Just wanted to compliment the FOTRS team on the revamp of the HEIAN MARU freighter. I had the original and it had issues maintaining formation when with other ships, holding a proper speed when alone, a lot of strange behavior and its photo in the rec manual left a lot to be desired. I added the FOTRS version (with tweaks for TMO) to TMO and just sunk it in April 1943 in a convoy. Worked beautifully and looked so great through periscope almost hated to sink it.
Conducted one of my best approaches and attacks from where target was detected submerged, approached submerged, and sunk submerged as convoy left the Tokyo Wan heading south. Closed to 1000 yards and sunk with three new torpex (modded hit points to reflect the differences in the warheads) Mark 14 torpedoes, and all of them performed properly for once lol. This was done without external cam or map contacts. Had to go to 100 fee to avoid a marauding airplane and mask the higher speed needed to make to close the range for a proper shot, which as know can be challenging. Wish I had the attack recorded, it was textbook.
The escorting destroyers got their payback though, aside from flooding which took the Porpoise class (USS Pompano) to 541 feet before could gain control. Suffered hull damage and all four bow torpedoes damaged beyond repair. Back to Pearl Harbor we go. Ah well, least got 11800 tons of Heian Maru.
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