Damaged Sub Fully Repaired then Sinks Like a Stone

[JoeCorrado]

Originally Posted by sober

I have never had hull damage in SH4 . I dont get that close to destroyers . (apart from the time i ran into a task force surfaced in fog LOL )

I had hull damage of 16% once and after the immediate "issues" were corrected, I took a look with the free camera to see what hull damage might look like since everything was being reported as fixed... except for the little note about hull damage... it didn't show up in the repair logs anywhere else.

turns out I had a hole in my sub from a lucky shot by the crew manning the deck gun of a merchant. A merchant! I was so disgusted that he would dare take a shot at me when all I had done was to surface for the purpose of finishing him off that I just ignored the sound of a shell striking my boat till after the battle. Wow, had I known I had a hole in my boat big enough to walk through...

Needless to say, I ran for home with my tail between my legs hoping that I could stay on the surface the whole way. I wasn't that lucky but I avoided contact with warships like the plague and never submerged below periscope depth. I felt fortunate to get home safely and since then I always check for deck guns on merchants before I surface to use my own deck gun. Those guys just don't play fair.

Anyway; if I had a big hole in my sub at just 16%, I wonder what scrapser's must have looked like at a whopping 66% - probably like a spaghetti sieve.