If you get offered a new boat I would take it because it will probably have 6 forward torpedo tubes and a deeper crush depth.

You're incredibly generous with your torpedoes. Redundancy for possible duds aside, a merchant ship below 10000 tons should go down with one proper hit. That means as central and as deep as possible, ideally exploding just below the keel. You mostly use a setting of 6 feet, much too shallow. The deeper the better, if the torps play along.

Due to damaged periscopes, big fish escaped from under your nose.

@t.r.4496

2 ай бұрын

That aircraft carrier and battleship would have been nice in the log.

@WirableCrown1

2 ай бұрын

That battleship took two to the rear, she is out of action even if she isn't sunk.

A Shimakaze?! NICE! Though she was a one-off, she was a beautiful, well-armed, and VERY fast ship. (Though she never sported her name on her hull; they'd done away with that by the time she was commissioned; the last DD known to have been given hull markings was Akizuki, and that was only on trials in May 1942.) You're now at 435,742 tons sunk...only 17,975 tons from the all-time record! Congrats!

Very fine sinkings under a handicap.

I heard a statistic from the Asianometry channel on KZread concerning Japanese steel industry history. In 1945 80% of Japanese ship construction was made out of wood. That's probably 100% of merchant ship production. That says a whole lot about the effectiveness of the US submarine campaign.

Amazing "shooting from the hip" without a working periscope Captain. Brilliant stuff.

Here's an idea someone should put in to a mode. The Germans in both WWI & WWII had ships that looked & acted like cargo ships. When subs & other ships got close to inspect it, they would drop the sides and opened up with the guns they had hidden. Japan copied these tactic and caught some of our subs/ships unaware. This would really give us a challenge in the game. What do you guys think?

Love your WWII sub stuff Taff! Thanks!

Old poor Salmon sure has seen better days. Better trade her in for a new boat, Taff. She needs some proper TLC in port, safely tucked away from high seas, storms and depth charges. :)

Never got the hang of SH4, very nice to start watching it though.

Crew morale has to be high with these successes under a severe handicap.

The cinematography in this episode...Wow.

Finally ! plugged one of those pesky destroyers.!...great footage of destroyer unwittingly passing over the lurking USS Salmon . Can really escape from lmy life for awhile in the war with the IJN that rages on in my imagination . Those sampans ain't carrying fish judging by the way they EXPLODE !

@owenstockwood5040

2 ай бұрын

And a unique destroyer at that! The Shimakaze was a one off vessel designed to test a high pressure steam system. I am pretty sure she was the fastest IJN ship (not counting small vessels like Torpedo Boats) of WW2.

@timonsolus

2 ай бұрын

Nah. It's just that the SH4 dev team decided to give the sim "movie style explosions" instead of realistic style explosions. So even an 80 ton sampan blows up like a 8,000 ton tanker.

@CATASTEROID934

2 ай бұрын

@@timonsolus Even the special ops team dinghy exploded violently and was burning while they were paddling away

@genuinsanity

2 ай бұрын

@@timonsolus Probably ...but in real life the IJN and IJA hated each other and would IJN would toss deliveries overboard for the IJA to basically swim out and get their supplies...not too far fetched that IJA would press local fishermen to haul their supplies around "Any volunteers to run these supplies out?" Bayonet one fisherman ...Any heroes for Hirohito ? All hands go up...

@timonsolus

2 ай бұрын

@@genuinsanity : That was because many of the Japanese occupied islands in the Pacific had no harbour, and therefore no dock for supply ships to unload at. Therefore supplies had to be transferred from the cargo ships to small boats so that they could be landed ashore. Only in desperate situations would the Japanese run their cargo ships aground on the beach - for obvious reasons.

Awesome episode taff, that was real ballsy and tough stuff taking on an armed merchant on the surface in broad daylight, a close gun duel indeed, but the fog of war smiles upon you.. yes..as you say.. sometimes you have to take that risk. Even with combat damage and setback.. you dealt the enemy some nasty blows, that torpedo hit on that enemy Battleship will no doubt effect enemy morale and call for immediate repairs, but that tanker and destroyer kill.. magnificent. Sweet job in sinking that enemy destroyer.. that's going to hurt the IJN good and proper as well as effect enemy morale and make the seas a lot easier to deal with for friendly subs. Destroying that tanker.. more enemy oil wiped out and the enemy's logistics and life's blood get hurt badly.. and of course sending another large merchant and a small fish / crabbing vessel to the seabed via the deck gun.. that's what I call a great day's work, more tonnage sent to the seabed and you go above the call of duty. Great work, magnificent.. keep it up and well done mate 👏👍

@timonsolus

2 ай бұрын

Taff would have done better to fight that gunnery duel at a much longer range IMO.

