By the time the last three internally-stowed eels have been loaded, I'm back on the surface and stalking a large tanker, who is straggling and may have been hit earlier. My torpedo snakes off at about 45 degrees gyro angle.



Got her!



And this time, she goes down.



My last two torpedoes also hit and sink tankers. First to go is one of the smaller varieties, which was still burning from an earlier hit...



...then another of the larger tankers, with a hit from the stern tube.



Emboldened by the seeming absence of any remaining escorts, I then order the deck gun manned and we start chewing them up with HE shells aimed at the waterline. Second victim is another large tanker, for which I jump into the gun layer's seat myself.



By the time I decide to call it quits, we've sunk well over fifty thousand tons, double the mission target.



One of my pet peeves with stock SH3 is that the bridge watch will be largely denuded if the deck gun is manned. The more eagle-eyed will also have noticed that this is not the same sub featured in the second of the two daylight shots in the first post - the latter has the more prominent 'folded over' lip to the wind deflector at the front and sides of the top of the conning tower - so they're probably SH3's early Type VIIC, not the VIIB featured by default in this mission. On that subject, the variety of U-Boat types, sub-types and conning towers is one of the many things I really like about SH3 - I've been checking out SH5 and U-Boat and nothing I've seen looks close to even un-modded SH3, in most respects that matter to me, not least breadth and depth (sic!), gameplay and sheer historical immersion.