'Splainin to do....

Rockin Robbins · 09-15-09, 03:38 PM

Well, I have good news and I have bad news. Was in a nasty rainstorm at night. Coudn't see my own prow, much less anything else. Radar picked up a big juicy convoy, April 4, 1945, arrayed in a fan-shaped convoy. Checkout their speed: 12 knots. This could be a military convoy! I NEVER get to shoot at warships, other than those worthless escorts. And I'm directly in their path, 15 miles ahead! Yum!

Plotted the course of the first arc, the escorts and targeted the second row, the good stuff! They're running 8000 yards apart, yikes, give me an engraved invitation! I set up for a John P Cromwell approach, but first, have to let the escort go by. Went to radar depth, set up for 3,000 yards off the escort's track. As he got within 5 miles, he began a vicious zig pattern. Sometimes he was coming straight at me!

But it's dark, the sea is rough, it's raining, better play it cool. I went to 100' silent running as he slid on by without a clue at 1500 yards. I WOULD have to sit on the wrong part of his zig pattern. Now let's try to pick up number two in line. He's 8,000 yards away, just where he's supposed to be on radar.

But old Bernard on sonar keeps reporting the escort! Not only is this nerve wracking, it keeps me from getting updates on the trailing target unless I man the sonar myself. No problem. We'll get there. Here he comes, right on track by radar. Now with radar, you get a new position every 10 seconds or so, not a continuous update. I'd rather not shoot from that, lets submerge to periscope depth and shoot by continuously updating sonar. Blub, blub and.......no sonar bearings. Bernard is still reporting the escort, even though it's further away than my target. Here you may insert some very colorful and entertaining profanity! Back to radar depth: 40 feet! Damn, he's past the shoot point.

Hard port! Set up for a Dick O'Kane! Reset AoB for 80º port! Let's........"Sonar contact....merchant.....bearing 30º." NOW YOU TELL ME!!! (idiot) The bearing lines vanish again. Take her to radar depth, we're shooting four by radar bearing! 40 feet again. Radar blips about 10 seconds apart. I mark them with a pencil and count off the seconds between them to interpolate. We're only 1000 yards off the track. Blip, 1....2....3....4.. fire one....6....7...fire two.....9...fire 3....fire 4.\

This is chancy. I've never shot by radar before. Where's the target? Can't see squat in my observation scope and I'm pointed at the correct bearing to a "target" 1000 yards away. BOOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! now that's shooting! Not bad for the first time by radar bearing. Take her down 450'! When you get to the thermal barrier, change course to 90º! I don't know what we hit, but it was something big and made huge explosions! I think it went down.

After a couple of runs by escorts I'm getting away free, Time to do something unrealistic, check the log to see what I sank. In real life captains hardly ever did that for a target they never saw, but we'll cheat just a bit...

Oops.....looks like I got some splainin' to do with the Admiral when I get to port. I doubt the "blame it on Bernard" tactic will get a lot of mileage....

So cruise 19, TMO 1.8, might be my last for this career. Looks like I may have screwed the pooch big time.

Armistead · 09-15-09, 03:48 PM

The great RR sunk a US carrier....now that's a funny story. I did it once myself. Without cams or contacts in a storm, you really have no clue what your shooting at.

Just sink a few jap merchants and the Admiral won't even bring it up.

donut · 09-15-09, 03:54 PM

Thats what "<",">" keys for. Revolver is on the desk, & get off the rug !

09-15-09, 03:57 PM

I suppose neither Sorry or D'oh will cut it come performance evaluation time...

Rockin Robbins · 09-15-09, 04:00 PM

TMO 1.8 kills the next and previous target cameras. I play with external camera but don't use it for shooting or identification. I was strictly following the rules...........

My son just told me I now have to put an American flag with "CV" on it on my conning tower and battle flag. And I should put a dunce cap on my blind Kraken dragon.

