My biggest fish story - I love this game.

[CptLoonee]

I know this is really just self-congratulatory, but as a pretty new Captain, this is big for me!

In my full real setting TMO2.1 RSRD campaign, on Oct 25th, 1944 in the USS Balao, I ran into Admiral Kurita's Center Fleet coming through the San Bernardino Strait. Luckily, I caught them on radar soon enough to get a modified 45 degree angle O'kane shot on the passing fleet that was steaming along at 28 knots.

I guess the flanking destroyers were going too fast for their sonars to be working efficiently, because they steamed right past. I held my breath as I watched destroyers, heavy cruisers and battleships cruise by. It was hard to check my fire with these juicy targets lined up, but MY target was at the back of the column.

Finally, bringing up the rear, the HUUUUGE form of the Yamato slid closer to my crosshairs.

Unleashing a salvo of six MK 14 fish at this behemoth, I immediately crash dived to nearly 600 feet, dodging ash cans for a harrowing period of time.

When my sonar showed the sound contacts moving away quickly again, I tentatively rose to periscope depth, where what did I find directly in front of me, but a stationary, badly listing, but still active Yamato.

Amazingly, the center fleet went on without it. Apparently they had a rendezvous with Taffy-3 to the south to make.

It was so very satisfying to line up a can't miss shot and fire two more torpedoes into the enemy's flagship.

Even with 8 torps in her, it took a terribly long time for the beast to finally capsize. But when she did, she slipped below the waves almost serenely.

With no ability to catch the fleeing center fleet, I moved north along the coast in search of remnants of Ozawa's northern force, which I was unable to locate.

Certainly the benefit of hindsight allowed me some seriously unrealistic advantages, but it sure was fun to take out this monster and evade the entire fleet.

This is my best kill to date and I wish I had frapsed it! I will have to go back to a saved game before the attack and relive it over and over.

What is your best/most fun kill/patrol?

[Anthony W.]

Harbor raiding

[Armistead]

Wait around, it comes back through. The Center force will head to Brunei Bay at Borneo, if you would rather, you could attack it there. Hang outside Brunei in Nov, several large TF come and go and many large convoys. Basically you just have to decide what you want to save your torps for.

[CptLoonee]

Originally Posted by Armistead

Wait around, it comes back through. The Center force will head to Brunei Bay at Borneo, if you would rather, you could attack it there. Hang outside Brunei in Nov, several large TF come and go and many large convoys. Basically you just have to decide what you want to save your torps for.

I caught a fleet carrier, a heavy cruiser and two destroyers heading back to Brunei after I took the long way around Luzon looking for Ozawa's force.

I have to think that was a remnant of the Northern fleet because of the carrier.

I had 5 forward torps left. I put five in the carrier and sent it down and brushed off a destroyer with my last two for my best patrol ever (had 5 Marus as well).

[WernherVonTrapp]

Nice hunting CptLoonee. You're a better man than I am. BTW, if you catch Kurita's force west of the San Bernardino, in the Sibuyan Sea, you get a second crack at the TF when Kurita makes his 360 degree loop.

[SS-0 Sub-Zero]

is the historical task force such as this only exist if you use RSRDC? since i play TMO without RSRDC(i like TMO patrol Objective so i don't want to replace it with the RSRDC one)

[Aviv]

Great! I never sunk any big battleships. I don't have the courage to attack the taskforces, I prefer to pick on ones my own size.

[Daniel Prates]

When on patrol, you are supposed to be there to sink merchants, not warships, but sometimes the target is just too juicy to be overlooked.

I too am a fan of harbor raiding. The only capital ship I ever sunk (ever!) was on a type IX (in u-boat missions of course). I was in patrol close to feemantle and I did no resist to peek at the harbor. It was easy to crawl all the way to the harbor, there were DDs on it's entrance but they were too far away into the ocean that when I arrived, they were nowhere to be seen and even their sonar signatures were all but week.

And there it was, anchored, an american fleet carrier, overlaied by the silvery moon. Four hits and it was scrap. In the first explosion the airplanes flew into the air and fell on the water, it was beautiful.

[WernherVonTrapp]

Originally Posted by SS-0 Sub-Zero

is the historical task force such as this only exist if you use RSRDC? since i play TMO without RSRDC(i like TMO patrol Objective so i don't want to replace it with the RSRDC one)

Other than stock, I've only played the mega-mods (RFB, TMO) in tandem with RSRDC and never without, so I don't know from experience. I suspect, in the stock version, if it's in the single missions, it's in the career mode as well, though I don't know to what degree of accuracy.

[CptLoonee]

Originally Posted by Daniel Prates

When on patrol, you are supposed to be there to sink merchants, not warships, but sometimes the target is just too juicy to be overlooked.

Exactly right. On my previous patrols, I had sunk nothing but merchants and the occasional destroyer except for one serendipitous encounter with a Japanese light carrier inexplicably escorted by a single destroyer.

As you say though, this was too big to pass up.

I am quite certain sinking a Yamato-class battleship and a fleet carrier in one patrol is not something I will be able duplicate.

[CptLoonee]

Originally Posted by Daniel Prates

When on patrol, you are supposed to be there to sink merchants, not warships, but sometimes the target is just too juicy to be overlooked.

I too am a fan of harbor raiding. The only capital ship I ever sunk (ever!) was on a type IX (in u-boat missions of course). I was in patrol close to feemantle and I did no resist to peek at the harbor. It was easy to crawl all the way to the harbor, there were DDs on it's entrance but they were too far away into the ocean that when I arrived, they were nowhere to be seen and even their sonar signatures were all but week.

And there it was, anchored, an american fleet carrier, overlaied by the silvery moon. Four hits and it was scrap. In the first explosion the airplanes flew into the air and fell on the water, it was beautiful.

You're right, this was the first patrol I ever intentionally went after military vessels. I happened to notice the date and the location of my objective patrol and took a slight detour . It paid off big lol.

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by SS-0 Sub-Zero

is the historical task force such as this only exist if you use RSRDC? since i play TMO without RSRDC(i like TMO patrol Objective so i don't want to replace it with the RSRDC one)

Stock had a few, TMO does make some changes so you'll see more and better historical TF, but few compared to RSRD, but you should see most of the big battles. What else is lacking is courses, ports, etc. With RSRD a historical group will leave correct ports, the exact course, etc..Stock traffic usually just places the group near the actual battle.

[Sartoris]

That was a nice read