IJN Semi-Submersible Tanker

[ElAurens]

On my most recent patrol/career out of Perth aboard USS Grampus I came across a convoy West of the Celebes. Sank two medium freighters with no trouble, put one torp into a Large Modern Tanker and stopped her engine. I waited for the convoy to move on then surfaced and finished her with the deck gun. I then I put seven fish into this Large Modern Tanker. It matched every speed and course change of her convoy with no difficulty. Not believeing what I was seeing I decided to shadow her to see how long she would stay afloat. She sailed on in this condition for over 7 hours. I created a save at that point and decided to see just how silly things were here. I put my final torp into the nearest destroyer, finishing her. I surfaced and opened up with the deck gun. Sunk the remaining two destroyers, finished off the tanker, and sunk the remaining 4 or 5 (can't remember now) merchants.

So much for "realism".



It was gratifying in an FPS kind of way, but not really what I would have expected from a "simulation".