Stock game oddball

magic452 · 02-01-13, 01:53 AM

One time I found a small convoy, 6 merchants and 4 escorts. After a series of attacks I had sunk all 6 merchants and no escorts. By chance my patrol routine happened to put me back on their course and sure enough the escorts were all at their stations guarding a big empty space in the ocean.

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Sniper297 · 02-01-13, 02:34 AM

I often have fun with that screwy Lingayen Gulf invasion force, sink a couple cruisers and a few escorts, then surface in the middle of the transports to start picking them off with the deck gun and getting help from the warships firing at me and missing, hitting their own transports instead.

After running around full speed for a few minutes I dive back to periscope depth and shoot at whatever escorts are close then pop up inside the transports again. Sometimes after all the transports and cruisers are sunk I see one or two destroyers steaming off over the horizon toward Lingayen, apparently determined to invade anyway using the sweepers and mess cooks.

MarkCt · 02-01-13, 08:58 PM

I don't know about you guys but that looks like a fishing net to me.

ColonelSandersLite · 02-02-13, 01:19 AM

Any of you guys ever hit one of those nets in game?

It may as well be a concrete wall.

Armistead · 02-02-13, 10:04 AM

It can easily ruin your sub. However, in a few areas you can scoot over them without taking too much damage. Still, only a few exist in the stock and modded game, why I placed a lot more in around ports, to keep me from being a wus harbor raider.

Sniper297 · 02-02-13, 12:58 PM

Funny thing, net cutters seemed to be standard equipment on U-boats, don't recall seeing one on a US sub. One idea is an animated net, attached to a tug or something to open or close it. I recall somewhere the procedure was for a sub to wait until the net was opened for a merchant, then follow the merchant into the harbor.

Armistead · 02-02-13, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Sniper297

Funny thing, net cutters seemed to be standard equipment on U-boats, don't recall seeing one on a US sub. One idea is an animated net, attached to a tug or something to open or close it. I recall somewhere the procedure was for a sub to wait until the net was opened for a merchant, then follow the merchant into the harbor.

Maybe in old WW2 movies, not in real life.

02-01-13, 01:53 AM	#1
magic452 Sea Lord Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Reno Nevada USA Posts: 1,860 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	One time I found a small convoy, 6 merchants and 4 escorts. After a series of attacks I had sunk all 6 merchants and no escorts. By chance my patrol routine happened to put me back on their course and sure enough the escorts were all at their stations guarding a big empty space in the ocean. Magic __________________ Reported lost 11 Feb. 1942 Signature by depthtok33l

02-02-13, 01:19 AM	#4
ColonelSandersLite Captain Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 481 Downloads: 74 Uploads: 3	Any of you guys ever hit one of those nets in game? It may as well be a concrete wall. __________________ My SH4 LP

02-02-13, 10:04 AM	#5
Armistead Rear Admiral Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: on the Dan Posts: 10,880 Downloads: 364 Uploads: 0	It can easily ruin your sub. However, in a few areas you can scoot over them without taking too much damage. Still, only a few exist in the stock and modded game, why I placed a lot more in around ports, to keep me from being a wus harbor raider. __________________ You see my dog don't like people laughing. He gets the crazy idea you're laughing at him. Now if you apologize like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.

02-01-13, 02:34 AM	#2
Sniper297 The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Philadelphia Shipyard Brig Posts: 1,386 Downloads: 160 Uploads: 19	I often have fun with that screwy Lingayen Gulf invasion force, sink a couple cruisers and a few escorts, then surface in the middle of the transports to start picking them off with the deck gun and getting help from the warships firing at me and missing, hitting their own transports instead. After running around full speed for a few minutes I dive back to periscope depth and shoot at whatever escorts are close then pop up inside the transports again. Sometimes after all the transports and cruisers are sunk I see one or two destroyers steaming off over the horizon toward Lingayen, apparently determined to invade anyway using the sweepers and mess cooks.

02-01-13, 08:58 PM	#3
MarkCt Electrician's Mate Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Connecticut Posts: 133 Downloads: 45 Uploads: 0	I don't know about you guys but that looks like a fishing net to me.

02-02-13, 12:58 PM	#6
Sniper297 The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Philadelphia Shipyard Brig Posts: 1,386 Downloads: 160 Uploads: 19	Funny thing, net cutters seemed to be standard equipment on U-boats, don't recall seeing one on a US sub. One idea is an animated net, attached to a tug or something to open or close it. I recall somewhere the procedure was for a sub to wait until the net was opened for a merchant, then follow the merchant into the harbor.