I was so very very close...

[CaptainMattJ.]

After ficing my mods problem, i installed RFB 2.0 and a few other things. i started a new career in Manila with a Sargo. i put as many skippers on board as i can get and head off. i started heading towards the western part of luzon when sure enough i get contacts. it was one warship extreme range. one then turned into 4. i assumed it was a destroyer and a few gunboats and a subchaser. i TCed and ended up abruptly stopping 20 minutes later when i recieved around 15 contacts. this was no doubt a task force. This early, it HAD to be something big. i used external cam and shot foward12 KM and sure enough, there were 3 battleships, 2 Heavy cruisers, one light cruiser, 8 destroyers and strangely enough a Merchant was in there too. it was anything big, just a lowly small tanker. i believe the battlehisp were......fuso maybe? it was a little odd looking to me. ive seen mostly all of the japanese battleships and i could quite put my giner on these ones.

I immedately abandoned my ourse and turned to an estimated intercept course and dived.

The really rotten part of this story so far? the destroyers saw me already. they sent 2 at first, and i didnt even notice. i tced and was stopped a few minutes later (game time) by me getting shelled by destroyers trying to hit me underwater. They had sent FOUR destroyers. i had NO intention of abandoning this opportunity. they had already pinged me, and since they already knew where i was i pushed to flank and turned hard right. one destroyer was around 400 meters. and my stern tube was a perfect 180 bearing, so i fired. it ran for a few seconds and bounced off them like if it hit a giant rubber band. a dud . there was a destroyer moving perpendicular and right behind the one i just shot at, giving me another good shot. i fired, but it was mocing too fast. my torpedo fired and had to take a wide turn , and AGAIN bounced off the same destroyer i had just fired at. thats now 0 for 2. i turn hard over, but the destroyer tracked me and ran over me. My scope bashed against it, Hard. It didnt do a dam thing to it, but it killed about 12 men on the bridge, and injured everyone else. however, it didnt drop anything (odd)? i turned and fired another shot at that same destryoer, and it tore it to shreds instantly. Vengence!

i turned again and hit another destroyer, it did nothing instant except make a giant gaping hole. they came around for another run, but STILL didnt drop anything. i turned for another shot and it also only left a gaping hole, no instant effects however. i tced and turned towards their fleet. when i stopped, i looked around and only one destroyer mulled about. it didnt try anything so i set up for another attack. This time however, they sent the other destroyers at me. they tried again, but still diddnt DC me. By then i realized that this was a glitch, so i took advantage of it. i tced again and 1 minute later i get stopped and get reports of taking damage. it started out as one warning, then turned into multiple system hits. i heard Scraping noises of metal on metal, and i look in external and theres NOTHING near me. im not anywhere near shallow water, and no ship was near me. i just took a massive beating from "phantom" damage, which has been happening ALOT lately.

Nothing serious though i again i try to intercept. THe battleships were still 3000 M away and zigging, which meant id have very little chance to attack. i end up catching up to the back, near a Takao HC. i try to go to periscope station, and BOTH scopes are busted. i cant even go into persciope view, much less steup an attack.i fired a few shots based on the last attack i carried out that still stuck in the TDC. They all of course missed. Both scopes were WAAAAY below 1% damage, and yet they couldnt be fixed. terribad damage rep in this game.

The ONLY consolation prize i got was the 3 destroyers i nailed all sank. i cant believe because of this phantom damage i lose 3 battleshisp and a bunch of heavy cruisers . heres some screenies of it.


One of the Battleships


some of the task force in their neat rows



That dam POS destroyer that killed 12 men, 6 of which were officers getting Justifiedly pulverized..




One of the destroyers that took a hit but didnt burst into flames instantly.


That same destroyer a little later.