Berinhardt
02-25-08, 02:30 PM
Just completed a productive little tour off of Honshu Island in early January 1942, and was returning home when I tripped across this convoy of 5 carriers, two cruisers, assorted tankers and six destroyers. Lucky for me, they were headed straight for me and all I had to do was make like a hole in the water until the lead escorts passed over the top of me. My torps clipped the Fleet Carrier and one cruiser, but I nailed two escort carriers and caught the other cruiser right in the magazine.
Spent the next 4 hours dodging tin cans from the destroyers, and they really clobbered me. Managed to sink 1 with aft tubes, and sink a tanker with a fish meant for a destroyer (lucky shot!) But my sub is so badly damaged I can't go past periscope depth. I'm still evading when my batteries hit 10%, but it's getting dark so I surface and make a run for it while blasting the pursuing destroyers with my aft mounted deck gun.
I manage to get away by the skin of my teeth, critically wounding 3 destroyers but one gets off a lucky shot and now my boat is so torn up I can't even dive to periscope depth. So, I'm dodging swarms of zeros and dive bombers on the surface all the way to Midway and am really happy to be sailing into Pearl on my floating piece of Swiss Cheese. (Although damage control reports all systems are fine)
Well the Admiral was none too pleased about the condition of my boat and I get the option to "end my career on a high note" (sunk 160,000 tons and have 6500 renown for one mission). I choose to continue and the brass puts me in a Porpoise class boat.
This should be interesting. Well. at least its not a rowboat and revolver.
Spent the next 4 hours dodging tin cans from the destroyers, and they really clobbered me. Managed to sink 1 with aft tubes, and sink a tanker with a fish meant for a destroyer (lucky shot!) But my sub is so badly damaged I can't go past periscope depth. I'm still evading when my batteries hit 10%, but it's getting dark so I surface and make a run for it while blasting the pursuing destroyers with my aft mounted deck gun.
I manage to get away by the skin of my teeth, critically wounding 3 destroyers but one gets off a lucky shot and now my boat is so torn up I can't even dive to periscope depth. So, I'm dodging swarms of zeros and dive bombers on the surface all the way to Midway and am really happy to be sailing into Pearl on my floating piece of Swiss Cheese. (Although damage control reports all systems are fine)
Well the Admiral was none too pleased about the condition of my boat and I get the option to "end my career on a high note" (sunk 160,000 tons and have 6500 renown for one mission). I choose to continue and the brass puts me in a Porpoise class boat.
This should be interesting. Well. at least its not a rowboat and revolver.