Well, decided to keep at this despite problems so far, so loaded up the torpedo attack lesson to see if I could figure out how the TDC works on these US boats. Didn't really have any luck figuring it out, and unfortunately they start you out so the cruiser is already about to cross your bow so you really don't have any time to figure stuff out before your solution goes to crap. I went ahead and fired all 4 tubes just to see what happened (nothing, of course - I have no idea where the torps went).
Then, figuring I might try my hand at damage control, I decided to surface and let the cruiser wail on me for a while. Clicked the "Emergency Surface" button on the tool bar at the bottom left, and WHAM - CTD
I remember seeing posts about the "A" key CTD (and experienced it first hand when I accidentally hit the A key fat-fingering the S key to surface a couple of nights ago), but I don't remember seeing anything about this one and didn't see it on the list in the first post in this thread. Anybody know what this one is about? Guess I'll strip this back down to stock and see if I can repeat this.