Was it a mine?

TheAbyss · 05-27-11, 12:58 AM

Stock 1.5

14 patrols under the commander's belt, hundreds of thousands of tonnes of shipping sent to the deep (map update on, but that's it, which is probably a big help), and on the way home from patrol 15, going through Formosa Strait to get back to Freemantle (dropped off a spook in Singapore, killing a convoy minus a couple of its DDs on the way), time compression up high as radar picks up birds and boats. Anyway, I wasn't worried, it was night and I was skimming along all fine and dandy on the surface full of fuel and no torps left. Blam! Enter the spinning camera with a destroyed submarine (3% damage before from DCs). USS Balao went down.

Torplexed · 05-27-11, 01:09 AM

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Originally Posted by TheAbyss

Stock 1.5

14 patrols under the commander's belt, hundreds of thousands of tonnes of shipping sent to the deep (map update on, but that's it, which is probably a big help), and on the way home from patrol 15, going through Formosa Strait to get back to Freemantle (dropped off a spook in Singapore, killing a convoy minus a couple of its DDs on the way), time compression up high as radar picks up birds and boats. Anyway, I wasn't worried, it was night and I was skimming along all fine and dandy on the surface full of fuel and no torps left. Blam! Enter the spinning camera with a destroyed submarine (3% damage before from DCs). USS Balao went down.

Certainly sounds like a mine kill. Sorry your illustrious career was lost.

deceptiboat · 05-27-11, 01:39 AM

well, at least you will be remembered as a great war hero

Mafiota2 · 05-27-11, 02:33 AM

Another possibility is that your waypoint was going trough a small island
Sometimes they are so little they are invisible on the map and when you speed up you go straight through them soo i'm just saying

Or it was a mine

TheAbyss · 05-27-11, 02:45 AM

Ah, a mistake, it wasn't Formosa, it was where Karimata Strait hits Jawa Sea (close to Singapore). It was in the shallows, that's all I know (there doesn't appear to be any islands/sandbanks where I plotted the path--looking at it in my new career), but I suppose there could be a really shallow area somewhere there to beach oneself (the outside death screen wasn't of a beached ship though, just one in the open waters). Shame I didn't see what got me, especially if it was a mine.

Another reason to avoid the shallows now. Apart from using an S-18 [where escape happened for me], I was always DC to death by escorts in shallow waters.

Armistead · 05-27-11, 09:06 AM

Not sure what mods you use, but shouldn't be any mines on the surface.
They're are lots of small reefs and islands in that area. You said radar picked up birds and boats, I assume by birds you mean planes, but either could've spotted you and killed you using TC before you could react...Depending on time and year, could've been shore guns.

05-27-11, 12:58 AM	#1
TheAbyss Swabbie Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 12 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 0	Was it a mine? Stock 1.5 14 patrols under the commander's belt, hundreds of thousands of tonnes of shipping sent to the deep (map update on, but that's it, which is probably a big help), and on the way home from patrol 15, going through Formosa Strait to get back to Freemantle (dropped off a spook in Singapore, killing a convoy minus a couple of its DDs on the way), time compression up high as radar picks up birds and boats. Anyway, I wasn't worried, it was night and I was skimming along all fine and dandy on the surface full of fuel and no torps left. Blam! Enter the spinning camera with a destroyed submarine (3% damage before from DCs). USS Balao went down. __________________ Damn the hippies! Nuke that whale!

05-27-11, 01:39 AM	#3
deceptiboat A-ganger Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 79 Downloads: 113 Uploads: 0	well, at least you will be remembered as a great war hero __________________ My completed X360 game: Battstat:Pac & Mdwy, TF:ROTF&Wr Fr Cybrtrn, AC I&II&Brotherhood, Tom Clancy's HAWX 1&2, Ace Cmbt 6, Mass Effect I&II, MotoGp 09/10&10/11, The Saboteur, Fallout 3&NewVegas, Halo 3&Reach, AVP, Far Cry 2, Lost Plnt 2, BF:BC 2, COD:MW 2&Blck Ops, SplntrCll:Cnvctn, Mafia II, MOH, Vanquish, Nrt:Ult.Ninj Strm 2, StrWrs:TFU II, Drgn Age II, Homfrnt, F1 2010, Crysis 2,And Many More

05-27-11, 02:45 AM	#5
TheAbyss Swabbie Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 12 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 0	Ah, a mistake, it wasn't Formosa, it was where Karimata Strait hits Jawa Sea (close to Singapore). It was in the shallows, that's all I know (there doesn't appear to be any islands/sandbanks where I plotted the path--looking at it in my new career), but I suppose there could be a really shallow area somewhere there to beach oneself (the outside death screen wasn't of a beached ship though, just one in the open waters). Shame I didn't see what got me, especially if it was a mine. Another reason to avoid the shallows now. Apart from using an S-18 [where escape happened for me], I was always DC to death by escorts in shallow waters. __________________ Damn the hippies! Nuke that whale!

05-27-11, 02:33 AM	#4
Mafiota2 Swabbie Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 10 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	Another possibility is that your waypoint was going trough a small island Sometimes they are so little they are invisible on the map and when you speed up you go straight through them soo i'm just saying Or it was a mine

05-27-11, 09:06 AM	#6
Armistead Rear Admiral Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: on the Dan Posts: 10,880 Downloads: 364 Uploads: 0	Not sure what mods you use, but shouldn't be any mines on the surface. They're are lots of small reefs and islands in that area. You said radar picked up birds and boats, I assume by birds you mean planes, but either could've spotted you and killed you using TC before you could react...Depending on time and year, could've been shore guns.