Night attack in the new and improved TMO. (My apologies for having to split the video into three pieces but I'm rather cheap and don't own a Youtube premium account. Still, I wanted to share this 38 minute experience without editing out parts.)
I stopped my Seahorse experience and started a new career mid-1944 to take advantage of the improvements and fixes offered at that stage of the war.
USS Apogon (SS-308)
First patrol - first enemy encounter. A fast convoy consisting of 2 tankers (6,000+ tons and 11,000+ tons) making 16 knots or so at night. We reported it and received orders to attack. Attempted to make a surface attack since they were moving too fast to make a submerged run. Our intent was to sink the largest tanker then make a break for it. When nearly in range the 2 escorts broke our way and we were forced to submerge.
I thought we were going to be dead meat at least a half dozen times during this encounter. As it turns out, we were able to sink both escorts and the smaller tanker before finishing off the larger one. I think luck certainly played a part. That and having a fine crew on a fine boat.
(I just thought presenting a video would give the finer details.)
I've extended my mods.