Why am I resurrecting this hoary old thread? To tell a war story of course.
Haven't bought SH IV yet. Waiting till I get wireless so DLing the massive patches won't be so painful. Still, all the talk of submarines and torpedos and such made me want to prey on hapless tankers, so until I can enlist in the virtual US Sub Force, I figured I'd go a few more rounds with the Germans.
Started a career in La Spiza as I'd never tried the Med before. First patrol reminded me why I liked stalking merchies and why I hate planes. Expended my torpedos, ran my deck gun out of ammo, and turned for home with a respectable score of 41,000 tons.
Then, as I'm time compressing my way back to base, I surface a little too early...there's still enough daylight in the Med for planes to be out, and one finds me. Dive Dive Dive. I stay down at 100 meters or so, waiting for darkness, when my sound guy tells me there's a warship on the hydrophone. Medium range, high speed, closing. I'd already been heading up to periscope depth, so I take a look, and see...well...look at the picture...
I'm running with just the 1.4 patch. No mods for heavier traffic, or anything else that makes warship encounters more common. And I'm not in a harbor, where my previous warship kills took place. This sucker was in deep water, north of the African coast. What the picture doesn't show you is that in front of her was another BB, Revenge-class, and behind was a cruiser and three Hunt III class destroyers. And me without a single blessed torpedo, a lack made more painful by the range...again, see the pic.
Though I couldn't sink her, I was excited enough I made my girlfriend look and explained why I thought the encounter was so cool. Apparently my excitement was infectious, as she didn't even yawn!
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