Sometimes I allow myself to do something that's obviously silly, but I just wanna see what would happen. In which case, I do save the game and then try the silly task. In which case, whether I am successful or not, I would revert back to my last save.
The other night I was tracking a lone target and when I finally was close enough to make a visual contact I saw that it was a little coastal fishing boat. I had a good firing solution and wondered what it would look like if a torpedo hit a fishing boat, sooooo....
Obviously when I saw the target was a trawler and knew the seas were too rough for deck gunnage; I would've just broke off the attack and moved on. Which I did when I restarted the game.
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