How often do you see the big warships, sunk two Taiho Fleet Carriers!

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Systemlord

I sunk two Taiho Fleet Carrires with three torpedos each !

Well sounds like it was fun although not very 'realistic'.

[Systemlord]

The thing that had me wondering is there must have been 15 warships surrounding only two merchent contacts, so I setup an attack run on the two merchant ships only to find the holly grail of fleet carriers. The seas were soo rough that is was difficult to get a visual on most of the convoy, no wonder why they never found me running at 2 knots in Silent Running. Next time I see a massive amount of warship contacts all group together, I'll be there!

[virtualpender]

Congratulations! Must be a lucky week. I sunk a Shokaku class Sunday night (my first ship over 10,000 tons) after receiving an Ultra dispatch about an IJN task force being at a specific location in my neck of the woods. I submerged in front of the task force as it passed and fired off all four forward tubes at a heavy cruiser as it passed my Sargo class. Before they even finished their run I began to swing around my stern tubes to hopefully fire at another cruiser.

I managed to sink the CA and when I poked my scope up again there was a Shokaku class CV filling my scope picture! I fired all four stern shots at a 0 degree AOB with a guess at the speed and a range of 600 yards. It was beautiful!

I had to endure about four hours of depth charging while I was as deep as I could go (175 feet) but it was awesome!!!

Thanks Lurker for RSRDC and Duci for TMO - best patrol ever!

[Fearless]

Good job Systemlord. I'm like Quinlan and have RSRDC installed. A few flash traffic messages now and again but usually the locations were way out of reach.

[Hylander_1314]

Depends on the message from Pearl. If it says to sink merchant ships, that's what I do. If it says the Captain has full autonomy, then it's look out Tojo, you're gonna lose some of those precious battlewagons, and flattops before I head back to Hawaii.

[buddha95]

I run rfb & rsrdc and i only get big ships when i go port raiding

[Systemlord]

Originally Posted by Hylander_1314

Depends on the message from Pearl. If it says to sink merchant ships, that's what I do. If it says the Captain has full autonomy, then it's look out Tojo, you're gonna lose some of those precious battlewagons, and flattops before I head back to Hawaii.

What the heck is RSRDC? I'll follow my orders to the letter, but if I see a once in a lifetime chance to sink more carriers I will do so. I can always refit later if I ran out of torpedos. Imagine if in War ll a US sub saw a chance at sinking one maybe two fleet carriers, would you not do so? Think how many lives you'd save, or that by sinking those two Fleet carriers would have changed the war in our favor 3-1 our favor and not the other way around.

I understand this is just a sim, but it still feels really good having a once in a lifetime chance to sink something rarely found in this game! Few people have had a chance like this, but when the chance comes your way will you ignore it or will you give in and sink it? I actually thought SH4 was all about sinking big warships, just look at the intro to SH4. The intro shows something completely different from actual game play, miss leading as it is! Look at the game package, what does it show on the front? Do you see merchant ships on the front cover? Huh , well do yeah?

[Orffen]

Sadly the biggest warships I've managed to sink have been Destroyers; but man, the first one was one to remember:

I was in the SLOT in the Solomons and picked up a fast moving warship on sonar in heavy weather. I was sitting down at about 100ft just listening and waiting for the moon to come out. I think she was doing about 30kts but well within intercept range.

I lined up for my first Dick O'Kane method try (the only manual targeting technique I've managed to get right), and came up to periscope depth. Seas rough and the sky ablaze with the setting sun (wish I'd grabbed a few screenshots). I set my TDC and launch a full spread as the DD passes 340º.

A tense moment as I watch through the scope, waves regularly washing over it and obscuring my vision. And then, the awesome adrenaline rush and elation as 2 of the fish hit and break her back, sending her under.


Sadly I lost that boat the following morning to 8 or 9 destroyers which were steaming line astern in clear weather when I tried the same thing.

[Hylander_1314]

Originally Posted by Systemlord

What the heck is RSRDC? I'll follow my orders to the letter, but if I see a once in a lifetime chance to sink more carriers I will do so. I can always refit later if I ran out of torpedos. Imagine if in War ll a US sub saw a chance at sinking one maybe two fleet carriers, would you not do so? Think how many lives you'd save, or that by sinking those two Fleet carriers would have changed the war in our favor 3-1 our favor and not the other way around.

I understand this is just a sim, but it still feels really good having a once in a lifetime chance to sink something rarely found in this game! Few people have had a chance like this, but when the chance comes your way will you ignore it or will you give in and sink it? I actually thought SH4 was all about sinking big warships, just look at the intro to SH4. The intro shows something completely different from actual game play, miss leading as it is! Look at the game package, what does it show on the front? Do you see merchant ships on the front cover? Huh , well do yeah?

Don't get me wrong, if I see a target of opportunity that is askin' for it, I will try to sink them. But once you have have your orders, you do what's needed to accomplish the goals outlined, as this has more bearing on the renown you get than sinking big warships.