Problems with last nights patrol

[hunter301]

Well I finally got my laptop hooked up to my 52" flatscreen T.V.
Pretty cool actually although I had trouble reading some of the text on the screen without looking back down at my laptop screen. What made it so immersive is that my 14 yr. old son was out there with me getting in on the action.

I was running the Tokyo-Saipan convoy mission. Moderate sized convoy but a crap load of destroyer cover including a light cruiser.
I was doing alright. Had about 800' feet of water under me so I would sneek up to P-depth take out a ship and dive back down about 30' off the bottom and wait until my "fish" were reloaded before going back up. Had a thermal around 200' that hid me pretty well.
Anyway with 3 destroyers and one light cruiser sitting on top of me I got DC'ed pretty good when I came back up. Started taking all kinds of damage, flooding in the boat, both scopes destroyed, engines damaged, batteries damaged, etc....
Now here's the part that just took away from the realism completely. My son said to go back into the control room view to see what was going on with all the damage. He was hoping to see water streaming out of pipes, crew scurring around fixing damage, etc....
Nope..You would have thought they were serving tea and crumpets it was so calm and normal in the control room. XO was still looking at the map. Guys going to go blind by the end of the patrol.
One other note...I was taking severe flooding in the engine room which like many other missions had the ass end of my boat hanging down at a 45 degree angle. In another thread "Moving thru the boat" we are discussing being able to adjust forward and aft trim tanks to be able to level out the boat in this very situation. shouldn't the repair crew have access to trim controls to adjust the boats current condition. Even if you can't do it manually thru the game it should part of their program to do this first right.