Stories and Patrol Logs + Screenshots and Videos (merged)

[sqk7744]

Escaped from the real world (killer project last four weeks) and finally had a chance to visit my favorite harbor.

Wonderful pics Folks!

[sqk7744]

Originally Posted by FooFighters

Do you have a bearing on the USO troop yet Johnson?

* Fantabulously Clear hi-rez Image

[Bort]

Originally Posted by Argus00

Edit2: sorted that out. Hey, how come my pics suck vs. everyone else's?

My guess would be bad JPG compression. Are you using MS Paint to compress your pictures from BMP to JPG? If you are, that's why. To make them look better, get a PhotoBucket account and upload your BMP pictures to there where it will automatically change them to JPG, and better I might add.

To give you an idea of what good vs. bad is, I'll post up some pictures.

Photobucket Compression:
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u...0403155242.jpg

Paint Compression:
http://img133.imageshack.us/my.php?i...orsejpgcy0.jpg

Even though these aren't SHIV pics (lost my hard drive), you can probably see the difference between good and bad compression and in SHIV it makes even more of a difference. These pictures are from the game Test Drive Unlimited. You can see some artifacts from bad compression around the vents on the hood.

Sorry for not posting SHIV pics, but I didn't have any.

Also, for some reason, I couldn't get both pictures to show up in the post so I just posted URLs.

[MobyGrape]

ALOHA

[Lagger123987]

Nice Peeture

[THE_MASK]

[tedhealy]

(Using RFB, tater's campaign layers, my own reduced merchant tonnage mod, and at 100% + no map contacts.)

1942
Jan 25, Pearl Harbor
USS Trout (SS-202) Completed shakedown, ready for patrol orders. XO Robert Morton reports crew is nervous but as ready as they'll ever be for their first war patrol.

Jan 26
16:00 Leaving Pearl Harbor behind.

We have orders to patrol the East China Sea. Will top off the tanks at Midway, ETA 4 days.

Jan 29
21:36 Arrived Midway ahead of schedule. Refueling overnight, departing for patrol ASAP, no time to waste.

Feb 8
Assumed standard operating procedure - submerged during daylight hours to avoid air patrols, recharge the batteries at night.

Feb 11
Picked up radio Washington late tonight. Heard on the radio that the Japs are closing in on Singapore and MacArthur is holding out on the Philippines. Hopefully our patrol in the East China Sea can intercept men and material bound for the Philippines and further points southwest.

Feb 13
22:31 Arrived at the designated patrol area, weather calm.

Feb 15
00:37 XO Bob Morton woke me to tell me we received an encrypted 'for the captain's eyes only' message. Decoded ULTRA message reported convoy 20nm north of our present position, course SSW, 8kts. What luck! Who knew they'd come to us? Ordered 20kts and a N intercept course.

1:15 Warship spotted. We reduced speed to 9 knots to limit the phosphorecent bow spray as much as possible, also turned to WNW to close on apparent WSW convoy course. Intend to close distance on the surface and make periscope attack. Partly cloudy night with minimum acceptable light for night time scope attack, but too bright for surface attack.


1:34 DD turns towards us and has bone in her teeth, signal light is rapidly challenging us. Crash dive to 200 feet, found a thermal layer at approx. 190 feet. New course SW.


1:42 Back at periscope depth, Thunder Below! 4 depth charges heard well aft. Resuming intercept course on convoy.

1:47 Convoy is spotted either zig zagging or changing course. They are alerted to our presence. Approx. 5 small/medium cargo freighters. Probably shouldn't have tried to close directly on the surface. There was plenty of night left to withdraw some and end around at high speed.

Will try to make the best of the situation. Intend to split forward bow tubes between a medium freighter and nearest small freighter. Will reserve stern tubes for any coup de grace shots or defense against the DD.

1:49 3 more depth charges heard to starboard and well aft.

2:07 3 bow shots from a mediocre TDC solution due to target's constant course changes. 2nd and 3rd shot spread 1 and 2 degrees to the right. Dove to 90 feet and changed course to due W immediately after 3rd fish left the tube.


2:09 2 torpedo impacts heard!

2:14 Returned to periscope depth slowly, DD still searching aft. 2 Bow torpedoes fired at small freighter, 600 yards away. Mediocre TDC solution again due to target constant course changes. 2nd shot spread to the right.

