Im stuck

Doc_uk · 06-25-08, 02:39 PM

Ok so ive just snuck into this habour, and ive got to do a reacon, and if i can, take photos
Im sitting over the camera icon, wat do i do now?
ive got jap aircraft carriers nearby
And its so tempting, to just, give um a couple of torps, and do a runner, but i dare not
just want to no what im meant to do, to take the photos?
regards
Doc

Fish40 · 06-25-08, 04:09 PM

Switch to your Observation Scope, lock a target in the crosshairs, and click the camera icon at the bottom. Mission accomplished!

gAiNiAc · 06-26-08, 06:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Fish40

Switch to your Observation Scope, lock a target in the crosshairs, and click the camera icon at the bottom. Mission accomplished!

Then shoot your torpedoes!

Doc_uk · 06-26-08, 12:48 PM

Thanks Guys
regards
Doc

AVGWarhawk · 06-26-08, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by gAiNiAc

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fish40

Switch to your Observation Scope, lock a target in the crosshairs, and click the camera icon at the bottom. Mission accomplished!

Then shoot your torpedoes!

Quillan · 06-26-08, 02:55 PM

Admiral, here are the recon photos of the Nip ships in harbor when we got there. As you can see, they had 1 carrier, 1 cruiser, 4 destroyers and 3 auxiliary ships tied up in the harbor. These photos are useless now, because we sank them all after taking the pictures. Why can't we just shoot first and take pictures of what's left after we run out of torpedoes?

Segwin · 06-26-08, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Quillan

Admiral, here are the recon photos of the Nip ships in harbor when we got there. As you can see, they had 1 carrier, 1 cruiser, 4 destroyers and 3 auxiliary ships tied up in the harbor. These photos are useless now, because we sank them all after taking the pictures. Why can't we just shoot first and take pictures of what's left after we run out of torpedoes?

That's pretty funny! Shoot first, take pictures later.

steinbeck · 04-07-09, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Doc_uk

Ok so ive just snuck into this habour, and ive got to do a reacon, and if i can, take photos
Im sitting over the camera icon, wat do i do now?
ive got jap aircraft carriers nearby
And its so tempting, to just, give um a couple of torps, and do a runner, but i dare not
just want to no what im meant to do, to take the photos?
regards
Doc

If you have your scope up your camera image should light up if your near enough! when you are just click on the camera image on the bar
steinbeck

Lord Kelvin · 04-07-09, 08:40 PM

Heh, taking out ships in the harbor after taking your pictures can be fun. I had to sneak into Tokyo once, got in and took my pictures. Then on my way out I spotted a Hiryu at anchor, and decided that it was too good of a target to pass up. Got broadside, and dropped a salvo of ten into it, down it goes to settle on the bottom.

Funniest thing about that was, as I exfiltrated, the destroyers guarding the passage weren't acting any differently, and I managed to get a merchie on my way out too. Not sure if any mods out there account for the AI behavior in this case, but I'd have thought that Ubi would at least make them put up some submarine nets or something if one of their fleet carriers get sunk at anchor...

Torplexed · 04-07-09, 08:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Lord Kelvin

Not sure if any mods out there account for the AI behavior in this case, but I'd have thought that Ubi would at least make them put up some submarine nets or something if one of their fleet carriers get sunk at anchor...

This is one of the major oversights of the sim and there still is no mod for it. You can basically sink most of the IJN at anchor with impunity even in major Japanese ports like Tokyo or Osaka as RL features like anti-sub nets, minefields, anti-torpedo barriers, small patrol craft, coast watchers, uncharted obstacles and currents aren't there as they should be.

A lot of players just go with a self-imposed house rule on this one or you get some real unrealistic tonnage numbers.

Snorkle · 04-08-09, 01:52 AM

I snuck into Tokyo Bay with my Porpoise-class Shark and tooled around looking for photo opportunities for three days! Bugger boat doesn't have battery life for more than 80 or so kilometers, forcing me to surface at nights in the middle of the bay to rekindle the stove. While stuck on the bottom waiting for night, a TF presumably scooted aside towards Chiba, yet when I went looking for it said TF had used its cloaking device and vanished in the haze. Poofters! I finally snapped a long range photo of some hapless ship and am now slowly wending my way out. Immersion went down the drain on this one, seeing how little activity there is on behalf of patrol ships etc. I did get DCd for a while but they lost the scent (in shallow water too!) and went back to sipping tea, the bastards.

06-25-08, 02:39 PM	#1
Doc_uk Watch Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 16 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Im stuck Ok so ive just snuck into this habour, and ive got to do a reacon, and if i can, take photos Im sitting over the camera icon, wat do i do now? ive got jap aircraft carriers nearby And its so tempting, to just, give um a couple of torps, and do a runner, but i dare not just want to no what im meant to do, to take the photos? regards Doc

06-26-08, 02:55 PM	#6
Quillan Samurai Navy Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 579 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Admiral, here are the recon photos of the Nip ships in harbor when we got there. As you can see, they had 1 carrier, 1 cruiser, 4 destroyers and 3 auxiliary ships tied up in the harbor. These photos are useless now, because we sank them all after taking the pictures. Why can't we just shoot first and take pictures of what's left after we run out of torpedoes? __________________ We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, that we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.

04-08-09, 01:52 AM	#11
Snorkle Watch Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 25 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	I snuck into Tokyo Bay with my Porpoise-class Shark and tooled around looking for photo opportunities for three days! Bugger boat doesn't have battery life for more than 80 or so kilometers, forcing me to surface at nights in the middle of the bay to rekindle the stove. While stuck on the bottom waiting for night, a TF presumably scooted aside towards Chiba, yet when I went looking for it said TF had used its cloaking device and vanished in the haze. Poofters! I finally snapped a long range photo of some hapless ship and am now slowly wending my way out. Immersion went down the drain on this one, seeing how little activity there is on behalf of patrol ships etc. I did get DCd for a while but they lost the scent (in shallow water too!) and went back to sipping tea, the bastards. __________________ Snorkle!

06-25-08, 04:09 PM	#2
Fish40 The Old Man Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Yonkers, NY U.S.A. Posts: 1,507 Downloads: 154 Uploads: 0	Switch to your Observation Scope, lock a target in the crosshairs, and click the camera icon at the bottom. Mission accomplished!

06-26-08, 12:48 PM	#4
Doc_uk Watch Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 16 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Thanks Guys regards Doc

04-07-09, 08:40 PM	#9
Lord Kelvin Loader Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 88 Downloads: 12 Uploads: 0	Heh, taking out ships in the harbor after taking your pictures can be fun. I had to sneak into Tokyo once, got in and took my pictures. Then on my way out I spotted a Hiryu at anchor, and decided that it was too good of a target to pass up. Got broadside, and dropped a salvo of ten into it, down it goes to settle on the bottom. Funniest thing about that was, as I exfiltrated, the destroyers guarding the passage weren't acting any differently, and I managed to get a merchie on my way out too. Not sure if any mods out there account for the AI behavior in this case, but I'd have thought that Ubi would at least make them put up some submarine nets or something if one of their fleet carriers get sunk at anchor...