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Originally Posted by Flamingboat
I wanted to ask the experts here. I am using GWX 2.0 and I was on my 2nd patrol in a VIIB East Northeast of Ireland. October 1939. It was dusk around 1650 and I was tailing a merchant and warship sound contact. They were moving away at 0 bearing and even flank speed submerged I was not catching them. I surfaced to try and catch up and never saw anything. Next thing I know 2 gun boats from Britian were headed at me guns blazing. I don't know what kind of boats they were but the were like little PT boats with machine guns fore and aft firing at me. I turn into them and we are going head to head. I pop off all 4 fore torpedos shallow in a salvo thinking I may get lucky or at least make them dance. I came close but I missed. So I have my deck gun pounding away and I crew the AA gun myself and we take out one PT boat fast. I shot the gunners personally as I was almost close enough to read name tags. Both boats are on fire and I have some moderate damage. No compartment more than yellow and my damage crew is on it. One boat down and the other one is a fireball about to be 100% dead. Then I hear "men down on the deck" and we all die??
I know I didn't handle this correctly. What should I have done? What killed me? I'm sure it wasn't a torpdeo as the boat has it's stern facing me at roughly a 270 bearing. I wanted to ask you experts for advice on how to handle this type of situation in the future.
Thanks in advance!
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PT boats have machine guns that can kill your deck crew quite quickly and ever so efficiently.
Your sub is a pressure hull and not an armoured warship. You will soon start taking damage that will only hinder your boats effectiveness at diving to safe depths.
Nor would I be wasting eels on tiny fish like these. Save them for the bigger merchants.
Are you sure an aircraft or even the escort has not jumped on you whilst you were otherwise indisposed ?
What was the weather like, were you in shallow water or had strayed into a mined area ? :hmm: