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Old 03-28-07, 10:11 AM   #91
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VIDEO OF YAMATO ATTACK - (REALISM SET TO 100%)




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Old 03-28-07, 10:31 AM   #92
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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.
If the game is realistic enough, you might just have been lucky; it may have been set to go off much deeper, and it did - after you were well out of range.
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Old 03-28-07, 11:47 AM   #93
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Some of these stories are fun to read but a reaccouring theme is the lame actions of escorts. Here is mine?

I jsut dropped off an agent, and was heading out for some merchant destruction when, I recieved a FOX telling me to head for the China Sea. In route, a horrible Typhoon began to bow with 30' swells and my boat was bouncing all over, so I initiated a dive drill. General quarters was sounded and the crew quickly went to work and after a great deal of effort (stupid game), our boat was cruising at 100'. I released the General Quarters and went to 2/3. About 20 minutes later, Sonar indicated it had merchant and warship traffic heading straight for us. Sounding General Quarters Again, Sonar began tracking. At exactly 400yds, we went to periscope depth and between the giants swells, a large passenger liner was at a perfect 90deg. I could not get bearing or accurate yardage so I fired a spread of all 6 fix with 3deg difference left and right of zero (manual is so much fun!) and dove down and went to standard to loop around and get another shot with rear tubes. After tracking for several minutes explosions were heard and then sounds of the ship breaking up. Of my 6 fired, three hit and it was a perfect bow, stern, and mid spread. The ship broke into three pieces and exploded as well sending sailors and passengers flying in all directions. The ship must have been loaded with troops and weapons as the explosions were the largest I had ever seen.

Soon the ship was on its way to the bottom of the ocean floor and Sonar started reporting over 15 "merchants" suddenly. Apparenlty many made it to boats but I would have hated to be in a boat with those waves.

(side note: I turned on external views for this mission and one of the fish that hit the middle of the big ole vessle was riding a wave swell and hit on the gangway. Funny watching the people get blown away)
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Old 03-28-07, 12:28 PM   #94
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"Disclaimer: On my last patrol I experienced a weird glitch that wouldn't let me reload torpedoes, but to keep this in character and seeing how it was a rather hilarious incident, I'll consider it to be some kinda mechanical failure.. This is my first attempt at a patrol write up so I hope you'll enjoy it."

We departed from Brisbane, Australia on June 2nd, 1942 in our trusty S-18 class submarine which had seen 6 patrols prior to this, with no seaman harmed and no damage inflicted to her. As we had sunk ~ 120.000 tons worth of ships during those patrols, with a dated S-18 no less, we were very confident in our abilities and in the ship. Our main objective was simple enough - we were to patrol the Solomon Islands and sink any hostile ship we could get a hold of. As we headed north for the Coral Sea, we received Comsubpac news that New Guineea was the target of a main strike of combined air, land and naval forces, forcing the Japanese aggressor to withdraw from the island. That meant our travel through the Coral Sea was much saver a task than it used to be in previous patrols, thanks to the fact that Japanese air cover was not as frequent as it had been (Captain's note: my request to install a Flak gun has yet to be answered by Comsubpac .. I doubt it's going to happen anytime soon).

Sure enough, we arrived at our designated patrol area about 5 days after departing from Brisbane about a day's travel south east of the hostile port of Rabaul, staying submerged for most of the day to avoid aircrafts. The first two days passed by rather unspectacular when the Captain decided to have a trip around the Solomon Islands. Sure enough, after about a day and a half going around the northern part of the island group, we pick up a japanese merchant. This meant hunting season and soon afterwards, the unsuspecting merchant was sunk by two torpedoes, never knowing what had hit her. Our Captain just mentioned that one of the survivors on the lifeboat gave him an internationally known gesture of disapproval when we came close to the few men on their little boat as they noticed the periscope. Our celebration was soon struck by concern as word went out that the Captain wanted to cripple the Solomon Islands' life support by raiding the port of Honiara. We didn't know what to expect there, but we were to find out soon enough ...

