Contempt for Japanese ASW...

Bubblehead1980 · 11-06-13, 09:23 PM

I would say normally by 1944, I do not have contempt for Japanese ASW, especially in TMO RSRD but last night it nearly cost me.Gato-USS Herring out of Fremantle. 100 difficulty

February 1944 Celebes Sea.After patroling Western Celebes sea with three tanker convoy sunk on Feb 6/7 in one submerged and one night surface attack, found nothing until an ULTRA directed me just south of Tawi Tawi waiting for two convoys to pass after midday Feb 16. Sure enough, along comes a 7 ship, two escort convoy late in afternoon.Decided on dusk scope attack, follow up night surface if possible, or wait for second convoy, depends.Attacked, sunk a large freighter with 3 Mark 23's from forward tubes, sunk a smaller one with two, then went to 300 feet.The escorts were a minesweeper up front, and a momi patrol boat in the rear.The minesweeper was way up front but the momi was closing it, I was surprised when it never pinged but was closing, obviously it did not have active sonar yet but passive. I leveled off at 300 feet, few charges fell, none close.The minesweeper was on scene, but not pinging.Then I heard the momi roaring back overhead and dropped 6 charges at short intervals.I was not worried since had no active gear .Suddenly, the boat was shocking, taking damage, lights flickering, reports of flooding in control room, trimp pump damaged.Then two more close explosions, various noises.Man the luck, I would say 5 of 6 charges were very close, caused some damage.Fortunately, got the minor flooding under control.Then the minesweeper began to ping me, dropped more close ones, boat went to 350 feet before coudl level off due to the flooding.They seemed to lose me for a bit due to the water disturbance(love that mod) but then regained contact and kept me pinned with multiple charges as they hunted me for 5 hours before departing area.Surfaced, repaired, attacked next convoy, expending last of torpedoes, went home with 7 ships down, 55k tons.

I will admit I was not worried about either escort, esp the momi when found it had no active sonar but they were pretty solid, definitely a wake up call to not hold contempt for even the escorts things are not much of a threat.

11-06-13, 09:23 PM	#1
Bubblehead1980 Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Florida USA Posts: 7,100 Downloads: 605 Uploads: 44	Contempt for Japanese ASW... I would say normally by 1944, I do not have contempt for Japanese ASW, especially in TMO RSRD but last night it nearly cost me.Gato-USS Herring out of Fremantle. 100 difficulty February 1944 Celebes Sea.After patroling Western Celebes sea with three tanker convoy sunk on Feb 6/7 in one submerged and one night surface attack, found nothing until an ULTRA directed me just south of Tawi Tawi waiting for two convoys to pass after midday Feb 16. Sure enough, along comes a 7 ship, two escort convoy late in afternoon.Decided on dusk scope attack, follow up night surface if possible, or wait for second convoy, depends.Attacked, sunk a large freighter with 3 Mark 23's from forward tubes, sunk a smaller one with two, then went to 300 feet.The escorts were a minesweeper up front, and a momi patrol boat in the rear.The minesweeper was way up front but the momi was closing it, I was surprised when it never pinged but was closing, obviously it did not have active sonar yet but passive. I leveled off at 300 feet, few charges fell, none close.The minesweeper was on scene, but not pinging.Then I heard the momi roaring back overhead and dropped 6 charges at short intervals.I was not worried since had no active gear .Suddenly, the boat was shocking, taking damage, lights flickering, reports of flooding in control room, trimp pump damaged.Then two more close explosions, various noises.Man the luck, I would say 5 of 6 charges were very close, caused some damage.Fortunately, got the minor flooding under control.Then the minesweeper began to ping me, dropped more close ones, boat went to 350 feet before coudl level off due to the flooding.They seemed to lose me for a bit due to the water disturbance(love that mod) but then regained contact and kept me pinned with multiple charges as they hunted me for 5 hours before departing area.Surfaced, repaired, attacked next convoy, expending last of torpedoes, went home with 7 ships down, 55k tons. I will admit I was not worried about either escort, esp the momi when found it had no active sonar but they were pretty solid, definitely a wake up call to not hold contempt for even the escorts things are not much of a threat.