Guilty pleasure...torpedoing small craft :)

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OK, not realistic, not sporting, wasteful...whatever. I am on my 7th patrol since getting SHIII and on the way home from Kiel I came across a fishing boat. I had two torpedos left in the stern and the weather was too rough for the deck gun (my usual way of dispatching them...if I bother to hunt them at all). On a whim I decide to attempt to torpedo it...just as sort of a challenge. I figured that it would be pretty hard since the weather was so rough its keel was pretty much out of the water at times...well and it is small. I set the torpedo to 1m of depth, impact and fast. lined up, had my weapons officer plot a solution and sent the torp on its way. What fun!! the torpedo impacted and the boat flew into the air spinning! I found this pretty hysterical....so I have done it again on occasion and each time it has been dramatically different...sometimes rolling under two or three times before going under, sometimes being blown in the air, sometimes disappearing completely other than leaving some flotsam.

I have had to ween myself from this guilty pleasure, especially since the last time I did this, I did it right when setting out for a long distance patrol and I wasted two bow torpedos on the boat...both missing...I sorely missed those torpedos (I did end up reporting the contact and the luftwaffe were swarming him as he left my range). It is also rather unrealistic and does effect the immersion I am generally attempting to achieve.

I am not advocating this behavior...but if you have not done it...maybe just once...