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Capt Baracuda 11-18-07 03:16 PM
Help, rudder destroyed!!
 
Hi, on one of my missions I ran into a japanese convoy, i'm talking about 7 cargo ships and 3 destroyers, i took out 2 destroyers but the 3th got me by suprise, the depth charges destroyed some equipment (repairable) but also my rudder is gone/destroyed. i fled from the convoy but i can't turn anymore, is there something i can do about this? Or do i have to restart this mission??

Grtz

fireship4 11-18-07 03:23 PM
Well in real life I think you could turnby running only one of the propellors. On SH4 I don't think theres anything you can do except drown.

mrbeast 11-18-07 03:25 PM
I'm afraid there is nothing you can do to rectify the situation. The game doesn't allow you to turn the sub without the rudder, so you will have to abandon the mission or reload a prior save game.

The inability to turn your sub using the screws is sadly an oversight by the game devs.

Capt Baracuda 11-18-07 04:35 PM
To bad, thanks for telling :)

capt_frank 11-18-07 05:40 PM
I just tried a mission for the first time without an external camera on top of manual targeting.

I have got to be the worst capitano in the Pacific, manual targeting is a beast; however, I did sink three ships and two life rafts...and I somehow survived being without the camera.

Only to have my rudder forcefully removed by two ornery DDs.

Now that's a fine how-do-you-do.

Needless to say, I ended my career. :down:

Torplexed 11-18-07 05:46 PM
Has anyone tried calling Triple A?.....:hmm:

http://neptoon.homestead.com/TOWED.jpg

kylesplanet 11-18-07 05:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Torplexed
Has anyone tried calling Triple A?.....:hmm:

http://neptoon.homestead.com/TOWED.jpg
Or maybe Onstar? I locked the keys up in her in port the other day and they saved me a very embarrasing trip to the admirals office.:p

ATR-42 11-18-07 10:26 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by kylesplanet
Or maybe Onstar?
LMFOA!!!:lol:

i can just hear them now.

"Hi how can we help you?"

D.E 11-19-07 09:43 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Capt Baracuda
Hi, on one of my missions I ran into a japanese convoy, i'm talking about 7 cargo ships and 3 destroyers, i took out 2 destroyers but the 3th got me by suprise, the depth charges destroyed some equipment (repairable) but also my rudder is gone/destroyed. i fled from the convoy but i can't turn anymore, is there something i can do about this? Or do i have to restart this mission??

Grtz
Yeah, same thing happened to me on one of my patrols. I was happily steaming home after a successful mission with a nice number of tonnage in my records. Suddenly I got surprised by a G4M Betty whilst surfaced. Manned the AA- guns and watched my crew turning the attacker into a ball of flames. The poor pilot, now mad, did a nice kamikaze right into to the stern of my sub, taking my rudder with him to the bottom of the ocean.

A good thing is that I was smart enough to save about 20- mins before this little accident.

Capt Baracuda 11-19-07 11:08 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by D.E
Quote:
Originally Posted by Capt Baracuda
Hi, on one of my missions I ran into a japanese convoy, i'm talking about 7 cargo ships and 3 destroyers, i took out 2 destroyers but the 3th got me by suprise, the depth charges destroyed some equipment (repairable) but also my rudder is gone/destroyed. i fled from the convoy but i can't turn anymore, is there something i can do about this? Or do i have to restart this mission??

Grtz
Yeah, same thing happened to me on one of my patrols. I was happily steaming home after a successful mission with a nice number of tonnage in my records. Suddenly I got surprised by a G4M Betty whilst surfaced. Manned the AA- guns and watched my crew turning the attacker into a ball of flames. The poor pilot, now mad, did a nice kamikaze right into to the stern of my sub, taking my rudder with him to the bottom of the ocean.

A good thing is that I was smart enough to save about 20- mins before this little accident.
Yeah, i saved my game before i attackted te convoy. so i got lucky :p

Snuffy 11-19-07 01:58 PM
Time to walk home ... the boats not going to take you there.

John Channing 11-19-07 02:09 PM
Lost your rudder?
 
S is for the many ships I'm siiiinking
C is for my crewman, that I love
R is for my Recon trips a'slinking
E is for the enemy above
W is for the water that will hide me
D is for the DCs that never end

Put them all together they spell Screeeeewed

And that is what you are, my friend.


JCC
Using a little poetic license with spelling

Winston Caine 11-19-07 02:32 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by John Channing
S is for the many ships I'm siiiinking
C is for my crewman, that I love
R is for my Recon trips a'slinking
E is for the enemy above
W is for the water that will hide me
D is for the DCs that never end

Put them all together they spell Screeeeewed

And that is what you are, my friend.


JCC
Using a little poetic license with spelling
:rotfl::rotfl:
Good one.

AVGWarhawk 11-19-07 03:33 PM
You need MacGyver. One piece of aluminum foil and paperclip is all he needs to get you patched up. When done with the rudder he can fashion a nuclear warhead for your torpedoes using the same material. :smug:

Reaves 11-19-07 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
You need MacGyver. One piece of aluminum foil and paperclip is all he needs to get you patched up. When done with the rudder he can fashion a nuclear warhead for your torpedoes using the same material. :smug:
Nah he also needs a stick of gum for the nuke.

DeepSix 11-19-07 08:15 PM
:rotfl: A ball point pen, too - sure to be needed for something.

SteamWake 11-19-07 09:42 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by capt_frank
I just tried a mission for the first time without an external camera on top of manual targeting.

I have got to be the worst capitano in the Pacific, manual targeting is a beast; however, I did sink three ships and two life rafts...and I somehow survived being without the camera.

Only to have my rudder forcefully removed by two ornery DDs.

Now that's a fine how-do-you-do.

Needless to say, I ended my career. :down:
Two life rafts ? :rotfl:

xboxer 11-20-07 02:45 AM
That's why you should save often.

I always make it a point to save before I engage ships/convoys and after I have sunk some ships.

Winston Caine 11-20-07 03:27 AM
I also make a different save when engaging armed targets. I once got in a clinch with some Akizukis on my S-44. They DCed me, but I managed to sink two and thought I'm alive. I come back to the base (the sub did sail kinda weird though), and they say me I can't ride this rust bucket full of holes anymore, wondering how did I even make it to the harbour and that they'll give me another ship. Yay! An S-18. :nope:

capt_frank 11-20-07 07:56 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by SteamWake

Two life rafts ? :rotfl:
Yeah, since ROW, seems the Japanese survivors carry nitro in their rafts...makeum big explosions, great fun kimosabe! :D


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