Well, it just happened to me. I brought some heavy damage to a convoy. Had no fish in the tubes yet, still loading. Saw DD's coming to my area, I dive down 300 ft, and well below the thermal, I creep off at a couple knots. All three dd's were pounding the crap out of the spot I had long since vacated.
There were two heavily damaged ships that I wanted to finish off after re-loading tubes. I swung waay behind the remaining convoy to attack from the other side.
The dd's are still cruising my old area, now about 2500yds away, dc'ing away.
I'm bringing up a parallel course with the columns, to the left of the damaged ships.
They are still ahead of me, I'm still creeping very slowly.
Suddenly from out of nowhere, there is a dd to my right about 1500yds, parallel to me.
I keep my eye on him and continue my creep up to the damaged ships.
The tubes had already been loaded and I've been running silent mode.
Next thing I know he picks up just a little speed, not much, but slowly slinks my way... looks like he's going to just go on across my wake, well behind me, I start to relax... nooooo, he turns right on me, I'm still at 300ft creeping.
Gets right over me and... fuffsh... fuffsh < sound of cans dropping. hehe
I'm now getting very pissed. I try evading him, then a second dd joins in the fun.
I'm getting pummled, I try to go even deeper even though I'm beyond the red crush depth needle.... still raining 55 gal explosive drums all over me.
Sub is taking major damage, but amazingly just continues to sink.
Compartments flooding, I'm frantically moving healthy crew to the damage control group to keep them working... the water was very deep in this spot...
The crew constantly calling out damaged equipment, etc, etc...
"current depth 1345ft"
"current depth 1380ft"
"current depth 1426ft"
diesel engines damaged !
"current depth 1445ft"
(shocked, this thing is still together???)
"current depth 1498ft"
"current depth 1552ft"
I'm really cursing now @@#$Q@#!@@#@!$# !!!!!
Then amongst all the mahem, there's this voice... you know the one... that really, really wimpy crew member shouts out "
RADAR REPAIRED SIR !!! "
I TOTALLY cracked up, how could I not laugh at this point ?:rotfl: :rotfl:
Continuing....
"current depth 1589ft"
"current depth 1608ft" < --- It was finally over at that depth.
Anyway, despite losing my boat and crew, I went from angry to LMAO in a matter of seconds... hehe
This game can be so screwy sometimes, I guess you just have to laugh.
I'm still hanging in there though, I'll just re-load an earlier save. In spite of these events, I still enjoy the game.