My mission... engage merchant shipping in the Celebes (sp) Sea. So I steam there, taking two days at standard.
I get near the inlet to [Sulu?] and my radar picks up a large task force. I say to myself, "what the heck", and position myself to end up dead center of all them bad guys. Set my depth for 75 feet and go silent, open all fishy doors, and wait...
Mess of destroyers, DDs, etc, and two very large battleships, one of them the infamous Yamato. I fine tune my position to be within 3000 yards of her when she reaches 10 degrees of my starboard bow.
As she approaches 20 degrees I ascend to 60 feet with scope raised... I pick her up and launch six in quick succession. My aim, 1/3 the way back from her bow.
All six impact exactly where I want and the ship... doesn't blink. She does begin to go lower at the bow but off she steams with a big ole smile on her face.
Man... was I bummed.
Immediately after firing I hit Crash Dive and set my meter for 350... turned 90 degrees starboard and headed down fast as I can.
I was able to evade the escorts and their DCing.
Kinda disappointed... all went perfectly except no Yamy flag on my tower.
