Transferred to Penang while at sea

Karl Hungus · 03-30-15, 04:19 PM

I wasn't expecting the order from BDU to head for Penang quite yet. Can I load the merged campaign mid-patrol? Or is it going to be a long voyage in an empty ocean?

Scout614 · 03-30-15, 06:27 PM

It's gonna be a high speed surface run at 1024x to until you make it once there load the Indian Ocean campaign

Karl Hungus · 03-30-15, 10:41 PM

I'm docked at the Charlotte Schliemann- BDU told me to head for Brake, but it never appeared on the map. Anyway, since I'm docked, can I load the Indian Ocean campaign files? Or should I wait for Penang?

Scout614 · 03-30-15, 11:12 PM

wait for penang. loading mods mid mission usually messes up everything

sublynx · 03-31-15, 08:13 AM

My experience is that if you load a mod and the save game crashes, you take the mod out, and the save game loads again.

I do have a very stable game, though (knocks on wood).

LGN1 · 03-31-15, 02:25 PM

When you dock at a U-tanker I think you can change the campaign files because it's technically a 'base'. Just save and check what the SH3 menu says. If it says 'In port' for the save-game, I would say you can change the campaign file.

Regards, LGN1

Karl Hungus · 03-31-15, 09:09 PM

Since the game treats the supply ships as ports, I was able to enable the mod.

Everything has worked fine, but I've seen exactly one ship (a C&D class) between the Schliemann and Oman, including several passes across the mouth of the Sea of Aden. Lots of aircraft, though. If the mod wasn't working, I wouldn't have seen anything, correct?

Scout614 · 04-02-15, 01:39 AM

Yessir

Karl Hungus · 04-05-15, 10:39 AM

After seeing nothing thousands of km after leaving the Schliemann, things picked up quickly (got real, in the parlance of our times) in mouth of the Gulf of Oman.

Just as we were exiting the gulf to make our way around India to Penang, radar signals were detected off the port bow. I dove to periscope depth hoping to avoid detection by an airplane, but instead picked up the sounds of a convoy heading towards us into the gulf at long range. Orders were given to surface the boat and make a run at flank speed to a more advantageous attack position where we waited for the convoy to blunder into our path.

Sept 15, 1943:
The lead escort passed near our boat but didn't detect us sitting at a dead stop in 25m. Once he was safely past us, I went to 2kts and periscope depth. The convoy is huge, mostly made of up large merchants, Liberty ships, a few tankers, and with a Ceramic liner and a troop transport in the center. I sent two torpedoes each at the liner and the troop ship from around 1500m, missing the former but quickly sending the latter to the bottom (00:11 hrs). While the eels were in the water I went deep and crept away. The escorts made what seemed to be a very half-hearted attempt to find us and moved on. While waiting for a safe time to surface, I charted the convoy's direction and plotted another intercept.

After the sounds of the convoy dissipated, we surfaced and made another run at flank speed to get ahead of them and submerge. I was able to find them by detecting their radar signals and staying outside of what I assume their effective range was. Again, we dove and waited for the lead escort to pass. I don't think these Aussies are very good at their jobs. I fired on the liner again but missed, and also at a large tanker that burst into flames and went down quickly (12:02 hrs). Again, I went deep while the eels were swimming, but decided against another intercept as the convoy was heading into the shallow waters of the Straits of Hormuz. Instead we headed back towards the Arab Sea.

Sept. 16, 1943
Near the mouth of the Gulf, we again detected radar signals and dove to avoid what as thought to be an aircraft. Again, the hydrophones picked up the sounds of an in-bound convoy. After charting the path for a bit, we surfaced and made a high speed run for an intercept. Again, we dove deep and let the lead escort pass. Again, the Aussies didn't hear us so we rose to periscope depth and made our attack. The bow tubes were emptied at a modern tanker and a large tanker- only the modern was hit, near the screws, but a large fire was started that eventually led to a catastrophic explosion (06:18 hrs). I was starting to dive when I realized that there was a large ship aft of me in the outside line of the convoy- an ore carrier! I waited perhaps three minutes for him to cross my stern tubes and fired both, getting one hit under the keel. This, however, was greedy and nearly resulted in the deaths of myself and my crew.

I had gotten tunnel vision and didn't notice one of the escorts steaming hard towards our position. I did finally, not long after the last torpedo left the stern tubes and we started diving, when the pings started. Uh oh. I ordered us to 150m at flank, I didn't care about sound as he knew where we were already, we just needed to get deep. Anyway, depth charges were dropped one hit nearby at around 50m. There was heavy flooding to the bow torpedo room and the hydrophone receiver was destroyed. I launched a bold and slowed to 2 kts while trying desperately to stop the flooding. No more depth charges came, but we kept going deeper. 150m. 175m. Around 200m the engineer warned me about the depth, but nothing could be done. 225m. 250m. Finally, just at 260m we had some positive buoyancy and started to slowly creep up towards the surface, and away from the convoy. Calculated crush depth for our boat (IXD2) was 230m. We were alive!

