Best Patrol Ever!

DigitalAura · 10-25-09, 12:27 PM

Last night was my best patrol ever!

It started as an agent drop at Quingdong, China. I had to head into shallow waters to do this (Yellow Sea I think?).
Afterward I was directed to head back to area ABRIDGE for further orders.
Before I hit the west coast of Southern Japan a huge storm came up and the fog became heavy. Once night fell, it was black. I MEAN BLACK! I actually had to save my game and resume once my room was dark enough! I've never seen it so dark. I couldn't even see any part of my sub, not even the TBT! I was picking up a fast moving convoy of two ships. 17 knots.
I stayed surfaced (because...no one can see anything anyways) and got within 2000 yards, thinking maybe I'll see a light or something. Nada. As the ships sped closer my sonarman reported they were merchants! Hell, I'll get closer then... 1000 yards. They're dead ahead of me and I can't see squat!
All I hear is the howling wind and rain. Pitch black! FIRE'm ALL! Spread 'em out, hopefully we'll hit!
At 1000 yards, I couldn't miss. WHAM... but NO lights or fires. I couldn't believe it. You know, I even went to external cam to go explore. But I couldn't find them!
Then the next merchie was dead ahead... with no torps I started firing my deck guns. As the shells hit I could see faint sillhouette of the most massive ship I've ever seen. At 1000 yards, she was a behemoth to me. Dang...no torps except the stern tubes, and I didn't want to disorient myself by spinning in this ink! Two stacks I saw as one shell hit into the waterline. Man...that deck was waaaaaay up there.
I cheated by checking the Captains log. Somehow, miraculously some one had identified that other ship as a Horai Maru troop ship worth 8000 tons. This one was twice the size! He actually switched on his search lights and I gladly struck at him with my deck guns for several minutes. Didn't even phase him. It all of a sudden turned off all his lights and threw 'er into high gear and veered away. The radar told me it was trying to go around me so I spun to position my stern at him. SO DARK. Can't BELIEVE IT! I unleashed all four torpedoes in a fan and within 10 seconds heard ALL FOUR of them hit! Then it went through a ruckous of explosions like I've never heard. At least 20 explosions. I didn't see much, cuz in case you missed my point... IT WAS FREAKIN' PEA SOUP FOG OUT THERE! But several minutes later I got the report. Yes... it was a Class Rare Troop Carrier... Conte Verde Liner! 18,000 tons, baby!
The second one of those in two days on this patrol! Yesterday I found one surrounded by escorts and nailed her from afar... and waited 4 hours for the escorts to leave so I could finish it off. Well, heading home now, with a whopping 58,000 tons to report. Get the medal ready, Lockhart! I'm a-coming!

xristoskaiti · 10-26-09, 09:43 AM

always victories !!

Statboy · 10-26-09, 09:54 AM

Be more aggressive!

Rockin Robbins · 10-26-09, 12:35 PM

I LOVE night surface attacks! That is one fine story there.

cdrsubron7 · 10-29-09, 02:17 PM

Fascinating story, thanks for sharing.

DigitalAura · 10-30-09, 10:26 AM

I saved the game early enough to replay the scenario, it's just so dang fun because it's like new everytime...its so freakin' dark. Its really running blind. You may as well turn off your monitor and try playing!

I mean, it's also total BS... did anyone actually do close range surface attacks by radar?

10-30-09, 10:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

I LOVE night surface attacks!

Yes! Makes it much easier to attack your own Navy!

SteamWake · 10-30-09, 02:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sevrin

Yes! Makes it much easier to attack your own Navy!

The man is legend...

