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Originally Posted by Red October1984
Yes. You will get better. Don't get too good though. I've gotten less careful as I've gotten better. A few weeks ago I was patrolling off the North end of the Philippines and I decided to surface and finish off a damaged lone merchant with my deck gun...well....I didn't check to see if it was armed. Turns out, it was armed to the teeth. It didn't end well. I lost my batteries and bow tubes. I had almost full load of torpedoes in the forward room. I had to cut that patrol short. On the way back to Fremantle, I got a contact report of a convoy running through an area close to my patrol grid. I couldn't engage because I had almost no torpedoes so a night surface attack was out of the question and I didn't have batteries to maneuver underwater with.
So be aggressive in your attacks, but be careful.  |
Just seconds ago I ended my patrol a little earlier than planned. I left Manila and patrolled south of Formosa and saw nothing. My next order was to patrol between Ryukyu and Kyushu. On my way there I stopped in Taipei and downed 2 Large Passenger Ships as well as 3 auxiliary gun boats. I had been dodging planes all day and gaining ground at night. The speed was at x2048 and when (a plane is my guess) I received a hole in the side something got very loud. I dove thinking I could repair it and keep going. The damage was much worse than I anticipated and I quickly sank to the bottom at 220 feet. My crew tried their best to repair the bulkhead and main compressor, but to no avail.