We stayed submerged for close to 12 hours only about 3 kms out from the port, and the destroyer patrolling the area never picked us up. This was probably one of the most intense experiences in our life on S-18. Depth under keel didn't give us a whole lot of room for evasive maneuvering upon detection, but we trust our Captain enough to let this kind of judgement be his call. At about 2200 hours local time, we were called to battlestations - we raised the periscope to find that the destroyer was only 800 meters away from us at a near perfect angle. 3 fish later it added to our ever increasing number of tonnage sunk. We went closer to the port and waited for our tubes to be reloaded and found it had no coastal installations. We surfaced 1 km out from the harbor because CO2 levels became critical meanwhile, but this was to be as easy as duck hunting - only two small cannon boats were left to guard the port of Honiara. We dispatched off them as well as taking out a 10000 Ton tanker and a 5600 ton merchant when suddenly, there seemed to be a problem in our torpedo room - all four tubes were jammed. Yes, jammed. How can you possibly reload FOUR torpedoes and forget to retract the stop bolts in all four tubes? I will never forget the Captain's desperate cries to fire the torpedoes to no avail, in fact, it haunts me while I am writing this diary. Great .. the torpedoes were now officially jammed in the tubes with no way to fix this problem in hostile waters. The Captain threw seven shades of fit, and on our way out of Horiana you could hear his swearing in Pearl Harbour. No one dared to tell him to keep the noise down either as swimming back to Brisbane wasn't something any of us fancied doing.

We continued our patrol however, going around the Solomon Islands to go back to our initial patrol area. The fact that we had sunk a total of 3 warships, two merchants and one tanker cooled our Captain off as about a day away from our patrol area at around 0425 hours, we met a small convoy consisting of two tankers and one merchant. With the torpedo tubes jammed, all we could do was approach and attack them with the deck gun. We reported the contact and sure enough, Comsubpac told us to take them out with the priority being the tankers. Using the dark of the night to our advantage, we were able to approach the hostile ships unnoticed before we opened up and the peaceful seas turned into a firey hell. One of the tankers took a few potshots at us so she was the first to draw our attention. Luckily for us, the sailors on the japanese vessel were everything but marksmen so when she blew up, S-18 remained unscratched. It left a bit of a bitter taste however because the big 10000 ton tanker didn't drop any lifeboats .. there were no survivors. They might be the enemy, but they are seamen just like us ... but this is a war, and there is little time to mourn when you think about that you could be the next to die 15000 kms from home, never to be found again.

The 3 ships took a lot of ammo to sink but we managed to do so, however, with our torpedoes jammed and running out of deck ammo, all we could do was to make it back to the patrol area and report contacts. Back in our patrol area, we were given permission to return to Brisbane when on our way back we came across three japanese fishers in their little wooden boats. Our Captain didn't seem too interested but reported them none the less, and much to our surprise we were told to sink them. Putting all second thoughts aside about this complete mismatch, we opened up on them with the remaining shells from our deck gun. Two of the fisherboats instantly caught fire while the biggest tried to make a run for it. Then however, we were completely out of ammo. Ok, I thought, we are going to let that one be and return home, but that was not to be. "Orders are clear", the Captain let us know. "Destroy enemy vessels". So we chased after the remaining boat which was using a pattern of board/starboard maneuvers to get away but our diesel engine had no problem at all to keep up with it. Getting closer, the japanese fisher forced their boat into a starboard turn and our Captain ordered to keep the course .. keep it ... I knew what was up. We were going to ram the little boat .. sure, it was solid metal versus wood, but still .. I felt the adrenaline rushing. "Rudder 30 DEGREES STARBOARD! FLANK SPEED!" I thought the Captain had lost his mind. "RUDDER MIDSHIPS!" Seconds passed, and us down in the belly of S-18, being shaken by the wild chase, didn't know what was going to happen as suddenly, a banging noise and awkward scratching echoed through our submarine. I couldn't believe this .. this was surely not your run of the mill standard procedure. I suppose the Captain was a huge fan of "20000 miles under the sea" by Jules Verne. We would call our Captain "Nemo" from that day on whenever he was not around. It worked. The small fisherboat had tipped over from the impact and sank within seconds. The few crewmen made it out alive and I believe, hoping they made it to safety of course, will tell the story of when their ship was sunk by a US submarine at ramming speed for the rest of their lives.

