Dumb I-Boat Commander

[DivePac88]

In one of my PBEM games I have the Japanese submarine I-7 stationed of the unoccupied Baker Island in case an Allied landing force shows up. They do show up in the early hours of 4-17-42, and it looks like some juicy transports with a light escort. So what does the idiot Skipper of I-7 do, he surfaces and has a gunfight with the USN transport USS Henderson. I-7 gets 1 hit with its 5.5/40inch gun on the transport, and Henderson gets 7 hits with its 3inch guns on the submarine. So I-7 has to go home for repairs, with her 17 unused torpedoes, and Henderson sails on. [:@][:@][:@]

[rjopel]

It's not in the Code of Bushido to torpedo "unarmed" merchant ships.  Better to surface and honorably duel them with guns.