Stories and Patrol Logs + Screenshots and Videos (merged) - Page 249

Jan Kyster · 12-11-10, 02:57 PM

Far away, under a smaller moon...

GASP!

There she comes... dumb, fat and happy.

Someone somewhere will miss that oil!

_

Jan Kyster · 12-20-10, 04:22 PM

Sometimes we run into this day of time-year-fog-sun-cloud-wind-combo... or in other words: a blue day.

I'm goin' down · 12-21-10, 12:50 AM

My boat got shot to hell, so we abandoned ship. Everyone was eaten by sharks who did not drown, except for me. I got into a life raft, ordered everyone out so I could take their rations, and barely survived, although a shart took my typing hand.

Kongo Otto · 12-21-10, 11:20 AM

USS Gar on its 5th Patrol heading to her next Patrol Grid in the Sulu Sea.

ShadowOps · 12-21-10, 07:40 PM

My very first time playing SH4 I decided to leave in '41 out of Pearl Harbor. After about 14 hours on the sea my watch crew reported a warship contact. I go to the bridge and was greeted by 3 Japanese destroyers 1000 METERS IN FRONT OF ME! I called for a crash dive and tried to maneuver around so I could get a good shot off. That chance never came however. I was smashed by depth charges and forced to blow ballast. I was shot up on the surface and was rammed on my starboard by one of them. I began to sink and they kept charging me. I suppose it was a good thing this happened because I learned how deep the Gar Class could go.

Jan Kyster · 12-27-10, 07:38 PM

April 7, 1943 we first came across this 33kts task force group at Solomon Islands. On April 11, 1943 we were literally run over by them way up in Rabaul Strait (bagged an Akizuki

) and today on April 20, we met them south of Bourgainville on our way back to Brisbane...

In total we've spent 20 torpedoes on this group. 4 duds, 6 hits, 10 missed. 2 ships lightly damaged and one sunk...

The angry search party...

2 hours later - Ah, come on! Give it up, guys! Go home!

Pleased to announce we survived. Lost count of DCs around the hundred mark...

ASWnut101 · 12-28-10, 12:06 AM

So I just got SH4 today (got SH3 like three or so days ago for cheap on steam), and I gotta say: I'm really liking this game. Spent the first few hours fooling around in the training scenarios, getting a feel for the new format and lovely graphics. A bit later, I jumped into a campaign, starting in '41 in Manila with the Salmon class (dunno why, but I love the Salmons), USS Seal.

On December 10th, we get underway and cruise out of the harbor in lovely weather. The mission is to drop six guys off on the other side of the island (Luzon), so I set a course around the north of the island, cutting south of the Babuyan Islands:

About halfway up the west coast of Luzon, I encounter a small lone warship (didn't make it a point to ID it), sailing at high speed to the west. I wanted to play it safe, so we dove and stayed under for about an hour until we lost sonar contact.

We reached the Babuyan Channel without further incident, and about halfway through, we get a call over the radio that a Japanese convoy is headed South through the Babuyan Islands. I figured a little detour wouldn't hurt, so we head northeast and set up shop to the SW of Camiguin Island. Just as the clock ticked to 5 a.m., the sonar officer begins picking up contacts to the north. Time to start the show...

I begin tracking the individual contacts. There were four or five tankers and freighters lined up east to west, guarded by four destroyers screening on all four sides of the convoy. They were steaming south at a leisurely nine knots, so I had a little time to set up my firing solutions. That's where the first problem showed up. The destroyer screening the East side of the convoy was periodically jutting out to the east, tracking south for about a minute, then heading back to the west to reposition itself next to the convoy, and I was sitting at all stop right in the center of his search pattern.

Figuring he would pass about 500 yards ahead of me on his pattern, I continued to wait, finger on the firing button. When the time came, I sent two torpedoes out at a large 7000 ton tanker and two more at the destroyer. With luck, each would hit within a few seconds of each other, allowing me to slip away before the other three DDs came searching.

