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Safe-Keeper
12-30-06, 12:32 PM
Today I foolishly launched a torpedo without checking the type and too late realized it had a homing mechanism on board. It turned about and slammed right into my after section:cry:... Doing less than 30% damage to my boat. In fact, even though it virtually physically hit one of the propellers, it did not destroy either of them, nor the torpedo tube or rudder.

Is this a game-play mechanism, or is it unintended? It seems exceedingly odd to me that a torpedo that cripples/sinks a destroyer only lightly damages a submarine.
Letum
12-30-06, 02:18 PM
Try it again, if you get consistantly low dammage then this is something worth looking into if there isn't allredy an explanation.
Kpt. Lehmann
12-30-06, 06:34 PM
You got very lucky.

The torpedo damage output is variable/random.

The last homing torpedo that I was hit by... (thanks Dowly :p ) killed half of my crew and sunk my U-boat.
azn_132
12-30-06, 09:34 PM
Thats what happen wit USS Tang, U-869 or U-who?.
Jimbuna
12-31-06, 07:55 AM
Yep...your quite lucky :yep: A few of us on TS have been 'blue on blue' statistics and never lived to tell the tale :damn:
AVGWarhawk
12-31-06, 10:21 AM
Although the Tang was whacked by her own torpedo...she did not completely break up. Her stern was destroyed but the bow stayed up for quite some time. Anyway, the point is, yes, torpedos can ruin you day but not always destroy you.
Kpt. Lehmann
12-31-06, 10:35 AM
Thats what happen wit USS Tang, U-869 or U-who?.

U-869 is responsible for launching my entire obsession with U-boats.
AVGWarhawk
12-31-06, 11:10 AM
Thats what happen wit USS Tang, U-869 or U-who?.

U-869 is responsible for launching my entire obsession with U-boats.


Was'nt U869 off the coast of NJ? Book called the Shadow Divers? I read that...
bigboywooly
12-31-06, 11:35 AM
Yeah it twas

http://www.u869.com/
Kpt. Lehmann
12-31-06, 12:02 PM
Yeah it twas

http://www.u869.com/

Great website there.:up: :up: :up:
GT182
12-31-06, 12:39 PM
Very nice memorial website to U869. :up:

Subskin modders might want to look at the sub model photos. Link is at the bottom right - click on Model. For a Type IX/C there are some significant changes to the one in SHIII. The forward hull is one of them I've never seen before.

Thanks for the links BBW. :up: