what is you most rediculess death in SH4?

merc4ulfate · 04-30-14, 10:49 PM

Hedge-hogged in shallow water. The explosive concussion off the bottom lifted my U-boat to the surface where two destroyers filled me full of holes.

TorpX · 04-30-14, 11:01 PM

I was on the surface in an S-class boat, chasing after a merchant and finishing it off with a few more shells. As I pulled around to the starboard side, it opened up on us with one of those small light flak guns, and immediately did damage.

We dived quickly, but suffered so much damage, we could not get off the bottom.

Snarf · 05-01-14, 12:11 PM

oh actually, now I remember another running aground. The navigator missed the command of 'follow plotted course' and ran aground heading out of the harbor at midway at full speed.

Warren Peace · 05-01-14, 10:23 PM

Ah, thought of another one. Not really 'ridiculous', necessarily, but it was extremely annoying at the time. After the Pearl Harbor fiasco, I decided to run my next cruise out of Manila, no sunken hulks for my idiotic crew to drive into. Got my shiny new S-class (okay, not shiny, or new...it was a rusted hulk) and started out of the harbor. As I was clearing land-mass and about to turn north to my assigned area, my WO calls out that he's sighted an aircraft. Cool, probably allied this close to Manila, let's take a look and see what it is.

Went up on deck to wait for a visual..looking around- Oh, look at that, a Catalina! Cool.... wait, Catalina's don't have 4 engines...oh hell. Bombs, dead, sunk.

TorpX · 05-01-14, 11:48 PM

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Not really 'ridiculous', necessarily, but it was extremely annoying at the time.

I see what you mean.

LCQ_SH · 05-02-14, 12:21 AM

like three days ago. Was heading to the Solomons from Pearl.......I was passing through the Marshalls. My plotting course passed through a portion of shallow waters, and somebody beleived that putting a steel protection barrier at the middle of that shallow pond was a good idea....

When I heard a metal crash, my sub was swinging by the middle of the hull.......... total loss.......

magic452 · 05-02-14, 12:34 AM

Pretty much ALL of the above.

Magic

04-30-14, 10:49 PM	#1
merc4ulfate DILLIGAF Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: florida Posts: 2,058 Downloads: 210 Uploads: 0	Hedge-hogged in shallow water. The explosive concussion off the bottom lifted my U-boat to the surface where two destroyers filled me full of holes. __________________ Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. ~Isaac Asimov~ Mercfulfate 将補日本帝國海軍

04-30-14, 11:01 PM	#2
TorpX Silent Hunter Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 3,975 Downloads: 153 Uploads: 11	I was on the surface in an S-class boat, chasing after a merchant and finishing it off with a few more shells. As I pulled around to the starboard side, it opened up on us with one of those small light flak guns, and immediately did damage. We dived quickly, but suffered so much damage, we could not get off the bottom.

05-01-14, 12:11 PM	#3
Snarf Officer Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: USS Tuna out of Pearl Harbor Posts: 243 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 10	oh actually, now I remember another running aground. The navigator missed the command of 'follow plotted course' and ran aground heading out of the harbor at midway at full speed. __________________ "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" -David Farragut (probably repeated by many WWII sub skippers)

05-01-14, 10:23 PM	#4
Warren Peace Loader Join Date: Jul 2013 Posts: 89 Downloads: 44 Uploads: 0	Ah, thought of another one. Not really 'ridiculous', necessarily, but it was extremely annoying at the time. After the Pearl Harbor fiasco, I decided to run my next cruise out of Manila, no sunken hulks for my idiotic crew to drive into. Got my shiny new S-class (okay, not shiny, or new...it was a rusted hulk) and started out of the harbor. As I was clearing land-mass and about to turn north to my assigned area, my WO calls out that he's sighted an aircraft. Cool, probably allied this close to Manila, let's take a look and see what it is. Went up on deck to wait for a visual..looking around- Oh, look at that, a Catalina! Cool.... wait, Catalina's don't have 4 engines...oh hell. Bombs, dead, sunk. __________________ The only sound that still scares me to this day... The silence when the pinging stops.

05-02-14, 12:34 AM	#7
magic452 Sea Lord Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Reno Nevada USA Posts: 1,860 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	Pretty much ALL of the above. Magic __________________ Reported lost 11 Feb. 1942 Signature by depthtok33l

05-02-14, 12:21 AM	#6
LCQ_SH Lieutenant Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 266 Downloads: 176 Uploads: 0	like three days ago. Was heading to the Solomons from Pearl.......I was passing through the Marshalls. My plotting course passed through a portion of shallow waters, and somebody beleived that putting a steel protection barrier at the middle of that shallow pond was a good idea.... When I heard a metal crash, my sub was swinging by the middle of the hull.......... total loss.......

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