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Snarf · 03-28-14, 02:25 PM

So I just finished expending all my torpedoes and half my deck gun ammo putting a convoy of 6 freighters and 4 DD's on the bottom of the Formosa Strait, and I started to head back to pearl. I get two pips on the radar, thinking it's two lonely freighters I go in to investigate, and I save the game. Soon after I find that it's the two lead escorts for another convoy and they start coming at me with a bone in their teeth (great expression from the era BTW) so I turn tail and run at flank speed. They keep coming and start to get a little close for comfort so I dive once I get out of the shallow area. I go silent and turn and they proceed to make their runs. I dodged the first couple salvos but the third one I take an ashcan right to the keester and flooding ensues in the aft torpedo room and engine room. I go all stop and set it on the floor at 200 feet and the DD's circle for a bit. They make a few passes missing each time, but then one gets really lucky and lands a kill shot. Catastrophic hull failure, posthumus medals and all that, so I reload the save game.

This time I still cant get away at flank speed, so I check my range on the periscope, make a few ranging shots with the 5"/25 before I get it dialed in and start scoring hits. I'm really laying it into him, and he's firing off in to the dark. At 3000 yards he turns and starts to fire broadsides, and I'm putting holes all up and down the side of the ship. He starts turning away and finally lands a couple good ones on me. I've got flooding and other damage but I'm still floating. Then I start into the second escort, he does the same number, turns broadside and then I poke lots of holes in him and then he starts to turn tail also, just as I'm nearly out of 5" rounds. So I didn't sink either of them, but I end up getting away as they limp back to the convoy and I skedaddle out of there. 70 percent hull damage, I'm still staying afloat. On the way back to pearl I get my men and boat patched up and top of for fuel at Midway. This time I pull into pearl, medals are presented, handshakes with admirals and most important, my sub and crew are alive.

so....

Dive and evade: 0
Slug it out on the surface: 1

03-28-14, 02:25 PM	#1
Snarf Officer Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: USS Tuna out of Pearl Harbor Posts: 243 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 10	Going deep vs. slugging it out on the surface So I just finished expending all my torpedoes and half my deck gun ammo putting a convoy of 6 freighters and 4 DD's on the bottom of the Formosa Strait, and I started to head back to pearl. I get two pips on the radar, thinking it's two lonely freighters I go in to investigate, and I save the game. Soon after I find that it's the two lead escorts for another convoy and they start coming at me with a bone in their teeth (great expression from the era BTW) so I turn tail and run at flank speed. They keep coming and start to get a little close for comfort so I dive once I get out of the shallow area. I go silent and turn and they proceed to make their runs. I dodged the first couple salvos but the third one I take an ashcan right to the keester and flooding ensues in the aft torpedo room and engine room. I go all stop and set it on the floor at 200 feet and the DD's circle for a bit. They make a few passes missing each time, but then one gets really lucky and lands a kill shot. Catastrophic hull failure, posthumus medals and all that, so I reload the save game. This time I still cant get away at flank speed, so I check my range on the periscope, make a few ranging shots with the 5"/25 before I get it dialed in and start scoring hits. I'm really laying it into him, and he's firing off in to the dark. At 3000 yards he turns and starts to fire broadsides, and I'm putting holes all up and down the side of the ship. He starts turning away and finally lands a couple good ones on me. I've got flooding and other damage but I'm still floating. Then I start into the second escort, he does the same number, turns broadside and then I poke lots of holes in him and then he starts to turn tail also, just as I'm nearly out of 5" rounds. So I didn't sink either of them, but I end up getting away as they limp back to the convoy and I skedaddle out of there. 70 percent hull damage, I'm still staying afloat. On the way back to pearl I get my men and boat patched up and top of for fuel at Midway. This time I pull into pearl, medals are presented, handshakes with admirals and most important, my sub and crew are alive. so.... Dive and evade: 0 Slug it out on the surface: 1 __________________ "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" -David Farragut (probably repeated by many WWII sub skippers)