Well, after thinking about this some more I desided to give-er-a-go one more time.
The weather was good visibility with moderate waves.
I found a convoy heading south along the east shore of England. I did a long drawn out approach that got me to within 5685m of a large merchant that was on the opposite side of the two lines of ships. The nine ships of the convoy were excorted by 5 destroyers & two armed trawlers. A little over kill for 1940 me thinks.. I thought they were short of DD's at that time...
Anyway, I shot a salvo of two at the far merchant with a "zero" spread. My thinking was; if they both hit it might sink or I can come back later & finish it off...or they both miss..Then poof on it...
Danged if they didn't hit just perfect & after about 20 minutes the damned thing sank...I slunk off toward the rear (North East) from the convoy @ two kts & the dd's went to the far side to look for me...
The next two days I played hide & seek from numerous DD's/ Trawlers & lots of aircraft all trying to make my day a bad one. I almost ran out of batteries & air a couple of times, but I sunk another medium merchant & finely sunk my first Hunt I destroyer that just would not give up. I got him with my last torp at 400m...
I just can't believe I lived to fight another day...
Very exciting....
I know this is just ***A-Game*** but I was very very tense. the relief when I actually hit & blew that little bugger in two was unbelievable...I mean...It's just a game right...
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