I was so very very close...

[CaptainMattJ.]

Originally Posted by Armistead

Should we count the things you did wrong...

If you had 12 men killed, sounds like you left men on the DG, AA guns, ect.
You can't leave them there dived as the game still sees them on those stations and a charge will kill them. Place them in the alley or damage crew, but never load your sub with so many men you can't move them from the topside gun stations. If not on the DG, you were just too shallow and they scored a direct hit.

Early war you probably didn't have surface radar and your men have poorer skills. If you have a contact, don't use TC until you have everything figured out. They can hit you with a dozen shells before you get slowed down. Often you can see them, but your men can't.

Instead of fighting escorts at scope depth, I would've dived deep and evaded and saved my torps for the TF if a end around was possible. I'm sure they slowed when you were spotted. Very dangerous fighting multiple escorts, you set up on one the other blast you with a good run.

You didn't get phantom damage. No doubt while using some TC a escort made a run. Even 8% TC under battle you can die and the escort be long gone before you slow down. So with TC you got attacked and the DD had made his pass before you slowed down. It's also possible a plane made an attack on you, happens all the time.

Not sure how many skippers you had, I would think RFB limits officers and you would be very limited anyway at the start of the war.

That was a Kongo.......

1: i read that the game auto placed them in the alley. and FYI, i didnt get DCed. my periscope bashed agains their ship, which still somehow kiled 12 men nd injured everybody else

2: they didnt attack me while on the surface. they tried shelling me at periscope depth.

3: i was planning to dive if it got way too rough. since they never DCed, i didnt dive.

4: this wasnt a run.if you had read more carefully, youdve seen that i said NO destroyers were even close. and besides i got 1 TC the second it started happening though. again, if you had actually read more carefully, you wouldve seen that instead of getting all the damage all at once likke you would in TC, this was gradual over 10 seconds. i heard SCRAPING sound, not any booms or dongs, like youd expect if i hit the ocean floor or get DCed, and again there werent any destroyers nearby. and since it was scraping, it meant that i was scarping against Metal. a look on the external cam showed NOTHING. therefore, this was phantom damage.

And to top it off, the dds never made a run on me.

4: i originally thought it was a kongo, but got it confused with the Fuso so that the ithought the kongo had 6 Dual main batteries instead of 4, therfor i ruled out the kongo.

but whats the other class of battleship? theres 2 jap battleship classes with 6 main batteries. It was the Fuso class and the...what?