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Originally Posted by cpt_idaho
And another nice touch: a medium - sized merchant I hit with a torpedo, destroying its engine (?).. so it just floated there with the crew onboard. Then I tried to destroy one of the escorts that kept circling around and was trying to find my - alas, I misfired, but both torpedoes hit the poor merchant. About 5-6 hours later, when the DD's finally left I had to finish it off with another torp. Really tough bastard, that one!
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I did something like this tonight. I spashed a torp into a large composite merch's prop and it was dead in the water. I took another shot when I got to a better angle to put a hole in the side. I only hurt 1 compartment I think because the ship was able to remain floating just fine for many more ingame hours. During that time I was playing hide and seek with the fubuki class destroyer that wanted me. I knew this because I could see it's searchlight on the surface of the water and hear the pinging off my hull. I am not sure if he knew where I was because I placed myself suicidally close to the crippled merch and about 150' below it while I waited for the destroyer to leave. Well, he decided to stop dead in the water with an nice little 180 bearing for me to work with. I rose to about 80' and shot a torp that way without a range check or anything (he was not moving so why worry about it). Well, the torp hit and he hit the gas and ran like a bat out of hell. I surfaced and finished the merch with a few deck gun shots then went after the destroyer. Instead of the destroyer I caught up to the rest of the convoy 1st and decided that I could take out the next big target and catch the destroyer later. Well, sometime while I was setting up for my attack (but after I had hit my target once) I see a nice message about an enemy boat being destroyed. I sat there eyeballing my target wondering if it was dead already. Nope. I see the nose of a destroyer bobbing in the water like a bottle in the distance.
Long story short, I love this mod.
By the way, I have hit the keel of one ship so far and it sunk as it should have. I will have to try for that more though and get back to you on it.
Later, and thanks for the great mod Werner.
~F~