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DirtyHarry3033 · 03-26-07, 04:26 PM

I found my 1st convoy last night in the East China Sea and experienced the same thing with the lazy DD's. Was a night approach, calm seas, no moon and very dark. 11 or 12 merchants, 3 DD's escorting.

I snuck inside the formation, fired 2 fish at a freighter, one hit, one miss. He went up in a massive explosion and sank. There was a DD no more than 600 yds off my bow, I took a quick look to see if he was headed my way but it's like he didn't even know anything had happened!!!

So I set up a few more shots then noticed something REALLY weird, all my shots were passing way in front of the targets??!?! What the #@@!@%??? Then I saw what was going on, the entire convoy had stopped dead in the water! And of course I still had the speed set at 9 kts or so on the TDC. There wasn't even a trace of bow wave on any of 'em, so I locked onto one with the periscope and just sat for a minute, no change in bearing.

I reloaded to see if it would happen again, but then I got hit by the dreaded "1fps" bug, couldn't even ESC out to the menu to quit gracefully. Had to alt-tab to desktop and kill SH4. I've turned off the EE to hopefully fix that bug, I'll try again tonight and see if it happens again.

03-26-07, 04:26 PM	#14
DirtyHarry3033 Weps Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 351 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I found my 1st convoy last night in the East China Sea and experienced the same thing with the lazy DD's. Was a night approach, calm seas, no moon and very dark. 11 or 12 merchants, 3 DD's escorting. I snuck inside the formation, fired 2 fish at a freighter, one hit, one miss. He went up in a massive explosion and sank. There was a DD no more than 600 yds off my bow, I took a quick look to see if he was headed my way but it's like he didn't even know anything had happened!!! So I set up a few more shots then noticed something REALLY weird, all my shots were passing way in front of the targets??!?! What the #@@!@%??? Then I saw what was going on, the entire convoy had stopped dead in the water! And of course I still had the speed set at 9 kts or so on the TDC. There wasn't even a trace of bow wave on any of 'em, so I locked onto one with the periscope and just sat for a minute, no change in bearing. I reloaded to see if it would happen again, but then I got hit by the dreaded "1fps" bug, couldn't even ESC out to the menu to quit gracefully. Had to alt-tab to desktop and kill SH4. I've turned off the EE to hopefully fix that bug, I'll try again tonight and see if it happens again.