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The S-18 class is a good boat, running the S-23 ATM, :up:

So far the S-Boat is a Fine vessal to fight with. The deck gun has better hitting power than the deck gun on the U-boats. Also she has fairly good speed and manoeuvrability... maybe not the best... but enough to get the job done. About the biggest drawback so far... would be the lacking of stern torpedo's.

But then... I enjoy the cr*p planes in IL-2 the Best. Give me a Hurricane or Mig-1 anyday! :up:

A kill with torpedo's.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...eenShot041.jpg

A kill with the deck gun.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...eenShot044.jpg

I think thats why the navy gave you torpedoes son

Now spill the beans, what game are you playing it cant be SH4, looks nothing like my game. Yours is clean and crisp, mine is fuzzy and a pain to look at for any lenght of time, same goes for the other screenies in this thread, they are just totally different from what I see, sharp and bright, can you at least say what your ingame setting are

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Originally Posted by Rilder

Messing with various files to try and increase graphics I decided to do this... seems like ramming doesn't work as well in SH4; I rammed that cruiser about 3 times.... :rotfl:
http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/3786/rammingpg3.jpg

rascal101... Deck Gun's come in handy for saving your torp's for the bigger game! LoL

My Rig spec's though...

CPU... AMD FX57
MB... Asus A8N-SLI-Deluxe
RAM... 2Gig's
Graphic's... x2 Evga 7800 GTX KO
Sound... X-Fi ExtremeMusic
PS... 650watt

Over all my Rig does what it's suppose to do... I guess thats all you can ask! LoL

Figure it's time I finally contributed to one of these kind of threads. :)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/173/4...24db321b_b.jpg

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CybrSlydr - that stern torpedo shot is great! :cool:
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Originally Posted by rascal101

Alll settings low and all effects off.

1st Post Ever/1st Patrol Ever

Ahoy Mates,

I've been lurking and patrolling these waters undetected since I first launched my VII on the Atlantic brine. Now that the powers that be have turned me loose in the Pacific, I thought I'd launch my first fish into these waters.

It's 1941 and I've been given command of a nice new Gar class sub and re assigned to Pearl Harbour. I was very impressed with the efficiency of this fine navy I am proud to serve with. Only 2 days since the devastating attack and this place is as clean and operational as ever. Way to go boys! You are a credit to your country.

I would have liked to stayed in port and looked around more, but alas, my orders came quickly. Patrol and engage merchant shipping in the Marshall Islands. "All right crew, cast off! Ahead 2/3rds. Follow plotted course."

Well it's days later and boy not much happening west of the Marshalls. Took a look at the map and there's a nice chain of islands just up north. The Mariachis, Martinis or something like that. Set course!!!

I was off the west coast of Guam and it was very exciting. I'd splashed 5 planes sporting red polka dots. Silly of the Japanese to paint a bulls eye on their craft if you ask me. Unfortunately my flak gunner seemed to be tiring out for when I looked at him, he had a orange hue to him so I sent him off duty. His near sighted replacement couldn't hit a brick wall at 2 feet or even find the trigger most of the time, so when 2 planes came in at once I ordered "CRASH DIVE!" Well as it turns out, it was more like a "Scratch paint in fender bender dive." But we got down relatively unscathed.

A few hours of submerged running and I felt it safe to surface. Not really, but we needed fresh air. I'm gonna have some harsh words for that supply officer who stocked our galley with all those cans of beans!

Running a northern route, I was fortunate to encounter 5 large cargo vessels. Both Old Split and Modern Composite. I would have thought a modern stealth carbon composite ship harder to spot on air search radar???????? Each of these vessels where unescorted and I was able to allow Boomer my deck gunner to handle 4.5 of these. In the end, I fired a single fish at number 5.

After clearing these waters out, we set off on a north western tack on a hunch that a shipping lane was in this area. Little did I realize it was a military shipping lane and I just about rammed 2 enemy destroyers while napping at my post. Passing between them, I decided I was the meat in a death sandwich so I again ordered the highly effective "CRASH DIVE!" I think the destroyer captains must have been napping too for they didn't come at me with the might and aggressiveness I would have thought fitting of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

It was this point, I thought I'd go on the offensive. This was unfortunately my demise for my helmsman confused "Level the boat." with "Pull the plug."

So as I sit here in heaven waiting to be reincarnated as a US Navy submarine commander. I'll just make a mental note, key "A" equals "Pull the plug."

Happy Hunting,
Lost@Sea

Some great screens so far :p

Oh and woofiedog I think that lil Dog in your avatar is awsome :up::up:

You Can Never Get A Plumber When You Need One!

You Can Never Get A Plumber When You Need One!
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Dud Depth Charges!!!

We've experienced dud torpedos, but I was diving to get away from the destroyers and happened to forget to lower my scope. I don't know my depth but I had a depth charge land on the bow of my sub and didn't go off. It swayed back and forth and finally rolled off! I thought it was so cool, wish I would have taken a screen shot of it. I didn't know where else to post this and wasn't sure if I should start a new topic.

