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Platapus · 03-09-08, 06:54 PM

This was the question I was asking my sound man. Playing GX2 with commander. October 1944 in AF41.

Radar contact long range. Four ships in single line convoy.

Track to intercept

Get a visual on icebergs (cool! First time I have ever seen one in the game)

Dive the boat and soundman reports merchant moving slowly at bearing of Iceberg

hmmm crafty Brits using icebergs to shield merchants? Never heard that one before.

Make my approach waiting for the merchant to poke around the iceberg. Soundman has good hit on four merchants....all on bearings of four icebergs

Hmmm Bernard is in the after torpedo room where he can’t hurt stuff too much. I have a pretty good senior soundman. But four merchants on bearings of four icebergs?

Lemme take a listen. I go to the soundroom and listen in on the bearing my trusted soundman is calling out merchants......nothing. I check all four “merchant” sound bearings and nothing.

I gives my soundman one upside the head. "Do icebergs sound even remotely like merchants on hydrophones?"

The radar hit I can understand but hydrophones?

I am thinking of putting my soundman on one of them icebergs so he can learn the difference.

Sheesh, thought I had a four ship line up. Really need the tonnage.

Icebergs! My dyin arse. What next?

03-09-08, 06:54 PM	#1
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,361 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Honestly, do icebergs sound remotely like merchant ships?? This was the question I was asking my sound man. Playing GX2 with commander. October 1944 in AF41. Radar contact long range. Four ships in single line convoy. Track to intercept Get a visual on icebergs (cool! First time I have ever seen one in the game) Dive the boat and soundman reports merchant moving slowly at bearing of Iceberg hmmm crafty Brits using icebergs to shield merchants? Never heard that one before. Make my approach waiting for the merchant to poke around the iceberg. Soundman has good hit on four merchants....all on bearings of four icebergs Hmmm Bernard is in the after torpedo room where he can’t hurt stuff too much. I have a pretty good senior soundman. But four merchants on bearings of four icebergs? Lemme take a listen. I go to the soundroom and listen in on the bearing my trusted soundman is calling out merchants......nothing. I check all four “merchant” sound bearings and nothing. I gives my soundman one upside the head. "Do icebergs sound even remotely like merchants on hydrophones?" The radar hit I can understand but hydrophones? I am thinking of putting my soundman on one of them icebergs so he can learn the difference. Sheesh, thought I had a four ship line up. Really need the tonnage. Icebergs! My dyin arse. What next? __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.