Best shot ever!

Dissaray · 12-10-09, 04:29 PM

I was attacking a merchant ship, large cargo I think, just a moment ago. It was a stragaler from a convoy I had hit. Not sure if it was one of the ships I damaged or not but it was well back from the rest so I thought it was safe to engage with my deck gun, it was also unarmed this being '41.

One of the convoy escorts must have been alerted to my nefarious deads and came to save the day. I didn't notice it untill it was close, realy close. The thing that got my attention was when the heavy macheen guns rounds started pinging off my hull. Then I turned my attention to this new attacker. I couldn't dive beacouse as soon as I turned my attention to this war ship a large round smashed into my bow dive planes preventing me from geting down quick enugh to avoid geting dead. I figured I was going down and I might as well take down as many Tommy sailors as I can. I let fly with my gun and the first round hit their mast and blew it off the ship. The second round I aimed lower, trying to kill their forward batery of guns. My shot laned right where I wanted it to, right smack into the top of the forwoard turet or just below the second turet. I couldn't get a third shot off on them due to the reload time, no gunnery spcialist, so I put more rounds into my original target thinking I might be able to get it to go down with me.

The DD, a V&W class ship, ramed me on its pass; I had expected that and had my repair crew alredy on hand to limit the flooding which was substantal at this point due to the hits I had already taken but it was coming under control. All the suden I hear explosions and my crew chearing a kill. I leave the deck gun for the bridge and swivle around to see the V&W Tommy bastard on fire, the forward batery blasting off the ship and listing hard! I sank them in one substantive hit!

How is that for being more agresive?

I must have hit that sweet forward magazine. The BDU would have you belive that you can't win a gun duel with a DD, obviously they don't know what they are talking about. Unfortunatly I did end up sinking when the second V&W class escort came in to save the day. The moral of the story is: You can win a gun fight with one distroyer but when there are two you should run away.

Weiss Pinguin · 12-10-09, 07:42 PM

You should've tried the Balz-safecracking method of english ship sinking, I hear it is quite effective

Plus when you sink the safe is there by your boat

Damo · 12-10-09, 10:21 PM

You know, (not to dampen your spirit) it might have been the ramming that just tipped the destroyer over the edge, causing it to blow. I must say though, those 2 hits you did get must have been pretty devastating to lower the old hitpoints.

I just know that when I first started playing on stock SH3, a destroyer rammed me and the damn thing sunk, lol. I was out of torps so I used the sub as one...

Dissaray · 12-10-09, 11:53 PM

I am almost more impresed that the merchant I was banging away at didn't sink. It was creeping along real slow, may be four or five knots while the rest of the convoy was pushing closer to ten, like it was flooding bad or had damage to one of the engins. I set the thing on fire and struck below the water line at least eight times. It must have been close to submiting or had one hell of a well drilled damage control team.

Lt.Fillipidis · 12-11-09, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Dissaray

How is that for being more agresive?

Painting your face in light blue stripes, wearing fur, weilding a claymore and screaming Celtic swears while rushing at flank speed towards the convoy escorts and firing your gun at maximum speed, would make you as more aggresive as it gets! Thats what i usually do myself since the escort's aim at early and mid-war sucks!

Weiss Pinguin · 12-11-09, 01:14 PM

Freeeiheeeeit!

(if the translation is wrong blame wiktionary

)

12-10-09, 04:29 PM	#1
Dissaray 中国水兵 Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 280 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	Best shot ever! I was attacking a merchant ship, large cargo I think, just a moment ago. It was a stragaler from a convoy I had hit. Not sure if it was one of the ships I damaged or not but it was well back from the rest so I thought it was safe to engage with my deck gun, it was also unarmed this being '41. One of the convoy escorts must have been alerted to my nefarious deads and came to save the day. I didn't notice it untill it was close, realy close. The thing that got my attention was when the heavy macheen guns rounds started pinging off my hull. Then I turned my attention to this new attacker. I couldn't dive beacouse as soon as I turned my attention to this war ship a large round smashed into my bow dive planes preventing me from geting down quick enugh to avoid geting dead. I figured I was going down and I might as well take down as many Tommy sailors as I can. I let fly with my gun and the first round hit their mast and blew it off the ship. The second round I aimed lower, trying to kill their forward batery of guns. My shot laned right where I wanted it to, right smack into the top of the forwoard turet or just below the second turet. I couldn't get a third shot off on them due to the reload time, no gunnery spcialist, so I put more rounds into my original target thinking I might be able to get it to go down with me. The DD, a V&W class ship, ramed me on its pass; I had expected that and had my repair crew alredy on hand to limit the flooding which was substantal at this point due to the hits I had already taken but it was coming under control. All the suden I hear explosions and my crew chearing a kill. I leave the deck gun for the bridge and swivle around to see the V&W Tommy bastard on fire, the forward batery blasting off the ship and listing hard! I sank them in one substantive hit! How is that for being more agresive? I must have hit that sweet forward magazine. The BDU would have you belive that you can't win a gun duel with a DD, obviously they don't know what they are talking about. Unfortunatly I did end up sinking when the second V&W class escort came in to save the day. The moral of the story is: You can win a gun fight with one distroyer but when there are two you should run away.

12-10-09, 07:42 PM	#2
Weiss Pinguin Ocean Warrior Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Auburn, Alabama Posts: 3,333 Downloads: 101 Uploads: 0	You should've tried the Balz-safecracking method of english ship sinking, I hear it is quite effective Plus when you sink the safe is there by your boat __________________

12-10-09, 10:21 PM	#3
Damo Captain Join Date: May 2009 Location: Forever stuck in Data folder... Posts: 482 Downloads: 259 Uploads: 0	You know, (not to dampen your spirit) it might have been the ramming that just tipped the destroyer over the edge, causing it to blow. I must say though, those 2 hits you did get must have been pretty devastating to lower the old hitpoints. I just know that when I first started playing on stock SH3, a destroyer rammed me and the damn thing sunk, lol. I was out of torps so I used the sub as one... __________________ The owl and the pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat. It only took one T1 eel to convince that boat not to float.

12-11-09, 01:14 PM	#6
Weiss Pinguin Ocean Warrior Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Auburn, Alabama Posts: 3,333 Downloads: 101 Uploads: 0	Freeeiheeeeit! (if the translation is wrong blame wiktionary ) __________________

12-10-09, 11:53 PM	#4
Dissaray 中国水兵 Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 280 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	I am almost more impresed that the merchant I was banging away at didn't sink. It was creeping along real slow, may be four or five knots while the rest of the convoy was pushing closer to ten, like it was flooding bad or had damage to one of the engins. I set the thing on fire and struck below the water line at least eight times. It must have been close to submiting or had one hell of a well drilled damage control team.