![]() ![]() ![]() The various Pacific maps are large not huge. See polygonal representations of your crew.Conning tower and gun cams are available when you’re surfaced, but the rest of the time, you play using the periscope, chart, or damage control view. Admire your maru mugger’s interior, keel, or screws.Both ship and shore installation seem distinctly unimpressed by the generous gesture.Īnd so ends another exciting unscripted patrol in Crash Dive 2, the best light combat sim I’ve played in years. Before heading for home, Stone shares most of these with a lone enemy coaster and a Japanese fuel dump. Inquisitive Pacific Ocean brine does the rest.Īlthough the attack uses up Tally-Ho’s last few eels, the sub still has dozens of deck gun shells aboard. Four torpedoes impact the carrier as it attempts to evade. A destroyer is detected and unwittingly guides the Tally-Ho straight back to the Akagi-class giant. Fifteen minutes later he gets a lucky break. By the time Tally-Ho’s periscope breaks the surface again, there’s no sign of the prize or its guardians.ĭisappointed, Stone orders a turn to westward and, with fingers crossed and electric motors humming, waits for good news from Seaman 2nd Class Patterson, his sonar operator. Eventually the cats lose interest in the elusive mouse and slink away. They take light damage from one ashcan shockwave, but, compared to that time in Iron Bottom Sound, it’s a picnic. Stone and his crew spend the next ‘hour’ creeping about close to Tally-Ho’s Never Exceed Depth while the destroyers and subchasers hunt in vain for them. The Tally-Ho is plunging for the thermocline when the two torpedoes at the centre of the spread plough into the hull of the target with dull thuds. After switching to manual targeting, he launches a fan of four tin fish at the labouring leviathan. Keen to minimise periscope exposure and confident he can do without the Torpedo Data Computer on this occasion, Captain ‘sinks-like-a’ Stone acts swiftly. What the communication failed to mention was the sizeable bodyguard of anxious escorts and the pair of spotter planes circling overhead. The flat top is exactly where COMSUBPAC said it would be. It hastens to the area, arriving just before dusk. The USS Tally-Ho is waiting for trade off the northern coast of Bougainville when it receives the radio message about a damaged IJN carrier in the Solomon Sea. ![]()
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