I watch the stopwatch tick down, and quickly four explosions were to be heard. The destroyer took two torpedoes amidships and sunk like a rock. I track back to the left to see what became of the large tanker, but what was this? It was still floating happily along, no smoke or damage to be seen. Frustrating, but I knew I couldn't stick around. The other three DDs were already on their way, so I went deep and tracked out to the southeast. ~1,800 tons to my belt now, not bad, but I'm itching for some real numbers.

About 15 minutes later, I get the idea to turn a little to port, about 30 degrees. Almost instantly the sonar officer reports a warship directly behind us, closing fast. I get the boat up to PD and have a look around. I was greeted by a Japanese destroyer running straight at us at full speed, flashing a light on his bridge in Morse Code. So it was down periscope, ahead flank and dive to 300 feet, making sure to drop a decoy along the way. At the last minute, a heel to port and hear listen as his cans explode behind me and to the left.

I go to all stop and rig for silent, hoping that he would lose track. It seemed to work, and I watched for the next hour as the three destroyers circled around about 500 yards behind me, depth charging the crap out of God knows what. Two of the destroyers finally bug out, and I decide to try and creep away while the remaining destroyer was busy killing whales. I slipped away undetected, and the remainder of the trip to the drop off point was without incident.

About eight hours after dropping them off and steaming back north, I come across a lovely sight: two unescorted merchants headed south at slow speeds. Forget the torpedoes, we're going shooting! I get into position about 2500-3000 yards away and let 'em have it, sending AP rounds into their waterline and HE into everything above. I hear a whoosh, and look to the left. One of those freighters is armed! But judging by where his shots were landing, the gunner had to have been drunk or blind. Five minutes later, both are sent to the bottom and we continue on our way.

About 5,000 tons each for a total of 11,800 tons now. That's looking more like it.

No twenty miles later, another pair of freighters! They soon meet the same fate of the two ahead of them, bringing my total up to 21,800 tons.

Although I had plenty of torpedoes left, I decided to call it a day early and set a course back to port on the same route we came on. Suddenly, out of the clear blue skies, a Japanese plane is sighted, diving straight in at us. I order a crash dive, but he manages to strafe us, landing plenty of hits just aft of the conning tower. We go down to 150 feet, but quickly realize that the engine room got turned into Swiss Cheese. Nobody's hurt, but the engines and stern batteries are shot up, and there are plenty of holes in the side of the boat letting plenty of water in.

The electric engines are quickly repaired, so I put us at 70 feet to try and help stop the flooding. Two hours later, all internal damage is repaired, flooding is stopped, and we creep along until nightfall to surface and fix the deck gun and AA gun.

The remainder of the trip home was less exciting, only a few far off warship contacts. Then, as we're pulling into Manila harbor, we get a visual of a merchant ship heading into the harbor as well. Upon closer inspection, it's revealed to be a lone Japanese freighter. Dunno what the hell they were doing sailing into an American port, maybe they were lost or something. Gave 'em hell with my deck gun anyway, bringing my tonnage bagged up to about 25,800 tons and leaving a nice navigation hazard in the harbor entrance.

We pulled into port and I'm greeted with a "Victory Cross" (never heard of that one) sitting in my medal case. Not bad for my first war patrol, eh?

Next mission has us patrolling the southern Celebes Sea. Perhaps another patrol report will come with it.

Wickes · 01-03-11, 07:41 PM

29 june - 1 july 1942, 7th Flotilla, set minelayer and free hunt near Halifax

Sailor Steve · 01-03-11, 09:31 PM

Nice shots. Using NumLock and NumPad Del will make the UI go away, so you just have the pictures and not the guages.

Wickes · 01-04-11, 01:34 AM

Interesting

.
Today I tested the new company for the Asiatic Fleet in 1941 and in the same area received a similar trouble. Finish the translation into English - write it here.
In general, I must say that if you make a campaign exactly as it was in history, we will fight very hard. All the time have to fight for their lives and fight in a highly difficult circumstances.

