[Admiral8Q]

Originally Posted by SubBadger

I spent a tense few minutes trying to decide whether or not I was going to run into a large rock on the sea bed. I was studying it from all angles as the sub swam closer and right up until the last second I couldn't decide whether or not I was going to get my whiskers through!

In the end I got by by the merest squeak, but subsequently I wonder if the rocks actually do pose a simulated danger anyway, since I must have passed many more large ones when I wasn't watching and I can't have been lucky every time.

Those rocks pose no threat, they're just eye candy.

A lot of the water in the latter part of that mission is shallow and three or four times I found myself diving to periscope depth on the report of a plane. I wondered whether periscope depth would be deep enough to hide me to be honest, but using my cheating external view ( I do love my external views) I went as high as I could and found that I couldn't see the sub. Of course whether it follows that the simulated plane couldn't either...well that'd be another matter I guess. But that said, I'd have to admit I couldn't see the plane either, although I could hear it.

Unless they spot you on the surface, they don't know you're there if the sub is completely submerged. I have all graphics set to maximum on my game (I have a decent video card) and you can see the sub underwater from the surface. I'll take a screenie and post it here.

During one of those shallow plane avoiding dives I got a message and instead of pressing "M" to read it, I instinctively hit "C" as in "communications" (at least in my head!) which of course is Crash Dive!!

Heh heh!
Once my cat jumped up on my keyboard while I was evading depth charges and launched decoys which got the dd's off my tail! Good Kittie, I gave her a promotion from "Nice Kittie" to "Good Kittie" and issued extra treat rations!

I haven't thought of launching decoys for years after playing so many multiplayer games in SH2/DC where it won't fool the human players.

By the time I'd countermanded the order (Belay that crash dive order ya scurvy dogs!!.. Ok..so no idea why my American Sub Commander just stepped out of Pirates of the Caribbean.)

Arrgh Matey Too bad you couldn't plunder the merchants for extra fuel or deck gun rounds.

Won't he go tell his mates where you are though?

Badger

If they send more Betty's, shoot em' up. If it's Zero's, dive then!