Followup to my "Looney Tunes" convoy encounter.
I decided to get daring, and surface to take down that crippled freighter, a "Small Old Split Freighter", 2,436 tons, with my deck gun. Soon as I surfaced, another DD opened up on me from less than 1/2 mile, I could hear the shells whizzing overhead. Not a single hit! Had plenty of time to put 10 or 12 rounds of HE into the hulk and sink her, then crash dive without a scratch.
If I'd been playing SH3, those escorts would have been all over me like flies on sh*t from the start and I'd be lucky to get the 1st kill...
Total kills for the 1st part of this attack run:
1 - Small Old Split Freighter, 2,436 tons (1 mk 14, 12 HE rounds)
1 - Fubuki DD, 1,680 tons (1 mk 14)
1 - Large Modern Composite Freighter, 7189 tons (1 mk 14)
For a total of 11,305 tons for 10 minutes work. And I've got hits on 2 other freighters, one fish each, both in steering gear that will be easy kills in the morning.
I should really have to work harder than this...
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