Glad you boys enjoyed it more than I did. I was ready to throw up for most of it. There's one new lesson for me here - it's definitely worth it to sink the escort if there's only one. And one old lesson has been double underlined - if it's perfectly calm, make it a _long_ shot. Oh, and I guess I found out that you don't _really_ need your periscope to get things done.
God I love this game
P.S. Buckley's Mixture is a foul kind of cough syrup: add three parts oil, two parts schteel, one part sailor, and stir it all up with compressed air and a couple of DCs