We arrived back in Brisbane on July 5th without further incidents. A lot of promotions were handed to the crew and we were transferred to a new boat, a Salmon Class submarine. 24 torpedoes instead of 12 .. wow. A lot of tubes to jam too .. our next patrol is set to begin shortly, but not before our Captain is comfortable with his torpedo room crews again. Sadly, S-18 was transferred back to the United States where it serves for training purposes now ... but I will forever remember her and secretly refer to the boat that kept us alive on 7 patrols as "USS Nautilus".
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Right, I hope you guys enjoyed this read. I sadly forgot to take screenshots (didn't intend to make a write up of it), but this patrol was surely the most fun so far, despite the fact that a bug prevented me from using my remaining 7 torpedoes. I surely had a blast writing this and may consider doing a few more of these.
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Old 03-28-07, 12:41 PM   #95
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USS Greandier at night; I really like that pic a lot!

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Old 03-28-07, 02:03 PM   #96
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So there I was, my first mission as almost full realism. No auto-aiming, external views or map contacts.

The beginning of the trip went nicely, I dodged few enemy warpatrols as I didn't want too much attention to mysel on this recon mission. When I got near to tokyo I realized that I have to go through a narrow strait. Ofc I thought that night would be the best time as there wouldn't be any convoys with escorts and their nasty sonars.
So I waited the night to fall and started to head to Tokyo, when I got about 10 clicks away from the strait I dived all the way to..... 37 meters, I was about ½ or 1 meter above the seafloor and I decided to trust that it won't get anymore shallow than it is already. After inspecting the map few times I noticed that there starts a deeper area of water about 12 clicks away, so I decided to go to standard speed and started active sonar listening.
first 7 clicks we're really easy, few gunboats going from north and south from me, but they we're so far away that I decided not to slow down, after all I was so close to deeper waters and a freeway to Tokyo. Then it happened, slow propeller sound coming from bearing 040, then it moved to 033. I realized soon that it would pass my designated line of entry. I went to periscope depth and raised my periscope, it was really dark and took a while to find the enemy but then I noticed him at about 022, a medium cruiser, I recognized the ship(can't remember it atm >.<) and took the distance and made a shooting solution.
After few minutes of stalking I decided that I would just wait for it to go past me and then continue my way, after all it was still a recon mission. So I waited, and waited, and waited until the ship was at 265 at about 1,2 clicks away and started moving 1/3 silent mode towards my waypoint.
Everything was going nicely and I went back to 37 meters. When I was 4,5 clicks away from the deep end the worst thing happened. First of all, the cruiser that I let go past me was coming after me, really fast. I hadn't noticed that it made an U turn and was about 600-700 meters behind me. Ofc I didn't hear this because of my own propeller noice, only reason why I did notice it was because my "own" propeller noise was getting louder.
If that wasn't enough there was a subchaser at bearing 62 which had sneaked right next to me, about 300 meters away. Well I thought to turn hard starboard and hope they would miss me. Well they sure as hell didn't. Cat and mouse play was ready to start.
I was about 3 clicks away from deeper waters and I decided to try to play dead. Everytime I thought I had lost them they found me again, and again aaaaand again. Finally about 600 meters away from the deeper area I decided to go all or nothing, I waited for the cruiser to drop his depth charges and dodged them barely, my ship got a sidehit and the forward torpedorooms we're filling fast. Well I finally got to the deeper waters and dived so they couldn't be able to find me so easily...
And they didn't, too bad that my repair team couldn't fix the leak soon enough which lead to the fact that I was going deeper, and deeper, and deeper... And there I was, first patrol at "realistic" settings, sunken deep to my watery grave.


