my most embarrassing sh3 moment would have to be the time i raided scapa flow
i snuck in, did well in the attack and sank a revenge class and was sneaking out around 2am
a destroyer detected me and headed in for the kill, i proved to be a slippery fish and managed to evade his first depth charge run even in the shallow water. i had one of the forward tubes reloaded already and the stern tube was never fired. so i took a snapshot at him and he evaded the torpedo.
he came around for another pass... this time he depth charged me and i took a few serious blows. one of my diesels was destroyed.
i took another shot at him, this time the stern tube and the fish found the target sinking the destroyer.
i was almost out the west side of scapa flow when i decided to surface in the darkness and make a run for it before other DDs showed up
so i hit the surface and ordered ahead flank.
i went to time compression of about 256 i guess, for several minutes i was plotting a course out of the flow and into the North Sea and assigning my damage control team to make various minor repairs to the boat.
thats when i realized on the map screen i had not moved an inch!!!
im at ahead flank! the one good diesel is throbbing away and im stopped!
well the remaining diesel was running at flank alright... and it was charging the batteries. (ie not turning a prop)
i ducked my head and ordered the recharge stopped and we proceeded under normal propulsion out of the area
i had been sitting on the surface at flank speed and zero knots for close to 30 minutes in game before i realized what was going on
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