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Old 11-23-07, 07:33 PM   #4085
KeptinCranky
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Yep, I survived allright, this
was after busting through Gibraltar into the Med, immediately afterwards the weather went like that....

I sank the greek Merchie that flower was escorting and thought I could get away in the murk on the surface, but that thing had radar, resulting in the chase pictured, He was only 2 knots faster than me, but that was enough to ram me as shown.

This sort of thing has happened to me before, mostly because of my carelessness, so I know what to do, turn away hard after being rammed, dive at flank speed and usually, as in this case, the DCs land far enough away to only cause minor damage to your sub.
In this instance the Flower eventually sank from self-inflicted damage and I continued on to Sardinia to get my boat patched up, I arrived there with about 60% hull integrity left

I would suggest not trying this sort of thing with real DDs they're a lot faster and do a lot more damage than a flower which only has that silly popgun on the bow
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