Is sinking a neutral bad for your health?

[CTaardvark]

Umm. I appear to have sunk a neutral ship. Completely by accident you understand. It jumped out from behind a tree whilst I was conducting a test firing......twice. Am I to expect bad things to happen to me when I get back home?

[Capt. Morgan]

Was it an un-armed American passenger liner chocked full of prominent citizens:o, or an Albanian collier:yawn:?

IIRC, you'll lose the same amount of renown that you would have gained if it had belonged to a belligerent... unless it was a hospital ship - then you usually lose your career.

[Paul Riley]

3rd Nov 1939

I torpedoed a Romanian merchant in the darkness last night thinking it was French.My advice is screw em!,if they want to sail in enemy waters without their lights on they can expect to be attacked just like an enemy would.I would say though to be more cautious in friendly waters :o
The answer to your question is yes,it CAN be damaging to your health sometimes,usually resulting in extreme hair loss.

[sharkbit]

Just doctor the logs and deny everything. :shifty:
You'll lose some renown, but that is it. I've been tossing around doctoring some files to take away or reduce the renown hit for sinking a neutral(of course I've never, ever done it, no siree, not me. Nope......ok maybe just once. :oops:).

Beats sinking a friendly or a hospital ship. Then you will take a big renown hit.

One historical note that I recently read about was that Reinhard Hardegan(U-123) sank a neutral Portugese ship in one of his early patrols(before Operation Drumbeat to the American coast). Doenitz had him alter his log book after he returned. He did, but it was pretty sloppy and torpedo firing records were never changed. It wouldn't have taken much to see through the falsification.
This was only the second time that a log book was "officially" ordered altered. The first being after U-30(?) torpedoed and sank the Athenia in 1939.

:)

[Sailor Steve]

I've been tossing around doctoring some files to take away or reduce the renown hit for sinking a neutral(of course I've never, ever done it, no siree, not me. Nope......ok maybe just once. :oops:).
A long time ago I changed the Basic.cfg so I get 0 renown for sinking neutrals. That way I don't get punished, but neither do I get rewarded.

That said, I have managed to never sink a neutral ship.:sunny:

[Jimbuna]

I hear the Eastern Front is cold at this time of the year.

[Paul Riley]

I am going to do a Russian campaign Jim if I survive the war in this campaign.I'll teach them Ruskies a lesson! :arrgh!:
Ive always wanted to ravage the arctic routes,dont ask me why,it may be in my blood.

[frau kaleun]

I'll teach them Ruskies a lesson!

That's what Napoleon said. :O:

[Paul Riley]

I aint Napoleon :smug::03:

[Sailor Steve]

Neither was Napoleon.:rotfl2:

[Jimbuna]

I am going to do a Russian campaign Jim if I survive the war in this campaign.I'll teach them Ruskies a lesson! :arrgh!:
Ive always wanted to ravage the arctic routes,dont ask me why,it may be in my blood.

SINK EM ALL!! http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

Let me know if you bump into my old man...he was around them parts a couple of times.

[Paul Riley]

Neither was Napoleon.:rotfl2:

I know mate,he was a stinking yellow belly that thought he could conquer the world,thats before he screwed with the English and we sent him packing onto some remote island called Elba :yeah: :smug:

[Paul Riley]

SINK EM ALL!! http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

Let me know if you bump into my old man...he was around them parts a couple of times.

Nice one,bet he was a tough old salt battling it out up there :rock:
Was he a merchant sailor?

[KL-alfman]

I know mate,he was a stinking yellow belly that thought he could conquer the world,thats before he screwed with the English and we sent him packing onto some remote island called Elba :yeah: :smug:


from Elba he could come back though.
should've been sent to St.Helens sooner, imo. :DL

[Paul Riley]

from Elba he could come back though.
should've been sent to St.Helens sooner, imo. :DL

:up:

[Myxale]

I sunk once a German T3 in the early war months.:nope:

Was stalkin' a few single merchants. Was dark and this one was cruising a stream bit of Sweden.

He was darkened and rather fast. On top of that he had a rather British positive course. And zagged every once in a while.

After i hit him with a spread of two, from about 1000m and my crew didn't cheer I felt Ice cold.:dead:

And this was happening just a the beginning of one of my best SH3 careers ever, where I spent almost a month east of Ireland, and depleted Torps and Deckgun Ammo!

So yeah, the T3 was rather buried under the Tonnage I brought home!:88)