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Originally Posted by Alpha Von Burg
I found a Revenge class battleship in the middle of a convoy just south of Folkestone and I think west of Boulogne, October -- 1939, heading south-west, going along the Channel. I have 2 fore torps, no fore reserves, 1 str torp and 1 str reserve.
I fire all my fore torps, 1 hit and the other disappeared. I fire my str torp, it too disappeares. I had to bug out.
The only thing I succeded was in damaging the battleship. 
Now, I'm left with 1 str torpedo, 1 external str torpedo, 1 external fore torpedo and a bunch of fuel.
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Tough luck. It did happen. Although in the game you do not get renown for damaging ships, in real life such an attack did have consequences of value to the war effort. Listening to Osten's account, above, Malaya was sent to New York for 3/4 of a year. That's nine months she was not available for missions and tying up precious dockyard space and shipyard workers who could otherwise be employed. Surely that is still a valuable result, but not as satisfactory as a sinking?
What happened to your target? Did it reduce speed? I've found in my gaming that I don't always get a sinking with the first attack, but enough damage is inflicted to force the ship to reduce speed and fall behind the convoy. Even better, she loses all steam and sits there like a sleeping duck, making for an easy kill shot once you survive the counterattack of the angry escorts.