(Mods that I used was the flavored to taste which made the enemy radars a lot better. It was really impossible to shake that cruiser on such an shallow water. I even tried to just lay still on the ocean floor but it didn't help)
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Old 03-28-07, 06:37 PM   #98
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Rare color footage of USS Purplepants´ last patrol.
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Rare color footage of USS Purplepants´ last patrol.
I was hoping for some crazy shennanigans and hijinks ending with staring down the bow of a Destroyer or Cruiser. lol
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Old 03-28-07, 08:33 PM   #100
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Photo recon mission turned hairy....

So I tried the photo recon quick mission. Made my approach undetected, maneuvered between a live of CVs and merchants. I photographed them all, then attacked. Torpedoed and sank two merchants and two carriers. Began my egress. While leaving I torpedoed a third merchant.

After leaving the harbor I went to PD and did a check. Didn't see anything, so I surfaced. Too close - there were two DD back towards the bay that saw me and gave chase.

I sank the first one with gun fire while taking minimal damage.

The second one got a lucky hit on my diesels and I slowed to about 12 knots. I was firing the deck gun into her as fast as she would reload, but the DD was going so fast she side-swiped me.

I guess this is a bit too close! I was actually blowing idividual bits off the DD. I watch the crew fall as my shells struck home. Pretty awesome.

She fell away after a bit like this and then blew up. I added to DDs to my tally (2CVs, 3 mechants plus the DDs) and limped out to make repairs.

(I love how the look outs are just staring off into space while the flaming DD slides (and I mean screechingly literally) along the port side.)

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Old 03-28-07, 09:08 PM   #101
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LMAO

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Old 03-29-07, 06:39 AM   #102
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We were stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hi and most of the time on daily ops training missions. We were in port at the time for 2 weeks up keep and we got some news from Bu Ships to try and enlongate our service time before having to go into the shipyard for our 18 month updates on equipment as this was to save money. I was a second class Engineman at the time transfered to the Auxilary gang for which we were in charge of the hydraulic systems, scopes, high pressure air systems and refrigeration plus all of the super structure valves.

The chief engineer and I were to inspect the main vent valves, and under the main deck piping that extended from the main induction valve to the engine rooms. The main induction was a huge 3' valve 9' tall with these 3 lines going to the engine rooms. One each in diameter of 22" to each engine room and one 18" line to the forward engine room for the ventilation system. Total weight filled with water would equal 55,000 lbs of water. We had at mid ships a 55,000 lb capacity safety tank just in case this system ever collapsed. This tank was modified to hold fresh water at the time. The valves at the bottom of the tank had been welded shut and the main vent valves disconnected to prevent them from being opened. The old subs had really bad capacity for making fresh water and most of the water that was made had to be used for the batteries as this was almost a daily chore for the electricians to top these batteries off because of charging them all of the time.

So the Chief and I opened all of the deck hatchs to look and crawl into the super structure with a 4 lb. hammer and try and beat the hell out of the pipes to see if any of them collapsed. Needless to say there sure as hell was no room to even get at 30% of them to see what we could do with the hammering and visable inspection. All of the pipes looked to be in good shape, no visable rust or dings or signs of collapsing as these pipes were always full of air. The pipes were 1/4" thick and of course circluar and bracketed in place and very close to the main hull.
So you can see our position of trying to inspect them.

Monday morning we left port for daily ops and motored out to our designated area and submerged. We were suppose to do some shallow running until the ASW teams found us then do some different levels of diving to see if the spotters could pick us up from the plane. They would then drop these 25lb. explosives on us for simulated bombs. Some were close, some missed and of course we were taking manuvering actions to prevent them from finding us. They also had these sona bouys they would drop to pickup our position, these were like a minature sonar with a radio transmission to the plane.

