[Razoleg]

Thanks for the replies. It is night time and they don't seem to see me. They only were able to get to me once, but I dived immediately to 160 feet, turned towards the heading of the convoy and it seems that they've lost me (perhaps the sound of other ships was too great to detect me, since I surfaced right in the middle of the convoy). I surfaced just enough to see the heavy cruiser passing right next to me, I've turned to his heading and now the destroyers are looking for me behind my boat. I'm not really concerned with safety because I've had the unfortunate experience of avoiding destroyers in shallow waters in SH3, so Japanese destroyers in the middle of an ocean can hardly do any damage since I can always dive below the thermal layer (and this is on very hard setting, so I'm not sure why they are so weak in SH4).

You don't need one 500 yards ahead because your speed will require the torpedo run to be longer to draw abreast of the ship so it will arm quicker than you'd think.

That's what I was missing, I am too worried to get close to them because I only have three torpedoes left and I don't want them to bounce off. Mind you it's been an exceptional patrol so far and I can't let those two carriers go, especially seeing as I've damaged them. I'm doing 8 knots on flank (going to 7-6 when the waves hit and expose my boat for a brief moment), but they are also doing around 7-8 (maybe 9, but active maneuvering slows them to my speed). So I'm in chase-mode, so to speak.

I'm thinking, since I have only three left, I'm just going to wait for all of them to reload and fire a spread at 700 or so meters, see what happens. If I stay longer than that - destroyers behind will ram me into depths as I'm aiming my shots. Shooting a cruiser next to me that is on port side seems too much of a risk since he is way close.