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Blacklight · 03-03-08, 02:00 AM

My Uboat was just sunk in the funniest and most preposterous way.

I just came upon a nice juicy tanker running very fast. I was able to get myself into position for a nice perfect 90 degree shot. I fired off two torpedoes and then turned more toward it's direction of travel to line up another shot if I missed. One torpedo hit. The other, I watched hit the side, bounce off and deflect away from the ship. I then lined up another torpedo and fired. When I switched to external camera, I saw the torpedo leave the tube... and when I turned the camera toward the ship, I see this stream of bubbles approaching my Uboat VERY FAST !!!

Yep. You guessed it. My torpedo had riccoche'd right off the side of the ship and went right back at me. Unfortunately, I'm not Balz so i couldn't just catch the torpedo in one of my torpedo tubes for re-use so I got pegged. Flooding all over and before I could react... "YOU ARE DEAD"

I wish I could have filmed it !!!
This would have been a fantastic scene for U-Disaster III !

I guess I can't blame Bernard for this one huh ?

03-03-08, 02:00 AM	#1
Blacklight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,507 Downloads: 145 Uploads: 0	The Unluckiest Uboat My Uboat was just sunk in the funniest and most preposterous way. I just came upon a nice juicy tanker running very fast. I was able to get myself into position for a nice perfect 90 degree shot. I fired off two torpedoes and then turned more toward it's direction of travel to line up another shot if I missed. One torpedo hit. The other, I watched hit the side, bounce off and deflect away from the ship. I then lined up another torpedo and fired. When I switched to external camera, I saw the torpedo leave the tube... and when I turned the camera toward the ship, I see this stream of bubbles approaching my Uboat VERY FAST !!! Yep. You guessed it. My torpedo had riccoche'd right off the side of the ship and went right back at me. Unfortunately, I'm not Balz so i couldn't just catch the torpedo in one of my torpedo tubes for re-use so I got pegged. Flooding all over and before I could react... "YOU ARE DEAD" I wish I could have filmed it !!! This would have been a fantastic scene for U-Disaster III ! I guess I can't blame Bernard for this one huh ? __________________ Be my friend or be a mushroom cloud. "I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes !"