S-18 or Porpoise Class

01-03-08, 07:25 PM

If you wanna play relialistic, I think you should go for the P - sub right away. The career patrols in SH4 are made for the fleetboats, to long in distance for S - subs. If your fuel gonna last in the Sugarboat, then you end up at 2/3, doing 5 knots for 2 months or more. By that time the crew have starting eating their leather boots.

AVGWarhawk · 01-03-08, 09:02 PM

If I wish to play the S I start in the Asiatic Fleet. Plenty of fuel to get several missions done. I just completed my first patrol with the S and did 5 missions before my torps were depleated. I motored on down to Java for refit. Off again to some choke point somewhere

If I start the war at Pearl, I use the Porpoise Class.

DavyJonesFootlocker · 01-04-08, 08:34 AM

I did the same thing like AVGWarhawk. I ended up in Saigon harbour where I found so many stationary ships. The S-18 is best used for 'up close and personal' encounters. So I picked them off one by one until all torps were gone. I do not intercept fast moving Task Force ships. The S-18 is mighty slow. So I get targets by sneaking into harbours and get targets.

01-03-08, 09:02 PM	#2
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,281 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	If I wish to play the S I start in the Asiatic Fleet. Plenty of fuel to get several missions done. I just completed my first patrol with the S and did 5 missions before my torps were depleated. I motored on down to Java for refit. Off again to some choke point somewhere If I start the war at Pearl, I use the Porpoise Class. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

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01-03-08, 07:25 PM	#1
SS-18rider Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	If you wanna play relialistic, I think you should go for the P - sub right away. The career patrols in SH4 are made for the fleetboats, to long in distance for S - subs. If your fuel gonna last in the Sugarboat, then you end up at 2/3, doing 5 knots for 2 months or more. By that time the crew have starting eating their leather boots.

01-04-08, 08:34 AM	#3
DavyJonesFootlocker The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Stink Drunk in Trinidad Posts: 1,572 Downloads: 138 Uploads: 0	I did the same thing like AVGWarhawk. I ended up in Saigon harbour where I found so many stationary ships. The S-18 is best used for 'up close and personal' encounters. So I picked them off one by one until all torps were gone. I do not intercept fast moving Task Force ships. The S-18 is mighty slow. So I get targets by sneaking into harbours and get targets.