The funny thing is, when I noticed that the Yamato in a quiet mission that I was doing - I had somehow managed to catch it alone without any escorts aside from a Cruiser in the distance - it was blinking its searchlight.
"To hell with it," I thought, and ordered an emergency surface and manned the deck gun myself at only 25 yards from the Yamato.
I then proceeded to make the searchlight my first target, and blasted it with an explosive shell that also set the command tower ablaze.
I was too close for their cannons to be used - even their smaller deckguns. So I just amused myself by ravaging the ship's superstructure with shelling.
I'll admit, the Yamato is a very resilent ship... even after shelling the living hell out of the command tower, it hasn't blown off or collasped. So I switched to AP's and started pumping shells into the waterline - minimal damage. So I shrugged, submerged, and got to a good distance and let loose with all four aft torpedoes.
Four direct hits. One directly forward of the screws, two at the midsection, and one at the bow. It sank like a rock.
Teaches the turd right for using morse code to shout profanities at the cruiser.
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