I'm A Little Depressed

Fish40 · 03-30-13, 10:16 AM

My campaign as USS Trout (actually lasted longer than the real Trout) came to a horrible end today in the Southern Yellow Sea. I made it until March'45. While attacking a two ship convoy protected by three "D" class coastal defense vessels, I was hunted down and sustained massive damages which spelt my end

I detected this convoy at long range, and tracked it for some time, when it suddenly changed course and headed straight for me. The plot showed them practically running over me! After some positioning to give me some breathing room off the enemy's track, I closed at silent speed. Just as I was ready to fire (by this time it was almost point blank) the lead escort picked me up and started pinging. I quickly fired a spread of three torpedoes, two of which impacted. The third passed slightly ahead, due to the ships loss of speed. Lucky for me the two were enough. Anyway, the escorts managed some really close hits despite my twisting and turning, and caused critical damage and destroyed bulkheads with heavy flooding. I bottomed out at 258' where it ended. Funny how you could get so immersed in a game that you could actually feel a little bummed out when it ends. Oh well, new career on deck

03-30-13, 10:16 AM	#1
Fish40 The Old Man Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Yonkers, NY U.S.A. Posts: 1,507 Downloads: 154 Uploads: 0	I'm A Little Depressed My campaign as USS Trout (actually lasted longer than the real Trout) came to a horrible end today in the Southern Yellow Sea. I made it until March'45. While attacking a two ship convoy protected by three "D" class coastal defense vessels, I was hunted down and sustained massive damages which spelt my end I detected this convoy at long range, and tracked it for some time, when it suddenly changed course and headed straight for me. The plot showed them practically running over me! After some positioning to give me some breathing room off the enemy's track, I closed at silent speed. Just as I was ready to fire (by this time it was almost point blank) the lead escort picked me up and started pinging. I quickly fired a spread of three torpedoes, two of which impacted. The third passed slightly ahead, due to the ships loss of speed. Lucky for me the two were enough. Anyway, the escorts managed some really close hits despite my twisting and turning, and caused critical damage and destroyed bulkheads with heavy flooding. I bottomed out at 258' where it ended. Funny how you could get so immersed in a game that you could actually feel a little bummed out when it ends. Oh well, new career on deck