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Originally Posted by Contact
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Originally Posted by jimbuna
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You and me both....a chance to play Walker or Macintyre  |
Hehe, Don't know who they are but I bet it has something familiar to famous Tom and Jerry right ? 
I always thought it was impossible to make playable destroyers and u-boats together in the game but now.. ?
How come this feature never got into SH3 ? :hmm: |
Walker and Macintyre were destroyer captains (or something like that) in WWII. They were famous for being very skilled at killing U-boats using some kind of tag-team tactic. IE: Since a DD will lose contact with a U-boat when making attack runs, they basically used one DD for attacking and the other DD would stand back and listen for the sub. A lot of the aces were lost to this kind of tactic. Otto Kretschmer's U-99 was captured using this tactic I believe. Or at least by one of these two commanders.
Anyway, yes it's possible to have DDs against U-boats in multiplayer. In Dangerous Waters there are many platforms to choose from (Helos, DDs, subs, planes). The SH2/DC combo was really neat and I had a lot of fun back in those days. But it was not without it's problems.
Do you guys remember the never ending dispute of headhunting?
For those of you who don't know, back in those days DD players hated getting fired at. All they wanted to do was ping us the whole game, dropping their bombs, while we crawled in the deep waiting to die.
I'm guilty of it on several occasions. I remember one game in particular where a DD was coming strait at me (no zig-zaging) before I even got close enough to shoot at the convoy. What was I supposed to do? Just dive and spend the whole game trying to evade his wabos and never get a shot in? Ugh, no thank you. So I sat there at PD (scope fully extended and making a nice wake) waiting for him to come closer. And then I fired a torp straight at him at close range. He had no time to evade. The part that makes me laugh till this day is that as soon as I heard "Torpedo teffer!" (or whatever it is they say) from my speakers, this guy was hearing something like "We've been hit!" at the same time on his end. What did he do? He paused the game.
Good times...
