dumb luck or divine intervention
 

im pretty sure god had a hand in this :)

ok so i can manually aim now without my game crashing and figured ill give it a go.

ok being thick and all i have to pretty much sail into a ship to have any chance of hitting it, but never mind, whilst my base was over run i was flying around looking for things big enough for even me to hit.

mainly engaging at around 500-700 i claimed a fair few kills. before ever getting near my destination, well you cant pass up Kongo's and heavy cruisers.

i must admit i was lucky with the kongo, both my torps wich were meant to hit the nose smacked into the engines, leaving it limping along with me shadowing it ( i was pretty much like a feeder fish on a shark)

finally once my dopey crew reloaded i could have a run around the side and finish her of point blank.

ok that was the first bit of luck knocking out its engine, or i wouldnt have been able to keep up and sink it.

some days later i was making my way from north of luzon to a base south of singapore since my base was overrun.
around midday i had to submerge in truly awfull weather as an enemy ship had been sighted.

i had two torps left and figured, unless its a carrier im not even going to bother. so i had a scan around and picked up a heavy cruiser, at around 3600 yards, probably nearer 3300 when i fired.

with the last 2 gone i made for the new base. few minutes later while im still trying to find a depth where i wont broach i got 2 torp hit mssgs, i actually hit it twice at that range and sank it.
considering most of my torps are fired at 500 or so and mostly miss i was quite shocked. i just got into periscope depth in time to see it roll over.
i think ill buy my crew a beer and insist it was intentional

(actually missed with almost all (7/8) torps on my first attack in that patrol aprat from one that hit a destroyer nowhere near where i meant to aim)
i dont know what i did to miss with them all. i was in close range for every shot. (

but taking out a heavy cruiser in rough seas with my last 2 fish at that range was just crazy :) and needless to say pure insane luck.