Finishing a ship off with guns?

[jdupree]

Was doing torpedo school. Hit the cruiser with 2 torpedos but she didn't sink. Once the ship was disabled, noticed that I could not get a firing solution to finish her off with torpedos? I exausted all the deck gun ammo and she still would not sink!! Any tips on finishing off ships with deck gun?

[Subnuts]

Are you playing with or without mods? Try aiming near the waterline of the ship, preferably so the shells hit just below the waterline, and try to spread your shots so you fire into more than one compartment. If you're playing with Natural Sinking Mechanics on, firing above the waterline will reduce the ship to Swiss cheese but won't actually incur any flooding.

[SteamWake]

Yea sounds like a mod conflict.

Not much testing goes on with the 'scenarios' vs mods :03:

[peabody]

Was doing torpedo school. Hit the cruiser with 2 torpedos but she didn't sink. Once the ship was disabled, noticed that I could not get a firing solution to finish her off with torpedos? I exausted all the deck gun ammo and she still would not sink!! Any tips on finishing off ships with deck gun?

You say you couldn't get a solution, were you using auto targeting? If you were and do not get the triangle, then the ship is destroyed, just hasn't sunk yet.

Peabody

[ColonelSandersLite]

Also, that's a rather large (and armored I think) ship to be trying to take down with with a little 4" pop gun.