Windy Night smoke blowing fast hurt my fps a bit plus burning oil
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/9538/sh4img1xb6.jpg

http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/6190/sh4img2yb8.jpg
just night surface with environment effects on normaly turned off.
http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/2534/sh4img3ey6.jpg

Not sure how this happend:
http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/5263/sh4img4vb1.jpg

tube 1 and 2 ? just for that guy. you must really hate him :)

S-23 shortly before she met here fate:
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/9711/depthgw2.jpg
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/2...ydamageqq3.jpg
Now for a little fun: The Brand spanken new Japaneese Mini Sub: :arrgh!:
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/268/japminisubec0.jpg

My first SH4 video, and more will follow. This one is sort of a shakedown.

USS Trout:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ief_YV7kBak

The video will be available for download at my filefront account (link in sig) when I am done uploading SH3 videos.

Enjoy! (hopefully:D)

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Originally Posted by stabiz

My first SH4 video, and more will follow. This one is sort of a shakedown.

USS Trout:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ief_YV7kBak

The video will be available for download at my filefront account (link in sig) when I am done uploading SH3 videos.

Enjoy! (hopefully:D)

Been waiting on the man:rock:

I have been assigned USS Triton (SS-201) out of Pearl Harbor. It is December 9th 1941. After reading the historicals about the SS-201, I became attached to her. She was the first boat to score a kill with her torpedoes and her deck gun in the war. On 19 November, the submarine headed west to conduct a practice war patrol and arrived off Wake Island. On 8 December, she saw columns of smoke rising over the island but assumed that it was caused by construction work being done ashore. She was informed by Radio that Pearl had been attacked. She observed the Japs bombing wake on the 10th of December, and that night when she surfaced to charge batteries, the moon outlined her to a Jap Destroyer and was forced to dive by gunfire. The Triton dived deep and began evasive action. When she came up the Japanese destroyer had slowed astern at about 40m. She fired all four of her rear torpedoes and 58 seconds later, the crew heard a loud explosion - scoring the first sub kill of the war for the US.

Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Triton_%28SS-201%29

http://usstritonss201.org/img60.jpg

I decided to stick with this boat. I don't like sailing the most famous or the boat with the most kills, I like sailing one that means somthing to me. She scored the most tonnage of any US Sub operating out of pearl and she was presumed sunk on March 15th 1943 with the loss of all hands. I would like to honor my historcal career that I am going to follow to the crew of the Triton. I found a website with the list of men lost, and went through the config files changing the names of the officers and nco's aboard my virtual Triton to that of the men lost to make it more real for me. It's one thing to just say, oh I took some casualties this patrol, but its another when the crew members have real names and faces. Though I could not find a way to alter the mission objectives in the config files to the historical locations where the Triton actualy patroled I decided to go with what it gave me. Below is my patrol report for December 10th - 30th:
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Patrol 1 - 10 December 1941 - 30 December 1941

Orders: Deploy and Patrol West of Volcano Islands at approx 32N 135E and interupt merchant traffic.

December 10th - Set out from pearl harbor at 18:00, set course NNW along midway islands and will turn west at about 32N Lat. Will stop at Midway to top off tanks to and from patrol.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...nLeavePort.jpg

December 15th - Around 20:00 picked up radar contact moving slow parallel to me. Plotted intercept course, arrived and waited. Small old merchant appeared on horizon and and traveled perpendicular to my heading. Waiting paid off. At about 1500m fired 3 fish, all three hit, sunk. Replotted and Continued on Course.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...stTorpKill.jpg

December 18th - After dodging air patrols for the past few days, finnaly arrived in patrol sector. Begin running patrol patterns. All anaysis of convoys and taskforces show that I will not make intercept courses. I find two small fishing boats near the japanese coast. Sneak up to the small slow boats and surface ahead of them and give my gunners some target practice while myself and XO John Eichmann watch. Sunk 2 small fishing boats. Continue on patrol.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...om/GunKill.jpg

December 20th - Late 19th, around 23:00, get convoy message, plot intercept and rush to get in a lead position. I get in position and wait for radar to make contact, reposition so I have perfect 90 degree shooting solution. Submerge and wait. Convoy comes along as predicted. I fire 3 fish each at two Large Modern Composite Freighters and wait for impacts. Timing indictates that one fish aimed at the rear freighter prematurely detonates. Two explosions on freighter at 340 degrees, one frieghter sunk, third fish assumed dud. Two more explosions on frieghter at about 10 degrees, both fish made target and sunk frieghter. Dive deep and silent and slip under convoy. Escorts do not dedtect me. Mission objectives acomplished.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...Convoykill.jpg

December 21st- Continued one last day of patroling, spent most of it dodging search planes looking for sub that attacked convoy. Fuel level requires that I leave for port, patroling proves uneventful and plot course back to Pearl.

December 22nd- Constant aircraft overhead keep me submerged and slow progress home. Running slow as possible to conserve what little fuel I have so I can make it back to Midway. Manilla would have been nice if the base hadn't been overrun while I was out at sea.

December 25th- Comsubpac wishes me merry christmas, crew and officers have a little celebration.

Late December 29th- Arrive at Pearl just in time for new years celebrations. Moon low in sky greets us as we arrive. Crew morale improved greatly by bottle of wine shared with all for a great first patrol.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...urnToPearl.jpg

Hope everyone enjoyed the read. I encourage you to look up the history behind your boat, some of these boats and men had a great history behind them and make some interesting reads. The USS Triton will leave for her next patrol on Jan 25th.

~DeePsix