Absurdities Aboard the Snapper

Hellguard3 · 05-12-17, 09:51 PM

Just a few questions to you guys.

Upon my first serious patrol, i find the game is not being serious (i hope).
To preface i have no mods installed, i purchased sh4 and the u-boat missions through steam.

To the meat of it.

the first mission i was given from the Asiatic base at Manila had me doing a "recon" mission of jap carriers in Manila bay. Baffled by this i turned my boat around (started outside the harbor) and went back in to take a look, thinking "gosh they must have bad Intel" (or the mission was meant to be scripted later in the campaign. Lo and behold the Japs had an escort carrier and a seaplane tender parked in the bay. I took pictures of them then proceeded to try to get into a good torpedo position at 1/3rd when BAM! torpedo nets. I set about having my repair crew fix the now leaking bulkheads and get the water out which fixed rather fast.
Then like a true greenhorn i setup a shot form beyond the nets and proceeded to set the depth on my torpedoes to hit 3m above the bottom of the enemy ships, only to sacrifice three good fish to the nets. after realizing my idiocy, i fired the 4th at 1m depth and sank the carrier in one hit, a stern torp and some gunfire finished off the tender.

i figure its my first time out and my first real go at a subsim so i figure the game is throwing me some target practice, but this mission was just weird. I refitted in Manila before proceeding.

Does the game usually make these mistakes?, i'm pretty sure the Japs didn't have carriers parked in manila bay on Dec 9th.

next im ordered to patrol the top of the Luzon strait, omw there i run into three invasion forces (knew they were coming) and sank a troop transport, a Cruiser, a liferaft (no idea how i get credit for that) and two freighters in a convoy through Luzon. i get to the location marked by the flag with 3 torpedoes left.

The game flags a "Large Convoy" heading WSW through the straight, going 12kts. I think "oh good i'm in position on their course i can try out this nifty trick i read up on about using hydrophones only to determine bearing range and speed without looking at the target." I get everything worked out, and after 3min 15 seconds i get one ships location and speed figured up and get ready to dicko caine (i have no clue how this is spelled.) get everything entered into my targeting computer when, the target zigs noticeably. so I'm like "damn, did he turn?" with a funny feeling that my track was worthless i decided to look around topside with the camera, and immediately dove to crash depth.

The "Large Convoy" was all destroyers... Three rows of destroyers... 45 Destroyers Total. In-fact there were so many that I'm pretty sure they didn't have that many built of each class that was represented. This convoy is the nastiest surprise i could have imagined.

Has anyone else run into these Cthulhu spawn convoys before?

05-12-17, 09:51 PM	#1
Hellguard3 Swabbie Join Date: May 2017 Location: Texas native in michigan for a time Posts: 14 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Absurdities Aboard the Snapper Just a few questions to you guys. Upon my first serious patrol, i find the game is not being serious (i hope). To preface i have no mods installed, i purchased sh4 and the u-boat missions through steam. To the meat of it. the first mission i was given from the Asiatic base at Manila had me doing a "recon" mission of jap carriers in Manila bay. Baffled by this i turned my boat around (started outside the harbor) and went back in to take a look, thinking "gosh they must have bad Intel" (or the mission was meant to be scripted later in the campaign. Lo and behold the Japs had an escort carrier and a seaplane tender parked in the bay. I took pictures of them then proceeded to try to get into a good torpedo position at 1/3rd when BAM! torpedo nets. I set about having my repair crew fix the now leaking bulkheads and get the water out which fixed rather fast. Then like a true greenhorn i setup a shot form beyond the nets and proceeded to set the depth on my torpedoes to hit 3m above the bottom of the enemy ships, only to sacrifice three good fish to the nets. after realizing my idiocy, i fired the 4th at 1m depth and sank the carrier in one hit, a stern torp and some gunfire finished off the tender. i figure its my first time out and my first real go at a subsim so i figure the game is throwing me some target practice, but this mission was just weird. I refitted in Manila before proceeding. Does the game usually make these mistakes?, i'm pretty sure the Japs didn't have carriers parked in manila bay on Dec 9th. next im ordered to patrol the top of the Luzon strait, omw there i run into three invasion forces (knew they were coming) and sank a troop transport, a Cruiser, a liferaft (no idea how i get credit for that) and two freighters in a convoy through Luzon. i get to the location marked by the flag with 3 torpedoes left. The game flags a "Large Convoy" heading WSW through the straight, going 12kts. I think "oh good i'm in position on their course i can try out this nifty trick i read up on about using hydrophones only to determine bearing range and speed without looking at the target." I get everything worked out, and after 3min 15 seconds i get one ships location and speed figured up and get ready to dicko caine (i have no clue how this is spelled.) get everything entered into my targeting computer when, the target zigs noticeably. so I'm like "damn, did he turn?" with a funny feeling that my track was worthless i decided to look around topside with the camera, and immediately dove to crash depth. The "Large Convoy" was all destroyers... Three rows of destroyers... 45 Destroyers Total. In-fact there were so many that I'm pretty sure they didn't have that many built of each class that was represented. This convoy is the nastiest surprise i could have imagined. Has anyone else run into these Cthulhu spawn convoys before?