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[Galanti]

Originally Posted by Deep Six

USS.Perch out of Manilla...First patrol 100% Realism with Just F12 own ship cam

Returning home after sinking 75K of shipping. All armanent expended

Enjoy my screens.....NOT RETOUCHED AT ALL.





Waves can get realy High!!


DIVE DIVE!!






After a long chase....

Beautiful shots!

It looks like you have environmental effects on, yet your FPS are not chopped in half. What are your system specs?

[JayW.]

Wanna hear from a guy that survived a gun duel with a Destroyer?


I was taking the convoy course of the Submarine School first off and without the European uniformed convoy system, it was very hard to predict how the ships will behave and manruver.

As the course began, I ordered a a course of 50 degrees starboard and went on the bridge when I saw an escort destroyer coming towards me full speed at 345 degrees to port. I crash dive and level at 221 ft. Then, I adjust my speed to 0.5 knots while silent running. By this time, I sounded general quartars. I just waited for the trash cans to drop but fortunately, the destroyer passed by without dropping any depth charges.
The convoy finally arrived on the scene and I kinda expect them to move left or right of me. They did the unexpected - they went over me. Without any good position to fire my tubes, I did a combat surface and used my deck gun on a tanker before the destroyers can come. Two of them were off my port side some 10,000 to 9,000 yards busy with depth charing the area and one is on the opposite side of the convoy about 10,000 yards off. Within seven rounds, the destroyer on the opposite was barreling down towards me. With the tanker burning a little, I redirected my crew's fire on the destroyer and scored excellent hits before I crash dived and dived to 207 ft. One trash can managed to damage slightly my decoy launcher and my triple A guns.
Then, with my rotten luck, all of my forward torpedoes miss the destoryer. But, my luck altered for the good. With tube No. #1 reloaded minutes later, I scored a hit on the tanker after manevered perfectly between the tanker and the destroyer (which was coming in range broadside with my stern tubes). Guess what! Scratch one destroyer. The tanker remained afloat and still moving.
While forgeting the other two destroyers, I surface and started to ravage the convoy with my dech gun.. I came nder fire but can't located the source of the incoming fire. I thought it was one of the merchants sporadically firing it's deck gun. I guess I played SH3 too much. Anyway, all of the sudden, my submarine pitched sharpy and violently to port and turned my head to starboard. To my surprise, there it is - a destroyer. I immediately ordered my crew to fire at point-blank range. The destroyer's gunner control was lousy. It did score one hit as I pulled away to port. The result was the destroyer went down burning and I continued to sink ships with my deck gun and with light casualities.

Well, it is my story.


JayW.

[Deep Six]

Galanti here's the full low down on my gaming rig.....Built JUST for this game and others that need the power. No FPS loss in SH4 everything ON and maxed out, plus I enabled dynamic shadows in the .cfg

Intel core 2 Duo 6700
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket 775)
EVGA 680i Mobo @1066 Mhz
EVGA 8800GTX ACs3 Superclocked @ 2000MHz
2 Gig Dominator PC8500 DDRII memory @ 1066 Clock
1 X 76 Gig Western Digital Raptor 10,000 Spin speed (Connected using WD Secure Sata Cable)
1 X 250 Gig Western Digital Caviar Sata II 16 meg cache (again using WD secure Sata Cables)
2 X plextor PX-760A
Creative X-Fi Fatality Pro sound card and header unit
1 X Cooler Master Real Power Pro 850W PSU (G80 Certified)
Antec P180B Chasis Customised by a builder friend of mine for better airflow this includes 2 Extra 120mm fans on top of the three provided, but one of the default fans had to be removed so the PSU would fit, hence the customisation.

My next purchase will be probably a bigger chassis and another 8800 GTX probably with water cooling..

Deep six

[OakGroove]

Caught with pants down somewhere around 29°30'N 131°40'E 90nm SSE Kyushu. A/C are a real pest.


Out of fish, but still some shells left to donate a couple of ventilation holes to this lone traveller.

[BandofBrothers]

Here are mine (horribly compressed by MS paint, looks a LOT nicer in reality)









I surfaced at night alongside like 3 destroyers, and they didnt even see me

[fair_weather]

SS-228, USS Drum on her 2nd patrol, sunrise.



A couple days later she encountered a small convoy of two ships, A Medium Composite, and a European Composite. The Medium Composite was sunk with no problems. The European on the other hand took 4 fish to make her go down. Ship exploded almost in half, we found a few floating crates on the surface and found one of them to be filled with explosive, the others contained panels of glass, cork and sake. The crew had a good night of celebrating afterwards.

[raduz]

I met this ghost in the middle of the Pacific:

http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/7...utchmanpd1.jpg

[Nokia]

here's some pics

First the japanese midget sub in Hiroshima




The japanese Flying midget submarine



Fuso battleship in hiroshima

[Elder-Pirate]

Not sure if this is a submarine or a hot rod, dig those rooster tails.

[jarhead0341]

August 17 1943.

USS Balao,
South China Sea.


0230: Made sonar contact with a Japanese convoy at bearing 47 degrees Hdg 210 degrees at approx 30 nm. Plotted intercept course but had to run on the surface in order to get into position in time.

At about 0400 I reached my submerge point and did so. If my calculations were correct, the enemy convoy should appear at a bearing of about 45 degrees in a half hour.

At 0405 made sonar contact with convoy but instead of it being off to 45 degrees and two thousand yards it was at 90 degrees and four thousand yards. Im not sure how the deck watch didn't spot the convoy or how the Japanese didn't spot me. But it was too late to move out of the way so I ordered all stop and rigged for silent running as there were four or five escorting destroyers.

A few minutes later I spotted two large tankers, one off the starboard bow and one off the starboard stern. I was in decent position to attack both but I had to be quick. I managed to get three torpedoes off at each ship but now I was being pinged by the lead destroyer. I ordered the sub to dive but going at two knts wasn'g going to get us out of danger quickly. Luckily the destroyer didn't have a very good fix on us.

Moments later torpedo impacts on the rear, and then the front tanker
were reported by the WO and sonar reported the rear tanker breaking apart as she sank. Must have broke her back.

By now, the escort destroyers were converging on me and we took some minor damage from depth charges. The deeper we went the more difficulty the Japanese destroyers had in getting a good fix on us but that didn't stop them from trying. At one moment they would lose all contact with the Balao only to regain it later. For two hours we dodged the enemy destroyers until they finally gave up to rejoin the convoy.

When I felt it was safe, we ascended to periscope depth and off in the distance, the first tanker was sitting dead in the water. And curiously there was a lone Japanese destroyer about 2000 yard directly aft of us. As I caught site of her she was sitting still obviously listening for any indication of us. Moments later the destroyer starting sailing in a tight oval perhaps 500 yards long at about 25 knts and kept looping around over and over again. Hmm what to do. A fish launched at the tanker might get the attention of the destroyer even if I missed such an easy shot. The alternatives were obvious, either break off or sink the destroyer first. Well I went with the destroyer.

It was an impossible shot. I could not track the destroyer long enough to get a decent solution. She was going so fast and changing course too quickly. But I sat and watched for about 1/2 an hour. I concluded that, if I put on enough gyro angle and aim for where the destroyer first turns, the torpedo should hit at the point where the destroyer makes the second turn. Id only get one chance because I had only one after torpedo left.

"Set tube 7 for a depth of seven feet, set the gyro for 12 degrees to the right,..Open tube 7 and launch at my command".
"Aye aye sir". "Aft torpedo room reports tube seven set for 7 feet and gyro of 12 degrees right, tube seven is open...waiting your command sir".
"Very well,....fire tube seven".
"Firing tube seven, . . . torpedo in the water".
"Very well, down scope, all ahead 1/3d, dive the boat, make your depth 350, if it misses she'll be coming after us".
"Aye Aye sir, all ahead 1/3. Dive Dive, set dive planes at 20 degrees and make your depth 350"
AAAOOOOGA AAAAOOOGA.
"Sir sonar reports torpedo running hot straight and normal".
"Very well, what is the destroyer doing?"
"Sir Sonar reports enemy destroyer is still sailing on its previous course". "Very well. Time to impact".
"Sir time to impact is 1 minute ten seconds sir"
tic tic tic tic tic
"Torpedo impact sir!...Sonar report shes sinking like a rock"

That was during my sixth partol and while not the most exciting or hair raising patrol it was certainly interesting in that I have never seen an ecorting destroyer simply sail in circles like that, and it was the hardest shot I've ever made in any sub sim. Near the moment of impact I cheated and went to the camera just to see what the shot looked like. I didn't see it real clear but it appeared that the torpedo swam directly up the stern of the enemy ship as it was beginning its second turn and was descending on the back side of a wave. Near amid ships the torpedo must have impacted the hull or was magnetically detonated and the japanese destroyer went up like a roman candle. Probably just blind luck that I did hit it, but it was fun to try. And to top that, the crew was exhausted by having been at general quarters for about 3 and a half hours. I had to cancel GQ just to get the normal watch crew to wake up.


What fun! And I hope you enjoyed my story.

[Grey_Raven75]

Ouch.



Boom!

[Elder-Pirate]

What have you been doing Grey_Raven75, gunning your own navys ships ?

Bottom pic is clearly a US flag just to the right of the subs con tower indicating a US ship on your subs port side.

Hope thats not a career or your in a heap of trouble.

Winter of 1944.

Marshall Islands.

U.S.S. Skate, Balao-Class.

Mission: Patrol Marshall Islands, Sink Merchant Convoys, Provide Support for Marine Landing.

Departure: January 3, 1944, Pearl Harbor

The dates from this point on are unavailable.

The U.S.S. Skate set out for Marshall Island with a vetted crew of excellent skill and hand-chosen by Jack Russell, acting Commander of the ship.

