BEST BATTLE EVER!!

[woodenboat]

Originally Posted by Cybermat47

...with no offensive action at all taken against me.

It's like getting a Get Out Of Jail Free card. Those are the best ones.

Well, the using a crippled freighter as cover is a repeatable tactic. I tried it again and it works. This time I intentionally put one fish into the stern of the closest merchant and then went alongside. After a while she caught fire and began to list. So this time around, I knew my time was going to be limited at best. I don't know if it matters one way or another but this next convoy didn't have Fubukis as escorts. They were Akizukis and there was also a light Agano class cruiser in the fray. The Akizukis didn't run laps around me like the Fubukis had done before. I tried to pick them off but missed on several tries even though I was shooting with a full green triangle and from between 350 and 400 yards. How can I miss under those circumstances? I don't get it!! Finally, I shot both of them but MAN I sure wasted a bunch of torpedoes. Meanwhile, the Agano came to a full stop and just stood off about 1500 yards to my stern. By this time, I had run out of torpedoes in my stern tubes and only had two fish in my bow tubes. It looked like it was going to be a waiting game. The merchant finally succumbed to her injuries and slid under. That's when the light cruiser came on in. I had to crash dive and get out of there cause I didn't figure that I stood a chance against that cruiser.

So, this time in the end, I only got credited with one merchant and two Akizukis for an entire sub's worth of torpedoes. I guess what goes around, comes around. I still have a lot to learn.