The Admiral at Pearl is picking on me.

[Elder-Pirate]

Dag nag it anyway I bend over backwards and almost get my crew and myself killed trying to do just what Comsubpac tells me to do then they let me hanging right outside Tojo's door.
The patrol started out going from Pearl to Honshu. Along the way I dodged DD after DD and some juicy Marus just so I would have enough ammo to tear things up a little in the star area ( south of Honshu ) and then maybe head back to pearl. Whoa here comes a large convoy, set things up and cleaned a few clocks. I had one torp remaining and had to drop to 210 feet because of a bad DD growling at me. Lost said DD, came up to surface 2300 hours and recharged batt. Sent HQ my status and I get the all clear for my rondevu point ( Star ).



OK wheres the rest of the message? I can't fight with just one stinking torpedo and in Tojo waters...........OH here it is....WTF??



Great I have one torp and they expect me to win the war. OK if that's the way they want it so be it. I started heading back toward Midway to reload and lord looky here. The radar has a Shokaku CV and all its 28000 tons crawling along at 5 NM with NO protection at all. And me with one lousy torpedo. Well it was about 0300 hours and pitch black out so no planes to worry about. I set up for the kill and waited at P depth until the torp I figured would hit about mid ship. The draft is about 28 feet and I know these damn torps screw up if you try magnetic but I'm going to try it any how and Whoosh out the tube door it went set at 25 feet. ( I remember all through SH4 if you set the torp for magnetic and set the draft a foot below the hull the torp would swim under the hull. )

KAMOOM right smack in the beam. I sat there looking at the monitor ( looking through scope ) astonished and by the time it was over I realized I should have taken a pic. The torp must have run just under the hull and the mag worked and blew heck out of her or it hit at the 25 feet I set it for and the hit points were just right. Anyway the CV never rolled nor stood on either end it just slowed to 2 kts and went straight down horizontal to the ocean surface.

I swear I am not making this up but only one torpedo on a CV? Is this supposed to really happen game wise? In real life I'm sure it did not.

Now no torps and very little ammo ( if needed ) so I again radioed my proud message only to hear nothing. I made it to Midway and refitted and turned around and headed for the Honshu area again. I was about 250-300 NM South East of the old target area when two small freighters came toward me. Well I thought what the heck their Marus and that's what I'm here for. Bang-bang both sunk with two torps each this time and they were small freighters at that.

At this point I needed a computer break and so I saved game. Guess what? The end screen said both objectives were completed. All I did was sink two small freighters to get it finally completed.

Wonder if the Admiral saw me wink at his daughter last time in Pearl?

I SH4 and I'm aheadin' for Pearl and a hot date too.