Kamikaze Pilots! Ahhhh!!
 

I've noticed Japanese aircraft, when damaged, seem to try and run into you. I've had some serious near misses before but I had a career end abruptly when these two aircraft kept showing up in my vicinity. They just wouldn't leave. (aren't you out of fuel yet you ^#&*%R&*??

So, with an inflated ego from sinking a Kongo the day before, I decide that I'm getting rid of these pests. I wait for them to come into visual and get on the AA guns.

Uh oh.. looks like 2 bombers.:huh:

I start firing, they start firing. Must be only recon aircraft? I hit the one on the right and he catches fire and slowly loses altitude. Next thing I know, he wings over right at my boat!!! The end result was his aircraft ramming straight into my stern!!!

I flipped my view to the aft in time to see the AC had bounced off my stern and was cartwheeling through the air. I barely had time to take this **** near the end of it's acrobatics.

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I lost everything. My entire crew was dead and everything on the boat was just plain blow'd up. I chuckled with amazement and shook my head as I went down with my boat, watching the water rise around me.

I don't know if they intentionally suicide. I really doubt that it was programmed that way. But I HAVE had them crash close to me due to my shooting them down while approaching me on a run.

Laughed myself silly when one came down behind me to the port side at a shallow angle, skidded up off the water and slammed down again in a final explosion. Looked like they were skipping stones.

More good fun is RAMMING lifeboats. :rotfl:

Last nite, I was attacked by two Zeros. The first one got shot out of the sky and the pilot bailed. He actually landed on my aft deck and bounced back up into the air before he opened his chute. :doh:

The second one was coming in at me at beam. My crew shot the plane up right when he dropped off his two bombs and he jumped from his plane. The two bombs and the pilot flew down and landed right off my starboard side. He almost made a big splash as the two bombs did. :rotfl: