It was raining when I went into Freetown, Enigma.
That was the funniest part of it all, actually, that I could even see the accidental mark I made on my hand with the grease pencil. lol Came in past a pair of Tribal destroyers and started looking at what was there...mostly small merchants, coastal merchants, tugs, etc., but then when I was starting to turn to set up tubes 5 & 6 on the Tribal DDs, I noticed something massive about 400 meters in front of me, AOB 88 degrees starboard. Went to the periscope, zoomed in and lo! and behold...
...a liner!!!
Checked his flag really quickly (he was British), and setup a targetting solution on him with tubes 1,2, & 3 loaded with G7a torpedoes (tube 4 I sent after a small tanker on the port side of him, and tubes 5 & 6 on the Tribal DDs at the mouth of the harbor). The tension, the excitement, looked at my IWO and he looks like he's about ready to piss his pants out of shock of seeing the liner there (hey, 24,000 tons is a heck of a lot of merchant ship to sink) and then...TORPEDOES LOS!
My first three torpedoes covered the 400 meters to the liner very quickly. First torpedo was a dud (pity too...aimed it at the engine room, thought the impact detonator would've ruptured the boiler), but my second and third torpedoes struck hard and true, tube two right under the bridge on magnetic and tube three in the bow on impact. Meanwhile, torpedo #4 broke the back of the small tanker I had sent it after, and tubes 5 & 6 took down both Tribal DDs.
So, while I was reloading my tubes, I took a look at the liner through the periscope. He was listing to port, but still not going under. When my stern tubes finished loading, I reversed my orientation to him and fired tubes 5 & 6 at him from 450 meters on impact (didn't what to risk the possibility of being spotted if I surfaced to use the deck gun...later did anyway), and about 10 minutes later, I got a "She's going down!" message.
On my way out, I spotted a pair of C3s and a T3 tanker that I must've missed while dodging the two Tribal DDs and sunk them (two torpedoes into each C3, three torpedoes into the T3).
Now I'm stuck in a boring patrol grid off of the coast of Mexico on the Yucatan Peninsula. ::eyeroll:: All I've seen so far have been a few tugs and a coastal merchant...not worth the torpedoes.