It's not fair!

[CybrSlydr]

lol Awwwwww man! Found a nice convoy! Scanned it to see if anything was worth my final torpedo - then I saw this!

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a269/CybrSlydr/no.jpg

I'm still going to try and put my final fish into it and *hope* I hit something vital.

One freaking torpedo... And I just came from sinking a Medium Merchant - who took 3 torpedos. :( lol

[CptGrayWolf]

So why don't ya just surface and use your deck gun? :P

[Enigma]

Ram him. :rotfl:

[Firebird]

Yeah! And post some pics! :rotfl:

[CybrSlydr]

Los!

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a269/CybrSlydr/bb1.jpg

Stay on target, stay on target!

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a269/CybrSlydr/bb2.jpg

Please don't be a dud!!

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a269/CybrSlydr/bb3.jpg

It's a hit!!!

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a269/CybrSlydr/bb4.jpg

Decent location - too far fore, but it's a hit.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a269/CybrSlydr/bb5.jpg

Unfortunately, no spectacular secondary explosions or sinking. :(

My WO ID's it as a Nelson BB.

[irish1958]

Next time don't us a midget sub; get a real one with more than one torpedo.
irish1958

[CptGrayWolf]

hmmm, nice shot but the logical thing to do was to target a smaller ship, with chances of a sinking.
Then again maybe some BB were sunk using only 1 torp.

[CybrSlydr]

Ramming speed!!!

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a269/CybrSlydr/bb6.jpg

Git back 'ere!

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a269/CybrSlydr/bb7.jpg

Buzz kill!

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a269/CybrSlydr/bb8.jpg

Screen!!! :rock:

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a269/CybrSlydr/bb9.jpg

[Type941]

can't destroy a nelson with one torpedo even if you hit the magazine.

[Nippelspanner]

Hehe, very nice...

"Wer auf See siegreich sein will, muss stets angreifen!" :up:

[CybrSlydr]

Close!!

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a269/CybrSlydr/bb10.jpg

Doesn't look good!

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a269/CybrSlydr/bb11.jpg

Shortly after the above shot...

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a269/CybrSlydr/bb12.jpg

[Umfuld]

My screen shots are coming out all black.

Grumble.

[CptGrayWolf]

can't destroy a nelson with one torpedo even if you hit the magazine.
Good to know :up:

[CybrSlydr]

hmmm, nice shot but the logical thing to do was to target a smaller ship, with chances of a sinking.
Then again maybe some BB were sunk using only 1 torp.

Indeed - that was my original intent, but it's the first time I've seen a BB in this game in a convoy, so I figured I'd give it a shot - literally. lol

I saved just prior to launching, so I'll just reload and take out a tanker and go home.

:up: :|\

[Nippelspanner]

can't destroy a nelson with one torpedo even if you hit the magazine.
Good to know :up:

no wait... that depends if youre running a mod! i already sunk a BB in scapa with a lucky magazine hit. ok, wasnt the mighty nelson, but in the zones.cfg BB´s armored all the same.

its all about luck, because ammobunks etc. have a chance of critical hit. that means sometimes they blow up, sometimes they dont...

[CybrSlydr]

Just reloaded - apparently I didn't save. :(

But it's a save appx. 1 day earlier!!!

I now have 5 torps! :rock:

Now, if I can find that convoy again... :hmm: :ping:

[Nippelspanner]

Just reloaded - apparently I didn't save. :(

But it's a save appx. 1 day earlier!!!

I now have 5 torps! :rock:

Now, if I can find that convoy again... :hmm: :ping:

sounds like a secret weapon dönitz could have needed... :hmm:

[CybrSlydr]

:-j :-j

What can I say, I'm an opportunist. :know: :up:

[CybrSlydr]

Apparently, things are not ALWAYS the same when you reload!

I found the convoy - but look!

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a269/CybrSlydr/bbs1.jpg

Different ship!!!!

Bigger! :rotfl: :rock: :up:

[CybrSlydr]

4 torps finally sunk her! All on the starboard rear quarter. Blew off both it's starboard propellers.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a269/CybrSlydr/bbs2.jpg

Down she goes!

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a269/CybrSlydr/bbs3.jpg

[Nippelspanner]

the most impressive i see on this pics are the FPS...damn it...inside of a convoyattack youve got nearly 100FPS at surface???

i have 25-35! :oops:

[CybrSlydr]

I'm just lucky like that. :)

Just upgraded my video card and traded my old one for 2GB of RAM.

