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[Armistead]

[Hylander_1314]

So did you get credit for sinking all 4 of them?

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by Hylander_1314

So did you get credit for sinking all 4 of them?

Nope, you only get credit for the one you hit...suks. Course many of the convoys are big in RSRD. If you can catch a convoy where the ships are loaded with oil, fuel or ammo...with the right timing you can sink a bunch.
The most I've sunk with one torp was 6, one ship exploded the next, just be sure plenty more are around you can get credit for.

Course I like timing escorts passing near and take them out with the explosion.

[chrysanthos]

[chrysanthos]

well i think i found it....when i used the silent editor and if you want to tweak out some armor and hitpoints this is about to happen...take a look at the pics now i must find a good number so my lovely carolina withstands damage and not sunked so soon

[Char]

U-180 Sunk?

TO ALL CONVOY COMMANDERS:I think it's time to rejoice,for we have confirmed reports of the sinking of a U-boat Sunk off the coast to Sydney,Australia on June 21,1943.The U-boat is presumably U-180,captained by Char Aznable "The Red Comet".as you all know this man single handedly sunk 5 British Battleships in the Java Sea,while somehow evading the Destroyer Escort.

at 12:40,a V&W Class Destroyer was Patrolling near Sydney,when it seemed to Hit an underwater obstruction.Out of Reflex,it dropped Depth Charges on what it believed was a Submarine.There was an Explosion,followed by the surfacing of a U-boat.3 more V&W Destroyers were vectored to the area.
In what was the most unbelievable display of Gunnery,eyewitnesses say that this U-boat ENGAGED AND DESTROYED 2 of the 4 Destroyers.It was then rammed.after Rolling 90 Degrees to Port,the U-boat then opened up point blank and sunk a 3rd Destroyer.It then opened up on the final Destroyer,sending it to the bottom as well.

This Photo was taken by one of the men in the Lifeboat of the 3rd Destroyer.


at 12:55,the U-boat sunk below the waves.We should consider this a victory.IF this is the much famed Red Comet,The Indian Ocean and the West Coast of Australia will be free of one of the Greatest threat to shipping in the Pacific.

UPDATE
July 2,1943
Spotters on a remote island off the Coast of Rabul report seeing a German Submarine with what looks like holes from 5 inch shells in it's Starboard side limping into the Port.

[LtzS_Petersen]

My new Toy.



Kaffee!

[chrysanthos]

this is what i need about batleships fuso kongo and maya

[chrysanthos]

i mean a proper working damage control

[commandosolo2009]

PIC HEAVY..

[commandosolo2009]

Currently playing TMO 2.1+RSRD+AC Fix for RSRD


FLASH: To TF3 From USS Perch (SS-176)

12/9/41 20:52 Grid 18'29N by 120'3E (North West Coast of Luzon)

At roughly 1400 I spotted a large convoy off my starboard bow. I submerged and closed at flank speed to determine firing solution. I determined the convoys course was roughly 168 at 9.5 knts. I turned tail at flank and bugged out to 8nms and surfaced. I then turned parallel and made flank speed to my intercept point. I reached the intercept point well ahead of the convoy (it is now dark) and went to PD and closed at 1/3 to close to the point of interception. By some stroke of luck or poor positioning on my part the escorts found me. I continued into the convoy and in frustration fired my forward tubes. Tube 1: at 0, Tube 2: at 1' to right, Tube 3: 2' right, tube 4: at 1' to left. I honestly did not expect anything but I had noticed there were ships in that area but they seemed to have stopped or slowed. To my surprise at about 2800 yds I hit a Nippon Tanker dead in the engine room with what looked like tube 2. Tube 1 bounced off the bow of a ship, and way out past my 3000 yd plotter I hit some sort of merchant with tube 3. Tube 4 was a miss. So in an act of optimism I turned slowly and went about reading my aft tubes, got into position and fired. Tube 5: at 180 was a miss. But tube 6: at 1' to right looked dead on the merchant I had hit with tube three.

By now I was hearing the pings of the escorts closing rapidly (all 10+ of them) so I dove to 250' and went 1/3 while I attempted to reload my tubes and get a few more shots. I performed a 90' maneuver to the right and heard a clang of a dud. Out of 5 torps (not counting tube 4 a miss or tube 1 as I hit the head of the bow) I had only one true dud!

Now I have to sneak away from the escorts so that I might get a few more torpedoes off while the convoy scoots around in disarray. I stayed at 250' making slow 5' turns to the left and right. But eventually the escorts started to get a bit to close for comfort so on the next attack run I went flank speed and rose to 200' while moving hard to starboard towards what looked like open water to the west. It appeared to have thrown them off as the DCs were not near as close. But the God forsaken pinging, I couldn't tell how many there were but it was almost constant! I began a series of depth and course changes hoping that I might shake them. But alas everytime I lost all but one ping, the others eventually caught on. I was in some serious trouble here.

My Number Two (Butch) had an idea. "Capt we have been heading steady on a Westerly course. What if we double back towards the convoy?" I scratched my head for a moment and then a DC came damn close to scratching it for me. Seeing as we had used up most of our options I slapped him on the back and said "that's just crazy enough to work Butch, make it so!"

We slowly came round to our course and made like a hole in the water. After a few minutes I could hear the escorts and DCs get further off. Butch grinned widely, "that shook 'em!" I was slow to optimism but couldn't help but grin, we just might have pulled this off.

