and stormy night, perfect for sneak attacks, except I can't see a thing on deck due to Rub's textures(?). And the light glaring off my screen :lol:
I don't entirely trust my new watch crew to see past the end of thier binoculars, so I stop for sound checks twice as often as I normally do. The result? I am actually able to move ahead of the target and run parrallel to it's course before I intercept it. A first for me!
Unfortuantley, at this time, I can't gauge distance on the hydrophones, and medium/short/long range calls just don't cut it, so I'm running at periscope depth, and I'm looking and looking, and the sound ops telling me the targets' at short range, but I'm not seeing it, till something big obscures my view.
Wtf?
Did my watch officer not make it into the hatch in time, and is even now hanging onto the scope for dear life?
I zoom out the scope and see the most beautiful sight I've ever seen. A merchant vessel almost fills the scopes view, she's so close! I can even make out the British flag, so I call for battle stations, have the Weapons Officer do some calculations, and notice with glee that we are running exactly parallel with each other, with her off my port side at 343m! A perfect interception!
Wait a mintue....I can't turn and shoot this close.
But I'm smart. I've been reading the Subsim boards and all the tutorials I can get my hands on. I vaguely remember reading a tut from Wazoo or Whatzit or whatever his name is. I take some readings, and mark my position and the targets' relative position on the nav map. I wait a few minutes. (3.25 to be exact) I take some more readings, drop the scope and mark the map and start doing some figureing.
It works! Oh great day these tutorials really work! I now know where the ships going to be, when it's going to get there, and how fast it's going! I order flank speed, bearing ten degrees starboard until she disappears into the fog again, then back on a paralell course. I order to surface, berate the CE for trying to charge the batteries at a time like this, and go to plot an easy course to reintercept an easy 90 degree torp shot at 700m.
Wait a minute.......
How the heck am I supposed to shoot a target I can't see? And it's too dangerous to shoot at 350m. I'd likely not have enough time to plan the shot once I'd gotten her back in my sights, or the torp wouldn't arm in time, or I'd blow myself up in the process.
I thought then the hardest thing to do was to just let it go.
I muttered a short curse, not wanting to give up a target that I worked so hard to intercept and had worked out so incredibly well. The crew of that merchant vessel would never know how close they came to visiting Davy jones' locker. I go topside and order standard speed and return to course. The engines' roaring subsides, and we turned hard to port.
Directly into the path of the oncoming vessel.
"Dive! Dive! Full power! Knuckle left!" :o (Stupid twitchy mouse finger) "Dammit! Hard to starboard!!! Where's the stupid button for emergency dive?!? Prepare for impact!!!" My officers calmly inform me, "Opening tube one" "Rudder amidships" and I find myself sitting stupidly at the hydrophone station.
Later, I go outside for a smoke:
Wife:"Are you having fun with your game?"
Me:"MfF."
Wife:"Why are you shaking like that?"
Me:"I almost sank my sub. I don't want to talk about it..."
After a while, I go back inside and notice that I'm not too terribly far from my assigned patrol area, so I TC over to it till the CE informs me we are down to 50% battery power and I remember submerged and TC don't mix. I order us to surface and go topside. It is then that I realize I could have just come up behind the merchant and nailed his engines. At 350m, I couldn't have missed, and at slow speed the torp would have time to arm itself, I would have been at a safe distance at emergency reverse after launch, and I wouldn't have embarrased myself in front of the crew.
I thought then that it was the hardest thing to do to not reload the game.
I sighed, noticing the weather had much improved and went into the crew screen, assigned my watch officer, set the crew to "surface cruise" and thought about my near miss.
I then find myself looking at my desktop. The dreaded "suface cruise" CTD. And I hadn't saved in a while.
As I enter my assigned patrol area, I realize that the hardest thing I had done was to not go after that merchant as I had passed him for a second time in the calmest weather.....