I lost an officer my last W@W patrol as well. I had 1 torpedo left and two armed merchants in front of me, in beautiful weather. I stopped the first ship with the torpedo, and inexplicably the other untouched ship stopped behind it. I guess it was rescuing the crew?
Either way, I made a mistake of coming up at 600 meters away to deck gun them. after getting quite a bit of damage and losing my officer I submerged, came around from 1500 meters away. By this time the first ship had sunk, but the second was still sitting there. I finished it off from range.
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