What's Your Best Attack? (Possibly Pic Heavy)

[tenakakhan_1981]

Hi all!

I was curious what people would pick as their best ever attack on target/s? It could be a time you first battered a Yamato, or where you've decimated an entire convoy, maybe even just the first ship you managed to sink on manual targetting! Regardless, I'd like to hear about it! Pics welcome! Any tactical hints too, if you care to share! http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-happy.gif

For me personally, it was the time I first breached 100k. I was sitting on about 75k tonnes sunk, I had four fish left and I'm lurking on the traffic lane just outside of Tokyo. I'd just installed Pacific Environments way back when, and I was looking at the perfect sunset. Bang, hydrophones pick up two targets heading south, I'm smack on the route. A bit of calculating and I'm able to gauge their course and move slow into position. They come across me, two Hiryu Carriers beasting the speed. Do I use all four on one ship to guarantee a kill? But that'd only be 16,000k! Not enough for the 100k barrier. I decide to risk two fish each, smack them in the same place for each ship, centre mass and spread......to my utter delight both light up with secondary explosions. Back lit against the setting sun, two huge fireballs, they're done for - 32,000k tonnes to take me to approx 107k tonnes total! http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/typing.gif

No pics I'm afraid, I lost them in a format, but I'd say that was my favourite ever attack! What's yours?

TK

[captgeo]

Following is my best to date.

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/foru...481052748#7481052748 (http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/6421019045/m/7481052748?r=7481052748#7481052748)

[pnwdom]

I think my best attack was two King Georges and a Kent heavy cruiser, all in one attack.

[fireftr18]

I was on a rather non-productive patrol in a Porpoise class. Several weeks and thousands of miles had passed and I fired two torpedoes and sunk one merchant. I found myself just west of New Guinea and decided to patrol the north coast on my way to the Solomons for refuel. I picked up a convoy on radar. Plotted for an ambush, but got picked up by the DD's. They held me down and I didn't get a shot off. When I surfaced, I picked them up again (or another convoy, I don't know). I plotted, caught up, and set up an ambush. Fired two fish each at two merchants. Put it in flank speed, turned and set up for a stern shot. Torpedoes hit, one ship went down, the second remained afloat. I fired one rear tube. At this time, the DD's started bearing down on me. I waited, Torpedo hit, but the ship didn't sink. I fired the second torpedo, then crash dived. While I was reaching depth, my XO announced torpedo hit, then the message "She's going down."
The DD's kept me down for a few hours. When safe to surface, I made radar contact on them again. Plotted, caught up, ambush. Again, I fired one tube each on three merchants. Flank speed, turned, waited. One merchant went down. the other two were hit. I fired on both. Flank speed, turn, and re-aim. One ship went down, the second torpedo missed (or a dud, or something). I fired the fourth bow tube. Waited. By now the DD's were bearing down on me again. I crash dived. My XO announced torpedo hit. No sinking message. I kept contact with the remaining merchant. When a tube was ready, I went to PD, aimed and fired. It hit, but still floating. Back deep for my last fish. When it was ready, PD, aimed, fired. Missed. Out of fish, went deep and evaded the DD's. Went home after a successful patrol. There was little damage on my boat.

[tambor198]

I was returning to Fremantle from a patrol early in the war. The patrol results were not all that impressive so I had all tubes still loaded. Also before radar was part of the hardware on the sub. In the midst of the Indian Ocean I pick up sonar contact on a bunch of warships heading my. A few minutes later my lookouts pick up a Japanese DD coming out of the fog, the time was just about dusk. I quickly went to PD and before I know it I've right in the middle of a very large Japanese Task Force including BB, CV and CA. Upon raising the scope I'm looking directly at a Hiryu fleet carrier. Fired all tubes forward at her and when checking astern to see what else was coming by I spotted a Takao class CA crossing my stern. Fired all stern tubes at the cruiser and headed deep. My sub got a very nice going over by the Japanese DDs but the resulting damage was not all that great. By that time a CV and a CA had gone to Davy Jones Locker. This little episode was one of my more favorite times in SHIV.

[Mescator]

One of my favourites in recent memory was the first night surface attack i did. I've been considering it for a while, but usually just make submerged attacks.

Anyway, lone merchant (I know, rivetting stuff) plodding along east, i came at it from south. Closed to 2000 Yards and fired 2 fish. Wasn't until they both hit, astern and foward of the stack that the lights came on.

Longest couple of minutes torpedo run in my life, heart was beating like crazy. Bloody satisfying though, now i wanna try it against a convoy =p

[cgkstealth]

I'm gonna have to agree with Mescator here, my best attack was a recent night surface engagement I had with a lone Taihosan Maru. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-surprised.gif
I know, pretty tense... http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/shady.gif
Anyways, I put my 5/25 DG skills to the test by firing at this lone merchie from about 5000 yards (in the dark even http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/winky.gif ) by using sonar to keep feeding me accurate bearing and yardage info. First few shots were fired into the darkness, but after I hit him a few times I had a flame to fire at.

