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Armistead · 10-19-10, 03:39 AM

TMO/RSRD, but this is a single mission I did. You can find bergs and Dolphins in TMO. Dolphins can be picked up on sonar, thus you can hear their chatter talk easily, sounds like a bad tuned static radio station. With TMO they'e outside the entries to Brisbane. The others are just random in the ocean. The Bergs are more WSW of Attu.

Ducimus · 10-19-10, 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Armistead

Dolphins can be picked up on radar,

Seriously? I never thought to test that.

Honestly im surprised anyone's found the dolphins in TMO at all. It's really blind/dumb luck to run into them i think.

Armistead · 10-19-10, 08:44 PM

Ya know Duc, it was sort of cruel. About 6 months ago I started getting a funny sound coming through my speakers. Sounded like radio static or a whimpering baby. I thought maybe some AM radio traffic was coming through...My wife and I kept playing with it, but it finally went away. Just at this time I had sonar focused on and never occured to me it was the game cuz it never made that noise. This time I figured it was the dolphins.
Doe's make them easy to find if your in the area, lol. They pick up as far as...bout 12nms.

Bubblehead1980 · 10-19-10, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Ducimus

Seriously? I never thought to test that.

Honestly im surprised anyone's found the dolphins in TMO at all. It's really blind/dumb luck to run into them i think.

Only picked them up on sonar a few times and could see something in the water from the bridge when close(external cam was off), never radar.

Idea to toy with, dolphins/whales in the traffic lanes and somewhat common...perhaps could cause escorts to attack them instead of you?

Bubblehead1980 · 10-19-10, 09:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Dignan

Ah, didn't realize such a thread existed. I'll try to find it and post the picture there. Thanks.

Yep I created that thread but it died off, feel free to revive it.How did you get yours to look so realistic?

Armistead · 10-19-10, 11:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980

Only picked them up on sonar a few times and could see something in the water from the bridge when close(external cam was off), never radar.

Idea to toy with, dolphins/whales in the traffic lanes and somewhat common...perhaps could cause escorts to attack them instead of you?

Well a sub once hit a whale and about ruined the sub and killed the whale. I've seen whales on ships and in SS, but not in the game files, maybe it's a ATO thing. I haven't tried joining dolphins to my sub, doubt you can, but would be funny attaching about 20 and see what happens when they get depth charged.

Jan Kyster · 10-31-10, 11:58 AM

Convoy attack early morning July 6, 1944 in Mindoro Strait.

Sometimes it's good to be tiny...

One who just made it...

Clueless...

Broke off attack and continued north to patrol area.
11800 tons for six torps. One missed...

James B. Hunt, USS Silversides.

tonschk · 11-02-10, 02:21 PM

very nicely done

Kptlt. Neuerburg · 11-02-10, 09:44 PM

Patrol Log
Lt. Cmdr. Zachary A. Baty
CO USS Seawolf SS-197

Left Manila on the ninth of December and headed for Convoy Collage to engage enemy shipping.

9/12/1941 18:47
Hydrophone reports a merchant ship heading south, rang up flank to investigate contact.
19:12
Ship sighted and identified as a Nippon Maru tanker of 10,000 tons.
19:13 Dove to periscope depth and fired two torpedos from the No. 1 and 2 tubes.
19:13
Both torpedos hit, resulting in a large fireball and the tanker split midships.

18/12/1941 14:48
Hydrophone reports large number of warships on bearing 174 degrees.
14:50
Ordered hard to starbord and rang up flank. Sounded battle stations.
14:50
Fired one torpedo at a Akizuki DD at 643 yards.
14:50
Torpedo hit aft on DD. No major damage observed. Dove to 250ft to avoid depth charges.
14:54
Hydrophone reports loud series of explosions in direction of DD.Later reports hearing a ship breaking up. DD sunk.
15:10
Went to periscope depth, fired two torpedos from 3 and 4 tubes at a Tyohei Maru type merchant. Ship avoided torpedos.
15:25
Most of task force has passed. Two DDs are searching for us. Went to periscope depth and fired a torpedo from number 5 tube at a distance of 632 yards.
15:25
Torpedo hit midships, hydrophone reports DDs engines slowing.
15:28
Reloaded all tubes at 300ft, returning to periscope depth and moving to better attack the damaged DD.
15:30
Fired torpedo at damaged DD. Torpedo hit aft of smokestacks followed by a large explosion and fireball.

