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Originally Posted by Mios 4Me
Remnants of sunken Whale Factory burning at Takanabe on 7/5/45 @ 0030.
Spotted four merchants heading SSE 100m off the beach 137 km @ 202 degrees from Kagoshima on 7/6/45 @ 0017. Detected no escort until passing the small NW head of the island where we were taken under fire by a trapped Momi. Submerged and continued after the convoy. DD then went into emergency reverse, running his stern high aground and exploding.
Not sure that last is not more interesting being left as is.
USS Balao, ex-Saipan, assigned to patrol just WSW of the island above.
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Found the culprit... some of the "angular" docks are problematic at best for placing the ships, so rather than waste time noodling and fiddling about with the difference between 91.337862 versus 90,998123 degrees for placement, the ship has been moved to a "straight" portion of the dock, set to 270.000000 degrees... lol - if it drifts into the dock still, we'll tack it up to an accident, or if the spring of 1942, Jimmie Doolittle, and in 1945, US carrier strikes or maybe Fluckey was at work... In between? why, weather, of course...
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Originally Posted by Mad Mardigan
... The reported group, consisting of a Task Force, as roughly outlined in said referenced post, was run into on or around in game date: 20/03/43 @ Long 126 52 E by Lat 22 58 N.
As outlined in My initial report on them... Was able to rerun into them.. can only assume, that somehow I either ran into a scripted battlegroup... or somehow in saving, just prior to getting a radar report of them... managed to 'lock' them in to that save... dunno which, but...
As reported previously... upon attack, 1/2 of the group, came to a dead stop, 25% of group, made to continue on to make a run for it... mostly merchies, from what I could tell of.. the remaining 25% comprised of the escorts (DD/DE's... milled about making an effort to locate Me. I managed to avoid most of them, did have 1 string of depth charges being dropped nearby.. an took some relatively minor slap & tickle damage... nothing that lit up red in the damage assessment section.
Last run in, before I had a brown out, ruin the 1st attempt to attack per radio orders after sending in a contact report...I managed to put the Kongo in the group, in the hurt locker... sunk a Takao cruiser.... an damaged a escort.. bad enough its props were gone.
This go around, managed to damage the bow of the Kongo... (1 out of 4 torps, hit...) Sank the Takao cruiser (yet again... yay Me..  ) & sunk an escort instead of leaving it DitW... as it is now... managed to evade being located & have given them the slip. As it is, saved after surfacing, upon clearing the baffles & ensuring no enemy was nearby.. air or surface wise... |
Copy that!
Little side note: We have made it through the Flotillas and PatrolObjectives files, found more issues (surprise surprise surprise)
... and still have a few more corrections to make there. If life does not get in the way, we should be able to finalize the files this weekend, given we don't find anymore surprises. Some of the finds are "historic", and after FotRSU, we might build a collection for Webster...
