AWAITING ORDERS CAPTAIN: what should we do?

[edjcox]

Get one tube loaded

Swing the boat around and head out

Emergency surface at flank, man the deck gun and blast away

Line up on the charging DD, dive and fire that torpedo....

Keep sheling the DD's bow to hoepfully destroy the Forward Gun

Run like hell and steer to one side and get out to deep water

:rotfl:

Watch as they tear you apart...

[TDK1044]

Make a stealthy escape, but hit her with a couple of stern launched torps on the way out.

[sqk7744]

Originally Posted by TDK1044

Make a stealthy escape, but hit her with a couple of stern launched torps on the way out.

Now you're Talking!

"Bring the heat coming and going!"

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by TDK1044

Make a stealthy escape, but hit her with a couple of stern launched torps on the way out.

Not enough data to know whether those stern tubes are available. With six forward torpedo tubes and "a few torpedoes" in the docked ship, why do you have to wait anyway. Don't tell me you came into the harbor without all tubes loaded. If you did, might as well just slink out of there. You already made your fatal mistake and you're only allowed one.

[Capt. Shark Bait]

none of the above as well. i'ld go after the DDs after all tubes are reloaded then finish off the tanker

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by Capt. Shark Bait

none of the above as well. i'ld go after the DDs after all tubes are reloaded then finish off the tanker

Admiral Lockwood would have some unpleasant words with you after the cruise. You might be captain of a desk afterwards. But your sphincter muscles will be well exercised.

[sqk7744]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

Admiral Lockwood would have some unpleasant words with you after the cruise. You might be captain of a desk afterwards. But your sphincter muscles will be well exercised.

:rotflhh no

[STEED]

I have noticed on harbor raids some ships are a real swine to sink I forget the type of the last one I had this with, anyway I fired every MK14 in to her and no joy I fired off all my deck gun shells and still no joy. The ship was half sunk burning away like there was no tomorrow and still the swine lived, I was thinking about ramming the swine but changed my mind on that one.

What I need is a nuclear torp that may do the job.

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by TDK1044

Make a stealthy escape, but hit her with a couple of stern launched torps on the way out.

Seems obvious. I'll grant that again you set up the situation incompletely, leaving too much unspecified for a real discussion here. Surface action against destroyers was suicide in R/L with not one success in that. Lots of failures though. With two lurking out there--you do the math! Can't plan on blowing him sky-high with anything as Realistic Sinking Mechanics makes that unlikely. Most tankers don't have cargo, and that is what blows in RSM.

I'd stay at periscope depth on the escape. For some reason this seems to make the destroyers easier to evade. In any event I follow Wahoo (Morton)'s example and retain the initiative by maintaining periscope depth as long as possible. It isn't as if you have any water here anyway....

No risk, no glory! But how much risk can you tolerate? That is the rub. Destroyers on the surface are invincible vs a sub deck gun in RL and it would be playing Quake, not Silent Hunter 4, to do it here.

So that's a no-vote from me, as the responses (in agreement with the setup) are insufficient.