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Old 11-18-07, 03:16 PM   #1
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Hi, on one of my missions I ran into a japanese convoy, i'm talking about 7 cargo ships and 3 destroyers, i took out 2 destroyers but the 3th got me by suprise, the depth charges destroyed some equipment (repairable) but also my rudder is gone/destroyed. i fled from the convoy but i can't turn anymore, is there something i can do about this? Or do i have to restart this mission??

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Old 11-18-07, 03:23 PM   #2
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Well in real life I think you could turnby running only one of the propellors. On SH4 I don't think theres anything you can do except drown.
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Old 11-18-07, 03:25 PM   #3
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I'm afraid there is nothing you can do to rectify the situation. The game doesn't allow you to turn the sub without the rudder, so you will have to abandon the mission or reload a prior save game.

The inability to turn your sub using the screws is sadly an oversight by the game devs.
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Old 11-18-07, 04:35 PM   #4
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To bad, thanks for telling
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Old 11-18-07, 05:40 PM   #5
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I just tried a mission for the first time without an external camera on top of manual targeting.

I have got to be the worst capitano in the Pacific, manual targeting is a beast; however, I did sink three ships and two life rafts...and I somehow survived being without the camera.

Only to have my rudder forcefully removed by two ornery DDs.

Now that's a fine how-do-you-do.

Needless to say, I ended my career.
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Old 11-18-07, 05:46 PM   #6
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Has anyone tried calling Triple A?.....:hmm:

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Old 11-18-07, 05:52 PM   #7
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Has anyone tried calling Triple A?.....:hmm:

Or maybe Onstar? I locked the keys up in her in port the other day and they saved me a very embarrasing trip to the admirals office.:p
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Or maybe Onstar?
LMFOA!!!

i can just hear them now.

"Hi how can we help you?"
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Old 11-19-07, 09:43 AM   #9
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Hi, on one of my missions I ran into a japanese convoy, i'm talking about 7 cargo ships and 3 destroyers, i took out 2 destroyers but the 3th got me by suprise, the depth charges destroyed some equipment (repairable) but also my rudder is gone/destroyed. i fled from the convoy but i can't turn anymore, is there something i can do about this? Or do i have to restart this mission??

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Yeah, same thing happened to me on one of my patrols. I was happily steaming home after a successful mission with a nice number of tonnage in my records. Suddenly I got surprised by a G4M Betty whilst surfaced. Manned the AA- guns and watched my crew turning the attacker into a ball of flames. The poor pilot, now mad, did a nice kamikaze right into to the stern of my sub, taking my rudder with him to the bottom of the ocean.

A good thing is that I was smart enough to save about 20- mins before this little accident.
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Old 11-19-07, 11:08 AM   #10
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Hi, on one of my missions I ran into a japanese convoy, i'm talking about 7 cargo ships and 3 destroyers, i took out 2 destroyers but the 3th got me by suprise, the depth charges destroyed some equipment (repairable) but also my rudder is gone/destroyed. i fled from the convoy but i can't turn anymore, is there something i can do about this? Or do i have to restart this mission??

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Yeah, same thing happened to me on one of my patrols. I was happily steaming home after a successful mission with a nice number of tonnage in my records. Suddenly I got surprised by a G4M Betty whilst surfaced. Manned the AA- guns and watched my crew turning the attacker into a ball of flames. The poor pilot, now mad, did a nice kamikaze right into to the stern of my sub, taking my rudder with him to the bottom of the ocean.

A good thing is that I was smart enough to save about 20- mins before this little accident.
Yeah, i saved my game before i attackted te convoy. so i got lucky :p
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Old 11-19-07, 01:58 PM   #11
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Time to walk home ... the boats not going to take you there.
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Old 11-19-07, 02:09 PM   #12
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Default Lost your rudder?

S is for the many ships I'm siiiinking
C is for my crewman, that I love
R is for my Recon trips a'slinking
E is for the enemy above
W is for the water that will hide me
D is for the DCs that never end

Put them all together they spell Screeeeewed

And that is what you are, my friend.


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Old 11-19-07, 02:32 PM   #13
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S is for the many ships I'm siiiinking
C is for my crewman, that I love
R is for my Recon trips a'slinking
E is for the enemy above
W is for the water that will hide me
D is for the DCs that never end

Put them all together they spell Screeeeewed

And that is what you are, my friend.


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:rotfl::rotfl:
Good one.
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Old 11-19-07, 03:33 PM   #14
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You need MacGyver. One piece of aluminum foil and paperclip is all he needs to get you patched up. When done with the rudder he can fashion a nuclear warhead for your torpedoes using the same material.
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Old 11-19-07, 08:12 PM   #15
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You need MacGyver. One piece of aluminum foil and paperclip is all he needs to get you patched up. When done with the rudder he can fashion a nuclear warhead for your torpedoes using the same material.
Nah he also needs a stick of gum for the nuke.
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