first patrol using RuB 1.44

thasaint · 10-05-05, 01:30 AM

hope this isn't a trend

first off let me apologize for having no screenshots, they didn't save for some reason, and i usually try taking screens in SH3, and using fraps, but apparantly my fraps was closed somehow >.<, and SH3 didn't save them

anyways, started in 1944 11th flotilla, leave bergen, sail west, in the first grid i pass through, run right smack into a taskforce passing right across my bow. 2 didos and an illustrious escorted by various DD's, sunk 1 dido and the carrier. didn't even need to run my engines, just let 'em come to me

sail to my patrol grid, do my 24, then sail down to that northern choke point for inbound convoys northeast of ireland, run into another convoy, this one coming straight at me. 1 escort in front, 1 to port, 1 to starboard

another note on this convoy, the shape was different than most i've seen with this "improved convoys" mod that's in RuB now, only 3 rows, with about 8-10 ships in each row, instead of many rows with 3-4 ships in each, was this changed for RuB 1.44 since the latest improved convoys posted on sept. 30th? or are convoys in this style in late war convoys only? i never really got to 1944

2nd ship in the middle row is a king george V class

. i've never seen one of these before and i've been playing this game a lot. put 3 torps into her, 1 into a c2, both are dead in the water, go deep, wait for the convoy to move off with her escorts, peri depth and reload.

up scope, to my surprise there's another c2 just sitting there alongside the KGV and c2 i hit earlier, engine's in working order (smoke out of the stack). 1 torp into her and she blows up nice, 1 more torp into the KGV and she goes down, 2 into the originally hit c2 and she's at the bottom too... return home to 72k+ tons sunk...

did i just get lucky or what? first time i had ever run across a task force that i could actually hit, then a battleship sailing along in a convoy at only 13 knots. all the capital ships i've sunk previously were docked :hmm: just seems like too much damage done on one patrol hehe

*edit* duh forgot i can go look at captain's logs, was 75k+ tons

10-05-05, 01:30 AM	#1
thasaint Medic Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: New York City, USA Posts: 163 Downloads: 116 Uploads: 0	first patrol using RuB 1.44 hope this isn't a trend first off let me apologize for having no screenshots, they didn't save for some reason, and i usually try taking screens in SH3, and using fraps, but apparantly my fraps was closed somehow >.<, and SH3 didn't save them anyways, started in 1944 11th flotilla, leave bergen, sail west, in the first grid i pass through, run right smack into a taskforce passing right across my bow. 2 didos and an illustrious escorted by various DD's, sunk 1 dido and the carrier. didn't even need to run my engines, just let 'em come to me sail to my patrol grid, do my 24, then sail down to that northern choke point for inbound convoys northeast of ireland, run into another convoy, this one coming straight at me. 1 escort in front, 1 to port, 1 to starboard another note on this convoy, the shape was different than most i've seen with this "improved convoys" mod that's in RuB now, only 3 rows, with about 8-10 ships in each row, instead of many rows with 3-4 ships in each, was this changed for RuB 1.44 since the latest improved convoys posted on sept. 30th? or are convoys in this style in late war convoys only? i never really got to 1944 2nd ship in the middle row is a king george V class . i've never seen one of these before and i've been playing this game a lot. put 3 torps into her, 1 into a c2, both are dead in the water, go deep, wait for the convoy to move off with her escorts, peri depth and reload. up scope, to my surprise there's another c2 just sitting there alongside the KGV and c2 i hit earlier, engine's in working order (smoke out of the stack). 1 torp into her and she blows up nice, 1 more torp into the KGV and she goes down, 2 into the originally hit c2 and she's at the bottom too... return home to 72k+ tons sunk... did i just get lucky or what? first time i had ever run across a task force that i could actually hit, then a battleship sailing along in a convoy at only 13 knots. all the capital ships i've sunk previously were docked :hmm: just seems like too much damage done on one patrol hehe edit duh forgot i can go look at captain's logs, was 75k+ tons