Schwieger · 01-06-11, 01:17 AM

IonicRipper · 01-06-11, 02:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wickes

29 june - 1 july 1942, 7th Flotilla, set minelayer and free hunt near Halifax

Love that interface, where can i get it?

Kongo Otto · 01-07-11, 08:43 AM

Started my Patrol with USS Balao at 23 Oct 1943 and was assigned to a Patrol grid near Okinawa, when i received a ULTRA Message that a IJN Task Force will reach a Position near my Patrol Zone at their way back Home. I Plotted a Intercept Course and set course to the enemy Task Force. After a Radar Contact was made at about 19000 yards, General Quarters where ordered and the boat was taken to priscope depth.

A Spread of three Torpedos( 1 MK 14 and two MK23) was fired and two hit the first of the IJN CA's a Takao Class Cruiser, one was a dud. Firing Distance was about 3800 Yards

A second Spread of three Torpedos (3 MK23) was fired from a distance of about 2900 yards, all three of them hit the enemy Cruiser

On my way to my new assigned Patrol Zone at the Formosa Straits i sunk a freighter and left the Scene:

28262 tons sunk.
Ammo used: 5 MK23 and 1 MK 14 for the Cruisers
2 MK14 and 25 Rounds of 4 inch Gun HE Ammo for the Freighter.

Duds: 2 ( one at the attacked Task Force, one at the attacked Freighter)

Complete AAR will follow.

01-08-11, 05:11 PM

Alone at Sea

Hylander_1314 · 01-08-11, 06:24 PM

Nice lifeboat Privateer! Which mod does that come with?

Quote:

Originally Posted by privateer

Alone at Sea

12-21-10, 07:40 PM	#3725
ShadowOps Mate Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Freezing in my Type VII off of Norway Posts: 52 Downloads: 73 Uploads: 0	My very first time playing SH4 I decided to leave in '41 out of Pearl Harbor. After about 14 hours on the sea my watch crew reported a warship contact. I go to the bridge and was greeted by 3 Japanese destroyers 1000 METERS IN FRONT OF ME! I called for a crash dive and tried to maneuver around so I could get a good shot off. That chance never came however. I was smashed by depth charges and forced to blow ballast. I was shot up on the surface and was rammed on my starboard by one of them. I began to sink and they kept charging me. I suppose it was a good thing this happened because I learned how deep the Gar Class could go. Last edited by ShadowOps; 12-21-10 at 11:45 PM.

