It's the challenge. He's the toughest DD to get, and the satisfaction of sinking him is all the better if we can.

q-ships huh? nice little tidbit of history i read up on there....that sure explains those 2 taihosan's and an auxiliary subchaser identified as a task force i ran into just outside manila harbor near the top of the palawan passage in early 1944....i nailed the subchaser with a mk14 and to my surprise the 2 marus came a chargin my direction with search lights and active sonar! at this point i had no idea that the marus were even capable of that so i was looking around franticly for another warship bearing in on me when i got back to the closest maru in my scope and the bastard was about 100 yds from me trying to ram my periscope! So i crashed dived and avoided it only to hear multiple bursts from DC's being fired. I couldnt take it anymore and popped onto the external camera and low and behold BOTH marus were circling my position firing chingos of DC's in the hedgehog pattern....I mean one run from one maru had to have fired 15 charges at me in huge patterns.....all the while they were pinging the crap outta me......

eventually i got to a point where i evaded them enough to come to periscope depth and snap off some mk27s at each of em and they both hit, one destroyed the screw of one maru and the other slowed down considerably but not to a halt like the other. This to me presented the perfect opportunity to move away and surface to take out these little buggers with the 5/25 deck gun i just installed (i also wanted to guage the quality of my new toy)....BIG mistake! The maru that still had power to engines opened up with 3 or 4 seperate gun batteries and tore into my ship just bad, to the tune of 93% hull damage and 8 KIA's before i ended up sinking it......after this i couldnt go deeper than periscope depth, so i had to circle to a blind spot in the firing arcs of the other maru to sink it with my gun (was outta torps at this point). Once she went down i limped my ass back to freemantle but i survived the day.....one hell of a surprise engagement that i thought was gonna be an easy target. I tell you what, I dont think Ive cussed at a computer game like that in a long time when i was getting pounded by cargo ship depth charges. Im glad i found out that that was put into the mod intentionally lol. fun experience (i cuss outta enjoyment also lol)