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Originally Posted by mrbeast
Very sound advice. 
I've been reading quite a lot about US subs, started with 'Run Silent Run Deep', then moved on to 'War in the boats', read the Osprey New Vanguard on US submarines 41-45 and now I'm reading 'Silent Victory' and thats not to mention the U boats!
I'm always surprised at how authentic some of the things that happen in the game are. Sometimes something will happen in the game that I think is not very realistic, but then I'll read about RL events and infact what just happened in the game did indeed really happen. |
So true - reading about the USS Gunnel, for example. Especially her
second patrol - charging a DD head on, on the surface, with shells from the DDs guns coming "uncomfortably close", then loosing off a spread of four fish and diving, only to find the bow planes improperly rigged out and a 900 ton DD about to run smack into you...
Or how about sitting on the surface, at a range of 700 yards, watching 3 torpedoes in a row plow into an already damaged ship, but having to score them as "misses" in the log since they failed to detonate
(also in that linked 2nd patrol log).
The stuff in the game often seems amazingly tame
