[REL] Bungo pete
 

Bungo pete. That ex Japanese submariner turned destroyer captain. He know's his stuff. Reputed to be superhuman, or supernatural, the Bungo straights is known as a submarine graveyard. Unless your crazy good, or just plain crazy, avoid the Bungo Straights if you can. If you must go into the Bungo Suido, good luck, your going to need it.


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Rec manual page.
http://www.ducimus.net/sh4/release/bungo_pete_a.jpg
The Akikaze!
http://www.ducimus.net/sh4/release/bungo_pete_b.jpg
"The Akikaze never misses!"

My advice, this guy is death incarnated, avoid him, and don't try and get around this guy in calm weather.

Readme:

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http://www.ducimus.net/sh4/release/REL_Bungo_pete.7z

Cool! I saw the movie and was wondering where are the Bungo Starights.... I didn´t know this was real, I thought it was just a movie.

Good work!:up:

The bungo suido (aka bungo channel, or bungo strights) is real.
http://laurel.forest.net/tidesend/im...folios/932.jpg

The "Akikaze" as presented in the book and movie, was fictional. The real akaikaze wasnt anything like it was presented in the movie and was also the scene of a recorded war crime in the execution of prisoners on its aft deck.

That's an awesome enhancement to this game. Thank you!

Thank you soooo much! Another way to die. (I downloaded it as soon as I saw it.)

Strictly speaking, we need a Jap sub and a decoy with a shallow draft if we are going for a Run Silent, Run Deep 'Bungo Straits' scenario, as those who know the movie will recall. :D

Nevertheless, very cool.

Will this new ship be able to be used in editor missions I can create?

JIM

Yeah Ole Bungo was a sneaky Basid.....Turns out the lethal blow was delivered from errrr........Watch the film.....read the book...lol

Deep six

Yeah well, its a mod, compromises have to be made somewhere. Besides for that scenario to work, wed have to have a submerged AI sub that can shoot torpedos. Good luck gettign that to work! :rotfl:

Hiya, Keep up the excellent work Ducimus! Only main mod I use is yours plus some extra addons. Off to go visit Uncle Bungo!

Cool :up:

Awesome Idea :up:

The Legend of Sector 7 lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YEP. just installed the files and checked the editor. The DE is there
ready for some sea duty against your sub....

JIM

Sorry i missed your question, but yup. Thats how i originally tested it. I created a single mission first. After i had established everything was working correctly, i placed him an the campaign game, took a stroll over to the bungo straights, and he seriously kicked my ass. Calm seas, less then 300 feet of water, and he nailed me on the first pass. The Akakazi never misses :rotfl:

Well now, I wouldn't say never. I just tried it in my new mission and it
performed magnificient. Of course, I was in good depth but he still had
a location on me most of the time. He was at a loss when I hid under a
merchant dead in the water (my old SH3 trick) but when I came out again,
he picked me right up. I wanted to see how good he was on the surface so
I came up. He immediately rammed me and did NOT self-destruct???????
This is the first time I have seen that happen !! Did you make this new DE
indestructable? He didn't seem to take any damage at all. It destroyed me
thought big time....

JIM

Oh hes quite distructable. I didnt do anything to alter his hitpoints. Probably a fluke he didnt self destruct. He rammed me too, but i was shooting back with a rear mounted deck gun.

Actually, I sorta made him ram me. I was at PD when he started a run so
I turned sharp & surfaced right in front of him. He hit me just aft of the
conning tower at a good clip dropping DCs. The DE went up and over me
like I have seen before many times BUT this time, it didn't break in half and
explode like ALL the other DDs did. (and I do mean ALL of the others)
Something was different, no fire or anything did I observe. You must have
changed something cause I NEVER had that happen before !!!

JIM

Nice and great job to improve the gameplay :up:

Many thanks Ducimus ! :sunny:


Jean

Very cool indeed. I wonder, can you make this spawn randomly with the rest of the game? In other words, spawn with any convoy randomly throughout the Pacific. Would be cool to have this so you REALLY do not know how good the escort could be. Something to really keep you down with every convoy because you just don't know:o

Yeah you could, but you'd really want to change his sensor arrangements before you did that. Right now, as is, im not sure youd want him in the rest of the game. Basically i gave him the best sensors the japanese have in the AI_sensors.dat file, for the entire length of the war. His passive sonar has a detection radius of like 9KM with a sensitivty of like .07. His active sonar is basically the JP version of the Q sonar, very Sensitive, and has an downward angle of 135 degrees. So unless your in a balao, there aint no way your getting under his beam.

Ordinarly i wouldnt create an escort like that, but the only reason i did was because he was unique. Slap a crew rating of 3 or 4 on him, and he's death incarinate. Just a heads up is all, if you want to see more of him, id tone him down some.