Heavy cruisers, firecrackers, what's the diff?

[Uberkommando]

South of Luzon Strait, early Dec 1941. My first cruise in a Porpoise class. The area just swarms with IJN activity. I pick up a task force on radar and tail it all the way to the edge of the Lingayen Gulf, and the whole TF just... stops. It was 8 destroyers protecting 3 Mogami heavy cruisers, with a complement of small passenger ships -- I assume it was an invasion force, since the timing was right.

I saved before my first attempt, in which I got greedy and wound up with a sucking chest wound at 200m. But I'm a nub, so I reloaded and tried again, with a little extra know-how garnished from my first experience.

Turns out those Mogami's make a very, very pretty explosion. And completely stationary, it's pretty easy to pick out that sweet spot at a perfect 90 degrees -- let a single fish loose at each, running at 4m, right below the forward gun batteries. Wouldn't you know it, three fish, three kills.

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/7478/4for4dm8.png

It felt weird being that conservative with torps, but the Porpoise only has the four front tubes. I guess this time the greed just paid off -- can't imagine that kind of an outcome if the Mogamis were moving.

[Rykaird]

Konga class battleships also take one torp in the ammo bunker under the first forward gun. Massive explosion, they go down in seconds.

[JackChen]

Nice photos of burning victims, they need to add some ambience noise.

Remember 1 scene in Das Boote where they surface and watched the burning wreck with people screaming and water parties trying their last efforts.