To stoianm:
Yesterday night I finally come across task force with battleship in it. While I was chasing them beyond detection range (but with new hydrophone mod I could not detect them as well if surfaced - so I had to dive every 15 minutes) they change course twice, pissing me off royally.
Anyway, I ordered my torpedo man to preheat eels and nailed 3 out of 4 fired torpedoes into battleship ending her glorious days.
I didn't want any more blood and decided to dive early hoping to get away with my dirty deeds.
it took about 40 minutes for 16 DD's and two remaining capital ships to locate me and they started pound depth charges at me mercilessly. I still pretending that I am not there but hull start take some damage and I had to maneuver to avoid total disaster. I've heard some collisions above me but their numbers still high. I was waiting for night to be over, so I can see better in day light if I will have to surface.
Next morning CO was about 18% and I decided to get some fresh air.
"Rudder hard to port! Extreme speed ahead! Periscope depth!"
I started descent form darkness in spiral to prevent destroyers align for deadly ramming. Periscope all way up - you need some luck not to run into one in first seconds.
If you think that depth charging crazy Russian in command of German submarine in 1941 is a picnic - think again
. That's what I left on the surface after 10 minutes of zigzagging on periscope depth and surface for a second to refresh and dive before any shells could hit me:
