Severely Miffed

[Red Devil]

I am attacking convoy 3 large tankers, 2 medium tankers and medium merchant. Sink all. Decide to call it a day before destroyers close in, current out in the sea a good 5-6000 yards, and more.

I resume course as laid, dive to 300 feet and at 1 on the speed dial make my way slowly away towards Okinawa. Then suddenly I am sunk. Do depth charges land from the sky????? No aircraft anywhere, nada.

Reloaded save, ran towards convoy, and saved as different save. Same result. I have sank these damn tankers 5 time now, same result, move away no body NEAR me and SUNK.

How many years have I been sinking jap ships> Eons! totally fed up. I will have to avoid convoy and hope .............. yeah right. NO way am I starting again so near the end.

[KaleunMarco]

Originally Posted by Red Devil

I am attacking convoy 3 large tankers, 2 medium tankers and medium merchant. Sink all. Decide to call it a day before destroyers close in, current out in the sea a good 5-6000 yards, and more.

I resume course as laid, dive to 300 feet and at 1 on the speed dial make my way slowly away towards Okinawa. Then suddenly I am sunk. Do depth charges land from the sky????? No aircraft anywhere, nada.

Reloaded save, ran towards convoy, and saved as different save. Same result. I have sank these damn tankers 5 time now, same result, move away no body NEAR me and SUNK.

How many years have I been sinking jap ships> Eons! totally fed up. I will have to avoid convoy and hope .............. yeah right. NO way am I starting again so near the end.

sounds like you ran into a mine field.

post your mod list and where you were in relation to the Ryukyu's when got you got zapped.

[Red Devil]

Mines here, very doubtful. I got into the middle of the convoy and left to astern (U boat tactic)

RSRDC v 4.01
Enhanced smoke 1.2 from Han Solo
Torpedos +25%
Pacific Sound Mod

thats it. I have others in JSGME but unused.

posn:

139.8 long
25.4 lat
Iwo Jima is 110nm south east

I am about to replay it and do the same but on a different save, in case.

[Red Devil]

3 attempts today 2 failures. I have a suspicion it may be depth related. I did not go below 250 on any of the occasions but this 3rd time I survived. weird.

[propbeanie]

Originally Posted by Red Devil

Mines here, very doubtful. I got into the middle of the convoy and left to astern (U boat tactic)

RSRDC v 4.01
Enhanced smoke 1.2 from Han Solo
Torpedos +25%
Pacific Sound Mod

thats it. I have others in JSGME but unused.

posn:

139.8 long
25.4 lat
Iwo Jima is 110nm south east

I am about to replay it and do the same but on a different save, in case.

OK, first of all, the scene of the crime:



That is with the Jap_Minfields loaded, merged with Campaign_NMS and _LOC for clarity. Okinawa is just off-screen to the left. It might have been better to state you were going west for your escape, or perhaps approximately where you were at the time of the attack in your first posting. Much easier to find where you were after the posting quoted above.

Now, several little points... Number one, you don't mention the date. That can loom large as to what weapons and platforms can be brought to bear upon you. Number two, you don't mention the escorts encountered, to help in determining what you actually have around you. Third, you do not mention how you determined there were no airplanes involved. Lastly, which boat are you in? Especially in RFB, your boat choice really matters. The S-Boats are extremely fragile, but some of the others are also. RFB is not at all like the Stock game in this regard, and most of the boats are questionable about being able to go much below test depth, especially if you have already sustained damage.

However, all of that said, most of that is probably a moot point. What I see in your mod list is an SH5 mod in the "Enhanced smoke 1.2 from Han Solo". Besides not "matching" the Roster of ships in RSRDC, there are probably a few files that are not compatible with SH4, and especially RFB. It might also be that the Save folder itself has leftovers of previous mod set-ups that are not compatible with what you have currently loaded. I would double-check the mod list for compatibility with RFB, and then clear the Save folder data through Windows File Explorer, and start a new career. Either that, or take your one successful escape, and go with that, get back to base, and try another patrol. Just be aware that there is probably some bad data in the Save folder.

[Red Devil]

Hi prop. these mods have been in for a long time, up to now no prob. I did get away in the third attempt today. Reward: found a fleet but could not get into position, I hit a Kongo 4 times but it limped away. Your map is correct, thats where I was.

Different topic but very strange and nothing to do with SH4. I left the PC on and went away, came back 2 hours later only to find all my steam games had gone out of the pc. Win 11/PC has really been acting up lately, tests show healthy.

Back to SH4, should I remove smoke, and try another one??? I like that mod, gives me a head start when ships are spotted.

Date January 1943.