Celebe Sea Turkey Shoot!

Blow Negative · 12-04-08, 09:40 PM

So I'm cruising at night in the Celebe sea. I spot a large convoy to the East, go to flank to get ahead, dive to periscope and wait. Fire a couple torps at a fat merchantman. Then the convoy runs right over me - I was literally in the middle! The merchies were so busy doing evasives that one actually ran down one of the Destroyer escorts, not 500 yrd away from my scope! I maneuvered out a ways and fired the last four fish I had into the pack - every one hit something. What an evening!

Mr.O'Bannon · 12-04-08, 11:09 PM

Nice job! I love it when things come together like that.

Similar to my evening. I jumped a convoy with three destroyers. I slipped past the screen and sunk one merchant but the screen saw me finally and ran me down. I was in 78 ft. of water so I couldn't dive so I surfaced and sunk all three destroyers with the deck gun and chased down and sunk three more merchants!

Blow Negative · 12-05-08, 09:54 AM

I was lining up a shot when I heard a terrific grinding and crunching of metal - thought my scope had been hit from behind, but nothing there. Crashdived. Checked the damage board - nothing. I went to outside view and saw this merchantman totalling out the rear quarter of a Destroyer - never knew SH4 would collide it's own AI ships!

12-06-08, 01:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Blow Negative

never knew SH4 would collide it's own AI ships!

its something in the ships turn ability that makes some ships get pushed around

12-04-08, 09:40 PM	#1
Blow Negative Watch Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Wisconsin, USA Posts: 24 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Celebe Sea Turkey Shoot! So I'm cruising at night in the Celebe sea. I spot a large convoy to the East, go to flank to get ahead, dive to periscope and wait. Fire a couple torps at a fat merchantman. Then the convoy runs right over me - I was literally in the middle! The merchies were so busy doing evasives that one actually ran down one of the Destroyer escorts, not 500 yrd away from my scope! I maneuvered out a ways and fired the last four fish I had into the pack - every one hit something. What an evening!

12-04-08, 11:09 PM	#2
Mr.O'Bannon Watch Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Texas Posts: 22 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	Nice job! I love it when things come together like that. Similar to my evening. I jumped a convoy with three destroyers. I slipped past the screen and sunk one merchant but the screen saw me finally and ran me down. I was in 78 ft. of water so I couldn't dive so I surfaced and sunk all three destroyers with the deck gun and chased down and sunk three more merchants!

12-05-08, 09:54 AM	#3
Blow Negative Watch Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Wisconsin, USA Posts: 24 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I was lining up a shot when I heard a terrific grinding and crunching of metal - thought my scope had been hit from behind, but nothing there. Crashdived. Checked the damage board - nothing. I went to outside view and saw this merchantman totalling out the rear quarter of a Destroyer - never knew SH4 would collide it's own AI ships!