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Excalibur Bane · 10-09-05, 02:49 AM

At last, found myself my first capital ship! A Nelson Battleship! Woo hoo!

I snuck into Liverpool, and there was quite an assortment of veseels docked at the docks there. Two Nelson Battelships, 2 Tribal Destroyers, 1 V&W Destroyer and 2 Elco Torpedo Boats. Not a whole lot of room to manuver, given the 20 meter depth roughly.

I came in the entrance and got past the escorts, and was making my way to the first Nelson when the damned thing managed to sink by itself in calm weather, sea like glass in 15 meters of water?

Sure love to know what the hell happened there. I've seen Elco's and Tugs sink in bad weather with high waves, but never a BB with calm seas, and docked no less. Must have been another U-boat shadowing me.

Anyway, I managed to crawl along the bottom of the harbor, until I got in a good firing position on the BB. Opened the tubes, let a spread of three T2's fly. Two are direct hits, minimal damage it seemed and the third one just up and vanished. Not quite sure what happened. It never detonated and I don't have duds, kinda hard to miss a stationary, so I doubt it missed.

So, two torpedos didn't really do too much, that's okay. I got plenty for this iron beast. The local escorts all take a cow and flip on their headlights but otherwise don't seem to care because they never come anywhere near the area of the BB and me. I guess the two torpedos must have alarmed the BB itself, a few seconds after I hit it, a starshell is farted out by one of it's aft guns but it otherwise doesn't bother to move. I guess he figured the starshell was enough to scare me off.

Tubes 1 & 2 are fired again, no spread, just a straight run. Both hit and detonate. First, again, seems to do minimal damage. No visible fires or signs that it's gonna keel over. Second one hit, and the whole thing starts burning. Odd, I thought to myself. :hmm:

So, he doesn't massively explode. He sinks all of 3 meters to the bottom of the harbor floor and I get the kill message. Heh. Oh, well. It's all the same to me. They'll probably raise it in and have ba ck in service in a few weeks, but who cares? BdU is happy, my tonnage is that much better and life goes on.

I make a quick exit from the harbor, apparently the actual sinking of said ship was more disturbing to the harbor patrol then the fact that I was only torpedoing it before. The place is like a shark feeding frenzy. And I'm the damn bait. So I got out of there in a hurry.

So, I've decided on a new mission, with my growing animosity for warships and the general passive nature of merchant vessels, I'm going to go rogue and spend the remainder of my career destroying exclusively warships. Destroyers, Battleships, Carriers, Tugboats, Hell even Elco's will feel my wrath if they get in my path. Hmm. That rhymes. Catchy

This is only my third patrol, but I've got upwards of 100,000 tonnage. Beware Destroyers! The hunter has now become the hunted. Muhahaha!

10-09-05, 02:49 AM	#13
Excalibur Bane XO Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 429 Downloads: 20 Uploads: 0	At last, found myself my first capital ship! A Nelson Battleship! Woo hoo! I snuck into Liverpool, and there was quite an assortment of veseels docked at the docks there. Two Nelson Battelships, 2 Tribal Destroyers, 1 V&W Destroyer and 2 Elco Torpedo Boats. Not a whole lot of room to manuver, given the 20 meter depth roughly. I came in the entrance and got past the escorts, and was making my way to the first Nelson when the damned thing managed to sink by itself in calm weather, sea like glass in 15 meters of water? Sure love to know what the hell happened there. I've seen Elco's and Tugs sink in bad weather with high waves, but never a BB with calm seas, and docked no less. Must have been another U-boat shadowing me. Anyway, I managed to crawl along the bottom of the harbor, until I got in a good firing position on the BB. Opened the tubes, let a spread of three T2's fly. Two are direct hits, minimal damage it seemed and the third one just up and vanished. Not quite sure what happened. It never detonated and I don't have duds, kinda hard to miss a stationary, so I doubt it missed. So, two torpedos didn't really do too much, that's okay. I got plenty for this iron beast. The local escorts all take a cow and flip on their headlights but otherwise don't seem to care because they never come anywhere near the area of the BB and me. I guess the two torpedos must have alarmed the BB itself, a few seconds after I hit it, a starshell is farted out by one of it's aft guns but it otherwise doesn't bother to move. I guess he figured the starshell was enough to scare me off. Tubes 1 & 2 are fired again, no spread, just a straight run. Both hit and detonate. First, again, seems to do minimal damage. No visible fires or signs that it's gonna keel over. Second one hit, and the whole thing starts burning. Odd, I thought to myself. :hmm: So, he doesn't massively explode. He sinks all of 3 meters to the bottom of the harbor floor and I get the kill message. Heh. Oh, well. It's all the same to me. They'll probably raise it in and have ba ck in service in a few weeks, but who cares? BdU is happy, my tonnage is that much better and life goes on. I make a quick exit from the harbor, apparently the actual sinking of said ship was more disturbing to the harbor patrol then the fact that I was only torpedoing it before. The place is like a shark feeding frenzy. And I'm the damn bait. So I got out of there in a hurry. So, I've decided on a new mission, with my growing animosity for warships and the general passive nature of merchant vessels, I'm going to go rogue and spend the remainder of my career destroying exclusively warships. Destroyers, Battleships, Carriers, Tugboats, Hell even Elco's will feel my wrath if they get in my path. Hmm. That rhymes. Catchy This is only my third patrol, but I've got upwards of 100,000 tonnage. Beware Destroyers! The hunter has now become the hunted. Muhahaha! __________________ Looking for a list of mods for SH4? Everything you need is here: List Of Modifications for SH4 v1.3 "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing."