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Originally Posted by Barkerov
 Why not shoot at both? |
Wasnt an option. I didnt know about the carrier until about 4100 yards out.
I was staged south west of the armada at a 45 degree shot if I waited till the lead ship got to within 4100 yards.
I wanted to use the high speed of the mark 14s.
I was tracking the whole armada for about 15-20 miles via radar submerged at 40 feet to let the radar turn and had a dead shot solution programmed into the tdc, tweaked every so often to get near zero on the largest blip. (Using 3d tdc mod)
I submerged by the time they hit 10 miles out since the destroyers could possibly see me. They were swarming the armada. About 7 or 8 ships circling the battleship so I didnt want the chance to ruin the attack. I figured the biggest blip and the largest ship on the nav map was a battleship and I wanted to take it down.
I waited until about 4600 yards out to take a peek, and while I was tuning the solution the carrier swung around on the far side of the battleship. I froze for a moment and all these calculations started flooding my head to re-tune the solution. I even opened up the necessary devices to start the calculations but the whole bunch was steaming at 12knts. With the attack angle I had and the speed of the armada i quickly realized a new solution would not work since the carrier, on the far side would be shielded by the battleship by the time I got the solution programmed. I dont pause the game to do any of that. Its more realistic that way and I enjoy the challenge.
Besides, by the time I would have a solution the destroyers that were leading would have had a good bead on me.
So I figures, OK, I'll shoot the spread of six, dive to 300 at flank, go under the bunch, come back to periscope and take a shot at the carrier from aft.
So I did that. Good thing for the spread. Between the solution in the PK/TDC, I had 3 out of six hit and the battleship listed to port and went under.
Fast forward and when I surface, I have 3 destroyers on me and the carrier speeding out at 15 knts with a zig zig pattern. No shot.
I went out and around with an attempt to do an end around and take another shot, but the destroyers kept pushing me farther and farther north of the armada, and by the time they stopped their patterns the carrier was off my radar and I lost it. I tried following the destroyers and even put up some plots on the map to search but they boogied off at 20+ knts while was pushing 10 under water and coming up on 25% battery.
If I did meet up with the group I would be toast under water with that little battery and 7 destroyers to dance with.
I spent the next week in game time looking for it ignoring all the juicy targets, but never found it.
I was lucky I guess to get that first try. I was parked in the luzon straights about to hit a tanker when I got that armada blip on the radar.