Reporting life rafts??

Waterboy · 03-25-07, 06:07 PM

I've sank a few ships and afterwards the deck crew starts reporting "ship spotted, bearing XXX". They are calling out the life rafts. Unless we can capture them, I don't see the point. For fun, I tried to blow the rafts out of the water with the deck gun.

(Yeah, I know it's a war crime)

Anyone else find this annoying?

AirborneTD · 03-25-07, 06:11 PM

I find that annoying and also when pilots ditch (from parachutes) you get the same or similiar results.

DaMaGe007 · 03-25-07, 06:17 PM

I think the icons are the same aswell on the world map.
Would be nice if the pilots and rafts were a different icon.
When you zoom right in they are.

Charos · 03-25-07, 06:25 PM

Not only do they call "Ship Spotted" for a life boat. BUT Your sonar guy picks up upturned life boats as slow merchants. (These are row boats BTW)

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The life rafts actually drift. That part I like.

Teh_Diplomat · 03-25-07, 06:53 PM

Can you ram the rafts/lifeboats?:hmm:

Lawndart · 03-25-07, 07:33 PM

I hate to say this but I used to be on the NOT shooting life rafts banwaggon but something changed when I started playing this game...

My Grandfather served in WW2 in the pacific and saw a lot of action. This Christmas my mom sent me his service watch that he engraved all the islands he went to on a steel cuff type band... Anyway, when a plane or ship was shooting at me and I deal with them something personal happens to me, and I "finish" the job, for my gamps...

But never merchants. I guess I know a thing or two you won't be seeing on the history channel any time soon...

Thank god I don't feel that way in the real world

causticwindow · 03-25-07, 07:36 PM

How often did submarine crews attempt to save/capture people? It seems like the combat is so personal and sneaky that they probably wouldn't want to do it if at all.

Cakewalk · 03-25-07, 07:58 PM

There have been incidents I know of with U-Boats saving crews early in the war, I forget the specific examples, but one U-Boat stayed with the passengers of a ship it sank, radioing their position to Allied forces. Unfortunately the allies reponded by sending a plane to attack the U-Boat, and it was forced to escape. The passengers were later rescued, though.

Another funny incident I have heard of (again, I forget the specifics), but it happened very early in the war when two Allied Suka dive bombers tried to attack a surfaced U-Boat... their bombs skipped off the surface of the water, came up short, and exploded in the air, downing both planes. The U-Boat crew then rescued the pilots.

humesdog · 03-25-07, 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by causticwindow

How often did submarine crews attempt to save/capture people? It seems like the combat is so personal and sneaky that they probably wouldn't want to do it if at all.

I know from playing the original Silent Hunter that some US submarines picked up survivors and brought them aboard. Remember the interview with Buddy Gruner? Although from what I know of the Japanese military, I doubt we ever tried to rescue IJN sailors. They didn't believe in surrendering.

Helen Keller · 03-25-07, 09:58 PM

I could see them picking up pilots (Japanese) but with merchants? I mean, it's a tiny metal tube, not a lot of room to have company over for dinner...

Let 'em drift.

03-25-07, 06:07 PM	#1
Waterboy Watch Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 24 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Reporting life rafts?? I've sank a few ships and afterwards the deck crew starts reporting "ship spotted, bearing XXX". They are calling out the life rafts. Unless we can capture them, I don't see the point. For fun, I tried to blow the rafts out of the water with the deck gun. (Yeah, I know it's a war crime) Anyone else find this annoying?

03-25-07, 06:11 PM	#2
AirborneTD Engineer Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Pennsylvania, USA Posts: 204 Downloads: 23 Uploads: 0	I find that annoying and also when pilots ditch (from parachutes) you get the same or similiar results. __________________ "You know, you might get surrounded." "We're paratroopers, Lieutenant. We're supposed to be surrounded." --Band of Brothers

03-25-07, 09:58 PM	#10
Helen Keller Seaman Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Florida Posts: 33 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I could see them picking up pilots (Japanese) but with merchants? I mean, it's a tiny metal tube, not a lot of room to have company over for dinner... Let 'em drift. __________________ -- Helen Keller fights with a Braille Monitor

03-25-07, 06:17 PM	#3
DaMaGe007 Watch Officer Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 338 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I think the icons are the same aswell on the world map. Would be nice if the pilots and rafts were a different icon. When you zoom right in they are.

03-25-07, 06:25 PM	#4
Charos Helmsman Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 109 Downloads: 31 Uploads: 0	Not only do they call "Ship Spotted" for a life boat. BUT Your sonar guy picks up upturned life boats as slow merchants. (These are row boats BTW) . The life rafts actually drift. That part I like.

03-25-07, 06:53 PM	#5
Teh_Diplomat Helmsman Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Moncton, Canada Posts: 105 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Can you ram the rafts/lifeboats?:hmm:

03-25-07, 07:33 PM	#6
Lawndart Bosun Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Vancouver BC Posts: 66 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	I hate to say this but I used to be on the NOT shooting life rafts banwaggon but something changed when I started playing this game... My Grandfather served in WW2 in the pacific and saw a lot of action. This Christmas my mom sent me his service watch that he engraved all the islands he went to on a steel cuff type band... Anyway, when a plane or ship was shooting at me and I deal with them something personal happens to me, and I "finish" the job, for my gamps... But never merchants. I guess I know a thing or two you won't be seeing on the history channel any time soon... Thank god I don't feel that way in the real world

03-25-07, 07:36 PM	#7
causticwindow Swabbie Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 7 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	How often did submarine crews attempt to save/capture people? It seems like the combat is so personal and sneaky that they probably wouldn't want to do it if at all.

03-25-07, 07:58 PM	#8
Cakewalk Engineer Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Ottawa, Canada Posts: 212 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	There have been incidents I know of with U-Boats saving crews early in the war, I forget the specific examples, but one U-Boat stayed with the passengers of a ship it sank, radioing their position to Allied forces. Unfortunately the allies reponded by sending a plane to attack the U-Boat, and it was forced to escape. The passengers were later rescued, though. Another funny incident I have heard of (again, I forget the specifics), but it happened very early in the war when two Allied Suka dive bombers tried to attack a surfaced U-Boat... their bombs skipped off the surface of the water, came up short, and exploded in the air, downing both planes. The U-Boat crew then rescued the pilots.