Neptune laughs

Pigboatcook · 02-09-15, 10:46 AM

It is late July, 1942. The dawn breaks bright and clear and the seas a pane of glass across the South China Sea. Below, the radar wizard calls the warning of the approach of winged death. I send the Stingray on a hurried dash into her bolt hole under the sea.

We level out at 220 feet and I set the crew to task to take whatever solace and comfort they can as we wander to the north at a lazy 2 knots. Above, the sun does it's part for the emperor to keep us in the shadows.

I hear the scurry outside my cabin and my first officer pokes his head into my sanctuary to announce a distant contact the voodoo sonar has detected. I scramble to the device and too hear the distant rumble of faint screws turning. A quick plot and a well used pencil reveal the long cautious chase ahead. Do we try, or do we pass? The question teases me as I weigh the cost of intercept. We go.

The chiefs are tasked with torturing the batteries to provide the maximum benefit. I order the Stingray to tax her muscles and cut through the fluid and approach as best she is able. It is 1500 hours when the God of War delivers his reward. The target turned, and approaches from the northeast.

Slowly the Stingray creeps up in the clear sun bathed ocean. Are the winged avengers still above? Will crawling out of the dark show her hand? The crew goes silent as we reach 55 feet. The eye of revenge is raised.

The sea is still flat and the sun brilliant upon the waters. The eye spins to the bearing. There she is, the daughter of Hirohito, not 1000 yards and 15 degrees off the port bow. Her decks packed with tanks from the Empire's foundries. The batteries all but dead, the Stingray opens her forward tubes.

CTD. Neptune laughs.

Spraug · 02-09-15, 11:43 AM

Pure poetry!

Maybe you should have told the crew to open the tubes MANUALLY?

merc4ulfate · 02-09-15, 03:02 PM

With the mods I run you have to open them manually.

Spraug · 02-09-15, 03:11 PM

That was a feeble attempt at humour: batteries almost empty - open tubes - batteries totally empty - computer crashes. Guess I have to work on my jokes

Sorry, I've suffered my share of CTDs and - playing a steam version - my approach if it happens too often is to return to base, uninstall the mods, run the game via steam online, go offline again, re-install the mods. Takes an hour, but it's working.

TorpX · 02-09-15, 10:29 PM

Quote:

Neptune laughs

Still better than my current patrol.

Jeff1959 · 02-10-15, 05:08 PM

I've just had a similar experience. I have just surprised a Jap carrier and escort vessels. I launched 4 torpedoes at the carrier. Crashed dived, ran deep, sonar reports "torpedo impact, torpedo impact, Enemy vessel destroyed." Got me a carrier.

Being out of torpedoes I head back to Pearl. Stumble upon a small convoy with only one escort, which I get lucky and get with the deck gun. Suddenly CTD.

No credit for carrier or anything else since my last save. DANG NABBIT!

Crannogman · 02-10-15, 05:26 PM

I save often for the CTDs, not for fear of death

02-09-15, 10:46 AM	#1
Pigboatcook A-ganger Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 74 Downloads: 21 Uploads: 0	Neptune laughs It is late July, 1942. The dawn breaks bright and clear and the seas a pane of glass across the South China Sea. Below, the radar wizard calls the warning of the approach of winged death. I send the Stingray on a hurried dash into her bolt hole under the sea. We level out at 220 feet and I set the crew to task to take whatever solace and comfort they can as we wander to the north at a lazy 2 knots. Above, the sun does it's part for the emperor to keep us in the shadows. I hear the scurry outside my cabin and my first officer pokes his head into my sanctuary to announce a distant contact the voodoo sonar has detected. I scramble to the device and too hear the distant rumble of faint screws turning. A quick plot and a well used pencil reveal the long cautious chase ahead. Do we try, or do we pass? The question teases me as I weigh the cost of intercept. We go. The chiefs are tasked with torturing the batteries to provide the maximum benefit. I order the Stingray to tax her muscles and cut through the fluid and approach as best she is able. It is 1500 hours when the God of War delivers his reward. The target turned, and approaches from the northeast. Slowly the Stingray creeps up in the clear sun bathed ocean. Are the winged avengers still above? Will crawling out of the dark show her hand? The crew goes silent as we reach 55 feet. The eye of revenge is raised. The sea is still flat and the sun brilliant upon the waters. The eye spins to the bearing. There she is, the daughter of Hirohito, not 1000 yards and 15 degrees off the port bow. Her decks packed with tanks from the Empire's foundries. The batteries all but dead, the Stingray opens her forward tubes. CTD. Neptune laughs.

02-09-15, 11:43 AM	#2
Spraug Helmsman Join Date: Dec 2014 Posts: 105 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	Pure poetry! Maybe you should have told the crew to open the tubes MANUALLY? __________________ Playing: Windows 10 - Steam - Silent Hunter 4 v1.5 1_TriggerMaru_Overhaul_2-5 1_TMO_25_small_patch RSRDC_TMO_V502 RSRDC_V5xx_Patch1 SCAF for RSRDC v502_2.0 IJN_Radar_Fix_2 Last edited by Spraug; 02-09-15 at 03:09 PM. Reason: edit: typo

02-09-15, 03:02 PM	#3
merc4ulfate DILLIGAF Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: florida Posts: 2,058 Downloads: 210 Uploads: 0	With the mods I run you have to open them manually. __________________ Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. ~Isaac Asimov~ Mercfulfate 将補日本帝國海軍

02-09-15, 03:11 PM	#4
Spraug Helmsman Join Date: Dec 2014 Posts: 105 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	That was a feeble attempt at humour: batteries almost empty - open tubes - batteries totally empty - computer crashes. Guess I have to work on my jokes Sorry, I've suffered my share of CTDs and - playing a steam version - my approach if it happens too often is to return to base, uninstall the mods, run the game via steam online, go offline again, re-install the mods. Takes an hour, but it's working. __________________ Playing: Windows 10 - Steam - Silent Hunter 4 v1.5 1_TriggerMaru_Overhaul_2-5 1_TMO_25_small_patch RSRDC_TMO_V502 RSRDC_V5xx_Patch1 SCAF for RSRDC v502_2.0 IJN_Radar_Fix_2

02-10-15, 05:26 PM	#7
Crannogman Watch Officer Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Kansas City, Missouri Posts: 343 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	I save often for the CTDs, not for fear of death __________________ "The sea shall ride over her and she shall live in it like a duck" ~John Ericsson

02-10-15, 05:08 PM	#6
Jeff1959 Watch Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 27 Downloads: 115 Uploads: 0	I've just had a similar experience. I have just surprised a Jap carrier and escort vessels. I launched 4 torpedoes at the carrier. Crashed dived, ran deep, sonar reports "torpedo impact, torpedo impact, Enemy vessel destroyed." Got me a carrier. Being out of torpedoes I head back to Pearl. Stumble upon a small convoy with only one escort, which I get lucky and get with the deck gun. Suddenly CTD. No credit for carrier or anything else since my last save. DANG NABBIT!