Heavy Flak Gun comes in handy after all :)

[panthercules]

Playing for over a year now, and this Game still amazes me

I'm out at sea in my Type IXB in October 1941, on my third patrol with GW 1.0/UC.

Finally, the planes have returned - after seeing no planes whatsoever in my last 3 patrols, I have been chased under by PBYs 3 times on this patrol. Each time, I have actually seen them far enough away to spot them myself in my binoculars and actually have some time to decide what to do before they were upon me - this time, I decided to crash dive and made it under with only minor damage to my topside locations.

As I was about to surface at dusk 4 hours later, I heard some very faint screws on my hydrophone sweep. I surfaced, repaired the damage and took off to intercept what turned out to be a lone British coastal freighter. My first torpedo was a dud, so I fired another one, only to see it malfunction as well. Determined not to let this one get away, and since the winds were light enough at 3m/s to allow use of my deck gun, I decided to surface and fight it out with her, even though she was armed. (I know, a questionable judgment call but I felt it was necessary for crew morale under the circumstances)

I took her by surprise, and although she managed to get off a couple of poorly aimed shots I was able to destroy her only gun with my third or fourth shot. Somewhere along the way though, she had snapped on a searchlight and now had me lit up.

I hit her a few times with my deck gun, setting her on fire in several places and punching a few holes along her waterline for good measure. Then, just to see if I could, I manned my heavy flak gun and tried to see if I could shoot out her searchlight. Sure enough, about 10-15 shots later, I was rewarded with a small secondary explosion and the searchlight went dark. It was soooo coool looking

I broke out the bottles I found in the conning tower and rewarded my flak crew with some of their favorite adult beverage. Soon afterwards, the freighter heeled over and slipped beneath the waves.

Man, I love finding new things to do in this game even after all this time