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Originally Posted by kylania
I'll usually let it sit for an hour or two if it's obvious she's listing or slowing down or something. I had one cargo ship the other night. I hit it with one torpedo and it didn't slow down from 12kts. Since it wasn't slowing, I plotted it's direction, headed in front of it and got into position again. Sure enough it was no longer zig zagging as it neared me, but 3 minutes before I would fire again at it it sunk. Two hours after first being hit.
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I had a similar experience last night with a large merchant. I hit her with one torpedo set to 9m. My next 2 shots (impact fuses) bounced harmlessly away.
She started to list and zig zag but showed no signs of slowing down for several minutes. I had to follow her for several minutes at flank speed (real strain on the batteries) She finally slowed to 3kts & I got perpendicular to her for a stern shot. This one started a big fire but she stayed afloat, dead in the water. I turned around & launched 1 last shot set to 9.5m. That did the trick. It cost me 5 torpedoes but there was no way that I was going to surface & engage her with the deck gun. One well aimed shot from her & I'd have been blown apart: I have over 115,000 tons in this career & I want that RK before BDU transfers me ashore...
