Your most frustrating foul-ups?

hermanJnr. · 08-06-12, 02:35 PM

Sometimes, especially on higher realism settings, an attack just doesn't go as planned. I thought it'd be interesting to hear of some unplanned events from the sailors here.

Playing on 70% realism, I just recently started a new career after a break from the game. Getting my bearings by sinking a hapless small enemy merchant with the deck gun, I then decided to intercept a nearby Task Force that had been radioed in.

Sure enough I bumped into them along the predicted path. I correctly identified the juicy target ship as a Large Old Passenger Ship troop transport, plugged in the Range calculation using the Stadimeter, set up the AOB of the ship and then patiently waited before getting the crew to give me a speed from my second reading.

The escort, in the form of 2 Destroyers, remained blissfully unaware as I crept to just over a kilometre away. I set up the torpedoes - this was in the bag.

And then it all went wrong. I fired 3, figuring that'd be sufficient to take out a big ship, then waited. The explosions started far sooner than I would have liked - a dud torp exploded dramatically only a few hundred metres from my sub. Immediately Morse signals were being flashed by the enraged destroyers and the merchant startled wobbling uncertainly.

*BANG*, two torp hits right on the bow of the target regardless. I wait, breath held, as it lists slightly. And then it rights itself, the juggernaut laughing off the damage and apparently ignoring the tons of water gushing into the front of the boat. Crap.

After that it was a crash dive followed by a far-too-close-for-comfort session of "Flee the Destroyers", three torpedoes down and not a single ton of damage in sight!

08-06-12, 02:35 PM	#1
hermanJnr. Swabbie Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 8 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Your most frustrating foul-ups? Sometimes, especially on higher realism settings, an attack just doesn't go as planned. I thought it'd be interesting to hear of some unplanned events from the sailors here. Playing on 70% realism, I just recently started a new career after a break from the game. Getting my bearings by sinking a hapless small enemy merchant with the deck gun, I then decided to intercept a nearby Task Force that had been radioed in. Sure enough I bumped into them along the predicted path. I correctly identified the juicy target ship as a Large Old Passenger Ship troop transport, plugged in the Range calculation using the Stadimeter, set up the AOB of the ship and then patiently waited before getting the crew to give me a speed from my second reading. The escort, in the form of 2 Destroyers, remained blissfully unaware as I crept to just over a kilometre away. I set up the torpedoes - this was in the bag. And then it all went wrong. I fired 3, figuring that'd be sufficient to take out a big ship, then waited. The explosions started far sooner than I would have liked - a dud torp exploded dramatically only a few hundred metres from my sub. Immediately Morse signals were being flashed by the enraged destroyers and the merchant startled wobbling uncertainly. BANG, two torp hits right on the bow of the target regardless. I wait, breath held, as it lists slightly. And then it rights itself, the juggernaut laughing off the damage and apparently ignoring the tons of water gushing into the front of the boat. Crap. After that it was a crash dive followed by a far-too-close-for-comfort session of "Flee the Destroyers", three torpedoes down and not a single ton of damage in sight!