making SH4 more realistic and challenging pt 2: harbor massacres - Page 2

jhelix70 · 05-06-07, 10:27 AM

How to rack up easy merchant tonnage in SH4? Visit your friendly neighborhood enemy port. Sometimes they only have one or two merchants anchored in them...sometimes a whole bonanza of six or more! And...only one destroyer patrolling outside.

So, sink the destroyer and it becomes a turkey shoot.

It would be nice if the ships responded by trying to raise steam and escape, but I suppose we would hunt them down eventually anyway.

I wish there was an easy way to mod this semi-exploit out. Sub nets, mines, shallow water with only one channel through to the harbor? Sounds like a lot of work to me.

Maybe a subchaser at anchor that would become active after you sink the DD? Or gun emplacements with super visibility to keep you from approaching too close on the surface?

What prevented US subs from doing the same thing in real life? I assume it was a combination of anti-sub nets (or other obstacles such as sunken ships) and the uncertain navigation in the shallow waters of a harbor (too easy to run a submerged sub aground).

05-06-07, 10:27 AM	#1
jhelix70 Sparky Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 152 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	making SH4 more realistic and challenging pt 2: harbor massacres How to rack up easy merchant tonnage in SH4? Visit your friendly neighborhood enemy port. Sometimes they only have one or two merchants anchored in them...sometimes a whole bonanza of six or more! And...only one destroyer patrolling outside. So, sink the destroyer and it becomes a turkey shoot. It would be nice if the ships responded by trying to raise steam and escape, but I suppose we would hunt them down eventually anyway. I wish there was an easy way to mod this semi-exploit out. Sub nets, mines, shallow water with only one channel through to the harbor? Sounds like a lot of work to me. Maybe a subchaser at anchor that would become active after you sink the DD? Or gun emplacements with super visibility to keep you from approaching too close on the surface? What prevented US subs from doing the same thing in real life? I assume it was a combination of anti-sub nets (or other obstacles such as sunken ships) and the uncertain navigation in the shallow waters of a harbor (too easy to run a submerged sub aground).