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Originally Posted by popeye
it happened to me. sort of. i watched the ship break up, and sink, but i got no credit or no icon for sunken ship.
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I witnessed something really wierd today. I was on patrol and was annoyed as hell with aircraft all the time. Then suddenly I get a ship spotted warning. After closing in to identify it turns out I'm dealing with a small merchant.
Since I wanted to break the monotony of diving and surfacing due to aircraft, I took the engagement on a professional level. Periscope depth, optimal approach, that sort of thing. I wanted to try out the under-the-hull influence detonations so I set the running depth to 6m. Fire 1.
A few seconds (<3 time compression) later, I was watching the torpedo run rught under the hull for a succesful detonaton underneath the vessel. All normal up until here. Some 20 game minutes later, that ship was tilted about 60 degrees to the side, half underwater (the funnel & cranes were visible, along with a small part of the hull). The ship was practically underwater when I got the "Enemy unit destroyed" confirmation. I was beginning to worry the Japanere were disguising submarines to look like small freighters
On another ocasion, I had torpedoed a large freighter 4 times, all direct hits. The damn thing was 45 degrees on its side, bearly moving at 2Kn. I had to submerge and do some fancy manuvering to avoid the incoming Destroyers. I waited it out near the seabed. After re-surfacing later, the ship was nowhere to be found! The destroyers were returning to guard duty and in-between the three closest to me there was no sign of the badly damaged ship. I ran a zig-zag search pattern and ever aggroed two of the destroyers back on my tail. Fortunately something incoming at 30Knots is too busy firing guns to hear incoming torps. About 3 game hours of searching at flank speed, I gave up. I still don't know what happened to that vessel.