The one time i'm glad the torp were a dud.

[Admiral Halsey]

I'm waiting off Samar for the battle and a chance to sink some BB's when the weather turns for the worst. It's only a few minutes later that I pick up a TF on my radar and plot and intercept course and lay in wait. Thinking the weather is a blessing I do what was only the second most stupid thing of this whole event. I decide to use the weather as cover and attack the TF while surfaced.

Using the Hydrophones I was able to determine when I pierced what I thought was the destroyer screen and decided to take a shot using a combo of the Radar and the Hydrophone. Well I was able to get a rough idea of where I needed to shoot the torps and let them loose. Since I do use the external cam for watching the ships as they sink I decide to see what ship the torps are heading for. Turns out it was a US Carrier. It seems what stumbled into was the US forces involved with the battle.

I started praying that I had messed up something with the set up of the torps but nope they ran straight and true and all I could do was count the seconds. Well the first one missed as it run a bit deep and I had them set to impact detonation and while that eased some of my worries there was still another torp the carrier had to contend with. Well I had decided to get the heck out of there as I knew those destroyer boys would be angry at me for accidentally sinking one of our own when I got the greatest message ever. "Torpedo is a dud sir!" When I heard that I shouted with relief. Afterwards the crew and I decided to never mention the incident and if anyone from BuOrd asked about them we would claim they went hot in the tubes and we had to fire them off.