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Mine has to be USS California.

Managed to travel all the way from PH with flotation 85 (most major) to Weast Coast. Flotation went down to 81 and sys damage was 3. Then I installed new patch and next turn it promptly sunk one hex before arriving to Seattle...[:@]

ORIGINAL: Sardaukar
Then I installed new patch and next turn it promptly sunk one hex before arriving to Seattle...[:@]

Probably updates doesn´t go well with old ships[:D]

They probably started welding and cutting before arriving to port...and someone removed wrong section...[:D]

Before the patch it was PoW.  She survived the opening day attack after taking 3 torps, she spent the next 5 months en route to and under repair at Capetown.  She was out of the yard just in time to join the RN carriers in a brief duel with the KB, where she took another three torps and limped back into Colombo after a grand total of 2 days worth of combat in 6 months. [:D]

Nice...

I-121.  On 7 Dec 41 she went into Singapore harbor to leave a few presents for the Brits (mines).  She promptly hit a mine and sank.  Oh yeah, it was before she had a chance to lay any mines.  [8|]

Thats not luck, thats Karma!

I haven't had time to see if the USS Torpedo Magnet, AKA Saratoga, lives up to her predecessor's reputation in this iteration, but in games long past (as far as PacWar) that was one unlucky ship.

Ironicly it was the enterprise drawing all torps in my 1st guadalcanal game. She took a torp and some light bomb hits from a carrier battle with Shokaku and Zuikaku in late august, was torpedoed by a sub (I-7?) on the way into Sydney, just making it there. Got her mostly patched up, and decided to rush her in Dec back to the other carriers, she ate 3 more torps from I-7 (again[:@]) and now maintains a coral garden at the bottom of the pacific.

On the bright side I-7 was damaged and I hunted her down after she took out an SC

Langley. She just seems to die from fright every time......

Mine is the ACM USS Chimo. Just parked in the Port of Los Angeles minding it's own business, and one of her babies blew up in her face and she promptly sank. So much for easy jobs on the West Coast.

Well Prince of Wales was hit by ONE torpedo and has 86 Eng Damage[:@][:D]

CV Enterprise = torpedo magnet, its happened in two games now. [:(]

CV Wasp.

My personnal torpedo magnet, sunk by torps in my 6 Guadalcanal campaigns on AE.
Thus history is repeating and at some point I suspected a special "historical" feature scripted in the GC scenario ! (In GC 1&2 below.)

* 1st GC camp. (Allied vs AI): torpedoed by a sub one night in september while transiting W to E south of Lunga in a quite period, 2 deadly T-hits and sunk (first time I saw a big CV in the midle of the sub animation... still under the shock!)
* 2nd GC camp. (Allied vs AI): torpedoed by a sub one night in october while transiting W to E north of Lunga to intercept quickly a convoy, first and last time sailing a CV in the middle of the canal, first 1 torp by Betties day attack, slowed down and next night 3 T-hits by a sub and lost after several days flooding,
* 3rd GC camp. (Allied vs player): a few shell hits in "surprised" surface night combat by some CA TF West of Lunga, then retired south while air striking the raiding surf TF and then pursued and attacked by baby KG, among 14 kates only 3 survived the CAP but... 2 T-hits on a now crippled Wasp, sunk by heavy flooding 2 days later.
---> Wasp is my only CV loss in these 3 campaigns (played 3 months then stoped), others never sink but take damages, Wasp is weaker but unlucky too, the subs could have targeted another CV sharing the hex !

* 4th GC camp. (Jap vs AI): KB raid on 2 allied CV, massive CAP, 1/3 of Kates survive and concentrate more on Wasp than Enterprise, 4 T-hits on Wasp, heavy damage and reported sunk (confirmed later and when stopping game)
* 5th GC camp. (Jap vs player): torpedoed by night sub attack while aircovering Lunga, 2 T-hits, not sunk immediately, but too many subs around, pursued up to Noumea, sunk by 1 last torp 5 hex north of Noumea in the second sub patrol concentration.
* 6th GC camp. (Jap vs player): again catched by KB full of kates in late august, crippled by the first raid, sunk by the second, took more than 6 Torps, even if stacked with 2 other CV (damaged but more lucky and not sunk).
---> Wasp is my first CV sunk in all these 3 jap campaigns, definitely a torpedo magnet in front line.

I can't imagine finishing any AE scenario with the Wasp at sea without a "magnetic wasp" ON/OFF button.
TZ

I've ran through several first turns yesterday.  In almost half of them the Tennessee has suffered a magazine explosion.  Whether by bomb or torpedo, she seems to have an alarming tendency to blow itself apart.  Have to check with an astrophysicist to see if it is possible there is a mini-black hole in one of her magazines sucking in all warheads.

CV Enterprise.

At night in the middle of Pacific single destroyer got lucky and managed to torpedo Enterprise. It had over 10 ship fleet covering it, but it went to the bottom. Enemy destroyer escaped unharmed.