Battle stations

[cmdrskunk]

Hi thanx for the welcome. I have another nubie question. I encountered a large convoy I ran well ahead of them and submerged then waited for them to come into range. I fired a full spread (6) Three at the big fat B@$**#@! up front and three at another just astern. Two hit the frist and all three hit the second they went to meet Davy Jones. the escorting destroyers never even flinched I went deep and silent no pay back from the tin cans. I then noticed I had not odered the crew to battle stations would this improve performance? Im playing stock (graphics mods only) seems a little easy. I am aware of TMO is it way harder? Am I going to lose my Beautiful View?

[Wolferz]

Originally posted by cmdrskunk:
Hi thanx for the welcome. I have another nubie question. I encountered a large convoy I ran well ahead of them and submerged then waited for them to come into range. I fired a full spread (6) Three at the big fat B@$**#@! up front and three at another just astern. Two hit the frist and all three hit the second they went to meet Davy Jones. the escorting destroyers never even flinched I went deep and silent no pay back from the tin cans. I then noticed I had not odered the crew to battle stations would this improve performance? Im playing stock (graphics mods only) seems a little easy. I am aware of TMO is it way harder? Am I going to lose my Beautiful View?


Calling for Battlestations puts every crewman on duty at his respective station. This gets your fish reloaded faster and also keeps damage control, under control.

Vanilla Tin Cans can range from slightly smarter than a rock to Hory Cow! RUN!
Not much of a challenge when convoys stop dead in the water at the first sign of trouble. It's only good for the new Captains to sharpen their beginning skills with. You will soon find it less and less exhilirating when you start wiping out entire convoys with little effort.


Then, it's time for the super mod of all super mods.... TMO!

What beautiful view? http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-sad.gif

Are you referring to the stock external camera?
The stock water effects?
The stock Ship textures?
The stock explosions?

Learn, will you, young Padawan.

TMO has an external camera mod included that provides a much closer zoom than stock. You can zoom right up to the deck of any vessel.
TMO disables this external camera by default but, the instructions for reactivating it are included in the README.

TMO also includes realistic Ocean graphics, by Leo Vampire et al, that function on real world fluid dynamic principals.

Oh, I almost forgot, the tin cans are rabid.
Convoys aren't sitting ducks.
You will die at least once.

Pay a visit to Bungo Suido Strait and say Hi to Pete for me. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/59.gif

[MWolfe1963]

First I've heard that stock views were beautiful. Maybe that is a good reason to play stock first, so when you load a mod with env. the wow factor.

Do visit the Bungo and be ready for your bunghole. Remember only one head on a sub and there will be a line there before you.

[cmdrskunk]

I am running real enviornment 4 mod, and radio/gramophone mods. I guess im just easy to please/impress http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif Can i load TMO in the middle of a career or should i start a new one?
Thanx

[MWolfe1963]

You have to start a new career. You have an env mod, so that's why it looks good. However, TMO uses Env 5. Course TMO adds a lot more features and makes the game more realistic, so you have to be prepared for that. Just look at the sticky above on it and then you can decide.

I run real env, the newest env mod on top of TMO, looks good and notice no problems. Run a few other mods for graphics, longer wake, sky env, aircraft reflections, few others....

I assume you're patched to 1.5, uboat addition.

[cmdrskunk]

Yup 1.5 Gold edition (love the u-boat add on) I just downloaded the PDF for TMO ver 1.7 Ill read through tonight. Thanx

[Wolferz]

Originally posted by cmdrskunk:
Yup 1.5 Gold edition (love the u-boat add on) I just downloaded the PDF for TMO ver 1.7 Ill read through tonight. Thanx

Good man! Carry on.

TMO can and will make you cry. Which makes Ducimus laugh an insidious laugh. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/59.gif