Just wondering how well some of the other captains who use manual TDC have done? :p
I've had two really good ones to brag about so far.
- I was running in the Sulu sea in windy weather, submerged at 150ft for the day - sonarman picks up a warship contact and I come up to take a look. Eventually I spot a minelayer in the distance; I'd surface, but I already know he's going to spot me, and if I spend too long chasing him, I'll get attacked by aircraft. I do what I can to catch up on his position without surfacing, and manage to get to about 2800 yards (or is that meters?) off him.
So, I guess his speed to be 10kt, set up two solutions, and fire off tubes 1 and 2. Really thankful for the stadimeter there - it'd be impossible to calculate a solution without it in that weather
I watch him steaming by for two and a half minutes, the timer on my stopwatch seems to run out... so I give up, order down scope and jack up the time compression. As soon as I do, the game jumps out of time compression with "torpedo impact" and "enemy unit destroyed"
I raise the scope in time to watch the second torpedo slam into the sinking hulk. A good 4000t kill
-Second one was last night - at night time, I came across a pair, a Shiratsuyu destroyer followed by a subchaser. I could only get so close to them before submerging; but they never noticed me.
Again, guessing their speed to be about 10kt, I see that they're not going to get very close and it wouldn't be worth wasting many torpedoes - but I can't let the chance go! So, I set up a solution at 2200 yards, and fire a single torpedo at the destroyer.
About two minutes later, with nothing happening, I'm about to order "down periscope", when all of a sudden there's a brilliant flash and the enemy destroyer breaks in two. Subchaser leaves, tail between legs
Your sinkings, please