AMD x64 3500+, 2.5GB SDRAM, ATi x1900XT 512, Windows XP Pro, SoundBlaster Audigy 2.

All screenshots taken with 6x Temporal AA and 16x HQ AF with the new 6.4 Catalyst drivers. On the plotting screen I can get 180+ - game runs at 1024x TC smooth as a baby's behind.

Only slowdowns I get are ports at high TCs.

Are there any ways to get around the 1024x768 resolution you know of? Like a command path addon?

[Keelbuster]

Interesting that it flipped the BB on you after loading. Revenge is slightly less in tonnage, but I think she's a better sink than Nelson - those bulging sides just beg to be popped with a few fish. I once encountered that kind of convoy in the channel, early in the war. I was on my way back, and I had no torpedoes. I had to watch revenge sail by... :damn:

Kb

P.S. - I sunk a Revenge with 1 torp, even using NYGM TW sinking mods (i.e. no critical hit). It was still very lucky - bad weather, a bow shot, and after the bow rooms flooded her own engines pushed her down into a dive. With the vanilla game an ammunition bunker hit is a real possibility (like 50/50).

P.P.S Just sunk a passenger liner out of halifax with bow shots. She also pushed herself into it....and then the boiler blew :D

[CybrSlydr]

Interesting.

I'm about 4 patrols later in my career and found another convoy - this one with the Nelson.

Managed to put 4 into the Nelson on the port side - she's slightly listing, but nothing severe. :(

I was shadowing the convoy for about 15hrs and when I did the crew manage buttons, it crashed my game. D'oh....

This is with GW 1.1 and the GW NYGM campaign.

[CptGrayWolf]

Apparently, things are not ALWAYS the same when you reload!

I found the convoy - but look!

Different ship!!!!

Bigger! :rotfl: :rock: :up:

Errr...Hey that's not good! :doh: Just curious, are you using any mods or stock game?

[CybrSlydr]

...

This is with GW 1.1 and the GW NYGM campaign.

:)

Also, a bit of an update - I sunk the Nelson. She took 6 torps in the port rear quarter (total), but it was worth it!

Great thing was I did this attack at night. Came at them abeam and shot 3 torps, just to be sure. One went wide right and struck a large Cargo ship, destroying it while the other two hit the Nelson and sunk her. Talk about dumb luck! lol Finished off that patrol with appx. 55k. :ping:

[CybrSlydr]

I find this odd...

While at high TCs (512 and 1024), my Uboat is spontaneously destroyed... Sometimes in proximity to land (but no where near close enough to run aground) othertimes out in the middle of nowhere. Sometimes my boat even goes down aLOT further than periscope depth when I push the P key - sometimes bottoming out.

I keep thinking it's Aircraft, but I don't get an Aircraft Sighted message or anything like an enemy boat is near.

Anyone else run across something like this?....

[McBeck]

Are there any ways to get around the 1024x768 resolution you know of? Like a command path addon?
Yup..there is a "hack" you can use.
Try search the community manuals for high res fix or something like that. Its well documented.

[Gizzmoe]

Are there any ways to get around the 1024x768 resolution you know of? Like a command path addon?

http://www.communitymanuals.com/shiii/index.php?title=Display_Resolution

[CybrSlydr]

Thanks for the link Gizzmoe! :)

Still futzing with it - EDIT: - found where.

Man, this game is gonna look good at 1920x1200! :rock: :ping: :oops:

[Zyco]

:D nice picture story, making me want to play now.. come on end of the day!

[lonehawknz]

can't destroy a nelson with one torpedo even if you hit the magazine.

Not true Type 941. Not true. It can be done!

(now wishes he'd taken pictures to prove it!) :know:

However, my favourite kill by far, if a complete waste of a torpedo, was a Type 1 hit against an Elco. hehehehe.

It leapt about 50 feet out of the water spinning round and round, end on end. Slight overkill... :up:

That was back when I didn't know how renown worked...

[CybrSlydr]

:D nice picture story, making me want to play now.. come on end of the day!

Thank you! :up: :rock:

Found out in my previous patrol that a Nelson BB can be destroyed with two torpedos. :D

[CybrSlydr]

I also found out that while it's great having it play at 1920x1200, I can no longer alt-tab out and do other things while on TC. :down:

It's one of those where when I alt-tab, the taskbar shows and the screen goes black. I can click on stuff in the taskbar, but can never see it. Pity. I might have to stop using the res hack now. :(