Morpheus · 11-19-09, 08:29 AM

could you please repeat that? it's so frikkin dark in here ^^

nice story

10-25-09, 12:27 PM	#1
DigitalAura Straight and True Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: CANADA Posts: 276 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Best Patrol Ever! Last night was my best patrol ever! It started as an agent drop at Quingdong, China. I had to head into shallow waters to do this (Yellow Sea I think?). Afterward I was directed to head back to area ABRIDGE for further orders. Before I hit the west coast of Southern Japan a huge storm came up and the fog became heavy. Once night fell, it was black. I MEAN BLACK! I actually had to save my game and resume once my room was dark enough! I've never seen it so dark. I couldn't even see any part of my sub, not even the TBT! I was picking up a fast moving convoy of two ships. 17 knots. I stayed surfaced (because...no one can see anything anyways) and got within 2000 yards, thinking maybe I'll see a light or something. Nada. As the ships sped closer my sonarman reported they were merchants! Hell, I'll get closer then... 1000 yards. They're dead ahead of me and I can't see squat! All I hear is the howling wind and rain. Pitch black! FIRE'm ALL! Spread 'em out, hopefully we'll hit! At 1000 yards, I couldn't miss. WHAM... but NO lights or fires. I couldn't believe it. You know, I even went to external cam to go explore. But I couldn't find them! Then the next merchie was dead ahead... with no torps I started firing my deck guns. As the shells hit I could see faint sillhouette of the most massive ship I've ever seen. At 1000 yards, she was a behemoth to me. Dang...no torps except the stern tubes, and I didn't want to disorient myself by spinning in this ink! Two stacks I saw as one shell hit into the waterline. Man...that deck was waaaaaay up there. I cheated by checking the Captains log. Somehow, miraculously some one had identified that other ship as a Horai Maru troop ship worth 8000 tons. This one was twice the size! He actually switched on his search lights and I gladly struck at him with my deck guns for several minutes. Didn't even phase him. It all of a sudden turned off all his lights and threw 'er into high gear and veered away. The radar told me it was trying to go around me so I spun to position my stern at him. SO DARK. Can't BELIEVE IT! I unleashed all four torpedoes in a fan and within 10 seconds heard ALL FOUR of them hit! Then it went through a ruckous of explosions like I've never heard. At least 20 explosions. I didn't see much, cuz in case you missed my point... IT WAS FREAKIN' PEA SOUP FOG OUT THERE! But several minutes later I got the report. Yes... it was a Class Rare Troop Carrier... Conte Verde Liner! 18,000 tons, baby! The second one of those in two days on this patrol! Yesterday I found one surrounded by escorts and nailed her from afar... and waited 4 hours for the escorts to leave so I could finish it off. Well, heading home now, with a whopping 58,000 tons to report. Get the medal ready, Lockhart! I'm a-coming! __________________ ... ALL YOUR BEACH ARE BELONG TO US! ...

10-26-09, 12:35 PM	#4
Rockin Robbins Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: DeLand, FL Posts: 8,900 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 52	I LOVE night surface attacks! That is one fine story there. __________________ Sub Skipper's Bag of Tricks, Slightly Subnuclear Mk 14 & Cutie, Slightly Subnuclear Deck Gun, EZPlot 2.0, TMOPlot, TMOKeys, SH4CMS

10-29-09, 02:17 PM	#5
cdrsubron7 Sink'em All Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Naperville, IL Posts: 2,150 Downloads: 305 Uploads: 1	Fascinating story, thanks for sharing. __________________ Head Deep and Keep'em Astern" - LtCDR Samuel D Dealy SHIV Guide \| Imperial Japanese Navy \| US Submarines

10-30-09, 10:26 AM	#6
DigitalAura Straight and True Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: CANADA Posts: 276 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	I saved the game early enough to replay the scenario, it's just so dang fun because it's like new everytime...its so freakin' dark. Its really running blind. You may as well turn off your monitor and try playing! I mean, it's also total BS... did anyone actually do close range surface attacks by radar? __________________ ... ALL YOUR BEACH ARE BELONG TO US! ...

10-26-09, 09:43 AM	#2
xristoskaiti Lieutenant Join Date: May 2007 Location: pireas Posts: 256 Downloads: 481 Uploads: 0	always victories !!

10-26-09, 09:54 AM	#3
Statboy Nub Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 3 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 0	Be more aggressive!

11-19-09, 08:29 AM	#9
Morpheus Ensign Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 234 Downloads: 17 Uploads: 0	could you please repeat that? it's so frikkin dark in here ^^ nice story