But like my luck earlier on approach a stray ping seemed to have dead eyed our boat. I glared over at Butch who had beads of sweat dripping down his nose. "Who are the guys!?"

"I don't know but whoever they are they are damned good," and I ordered another 90 to a northern heading. The DCs again began rattling the small submerged cage we were in. My maneuver, I decided quickly, had apparently done nothing but help them. The men at thier stations looked like still red ghost, I was having trouble telling if any of them were still breathing. I noticed I had been holding my breath and let out a sigh.

After heading north for a bit I looked up at the clock "22:18" roughly 40 minutes since the escorts had detected us. I decided to hard to starboard to bearing 240 as my sonar man seemed to believe the escorts were all north and to the east of us. I took a listen and pat him on the back. Seemed like as good a call as any. After slowly coming round to 240 I ordered engines to make turns for 1 knt, and we began yet another anxious waiting game.

After a bit longer it finally seemed as if we had lost them, but I didn't dare speak up. I listens hard straining my ears to see if I could hear the enemy scowering the water above."I think we got 'em", Butch piped up. I glared at him," Yea well you just keep thinking, it's what you do best Butch." That remark drew a few snickers from the planesmen. But it did indeed seem like we had lost them. It had been a full 10 minutes since we had an escort deficate on us and I was feeling more optimistic by the minute.

10 minutes quickly faded to 20 and according to the NAV map we were a good 4500 yds from the convoys course. I was eager to get to PD to see what the convoy was up to. It was like an itch you can't scratch and it was eating away at mencrom the inside. After 25 minutes I gave the order. "Make the depth 55 ft." I wasn't even hearing DCs anymore.

We began our slow ascension to PD while Perch groaned out from the pressure change. I took a look at the batteries, 61%. We had been at 75 when we dove to start out attack. I stepped up the the periscope after the 3'minute climb and took a glance. At 218 the Nippon Tanker sat dead in the water. It appeared it's crew had kept it from reaching critical the stern deck was just barely out of the water. A few other ships were also setting still, and I was a bit perterbded by this. None the less if they were going to give me a few more easy shots, I'd send them a few thank yous. A ship around 240 was the closest so I went about ordering us to line up the aft tubes. But right before I fired I noticed an escorts bearing down on me.

I suppressed the urge to yell, and whispered,"take her down to 250'", still putting a sense of urgencing in my voice. Once again we were making the slow dive down, and I all but expected to hear pinging any moment now. I looked at the clock,"23:03". Jesus this is bad for your blood pressure. We reached our depth and began a slow series of turns, I allowed myself to day dream.

Before I realized an hour had flown. Since it had been so uneventfully I felt it were safe to give the order to PD. Our dead in the water friend now sat off 285 and a good 5nms out. The convoy seemed to slowly be getting it's act together but rather slowly. Alone escort sat still at 254 and I decided it best to wait him out. Batteries at 57% CO2 at 7%.

Finally at 00:35 it seemed to pick up steam and head towards the rest of the convoy. I decided to slowly make our way to our friend. I imagine they were taking the crew from the ship and heading out. Atleast we gave our guys a few more hours before this fleet made landfall. I eventually lost sight of him and gave the order to resume loading torpedoes. I looked around and could see the fatigue on the men's faces, so I recended my general quarters as well.

We slowly gained ground on our friend who seems to have made repairs to her engines and was putting along at what looked like 2kts or so. Unfortunately for us that seemed to encourage a few escorts to hang back and watch over it. Damn more than a few at least 6. (Why in the heck are they hanging around so long. Plus a sub tender or something just sitting there. The escorts seem to engage engines for about a second and stop. Are they bugged out?) And once again our luck is not on our side and an escort begins pinging away at us.(you have got to be kidding) Again we dive to 250'. We lose them quickly and I decide to stay under until 03:00.

(even waiting 3 hours did not help this problem, the second I reach PD I am getting pinged again. Going to stay under another 3 hrs.) At 06:00 I decide to go to PD, hopefully our friend isn't long gone.

Well damn even after now a total of 6 hrs there is still one escort just sitting there to make matters worse it appears the convoy hasn't hardly moved beyond my visual range. I was having a blast typing this on my iPhone while I played up till this point. But something obviously has broken, I wouldn't even post this had I not actually played and typed this over a course of 2 hours RL. The bugged escort appears to be a subchaser, that is in fact the understatement of the entire damn millennium. Now I'm just staying to document this it is now 07:00 and all it's doing is circling. It is now 09:00 and it has managed to circle away to 5nms. No sign of the ship a torpedo, any of them. At 10:30 I can no longer pick it up via my sonarman and am going to surface. Nope it is still there just over the horizon. Is this some new feature a mod adds? Really there is no way this is behaving as it should. The hell with it I'm just going to engage it with my deck gun. This is insane. Hmmmm sank it but it never even fired on me. Must have been bugged out. Gee that sucked, guess I'll start another new career and avoid this convoy like the plague.

Anyone ever have this happen or TL;DR?

[WernherVonTrapp]

Moon shots:

[brabham85]

Guys, where can I get this red looking HUD?

Originally Posted by Captain Wreckless

Here are some shots of the "Flying Dutchman". Found her sailing around Johnston Island.

CW

I believe THAT hud comes with TMO ... am I right guys?? I have TMO and RFB and am not sure which one is which on the hud. Pretty sure the red is TMO however