Not using feared hunters, but u-boat killer. had a nice long encounter with a dd that lost contact but picked me back up in his search patterns. forced to surface due to flooding and my crew was in a comatose state as well, got into a short artilery duel with the destroyer, which surprisingly i won... barely. after fighting heavy seas for 3 hrs. and working with only one heavily damaged desiel engine (the other destroyed) i finally had to call it a night, saved, only to find my sub uber repaired when i loaded back in the next day... would have been nice to have seen just how long i would have been able to hold on to her in that state. I would have wanted to give every man on the boat a medal if we'd been able to pull out of that mess under normal-ish circumstances.
opted to reload to the save just after I had sunk the ships under the destroyers care. only to find his first barrage of charges one caught me somewhere between the radio room and the bow, a second right above the engine compartment, with deadly accuracy. 2 booms and down to 67% hull integrity with minor flooding. cheif was in good health and spirits and immediately got to work on the problem. still lost a desiel engine and one of the electric engines, the other badly wounded, but we got away. got back to port, and found the command of U-48 suddenly vaccant, and happily left U-30 to the yard birds to sort out.
That was by far the most exhilirating dc incident i've encountered yet.
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