First Campaign is done

[fastfed]

Originally Posted by Red October1984

Sounds like you need some practice....

I think I've only been depth charged once since I've started playing SH4 last December.

WEll.. then you must be playing stock.. 1943, finding a convoy in TMO, even if you are days ahead of it, sitting at 500 feet, the second you get to P depth, they are on you..

And you will be depth charged ...

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by fastfed

WEll.. then you must be playing stock.. 1943, finding a convoy in TMO, even if you are days ahead of it, sitting at 500 feet, the second you get to P depth, they are on you..

And you will be depth charged ...

I'm playing TMO and RSRDC.

Usually, the only contacts I get are lone merchants or small warship groups.


I stayed down for a bit and fired at those Fubuki's and went down under the layer. It was a lucky depth charge to the bow torpedo room that caused all the flooding.

I only got to the surface by backing emergency and blowing ballast. Once I got there, I didn't last long. That one DD wasn't even on a DC run. It just rammed me out of the blue.

I'm going to start a new career mid-1942 and continue on. I never will know how many ships were in that Task Force....

It was fun though....very fun....

[MarkCt]

Playing the same two mods. It's early 1942 and twice I was assigned to the slot for traffic traveling through at night and twice now I haven't had one contact. With no surface radar Ive been using that little time delay to try to detect something near me but I've found nothing. I've been staying in the patrol circle which is in the center of the slot. Any other tips?

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by MarkCt

Playing the same two mods. It's early 1942 and twice I was assigned to the slot for traffic traveling through at night and twice now I haven't had one contact. With no surface radar Ive been using that little time delay to try to detect something near me but I've found nothing. I've been staying in the patrol circle which is in the center of the slot. Any other tips?

I don't recommend going into the Slot at all. All the bad things happen to me in the Slot. Try up north and around the Truk area. When mid to late '42 rolls around, just avoid the Slot. I lost several careers to fast moving Task Forces running through the Slot. There is always more than one Task Force around somewhere it seems like.

Don't always go where your ordered. Experiment a little. Get a feel for the South Pacific. When all else fails, I go and sit in the Truk Harbor by day and sink a whole lot of tonnage at night after the moon sets.

[MarkCt]

I'm actually on my way back from Truk. I sank the carrier in the harbor there because I was bumed at not finding anything the past two times in the slot area. Hunting, whether you find something or not is part of the game.

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by MarkCt

I'm actually on my way back from Truk. I sank the carrier in the harbor there because I was bumed at not finding anything the past two times in the slot area. Hunting, whether you find something or not is part of the game.

That's very true....

I've hunted all over the Solomons and other South Pacific Areas and the South China Sea.

Eventually, I'll get to Japan.