Weather

[JALU3]

Originally Posted by theluckyone17

I wandered into a pair of destroyers in the middle of a storm that gives bad weather in SH3 a run for its money. It might not win, but it'd be darn close. Heavy winds + heavy fog + heavy rain = visibilty of a few hundred yards, at most. Bad enough that I didn't see 'em in time, and good enough for them to put enough holes in my boat to sink me before I got out of sight.

*sigh*

What amazes me about situations like this is, when your ship, even with radar, has difficulty observing these enemy DDs, yet the enemy has no problem finding your vessel. And yes, I have ran into this situation before myself . . . three destroyers ran aground into me and had me blowing my ballast every 30 minutes to keep afloat so they can hit me with their deck guns to have me see davy jones. But otherwise, good weather variants.

[Seadogs]

Thats funny, I get the exact opposite. WAY too bad weather for the South Pacific about 90% of the time. Sheesh it aint the north Atlantic.:rotfl:

[theluckyone17]

Originally Posted by JALU3

What amazes me about situations like this is, when your ship, even with radar, has difficulty observing these enemy DDs, yet the enemy has no problem finding your vessel. And yes, I have ran into this situation before myself . . . three destroyers ran aground into me and had me blowing my ballast every 30 minutes to keep afloat so they can hit me with their deck guns to have me see davy jones. But otherwise, good weather variants.

Actually, I had the reverse happen... it was early in the war, so I didn't have the luxury of radar.

I dropped out of time compression without an alert from the crew... I've noticed this happens occasionally, and it's usually my queue for my "captain-sense" to kick in, scramble to the deck, and take a look around.

This time, I got to see a looming bow come out of the fog, right in front of me. Wasn't no merchant either... the looming jawline of a destroyer. I ordered hard to port, and flank speed. We ground hulls for half of his length, then I finally started to pull away from him. Once away, I ordered a crash dive, thinking that I could get under before he started firing, and get far enough away under water so that when I surfaced, I'd be out of his visual range due to this miserable fog.

Unfortunately, the destroyer finally woke up... and started firing everything she had at me. AA, deck guns, could've sworn I saw a few hammers and wrenches go overhead, too . She put a few good holes in my boat before I got under. Gave it a go underwater, then surfaced, just to find I hadn't gone quite far enough... and took another beating. The destroyer stopped firing just before she faded into the fog, and several seconds later, the twisting camera of death.

So... yeah, this really wasn't a case of him hunting me down in the fog with no known means of doing so... this was more like a couple of idiots running into each other due to pure dumb luck, both fumbling to react, and neither one doing a good job. He just happened to have bigger guns than me, and better armor.