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In this game, you are a torpedoman on a World War II U.S. submarine. (There were no torpedo women during WWII.) The torpedoman typically didn't have to set the gyro mechanism for each torpedo, as this was done automatically by the Torpedo Data Computer, or TDC (see Firing Procedure); he just had to make sure that the settings of the TDC matched those on the torpedo. On this submarine, though, you have to set the gyro manually.

Your job is to sink the enemy ship before it locates you. Once you launch your first torpedo, you'll have 120 seconds to sink the enemy ship before it locates you.





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