2:14.xx
1st torpedo was thought to be a hit, but it's run was at least 5 seconds too short for a hit and it looked to be well forward of the target. It must have exploded early. 2nd shot is a hit! Dive back to 90 feet.


2:17 Returned to periscope depth, DD is still confused and searching the wrong area. A quick sweep of the area reveals our first 2 hits crippled the medium freighter. It appears to be dead in the water with a small fire. Our 2nd attack started a large fire on the small freighter, but it is still steaming on.


2:23 DD has looped around aft of us to rejoin small freighter that is blazing. Will deliver coup de grace to crippled medium freighter with remaining bow tube and immediately dive to 150 feet.

2:27 Crippled medium freighter still not heard breaking up. She's a tough old thing. Intend to secure from silent running and reload at least 1 forward tube, then swing around for another coup de grace shot, this time from the stern tubes.

2:36 2 stern shots at the crippled ship. 2 impact, the freighter breaks up. Estimated 4000 tons, Biyo Maru.



2:38 Crash dive to 220 feet, under thermal layer, and rigged for silent running. Pinging is heard. Was anyone expecting the Japs to have active sonar?

2:52 No depth charges dropped, but plenty of pinging heard as the DD closed to something under 500 yards of us. Currently the DD is moving away as we head E away from the convoy. Secured from silent running.


Red X marks our first sinking!

2:56 Turned in. Left night orders for Bob Morton - Proceed east until morning, reload all tubes. Surface at XO's discretion. If anything comes up or you have any questions, wake me. Excellent performance by the crew tonight. We'll have to go over our procedures for closing on convoys at night. We should have been able to avoid being spotted.

[ReallyDedPoet]

Hella' of story tedhealy Very nice

RDP

[sqk7744]

Leaving Pearl on another WP

First Sunset of the next Patrol

Midway Harbor to Port

Midway Breakwater

Welcome to Midway

Tied-up

Shore Leave (those guys on watch sure are dedicated)

[stabiz]

Some of you might know my YouTube-account got deleted, so here are the three SH4-vids I have made so far:

USS Trout:


Submarine VS Convoy:


The hunt for the Yamato, Part 1:

[stu762]

Ok I suspect this mission is an anomally but it's december 42 and I am doing my patrol off the Marianas .. sink a few merchants with the deck gun ... ho hum nothing too exciting there.Then I look at my zoomed out map ... lo and behold, a task force, heading roughly my way ... hmmm I think to myself .. gotta have a piece of that!

So I plot my intercept to run parallel to what I estimate their continued course to be (I'm often wrong about this though and patrol empty seas forever), I hit time acceleration and wait for a while running at flank (easy settings cos I am a crap seaman - so no fuel running out issues) Anyways, my radarman reports contacts off the port bow - long range, so I check my ext camera - and I see an ocean of big bad Japanese warships, 2 Yamatos 2 Kongos and an Ise with accompanying cruisers and DDs plus tankers ... Imagine my grin

I slink into a decent firing point - loose off 4 bow tubes at the Yamato - hoping to slow it down if not sink it outright, and 2 bow tubes at 1 of the Kongo's. I then dive to 100 metersand hit all stop hoping to reload and be lucky! Well lucky wasnt the word after a bit of DD attention and some creeping away at 1 knot I come to periscope depth to see a load of lifeboats where roughly the Yamato was - exxxxxcellent!

The Kongo's are moving away but slower than the rest of the convoy - now I only launched at one of them so I am a bit confused at this, but here come the DD's again so time to leg it - next thing I know on my attack map there are little blue crosses flying around the place. "OK this make a nice change for me to get air cover" i think then I check my scope again - and they are diving bombing the Kongos ... leading to the 2 of them being dead in the water waiting for my stern fish to say hello!!

Anyway, you get the gist of where this is going, I ended up with 2 kongos and a Yamato plus assorted merchants to my name!! Ah happy days.

[oli123456789]

Here are a few shots (first post dont crie when they dont apeare)


Those poor Japs.........................NOT


Ahead flank + blow balast = flying


Aarrghh pirate

[Gunfighter]

What A Great Vid,Music & Sound FX Awesome

Well done Stabiz

[ReallyDedPoet]

Originally Posted by stabiz

Some of you might know my YouTube-account got deleted, so here are the three SH4-vids I have made so far:

USS Trout:


Submarine VS Convoy:


The hunt for the Yamato, Part 1:

Never saw these, nice

RDP

[ReallyDedPoet]

Nice one TB Gotta love that transparent water.



RDP