Overuse of TC considered harmful....

doulos05 · 10-06-08, 08:59 AM

Rats! I just lost 4 hours of gameplay because of impatience.

The mission? Infiltrate Manila and photo recon some carriers there (heh, photo recon. Does it count if I have the boys paint cameras on the noses of the torpedos). So, I'm on my way in, suddenly, the destroyer in the entrance finds me, he's pinging. He's a bearing 150, so hard to port and up scope. The turn was so slow, I see the spotlight on my scope, Open the tube. Almost there, it's bow on at 400 yards. Taking the shot, splash by the periscope! Down scope, hard starboard. BOOM! Enemy Destroyed. Excellent.

There's another destroyer closing on the position, very fast. Only 100 feet of water, so no thermals.... Well, I'll try to just run quiet and sneak past. Ok, he's circling over there. Circling. Still circling. Gah, 40 minutes to reach my objective. Let's TC it up to 8... CRASH! Noo!, he found me!

So, I spent an hour on the bottom (fortunately it was only 100 feet of water) and he spent that hour DCing me (fortunately he apparently sucks as a DD) before I pump all the water out of my After torpedo room. I come up to periscope, line up on him while he crosses my bow, and put a torpedo right under his Number 1 turret. Last I saw him, he was limping off at 4 knots.

With the water gone, the DC teams started working on repairing everything, only to find that.... my Rudder transmission and Dive Plane transmission in the after compartment is completely destroyed. I've had to restart from my save in port.... sad times.

10-06-08, 08:59 AM	#1
doulos05 Planesman Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 195 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	Overuse of TC considered harmful.... Rats! I just lost 4 hours of gameplay because of impatience. The mission? Infiltrate Manila and photo recon some carriers there (heh, photo recon. Does it count if I have the boys paint cameras on the noses of the torpedos). So, I'm on my way in, suddenly, the destroyer in the entrance finds me, he's pinging. He's a bearing 150, so hard to port and up scope. The turn was so slow, I see the spotlight on my scope, Open the tube. Almost there, it's bow on at 400 yards. Taking the shot, splash by the periscope! Down scope, hard starboard. BOOM! Enemy Destroyed. Excellent. There's another destroyer closing on the position, very fast. Only 100 feet of water, so no thermals.... Well, I'll try to just run quiet and sneak past. Ok, he's circling over there. Circling. Still circling. Gah, 40 minutes to reach my objective. Let's TC it up to 8... CRASH! Noo!, he found me! So, I spent an hour on the bottom (fortunately it was only 100 feet of water) and he spent that hour DCing me (fortunately he apparently sucks as a DD) before I pump all the water out of my After torpedo room. I come up to periscope, line up on him while he crosses my bow, and put a torpedo right under his Number 1 turret. Last I saw him, he was limping off at 4 knots. With the water gone, the DC teams started working on repairing everything, only to find that.... my Rudder transmission and Dive Plane transmission in the after compartment is completely destroyed. I've had to restart from my save in port.... sad times. __________________ *While troubleshooting a printer at work Me: "Do you want me to run the copies through again?" Boss: "Hold on, let me go get the alcohol first. Me: