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Wisq · 04-07-12, 08:22 AM

Just did a patrol with the New Orleans last night. Fun stuff!

The anti-aircraft fire is really impressive to watch.

And it's awesome to strike fear in enemy ships and aircraft rather than vice versa for once.

One thing I noticed is that I seemed to be almost invincible against normal ships. I stumbled across a huge convoy, about a dozen warships and two dozen merchants. They had one heavy cruiser, and five destroyers. I could see the cargo ships all nicely lined up on radar, and a huge circle of escorts around them, and figured I would get my ass kicked, so I went in slowly and carefully at first.

After realising I seemed to be pretty much impervious to their fire, I waded on in and started blowing them all to bits. I had machine gun fire from almost every merchant, shelling from the destroyers and heavy cruiser ... no damage. A destroyer came up and rammed me, which made him capsize and sink ... no damage.

The result:

There was even one destroyer that managed to sneak up and ram my backside and actually got his bow stuck in my stern. I was towing him around while he shot me at point blank range. Once I destroyed the rest of the ships and still hadn't been able to dislodge him, I figured I would just tow him to a friendly base and let them blow him up. But as I was starting to head off, we broke the connection and I sank him.

Only two things seemed capable of damaging me:

One, enemy planes. I took 2 hull damage from an attack at one point, because I waited too long to let the AA guns fire to conserve ammo.

Two, a rather weird incident in which a ship managed to get in my way so badly that I was ramming his broadside, and I fired main guns at him while ramming him, and he blew up while under my bow, and I guess the explosion (or hitting his wreckage?) was enough to actually sink me within seconds. (I reloaded and tried hitting the convoy again, this time in daylight so I could see and avoid better.)

Total for that patrol: 28 merchants (only 3 or 4 not from the convoy), 13 warships, 174023 tonnage. Yow!

(TMO + RSRDC + New Orleans pre-refit, no other mods, first patrol of a 1941 campaign)

Edit: Oh, and a small handful of sound issues: 1. no sound for the deck guns firing (AA sounds awesome though); 2. missing some TMO sounds (like when I call for battlestations, it's silent); 3. there's an alarm (5 pulses) that seems to go off when I get hit (cool!), but it never stops going off. Apparently my crew gets pretty shaken up by being shot at, and refuses to turn the alarm off even like a month later.

Edit: Deck gun sounds fixed by installing your gun sounds & muzzle flash mod.

Edit: Hmm, can't replenish the AA ammo at ports once it's empty. That is, the ammo on the user-fireable AA guns; I dunno about the AI ones. The deck gun refills just fine.

04-07-12, 08:22 AM	#14
Wisq Watch Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 18 Downloads: 57 Uploads: 0	Just did a patrol with the New Orleans last night. Fun stuff! The anti-aircraft fire is really impressive to watch. And it's awesome to strike fear in enemy ships and aircraft rather than vice versa for once. One thing I noticed is that I seemed to be almost invincible against normal ships. I stumbled across a huge convoy, about a dozen warships and two dozen merchants. They had one heavy cruiser, and five destroyers. I could see the cargo ships all nicely lined up on radar, and a huge circle of escorts around them, and figured I would get my ass kicked, so I went in slowly and carefully at first. After realising I seemed to be pretty much impervious to their fire, I waded on in and started blowing them all to bits. I had machine gun fire from almost every merchant, shelling from the destroyers and heavy cruiser ... no damage. A destroyer came up and rammed me, which made him capsize and sink ... no damage. The result: There was even one destroyer that managed to sneak up and ram my backside and actually got his bow stuck in my stern. I was towing him around while he shot me at point blank range. Once I destroyed the rest of the ships and still hadn't been able to dislodge him, I figured I would just tow him to a friendly base and let them blow him up. But as I was starting to head off, we broke the connection and I sank him. Only two things seemed capable of damaging me: One, enemy planes. I took 2 hull damage from an attack at one point, because I waited too long to let the AA guns fire to conserve ammo. Two, a rather weird incident in which a ship managed to get in my way so badly that I was ramming his broadside, and I fired main guns at him while ramming him, and he blew up while under my bow, and I guess the explosion (or hitting his wreckage?) was enough to actually sink me within seconds. (I reloaded and tried hitting the convoy again, this time in daylight so I could see and avoid better.) Total for that patrol: 28 merchants (only 3 or 4 not from the convoy), 13 warships, 174023 tonnage. Yow! (TMO + RSRDC + New Orleans pre-refit, no other mods, first patrol of a 1941 campaign) Edit: Oh, and a small handful of sound issues: 1. no sound for the deck guns firing (AA sounds awesome though); 2. missing some TMO sounds (like when I call for battlestations, it's silent); 3. there's an alarm (5 pulses) that seems to go off when I get hit (cool!), but it never stops going off. Apparently my crew gets pretty shaken up by being shot at, and refuses to turn the alarm off even like a month later. Edit: Deck gun sounds fixed by installing your gun sounds & muzzle flash mod. Edit: Hmm, can't replenish the AA ammo at ports once it's empty. That is, the ammo on the user-fireable AA guns; I dunno about the AI ones. The deck gun refills just fine. Last edited by Wisq; 04-07-12 at 02:44 PM.