That's it. Never another Passenger/Cargo

[desirableroasted]

Is the Passenger/Cargo a sort of a programmer's joke?

For five years, I have torped them in the bow, under the stack, in the stern. I have ripped out keels. I have personally given them 20 below the waterline deck-gun shots.

Yeah, they will sink, someday. Once I had one sink just after Willy Brandt became Chancellor.

Seriously, is there a sweet spot for them? Or is every last one of them transporting balsa wood and ping-pong balls?

I play "take what you get", so I feel duty bound to sink them. But I am about to make an exception.

[krashkart]

Maybe the ones you hit are loaded with inflated Mae Wests?
Seriously, I have no idea what the deal might be with those.

[Yoriyn]

It's becouse on that ship is to many passengers, so you have no chance to sink that ship. Simply calculation to sink any shipis:
Number of people on the ship X number of buckets, glasses, barrels or anything what can bu use to pure the water outside the ship X tonnage = chances the ship survive the attack.

As you see better stick with fishing boats

[Vendor]

Some, of them here Passenger / Cargo, sometimes need more eels..

[K-61]

I aim for about 1/3 of the way from the bow and that seems to put them under with one shot. But yeah, I hate them, too. I've put as many as three torpedoes into one of them before she'd go down. I much prefer to use the gun on them if the weather is not too rough.

[Brag]

These torpedo guzzlers are full of hot air generated by Subsimers. Best to just let them go.

[HW3]

Bow shot under the forward mast at 2.5M and they will go down due to flooding within the hour.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by desirableroasted

Is the Passenger/Cargo a sort of a programmer's joke?

For five years, I have torped them in the bow, under the stack, in the stern. I have ripped out keels. I have personally given them 20 below the waterline deck-gun shots.

Yeah, they will sink, someday. Once I had one sink just after Willy Brandt became Chancellor.

Seriously, is there a sweet spot for them? Or is every last one of them transporting balsa wood and ping-pong balls?

I play "take what you get", so I feel duty bound to sink them. But I am about to make an exception.

Some of them also carry a hold full of lifejackets on occasion

In all seriousness though, at 90 renown I sometimes wonder if they're worth the effort.

Here is a shipchart link showing the 'sweet spots'...I'm not sure if it is on here but it's worth a look:

http://www.filefront.com/13792872/shipchart.pdf

[desirableroasted]

I will try HW3 and K-61's advice, then. 1/3 back/under the foremast.

The next time that is..... this one already got one torpedo and he is not going to get another one. I will follow him to Tahiti, first. It violates my theology and geometry to use more than one torpedo on anything bigger than 7000 tons.

Edit: Thanks @jimbuna. Our messages crossed. That chart, even though it is for stock, should be enormously useful for new captains; I remember having it at some point. Thank you!

[raymond6751]

One would think a hit at the stern would blow off or damage the props and/or rudder. That would at least halt the ship.

If nobody is around, deck gun at the waterline? Pick a second shot at the best guess and leave her to wallow.

[Vendor]

Deck gun at the water line, is a good option if weather permits, and you do not have other unwanted guests,

[desirableroasted]

Originally Posted by Vendor

Deck gun at the water line, is a good option if weather permits, and you do not have other unwanted guests,

Vendor, if weather permitted, I wouldn't be wasting a torpedo on an 3K tonner. Not in 1940, anyway.

Anyway, you try putting 20 under the waterline of a Passenger/Cargo. She'll sail off at 7 knots, bobbing along like a rubber ducky.

[Vendor]

True! If you are unlucky it may be so, otherwise leave her and move on

[Gargamel]

Just snuck up on one, fired one 110mm round at it, thing immediately split in half. Got credit for it, but i then spent 3 hours waiting for the 2 halves to sink. Never did, so I got bored and left.

/ducks.

[Arael]

I've found that putting a torpedo directly under that little box flanked by lifeboats directly aft of the smokestack kills passenger/cargos pretty easily.