Floating docks - how to sink them?

[DirtyACE]

Entered Loch Ewe and saw a floating dock. Is it best to hit it with impacts or magnetics? And how many torps does it usually take?

[Sag75]

Hi,
yestersay i just sunk one, at Dover harbour. Its draft is around some meters, so i set torpedo depth at 1 meter, impact pistol.

just one torpeto and it went down suddently!

bye,
S75

[FIREWALL]

What's the renoun for a Floater ? :D

[T.Von Hogan]

Not sure torps were given out to sink a dock, maybe what pulls up to it but not the dock itself. Did Bernard get a helm?

[DirtyACE]

I sunk the dock, took only one impact torp and you get 26,000 tons. Very nice!:up:

[Jimbuna]

BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!! :arrgh!:

;)

[Brag]

I sunk the dock, took only one impact torp and you get 26,000 tons. Very nice!:up:

I guess, that could be called a docker's strike. :roll:

[Hanomag]

Kaluen,

26000 tons for a dock??? :o

[TomcatMVD]

Kaluen,

26000 tons for a dock??? :o
There was something "on" it for sure.

[NealT]

Don't know what the renoun is but I have sunk 'several'.

It has only taken 1 fish each time.
Each time - dock loaded or unloaded - it has been 26k for the tonnage.

Just hit it square on from the side...works like a champ...and the best thing? They are a stationary target !

[papa_smurf]

Sure floating docks are easy targets, but thats not the way to behave as a U-boat commander. You should be out there in the middle of the atantic in gale force winds and high seas chasing down convoys/lone merchants, and evading depth charge runs by naval forces.

[Jimbuna]

I sunk the dock, took only one impact torp and you get 26,000 tons. Very nice!:up:

I guess, that could be called a docker's strike. :roll:

Quite!! http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/3060/gigglebigtb9.gif

[bookworm_020]

Sure floating docks are easy targets, but thats not the way to behave as a U-boat commander. You should be out there in the middle of the atantic in gale force winds and high seas chasing down convoys/lone merchants, and evading depth charge runs by naval forces.

But everyone deserves a break now and then!:) Would you say no to 26000 tons on your kill book and the problems it wold cause Churchill when he can't repair his ships?:hmm:

[iambecomelife]

Not sure torps were given out to sink a dock, maybe what pulls up to it but not the dock itself. Did Bernard get a helm?


In actuality they were sometimes targets. If you check the Allied Warships section on Uboat.net you will notice that British submarines sank some Italian docks in the Med.

[DirtyACE]

According the the ship recognition manual there are also docks that are 32,000 tons, but either way, they are very easy prey and a nice way to bump up your tonnage.

[harzfeld]

yes there's 33,200 tons even recognition manual says 26,000. I think it might have a ship integrated but it was at night time and I was too far away to see if that's so. I have sunken 1 26,000 tons and 1 33,200 tons at Loch Ewe in one patrol. I think their renown value is probably less than large tanker, but it is worth it to sink em at early war years to get more medals for crews. I wonder if there listing somewhere in cfg files that would reveal where all floating docks are located at and when, including capital ships?

[Wolfehunter]

Wait.. wait... If you sink a floating dock and there is a ship in it do you get the additional tonnage? :hmm: :arrgh!:

[papa_smurf]

But everyone deserves a break now and then!:) Would you say no to 26000 tons on your kill book and the problems it wold cause Churchill when he can't repair his ships?:hmm:

Okay, fair point there. I just think its a bit of an easy kill, in the fact thats its not moving. But each to their own.

[Jimbuna]

Wait.. wait... If you sink a floating dock and there is a ship in it do you get the additional tonnage? :hmm: :arrgh!:

You want your cake, and eat it http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/5158/winkbigid2.gif

[Gaz2]

Can I get a screenie?:D