[Immelmann]

Originally Posted by propbeanie

@ Immelmann: That particular group you encountered does a couple of strange turns just east of where you encountered them, but it appears that they haven't gotten to that yet. The group also goes over the "Morse code" section just off of New Guinea's north coast, so I'm trying to edit the terrain file there, and I am encountering a very strange error with "GWX SH4 Terrain EXtractor" of "File not found..." - in the meantime, it looks like you encountered the task force as they were traveling north-northeast, correct? So they've just come up from New Guinea, and you were patrolling off Davao Gulf... Did you sink those two ships that the icons are displaying for on your NavMap, and if so, did they come from that same grouping? Thanks!

Initial radar contact had them on a SSW course. In this next video highlight, if you look closely at the top of the screen (it only shows for a moment), there is an earlier radio task force contact report icon on my map several hundred miles NW of Davao. I think this might be the same task force that was reported in that radio message.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/431267928

Yes I sank those two ships, part of a different task force, earlier in the patrol (sundown on the 23rd). That was a successful intercept based off an earlier radio task force contact report. A much easier attack because they were moving toward my position. So I was able to make a stealthy low speed deep apprpoach. Bagged an escort carrier and a cruiser on that encounter. I don't know if it was the heavier seas (13 m/s as I recall) or my stealth. But the DDs never came after me on that one (unlike the above encounter where I got my rudder blown off) At that point a skipper wishes for independant port/starboard propeller rpm control to still be able to steer the boat.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/431288800

You may notice that I have followed instructions provided earlier in this thread to change the map icons to make them show the direction of travel indicator tails on contacts. Other than that, the only other change to v 0.81 that I have made is to tweak the free camera movement speed to try and match the velocity of torpedos and/or aircraft.

Can't believe that the USS Batfish is trying to float away in the flooding at Muskogee, Oklahoma. I was just there last August. That's when I took the photo of the battery that I posted earlier in this thread. And those two loose barges last week. That was really crazy. Is there a SH4 mission for the Batfish sinking three IJN submarines in the space of 76 hours? If not there should be. That's a legendary boat for sure.