I'm a complete and total newb having only bought SH4 and it's expansion a month or so ago, and still am getting used to medium realism. So excuse me if I seem ignorant... but what do you mean by "pull the plug" in the original post there? I seem to have missed something. What did you do? :P

"Pull the plug"=Dive

I'm guessing he means to submerge/dive.

Welcome to SubSim and SH4 JetMan! :p:up:

Oh, no WONDER! xD

It's why I like the U-boat missions. Now you have that handy little thing in the upper right that lets you know if you're submerged or not.

Imagine just going by on the surface in a merchant ship when you see a submarine "stealthily" sitting on the surface in "ambush". I bet you 50% of skippers would think they weren't even seeing a submarine looking that stupid and just keep cruising along. :P


Actually, I like to use that tactic to ambush poor singular merchant vessels. Sit in front of him and watch him slowly weave back and forth while you nibble him to death with the deck gun.

It is typical colorful U.S. Navy idiomatic American English for "Dive The Boat"....nothing to do with the sim directly...sorry if I had you "barking up the wrong tree"...

I'll speed things along here, "barking up the wrong tree"=Looking in the wrong place.:lol:

Have a nice day, and "don't take any wooden nickles"

Peabody

Ok..lets not beat around the bush and we''ll just put the licks in:


Comprehensive reference source:

http://www.merrycoz.org/voices/bartl...ER01.HTM#intro


http://www.merrycoz.org/voices/bartlett/TP.JPG


Though you may not find "pull the plug" listed...since the book is from a time before submarines were in general use...and probably has not been updated since...

forgot to take my crew off GQ and my boat went dead, just as a jap task force with carriers and BBs came my,,, 90 degrees,,, slow,,, no zig-zag. I could only wave,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

It's no problem, really. I'm the newbie here. :P

Yes, but a truly skillful skipper has such ability to focus on the situation at hand that he ignores that handy thing in the upper right...http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...s/drowning.gif

I had just ambushed the IJN fleet heading to Midway, got them coming and going,
sank 3 CV S. Refit at Midway and returned to my assigned patrol area with much success.:lol:
Returning to Pearl Harbor with huge tonnage and hit the same island as Arclight.:damn:
Bow trop room guys not happy.:down: We got to Pearl and Halsey himself congratulated me for the 3 carriers:sunny: than busted me to bilge rat for the island thing. :oops:
As you can see I’m still there.

:rotfl:

I managed to dodge the island... by the skin of my teeth. :lol:

The real trick was ramming that cruiser at +17kts, they really didn't thank me for that one. :nope:

Doubt I had much of a bow torpedo room left after that. :hmm:

Note to self: do not use excessive TC in home waters. :damn:

I run 8,000+ TC all the way in lol....I've only rammed something once. Not sure what it was....I was sinking & seeing my XO look at me like I was a complete jackass. I'm surprised he didn't hand me a helmet & tell me to remember to take the short bus. All that & the "dock" button was flashing in the corner; if I had just taken my foot off the gas a second sooner.

TC will definetly get you into trouble but I can't help it, I'm too impatient for normal time cruising when I have 4,000 miles left to go.

Thats the same look he gives you when you press the D key instead of the S key at high time compression and slam into the bottom.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Speak of the devil! You won't believe this one;

I was running at high TC towards my patrol zone on a new patrol just now. At the same time, I'm trying to flash the BIOS on another PC I have sitting here next to me for repair (USB cam locks up, along with USB mouse, if you start the cam's software. :hmm: ). I booted it from a floppy and typed "dir"... on the wrong keyboard. :nope:

Suddenly I hear bulbs popping and pipes bursting, and I see my XO looking at me like I just insulted his mother, with the screen slowly fading to black. :lol:

Yeah, that "D" key is a killer... especially combined with TC. :damn:

Guilty as well. BTW, there's a mod (I think) that changes the color of those buttons from light yellow/bright yellow to something like dark something to bright green (indicating 'active'). I should look into that myself.

Boy, you really like to run things into the ground. I, on the other hand, am now probably beating a dead horse.


Now there's a term that would have confused anyone just 30 years ago.


Which is why the only key I ever hit when in TC is 'Backspace'.:sunny:

Oh.. you must mean like the way you drive your sub?...;)

There is one like that. I asked about it over on the Mod Forum a while back. You can change the buttons any way you want to suit your needs or fancy...

It is easy to use though at first it looks quite formidible (at least it did to me)...

It can be a life saver when you are in a big hurry to get things done fast...and seconds count..:yep:


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