12-28-10, 12:06 AM	#3727
ASWnut101 Admiral Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: USA Posts: 2,021 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	So I just got SH4 today (got SH3 like three or so days ago for cheap on steam), and I gotta say: I'm really liking this game. Spent the first few hours fooling around in the training scenarios, getting a feel for the new format and lovely graphics. A bit later, I jumped into a campaign, starting in '41 in Manila with the Salmon class (dunno why, but I love the Salmons), USS Seal. On December 10th, we get underway and cruise out of the harbor in lovely weather. The mission is to drop six guys off on the other side of the island (Luzon), so I set a course around the north of the island, cutting south of the Babuyan Islands: About halfway up the west coast of Luzon, I encounter a small lone warship (didn't make it a point to ID it), sailing at high speed to the west. I wanted to play it safe, so we dove and stayed under for about an hour until we lost sonar contact. We reached the Babuyan Channel without further incident, and about halfway through, we get a call over the radio that a Japanese convoy is headed South through the Babuyan Islands. I figured a little detour wouldn't hurt, so we head northeast and set up shop to the SW of Camiguin Island. Just as the clock ticked to 5 a.m., the sonar officer begins picking up contacts to the north. Time to start the show... I begin tracking the individual contacts. There were four or five tankers and freighters lined up east to west, guarded by four destroyers screening on all four sides of the convoy. They were steaming south at a leisurely nine knots, so I had a little time to set up my firing solutions. That's where the first problem showed up. The destroyer screening the East side of the convoy was periodically jutting out to the east, tracking south for about a minute, then heading back to the west to reposition itself next to the convoy, and I was sitting at all stop right in the center of his search pattern. Figuring he would pass about 500 yards ahead of me on his pattern, I continued to wait, finger on the firing button. When the time came, I sent two torpedoes out at a large 7000 ton tanker and two more at the destroyer. With luck, each would hit within a few seconds of each other, allowing me to slip away before the other three DDs came searching. I watch the stopwatch tick down, and quickly four explosions were to be heard. The destroyer took two torpedoes amidships and sunk like a rock. I track back to the left to see what became of the large tanker, but what was this? It was still floating happily along, no smoke or damage to be seen. Frustrating, but I knew I couldn't stick around. The other three DDs were already on their way, so I went deep and tracked out to the southeast. ~1,800 tons to my belt now, not bad, but I'm itching for some real numbers. About 15 minutes later, I get the idea to turn a little to port, about 30 degrees. Almost instantly the sonar officer reports a warship directly behind us, closing fast. I get the boat up to PD and have a look around. I was greeted by a Japanese destroyer running straight at us at full speed, flashing a light on his bridge in Morse Code. So it was down periscope, ahead flank and dive to 300 feet, making sure to drop a decoy along the way. At the last minute, a heel to port and hear listen as his cans explode behind me and to the left. I go to all stop and rig for silent, hoping that he would lose track. It seemed to work, and I watched for the next hour as the three destroyers circled around about 500 yards behind me, depth charging the crap out of God knows what. Two of the destroyers finally bug out, and I decide to try and creep away while the remaining destroyer was busy killing whales. I slipped away undetected, and the remainder of the trip to the drop off point was without incident. About eight hours after dropping them off and steaming back north, I come across a lovely sight: two unescorted merchants headed south at slow speeds. Forget the torpedoes, we're going shooting! I get into position about 2500-3000 yards away and let 'em have it, sending AP rounds into their waterline and HE into everything above. I hear a whoosh, and look to the left. One of those freighters is armed! But judging by where his shots were landing, the gunner had to have been drunk or blind. Five minutes later, both are sent to the bottom and we continue on our way. About 5,000 tons each for a total of 11,800 tons now. That's looking more like it. No twenty miles later, another pair of freighters! They soon meet the same fate of the two ahead of them, bringing my total up to 21,800 tons. Although I had plenty of torpedoes left, I decided to call it a day early and set a course back to port on the same route we came on. Suddenly, out of the clear blue skies, a Japanese plane is sighted, diving straight in at us. I order a crash dive, but he manages to strafe us, landing plenty of hits just aft of the conning tower. We go down to 150 feet, but quickly realize that the engine room got turned into Swiss Cheese. Nobody's hurt, but the engines and stern batteries are shot up, and there are plenty of holes in the side of the boat letting plenty of water in. The electric engines are quickly repaired, so I put us at 70 feet to try and help stop the flooding. Two hours later, all internal damage is repaired, flooding is stopped, and we creep along until nightfall to surface and fix the deck gun and AA gun. The remainder of the trip home was less exciting, only a few far off warship contacts. Then, as we're pulling into Manila harbor, we get a visual of a merchant ship heading into the harbor as well. Upon closer inspection, it's revealed to be a lone Japanese freighter. Dunno what the hell they were doing sailing into an American port, maybe they were lost or something. Gave 'em hell with my deck gun anyway, bringing my tonnage bagged up to about 25,800 tons and leaving a nice navigation hazard in the harbor entrance. We pulled into port and I'm greeted with a "Victory Cross" (never heard of that one) sitting in my medal case. Not bad for my first war patrol, eh? Next mission has us patrolling the southern Celebes Sea. Perhaps another patrol report will come with it. __________________

01-03-11, 09:31 PM	#3729
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Nice shots. Using NumLock and NumPad Del will make the UI go away, so you just have the pictures and not the guages. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

01-06-11, 01:17 AM	#3731
Schwieger Commodore Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: U-142 Posts: 624 Downloads: 62 Uploads: 0	__________________ Support U-Boot_HAHD: Install Dropbox Click Here & Increase The Teams Dropbox space and get 2.25GB of free online Storage space for yourself.

