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Originally Posted by Paul Riley
VERY good point sir,and yes,I am fully aware of that.I will just have to trust in lady luck,and keep away from the buggers if they appear  |
Personally I love to encounter a task force.
Especially those to meet head on and those early war.
The early ones contain fleet carriers or capital ships. Love to throw a bunch of torps at them and try to sink them.
Then get as deep as possible in my Type VII or Type IX and put down my speed to 2 knots. Never keeping a straight course. But to be honest. That usually works.
Unfortunately I do not have this all too often. But yes it does happen.
I once patrolled somewhere AL 91 or something and the sun was setting.
Suddenly I noticed some spots on the horizon. I quickly ordered my boat to dive and I went on recon myself with the "highly realistic" external camera. I saw three capital battleships and a bunch of destroyers and a cruiser.
They set course straight towards me.
So I plotted a course and rammed out two electric torpedoes. Still my rig was not running at all.
Straight away they started zigzagging after the two torps struck. (I was so happy they weren't duds!!!! (Early War Type IX boat and early electric torps)) Then when they came closer I rammed home four steam powered torpedoes and they all struck target with a big bang a revenge class went up into smokes! Immediately as they knew my position now I ordered crash dive and as I reached 100 metres I enabled silent running.
At a 120 metres I cut down the power to a two knots and that enabled me to slip away undetected.
I returned to the spot 12 hours later to find one enemy battleship disabled and listening heavily to port still on the spot.
So of course generously as I am I gave the guy another two torps ending its misery.
So that concluded that patrol finishing off two capital battleships.
Nice performance imho!!
