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Majestik 909 · 01-22-16, 11:27 AM

I wish I would have had the acoustic torpedoes earlier in my career. I also missef the deck gun when I received the Typ XXX U-Boat.

I had some great times on this campaign. On one mission, I briefly surfaced next to a freighter (running too fast while going to periscope depth) and the destroyer escort's gunfire sank the freighter.

I surfaced alongside a troop ship, almost rubbing it, and fired a salvo of torpedoes, set to fast/magnetic/000 bearing/2 meters depth, which sunk two destroyers as the crossed in front of the troop ship.

I had an acoustic torpedo get loose and circle back. Luckily I was plotting solutions on other ships in the convoy and saw it. There was an armed merchant close by so I surfaced and made a run for it at 18 knots. I submerged at the last moment possible to 25 meters and ordered all stop. The torpedo took out the merchant's steering and propulsion. I found it drifting much later in that mission, several hundred miles from last recorded position.

My favorite, however, was attacking convoys on the surface with both deck gun and torpedoes and attacking destroyers from dead astern with acoustic torpedoes.

01-22-16, 11:27 AM	#6
Majestik 909 Planesman Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: California Posts: 195 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I wish I would have had the acoustic torpedoes earlier in my career. I also missef the deck gun when I received the Typ XXX U-Boat. I had some great times on this campaign. On one mission, I briefly surfaced next to a freighter (running too fast while going to periscope depth) and the destroyer escort's gunfire sank the freighter. I surfaced alongside a troop ship, almost rubbing it, and fired a salvo of torpedoes, set to fast/magnetic/000 bearing/2 meters depth, which sunk two destroyers as the crossed in front of the troop ship. I had an acoustic torpedo get loose and circle back. Luckily I was plotting solutions on other ships in the convoy and saw it. There was an armed merchant close by so I surfaced and made a run for it at 18 knots. I submerged at the last moment possible to 25 meters and ordered all stop. The torpedo took out the merchant's steering and propulsion. I found it drifting much later in that mission, several hundred miles from last recorded position. My favorite, however, was attacking convoys on the surface with both deck gun and torpedoes and attacking destroyers from dead astern with acoustic torpedoes.