Sampans

[ShotMagnet]

Leave 'em alone?



Kill 'em off?


I'd opt for the former, but I recall somethng about how they can make your mission more difficult.



Is that just supposition, or should sampans be sunk so as not to potentially give away your presence?


BTW if you have a 40mm AA gun, they're much more efficient at killing sampans than a deck gun.




Shot

[propbeanie]

Like a good portion of the game, there are no definitive answers. The Sampans are supposedly capable of calling "home" and placing your submarine at a certain location within a certain amount of time. So, if they see you for say 30 seconds, a contact report has been sent as to your whereabouts. Depending upon where you are, you might see a plane or a Chidori rather quickly.

If you go to do it, do it stealthily, fast & deadly. In other words, sneak up on them, battle surface, and take them out fast. But take no damage of your own. Sometimes a bit tough to do. Some skippers attacked them, some let them be. I used to take them out, but I encountered one that had a 20mm cannon once, and took casualties as well as quite a bit of hull damage. Had to come back in with no ships sunk, all my torpedoes still in the racks, and three wounded. Did not look good on my record...

Now I leave them be, giving them a wide berth, unless I ~have~ to take them out. If in stock, you might be OK, maybe finding a few with machine guns, but in some of the mods, they can be deadly if you're not careful. You will get renown points (20??) for taking them out.

[ShotMagnet]

This was maybe something that carried over from AOD, that I half-remembered. As I remember, if you left a sampan be and it saw you, sub-killers and other ASW assets would become a lot more prevalent.


Then again, it's early '44 in the campaign I'm playing. By now the IJN is or should be pretty savvy about prosecuting contacts, so maybe giving the sampans a miss is the way to go.




Shot

Originally Posted by propbeanie

... I used to take them out, but I encountered one that had a 20mm cannon once, and took casualties as well as quite a bit of hull damage. Had to come back in with no ships sunk, all my torpedoes still in the racks, and three wounded. Did not look good on my record...

I remember vividly...

Originally Posted by propbeanie

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I was mesmerized by the blue sea, the wailing of the gulls, the idyllic fishing vessels that all of a sudden started shooting machine guns at me!... Crash Dive!
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Shtinking fishermensezz...

[propbeanie]

... this "testing" stuff lets a person see a ~LOT~ of strange in this game, ya know?...

If ya ever wanna know how we find out when a ship will shoot their guns at us, we go in and find out...