[One Month Later]
We began our patrol of Marshall Islands to intercept any non-allied ships on approach to the islands. We spent two weeks without any contacts, meanwhile, the Marshall Landing went without a hitch. A decision was made to move further west, outside of Marshall Island's waters.

[One Week Later]
Radar contact, we tracked it eastbound towards Marshall, barring any assumptions, we believed it may have been bound for the islands to resupply their forces when we intercepted. Large Convoy of Tankers escorted by three Destroyers under the cover of dark were spotted. The Skate closed into attack position at periscope depth and launched six torpedoes against two large tanker targets. Four torpedoes struck, two each. One sank immediately, the other's stern was in the water but still upright.

The destroyers were aware of the attack, but had no clue as to the direction as the tankers were at differering angles when the torpedoes detonated. We reloaded and fired another four torpedoes at medium tankers, striking both amidships and breaking them in half. The stern of both ships remained on the surface, screws in the air.

With the mediums dispatched, the Destroyers finally bore down upon us, one from the Skate's stern. Two torpedoes were, as one of my crew stuccinctly put it, right down their d*mned throat. It was an immediate confirmed kill at 1,300 meters.

A second destroyer also bore down at us as we turned to deal with the burning large tanker that remained intact to our stern - we had passed it during our attack on the smaller ships, as well as the offensive-defensive manuever against the rearward destroyer. The additional destroyer once again took two torpedoes head on, one detonating directly underneath the command tower. The tower was blown clean off, while it broke in two.

The third destroyer was of trivial concern as it was using searchlights to attempt to locate us, because the destruction of the ships had generated sufficent noise to render their sonar useless - that, and there were multiple wrecks between us and them. We breached the surface and used the deckgun to finish off the persistent tanker - which was listing to port and awash up to its second stack, blasting a foolish gunner from the deck with a single shell. I don't know what that man was thinking, believing that he could defend a mortally wounded and unrecoverable ship with a dual machine gun, as the shell impacted against his emplacement. The annoyance silenced, we punched two holes in the bow and permanently sank her.

The last destroyer escort was already closing distance, and we expended the remaining torpedoes in a last attempt to wipe the remaining tankers - one medium and two small ships in the distance, while sending a farewell gift to the escort that bore down on us. Our watch crew reveled in the detonation that resulted as all torpedoes on the targets detonated.

We celebrated by having some well-brewed coffee on the way back through Marshall Islands - now under Allied control - bound for Midway for refit.

Final killcount: 2 large tankers, 3 medium tankers, 1 small tanker. 3 destroyers sunk.
Tonnage: 45,000+.

[Two days later.]
We were entering the Marshal waters as we were constantly harassed by submarine-hunting planes. Their aim had been so crude that we did not even need to submerge to evade their bombs. It had become so routine that our crew did not shrug when a pair of Betties came by and lobbed their six-pack bombs at us, missing by over ten to fifty meters.

One fateful morning, we were foolish to think that a Zero would miss. It was a near-direct hit to our stern, as our Anti-Aircraft attempted to shoot it down before the payload was dropped. It detonated near our screws, effectively buckling our hull in the engine room up to the command room. We began to take on water, as the damage control got to work - I think their priorities were a bit mixed.

We managed to repair the bulkheads by the end of the day, and even though the Skate had fully submerged due to the amount of water in the rear quarter...we had sunk to a depth of 255 feet, before managing to blow the ballast in time before we reached hull crush depth. We rose to a reading of 60 feet, although our bow was the only thing out of the water. We began to pump the water out of the astern torpedo room and engineering rooms.

By midday our deck was above water, and we mounted a defensive measure against the three bombers that approached the Skate, which was dead in the water.

Two of the bombers were on a direct track for us, and were promptly shot down before they could offload their bombs. The third managed to drop the bombs, but they exploded well off our bow. That plane, too, was shot down.

Finally, by dusk, we had our engines working to some capacity, and made for Midway with all capable speed through the Marshall Islands' defenses of cruisers and destroyers. It was a shame that a submarine tender wasn't in that flotilla, although we optimized our repairs during the journey and made our arrival to Midway late in the season.

Further repairs were done, and we made for Pearl Harbor before heading to San Francisco for an overhaul.

Amazingly enough, we suffered no casualties throughout our first war patrol. Our egos had been bruised sufficently enough that in hindsight, we were extremely lucky to survive -- and that pilot was very lucky to land such a crippling blow.

We received a naval commendation for sinking the convoy that had been bound for Marshall to resupply the japanese forces holding that area.

I look forward to our next war patrol - our lessons learned from the winter-spring patrol certainly will play a major role when we encounter air forces in the future.

-Signed,
Jack Russell, Captain of the Balao-Class Submarine, U.S.S. Skate


[Photo Courtesty of the U.S. Navy Archives - U.S.S. Skate passing a destroyed Tanker]

[MobyGrape]

Originally Posted by Steel Eel

Ah So ,,Spike Lee is Japanese

[elanaiba]

Originally Posted by DeePsix501

We identify it as a medium modern composite freighter.

Rather Medium Modern Split Superstructure Freighter...