Was I imagining this?

[blazer05]

Playing RFB 2.0 with the latest patch and RSRDC - in a S-18 boat in December 1941 near the northern coast of Luzon trying to get home - no torps left and 4 sinkings to my credit - a good trip off the coast of Formosa - I was damaged and was on the surface with heavy flooding and engines inoperable. The proverbial sitting duck.

So a lucky Jap pilot wanders by and straddles me with two bombs. Well now I am sinking at an increasingly faster rate. I was curious when I would hit crush depth.

I finally stopped at around 1,600 feet (guess i was on the bottom) but still alive. Everything is busted and everybody appears to be hurt but we are somehow intact.

I exited at this point since I had no desire to die of oxygen starvation, but the sub was not dead.

I have never had a sub below crush depth - well I have never been crushed, but what happens in the game when your sub is crushed by the pressure?

[ETR3(SS)]

You get the "Death Camera" also everything and everyone dies or is destroyed.

[blazer05]

If I am that deep and still didnt get the death camera, etc. then it is a shame my sub didnt have a better skipper.

I had walked out of the room (wife needed some help) - I was at 1 time compression just sailing home - wasnt out of the room more than a couple of minutes.

Anyway, a plane must have wandered by and did a number on me - will teach me not to pause the game when i step away.

Anyway that started my problems and another plane dropped a depth charge on me before I could get deep and then damage galore. Had to blow ballast tanks to surface - actually had one Jap search plane not see me as he went by. Then the lucky one (just at sunset) spotted me and the rest is history.

[Inner Sound]

The best skipper accepts his luck, good or bad, and carries on from there.

So I save often.