Interesting anti-DD tactic
 

I read in one book where a sub captain actually took photos of a DD depth charging him. He actually took staying at periscope depth to a primary level of his strategy on the theory that if you can take peeks at him you obtain enough information to keep the upper hand. Sounded good to me, except for the kicker: you only get one fatal mistake. Modders are working on that one.

This afternoon I was busy setting up a couple of merchies and a DD for mayhem and an undetected plane flew overhead, dropped bombs, called all his buddies in the ships I was setting up and generally made a mess of my "perfect" ambush. Had my radar on too, so tunnel vision must have taken over. Darn exec is supposed to take care of that. That's why I gave him that 2 x 4.

Of course Mr. Destroyer sauntered into range and then made a run on me, so I stayed at periscope depth and maneuvered to one side. I put the scope up and shot some pictures. Eventually I stayed at periscope depth for about an hour so far. This must not be that elite crew we've been talking about. I have him taking some shots at my scope. With Muzzle Flash 1.1 it really looks great. As usual, I'm running TM 1.6 and a very few other mods layered on top. The pictures:
http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...144.27_437.jpg

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...424.33_890.jpg

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a..._140.3_234.jpg

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...355.27_484.jpg

Oops. Left the scope up a bit too long on that one. That's his bow turret saying "Hi!" These shots are at low magnification. I could watch them roll the depth charges off the stern, but haven't been able to get periscope shots of that yet. As you can tell, sonar conditions are too good for comfort, water fairly smooth, good visibility and water tranparency for the airplanes, who are more dangerous than bozo over there.

Time to figure out if I'm going to bug out and try after dark or continue my spy insertion mission and let 'em go. Hope you enjoyed the pictures.:ping:

And here I thought I was bold to attack a TF in shallow waters.

Good show dude:up: