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Originally Posted by Red October1984
Since we're on the topic of evading destroyers....I got a doozy.
I was feelin proud at the helm of U-96. I get a contact report of a convoy entering Firth of Forth area. Well, that's where I was headed. So I make contact and manage to sink 2 merchants. Bad idea. There were 2 destroyers with that small convoy. I eventually had 3 destroyers, a Flower Corvette, and an ASW Trawler pinging me all at once. Well, the depth here is about 17 meters. Crappy evasion water. The Large Merchant and Large Tanker I sank each had just the bow under water so they were mostly still above water, but resting on the bottom. I puttered my way alongside the large merchant and dived right there so no ships could DC me. Well, they eventually stopped and nightfall came. The ships were just waiting me out. Pinging away. All 5. I floated up to scope depth and took a look around. The ships had their lights on. I managed to torp 3 of them. All I had left were my external reloads. Now, what happens next isn't realistic at all. I decided to surface for 7 minutes to get my external torpedoes. Right as I broke the surface and the watch crew crapped every pair of pants they owned, the threat indicator went green. ..... I was shocked. The remaining DD's were lighting me up with searchlights. But. Somehow, I got "lost in the outline" of the large merchant. I torp one more DD. The other one just motors away. I sat there in disbelief. 1941 and 2 DD's with searchlights cant see me. ASDIC couldn't get me on the surface I guess. I survived that mission with 20% hull integrity to spare. It took 8 hours of game time to evade. It's prolly my best story since I broke I into Scapa and got 40K tons of ships.
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Awesome story. I think I'll stay straight away from Jolly ole England. Especially after 1941.
How do you get your crew to get external torps loaded in 7 minutes. I'm in 1939, a VIIB boat, and its almost 10 minutes for me to get my external torps loaded.