15:50
Lost contact with task force. One DD is still searching for sub. Heading on last know bearing of task force.
16:15
Still no contact, aside from that pesky DD.
16:26
Hope at last, hydrophone reports the task force is returning. They have reversed course, why?
16:33
Targeted lead ship of task force a Kuma LC, fired three torpedos from 1,2,and 3 tubes. All hit, a large number of expolsions heard from target.

16:42
Targeted second Kuma and fired two torpedos from the stern tubes. Both hit, no explosions from target.
16:44
Fired a third torpedo at target. Torpedo hit the bow of the target. A large expolsion was heard followed by many secondary expolsions. Presumed ammo detenation.

16:54
Turned to attack merchant ships that are with the task force.
16:55
Fired torpedo at a Tyohei Maru type merchant. Torpedo hit target.
16:59
Target sunk.
16:59
Fired two torpedos at a Tyohei Maru. One hit the target, second hit another merchant of to the port side of target.
17:00
Target sunk.
17:01
The other merchant that the second torpedo hit sunk.
17:03
Fired last two torpedos at another Tyohei. Both hit.
17:05
Target sunk.

Total Tonnage sunk:31,915.

Diopos · 11-03-10, 01:06 PM

Quote:

18/12/1941 14:48
Hydrophone reports large number of warships on bearing 174 degrees.
14:50
Ordered hard to starbord and rang up flank. Sounded battle stations.
14:50
Fired one torpedo at a Akizuki DD at 643 yards.

Only 2 minutes from contact report to firing the torps!
I recommend disciplinary against:

The bridge watch because they are blind
The sonar man because he is deaf
The cook because he is not moving the coffee around fast enough!

Actually a very good day in the office !!!

.

Kptlt. Neuerburg · 11-03-10, 01:31 PM

That was the best first patrol I've ever had in SH4. I wonder why the task force commander reveresed course after an hour and not ordering the remaning DDs to the front of the task force? Still you couldn't ask for a better attack setup by having two Kumas at the front of the task force!

Jan Kyster · 11-05-10, 10:16 AM

"Torpedo missed, Sir!".
6 (six, sic!) friggin' times he just had to say it. Loud...

Outraged and out of ammo he turned eastward.
Lockwood asked him on arrival at Pearl, "What you want here?" and then he slowly realised home base was Fremantle... Just bloody excellent!

11-05-10, 10:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jan Kyster

"Torpedo missed, Sir!".
6 (six, sic!) friggin' times he just had to say it. Loud...

I feel your pain, Jan!

You can just feel the crew lookin' at you!

Kapitän Schneider · 11-05-10, 08:41 PM

Hey guys check this out. Don't know if this has already been posted but I saw a post where someone torpedoed a Japanese midget submarine and it spun into the air, spinning round and round very fast.

This guy did the same thing but there's an interesting twist in the tail.

MaddogK · 11-09-10, 08:35 PM

Talk about freekin luck, last night I decided to shelve the PTO campaign I've been running in U.S.S.Thresher and install OM, as luck would have on starting a new campaign I chose 7th Flotilla, and was assigned U-47.

The night began assigned a patrol area west of England so I headed out of Kiel the long way around GB- to the north and around thru the gap where I camped out for 96 hours searching for anything to shoot at. Nothing appeared so I reported in after my assignment time expired only to get assigned a similar mission 200 miles to the east, and as before nothing appeared. The next time I reported in I was assigned an area south of the English channel where again, nothing appeared so I decided the night was over and headed back to base via the channel.

A contact report came from my radio officer directing me about 100 miles NE, with a contact heading west out of the channel so I proceeded due north to intercept. The High waves and darkness concealed my approach as I motored up to her on the surface within a 1000 yards and fired a G7e that found it mark amid ships and blew the freighter in half. I turned east to continue my journey only to find a trailing freighter about 20 miles behind the first, and as before she didn't try to run as I steamed to 900 yards and broadsided her with another electric torpedo.

This went on for another 4 hours, a ship sunk about every 100 miles as we navigated the channel, then broke for norway once we were clear. A large tanker flying a british flag in the 'pond' between sweden and england gave my rear torpedo crew some needed practice, and 3 more swedish transports went to the bottom before we reached Kiel. The last one was sunk with the deck gun as we ran out of torpedoes, but the American trucks on her deck made excellent targets.

My crew and I arrived in Kiel 6 real hours after the night began, and was rewarded with a Knights cross of the Iron cross from the Fuehrer.

10-19-10, 03:39 AM	#3676
Armistead Rear Admiral Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: on the Dan Posts: 10,864 Downloads: 364 Uploads: 0	TMO/RSRD, but this is a single mission I did. You can find bergs and Dolphins in TMO. Dolphins can be picked up on sonar, thus you can hear their chatter talk easily, sounds like a bad tuned static radio station. With TMO they'e outside the entries to Brisbane. The others are just random in the ocean. The Bergs are more WSW of Attu. Last edited by Armistead; 10-19-10 at 08:45 PM.

11-02-10, 02:21 PM	#3683
tonschk Admiral Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 2,200 Downloads: 172 Uploads: 0	very nicely done __________________ What we do in life echoes in Eternity

11-02-10, 09:44 PM	#3684
Kptlt. Neuerburg Admiral Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Florida Posts: 2,249 Downloads: 54 Uploads: 0	Patrol Log Lt. Cmdr. Zachary A. Baty CO USS Seawolf SS-197 Left Manila on the ninth of December and headed for Convoy Collage to engage enemy shipping. 9/12/1941 18:47 Hydrophone reports a merchant ship heading south, rang up flank to investigate contact. 19:12 Ship sighted and identified as a Nippon Maru tanker of 10,000 tons. 19:13 Dove to periscope depth and fired two torpedos from the No. 1 and 2 tubes. 19:13 Both torpedos hit, resulting in a large fireball and the tanker split midships. 18/12/1941 14:48 Hydrophone reports large number of warships on bearing 174 degrees. 14:50 Ordered hard to starbord and rang up flank. Sounded battle stations. 14:50 Fired one torpedo at a Akizuki DD at 643 yards. 14:50 Torpedo hit aft on DD. No major damage observed. Dove to 250ft to avoid depth charges. 14:54 Hydrophone reports loud series of explosions in direction of DD.Later reports hearing a ship breaking up. DD sunk. 15:10 Went to periscope depth, fired two torpedos from 3 and 4 tubes at a Tyohei Maru type merchant. Ship avoided torpedos. 15:25 Most of task force has passed. Two DDs are searching for us. Went to periscope depth and fired a torpedo from number 5 tube at a distance of 632 yards. 15:25 Torpedo hit midships, hydrophone reports DDs engines slowing. 15:28 Reloaded all tubes at 300ft, returning to periscope depth and moving to better attack the damaged DD. 15:30 Fired torpedo at damaged DD. Torpedo hit aft of smokestacks followed by a large explosion and fireball. 15:50 Lost contact with task force. One DD is still searching for sub. Heading on last know bearing of task force. 16:15 Still no contact, aside from that pesky DD. 16:26 Hope at last, hydrophone reports the task force is returning. They have reversed course, why? 16:33 Targeted lead ship of task force a Kuma LC, fired three torpedos from 1,2,and 3 tubes. All hit, a large number of expolsions heard from target. 16:42 Targeted second Kuma and fired two torpedos from the stern tubes. Both hit, no explosions from target. 16:44 Fired a third torpedo at target. Torpedo hit the bow of the target. A large expolsion was heard followed by many secondary expolsions. Presumed ammo detenation. 16:54 Turned to attack merchant ships that are with the task force. 16:55 Fired torpedo at a Tyohei Maru type merchant. Torpedo hit target. 16:59 Target sunk. 16:59 Fired two torpedos at a Tyohei Maru. One hit the target, second hit another merchant of to the port side of target. 17:00 Target sunk. 17:01 The other merchant that the second torpedo hit sunk. 17:03 Fired last two torpedos at another Tyohei. Both hit. 17:05 Target sunk. Total Tonnage sunk:31,915. __________________ "When you're born into this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. If you're born in America you get a front row seat." - George Carlin

