took on a convoy from the rear off the coast of canada with no forward torpedoes left, only a IX B with the deck gun (1941), surfaced next to a destroyer and sank it in quick order, 2 more destroyers came charging in, one was going for a ram, I headed directly away from it at top speed and got it with a poxy rear torpedo shot as it closed, the third was farther away and tried the same thing, done the same thing and headed directly away and fired off my last two rear torpedo's, one hit square on and sank it, that was 3 out of the 4 destroyers guarding the convey dead.
The 4'th destroyer came out of nowhere seemingly, I only spotted it when it was 2,000 metres and closing fast, engaged it with the deck gun but it was too damn close and was chewing me up, was taking some serious damage and it was closing fast so I crash dived, it connected at ramming speed anyway as I was crash diving, making crap of my conning tower, deck gun and flak guns, then came 90 minutes or so (in real time) of being depth charged repeatedly
by the time I snuck away I had no conning tower left (to speak of) no deck gun or flak guns, 1 diesel engine, broken bow planes, every compartment had been flooded and repaired at one stage, malfunctioning aft tubes (no torps left anyway to fire) and about 30% hull integrity
That was only the last part of the best patrol I ever done that saw me engage 3 convoys among other things, downed a bunch of planes and sank 19 ships, and limped home in pieces.
The other bad situation I can think of is a full speed collision in the middle of the atlantic with a c3 cargo in heavy fog and rain at night, the crew management screen said I had 00% intergrity left after the collision, according to the AAR I had 0.4% hull left when I finished the patrol.
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