At around 11:30 we dove on down to our test depth of 412'. This subs main hull was only 15/16" thick metal, welded plates and with the interior support beams made of I-beam material, I would say these were 3/8" thick 6x6, not sure about this but close. Also this ship was built in 1944 but did see some action and had a nice battle flag and some shipping sunk and mine laying in harbors. I have no idea what the test depth of those new ships would have been but when I talked to some of the WW2 guys they said they took these ships down to 700' many times for evasion. The ship was 309' 6" long, weight around 1700 tons, widest part was mid ships with 17' inside diameter and with a crew of around 90 people.

I was on the 8 to 12 watch and my duty station was the high pressure air manifold for blowing the ship to surface. I got relieved at 12, went and had my lunch then went to the forward torpedo room to lay down at around 12:30. The spotters must have had a good bearing on us as they were dropping those mini bombs and getting pretty good contact even at that depth. They had just dropped a pair of them when I heard this God Awful KABOOM. I heard the Captain yell to send up a red flare to the forward torpedo room so I knew something bad had happened. They also ordered rig for collapse so I jumped out and headed for the control room as I had to go thru the forward battery compartment to the control room they had started to dog the passage way hatchs shut. I had just made it to the bulk head door and pushed it open to get into the control room.

As there were orders flying like crazy, ahead flank, full rise on bow and stern planes, blow the bow tank, blow all main ballast. I looked at the guy who had relieved me and he was in a stage of wholly fear and had frozen, he had not opened one damn valve. I looked at the depth gauge and we were passing 550' so I promtly knocked his ass out of the way and started cranking open all of the valves. Normally when blowing the main ballest and bow tanks you only opened the high pressure valves about a 1/2 turn for the 3000 psi to enter the tanks. You can believe me I cranked those damn valves as wide open as I could get them. Couse like I said the safety tank was full of fresh water and that could not be blown. I looked again we were passing 600', no response from blowing then one hellish crack from the hull around the scope area, KAPOW, I thought that was the end of us, also the water depth was 2 miles deep. The radio room was also in the after part of the control room and out run the radioman when this happened. Where was he going I asked him as we were in the same compartment. Anyway I looked again we were passing 650', a few more seconds we were passing 700', looked again and we hit 750' and the ship started shuttering and then we hit about 775' and finally started some up bubble and depth rise. This old boat was groaning and moaning but we were headed up finally. Whew, but not out of danger yet, then the ship started really gaining up rise and quickly passed the 400' mark and we began to breath a sigh of relief. At 200' we secured blowing of the tanks, at 100' we flooded negative tank to help stop the fast uprise, slowed to 1/3 head and we surfaced as normal, I started the low pressure blowing system to stablize the port and starboard tanks and put us on a even keel. We went top side to see what happened, and the deck was ripped open from the collapse of those lines running to the engine rooms about 100' long. Needless to say we ended up in the shipyards for repairs and Bu Ships cancelled any long delays for repairs to other subs.
I can only say this, If I had not went to the control room more than likely I would not be typing this adventure here.
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Old 03-29-07, 10:48 AM   #103
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great shots MUD!
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great shots MUD!
Thanks , all done with Shift + F2 on the bridge and dive

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Old 03-29-07, 01:55 PM   #105
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First war patrol - task force reports everywhere. I decide to check one out:






strange looking thing:






i still haven't figured out the TDC in sh4 so i only scored two lucky hits. I couldn't even figure out how to set zero gyro... Anyway - these gaping holes didn't even cause her to take on the slightest lean. Tough BB.

Btw - is this an unusually large TF? 3 BBs, a selection of cruisers, some merchants, a bunch of DDs. Did I just _happen_ to stumble upon the pride of the Nipponese fleet?
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