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Found my first Brit Sub North of Scotland, plotted an intercept course and unleashed 2 torpedeos at her broadside.............. 2 x Impact and all she did was crash dived (dove) and that was it :@ :damn: Not amused:lurk:
Nico
Onkel Neal
03-29-10, 10:52 AM
That's not good :(
mookiemookie
03-29-10, 11:01 AM
I'm thinking (hoping?) that once people get the ship importing process figured out, as part of that, the damage modelling will be tweaked as well.
SabreHawk
03-29-10, 11:04 AM
Oh my you wasted two fish at 40,000 marks each on a sub?:o
I would have only fired 1 and have read that deck gun was inefectual so i though a torp or 2 would sort it :) . I would put 3 screenies ive got, but havent got anywhere to host them and then upload them :(
And that sub could have would have sunk thousands of tonnes of the fatherlands shipping :-P
Torpedoes for a measly 540 tons? what? The deck gun makes quick work of them!!
I've killed about 6 of them.
5 with the deck gun.. and 1 by pushing it to crush depth. :D
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=166200
Torpedoes for a measly 540 tons? what? The deck gun makes quick work of them!!
I've killed about 6 of them.
5 with the deck gun.. and 1 by pushing it to crush depth. :D
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=166200
Ahhh i read your thread about pushing it to the bottom, thought the deck gun didnt work on them........ i shall try again :DL
Deckgun works, its just that he was able to submerge before i got more than 1 hit on him ( i got kill credit because i hit em once). I should have started shooting earlier for that one.
Usually only takes a handful of hits.
Hartmann
03-29-10, 11:54 AM
Found my first Brit Sub North of Scotland, plotted an intercept course and unleashed 2 torpedeos at her broadside.............. 2 x Impact and all she did was crash dived (dove) and that was it :@ :damn: Not amused:lurk:
Nico
Their soup is a lot better than kriegsmarine soup :hmmm:
After some time and see what people is writting about shV seems that is in a severe unfinished state and need a lot of work, ( i donīt have the game yet )
But there is the famous sinking of a submerged german sub, of the norwegian coast by a english sub. The english captain fired a 4 torpedo spread and had a fortunate hit, to him it was worth it (german subs must have been priority targets).
Now, if I was the captain I dont think I would have surface and manned the deckgun. what if the enemy sub raced to me and fired a spread? A prolonged crashdive could take minutes and then baaaam!
(or, I could pick up the deck-crew later haha)
But there is the famous sinking of a submerged german sub, of the norwegian coast by a english sub. The english captain fired a 4 torpedo spread and had a fortunate hit, to him it was worth it (german subs must have been priority targets).
Now, if I was the captain I dont think I would have surface and manned the deckgun. what if the enemy sub raced to me and fired a spread? A prolonged crashdive could take minutes and then baaaam!
(or, I could pick up the deck-crew later haha)There was a famous battle between a british and an Italian submarine in WW2.
It's remembered because, at a certain point, the two vessels, unaware of each other position, surfaced one near the other. Caught by surprise, the men from the two subs rushed towards the deck guns. An italian gunner, probably in an attempt to distract the enemy, threw a shoe at the British :haha: In the excitement of the battle, probably it looked to the terrified British as a hand grenade.
We don't know if this shoe was the turning point of the battle, but at the end the british sub was sunk. Desperation is the mother of virtue!
:yeah:
PS: the story of the shoe may be just a legend about the proverbial italian ingenuity ... or not. :arrgh!:
loerelau
03-29-10, 12:44 PM
Brilliant story :).
Also like the story of the Dutch submarine near Gibraltar... Dutch sub did see a german submarine (u-95) signaling him, the captain of u-95 didn't know that it was a Dutch model that looked like a german u-boat... Dutch captain fired torpedoes, and the u-95 went down!
http://www.uboat.net/boats/u95.htm
mcarlsonus
03-29-10, 12:56 PM
"There ain't no cure for, 'stupid!' "
Sunk with Deck gun, still no credit for it though :cry::nope:
SabreHawk
03-29-10, 01:44 PM
Well you see sinking subs is not the job of Uboats, and unless specificly ordered to do so then leave them alone.
Your job as a Uboat captain is to sink enemy shipping, not warships. That is unless it is part of your mission under orders.
To spend torpedos or any ammo on a sub is simply wasting them when they could have bagged a merchant, which as I said is what the Uboats were out there for.
Im sorry, but if a uboat captain or any other sub captain could have the opportunity to sink another sub i would have thought he would take it, considering the amount of damage they can inflict on there convoys/warships, so to say leave them alone doesn't really add up to me. :-?
In this game the obj/missions/patrols are flawed as has been mentioned in other posts.:damn:
I will sink anything i can as long as it does not jeopardise whatever the mission i am on, not that there are any mission/patrols it can ruin.
Nico
kraznyi_oktjabr
03-29-10, 04:05 PM
Im sorry, but if a uboat captain or any other sub captain could have the opportunity to sink another sub i would have thought he would take it, considering the amount of damage they can inflict on there convoys/warships, so to say leave them alone doesn't really add up to me. :-?
I remember atleast on case from WWII when Finnish sub (Vesihiisi or Iku-turso?"wasted" torpedo to Soviet sub when they surprised it on surface. Don't remember details anymore.
For a Uboat any warship was a target of opportunity so, unless taking action against it would endager the primary mission or pose unecessary risks, there was no prohibition.
Of course, if you're Gunter Prien and you're tasked to sneak into Scapa Flow you won't stop to sink every damned destroyer or armed trawer that happens to pass nearby :hmmm:
That's just common sense!
Snake Man
03-30-10, 02:57 AM
Found my first Brit Sub North of Scotland, plotted an intercept course and unleashed 2 torpedeos at her broadside.............. 2 x Impact and all she did was crash dived (dove) and that was it :@ Not amused
Then it sunk. How did you get the impression that it just dived?
I have sunk three british subs with single torpedo, all dived, went to the bottom and I got the credit.
Then it sunk. How did you get the impression that it just dived?
I have sunk three british subs with single torpedo, all dived, went to the bottom and I got the credit.
I assumed that because i didn't get the credit. Re-played it and sunk it with deck gun, still didn't get the credit :nope:
Nico
Found my first Brit Sub North of Scotland, plotted an intercept course and unleashed 2 torpedeos at her broadside.............. 2 x Impact and all she did was crash dived (dove) and that was it :@ :damn: Not amused:lurk:
Nico
Not very accurate historically :)
In RL
Brit Subs sunk 13 Uboats
Uboats only sunk 3 British Subs
Statisticly you should be more likely be the victim in such an encounter.
Well im glad that they did take place and that stops peeps on here stating it wasnt realistic that subs crossed paths and that torps shouldn't be wasted on other subs :D
Well im glad that they did take place and that stops peeps on here stating it wasnt realistic that subs crossed paths and that torps shouldn't be wasted on other subs :D
Correct, Allies and Axis subs crossed each others paths a hell of a lot espcially in the Med -
To say its unrealistic is just bollocks.
Its just that such encounters didnt result in sinking most of the time as WW2 subs were not designed or equipped to really tackle one other.
Abit of a stale mate.
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