@joeaustin4472

2 ай бұрын

@@timonsolus Well yeah that is true, mind you I suppose with this it's a case of you think more after the event. Regardless was still a success.. I suppose you can say this was one of those cases where you want to see the enemy's expression when you came to finish them off.. if that makes any sense that is 👍

awesome sortie given the haandicaap, thank you Taff!

That is some good kills with a crippled boat ... nice work.

Radar Contact 359....Taff misses by 5 degree's and looks 354 🤣 no wonder he didn't see anything

Impressive luck with the shooting

USS Salmon is definitely a lucky boat. With no periscopes, I was expecting that firing spreads of torpedoes virtually blind would be about as effective as shooting spit balls. But, instead, you sank three ships, including a fast moving destroyer. That deck gun duel was a bit risky, Captain, but once again, luck was with you. That enemy task group had some juicy targets, including an aircraft carrier. But, was that a BB you damaged? Well, next time!!!

@colindouglas7769

2 ай бұрын

Yup, it looked like Taff managed to kick a Kongo class in the butt. There were at least two Kongo battleships and a nice juicy aircraft carrier. Very lucky on taking down the Shimakaze destroyer firing blind, but hey, if you don't shoot, you don't get kills!

Thanks Taff

Another great Submarine Sunday!!!

That variant of BB is a reoccurring character.

Who needs a periscope. Go get ‘em Taff.

@timonsolus

2 ай бұрын

He was so lucky to get 3 hits out of 4 torpedoes fired blind. Incredible. And no duds.

Tenacity Taff. Stay with 'em till they're on the bottom.

Wait for these constantly

FAN-tastic!

Congratulations on sinking the only Shimakaze class destroyer built by the IJN in WW2. Shame i think SH4 recycles already sunk ships because in this play through we've seen quite afew Kongo Class BC and ISE class BB's

@timonsolus

2 ай бұрын

Well, the IJN had 4 Kongos, 2 Ises, 2 Fusos, and 2 Nagatos.

FORTUNE FAVORS THE BOLD. Nice realism, makes for a better game IMO.

Good game of chicken that

Taff needs to do more no scope attacks. Better hit ratio.

Hello everyone, I have a problem with running this game in 1920 x 1080 resolution, it only runs at 1024 x 768, please tell me how to solve this problem.

Rearmed, reloaded and refuelled but not repaired? I hope you aren’t missing something. ^^

Not bad for a sub without a periscope...

Realer

Did this class of submarine have radar

Two hits in the stern of what looked like either a Nagato or Fuso Class BB. I find it annoying that the game gives you zero credit for crippling a Capital Ship. Her steering and screws would have been badly damaged. 😢

"Do not infringe upon Cenpac territory". What is Cenpac and how do we know what territory belongs to them?

@bbb462cid

2 ай бұрын

Joint Chiefs of Staff broke up the Pacific into three general areas: North, Central, and South. The USN loves to abbreviate. "CENPAC" is "Central Pacific". Admiral Nimitz controlled it.

@Cybernaut76

2 ай бұрын

@@bbb462cid So if you see a Japanese Fleet Carrier or Super Battleship in Central Pacific, you had best restrain from firing torpedoes and leave it to those boys who serve under Nimitz? Interesting. If this is a feature of an unofficial mod, I hope the maps show clear boundaries in bright colors between those areas. I mean this computer game was intended as playable for civilians living in the 2000s not only for actual real life military personnel who lived eight decades ago. Right?

@bbb462cid

2 ай бұрын

@@Cybernaut76 I don't know, I just know what CENPAC was, but it is a simulation, the areas of operation seem an easy thing to reference

@timonsolus

2 ай бұрын

@@Cybernaut76 : Nonsense. It's just HQ trying to encourage sub skippers to patrol in their assigned area, and not ignore orders and go somewhere else.

@Cybernaut76

2 ай бұрын

@@timonsolus Ok. Thank you. However, that text sounded like definite, nonnegotiable instead of conditional to me.

Please learn some basic naval terms. 😊😊😊