Yeah greed will do that to you every time. I myself have only gotten greedy once but I lived to tell the tale and slipped away. Took on a patrol of 3 warships, 1 DD, 1 Subchaser and 1 Gunboat. Only got the DD but it cost me 6 torpedoes.
I slipped up to within 2000 yards, their speed caught me off guard but I sent out a trio of fish to try and nail the destroyer. Two missed astern, the third slammed into a screw and blew it off. The DD continued on unabated while the subchaser charged in. Crash dove down past 300 feet but hung around in the area rather than following my usual focus on merchants attitude. After slinking forward at one knot for a couple of hours the three of them were still around. Deciding that if they knew where I was they would have caught me by now I chanced a rise to periscope depth. My attack scope breached the surface and I almost wanted to duck back under. I was staring at the now wounded DD, it was down at least ten degrees to the stern and not moving. I fired my two remaining bow tubes at it, boy did it blow big. But I didnt see it except on external cam as the second the fish were in the water I was pulling the attack scope down and diving deep to avoid the expected payback from the subchaser. But it remained stationary. Now logically I should have slunk away, the gunboat was sitting still and now the subchaser too was sitting still and not reacting to the now doomed husk of a DD. Greed told me to go for another kill. I obeyed foolishly. I was starting to run low on torps. But I pointed my stern at the subchaser from 1000 yards and sent a pair of fish after him banking on the fact he'd go to his starboard. I wasnt wrong either but didnt put enough angle on the torps and both missed and he charged at me, dive deep, run silent. Greed now nowhere to be found on the sub, had won. I was running low on torps and battery power. So I ran as slowly as I could away from the area and before my batteries died surfaced and recharged them. Spent the rest of the day dodging air patrols.
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