Maybe if I'm lucky I'll get killed before I have to come back into port....

sergei · 09-15-09, 04:02 PM

Hot damn - you sunk the Essex?

I think you need a new handle.

From now on I will call you 'Honorable Rockin Robbin San'.

Pacific_Ace · 09-15-09, 04:27 PM

Now I have to delete all your videos.

You were my hero.

Rockin Robbins · 09-15-09, 04:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pacific_Ace

Now I have to delete all your videos.

You were my hero.

I should be welcome in Japan after the war, then.

I hear they take raw fish and vegetables, roll it up in seaweed and eat it! I can hardly wait...

Jensthemens · 09-15-09, 05:02 PM

I almost did the same thing once, but noticed an American flag before shooting. And it was only a lone merchant not an Essex.

donut · 09-15-09, 05:03 PM

11.) How do i get the next/ previous camera back?
The easiest way is to open the /data/cfg/commands.cfg in TMO. Search for " [Cmd50] " Your looking for these two blocks:
　
[Cmd50]
Name=Camera_on_next_unit
Ctxt=1
;Key0=0xBE,,">"
Page=0x34000000,3714
[Cmd51]
Name=Camera_on_prev_unit
Ctxt=1
;Key0=0xBC,,"<"
Page=0x34000000,3714
Simply remove the semicolon placed in front of the key assignment, and you have the next/previous cameras back. Note: this will restore hotkeys. It will not restore the buttons on the ordersbar.

Distortion · 09-15-09, 05:09 PM

Where u and Bernard on drugs during the attack? Ah well after 5 years in battle we dont blame ya!

ETR3(SS) · 09-15-09, 05:11 PM

I wanna be at this court martial.

09-15-09, 05:32 PM

On the plus side all the torpedoes functioned as designed.

Rockin Robbins · 09-15-09, 05:38 PM

I really don't want the cameras back. Even if Ducimus hadn't killed them I would have, just like I killed the event camera within a month of first playing the game. It was cool at first, but then didn't feel right. I'd kill the captain's log too until the end of the cruise if I were designing the sim. Normally I wouldn't check it, but the size of those explosions....

You had to be there. Black as the inside of a closet, plus giant seas, plus torrential rainfall. I could have put a camera on the deck of the target and STILL wouldn't have known whether I was on a sampan or the USS Essex.

Ducimus · 09-15-09, 05:53 PM

This is the precise reason why
a.) I made the next unit cam inaccessible
b.) stopped background music from playing.

Your supposed to ID your targets before shooting! My biggest qualm with the next/previous unit cam, is on a single press of a button you can obtain:

1.) Nationality of the sound or radar contact
2.) Type of ship the sound/radar contact is, and if its worth attacking.
3.) Any armarment on the deck of said contact.
4.) See what is around the contact and what formation they are in if any.
5.) If they are alerted to your presence. (blinking lantern)

Its possible to get all that info, from 9 to 14 nautical miles away, while partially or fully submerged, without ever establishing visual contact, nor raising the periscope. As BS goes, that is what you call amazingly, and stunningly, full of ehh.... excrement.

RR, if they don't throw the book at you, lemme know, i'll fix that.

