[WIP] Damage Control analyzer that factors crew experience into the damage report

[billko]

Originally Posted by letterboy1

Heh heh, I'm very carefull, too. But ever since I figured out how to correctly make a contact report I've been getting that very challenging order "Engage escorts to prepare for follow-up attack." I can't resist the opportunity for extra renown, so some interesting duels and games of "chicken" follow.

I have a love/hate relationship with that order. With the little S-boat, I find many times I have to leave the objective incomplete because I run out of torpedoes. The order that is really difficult for me is to sink a capital ship. It seems that even sinking an aircraft carrier isn't sufficient tonnage to complete the objective!

Do you (or anyone, for that matter) blow ballast as an *offensive* weapon? I use it often if I know destroyers are looking for me and a target is close by. I blow ballast to get me to periscope depth so I'm in a position to launch some torpedoes before the destroyers have time to react to my presence. Problem is, sometimes I stay too long to see the fireworks and have to do some fancy footwork to avoid the depth charges.

My proudest moments are when, by diving and returning to periscope depth, I can take out most of the convoy and the escorts have absolutely no idea where I am and the depth charges are dropping on the far side of the convoy. I'm not even going to say what my most shameful moments are.

Bill

[Digital_Trucker]

Originally Posted by billko

I'm not even going to say what my most shameful moments are.

Bill

I can't remember my most shameful moments because they are sitting at the bottom of the Pacific.

Thanks for the update on the file app, by the way. I am one of those cautious types who occasionally gets out of character and does something goofy like daytime surfaced chases near airbases , so I get good use out of your app

[leovampire]

If I see there is only one plane I will stay surfaced and fight. I go to ahead flank once they spot me and trun towards me. Then I make a hard turn to make it hard for them to attack accuratly as the gunner shoot's them.

But if there are 2 of them I dive right away and do not enguage.

My best convoy attack was sitting at 100 feet down in front of a convoy at a dead stop. Once the forward escort was past me I rose up to Scope depth and waited for the first line of ship's to be on my left and right side's. Then used forward and aft torpedo's to sink 2 ship's at the same time.

Took time for the escort's to get through the panic of the merchants so I could watch them go down. Then I dove as far as I could down and was never found by the escorts. Of course I never moved the entire time so that helped.

But only managed to do that manuver 1 time in this game since I started using T.M. due to the new zig zag pattern the convoy's use.

[billko]

Originally Posted by leovampire

If I see there is only one plane I will stay surfaced and fight. I go to ahead flank once they spot me and trun towards me. Then I make a hard turn to make it hard for them to attack accuratly as the gunner shoot's them.

But if there are 2 of them I dive right away and do not enguage.

My best convoy attack was sitting at 100 feet down in front of a convoy at a dead stop. Once the forward escort was past me I rose up to Scope depth and waited for the first line of ship's to be on my left and right side's. Then used forward and aft torpedo's to sink 2 ship's at the same time.

Took time for the escort's to get through the panic of the merchants so I could watch them go down. Then I dove as far as I could down and was never found by the escorts. Of course I never moved the entire time so that helped.

But only managed to do that manuver 1 time in this game since I started using T.M. due to the new zig zag pattern the convoy's use.

Funny, I used to do that until I had one kamikaze and bounce off the deck of my boat... needless to say, my day (as well as my sub) was ruined. It was kind of funny because I guess they don't have an animated sequence for planes crashing into subs because it just kind of skipped off the fore deck, but the impact was enough to sink the sub!

Bill

[letterboy1]

Dang Leo, 100 Ft? I can't be at 100 ft any where near a destroyer without them sniffing me. I always have to stay beneath the thermal layer until that forward sweeper is past me; then I pop up. Except today one of the flanking escorts was uncharacteristically close to the front and made things difficult for me. Instead of a leisurely dead-stop launch of fore and aft torpedos at two juicy large modern freighters, I was running flank speed and trying to maneuver into firing position. So much for beautifully laid out plans.

[leovampire]

Originally Posted by letterboy1

Dang Leo, 100 Ft? I can't be at 100 ft any where near a destroyer without them sniffing me. I always have to stay beneath the thermal layer until that forward sweeper is past me; then I pop up. Except today one of the flanking escorts was uncharacteristically close to the front and made things difficult for me. Instead of a leisurely dead-stop launch of fore and aft torpedos at two juicy large modern freighters, I was running flank speed and trying to maneuver into firing position. So much for beautifully laid out plans.

And you have done nothing to give an indication your around the area I have had DD's and Sub chasers go right by me with no clue I was there. But if you are spoted or have a scope up as they are aproaching or sent out a radio message reciently then they stay alert an nervous.

The conditions have to be right and when I did that there was 10 mps wind and waves.

[leovampire]

I have to see what the Dev's are doing and see how well it works and or dosn't work in game to base an opinion.

You know as well as all of us that it takes trial and error to see what looks works and act's best for us all in game.

We are all on pin's and needle's waiting to see what get's torn appart in our work and what will no longer be needed from us.

Wait and see what happens first Billko before you decied to mothball this great idea and work you did.

[letterboy1]

Originally Posted by leovampire

And you have done nothing to give an indication your around the area I have had DD's and Sub chasers go right by me with no clue I was there. But if you are spoted or have a scope up as they are aproaching or sent out a radio message reciently then they stay alert an nervous.

The conditions have to be right and when I did that there was 10 mps wind and waves.

Good point.

By the way, I noticed quite a few pilot rescues on your kill flag (in your sig). What area do you usually patrol to get that assignment? I have yet to be called for a pilot rescue.