panthercules
05-23-06, 10:10 PM
In my second patrol with GW 1.0, I finally lost contact with the convoy I have been stalking through heavy storms for the last 7-8 days in-game - it zigged when I zagged :(
As I was heading back to where I figured it had to have gone, I got a radio report of several individual ships and small convoys in that general location. It appeared from the constant radio traffic I was getting from BdU that the convoy had been hit by a wolfpack and had scattered (not kidding - even though I was assuming that the messages were just random/unrelated, it was uncanny how they continued for the last 3 days I was tracking this particular convoy and kept talking about a wolfpack gathering for an attack on a certain date, which happened to be when this particular convoy scattered like that - very cool even if just a coincidence).
Anyway, I managed to catch up with a lone C-2 and put a couple of torpedoes into her as she drifted in and out of the fog/mists/rain at about 350-400m range. She eventually drifted to a stop and began listing, but I wanted to finish her off before any of the escorts decided to come poking around, so I cozied up to her so I could bring my stern tubes to bear. Suddenly, she snapped on a searchlight and fixed it on my bridge (fortunately, she was unarmed, as I had been careful to observe on my first approach).
The thing I found most fascinating was that my bridge was really bathed in light by this searchlight - everybody and everything was lit up really well, and the crew were actually crouching down on the bridge (first time I ever saw that - wish they would do that when the waves come crashing over the bridge). It got me thinking - if the merchant ship's searchlights can light up our boats, is there any way to mod a searchlight onto our U-boats so we could use it to light up the target's flag for ID purposes when it's too rough to use star shells for that purpose? That would be so cool to be able to do this, at least in the early war period.
Anybody know if this has been or could be modded to work?
As I was heading back to where I figured it had to have gone, I got a radio report of several individual ships and small convoys in that general location. It appeared from the constant radio traffic I was getting from BdU that the convoy had been hit by a wolfpack and had scattered (not kidding - even though I was assuming that the messages were just random/unrelated, it was uncanny how they continued for the last 3 days I was tracking this particular convoy and kept talking about a wolfpack gathering for an attack on a certain date, which happened to be when this particular convoy scattered like that - very cool even if just a coincidence).
Anyway, I managed to catch up with a lone C-2 and put a couple of torpedoes into her as she drifted in and out of the fog/mists/rain at about 350-400m range. She eventually drifted to a stop and began listing, but I wanted to finish her off before any of the escorts decided to come poking around, so I cozied up to her so I could bring my stern tubes to bear. Suddenly, she snapped on a searchlight and fixed it on my bridge (fortunately, she was unarmed, as I had been careful to observe on my first approach).
The thing I found most fascinating was that my bridge was really bathed in light by this searchlight - everybody and everything was lit up really well, and the crew were actually crouching down on the bridge (first time I ever saw that - wish they would do that when the waves come crashing over the bridge). It got me thinking - if the merchant ship's searchlights can light up our boats, is there any way to mod a searchlight onto our U-boats so we could use it to light up the target's flag for ID purposes when it's too rough to use star shells for that purpose? That would be so cool to be able to do this, at least in the early war period.
Anybody know if this has been or could be modded to work?