Well, I made it into the harbor pretty alright, had to sink that trawler that i was shadowing when he made a long loop and ended up behind me and getting curious as to what that large grey piece of metal was sticking out of the water. I've never used a torp on anything so small before...heh heh...that sucker lifted right out of the water.
Amazingly, I expected all Hell to break loose at this point.
Im waiting....
Slowly, slowly making my way along.
Nothing, not a plane, not a destroyer...nada.
I make it to the anchorage about 0100 hours...and the HMS Rodney is NOT there....
stinking Luftwaffe can't identify targets for cr*p...or...what the?!?
Emerging from the fog...no...it cant be...
HMS Hood, riding gracefully at anchor, completely blacked out. Oblivious.
and a little ways off of her bow...
HMS Nelson, equally darkened, equally quiet.
it was at this point that i faced a dilemma as never before in this game...
oh screw it, opened tubes 1,2,3 and nailed the Hood just forward of her bridge, all eels hitting within a few meters of each other.
Kaboom, she gushes flame and smoke and starts to settle to the bottom of the Firth.
My men are busy reloading as i hurry to get into position on the Nelson...still no response and its almost twenty minutes later when im shooting tubes 2,3,4 into the fuel compartment of the Nelson, and then im headed for the door.
On the way out, i hit a mine, and barely save the boat, then limp away finally making it back to Wilhelmshaven 5 days later..
I got both of them suckers.
Other than being lucky, how come all hell didnt come down on my head?