Yeah, first mission, running the Channel, I come across two merchants, one Brit, one French, 12+ tons each. Firey explosions are beautiful at dawn. Went flank ahead hoping to get back on corse and get out of the area (total time was around 10 minutes to get both going down messages) before anyone else shows up. Was thinking that if I go flank, get out of town, I might have time to get my fish from the external storage below decks. About 5 minutes into moving it I received the dreaded ship spotted.
Now? After a half day of cat and mouse I am sitting ON the bottom (about 40m deep), diesels are dead, electrics are dead, batteries (both fore and aft) are dead, two crew are hurt. All flooding is stopped so I went all quiet to see what would happen.
5 DD's and about a dozen other little ships are STILL out there pinging for me. They aren't getting close until I try and start repairing again, so I am going to stay all quiet and see if they'll go away. I know with both engines I'm done and there's no point in going on, but I want to see if they'll ever go away.
Only question is, with me on the bottom, and I mean I am ON the bottom (took some damage settling down there when I started flooding) why are they still finding me? Should the sea floor be causing them some havoc? I'm in Sept, '39.
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