S boat loses..pic heavy

[Armistead]

Someone wanted to know how to attack one of the large invasion forces in RSRD at Lingayen Gulf, so I thought I would do an attack and show him.
LOL...

I forgot I had added some subkillers patrolling Lingayen, so in an old S boat without radar I go in at high TC....BAM.......escort saw me and scored a hit before I got TC down. Didn't get a SS of the hit, but he got one good


My stern engine room was flooded, the sub took a terrible down stern angle, maybe worse one I've had. The escort was still far, but coming.. If I used any speed, because of the angle, I just popped up out of the water.

At 1/3, I was able to hold it still, but wasn't going anywhere. Only way to gain some depth was to cut engines and in seconds I was heading to the bottom at 7kts before I could use tactics to pull out of the dive...Seems all I could do is bob up and down with my nose almost out of the water.



Escort came on , actually rammed my nose doing damage to himself and dropped a pattern.



Since he had only bow guns I blew tanks and came up behind him and started shooting, keeping my nose to his stern. After several rounds he sunk, never got a shot off.



So we escaped that one, but stern engine bulkhead destroyed, using Trav's mod, so it's for good.

I then notice smoke on the horizon, guess this is another one I added and his buddy had called in, He was coming full speed.



I had some distance, so I turned south away, making 8kts best speed due to damage with battery charge off. I hadn't got far when I saw flashes....with my mod setup your lucky to survive one shell, two is bad, but he scored before I could get under, not as bad, mostly deck damge on that last shot. You can barely see escorts smoke on the horizon, left to the sunk ship smoke, about 5nms away.





So I'm back to bobbing like a cork being teased by a well fed fish...can't get anywhere. I would cut speed to dive down, blow tanks, flank to pull out, but the S boat rockets in either direction. However, getting careless I let my boat get out of control, waited a lil too long to pull out, did all I could to save her, but she hit speeds of 12 kts going down, I couldn't pull
out...



As we were headed to the depths, my Exec Wernher looked at me with one last word of encouragement.




Anyway, the lesson I wanted to teach the fellow was, be careful about using high TC without surface radar, moreso if you place elite killers around.

[Ruff EL]

LMAO!!! especially that last screenshot!!

i have never seen an angle like that either, i cant beleive u got her up ONCE. Almost nice work hehe....on a side note, even if u survived, that would be one long ass ride back to surabuya with that damage

[Hinrich Schwab]

Yep, Time Compression is like METOX; it WILL get you killed.

Taking that S-boat out into a hornet's nest was a real gamble, too. You definitely get kudos for returning the stern shot on the first sub hunter.

[MKalafatas]

LOL. (I'm a noob but...) Best.Thread.Ever!

It is somewhat reassuring to know that the "old hands" are occasionally mortal. Incredible escape in round one. Heroic, Medal-of-Honor stuff.

And massive kudos to you for publicizing this encounter. My own approach is simply to forget as quickly as possible. :-)

[Hylander_1314]

Honestly, even with radar, set your stopwatch in the corner. when at high TC, the stopwatch will either start running jerky, or will momentarily pause. So you have time to drop out of TC and scope out what's goin' on.

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by Hylander_1314

Honestly, even with radar, set your stopwatch in the corner. when at high TC, the stopwatch will either start running jerky, or will momentarily pause. So you have time to drop out of TC and scope out what's goin' on.

That works good when the groups is big enough to place enough burden on your PC so it lags a lil, doesn't work so good with singles, but yea you can easily tell if something is near you that way if it lags you.

[Rockin Robbins]

Wow! That was a great sequence. Thanks for swallowing your pride and sharing that with us. I'm amazed that you survived as long as you did. Great job of not giving up and gaining some control of your destiny.

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

Wow! That was a great sequence. Thanks for swallowing your pride and sharing that with us. I'm amazed that you survived as long as you did. Great job of not giving up and gaining some control of your destiny.

Oh heck, I die all the time, I have my subs tweaked very fragile and added way too many elite escorts to RSRD....

Just try getting through the Lombak strait....muhahaha.....

[TorpX]

So, you're saying that gun duels with Elite sub-killers isn't a good idea?

[Carthaginian]

Heck of a story.
At least it's not as embarrassing my first Sugar boat loss...
Didn't realize my rudder was jammed hard over (and wasn't showing up as damaged on the display) after a depth charge attack.
Then I ramped up the TC to try and get back to Australia.

I just rammed Sumatra, nothing major.

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by TorpX

So, you're saying that gun duels with Elite sub-killers isn't a good idea?

Haha, wasn't a duel, it was an ambush in which I ran and got shot in the back.

[WernherVonTrapp]

Now that's what I call "gettin' skinny".

[7499275]

I can not see how you brought her out of that steep angle, even getting it back up and knocking a escort out and then getting away for some distance before a DD came and knocked on your door.

I am amazed good sir!

[Loudspeaker]

Best photo story ever!

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by Loudspeaker

Best photo story ever!

Hehe, I've got some good ones, usually I post all my stories at Ubi forum, think first time here, but most of my stories revolve around my stupid exec........Wernher Von Trapp.....He's ruined many a good sub.