Hey all, new on here and new to SH4(or any SH game for that matter, last sub game I played was Silent Service) and have a story for ya withing this topic. I just got back to port with one left and right diesel destroyed, yes I am new to the game so my realism is at 6 I think right now and I have no mods yet. I ran out of torpedoes on my third mission, was trying to sink 2 Japanese passenger ships with 4 DD escorts, nailed the 1st with 3 Mk14s and it ended up going in circles with a bad list. Escorts started to hunt for me but I was out of sonar but within visual, fired 3 at the second liner and only 2 hit, they started to list and also circle but eventually got in a straight line and she took off, meanwhile I am now really trying to take out the DDs before they are on top of me, nail 2 with 2 torps each but they dont go down, only have 1 torp left in tube #1 but the DDs are behind me. I go emergency reverse directly inline with the DD chasing me (yes this may be an exploit/bug but it was all I had left to get rid of them) and surface to 10m (hate using metric but its the only way I can get decent measurements out of the game, even with imperial measurements half is still metric.......) just as he is about to run over me to avoid the guns, he crashes right into me, flies in the air while my sub is pushed down to 15m from 8M and he breaks in two, my conning tower is pretty much flooded completely and my attack periscope is destroyed (oops) but otherwise still floating and moving. I repeat this procedure on the remaining 3 DDs and gain progressively more damage, the last hit my conning tower is 100% flooded, my aft torpedo room is 50% flooded with many damaged components and my engine room is 30% flooded with 1 left and right diesel destroyed and almost everything else damaged. I tried to move after the last hit but there was no power (surfaced to gun down the circling passenger ship 3.5km out), after the liner sank I again tried to move (thinking since I had 2 good diesels) but nada, 0kts, not even a hint of movement.....sigh..... I time compress things to get repairs as done as they can be (takes 2 days damn near) and my mission is still not done (patrol) I start to think I need to hit one more freighter to up the tonnage but with no movement I cant move, at just about this time a search plane popped up on radar, I try to dive so it cant spot me, as I reach 9m all of a sudden I start moving as I reach 14m the sub floods instantly...guess they forgot to patch a hole in the tower LOL.......reload my game (I save OFTEN) and find I only have a stable depth of 9-12m where I dont flood and can move........great.... the plane can see me, I notice that my AA gun button is still lit
and hop in it, water is JUST below the con top but the gun fires and I bring down the plane. I plot a course for home the fastest way I can and continue at 7-9kts, journey takes FOREVER and I have to down 2 more scout planes but I made it, got a message in dock with something to the effect that the engineers couldnt figure out how I managed to get back to dock still floating, admiral wasnt happy but have a new sub
Anyone want a crack at the save game can message me
Dunno how survivable this would be with higher realism but for just starting out it was tough. Sorry for the long post as well........when I can finish a mission without reloading it 30 times I will up the realism. Loving the game so far though
