Epic battleship group attack with friendly air cover

Snarf · 03-03-14, 05:45 PM

Mid 1943 USS Wahoo just a couple hundred miles north of Rabaul, I get a radio location of a task force. En route, I get another huge task force on radar. As I make an end around approach on the bigger task force, I come up to periscope and find out it's an American carrier group. Then I blow the tanks, fire the diesels and haul ass for the other task force. I make an approach from their forward starboard. As I close I have 3 Ise's and a Kongo, 2 tankers, a handful of light and heavy cruisers and 10 destroyers. I dive to 300, and use my perfect pitch sonarman to keep track. Back up to periscope 600 yards off the lead BB. Next as I'm looking around one of the tankers is on fire and I spot waves of friendly planes coming in. 3 fish to the 3rd BB 4 aft fish to the lead, then 3 forward fish to the 2nd BB. 10 hits in a row and all hell breaks loose.

to be continued...

Snarf · 03-03-14, 08:32 PM

... so I've got droves of friendly planes diving in through a hail of AA dropping bombs, scoring hits, getting shot down. I get all available hands reloading torpedoes for follow up shots. The first and third BB are going down, the second is limping. I get three more off on the last BB and 2 more toward the second. Six more hits! Now all of the BB's are sinking and I start firing 2 at a time at the cruisers. I sink another 2 cruisers and finish off the tankers before I'm all out of torpedoes, then I go to test depth and creep away unscathed. I come back up to periscope and spot red smoke. Off to rescue my very helpful buddies. Unfortunately the game wouldn't let me take on more than 3 pilots due to lack of bunks. There were a lot of pissed off DD's left over with not much to guard after it was all said and done though

TG626 · 03-03-14, 10:05 PM

Sound productive!

Admiral Halsey · 03-03-14, 10:10 PM

You using any mods or are you running stock?

merc4ulfate · 03-03-14, 10:13 PM

I was at Guadualcanal the other day and there was a huge back and forth fight between allied and axis aircraft over the water with me in the middle. Fortunately I was in command of the USS IOWA at the time and shot down over 60 enemy planes out of the over 200. The planes came in waves begining at about 0800 and lasting until 2000.

I then had a ten Fubuki Task Force in the blackest night I have ever seen in SH4. We were about 500 yards in distance before they even saw me. I took three hits from the Fubuki torpedoes but managed to stay afloat zig zagging and firing until I had sank them all.

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Snarf · 03-04-14, 10:59 AM

1.5 vanilla + crew rank fix on this computer (USS Wahoo 1943)
TMO 2.5 on my other computer (USS Narwahl 1941)

one of these days I need to take the Iowa for a spin

03-03-14, 08:32 PM	#2
Snarf Officer Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: USS Tuna out of Pearl Harbor Posts: 243 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 10	... so I've got droves of friendly planes diving in through a hail of AA dropping bombs, scoring hits, getting shot down. I get all available hands reloading torpedoes for follow up shots. The first and third BB are going down, the second is limping. I get three more off on the last BB and 2 more toward the second. Six more hits! Now all of the BB's are sinking and I start firing 2 at a time at the cruisers. I sink another 2 cruisers and finish off the tankers before I'm all out of torpedoes, then I go to test depth and creep away unscathed. I come back up to periscope and spot red smoke. Off to rescue my very helpful buddies. Unfortunately the game wouldn't let me take on more than 3 pilots due to lack of bunks. There were a lot of pissed off DD's left over with not much to guard after it was all said and done though __________________ "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" -David Farragut (probably repeated by many WWII sub skippers)

03-03-14, 10:05 PM	#3
TG626 Lieutenant Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: USS Seal - Somewhere in the Pacific Posts: 268 Downloads: 141 Uploads: 3	Sound productive! __________________ T. E. Thompson, LTCDR Commanding Officer, U.S.S. Seal (formerly S-40 (SS-145))

03-03-14, 10:13 PM	#5
merc4ulfate DILLIGAF Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: florida Posts: 2,058 Downloads: 210 Uploads: 0	I was at Guadualcanal the other day and there was a huge back and forth fight between allied and axis aircraft over the water with me in the middle. Fortunately I was in command of the USS IOWA at the time and shot down over 60 enemy planes out of the over 200. The planes came in waves begining at about 0800 and lasting until 2000. I then had a ten Fubuki Task Force in the blackest night I have ever seen in SH4. We were about 500 yards in distance before they even saw me. I took three hits from the Fubuki torpedoes but managed to stay afloat zig zagging and firing until I had sank them all. Generic Mod Enabler - v2.6.0.157 1_TriggerMaru_Overhaul_2-5 RSRDC_TMO_V502 RSRDC_V5xx_Patch1 USS Iowa Convoy Routes TMO+RSRD New Ships + Yamato AA Fix Original TMO AI Escorts (harder) Webster's Missing Voices #1 Real Environment mod install tambor198's TMO+RSRDC missions pack Pacific Sound Mod AITorpedolauncher #4 Warships retextured Webster's Eliminate Floating Plankton Webster's Smaller Rain for TMO Webster's New Orders Bar Menu for v1.5 __________________ Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. ~Isaac Asimov~ Mercfulfate 将補日本帝國海軍 Last edited by merc4ulfate; 03-03-14 at 10:25 PM.

03-04-14, 10:59 AM	#6
Snarf Officer Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: USS Tuna out of Pearl Harbor Posts: 243 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 10	1.5 vanilla + crew rank fix on this computer (USS Wahoo 1943) TMO 2.5 on my other computer (USS Narwahl 1941) one of these days I need to take the Iowa for a spin __________________ "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" -David Farragut (probably repeated by many WWII sub skippers)

03-03-14, 05:45 PM	#1
Snarf Officer Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: USS Tuna out of Pearl Harbor Posts: 243 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 10	Epic battleship group attack with friendly air cover Mid 1943 USS Wahoo just a couple hundred miles north of Rabaul, I get a radio location of a task force. En route, I get another huge task force on radar. As I make an end around approach on the bigger task force, I come up to periscope and find out it's an American carrier group. Then I blow the tanks, fire the diesels and haul ass for the other task force. I make an approach from their forward starboard. As I close I have 3 Ise's and a Kongo, 2 tankers, a handful of light and heavy cruisers and 10 destroyers. I dive to 300, and use my perfect pitch sonarman to keep track. Back up to periscope 600 yards off the lead BB. Next as I'm looking around one of the tankers is on fire and I spot waves of friendly planes coming in. 3 fish to the 3rd BB 4 aft fish to the lead, then 3 forward fish to the 2nd BB. 10 hits in a row and all hell breaks loose. to be continued... __________________ "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" -David Farragut (probably repeated by many WWII sub skippers)

03-03-14, 10:10 PM	#4
Admiral Halsey Best Admiral in the USN Join Date: Apr 2013 Location: USS Enterprise (CV-6) Posts: 1,740 Downloads: 317 Uploads: 0	You using any mods or are you running stock?