ESP and damage to destroyers

SteamWake · 06-01-07, 08:31 AM

I want to know how he gets the recon missions with 200! of water to manuver in !

I usually get bottom scrapers !

longam · 06-01-07, 09:50 AM

And huge rocks everywhere

UnSalted · 06-01-07, 12:14 PM

OK....goto your map and look at the Palau Islands. You'll find two harbors, Koror on the west coast and Meleleok on the east.

The Meleleok photo mission had the exploding DC. The way in is all deep water. This was my seond time there. The first time there no naval vessels at all. I went in on the surface, took the picture and cruised out. This time once the destroyer toasted itself, I went in submerged and got pics of a freighter, a sub chaser and a gunboat. The chaser/gunboat were tied up to the piers while the freighter was agound south of them.

Korok was a bear, period. The mission was to photo the battleship fleet and it's like fishing a mudflat in there. Went in from the west over the sand bar seperating the pockets of deep water SW and NW of the harbor. Once I cleared that short run I watched the destroyers for a couple of hours looking for a pattern. There were 5, yes 5, patroling close to the harbor.I saw it would be "easier" to go south until I was almost due west and then try to sneak in behind two that were patrolling in a SW-NE loop. I timed them, got in as close as I could and went in after them at 3 knots until the scope locked in on a battleship. Then I cussed because I had to get back out of there and had to leave a Yamato at anchor 8000 yards away. But my love of breathing made me back out at 3 knots, play possum until the destroyers had started their loop over again and then turned to take the same way out.

As I got about a mile south of that little sandbar to get back to open water, here comes two more destroyers herding a pair of liners with a third destroyer behind them.

That put me and 8 ASW ships in the same location. Once I hit open ocean I had a beer to celebrate and cussed some more about leaving those targets. But the DD blowing itself up is still funny as all getout.

I may go back on this patrol to see if any targets are still there.

Mudrik · 06-01-07, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by longam

And huge rocks everywhere

- Luckily you can run straight through them.

I've had destroyers which seem to have malfunctioning DCs which have detonated prematurely and blown all of the other DCs off the back of the ship. It's at this point that a huge grin appears on my face and I know that I can escape unhindered as long as I remain submerged.

SteamWake · 06-01-07, 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by longam

And huge rocks everywhere

As said above the rocks wont damage the sub.

There is actually a mod for smaller rocks if you would like... uhh... smaller rocks.

UnSalted · 06-01-07, 12:56 PM

I'm glad the developers never put in a suitable sound for squealing hulls riding over boulders or the sound of hydrophones being ripped off.

orangenee · 06-01-07, 01:02 PM

They certainly modelled the squeaking as a DD scrapes the paintwork off the side of your boat.

UnSalted · 06-01-07, 01:08 PM

Point. I wish those guys would learn how to steer those things.

switch.dota · 06-01-07, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by orangenee

They certainly modelled the squeaking as a DD scrapes the paintwork off the side of your boat.

With some luck that's all a DD collision will do to you.

By the way, ramming a destroyer is a viable solution if you're out of torpedoes. Just make sure you have damage crews on ready status and nobody in the fore torp room. 3 out of 4 times, ramming a destroyer abeam will split it in half with some major damage to your hull. 1 out of 4 times you'll both be going under. It's a gamble but it's better than being DCed to death.

Run flank underwater, evade the DCs to the best of your ability, surface and ram the DDs flank. I've been able to basically jump out of the water (emergency surface) directly next to a DD... only to find myself on the other side within seconds. Surpringly I only took minor damage compared to what I would've expected. Some flooding but damage crew fixed it. Heavy fog also meant the other 2 DDs couldn't get a long shot on me and I was able to make a run for it. To estimate the damage... bulkhead almost out of comission and most fore system heavily damaged. Flooding was under control... all in all a walk away situation.

06-01-07, 08:31 AM	#1
SteamWake Rear Admiral Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 13,224 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	I want to know how he gets the recon missions with 200! of water to manuver in ! I usually get bottom scrapers !

06-01-07, 09:50 AM	#2
longam Admiral Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 2,014 Downloads: 26 Uploads: 0	And huge rocks everywhere

06-01-07, 12:14 PM	#3
UnSalted Machinist's Mate Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 130 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	OK....goto your map and look at the Palau Islands. You'll find two harbors, Koror on the west coast and Meleleok on the east. The Meleleok photo mission had the exploding DC. The way in is all deep water. This was my seond time there. The first time there no naval vessels at all. I went in on the surface, took the picture and cruised out. This time once the destroyer toasted itself, I went in submerged and got pics of a freighter, a sub chaser and a gunboat. The chaser/gunboat were tied up to the piers while the freighter was agound south of them. Korok was a bear, period. The mission was to photo the battleship fleet and it's like fishing a mudflat in there. Went in from the west over the sand bar seperating the pockets of deep water SW and NW of the harbor. Once I cleared that short run I watched the destroyers for a couple of hours looking for a pattern. There were 5, yes 5, patroling close to the harbor.I saw it would be "easier" to go south until I was almost due west and then try to sneak in behind two that were patrolling in a SW-NE loop. I timed them, got in as close as I could and went in after them at 3 knots until the scope locked in on a battleship. Then I cussed because I had to get back out of there and had to leave a Yamato at anchor 8000 yards away. But my love of breathing made me back out at 3 knots, play possum until the destroyers had started their loop over again and then turned to take the same way out. As I got about a mile south of that little sandbar to get back to open water, here comes two more destroyers herding a pair of liners with a third destroyer behind them. That put me and 8 ASW ships in the same location. Once I hit open ocean I had a beer to celebrate and cussed some more about leaving those targets. But the DD blowing itself up is still funny as all getout. I may go back on this patrol to see if any targets are still there.

06-01-07, 12:56 PM	#6
UnSalted Machinist's Mate Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 130 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I'm glad the developers never put in a suitable sound for squealing hulls riding over boulders or the sound of hydrophones being ripped off.

06-01-07, 01:02 PM	#7
orangenee Engineer Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 211 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	They certainly modelled the squeaking as a DD scrapes the paintwork off the side of your boat.

06-01-07, 01:08 PM	#8
UnSalted Machinist's Mate Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 130 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Point. I wish those guys would learn how to steer those things.