Last night around 17:30 real time, I left Pearl and sailed to a spot 100 nm just west of Midway. I play with all the realism on except for manual targeting and no map updates. I was driving my Gar, the date was June 3, 1942 and with a full load of torps and a full tank of diesel I started to head for Japan. Then I wondered if the Battle of Midway was coded into the career game and headed instead to the spot where the IJN carrier force IRL was, 150 to 200 nm NW of Midway. Over flights of IJN search planes all coming and returning from the same point led me to get on that heading, NW. I was 235km NW of Midway.
I found them, 4 fleet carriers, a Kongo, 1 CA, 2 CLs, and 16 DDs. I was able to sink 3 of the CVs, the BB, the CA, and 1 of the CLs. I suffered NO damage. The DDs were on me, but by not panicing, using the layer, running silent and never more than 1 knot when the DDs were near I remained untouched, The seas were calm. The DDs got after me several times and spamed the area with DCs but were never quite sure where I was. At least 10 times they ran over my position, I heard them chugging away right overhead, but they never really found me. I just made like a hole in the water when they were really close(ALL Stop). After a few hours they lost interest and returning to guard the last CV headed off to the SE. I imagine they were wondering how they would apologize to the emperor for what they let me do to their task force.
