What a game!

shegeek72 · 07-31-06, 07:02 AM

I'm in a 1942 campaign piloting a IXC down the north Amercian coast, after taking out a few merchants along the way. I'm trying to recharge the batts at night, but a pesty bomber keeps spoiling it. Headed towards the Florida coast I'm far enough out at sea that not much is going on, but as I get closer the planes get more numerous. The sea is stormy, so all I can do is crash dive when attacked. This continues into the day as a cat and mouse game transpires, trying to surface to recharge then dive when attacked.

Finally the storm starts to subside; winds down to 9 mps, then to 4, then to 0, sky is clear. The ocean's like glass - a perfect day for shooting planes! I send up a watch officer and a couple flak gunners and wait. Then there's the heartbeat-increasing screen "aircraft spotted": engage target! I man (err, woman) one of the flak guns and my fellow gunner and I take pot shots at three enemy aircraft. All three are hit, trailing fire and smoke! None are damaged enough to crash, but they turn tail and head away! Take that!!

I know they'll be back with their buddies and, sure enough, in 45 mins. there are five planes charging at us! Again, I pepper them with the flak guns, as DCs explode around us and machine gun fire strafes the water almost hitting the flak gunner! "Flak gun damaged!" then a few second later, "Flak gun repaired!" Man, my crew is fast! So I continue firing, then crash dive before we sustain more damage. H.I. down to 92%.

That was too much fun! So a couple hours later I surface again and wait for the inevitable attack - there they come, five more! My fellow gunner and I fill the sky with armor-piercing rounds! "We're taking damage!" the chief engineer shouts. "Crash dive!" H.I. down to 82%, otherwise we're unscathed. I'm gonna stay submerged for a while now and hunt for enemy ships!

What a game!

Of course, there's always the whiner seaman:

07-31-06, 07:02 AM	#1
shegeek72 WAV Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: somewhere in the Pacific Posts: 603 Downloads: 95 Uploads: 0	What a game! I'm in a 1942 campaign piloting a IXC down the north Amercian coast, after taking out a few merchants along the way. I'm trying to recharge the batts at night, but a pesty bomber keeps spoiling it. Headed towards the Florida coast I'm far enough out at sea that not much is going on, but as I get closer the planes get more numerous. The sea is stormy, so all I can do is crash dive when attacked. This continues into the day as a cat and mouse game transpires, trying to surface to recharge then dive when attacked. Finally the storm starts to subside; winds down to 9 mps, then to 4, then to 0, sky is clear. The ocean's like glass - a perfect day for shooting planes! I send up a watch officer and a couple flak gunners and wait. Then there's the heartbeat-increasing screen "aircraft spotted": engage target! I man (err, woman) one of the flak guns and my fellow gunner and I take pot shots at three enemy aircraft. All three are hit, trailing fire and smoke! None are damaged enough to crash, but they turn tail and head away! Take that!! I know they'll be back with their buddies and, sure enough, in 45 mins. there are five planes charging at us! Again, I pepper them with the flak guns, as DCs explode around us and machine gun fire strafes the water almost hitting the flak gunner! "Flak gun damaged!" then a few second later, "Flak gun repaired!" Man, my crew is fast! So I continue firing, then crash dive before we sustain more damage. H.I. down to 92%. That was too much fun! So a couple hours later I surface again and wait for the inevitable attack - there they come, five more! My fellow gunner and I fill the sky with armor-piercing rounds! "We're taking damage!" the chief engineer shouts. "Crash dive!" H.I. down to 82%, otherwise we're unscathed. I'm gonna stay submerged for a while now and hunt for enemy ships! What a game! Of course, there's always the whiner seaman: