October 28th 1942, somewhere in the South Atlantic off the coast of Africa,
Got warnings of Radar being detected and after watching them realized it was a ship heading towards me on a parallel course. Decided to take a chance and plotted an intercept course which I guesstimated would leave me about 3000 meters away from it when it came time to loose my torps. 5 minutes after submerging my hydrophone guy picks up not only a warship but three merchants heading towards me and after plotting their course they should arrive 3000 meters in front of me still. Time passes they get close to me, I raise my scopes and lo and behold they're 6000+ meters away from me! That was a big problem as by this point of the war my loadout consists solely of T3s until the homing torps come online so I had to watch a convoy that only had one escort and 3 large freighters with no guns other then AA(so I could've shelled them) pass me by. The lesson to take from all of this? No matter how correct you think your bearings are keep checking them!
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