12-11-10, 02:57 PM	#3721
Jan Kyster Ace of the Deep Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,151 Downloads: 152 Uploads: 0	Far away, under a smaller moon... GASP! There she comes... dumb, fat and happy. Someone somewhere will miss that oil! _

12-20-10, 04:22 PM	#3722
Jan Kyster Ace of the Deep Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,151 Downloads: 152 Uploads: 0	Sometimes we run into this day of time-year-fog-sun-cloud-wind-combo... or in other words: a blue day.

12-21-10, 12:50 AM	#3723
I'm goin' down Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Notify command we have entered the Grass Sea Posts: 2,822 Downloads: 813 Uploads: 0	My boat got shot to hell, so we abandoned ship. Everyone was eaten by sharks who did not drown, except for me. I got into a life raft, ordered everyone out so I could take their rations, and barely survived, although a shart took my typing hand.

12-21-10, 11:20 AM	#3724
Kongo Otto Commodore Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Augsburg / Germany Posts: 631 Downloads: 203 Uploads: 0	USS Gar on its 5th Patrol heading to her next Patrol Grid in the Sulu Sea.

12-27-10, 07:38 PM	#3726
Jan Kyster Ace of the Deep Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,151 Downloads: 152 Uploads: 0	April 7, 1943 we first came across this 33kts task force group at Solomon Islands. On April 11, 1943 we were literally run over by them way up in Rabaul Strait (bagged an Akizuki ) and today on April 20, we met them south of Bourgainville on our way back to Brisbane... In total we've spent 20 torpedoes on this group. 4 duds, 6 hits, 10 missed. 2 ships lightly damaged and one sunk... The angry search party... 2 hours later - Ah, come on! Give it up, guys! Go home! Pleased to announce we survived. Lost count of DCs around the hundred mark...

01-03-11, 07:41 PM	#3728
Wickes Nub Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Country of mass insanity Posts: 4 Downloads: 60 Uploads: 0	29 june - 1 july 1942, 7th Flotilla, set minelayer and free hunt near Halifax

01-04-11, 01:34 AM	#3730
Wickes Nub Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Country of mass insanity Posts: 4 Downloads: 60 Uploads: 0	Interesting . Today I tested the new company for the Asiatic Fleet in 1941 and in the same area received a similar trouble. Finish the translation into English - write it here. In general, I must say that if you make a campaign exactly as it was in history, we will fight very hard. All the time have to fight for their lives and fight in a highly difficult circumstances.

01-07-11, 08:43 AM	#3733
Kongo Otto Commodore Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Augsburg / Germany Posts: 631 Downloads: 203 Uploads: 0	Started my Patrol with USS Balao at 23 Oct 1943 and was assigned to a Patrol grid near Okinawa, when i received a ULTRA Message that a IJN Task Force will reach a Position near my Patrol Zone at their way back Home. I Plotted a Intercept Course and set course to the enemy Task Force. After a Radar Contact was made at about 19000 yards, General Quarters where ordered and the boat was taken to priscope depth. A Spread of three Torpedos( 1 MK 14 and two MK23) was fired and two hit the first of the IJN CA's a Takao Class Cruiser, one was a dud. Firing Distance was about 3800 Yards A second Spread of three Torpedos (3 MK23) was fired from a distance of about 2900 yards, all three of them hit the enemy Cruiser On my way to my new assigned Patrol Zone at the Formosa Straits i sunk a freighter and left the Scene: 28262 tons sunk. Ammo used: 5 MK23 and 1 MK 14 for the Cruisers 2 MK14 and 25 Rounds of 4 inch Gun HE Ammo for the Freighter. Duds: 2 ( one at the attacked Task Force, one at the attacked Freighter) Complete AAR will follow.

01-08-11, 05:11 PM	#3734
Madox58 Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Alone at Sea