What's your favorite ship in the game.

[Navelintel]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Only in GWX and SH3, as far as I know. They patrol the US east coast and the Caribbean.

Yeah, that's where I found this little honey, in one of the mission patrols in GWX 3.0 (Gold Edition) for SH3 off the coast of New Jersey (which incidentally is a very difficult mission to complete without getting blown out of the water). My deck watch picked up an aircraft off in the distance and when I zoomed in for a closer look it brought back many childhood memories.


During WWII, these gentle giants were very effective at spotting and bringing guns to bear on U-Boats off the Atlantic Coast along the eastern U.S. and Lakehurst NAS was still using the 'Blimp' well into the 1960's (during the height of the Cold War).


I was playing in the sand as a tot in 1958 at the beach when the ominous shadow created by this behemoth first crossed my path as it blocked out the sun from high overhead. Once my dad convinced me that it wasn't an alien space ship from the planet 'Mongol' (the result of an active imagination and viewing too many Flash Gordon episodes on TV) I then felt safe. I once had a chance to see one up close and even sit in the gondola at Lakehurst NAS during an air show which also featured an earlier version of the 'Blue Angles' in 1962!

[Daniel Prates]

And is it ... well... shootable?

[chrysanthos]

now i have the fuso battleship as a color tattoo on my other hand....so the night i will sleep with my girl forever hehehe

[soopaman2]

Would I be considered corny if I chose a ship I have absolutely schooled things with?

Narwahl. Hands down...

I'm talking destroyer sinkers (with deck guns...fast)
Spew off your torps, blow ballast and evaporate a convoy. Yeah, Balao may be able to dive deeper, but the Narwahl can destroy "most" before you have to.

I'LL make screens later, I got SH5 open ATM.

[Rockin Robbins]

Sheesh! Narwhal in a battle with a DD is like taking a bathtub up against a DD. The Narwhal would be blown out of the water before the DD even got in range of Narwhal's guns. At least a bathtub would be harder to hit......

Ridiculous stuff like that is why SH4 had to be modded in the first place. John Wayne tactics just aren't used with submarines. If they ever were nobody ever lived to brag about it.


You know if you want to play like that my favorite boat is Neon Deon's Pimp My Ride 2 with my Slightly Subnuclear Deck Gun. That combo holds the world's record for sinking over 100,000 tons in ten minutes. Shut down the entire 100k ton club over at Ubi forums when I posted the video and claimed an award. Narwhal my achin'......

[Daniel Prates]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

Sheesh! Narwhal in a battle with a DD is like taking a bathtub up against a DD. The Narwhal would be blown out of the water before the DD even got in range of Narwhal's guns. At least a bathtub would be harder to hit......Ridiculous stuff like that is why SH4 had to be modded in the first place. John Wayne tactics just aren't used with submarines. If they ever were nobody ever lived to brag about it.

hehehe (cinical laughter).

[soopaman2]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

Sheesh! Narwhal in a battle with a DD is like taking a bathtub up against a DD. The Narwhal would be blown out of the water before the DD even got in range of Narwhal's guns. At least a bathtub would be harder to hit......

Ridiculous stuff like that is why SH4 had to be modded in the first place. John Wayne tactics just aren't used with submarines. If they ever were nobody ever lived to brag about it.


You know if you want to play like that my favorite boat is Neon Deon's Pimp My Ride 2 with my Slightly Subnuclear Deck Gun. That combo holds the world's record for sinking over 100,000 tons in ten minutes. Shut down the entire 100k ton club over at Ubi forums when I posted the video and claimed an award. Narwhal my achin'......

But you have to admit, sir. It is fun every once in awhile to be an alpha predator.

My usual game of operation is WAC 4.1 or GWX. Just sometimes I want to LIVE!

[USS Drum]

My favorite ship is the Iowa and the Lexington class battlecruiser. I've liked the idea of battleship that are fast and then something popped into my head"Why didn't they just arm the Iowa with depth charges it could be it's own ASW hunting group.

[strenface]

Originally Posted by soopaman2

But you have to admit, sir. It is fun every once in awhile to be an alpha predator.

What can get more alpha than destroying ones enemy without him even knowing you are there? As I recall, big cats (the ultimate land alpha predators) attack low and fast, and always upwind.

Great Whites (the ultimate alpha sea predator) attack from bellow where they cannot be easily seen.

But I digress, my favorite in game ship would have to be the Sampan. I only wish they made it playable for career. Talk about surprising the enemy.
jk, here is my list:
Allied:
DD: Somers
CL: Cleveland (my favorite overall)
CA: Alaska (prob not in game)
BB: King George V (love the 2 quad 13.5 main turrets, very fearsome)
SS: Never had a favorite, but loved the S-boat. Very cozy, and hard to forget that I was a long way from port.

IJN:
BB: Yamato Yamato Yamato (call me old fashioned and generic, but that ship is sexy as hell)
CA: Tone (Sonar on a CA!? YES. No depth charges? who cares when you got 6 depth charge armed floatplanes. Also like the design philosophy of mounting all four main turrets up front. Talk about an offensive weapon)

The rest are whatever, but it is cool how the I-400 and type B had carried a float plane.

As someone who loves flight sims, I think being able to launch, fly, and land a recon float plane would be an AMAZING addition. It's the real life equivalence of an external camera.