11-03-10, 01:31 PM	#3686
Kptlt. Neuerburg Admiral Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Florida Posts: 2,249 Downloads: 54 Uploads: 0	That was the best first patrol I've ever had in SH4. I wonder why the task force commander reveresed course after an hour and not ordering the remaning DDs to the front of the task force? Still you couldn't ask for a better attack setup by having two Kumas at the front of the task force! __________________ "When you're born into this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. If you're born in America you get a front row seat." - George Carlin

11-05-10, 08:41 PM	#3689
Kapitän Schneider Engineer Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: England Posts: 215 Downloads: 34 Uploads: 0	Hey guys check this out. Don't know if this has already been posted but I saw a post where someone torpedoed a Japanese midget submarine and it spun into the air, spinning round and round very fast. This guy did the same thing but there's an interesting twist in the tail. __________________ The victorious strategist only seeks battle, after the victory has been won. Also known as Brandenburger and Zirran elsewhere.

10-19-10, 08:44 PM	#3678
Armistead Rear Admiral Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: on the Dan Posts: 10,864 Downloads: 364 Uploads: 0	Ya know Duc, it was sort of cruel. About 6 months ago I started getting a funny sound coming through my speakers. Sounded like radio static or a whimpering baby. I thought maybe some AM radio traffic was coming through...My wife and I kept playing with it, but it finally went away. Just at this time I had sonar focused on and never occured to me it was the game cuz it never made that noise. This time I figured it was the dolphins. Doe's make them easy to find if your in the area, lol. They pick up as far as...bout 12nms.

10-31-10, 11:58 AM	#3682
Jan Kyster Ace of the Deep Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,151 Downloads: 152 Uploads: 0	Convoy attack early morning July 6, 1944 in Mindoro Strait. Sometimes it's good to be tiny... One who just made it... Clueless... Broke off attack and continued north to patrol area. 11800 tons for six torps. One missed... James B. Hunt, USS Silversides.

11-05-10, 10:16 AM	#3687
Jan Kyster Ace of the Deep Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,151 Downloads: 152 Uploads: 0	"Torpedo missed, Sir!". 6 (six, sic!) friggin' times he just had to say it. Loud... Outraged and out of ammo he turned eastward. Lockwood asked him on arrival at Pearl, "What you want here?" and then he slowly realised home base was Fremantle... Just bloody excellent!

11-09-10, 08:35 PM	#3690
MaddogK XO Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Chicago, Ill. Posts: 409 Downloads: 15 Uploads: 0	Talk about freekin luck, last night I decided to shelve the PTO campaign I've been running in U.S.S.Thresher and install OM, as luck would have on starting a new campaign I chose 7th Flotilla, and was assigned U-47. The night began assigned a patrol area west of England so I headed out of Kiel the long way around GB- to the north and around thru the gap where I camped out for 96 hours searching for anything to shoot at. Nothing appeared so I reported in after my assignment time expired only to get assigned a similar mission 200 miles to the east, and as before nothing appeared. The next time I reported in I was assigned an area south of the English channel where again, nothing appeared so I decided the night was over and headed back to base via the channel. A contact report came from my radio officer directing me about 100 miles NE, with a contact heading west out of the channel so I proceeded due north to intercept. The High waves and darkness concealed my approach as I motored up to her on the surface within a 1000 yards and fired a G7e that found it mark amid ships and blew the freighter in half. I turned east to continue my journey only to find a trailing freighter about 20 miles behind the first, and as before she didn't try to run as I steamed to 900 yards and broadsided her with another electric torpedo. This went on for another 4 hours, a ship sunk about every 100 miles as we navigated the channel, then broke for norway once we were clear. A large tanker flying a british flag in the 'pond' between sweden and england gave my rear torpedo crew some needed practice, and 3 more swedish transports went to the bottom before we reached Kiel. The last one was sunk with the deck gun as we ran out of torpedoes, but the American trucks on her deck made excellent targets. My crew and I arrived in Kiel 6 real hours after the night began, and was rewarded with a Knights cross of the Iron cross from the Fuehrer. __________________ May fortune favor the foolish Last edited by MaddogK; 11-09-10 at 11:11 PM.