Well sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for.
I've been playing fairly regularly since release, and have always bemoaned the overabundance of targets and the ease of sinking them. Now of course, we have NSM, Taters layers and the hardcore torpedoes mod which are absolutely essential for any degree of realistic tonnage in this sim. And so in all this time I have never sunk anything larger than a heavy cruiser, and that only once.
Until last night...in the East China Sea, I came across 2 Hiryu CVs, and 2 Atagos escorted by around 6-10 destroyers and a CL. It was a fairly easy approach in heavy seas, and all the while I remember thinking, you've waited eight months for this, that Hiryu is yours! Thanks to the mods mentioned, I felt no guilt at yet another easy kill, more infalted tonnage, just anticipation at my long-awaited reward! I took my time, set my fish to run slow and at 20-30 degrees gyro to minimize duds and launched four fish at a range of 3200 yards. All four hit and the Hiryu went dead in the water and listed heavily to starboard.
I went deep and was immediately pounced on by the cans. And waited for the Hiryu to sink.
And wouldn't you know it, the damn thing never did.
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