Yamato

Yesterday, Feb. 4th 1942, i was in the south west of Luzon. The radio told me that a enemy task force was heading south towards my postion, so i moved in. The sonar picked em up heading directly for me. Soon the lookouts called the sightings. A contact report to ComSubPac generated the answer to go and get em. A last sharp look reavelled some really high command structures but i dived to persicopedepth before the ships came near enough for classification. When they were near enough i nearly swallowed my tongue: the center column was led by a Yamato followed by an early Ise and another Yamato bringing up the rear. The western column consisted of two CAs and one CL, the eastern of one CA and two CLs, the usual escorts were snooping around, too. I decided to go for the leading Yamato. The four bow tubes fired, all ahead flank, make new heading 80° (by then the first torp hit just below the command structure, the other 3 hit between the cs and the funnel) and out with the aft tubes. Those four hit in the area around the funnel. Now the escorts were steaming in. The last look i had on the Yamato showed a slight list to bord and the ship was happily ziczacing away.
Great, 8 torps wasted for no gain. Maneovering my boat in the seafloor to evade the escorts couldn't make my mood any worse.