Slowly we went to the surface, and the convoy was long gone. With no hydrophones we headed away towards India. I noticed we were given credit for sinking ore carrier (07:38 hrs) in the log, but I didn't see it go down.

About 12 hours later, the lookouts sighted a ship on the horizon. Then another. And then another. Three (3!) unescorted large tankers were steaming right for us in a line at 7kts. You have to be kidding me. We dive to periscope depth and maneuver into a good attack position, firing two torpedoes at each of the first two ships. Both are sunk (18:28 & 18:29 hrs respectively. Once the third was beyond the range of its guns, I surfaced and got into position to sink it with the stern tubes (19:20 hrs). The gods are truly looking down on us today.

Sept. 20, 1943

Lookouts spot two ships. Again, unescorted. A large and a small tanker. Both are dispatched (06:22 & 06:56), one eel each was enough, I let the flooding do the work for me so that I wouldn't be completely toothless on the rest of my long voyage.

As it stands, I have two torpedoes left in the stern tubes, no hydrophones, and 5700km to Penang. I plotted a new course far out into the Indian to try and avoid any contact for the rest of the voyage.

I can't believe we survived taking a damage boat so deep. 260m! It was by far the most stressful SH experience I've had.

Karl Hungus · 04-05-15, 10:42 AM

71244 tons. Stunning.

banryu79 · 04-06-15, 05:08 PM

Great patrol experience, herr Kaleun!

Karl Hungus · 04-08-15, 08:17 AM

Aaaaaaand we made it to Penang. Had to dive once for aircraft, but that was our only contact for the rest of the voyage.

sublynx · 04-08-15, 08:23 AM

Does Penang have a oriental look or is it just like the European ports?

Karl Hungus · 04-08-15, 08:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sublynx

Does Penang have a oriental look or is it just like the European ports?

Had to wait for my next mission- we got in at 3 a.m. Penang looks like every other city, except that it has palm trees.

03-30-15, 04:19 PM	#1
Karl Hungus Watch Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 17 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	Transferred to Penang while at sea I wasn't expecting the order from BDU to head for Penang quite yet. Can I load the merged campaign mid-patrol? Or is it going to be a long voyage in an empty ocean?

03-31-15, 08:13 AM	#5
sublynx Sea Lord Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: In the conning tower of my VIIC scanning the sea through the periscope Posts: 1,698 Downloads: 173 Uploads: 7	My experience is that if you load a mod and the save game crashes, you take the mod out, and the save game loads again. I do have a very stable game, though (knocks on wood). __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] NYGM+H.sie v16+Stiebler 4C+MaGui WS

04-08-15, 08:23 AM	#13
sublynx Sea Lord Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: In the conning tower of my VIIC scanning the sea through the periscope Posts: 1,698 Downloads: 173 Uploads: 7	Does Penang have a oriental look or is it just like the European ports? __________________ [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] NYGM+H.sie v16+Stiebler 4C+MaGui WS

03-30-15, 06:27 PM	#2
Scout614 Bosun Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 62 Downloads: 18 Uploads: 0	It's gonna be a high speed surface run at 1024x to until you make it once there load the Indian Ocean campaign

03-30-15, 10:41 PM	#3
Karl Hungus Watch Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 17 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	I'm docked at the Charlotte Schliemann- BDU told me to head for Brake, but it never appeared on the map. Anyway, since I'm docked, can I load the Indian Ocean campaign files? Or should I wait for Penang?

03-30-15, 11:12 PM	#4
Scout614 Bosun Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 62 Downloads: 18 Uploads: 0	wait for penang. loading mods mid mission usually messes up everything

03-31-15, 02:25 PM	#6
LGN1 Ace of the Deep Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,138 Downloads: 147 Uploads: 12	When you dock at a U-tanker I think you can change the campaign files because it's technically a 'base'. Just save and check what the SH3 menu says. If it says 'In port' for the save-game, I would say you can change the campaign file. Regards, LGN1

03-31-15, 09:09 PM	#7
Karl Hungus Watch Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 17 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	Since the game treats the supply ships as ports, I was able to enable the mod. Everything has worked fine, but I've seen exactly one ship (a C&D class) between the Schliemann and Oman, including several passes across the mouth of the Sea of Aden. Lots of aircraft, though. If the mod wasn't working, I wouldn't have seen anything, correct?

