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bert8for3 · 03-20-07, 11:45 AM

I won't be dropping SH3+GWX, it's far too good. That's not to pre-judge SH4 and what it may become with modding, and I'll play both. I just can't see it getting better than yesterday ... on patrol in the Western Approaches, about 3 weeks into the patrol. Just single ship contacts via hydrophone which ok, but looking/hoping for a convoy with only 4 torps left. All of a sudden a convoy report pops up (only one so far this patrol) about 10 hours away on intercept. I run the intercept and zilch, but it's a slow convoy, so I run ahead of where it should be if it had altered course, diving for sound check. Do this repeatedly with zilch results up and down the projected time/speed track on different course assumptions for the convoy until after 12+ hours I pick up the convoy on hydrophones. The weather's meanwhile settled down to a pouring rain and fog, with visibility down to no more than 600 meters (confirmed because picked up a single contact meantime who came into sight at 600 meters). Zero in on a sound intercept for the convoy, diving every now and then for bearing check. Chugging along at 6 knots surfaced, waiting for something to appear out of the fog, when all of a sudden a large merchant looms out of the fog at 30 deg, followed by another off my stern quarter ... I'm in the middle of the convoy. Already set up for shot on the large merchant, wait for him to come to 10 deg for shoot, expecting him to see me and veer off, but he continues straight. Shoot and the torp hits him just ahead of the superstructure. I'm pretty sure he's going down, but can't wait around as by now I have searchlights on me from the other merchant and an escort has appeared out of the fog off my port bow and starts firing. Crash dive. Got away submerged after an hour and half pounding, during which heard the large merchant go down.

It doesn't get better than that ... sorry for the ramble.

03-20-07, 11:45 AM	#15
bert8for3 Ace of the Deep Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 1,124 Downloads: 110 Uploads: 0	I won't be dropping SH3+GWX, it's far too good. That's not to pre-judge SH4 and what it may become with modding, and I'll play both. I just can't see it getting better than yesterday ... on patrol in the Western Approaches, about 3 weeks into the patrol. Just single ship contacts via hydrophone which ok, but looking/hoping for a convoy with only 4 torps left. All of a sudden a convoy report pops up (only one so far this patrol) about 10 hours away on intercept. I run the intercept and zilch, but it's a slow convoy, so I run ahead of where it should be if it had altered course, diving for sound check. Do this repeatedly with zilch results up and down the projected time/speed track on different course assumptions for the convoy until after 12+ hours I pick up the convoy on hydrophones. The weather's meanwhile settled down to a pouring rain and fog, with visibility down to no more than 600 meters (confirmed because picked up a single contact meantime who came into sight at 600 meters). Zero in on a sound intercept for the convoy, diving every now and then for bearing check. Chugging along at 6 knots surfaced, waiting for something to appear out of the fog, when all of a sudden a large merchant looms out of the fog at 30 deg, followed by another off my stern quarter ... I'm in the middle of the convoy. Already set up for shot on the large merchant, wait for him to come to 10 deg for shoot, expecting him to see me and veer off, but he continues straight. Shoot and the torp hits him just ahead of the superstructure. I'm pretty sure he's going down, but can't wait around as by now I have searchlights on me from the other merchant and an escort has appeared out of the fog off my port bow and starts firing. Crash dive. Got away submerged after an hour and half pounding, during which heard the large merchant go down. It doesn't get better than that ... sorry for the ramble.