OK merc... I am almost positive that I took a picture of that lone DD and the pillar of fire early in the proceedings, but it did not "take"... I have an interior view of the NavMap, showing all of the sonar lines and the radar contacts on my screen. I then "flew" out toward the group, and was off about 15° to port, and missed the big Yamato group, but saw the DD. I thought it odd, so I am almost positive I did a <Ctrl><F11> combo, but the next picture is:
8x CA, 4x BB 3x CVL, 1x CL and 7x DD, 1x DE - which may well be the problem child... It's supposed to be the lead escort. The lone DD (DE??) would be a couple of miles to the right and ahead, across the group, in that pic above... Anyway, several things I found quite interesting:
#1 - if you're an airplane, stay away from the Musashi and the Yamato!
The rockets are deadly accurate, though they really shouldn't be quite so accurate. I'm not sure how those work...
#2 - airplanes can take out CA rather easily. This is one of three that I saw:
I've got one from just before the big explosion on the Tone that is a hit on a DD - in fact, that fire / smoke column behind the Tone is from that DD having been hit in the same attack also, by a 2nd airplane... I saw several DD get hit, but they smoke for a few minutes, then go on about their business... ready to dump charges on submarines at a moment's notice...
#3 - things move fast, and you will miss good screen shots... lol
The flak can be quite impressive, and the noise!...
My one detonation on the Chiyoda behind me
The Shoho "dodging" 3... of which two hit the wounded Myoko ahead. This is maybe the 2nd time that I've "stolen" the points from a plane - wait though, the game crashed on me, so none of this counts...
The Chitose going down
I may very well have the names of the 3 CVL incorrect, because it is tough to tell one from the other...
My first example of them coming right at me
Two passes over me, and then the Yamato wanted the opportunity...
She did save me about two or three more DD trips over me though... so I got maybe 10 minutes before:
Which is a double-exposure to show how they were straddling me, whether I was bow-on, or side-on... Here's the attack run, and the result of it, of which I did not do the next pik in the series, because all the picture has in it is a wall of water at the same camera location... sigh. So much damage...
You can see though that they pretty well had me bracketed there, and another was starting their run right after this... so I re-ordered the repair priorities, of which there were quite a few, including aft torpedo room destroyed, bulkhead damaged "Medic!", and that's when I saw that smoke on the horizon and went to investigate, resulting in the CTD. There was no slow-down though, until I got near that DD (or DE??)...
