wtf! bombers stealing tonnage

Ilpalazzo · 08-12-08, 03:14 PM

Hey guys, maybe this is just some retarded coincidence. I'm going to be venting a little anger here so bear with me as it might be long.

I'm in my first patrol in the Mediterranean and twice now when I'm just about to sink a ship, bombers will come from outta seemingly nowhere and bomb my target. This would be awesome if they were helping. However, all this does is take away credit that I may have had for that sinking.

This was quite a boring patrol, not much happened. So maybe that's why this bugs me so much. I did manage to sink two large merchants though.

The first ship was a simple, lone, coastal merchant. I start to make short work of it with my deck gun. Before I could sink it some bombers come and destroy it. "OK" I thought, "that was pretty cool." Something like a week later with no contacts since that last merchant, I run into a task force and decide to go for this heavy cruiser. I cripple it with a torp (3 others missed

). I slowly maneuvered around for an aft torp shot as all my fore torps were used up. So there I am setting up the shot. Now this took me a little while as I didn't want to arouse any attention from the destroyers. Strangely only one investigates and promptly leaves. I fire my aft torpedo at this heavy cruiser who is now dead in the water, it hits. As my next torpedo is loading I examine the ship with my scope to see if it had much effect. I notice that just as my torpedo hit this cruiser, it immediately and continually began firing guns off into nowhere. Ten seconds later, I decide to look up and follow it's tracer fire. Eventually, 3 bombers come into view and just own this thing.

I got no credit. The patrol was fairly uneventful. I got angry because I felt like I worked hard to get that one, I waited for that, and then this just happens. It seemed as though before I could get a chance to have the ship sink from my torpedo these planes are spawned into the world to try and finish it before it can flood and sink. It just feels like tonnage stealing. Seems like way too much of a coincidence as right when that last torp hit the ship, it's guns began firing. I feel as though it was going to sink, but before it could, these bombers tried to destroy the ship.

Now, I would like to pretend that these bombers just happened to notice plumes of smoke from far away and decided to bomb whatever was making the smoke. Would have been nice if they noticed the rest of the task force not far off and went to town on it. It's just too coincedental. Those guns began firing immediately after my (perhaps fatal) torp hit.

I am using the latest GWX with SH3 Commander.

08-12-08, 03:14 PM	#1
Ilpalazzo Frogman Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 309 Downloads: 20 Uploads: 0	wtf! bombers stealing tonnage Hey guys, maybe this is just some retarded coincidence. I'm going to be venting a little anger here so bear with me as it might be long. I'm in my first patrol in the Mediterranean and twice now when I'm just about to sink a ship, bombers will come from outta seemingly nowhere and bomb my target. This would be awesome if they were helping. However, all this does is take away credit that I may have had for that sinking. This was quite a boring patrol, not much happened. So maybe that's why this bugs me so much. I did manage to sink two large merchants though. The first ship was a simple, lone, coastal merchant. I start to make short work of it with my deck gun. Before I could sink it some bombers come and destroy it. "OK" I thought, "that was pretty cool." Something like a week later with no contacts since that last merchant, I run into a task force and decide to go for this heavy cruiser. I cripple it with a torp (3 others missed ). I slowly maneuvered around for an aft torp shot as all my fore torps were used up. So there I am setting up the shot. Now this took me a little while as I didn't want to arouse any attention from the destroyers. Strangely only one investigates and promptly leaves. I fire my aft torpedo at this heavy cruiser who is now dead in the water, it hits. As my next torpedo is loading I examine the ship with my scope to see if it had much effect. I notice that just as my torpedo hit this cruiser, it immediately and continually began firing guns off into nowhere. Ten seconds later, I decide to look up and follow it's tracer fire. Eventually, 3 bombers come into view and just own this thing. I got no credit. The patrol was fairly uneventful. I got angry because I felt like I worked hard to get that one, I waited for that, and then this just happens. It seemed as though before I could get a chance to have the ship sink from my torpedo these planes are spawned into the world to try and finish it before it can flood and sink. It just feels like tonnage stealing. Seems like way too much of a coincidence as right when that last torp hit the ship, it's guns began firing. I feel as though it was going to sink, but before it could, these bombers tried to destroy the ship. Now, I would like to pretend that these bombers just happened to notice plumes of smoke from far away and decided to bomb whatever was making the smoke. Would have been nice if they noticed the rest of the task force not far off and went to town on it. It's just too coincedental. Those guns began firing immediately after my (perhaps fatal) torp hit. I am using the latest GWX with SH3 Commander.