09-15-09, 03:38 PM	#1
Rockin Robbins Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: DeLand, FL Posts: 8,900 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 52	'Splainin to do.... Well, I have good news and I have bad news. Was in a nasty rainstorm at night. Coudn't see my own prow, much less anything else. Radar picked up a big juicy convoy, April 4, 1945, arrayed in a fan-shaped convoy. Checkout their speed: 12 knots. This could be a military convoy! I NEVER get to shoot at warships, other than those worthless escorts. And I'm directly in their path, 15 miles ahead! Yum! Plotted the course of the first arc, the escorts and targeted the second row, the good stuff! They're running 8000 yards apart, yikes, give me an engraved invitation! I set up for a John P Cromwell approach, but first, have to let the escort go by. Went to radar depth, set up for 3,000 yards off the escort's track. As he got within 5 miles, he began a vicious zig pattern. Sometimes he was coming straight at me! But it's dark, the sea is rough, it's raining, better play it cool. I went to 100' silent running as he slid on by without a clue at 1500 yards. I WOULD have to sit on the wrong part of his zig pattern. Now let's try to pick up number two in line. He's 8,000 yards away, just where he's supposed to be on radar. But old Bernard on sonar keeps reporting the escort! Not only is this nerve wracking, it keeps me from getting updates on the trailing target unless I man the sonar myself. No problem. We'll get there. Here he comes, right on track by radar. Now with radar, you get a new position every 10 seconds or so, not a continuous update. I'd rather not shoot from that, lets submerge to periscope depth and shoot by continuously updating sonar. Blub, blub and.......no sonar bearings. Bernard is still reporting the escort, even though it's further away than my target. Here you may insert some very colorful and entertaining profanity! Back to radar depth: 40 feet! Damn, he's past the shoot point. Hard port! Set up for a Dick O'Kane! Reset AoB for 80º port! Let's........"Sonar contact....merchant.....bearing 30º." NOW YOU TELL ME!!! (idiot) The bearing lines vanish again. Take her to radar depth, we're shooting four by radar bearing! 40 feet again. Radar blips about 10 seconds apart. I mark them with a pencil and count off the seconds between them to interpolate. We're only 1000 yards off the track. Blip, 1....2....3....4.. fire one....6....7...fire two.....9...fire 3....fire 4.\ This is chancy. I've never shot by radar before. Where's the target? Can't see squat in my observation scope and I'm pointed at the correct bearing to a "target" 1000 yards away. BOOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! now that's shooting! Not bad for the first time by radar bearing. Take her down 450'! When you get to the thermal barrier, change course to 90º! I don't know what we hit, but it was something big and made huge explosions! I think it went down. After a couple of runs by escorts I'm getting away free, Time to do something unrealistic, check the log to see what I sank. In real life captains hardly ever did that for a target they never saw, but we'll cheat just a bit... Oops.....looks like I got some splainin' to do with the Admiral when I get to port. I doubt the "blame it on Bernard" tactic will get a lot of mileage.... So cruise 19, TMO 1.8, might be my last for this career. Looks like I may have screwed the pooch big time. __________________ Sub Skipper's Bag of Tricks, Slightly Subnuclear Mk 14 & Cutie, Slightly Subnuclear Deck Gun, EZPlot 2.0, TMOPlot, TMOKeys, SH4CMS

09-15-09, 03:54 PM	#3
donut The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: The Shifting, Whispering Sands, NM Posts: 1,463 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	'Splainin to do.... HELL ! Thats what "<",">" keys for. Revolver is on the desk, & get off the rug !

09-15-09, 04:00 PM	#5
Rockin Robbins Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: DeLand, FL Posts: 8,900 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 52	TMO 1.8 kills the next and previous target cameras. I play with external camera but don't use it for shooting or identification. I was strictly following the rules........... My son just told me I now have to put an American flag with "CV" on it on my conning tower and battle flag. And I should put a dunce cap on my blind Kraken dragon. Maybe if I'm lucky I'll get killed before I have to come back into port.... __________________ Sub Skipper's Bag of Tricks, Slightly Subnuclear Mk 14 & Cutie, Slightly Subnuclear Deck Gun, EZPlot 2.0, TMOPlot, TMOKeys, SH4CMS

09-15-09, 05:09 PM	#11
Distortion Rosengarten. Center Join Date: May 2003 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 89 Downloads: 225 Uploads: 0	Where u and Bernard on drugs during the attack? Ah well after 5 years in battle we dont blame ya! __________________ "Ashes to ashes, dust unto dust, it may not run, but shine it must, it may not work, but it will not rust."

