Finally Sunk The Yamato!

[WernherVonTrapp]

Originally Posted by tater

Sneaking around Truk should be scary from a TERRAIN standpoint, screw the IJN. Think about currents, for example. Read PRs, and there were times during long DC attacks, etc, where boats were moving more from currents than under power submerged. Sneaking someplace underwater means conserving juice... imagine if you had to use ahead full submerged just to make headway...

It was more punishment for people sneaking in, frankly.

Hmmmm, you're absolutely right. It's funny how I never even (really) considered that, and that's knowing full well of the perils of entering the Mediterranean (submerged) through the strait of Gibralter. The current there was tantamount (metaphorically) to an atmospheric jetstream. I was expecting, at least, a DD or two to be sitting and waiting at every ingress/egress but, nary a DD was to be found inside the entire lagoon. Just a Small Subchaser that litterally moved to and fro along a plot line I was able to draw upon. After sinking the Y, the subchaser just, well, up and vanished.

[tater]

Originally Posted by Gibus

I totally understand your point of view, but we can not say that Günther Prien or Mush Morton was dishonest, no?

Morton nosed into an anchorage.*



*Based on what I wrote, that seems to be brushing it off. Quite the contrary. Nosing into an incredibly open harbor like Wewak was literally MoH level stuff. It was insane, and audacious.

Compare that harbor to Truk. Or any of the many harbors you are ordered to penetrate in the absurd stock campaign (then take pictures, as if the intel on the ships brought back in a few WEEKS would have any value). Nosing into Truk would have been insane. Going all the way in? LOL.

[Gibus]

Originally Posted by tater

(then take pictures, as if the intel on the ships brought back in a few WEEKS would have any value).

I am also totally agree with that.