User blog comment:FlammeumDraco333/Tales From the Not so Blocky Seas/@comment-27822411-20160214013045

Epic Match in my Soviet Sub or Why Submarines can Win game

I was in a squad with Zumwalt, Kevin and Wolf. We decided to go out and destroy some ships. For the first match, both Zum and Kevin chose Renowns while Wolf used the ever so powerful HMS Hood (refit). I, of course, was in my Soviet sub: the Pravda which I'd named Leningrad. The match was pretty quick. It consisted of Zum, Wolf and Kevin wrecking a few Emeralds, a Renown and a Counti, while I made do with a Nevada that was showing her broadside to me. It was the second match that was epic. For me at least.

The team consisted of me and Wolf in the same ships, but Kevin and Zum switched to Revenges. Our team also had a lone Prinz Eugen. He wasn't much use in the match. The enemy team had a Vanguard, an Amagi and a Colorado.

The latter ship was eliminated from the match early on by the squad. The Amagi however was giving her all with massive broadsides against Wolf. I decided to fire a spread at the Amagi to scare if off and limit its firepower at Wolf. It worked: the Amagi turned away and stopped firing. It also took one of the torpedoes, so that was nice.

The two remaining enemy ships headed towards the cap, where I was somewhat lurking for the time. I fired a spread at the Vanguard, scoring some more hits, but I had to turn away and make haste to refill on oxygen. When I was far away, I surfaced and slowly made my way towards the cap, where the 2 enemy ships were defending.

They did a pretty good job at it. Zum was the first to fall, from the firepower of the Amagi at range. He scored some hits, but the slow Revenge was no match, and he was sunk. Kevin was next to fall by the same fate. The Amagi kept the distance and broadsided Kevin's Revenge until he too was under the waves. That left me, Wolf and the PE. And the latter two didn't survive the encounter. Combined firepower from the Amagi and Vanguard ultimately proved too much for the Hood, and she was gone. She did however dealt massive damage to the Vanguard, which was to prove fatal later on. The PE was no match and he was down with just one broadside. The enemy however had no idea where I was: near the cap waiting for them to try and win by capping.

I, as a sub, cannot win the game through capping, so I had to go and sink the remaining warships. The Vanguard was crippled and slowly turned towards the cap circle. I took the opportunity to land 4 torpedo hits on her. This crippled him even more. And at point blank torp range...well let's just say I sunk him with no trouble. I then turned to destroy the Amagi, who was slowing down to stay inside the cap, and firied a spread at her. What she did next was unusual. She began to reverse away from the torpedoes. This however made her slow and vulnerable. And you know what happens next: I fired some more torps at her, and she sank within this spread. I won the match as the last ship afloat. Or well, alive. I walked away with 4200 REXP, which will go to grinding the Soviet Sub line.

And that is what happens if you let a submarine close the distance and fire at you at close range: you could loose the chance to win the game.