SHCE (SH1) Damage, Fires Oh My!

JconradH · 03-05-23, 06:49 PM

I was playing a new career beginning December 1941. My S-Class boat had a successful but harrowing patrol in South Japan from Pearl Harbor. Our patrol was successful and we made it back OK. The harrowing issue was rough seas and barely enough fuel to return from patrol, lol. We given a P-Class boat, the Pickerel, and were sent from Pearl to Northern Japan. We received a report of a small(?) convoy with 10 ships headed South and made a successful intercept in the early morning. None of the merchants had guns so we surfaced after firing all 6 tubes, 4 bow and 2 stern, and surfaced to use our deck gun. Within 25 minutes aircraft were picked up on radar and we crash dived to 150 feet. We surfaced again 15 minutes later and proceeded to track all the remaining ships. We sunk 2 more when our lookouts spotted incoming aircraft, and we crashed dived again, and then resurfaced 20 minutes later. We did this 3 more times, each time, all without any advance radar reports; though the radar WAS functioning. We were closing with the last ship, the first one we damaged two hours prior, when the lookouts again spotted another aircraft. We fired our last torpedo at 2100 yards, set to slow speed, an oblique angle, and set to 2 feet depth, and then crash dived again. Before we could get below, we took slight damage to the motor room from aircraft machine guns. While at 200+ feet, that slight damage became a fire! I have never experienced this in SH. Has anyone else?

03-05-23, 06:49 PM	#1
JconradH Swabby Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Michigan Posts: 41 Downloads: 219 Uploads: 0	SHCE (SH1) Has Has anyone ever had a fire onboard? In the motor room? I was playing a new career beginning December 1941. My S-Class boat had a successful but harrowing patrol in South Japan from Pearl Harbor. Our patrol was successful and we made it back OK. The harrowing issue was rough seas and barely enough fuel to return from patrol, lol. We given a P-Class boat, the Pickerel, and were sent from Pearl to Northern Japan. We received a report of a small(?) convoy with 10 ships headed South and made a successful intercept in the early morning. None of the merchants had guns so we surfaced after firing all 6 tubes, 4 bow and 2 stern, and surfaced to use our deck gun. Within 25 minutes aircraft were picked up on radar and we crash dived to 150 feet. We surfaced again 15 minutes later and proceeded to track all the remaining ships. We sunk 2 more when our lookouts spotted incoming aircraft, and we crashed dived again, and then resurfaced 20 minutes later. We did this 3 more times, each time, all without any advance radar reports; though the radar WAS functioning. We were closing with the last ship, the first one we damaged two hours prior, when the lookouts again spotted another aircraft. We fired our last torpedo at 2100 yards, set to slow speed, an oblique angle, and set to 2 feet depth, and then crash dived again. Before we could get below, we took slight damage to the motor room from aircraft machine guns. While at 200+ feet, that slight damage became a fire! I have never experienced this in SH. Has anyone else? Last edited by JconradH; 03-14-23 at 06:35 AM. Reason: would like to change the title.