nygm mod is fun!

kholdstayr · 06-17-06, 11:59 AM

I was just playing my first patrol with the NYGM mod. I was playing as a Type IX and I had found a medium convoy in the BF15 area. It was only escorted by two destroyers. My initial approach wasn't too good so I was only able to get really close to a medium cargo ship (as they are called in NYGM). There were some juicy tankers but I wasn't close enough to them and I just wanted to at least kill something. I fired two torpedos at the medium cargo, which was less than 1000m away. I then fired two more torps at a distance tanker, about 1700m away, but I missed both because of the distance and since I use manual TMA and my TMA solutions are often not too great. However, in my periscope I saw that both my torpedos hit on the medium cargo. I then dove at flank speed to get away from the inevitable destroyer assault.

The actual destroyer attack wasn't as bad as I had expected. I was used to trying out the practice mission that comes with NYGM, which sets you up with three angry destroyers. I haven't been able to complete that practice mission yet. Anyway, the two destroyers found me and started their depth charge runs, but since the water was around 200m deep I seemed to be fairly safe. After a bit of evasion, I decided to try something..... unrealistic I guess. I got bored of waiting for the destroyers to go away so I went as deep as I could without scraping on the bottom, set my speed for 1 knot, and used time compression. It worked, after about an hour and a half or so on time compression the destroyers got bored of me I guess and left.

Can destroyers in this game run out of depth charges? Maybe that is why they had left. Either that or the depth I was at maybe put me below their ASDIC cone. After they had left I went to periscope depth and saw the medium cargo vessel that I had hit earlier, now about 4000m away. The stern of the vessel was sunk into the water from the two torpedos I had fired earlier. I closed on the vessel and fired one torpedo. The torpedo hit the stern of the vessel and didn't appear to add any more sinking damage to the ship since that is where my other torps hit earlier. So then I attacked the nose of the ship with two more torpedos. They hit and the ship started to sink even more. I decided that I should put it out of its misery, so I surfaced and deck gunned the water line at the bow of ship, which is where the ship appeared to have some bouyancy left. Finally it really started to sink and I got credit for the kill.

06-17-06, 11:59 AM	#1
kholdstayr Watch Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 19 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	nygm mod is fun! I was just playing my first patrol with the NYGM mod. I was playing as a Type IX and I had found a medium convoy in the BF15 area. It was only escorted by two destroyers. My initial approach wasn't too good so I was only able to get really close to a medium cargo ship (as they are called in NYGM). There were some juicy tankers but I wasn't close enough to them and I just wanted to at least kill something. I fired two torpedos at the medium cargo, which was less than 1000m away. I then fired two more torps at a distance tanker, about 1700m away, but I missed both because of the distance and since I use manual TMA and my TMA solutions are often not too great. However, in my periscope I saw that both my torpedos hit on the medium cargo. I then dove at flank speed to get away from the inevitable destroyer assault. The actual destroyer attack wasn't as bad as I had expected. I was used to trying out the practice mission that comes with NYGM, which sets you up with three angry destroyers. I haven't been able to complete that practice mission yet. Anyway, the two destroyers found me and started their depth charge runs, but since the water was around 200m deep I seemed to be fairly safe. After a bit of evasion, I decided to try something..... unrealistic I guess. I got bored of waiting for the destroyers to go away so I went as deep as I could without scraping on the bottom, set my speed for 1 knot, and used time compression. It worked, after about an hour and a half or so on time compression the destroyers got bored of me I guess and left. Can destroyers in this game run out of depth charges? Maybe that is why they had left. Either that or the depth I was at maybe put me below their ASDIC cone. After they had left I went to periscope depth and saw the medium cargo vessel that I had hit earlier, now about 4000m away. The stern of the vessel was sunk into the water from the two torpedos I had fired earlier. I closed on the vessel and fired one torpedo. The torpedo hit the stern of the vessel and didn't appear to add any more sinking damage to the ship since that is where my other torps hit earlier. So then I attacked the nose of the ship with two more torpedos. They hit and the ship started to sink even more. I decided that I should put it out of its misery, so I surfaced and deck gunned the water line at the bow of ship, which is where the ship appeared to have some bouyancy left. Finally it really started to sink and I got credit for the kill.