Your best TDC shots?

CCIP · 04-18-07, 10:55 AM

Just wondering how well some of the other captains who use manual TDC have done? :p

I've had two really good ones to brag about so far.

- I was running in the Sulu sea in windy weather, submerged at 150ft for the day - sonarman picks up a warship contact and I come up to take a look. Eventually I spot a minelayer in the distance; I'd surface, but I already know he's going to spot me, and if I spend too long chasing him, I'll get attacked by aircraft. I do what I can to catch up on his position without surfacing, and manage to get to about 2800 yards (or is that meters?) off him.
So, I guess his speed to be 10kt, set up two solutions, and fire off tubes 1 and 2. Really thankful for the stadimeter there - it'd be impossible to calculate a solution without it in that weather

I watch him steaming by for two and a half minutes, the timer on my stopwatch seems to run out... so I give up, order down scope and jack up the time compression. As soon as I do, the game jumps out of time compression with "torpedo impact" and "enemy unit destroyed"

I raise the scope in time to watch the second torpedo slam into the sinking hulk. A good 4000t kill

-Second one was last night - at night time, I came across a pair, a Shiratsuyu destroyer followed by a subchaser. I could only get so close to them before submerging; but they never noticed me.
Again, guessing their speed to be about 10kt, I see that they're not going to get very close and it wouldn't be worth wasting many torpedoes - but I can't let the chance go! So, I set up a solution at 2200 yards, and fire a single torpedo at the destroyer.
About two minutes later, with nothing happening, I'm about to order "down periscope", when all of a sudden there's a brilliant flash and the enemy destroyer breaks in two. Subchaser leaves, tail between legs

Your sinkings, please

04-18-07, 10:55 AM	#1
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Your best TDC shots? Just wondering how well some of the other captains who use manual TDC have done? :p I've had two really good ones to brag about so far. - I was running in the Sulu sea in windy weather, submerged at 150ft for the day - sonarman picks up a warship contact and I come up to take a look. Eventually I spot a minelayer in the distance; I'd surface, but I already know he's going to spot me, and if I spend too long chasing him, I'll get attacked by aircraft. I do what I can to catch up on his position without surfacing, and manage to get to about 2800 yards (or is that meters?) off him. So, I guess his speed to be 10kt, set up two solutions, and fire off tubes 1 and 2. Really thankful for the stadimeter there - it'd be impossible to calculate a solution without it in that weather I watch him steaming by for two and a half minutes, the timer on my stopwatch seems to run out... so I give up, order down scope and jack up the time compression. As soon as I do, the game jumps out of time compression with "torpedo impact" and "enemy unit destroyed" I raise the scope in time to watch the second torpedo slam into the sinking hulk. A good 4000t kill -Second one was last night - at night time, I came across a pair, a Shiratsuyu destroyer followed by a subchaser. I could only get so close to them before submerging; but they never noticed me. Again, guessing their speed to be about 10kt, I see that they're not going to get very close and it wouldn't be worth wasting many torpedoes - but I can't let the chance go! So, I set up a solution at 2200 yards, and fire a single torpedo at the destroyer. About two minutes later, with nothing happening, I'm about to order "down periscope", when all of a sudden there's a brilliant flash and the enemy destroyer breaks in two. Subchaser leaves, tail between legs Your sinkings, please __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)