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bronk7 · May 26, 2020

..for SH4, I was just downloading and installing a lot of mods for better graphics/etc..I lost my CD..I think I'll get it again

bronk7 · May 26, 2020

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Other things I remember...….

When starting a new bboat, you can get new crew members, quite a few of them, for zero renown. I used to fill up my Damage Control section with mostly zero renown Luitenants, people that had high ratings, some who were electricians and some who were mechanics. You 'bought' NCOS who were better than that later keeping the best in damage control there all the time. Noothing prevented me from doing that, and the submarine seemed to work fine just the same.

You could gradually replace people throughout the vessel, especially in the rearward torpedoe rooms. You had to leave a couple of spots in damage control free just in case you got wounded. Thatas the only timwe I would move people from damage control to anywhere else.

Giving out medals always confued me. giving a medal for getting a wound was not, but I never quite figured out how the medals SHOULD have been distributed, because they had to have done something to deserve them right?
So I settled on giving the damage control party each a medal first, then the lookouts, and then the ranking officer in each section, first, followed byu the people under him. I tried to give a medal to each section, and then to the man below him...I never quite figured out what the 'right' method was, nor if medals improved performance at all.

Another thing I remembered was that I would not use magnetic detonators for torpegoes at all, figuring that the number of 'duds' would bbe minimised. But I used to get 'dud' anyway. Sometimes , well a lot of the time really, 'duds' would occur when the ship I was shooting at was on its last 'shot' before going under. I used to think that this was programmed into the game for the frequency that it used to happen. A fire more than one torpedoe at a time, and you could be sure as hell that one of the two, or three torp spread was going to be a dud. Dud torpedoes used to p@#$ me off. The game always served you up with a dud when you were just about to sink a ship.

Another thing I did was NEVER leave the surface gun to the crew to operate. I noticed that even the most expert crews for the gun would not hit the target ships all the time like I could, and some shells used to sail right over the target when we were under 200 feet away from it. I could get those 'waterline' hits more often than not.

I always kept my surface gun at the REAR of the vessel as well. My favourite method of taking on a merchantmen was to chase one on the surface from behind. The merchant would have to turn to bring its forward gun to bear, so you zig zagged to the other side of it, and while the merchant was in a blind spot for its gun, you could get off three or four rounds before having to zigzag back, as the mmerchant turned again. It was quite realistic.

Another way of surviving under fire from surface guns was to "salvo chase", pointing your sub at where the last salvo landed if it was in front of you, but zigzagging also improved your chances. Some of those Japanese surface guns could hit you at suspiciously long ranges,, and I often used to think that this aspect of the game was programmed towards the Japanese, making their surface weapons far more deadly than they actually were, for play balance reasons.

Also, if I had to take on a destroyer at all, I would open up with HE first, and try to hit either their engine room or the bridge, to bust their fire control, and THEN concentrate on the hull, with those beautiful waterline hits at a premium.

One night, in Manila Bay, I chanced upon two Jaoanese escort carriers that were anchored with torpedoe nets on three side of them. I got around the back of the nets and set them both on fire just with surface rounds.

A destroyer showed up...I hid BEHIND the blazing carrier as it went round and round, and came out to fire a few rounds, getting hits, before reversing back behind and submerging. It was a real cat and mouse contest.

I would also purposely NOT radio in 'contact reports", as these frequently used to turn into 'new orders' to take on what you had discovered. I tried to maintain radio silence at all times, only sending 'situation reports' when I hads completed a mission. Im still not sure whether radio silence made any difference, like a lot of aspects of this game, you had to rely on guesswork to figure out what was 'right'.

Gunboats and those damn metal patrol boats were tough targets. Torpedoes went right under them, and with the patrol boats, they were manueverable so much that they avoided ANY torpedo, not that torps used to pass under them, they could avoid them altogether, and the patrol boat used to take a suspicious number of hits from a surface gun before it caught fire, or run along on fire for what seemed far too long while round after round was pumped into it.

No, damit, I took to avoiding anything on the surface, except even at night. But unescorted ships were always easy meat, but not ALWAYS. The later in the war you got, the more likely they were to be equipped both front and back with guns.

You had to really play Silent Hunter 4 by your wits, and select your targets carefully.

But, the absolute BEST way of sinking ships with torpedoes remained getting them while they were in port and not moving. I could even sink those damn patrol boats and gun boats if I surface right behind them. That bwas the only time I wished that my surface gun was up front. The rest of the time it was far better to have it at the rear, because if you were caught on the surface and had to run for your life, you could not operate a surface gun effectively from the front with an enemy behind.

Another favourite tactic was to half sink a merchant from the surface by surprise, then when the escort used to come up, to get your sub RIGHT UNDER the sinking ship, and sit there, waiting for the escort to lose interest.

Another nice thing to do was to get only so deep during the day time, then put the periscope up, and watch what was going on. You could see the depth charges dropping if it came to that.

Anyhow, thought I would pass on more of my survival tips, for this greatest of great submarine simulators...Silent Hunter 4

Chris
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sounds like some good fun

Takao · May 26, 2020

bronk7 said: ↑

..for SH4, I was just downloading and installing a lot of mods for better graphics/etc..I lost my CD..I think I'll get it again
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Have you joined SUBSIM?
SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - www.subsim.com Submarine games, reviews, forums, books, naval news
tons and tons of mods there

PS. Don't forget to get JSGME(JoneSoft Generic Mod Enabler) and use that to install your MODs.
Makes it much easier to swap out mods and use several mods at once.

Class of '42 · May 26, 2020

Would love to see a WWI sub sim come out..other day was playing Silent Hunter: Commanders Edition from 1996 on my old Pentium 100 IBM...lots of memories.

CAC · May 26, 2020

I dunno...slugging along just a few knots...seeing a convoy but not having the fish to sink them...slow reload, small or no deck gun...a bit frustrating...except for the purests.

bronk7 · May 27, 2020

Takao said: ↑

Have you joined SUBSIM?
SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - www.subsim.com Submarine games, reviews, forums, books, naval news
tons and tons of mods there

PS. Don't forget to get JSGME(JoneSoft Generic Mod Enabler) and use that to install your MODs.
Makes it much easier to swap out mods and use several mods at once.
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....many years ago.......yes, now I remember that JSGME .....a lot of these WW2 games are weak....the mods make them a lot better ..like I said somewhere else, the best WW2 game I ever played was a free mod called Forgotten Hope...it was a Battlefield 2 mod .....it was great
....I lost my SH4 CD...I might get it again
..I remember Microsoft Combat Flight Sim....it was ok, but FLightSim had a ton of mods-missions/iarcraft/scenery...carriers which you could land on/etc

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