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Originally Posted by merc4ulfate
I was using radar bearing alone one day in a storm and had come across a Task Force.
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Adjusting for the cycle of the radar going around I fired all six forward tubes at the lead capital ship while I was running a parallel course. Two were cuties so as soon as I fired I went all stop but stayed on the surface.
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I got credit for sinking a Yamato Battleship.
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Really, I have to learn that RADAR method.
Just imagine that in real life you would not have know. Then, years later, after the war, some commission tells you: "Bye the way, don't know if you still remember that one big bucket you sank in the storm? That was the biggest and meanest battleship of the whole war!"
And with your information, I have made my peace with cuties. I now only use them in aft tubes to persuade pursuers to look for easier prey. And I've also had some sinkings with it, at least one of which is even realistic:
When attacking a convoy, I managed to penetrate the screen and sank several ships, when a DD saw me. He had to circle around a tanker wreck so I knew how he would have to approach me and that I still had time for a shot. Normally it's a bit tricky when they come at you like that because they still turn and it's always a guessing game how fast they do that. But I had a cutie ready so while moving away from the DD I aimed and launched it. I could see that it corrected its course straight for the enemy's propellers, but, set at 1.5m depth it hit the hull slightly ahead right next to the magazine of X- and Y-turrets and the DD immediately blew sky-high. That felt good!