I used to play Glenn Miller CDs for a bit of wartime atmosphere. When the air alarm went off, I would submerge and keep still to avoid battery consumption, and sit there for hours until resurfacing and getting on my waty was possible. I used to set the game to real time, and "play" it whilst doing something else, waiting for an alarm to go off. The damned Japanese destroyers seemed to get better every time I had to restart. But neither could they.Ī ship appeared out of the rain and cut me in two in a very upsetting collision.Īt the time, I had over 870,000 tons of shipping to my credit, including heavy cruisers from Kagoshima bay, and a carrier torpedoed at berth.
One nioght, I spoted many contacts on the radar, and because it was raining heavily, decided to attack the convoy on the surface, even though I couldn't see much ahead. My beswt effort was getting through all the way from Pearl Harbour to mid-1944. I would avoid destroyers like the plague, and prefwer to sneak into harbours, where all the ships wpould be lined up at berth, and not moving.Īs a final nod to realism, when my boat was sunk, I would start a new boat, and at the beginning of the war each time as well. About twenty mixed rounds was average, but it depended on the size of the vessel. I used to sink entire five to eight ship convoys with surface guns alone, using torpedoes to finish off those ships that I had brought to a halt with surface rounds, the shells of which I used to go for the HULL all the time rarther than tryimng anything else.
When I searched for a target, I only attacked unescorted convoys, and only those without surface guns, or only those single ships that had guns on the bow only. I used to put as many sailors as I could fit into the "gang' box that was above the AA gun and surface gun box, (I forget the name of it, but all my best electricians and mechamnics went there, and stayed there. and every shot came out of the tube straight and true.
EVERY shot came out straight and true.all my torpedos were set for zero depth, and all of them at zero degrees deflection. I could never operate the torpedo equipment. I would play with 100% realism and as many variants turned on as to make it as realistic as possible. My approach to SH4 was, I believe, unique.
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