I had that too, I started out in USS Pike! (gotta love that name). In, ehm, ah well. some random island around the phillipines. Along the way i get transfered down to Australia. Then they offer me a brand new shiny Cato. (Which proved to be old and rusty). and i got transfered to pearl when getting that one. I got orders to go over to the same places which i had patrolled when i was based of that part of the world.
and here's my question. On my way there, i got a radio report on a large convoy heading my way!. So i set up a nice ambush. totally emptied my torpedo reserves, and then desperately surfaced, and went all guns blazing with the deck gun. (Since i had failed to sink the destroyers due to ALOT of stupid pre-detonated torps.). I also had the time to reload the torpedes with realistic reloading
. Too much saké that day for the japanese navy i think.
They scored a decent hit on me, which reported to damage the engines (Dunno if it was both electric and diesel, im sure it was electic anyway). And that was later reported as fixed. Then started to head back to base and noticed i was almost outta fuel. I managed to get down to eastern australia, And that fuel was just about enough for me to get to pearl. I thought it was odd, and wondered if i maybe sustained some damage from that shell that hit me? The repair screen showed everything was looking great. Or should i fire my 3x bernards that i hired for damage control, they might be fixing everything with cheap duct tape:hmm:
Sry for sidetracking your thread m8
Anyway, love the game now past 1.2.