Buggy, disappointing end to my career. Patrol 1 - hit by aircraft. Flooding to stern. That compartment flooded completely because I couldn't tell if my repair crew was working or not - i 'deployed' them more than once, and wasn't sure they were on it (no activity indicator). Anyway, eventually, with time compressioon, and enough clicks on the deploy repair crew indicator, I had the boat back in shape. The stern was no longer dragging, and we were underway - headed for home. On the way home I encounter a convoy in my path. I decide to attack - drop to PD, and the boat starts sinking. The rear end pulls down like crazy and we start to plummet. I blow ballast and go ahead flank. The boat stops at around 250ft, and starts to rise. Ok - weird - why would she sink? Then i start to die - screen goes black in the command room. As it zooms out of my boat in the death cam, i hear all sorts of calls of broken equipment as the camera goes out to the sky; my XO spoils the reverence of the moment by calling out broken equipment reports dutifully, as the boat is crushed. I think - damn, well, let's pretend that the boat had a critical failure from early damage, and I bought it. Fine. Then I get this message saying I'm going to be court-martialled for attacking our own. Not sure what they're referring to here - I sunk two Jap freighters on my way out. Maybe I was court-martialled for sinking my own boat. Dishonor, even in death. Maybe my XO survived, launching himself out a torpedo tube, pissed, because I was too drowned to listen to his damage reports, and he surfaced, pulled an indiana jones and stowed away aboard a Jap ship, escaped somehow, contacted headquarters....i dunno. My imagination is stretched hard here. I'm really trying to bend this into an acceptable sim experience.
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