My Longest endured depthcharge run, that I survived would have to be around an hour real time.
Believe it was around June of 41, 11:00 from a convoy sneaking in at 4 knots submerged. At precisly 1:14 I fired my first salvo of torpedos at a T3 tanker in the midst of the convoy (2 trops set at 5 degrees differance, steam, fast, 950mtrs) Both torps were a hit, launched second salvo at 1:16 at a T2 tanker which was forced to slow to due to the wreckage of the T3 (which had began to show signs of flooding by listing to port) Both torps were a hit. I then ordered ahead flank and began to show my back side to the convoy hoping to get at least one more torp off. I rather blindly fired my stern torpedo into the belly of a C2 around 1500 mtrs away, and miraculously scored a hit! My most succesfull opening barrage of a convoy!
I quickly dove to 100mtrs and tried my best to sneak out at 2 knots. The sonar man whispers the bearings of the closing warships! Contact Kriegshief bearing 112, 170, 75. They were all behind me and to the right, so I ordered a course of 280 in hopes that that would be my gopher hole out of this mess.
As me and sonar man listened intently, we waited as 2 of the destroyers closed and the killed thier engines...... while the one bearing 180 (one originaly bearing 75) closed in. They were going to triangilate my depth and range, major pucker factor. I dove deeper, to around 150mtrs and crept along at 1 knot, then came the splashes. The first barrage was shallow and to the rear. But the second barrage would be right on the money. Major damage to the stern one baty severly dmaged the other barely in working order, not casualties. Heavy flooding in all stern compartments, the depth needle sank further I killed the engines and used all excess men and repair crew to patch up the breaches in the hull, after around 10 min of intense dc and shift my crew around plugging up the holes in my tub the flooding was under control.
The destroyes began to retreat to the debris field where the T2 hand sank I assumed they were picking up survivors, I slow rose to p depth and lay in wait for a tubes to reload. The T3 was listing more now as the waters flodding the port compartments, I would finish her off before nightfall with the DG. The C2 on the other hand was dead in the water some 600mtrs to my right around 107 degrees. I set up for attack and launched my final barrage salvo of 2, one dud but the other broke its back. In a great ball of fire (hehehe) it sank beneath the waves. I slowly headed out from the pack and that is where I waited till night fall. I then surfaced and sank the T3 with the DG.
Quite an experiance. I'm looking forward to the GW mod now, which I am dl at the moment, hence the long read.
