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I'm goin' down · 11-05-08, 03:07 AM

My ship is on Mission No. 10 in Career, off the coast of Japan. My crew decides we are ready for manual targeting, the cocky bastards. After all they had spent hours watching all of the Werner Sobe and Rockin Robbins auto and manual targeting training videos numerous times, and I stayed up all night several times to make sure they were ready.

I restart the mission after my crew had reloaded all of the torpedos in our first failed attempt to attack and sink ships in a convoy, and behold, adjacent to our boat on the map is a really large, slow moving convoy. The destroyers protecting it apparently have heard that my ship cannot hit the broadside of a Japanese barn, so they do not bother us. We close the gap, and go to battle stations.

My crew screws up the firing position on this mission, fires all of the forward torpedos, and misses every shot. So, to boost morale and save face, we cheat by exiting and restarting the mission a third time, where my ship once again is up close and personal with the same convoy, who spots us and relays a message asking if we would like them to deliver a fresh Sushi lunch. I have memorized the convoy's speed and the selected target's identity as a medium split freighter, so I quickly input the information into TDC. I reset the angle on the bow. Again, all shot miss.

I exit and return a fourth time. I hit a ship with an aft torpedo, but I do not know if it was the freighter I targeted. It limps off, and we follow. We get close and fire again, and miss again.

I exit, and return a fifth time. The crew is smarter now because this time we run ahead of the convoy, set up to fire a the recommended angle, and await our quarry. I fire three torpedos at one thousand yards and am watch the seconds tick off the chronometer. Tick, tick, tick.... Suddenly, out of nowhere, bearing down on a course parellel to the target but heading in the opposite direction and crossing in front of my periscope is a destroyer. It runs smack into all three of our torpedos. It sinks like a stone in less than a minute. Meanwhile, the target sails off, heading liesurely into the sunset. We surface and locate it in the binoculars just in time to see its crew assembled at the stern, bent over with their pants down, except for one who waves the Japanese flag.

#$%^&* (Next time they are goin down!).

11-05-08, 03:07 AM	#1
I'm goin' down Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Notify command we have entered the Grass Sea Posts: 2,822 Downloads: 813 Uploads: 0	Ya' gotta' love this game! My ship is on Mission No. 10 in Career, off the coast of Japan. My crew decides we are ready for manual targeting, the cocky bastards. After all they had spent hours watching all of the Werner Sobe and Rockin Robbins auto and manual targeting training videos numerous times, and I stayed up all night several times to make sure they were ready. I restart the mission after my crew had reloaded all of the torpedos in our first failed attempt to attack and sink ships in a convoy, and behold, adjacent to our boat on the map is a really large, slow moving convoy. The destroyers protecting it apparently have heard that my ship cannot hit the broadside of a Japanese barn, so they do not bother us. We close the gap, and go to battle stations. My crew screws up the firing position on this mission, fires all of the forward torpedos, and misses every shot. So, to boost morale and save face, we cheat by exiting and restarting the mission a third time, where my ship once again is up close and personal with the same convoy, who spots us and relays a message asking if we would like them to deliver a fresh Sushi lunch. I have memorized the convoy's speed and the selected target's identity as a medium split freighter, so I quickly input the information into TDC. I reset the angle on the bow. Again, all shot miss. I exit and return a fourth time. I hit a ship with an aft torpedo, but I do not know if it was the freighter I targeted. It limps off, and we follow. We get close and fire again, and miss again. I exit, and return a fifth time. The crew is smarter now because this time we run ahead of the convoy, set up to fire a the recommended angle, and await our quarry. I fire three torpedos at one thousand yards and am watch the seconds tick off the chronometer. Tick, tick, tick.... Suddenly, out of nowhere, bearing down on a course parellel to the target but heading in the opposite direction and crossing in front of my periscope is a destroyer. It runs smack into all three of our torpedos. It sinks like a stone in less than a minute. Meanwhile, the target sails off, heading liesurely into the sunset. We surface and locate it in the binoculars just in time to see its crew assembled at the stern, bent over with their pants down, except for one who waves the Japanese flag. #$%^&* (Next time they are goin down!). Last edited by I'm goin' down; 11-05-08 at 04:58 AM.