Yokohama Photo Recon

Takao · 01-26-08, 11:21 AM

If your playing the stock game. Be very careful of the Akizuki class destroyers. They can detect you while stopped and on "running silent" at atleast 800 yards. I know, I've had it happen to me. I was on "running silent" and had stopped engines while he was still a distance away. He came puttering along and at about 800-900 yards, his engine noise increases rapidly, and he starts pinging. Now, I know I am screwed. I'm at a depth of 230 feet and about 20 feet beneath the keel. I can't dive cause at this point of the approach, it's only getting shallower and I have no speed to maneuver. The Akizuki drops a perfect dc pattern, and its game over.

I usually play dead is dead, but this instance irritated me to no end. Reloaded. Sunk. Reloaded. Sunk. Always the Akizuki! Avoiding the other destroyers were not a problem, but it was always an Akizuki that nailed me. Finally, I went in during daylight, you can see further and don't have to get near as close during nighttime. Took my pic from 7,000+ yards and slunk away happy to have survived.

If your wondering why I kept trying, my target was a carrier, with another one camped about 1,000 yards from the first. Greedy ole me kept trying to get into an attack position to take my picture and the launch torps.

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01-26-08, 11:21 AM	#4
Takao Officer Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Reading, PA Posts: 244 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	If your playing the stock game. Be very careful of the Akizuki class destroyers. They can detect you while stopped and on "running silent" at atleast 800 yards. I know, I've had it happen to me. I was on "running silent" and had stopped engines while he was still a distance away. He came puttering along and at about 800-900 yards, his engine noise increases rapidly, and he starts pinging. Now, I know I am screwed. I'm at a depth of 230 feet and about 20 feet beneath the keel. I can't dive cause at this point of the approach, it's only getting shallower and I have no speed to maneuver. The Akizuki drops a perfect dc pattern, and its game over. I usually play dead is dead, but this instance irritated me to no end. Reloaded. Sunk. Reloaded. Sunk. Always the Akizuki! Avoiding the other destroyers were not a problem, but it was always an Akizuki that nailed me. Finally, I went in during daylight, you can see further and don't have to get near as close during nighttime. Took my pic from 7,000+ yards and slunk away happy to have survived. If your wondering why I kept trying, my target was a carrier, with another one camped about 1,000 yards from the first. Greedy ole me kept trying to get into an attack position to take my picture and the launch torps.