Just Brilliant !

[Von Due]

Probably the last pics from Loch Ewe for now. Good grief this was tedious.

After sinking the floating dock, I had a CTD and had to reload. Luckily that was after the first 2 hits.

Now it was time to decide. So:

I decided, because I'm off me head, that the ASW trawler couldn't hit the atlantic ocean if it tried so using broad daylight I navigated the nets and pinpointed Illustrious and Nelson. The pinging was insane. Up to 5 destroyers pinging me like it was a party game. Coming in from every direction I couldn't hear anything other than this blasted noise.

It took a good while to set up the attack on Illustrious. The range was about 400 meters with a net right behind me less than 50 meters away. It was fairly cramped and not suitable for large, graceful maneuvering. Had 4 eels left, 3 electric in the bow tubes and one ordinary in the aft tube. Since I knew where the magazine on Nelson was, I decided to spend one on her, and the remaining 3 on Illustrious since I had no idea where her fuel tank or magazine were (one would have thought she has a bay for storing the planes' munition).

She took one under the keel from around 350 meters, followed up by 2 set at 1 meter, hoping they would hit a critical compartement or at least flood her good. Lo and behold, they did not hit anything critical but they did manage to weigh her down with salty water.

While she was deciding whether to sink or not, I navigated the nets until I found Nelson. She was there happy as a lark minding her own business. From 350 meters she had a torpedogram delivered to her magazine. She blew up beatufully. Illustrious sank 30 minutes after she was hit.

The result:

 

2nd image is a close encounter with a Tribal. Moored but I can pretend it's very scary. At least that pinging is.

EDIT:
It is near noon, waiting near the island for darkness to go decks awash and get the hell out of here.