Whats the fascination with the Narwhal Class?

[Hitman]

There was a mod for enabling the Tench and 1945 career starts in the Mods forum. Do a search I believe it would be worth also looking into TM and RFB readmes, may be they included it.

P.S. The Tench provided that way is of course a Balao with specific characteristics, yet it was also more or less that in real life AFAIK

[orangenee]

Originally Posted by Hitman

There was a mod for enabling the Tench and 1945 career starts in the Mods forum. Do a search I believe it would be worth also looking into TM and RFB readmes, may be they included it.

P.S. The Tench provided that way is of course a Balao with specific characteristics, yet it was also more or less that in real life AFAIK

O.K. thanks, I haven't been around for a while and haven't really looked that closely at the mods section.

[jhelix70]

Or do ppl think the Narwhal is cool because she's big and ugly?

Its the twin 6 inch deck guns. Deck guns are a bit overpowered in SH4 (and SH1). In SH1 you could wipe out a whole convoy with them, escorts and all.

[heartc]

Originally Posted by jhelix70

Its the twin 6 inch deck guns. Deck guns are a bit overpowered in SH4 (and SH1). In SH1 you could wipe out a whole convoy with them, escorts and all.

About SH1, this seems very incorrect to me at least when patched to the latest version. I remember you needed about 70-80 shells to sink a "Standard Merchant" (which was pretty big actually), and still about half of that when he already had a torp in him (smoking). And it's not long ago since I last had such an encounter. Also, I was in an S class in that last encounter and he was damn near outrunning me, but because he headed directly away from me, unwilling to change course which would allow me to run a lead pursuit on him, he ended up heading straight for the shoreline lol. Then he just slowed down, and after coming to a stop, slowly reversed course, now coming straight for me. By that time, I was already out of gun ammo, and torps where not yet reloaded, so I also reversed. Just in time before he would get too close to the arming distance, tube 1 lighted up. This is gonna be a straight bow shot, Set speed zero, Bearing 0 degrees, Mark! Fire one! Boom and that settled it. Good stuff. But I have to admit, I was left unimpressed by the explosion effect after seeing them in SHIV.

BTW, the buddy of him who was initially in the same convoy was long gone over the horizon by then as he went into the opposite direction - no merchant skippers with death wishes in SHI waiting to be torpedoed. Well, except for the idiocy of the first guy running for the shore if you will - but that's not such a big flaw in the AI since that rarely happens and I was just in a good position for that and basicly "driving" him there.

[Sailor Steve]

I loved the Narwhal, Nautilus and Argonaut in SH1. Big, ugly and slow to dive, slow to turn, slow to do just about anything. But it sure was fun to watch two splashes at a time.

[NEON DEON]

The big boys and some of their skippers.