04-02-15, 01:39 AM	#8
Scout614 Bosun Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 62 Downloads: 18 Uploads: 0	Yessir

04-05-15, 10:39 AM	#9
Karl Hungus Watch Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 17 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	After seeing nothing thousands of km after leaving the Schliemann, things picked up quickly (got real, in the parlance of our times) in mouth of the Gulf of Oman. Just as we were exiting the gulf to make our way around India to Penang, radar signals were detected off the port bow. I dove to periscope depth hoping to avoid detection by an airplane, but instead picked up the sounds of a convoy heading towards us into the gulf at long range. Orders were given to surface the boat and make a run at flank speed to a more advantageous attack position where we waited for the convoy to blunder into our path. Sept 15, 1943: The lead escort passed near our boat but didn't detect us sitting at a dead stop in 25m. Once he was safely past us, I went to 2kts and periscope depth. The convoy is huge, mostly made of up large merchants, Liberty ships, a few tankers, and with a Ceramic liner and a troop transport in the center. I sent two torpedoes each at the liner and the troop ship from around 1500m, missing the former but quickly sending the latter to the bottom (00:11 hrs). While the eels were in the water I went deep and crept away. The escorts made what seemed to be a very half-hearted attempt to find us and moved on. While waiting for a safe time to surface, I charted the convoy's direction and plotted another intercept. After the sounds of the convoy dissipated, we surfaced and made another run at flank speed to get ahead of them and submerge. I was able to find them by detecting their radar signals and staying outside of what I assume their effective range was. Again, we dove and waited for the lead escort to pass. I don't think these Aussies are very good at their jobs. I fired on the liner again but missed, and also at a large tanker that burst into flames and went down quickly (12:02 hrs). Again, I went deep while the eels were swimming, but decided against another intercept as the convoy was heading into the shallow waters of the Straits of Hormuz. Instead we headed back towards the Arab Sea. Sept. 16, 1943 Near the mouth of the Gulf, we again detected radar signals and dove to avoid what as thought to be an aircraft. Again, the hydrophones picked up the sounds of an in-bound convoy. After charting the path for a bit, we surfaced and made a high speed run for an intercept. Again, we dove deep and let the lead escort pass. Again, the Aussies didn't hear us so we rose to periscope depth and made our attack. The bow tubes were emptied at a modern tanker and a large tanker- only the modern was hit, near the screws, but a large fire was started that eventually led to a catastrophic explosion (06:18 hrs). I was starting to dive when I realized that there was a large ship aft of me in the outside line of the convoy- an ore carrier! I waited perhaps three minutes for him to cross my stern tubes and fired both, getting one hit under the keel. This, however, was greedy and nearly resulted in the deaths of myself and my crew. I had gotten tunnel vision and didn't notice one of the escorts steaming hard towards our position. I did finally, not long after the last torpedo left the stern tubes and we started diving, when the pings started. Uh oh. I ordered us to 150m at flank, I didn't care about sound as he knew where we were already, we just needed to get deep. Anyway, depth charges were dropped one hit nearby at around 50m. There was heavy flooding to the bow torpedo room and the hydrophone receiver was destroyed. I launched a bold and slowed to 2 kts while trying desperately to stop the flooding. No more depth charges came, but we kept going deeper. 150m. 175m. Around 200m the engineer warned me about the depth, but nothing could be done. 225m. 250m. Finally, just at 260m we had some positive buoyancy and started to slowly creep up towards the surface, and away from the convoy. Calculated crush depth for our boat (IXD2) was 230m. We were alive! Slowly we went to the surface, and the convoy was long gone. With no hydrophones we headed away towards India. I noticed we were given credit for sinking ore carrier (07:38 hrs) in the log, but I didn't see it go down. About 12 hours later, the lookouts sighted a ship on the horizon. Then another. And then another. Three (3!) unescorted large tankers were steaming right for us in a line at 7kts. You have to be kidding me. We dive to periscope depth and maneuver into a good attack position, firing two torpedoes at each of the first two ships. Both are sunk (18:28 & 18:29 hrs respectively. Once the third was beyond the range of its guns, I surfaced and got into position to sink it with the stern tubes (19:20 hrs). The gods are truly looking down on us today. Sept. 20, 1943 Lookouts spot two ships. Again, unescorted. A large and a small tanker. Both are dispatched (06:22 & 06:56), one eel each was enough, I let the flooding do the work for me so that I wouldn't be completely toothless on the rest of my long voyage. As it stands, I have two torpedoes left in the stern tubes, no hydrophones, and 5700km to Penang. I plotted a new course far out into the Indian to try and avoid any contact for the rest of the voyage. I can't believe we survived taking a damage boat so deep. 260m! It was by far the most stressful SH experience I've had.

04-05-15, 10:42 AM	#10
Karl Hungus Watch Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 17 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	71244 tons. Stunning.

04-06-15, 05:08 PM	#11
banryu79 Samurai Navy Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: Italy Posts: 554 Downloads: 82 Uploads: 2	Great patrol experience, herr Kaleun!

04-08-15, 08:17 AM	#12
Karl Hungus Watch Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 17 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	Aaaaaaand we made it to Penang. Had to dive once for aircraft, but that was our only contact for the rest of the voyage.