09-15-09, 05:11 PM	#12
ETR3(SS) Ocean Warrior Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Between test depth and periscope depth Posts: 3,021 Downloads: 175 Uploads: 16	I wanna be at this court martial. __________________ USS Kentucky SSBN 737 (G) Comms Div 2003-2006 Qualified 19 November 03 Yes I was really on a submarine.

09-15-09, 03:48 PM	#2
Armistead Rear Admiral Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: on the Dan Posts: 10,880 Downloads: 364 Uploads: 0	The great RR sunk a US carrier....now that's a funny story. I did it once myself. Without cams or contacts in a storm, you really have no clue what your shooting at. Just sink a few jap merchants and the Admiral won't even bring it up.

09-15-09, 03:57 PM	#4
Randomizer Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	I suppose neither Sorry or D'oh will cut it come performance evaluation time...

09-15-09, 04:02 PM	#6
sergei Sea Lord Join Date: May 2008 Location: London UK Posts: 1,788 Downloads: 405 Uploads: 29	Hot damn - you sunk the Essex? I think you need a new handle. From now on I will call you 'Honorable Rockin Robbin San'.

09-15-09, 04:27 PM	#7
Pacific_Ace Bosun Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 61 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	Now I have to delete all your videos. You were my hero.

09-15-09, 05:02 PM	#9
Jensthemens Swabbie Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 8 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	I almost did the same thing once, but noticed an American flag before shooting. And it was only a lone merchant not an Essex.

09-15-09, 05:03 PM	#10
donut The Old Man Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: The Shifting, Whispering Sands, NM Posts: 1,463 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	11.) How do i get the next/ previous camera back? The easiest way is to open the /data/cfg/commands.cfg in TMO. Search for " [Cmd50] " Your looking for these two blocks: 　 [Cmd50] Name=Camera_on_next_unit Ctxt=1 ;Key0=0xBE,,">" Page=0x34000000,3714 [Cmd51] Name=Camera_on_prev_unit Ctxt=1 ;Key0=0xBC,,"<" Page=0x34000000,3714 Simply remove the semicolon placed in front of the key assignment, and you have the next/previous cameras back. Note: this will restore hotkeys. It will not restore the buttons on the ordersbar.

09-15-09, 05:32 PM	#13
Randomizer Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	On the plus side all the torpedoes functioned as designed.

09-15-09, 05:38 PM	#14
Rockin Robbins Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: DeLand, FL Posts: 8,900 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 52	I really don't want the cameras back. Even if Ducimus hadn't killed them I would have, just like I killed the event camera within a month of first playing the game. It was cool at first, but then didn't feel right. I'd kill the captain's log too until the end of the cruise if I were designing the sim. Normally I wouldn't check it, but the size of those explosions.... You had to be there. Black as the inside of a closet, plus giant seas, plus torrential rainfall. I could have put a camera on the deck of the target and STILL wouldn't have known whether I was on a sampan or the USS Essex. __________________ Sub Skipper's Bag of Tricks, Slightly Subnuclear Mk 14 & Cutie, Slightly Subnuclear Deck Gun, EZPlot 2.0, TMOPlot, TMOKeys, SH4CMS

09-15-09, 05:53 PM	#15
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	This is the precise reason why a.) I made the next unit cam inaccessible b.) stopped background music from playing. Your supposed to ID your targets before shooting! My biggest qualm with the next/previous unit cam, is on a single press of a button you can obtain: 1.) Nationality of the sound or radar contact 2.) Type of ship the sound/radar contact is, and if its worth attacking. 3.) Any armarment on the deck of said contact. 4.) See what is around the contact and what formation they are in if any. 5.) If they are alerted to your presence. (blinking lantern) Its possible to get all that info, from 9 to 14 nautical miles away, while partially or fully submerged, without ever establishing visual contact, nor raising the periscope. As BS goes, that is what you call amazingly, and stunningly, full of ehh.... excrement. RR, if they don't throw the book at you, lemme know, i'll fix that.