Last night I started a new career on USS Sturgeon out of Cavite.
My first target.. didn't go so well. I fired 2 fish at the Maru from about 1800yds. The first blew up at about halfway to the target. The second (contact det) passed barely aft. I had forgot to update the range/bearing before firing the last of the two.
Fired 1 more fish and it too exploded prematurely. In frustration I surfaced and shot him all to hell with the deck gun. Good thing he was unarmed.
My second Maru, same type as the first, was .. interesting. Fired 2 fish.. one blew up prematurely and the other was "a dud sir". Boy, this early war Mark 14 sucks.:p The third fish struck right under the bridge. After getting a good look, he didn't seem to be armed, so I surfaced and finished him off.
My best of the night:
Third encounter was a Shiratsuyu destroyer and a trailing Minesweeper/Subchaser(?).
I targeted the Destroyer and fired 1 fish from a long shot of about 3000 yds - my longest shot so far. Struck under the funnel and exploded in a nice big fireball. Sank in no time. I boogied out of my firing spot since the angry little Minesweeper seemed to have Depth Charges but never got close enough to me. After it gave up looking for me, I surfaced and put some deck gun shells into him at 4400 yds while he was trying to close with me. Poor minesweeper never made it.
Overall my best was hitting a Kongo from ~1200 yds with all 4 forward fish and seeing absolutely massive secondary explosions from a certain one. It went down fast.