Funny thing is, if you sink their convoy, they no longer have a convoy to protect, and will sometimes just sit there in the middle of the ocean. It was like 0300 or something, almost pitch black dark and I was back on the surface when my radar picked up two blips, and it was the escorts from a convoy I'd been hitting every few hours for the previous 24, and had eventually sunk their six charges. There they sat, about 1.5 apart, still as you please, dead-calm sea, so I did ahead one third, closed to about 3800, with the two about 12 degrees to either side of my bow, giving me a near square-on broadside of each. Set the four bow torps on slow and 9 foot and sent them on their ways, with two apiece, one under the bridge, the next about 100 out in front of them, and then I did back one third while the torps lolly-gagged their way there. I had to do a Save Replay to actually see what happened, but they saw the first torp each, at about the same time and started to go ahead, saw the 2nd torp and basically stopped. The first torps hit 'em both in the aft, and the next two hit under both bridges. Real perty, but lucky... Like a couple of dum-dums, ya know. That morning, about 3 hours later, an airplane came out of nowhere apparently, with my deck watch about as observant as the DD had been just a few hours before... One bomb through the aft torpedo room and a bunch of strafing before we could get under the water and out of sight, and then we just kept going down - to a black screen...
... rotten game.
