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Originally Posted by JoeCorrado
It was still fairly early in the war May 23, 1942 about 100 miles East, North East of Singapore. Convoy had a total of four escorts that I could positively identify- all of the Fubuki class. Like I said, the lead escort must have had a fairly high rating because he was clearly the most dangerous of them all- he eventually ran out of charges. I was quite happy about that. I constantly held my breath with each of his runs because he was pretty close to being dead on. Two of his buddies were in on the action, but their accuracy was just a tad off missing each pass by at least my boat's width nearly every time.
I guess that I was just too close in my approach position, even at full stop, silent running and 100 feet deep- he wasn't fooled and was obviously quite angry with me when I was detected. I was quite surprised and believing he was just turning to listen as a normal tactic- I held position with no evasive maneuvers till he actually dropped charges on top of me. A rude awakening.
I believe that I would have had much more serious damage especially from that first depth charge run which was entirely too close for comfort! It is always a frustrating thing when you are sent to your maker on the first pass with no chance to even make an attempt at evasion as would have been the case in this scenario. He was on me like a bee on honey! Getting injured crew and a leaking command room was quite enough to get my full attention! And of course, the beating didn't end there!
I will definitely download and install AI Fix, and will also make note of my RPM's and distances. Your MOD is looking good based on my own experience-
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Ah yes, early war.Well the charges have less power in early war , this was done so in the mod to reflect the smaller amount of explosives the early war charges the japanese used.Glad you like the mod.Later war charges carry more of a punch but are much more likely to survive them if forced down in shallow waters.
09-24-13, 07:39 PM
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