I've pretty much decided not to shoot at tankers anymore, just for this reason. A couple of nights back I came across a convoy with two large modern tankers in it. I fired 3 torpedoes at one of the tankers, and a single at a large modern composite freighter on the opposite side of the convoy (hoping to stop it to deal with later), submerged and passed through the convoy, and came up on the far side. The tanker was merrily ablaze but steaming along without slowing down. The freighter was down by the bow and listing slightly. I gave the tanker 3 more torps and the freighter one more, all from my rear tubes. At the end of this the tanker has about a 15 degree list to port, was down at the bow, on fire from bow to stern, and sailed off into the distance without ever slowing down. I gave up at that point. The freighter never did go down and I didn't get into position to put a third torp into it either. 8 torpedoes, 8 hits, zero sinkings.
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Originally Posted by Malcolm Reynolds
Yep, that worked well.
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