Well let me be the one that changes the tone here. It must be said that the RFB submarine damage model is AWESOME!!!! In my entire time in the SHIV world I have been either dead or untouched after an encounter with depth charges. Never have I been damaged. That all changed last night...
This was the situation after one of the four destroyers that was hammering me placed a string of charges close enough to do what you see above. Shortly after this I was severely down by the stern and I could only maintain depth at FLANK speed. Therefore I spent the next 45 mins dodging depth charges since my attackers had no trouble finding me at that speed. The whole time I was juggling repair priorities since I needed to get the compartments fixed before I could pump the water out.
The Ice Cream Machine kept creeping up the priority list, LOL! Finally the depth charges stopped since my attackers probably ran out of DCs and decided to return to the convoy. Here is a hunch. I think they give up if they chase you and wind up farther than 5 km from they convoy they are protecting. I dont know this for sure but I have had destroyers break off the attack before when I was very easy to find but far from the convoy.
Anyway I thought I was in the clear but just to make sure I cut my engines to ALL STOP so I could listen behind me. Well that was a mistake. The boat started dropping like a rock and the stern slammed into the bottom!. I quickly blew ballast and ordered flank speed and we eventually rose off the bottom. However I received 3% hull damage from that incident. Naturally I was now worried about diving to deep so I blew ballast again and popped to the surface. Fortunately the destroyers were out of visual range by now (thank God for the new fog modelling!) and I high tailed it out of there on the surface.
As you can see my men were able to stop the flooding in the engine room and start pumping out. They succeeded in pumping out the after torpedo room as well but that took 2 days! It took most of the two week voyage home to fix everything else!
THANK YOU RFB TEAM!! This is the first time I have ever had to fight to save the ship!
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