I still play SH5. I use the external camera, map updates, no duds, stable gun, and easy mode TDC. Everything else is 'realistic' .. fuel, air, etc.
Capt. Yarbles took his S-boat out of Cavite, headed north along the coast, found himself a task force (!!)
2 Kongo Battlewagons, 2 heavy cruisers, and a wad of DD's and dayum if I wasn't parked right on the intercept.
Well.
We went deep and silent and waited patiently.
Got lucky . . the thermal layer was at 175' and we waited at 195', near our max.
Came up sneakin, just as the forward screen passed over us, left to right.
Put my full shot of 4 mk 10's broadside into the first Kongo at 700 yards hoping to slow it down at least ..
..it was goin full speed, the tight spread holed her mid-ship.
I dont have any idea what the Captain was thinking as he cranked hard to Port away from my boat ..the battlewagon listed sharply and tipped over ..was gone in seconds!
I went hard right, deep, full speed ..matching course with the enemy.
Hoped I could reload and smack one of the cruisers around with luck.
Turns out all the heavies did a circle to their left off main course and I got out ahead of them with 3 of the screen DD's
crawlin all over me but none got real close.. they blew up a bunch of water where I had been.
'Tube One Ready Sir' .. music .. but .. need more! .. just kept jammin and eyeballin the juice meter ..hopin we could sustain
our run until I had somethin to unload.
'2 Ready .. then 3 ..it was agonizingly slow.
(realistic load times an such turned on, no dud torps tho ..I hate settin up a shot and havin it bounce)
The remaining Kongo crept up alongside us, makin more speed for sure than we were.
I checked number 4 ..thouht to myself 'self ..that will be ready about the time we get the first 3 off'
Was gonna lose the 2nd Kongo if I didn't shoot NOW.
Periscope depth, the Kongo was ahead and 1200 yards out, 30 degrees to Port.
Carefully I picked the torpedo settings .. leading the TDC by 4 degrees and praying the big beast didn't see the fish
until it was too late for her.
Full shot out the tubes, 4 ready just as I started firing.
The Kongo saw them too late. Even so, she was goin hard left and the mid ship target area slipped aft.
I went deep and stayed on course.. took the external camera over to see what was up with the Kongo.
!!
I had blown 2 of her props off along with holing her in that area
..she was slowing, aft down to the rails, going hard to Port.
Cut engines to 1/3, hard to Port, intending to cut her circle and hoping the battlewagon would slow further so I could have time to reload at least 2 of my last 4.
One of the heavy cruisers cut in front of the battlewagon, forcing her to slow to a crawl.. As soon as I had a fish up, I put it
right into her midship, port side from 600 yards out.
She was dead in the water and the rear turret was takin water.
Another fish up, and I put that one right close to the previous ..mid ship.
With that, the Kongo was done. She slid aft under the waves, slowly.
I went deep and silent, creeping away for an hour or so.. amazed.
An S-boat.
Sheesh
-GE aka Frank (cant wait till I get a Balao)
