My weirdest SH4 ecounter, ever.

mesql · 07-23-14, 12:42 AM

So, here I am playing some SH4 U-boat missions, objective was sail dwn to some grid quadrant, and once there, sink 7000 tons of merchant shipping. All in all fairly standard stuff, if a bit unoriginal. So, I reach my grid quadrant and start my "find something to shoot at dance", and get a radar contact of what appears to be a small convoy. Wonderful! I'll track them down, sink a couple of 'em, be home in time for dinner. So, I follow that radar contact for a bit, and eventually think that I should be able to see them now. Head up top for a bit, try to use binoculars, can't see crap. However, it was absolutely pouring down with rain, and foggy as all get out, so I didn't think much of it. Continue tracking this convoy, eventually get the message "Ship spotted.", and at almost the exact same time, a new radar contact, the opposite direction of the ship that had just been spotted.

Go back up top, use binocs again, don't think I see anything... actually that could be a mast of a ship, but it's massive! The only way it could be that size is if I was 20 feet away! And if I'm getting a short-range radar contact, while I'm twenty feet from another ship, that must mean... I'm right in the middle of a convoy aren't I? Thank God these early war convoys weren't known for having very much in the way of defensive weaponry.

Ok, not exactly the best situation to be in, deck gun time. Start firing at the ship I see, eventually bring that down. So I start looking for other ships, considering the level of incompetence my crew has already displayed, I'm not trusting them to find ships ever again. And right on cue, an absolutely massive tanker comes out of the fog, dead ahead. Decide that this one was in a much better position to use torpedoes, launch a couple, they all miss.

Rather than waiting for my tubes to be reloaded, I just make more use of the deck gun, eventually sinking the tanker. However, you know that giant explosion that most ships make after they start sinking? Turns out that can damage your sub, and if you're within spitting distance of each other, like I was, it will damage your sub enough that you will sink, with great velocity, to the bottom.

And thus ends the weirdest encounter with a convoy I have ever had, in hours of playing SH4. I did get the message I would have made a wonderful post-war commander though, so I guess that's nice.

07-23-14, 12:42 AM	#1
mesql Swabbie Join Date: Jul 2014 Posts: 5 Downloads: 17 Uploads: 0	My weirdest SH4 ecounter, ever. So, here I am playing some SH4 U-boat missions, objective was sail dwn to some grid quadrant, and once there, sink 7000 tons of merchant shipping. All in all fairly standard stuff, if a bit unoriginal. So, I reach my grid quadrant and start my "find something to shoot at dance", and get a radar contact of what appears to be a small convoy. Wonderful! I'll track them down, sink a couple of 'em, be home in time for dinner. So, I follow that radar contact for a bit, and eventually think that I should be able to see them now. Head up top for a bit, try to use binoculars, can't see crap. However, it was absolutely pouring down with rain, and foggy as all get out, so I didn't think much of it. Continue tracking this convoy, eventually get the message "Ship spotted.", and at almost the exact same time, a new radar contact, the opposite direction of the ship that had just been spotted. Go back up top, use binocs again, don't think I see anything... actually that could be a mast of a ship, but it's massive! The only way it could be that size is if I was 20 feet away! And if I'm getting a short-range radar contact, while I'm twenty feet from another ship, that must mean... I'm right in the middle of a convoy aren't I? Thank God these early war convoys weren't known for having very much in the way of defensive weaponry. Ok, not exactly the best situation to be in, deck gun time. Start firing at the ship I see, eventually bring that down. So I start looking for other ships, considering the level of incompetence my crew has already displayed, I'm not trusting them to find ships ever again. And right on cue, an absolutely massive tanker comes out of the fog, dead ahead. Decide that this one was in a much better position to use torpedoes, launch a couple, they all miss. Rather than waiting for my tubes to be reloaded, I just make more use of the deck gun, eventually sinking the tanker. However, you know that giant explosion that most ships make after they start sinking? Turns out that can damage your sub, and if you're within spitting distance of each other, like I was, it will damage your sub enough that you will sink, with great velocity, to the bottom. And thus ends the weirdest encounter with a convoy I have ever had, in hours of playing SH4. I did get the message I would have made a wonderful post-war commander though, so I guess that's nice.