sharkbit
03-23-09, 09:16 AM
I've been away from SH3 for the last 4 months or so and have had the itch to play again for the last couple of weeks. I'm not in the mood right now to get back to doing war patrols...yet, so I've been tackling some single missions.
I'm playing GWX 2.1 (waiting for a new rig next month before I set up GWX 3.0) at 84% realism with dud torpedoes marked.
I was palying the Scapa mission the other night. Had alot of fun sneaking into the harbor and found the Royal Oak. I got into position about 3000 meters away and fired 4 magnetics under her keel and watched them all dissapear from the TDC screen a couple hundred meters from the target.
Reloaded and threw a couple more magnetic eels at her. Same result. By then, it was close to dawn, so I slunk away, submerged, and spent the day on the bottom in the harbor near an island.
The next night, I surfaced when it was dark, reloaded my last 3 torpedoes, and snuck back to the Royal Oak. Got to about 2000 meters away, 90 AOB and fired my remaining torpedoes with impact fuses. Nothing happened, not a single boom, except this time the Royal Oak woke up , spotted me and sent a secondary armament broadside at me :o, much to my dismay , causing some damage before I could get under, only to be pummelled by a destroyer in shallow water, forced to the surface and sunk. :dead:
I figured it was one of 4 things:
1.) All duds.
2.) Anti-torpedo net. Is this even modelled in GWX?
3.) The torpedoes bottomed out, at least the magnetics did.
4.) A combination of the above.
Any ideas? I'd like to try again in the future.
:)
I'm playing GWX 2.1 (waiting for a new rig next month before I set up GWX 3.0) at 84% realism with dud torpedoes marked.
I was palying the Scapa mission the other night. Had alot of fun sneaking into the harbor and found the Royal Oak. I got into position about 3000 meters away and fired 4 magnetics under her keel and watched them all dissapear from the TDC screen a couple hundred meters from the target.
Reloaded and threw a couple more magnetic eels at her. Same result. By then, it was close to dawn, so I slunk away, submerged, and spent the day on the bottom in the harbor near an island.
The next night, I surfaced when it was dark, reloaded my last 3 torpedoes, and snuck back to the Royal Oak. Got to about 2000 meters away, 90 AOB and fired my remaining torpedoes with impact fuses. Nothing happened, not a single boom, except this time the Royal Oak woke up , spotted me and sent a secondary armament broadside at me :o, much to my dismay , causing some damage before I could get under, only to be pummelled by a destroyer in shallow water, forced to the surface and sunk. :dead:
I figured it was one of 4 things:
1.) All duds.
2.) Anti-torpedo net. Is this even modelled in GWX?
3.) The torpedoes bottomed out, at least the magnetics did.
4.) A combination of the above.
Any ideas? I'd like to try again in the future.
:)