Unlike Mescator, my heart wasn't racing, but my temper was beginning to after a few misses. I mean heck, I have enough firepower to blast the living daylights out of the biggest Japanese ships, but here I am firing pot shots at this little merchant that normally I wouldn't even waste 40mm shells on. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/51.gif

Oh well, it was fun... http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif

[paulhager]

Best is hard to say. I have accounts of some pretty good ones on the various SH sites (3, 4, & 5). I've managed several successful triple attacks over the years, with torpodoes hitting all 3 targets within a few seconds of each other. However, allow me to submit this patrol (part 1) (http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/6421019045/m/3401013419) for the longest successful attack. It was a radar attack at 13,200 yards. The account also covers two separate attacks in which I sank a Yamato. If my shooting had been better in the first attack, I would have gotten 2 in a single attack.

[paulhager]

How about most frustrating attack? It is in Patrol 4 of "Archie" Leach (http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/6421019045/m/2251070488). At the end of Part 1, I describe an attack on 3 ships firing 2 torpedoes at each. I got 5 of 6 hits - all torpedoes were duds.

In Part 2 of the same patrol, I fired 6 torpedoes at a Shokaku. All 6 torpedoes hit - 5 were duds. Fortunately, the one that detonated was enough to sink the ship.

[ocelotfilms]

I've been playing 1.4 for years. In RL, I was a Torpedoman's Mate (Technician) In the USN, so a lot of things are kinda cool, kinda strange in the game, but it's all history we learned.

Mission I recall best was in the Java Sea, if I recall correctly, Surabaya had fallen, and I figured at roughly 75nm per % of fuel, I might just make it.

I had been hitting small little Japanese docks along the northern coast of Java, in that area might be west Sumatra, when I'm in this storm, pitching seas, dead of night, driving rain, pitch black, I play with Gamma turned almost off. I'm thinking, Wow, would hate to be topside on a night like this. I might have been making all of 4 kts at ahead 2/3 towards australia.

I relate to my wife at the next PC, how amazing the simulator is for the weather, rain noise, when "CONTACT. WARSHIP, SHORT RANGE, CLOSING"

Out of the darkness, it's a destroyer. I know that the water beneath me when it is calm is perhaps 35-40 feet. So I just crash dive, because doing all that we need to get a shot is a problem of not enough time. I go to the floor of what passes for the java sea. I hear screeching and scraping, as this guy rides over the boat... I look at the damage meter.. no damage...wow.

But now I'm getting multiple warship contacts. Apparently, a CV task force is passing overhead, range 2000 meters and closing. I pop up the scope, and take a look.

A carrier, cruisers, and 5 or 6 destroyers.

And my boat is tail facing them, as they move west to east, sitting just between two rows, as they come east.

Wow. I really want the sub to survive this, but in such shallow water, all i have is the storm to cover me... but it reveals me too.

I finally decide, I'll put 4 aft into the carrier, just as it passes, then back out emergency, if anyone comes, i'll shoot them with two each down the throat, or finish up the CV.

So, I fire 4 to starboard, then down scope, back emergency. 1 hits, 1 duds, 1 misses, and 1 is a circular run.

The circular run misses the boat...probably because I was backing.

Destroyers didn't seem too willing or able to investigate.

I fired 4 more forward at the CV, 1 hit, 1 dud, 2 missed.

CV wasn't even burning, seemed barely affected.

I decided yeah, i'm done here, let's not press it, and backed slow, silent running, for a half hour, till they were gone.

in game days later, made it to port, feeling..I could honestly say...lucky.

[paulhager]

Originally posted by ocelotfilms:
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I decided yeah, i'm done here, let's not press it, and backed slow, silent running, for a half hour, till they were gone.

in game days later, made it to port, feeling..I could honestly say...lucky.

Yes, those attacks are often the most enjoyable because they're so immersive. As I noted in the Patrol 4 (http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/6421019045/m/2251070488) discussion, I fired 14 torpedoes to sink 2 ships: 1 missed, 13 hit, 11 were duds. But, that sort of thing happened in the war.

[PhantomKira]

The timing was perfect. That highly elusive shot that I had craved for years: not just a double hit, but simultaneous. Two midsized liners, in trail, which made it "easy". Had a screenshot, but it's long gone in the ether.

[pnwdom]

I just had an attack on a convoy yesterday. Six torpedoes fired at six different ships. Six hits, five ships sunk in less then nine minutes.

[paulhager]

Originally posted by pnwdom:
I just had an attack on a convoy yesterday. Six torpedoes fired at six different ships. Six hits, five ships sunk in less then nine minutes.

That's got to be a record. I've tried things like that and ended up with 4 or 5 damaged ships, none sunk. Eventually I limited my multiple attacks to two - three if everything is lined up right.

The rules of the game have effected my tactics quite a bit. I nearly always try to report contacts to HQ. When I get the bonus objective, I only sink enough ships to obtain the bonus. The bonus is nearly worth the renown bonus of another ship.

[s6l_618]

I'd say decimating entire convoys
I did it three times
No secret just knock out the escorts when they stop and look for you. Mark 18s they didnt even know what hit them. Then, do I need to teach you how to knock out a bunch of merchant ships?

[pnwdom]

That's got to be a record. I've tried things like that and ended up with 4 or 5 damaged ships, none sunk. Eventually I limited my multiple attacks to two - three if everything is lined up right.


I think is was more luck then anything else. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/88.gif

Four or five damaged ships is a good thing. You can shadow the convoy and pick them off as the lag behind the rest of the convoy.

Or, you can just do an end around and set up for a second attack.

[MWolfe1963]

My best...I sunk 5 ships with one torp... not girly stock either. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif

[WernherVonTrapp]

Originally posted by MWolfe1963:
not girly stock either. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/clap.gif

Sorry, Im too sore to type (at any length) right now. Just got home from OP surgery. I'll post some pics (easier) instead:

http://i1045.photobucket.com/albums/b456/archangel501/yamato1.jpg

http://i1045.photobucket.com/albums/b456/archangel501/yamato.jpg

http://i1045.photobucket.com/albums/b456/archangel501/yamato2.jpg

http://i1045.photobucket.com/albums/b456/archangel501/yamato3.jpg

http://i1045.photobucket.com/albums/b456/archangel501/yamato4.jpg

http://i1045.photobucket.com/albums/b456/archangel501/yamato5.jpg
Yeah, there you go.
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[cmdrmoosicvs]

Originally posted by MWolfe1963:
My best...I sunk 5 ships with one torp... not girly stock either. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif

I take it, one torp each? If not, that's one magic torpedo! http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

Sorry Mwolfe, I could'nt help myself.

[MWolfe1963]

Nope, one torp, nothing magical about it, but you only get credit for the one you hit. Fairly easy to do, just attack a large RSRD convoy and wait for the ships to mill around. If you time it right and know the loadouts by looking at the deck cargo, hit one, it explodes, that explosion starts the domino effect. The good thing is it often will cripple some and you can sink those later.

[MWolfe1963]

Wern, that SS with the Y and that perfect spread prolly would've won the SS contest...
Great shooting tex.

I'm almost scared to ask what you had surgery on at your age, but hope it works out. I've got two more to go they say for my back, but I don't think I can stand another and be laid up all summer again.

[WernherVonTrapp]

Originally posted by MWolfe1963:
Wern, that SS with the Y and that perfect spread prolly would've won the SS contest...
Great shooting tex.

I'm almost scared to ask what you had surgery on at your age, but hope it works out. I've got two more to go they say for my back, but I don't think I can stand another and be laid up all summer again. I can't even imagine what you must've had to endure through all that. I sure hope these doctors can get you squared away. I had my gallbladder removed today. In a bit of pain right now but I'm on meds, eases it (a little). I just woke up from a nap and feel a bit better than I did earlier. Hope it lasts.
I'll be praying for your recovery MWolfe. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/25.gif Every bit helps. http://forums.ubi.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

[MWolfe1963]

Had mine out few years ago...you'll get you to the gas, but it settles in time. Hard to believe that use to be major surgery.

[cmdrmoosicvs]

Originally posted by MWolfe1963:
Nope, one torp, nothing magical about it, but you only get credit for the one you hit. Fairly easy to do, just attack a large RSRD convoy and wait for the ships to mill around. If you time it right and know the loadouts by looking at the deck cargo, hit one, it explodes, that explosion starts the domino effect. The good thing is it often will cripple some and you can sink those later.

O.K., I get it. I've had that happen to a destroyer that got too close as a merchie I torped exploded. Did'nt get credit for the DD, but it was one less DD to deal with. http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-very-happy.gif

[S31-Langsdorf]

I was just south of the Home Islands, working the convoy routes to Truk when I picked up a Fast Task Force on Radar moving south. Three lines of targets with escorts on each quarter and side.

It was daylight but the wind was gusting the seas into a nice noisy froth. I dove beneath the thermal in the path of the and set up a O'Kane solution. Letting the forward escorts begin to pass, I ordered ahead standard and made my run to periscope depth.

I have been waiting for months to get a crack at something grander than pop-gun destroyers and sub chasers and let Tojo know he had a problem in his backyard. Raised the scope and found a FUSO class battleship filling the optics. I fired the forward tubes on 10degrees bearing, and swung the scope around for any target of opportunity astern.

I must have been too close for the torpedoes to connect with the FUSO, as no impacts were heard and I cursed my wasting of an opportunity, but focused on the TAIHO class heavy cruiser crossing my stern. Four fish impact within seconds of launch, and she lit up without a chance to evade...a fifth, six...seventh impact. I gave the order to take her deep as I spun around to see what happened...a Mogami cruier off the bow must have stumbled into the spread that had missed and was burning brightly.

Going deep I made my way north west, the escorts stopped to try and listen for me, and we went silent running. Oh well two cruisers is almost a battleship, the task force will be long gone by the time I get back to the surface.

Making my way clear I surfaced, and radar picked up the tail end of the task force, making zig zag course but amazingly slowed to 12 knots. Long story short...I got that Fuso.