I Don't Believe This!

[Seminole]

I set-up this ambush, point blank range shot. I fired when this small old split freighter reached about 700 yards bearing 350 degrees:




He was doing 9 knots when he spotted the first torpedo. He did an immediate hard port turn and actually combed the four torpedo wakes fired at about 3-5 second intervals! ..like you might expect a destroyer to maybe do. But a freighter?...c"m on...not at point blank range.


Luckily, I was able to do a quick 180 and fire the 2 stern tubes which caught him a fatal blow in his bow. I don't understand why he couldn't perform his almost magical manouver again. This time the torpedoes came from a much longer distance and he was already alerted to the danger...unlike before. (the bearing reads 000 because I had turned again towards him preparing a surface battle if he didn't go down when I snapped the screenie...in fact, I don't know why I took the original set up screenshot to begin with..but now I'm glad I did..I was too flabergasted ,I guess, to take one of him actually combing the wakes)




Danged but this sim sure does make it hard sometimes...but I suppose that is what keeps us interested. Total elapsed time: 6 minutes.