Verdammnt!

[Steel_Tomb]

After spending two hours of x1 TC getting into the perfect position to fire upon HMS Hood, she got away... IT CHEATED DAMMIT!

For some reason after I selected "salvo" in the TDC I couldn't change fish speed to fast... but didn't think too much of it. I fired a fan of 4 fish at her from only 780m...

She saw them through the mist and accelerated from a steady 14knts to 20ish within' 4 seconds. I mean WTF... a 48500ton ship DOES NOT speed up that fast!

So determined as I was, I reloaded (only time I did it!). I am determined to send Hood to the bottom.

This time, I had to fire at 1500m after a DD got a wee bit too close for comfort. Fired four fish again... now USUALLY when you select salvo if you change the speed of the fish it does the same for all. This time though, it only applied that change to ONE. So I got one direct hit just forward of the bridge superstructure and clipped her by the rudder. She listed a little bit but carried on until she was out of sonar range as if nothing had really happened.

My God! Am I cursed or something? Is history determined to keep that rust bucket afloat for the Bismark? :damn::damn::damn::damn::damn::damn:

[Sailor Steve]

She saw them through the mist and accelerated from a steady 14knts to 20ish within' 4 seconds. I mean WTF... a 48500ton ship DOES NOT speed up that fast!
No, 14-20 knots should take more like four minutes. It's an old and well-known problem, but no one has ever seemed to be able to fix it.

[Frank0001]

Bad luck!

The darned Hood got away from me last week aswell, she's a slippery one!
About the salvo, are you sure all of your selected torpedoes were steam-driven? If only one of them was, it would make sence the other 3 wouldn't go as fast as you'd like them to =)

Also, in your first salvo you couldn't select the fish to go fast, maybe they were electric aswell? If so, the Hood shouldn't have been able to spot them through the mist...

Again, bad luck!

[Jimbuna]

LMAO :DL

Now how did I know this thread would appear :03:

I never fire salvos at fast movers unless all four eels are the same type because the game automatically defaults every eel to that of the slowest one in the salvo mode.

I set each eels depth and speed prior then fire one at a time, quickly pressing Q after each launch and allowing a few seconds for the door/hatch to open.

Hope that makes more sense considering how it reads :hmmm:

[Sailor Steve]

And more realistic as well. Even when a salvo was launched, they were fired an absolute minimum of five seconds apart; otherwise there was a danger of the torpedoes interfering with each other.

[Brag]

Bummer! Yep, the lack of inertia is a bit of a problem. :yep:

[aj906]

U-30 (Typ VIIC)
KptnLt Jung
Attack on HMS Hood and escort

Grid: CG95
Date: 23.06.1940

Target: HMS Hood and Illustrious class carrier with destroyer screen.

Counter measures: screen 4+ destroyers/31+ depth charges/aircraft [swordfish]

Report: Sailing from supply ship Thalia [Cadiz harbour] morning 22 June 1940 (previously patrolling CG94, gross tonnage claimed 73,000), intention was to head to CF64 on return to Wilhelmshaven via St George's Channel. At 10:05 22 June local a report was received from BdU stating Enemy Task Force in Grid CG81, Kurs OSO, 14kts. Assumed T.F heading for Gibraltar so plotted kurs SSO [CG95:7] then tracked Ost, 3 kts submerged to reconnoitre. Surfaced at 23:50 [seegang 0, sicht 15 - 20] to recharge batteries. Submerged at 0701. Contact made 0732 [Seegang 0, sicht 10 - 15]: 3+ destroyer vanguard, Hood and carrier line astern plus undetermined rear guard, 15kts, Kurs Ost.

0807-09 tubes 1-4 fired at Hood, angle 042. All hit. Turn to starboard at 1kts, stern torpedo shot at carrier with 27 degree deflection, range 1,200m. Hydrophone reported hit during dive to 155 metres Kurs 270. Hood stopped, taking on water. Sunk 0814. Carrier slowed to c.10 kts. Destroyer screen vigours attack above (presumed depth 100 metres) and astern till 0856 then all withdrew save one. Final sweep [12 depth charges] concluded 0927. Course maintained 270. No damage sustained during depth charge attack.

Surfaced 1017. A/C [2+ swordfish] attacked 1018. Crash dive to 75 metres. Damage: Stern Batteries, stb diesel, attack periscope, stern torpedo, stern quarters, deck casing. Destroyed: flak gun, Port diesel engine, observation periscope, radio antenna. Took on water in command room (controlled and expelled in 22 minutes).

Casualties (10 KIA, 0 WIA, 0 MIA):
- Stabsoberbootsmann'
Peter Weller
Gustav Möllers
Engelbert Dahne

- Stabsbootsmann
Hilmar Blaudow
Manfred Eppen

- Matrosenhauptgefreiter
Willi Schroeter
Klaus Bildstein
Ernst Heldmann
Jorg Bauer
Eduard Geffe

Crash dive revealed two contacts, bearing 337/339, long range. Once flooding contained investigated: two large merchants c.6,100tn each. Closed for attack. Both confirmed sunk. Attack 1117, kurs 261 angle on the bow 349/353. Two torpedoes each, impact fuse at 8m depth. Merchant one exploded on impact of first topedo. Second merchant floundered, taking on water. Stern torpedo fired, kurs 090, angle of attack 0. Ship sunk 1133.

Dive depth hence forth restricted to 45 metres. Patrol aborted and making for Bordeaux.


File for award
Stabsoberbootsmann Gotthard Becker und Stabsbootsmann Reiner Richter both be awarded EK.I for efforts in damage control during flugzeug angriff.

Tonnage Claim
HMS Hood - sunk [48,360]
2x Large Merchants [2x 6,100]

60,560, Gross Tonnage

9 Torpedoes expended

Tonnage Damaged
Illustrious Class Carrier (23,000tns)

ETA Bordeaux, 29 June 1940.

[Iranon]

I hate mixed torpedo armament for exactly that reason :(

In the beginning of the war I tend to rely on atmospheric torpedos and only carry a single electric one in tube 2 (and tube 6 in a type IX boat). No 4-torpedo salvos at high speed, but I like the ability to have a stealthy shot when I need it.

Shame we can't borrow some torpedos from our Japanese allies... they used pure oxygen instead of compressed air. Fast, long range, and since there is no left-over nitrogen after the combustion process no bubble trail either.

[Gabucino]

No, 14-20 knots should take more like four minutes. It's an old and well-known problem, but no one has ever seemed to be able to fix it.

Try the "Thomsen's Ships" mod. It's a godsend.

[frau kaleun]

Sounded cool so I looked for it but the one I found seemed to be for SH4 - is there one for SH3 and is it okay to run with GWX3 and SHCommander?

[Vipper]

With all their flaws i love electric eels, i don't like when ships do drag race away from torps