I assume you mean a T3??

I had the same this morning. I think maybe its registering shots in the middle of the ship as flooding large compartments. Mine sank almost straight down very fast. I'd say 2-4 minutes.

Yeah, T3. The holds were breeched by two torps and she was done for. :D

For a T3 you best go with two shots.
One beneeth the funnel for the fuel compartements and one in the middle to finish it.

Webster's torpedo mod ver. 2 is as effective as ver. 1 in sinking merchants. I did not notice much difference in amount of torps needed to sink ships or their sinking time. However with ver. 3 you can sink every merchant with not more than two torps but unfortunately in this version Japan battleships can be sunk with two torps which is very unrealistic.

Well, in sum I have chosen ver. 2 as a very well balanced solution for RFB.

Gorshkov, can you give me a link of the torp mods?

Is it this one we're speaking about.. Webster's torpedo mod..

cheers

i sank a pair of large modern tankers (the ones that have a speed of 19 knots)

and it took all but one of my 6 tubes...that mother was the HARDEST thing i ever had to sink (other than that troop transport, someone should suggest the japanese to use STEEL crates:hmm: )

Those speed monsters can be a pain in the ass :yep:

just hit me that i have not yet seen an aircraft in RFB 1.52. not even after spending a 2 week grid patrol off tokyo bay and bungo straits, are they really that rare?

sinkings: how is the running away fix coming along?

cheers

I experience much the same in the early war. It does get heavier later on and you start to detect more when you have the radar to do so. They are out there and will find you sooner or later. :o Also, if you are lucky and in port at the right time, air raids will start. No kidding. One player posted he was in port ready to set sail and mass of Japanese aircraft raided his port. Tell me that was not a cool experience:D

I would love to experience that too, i would give those Japanese planes a hard time :yep:

i'm in spring 1943 with SD radar always on, no contacts in the 4 patrols to date

airraids are in SH3 too, i was recently sailing out of Bergen (also in 1943) in my DiD story career when a flight of lancasters spoilt the party, complete hell. never mind shooting back, just run for your life!

Run for your life when you finally have a chance of using those AA guns??
Naaaaah :rotfl:

Current patrol: April/44 off Formosa. Had at least two encounters with AC. Didn't stick around to fight. Hit the deep in a hurry:yep:

If i were you i would save my progress and fight those planes.
In the worst cenario , you can always load your save again AND have another great experience :up:

I've had the same lack of air contacts to date, bosje. (Early Nov 42 for me) I've got the improved SDworking , but only plane I spotted was near Hong Kong on last patrol before my Porpoise class got rebased from Perth to Midway.

BTW, I wasn't trying knock down your previous post. I agree that those large splits are harder to sink than first assumed. Given my usual bad luck, I've just assumed that somehow the randomizing functions with torp damage are working against me. :D

My latest victim I spied at long range and ID'd as another LOS. Given teh excellent visibility and my initial quick plotting, I figured I'd try to track him all the way in on sonar and then give him four tubes using the O'Kane method, so as to avoid my scope being spotted any earlier than necessary. Turns out he was just a little guy, but I gave him four tubes from my new Gato anyway. Poor guy erupted like Vesuvius, and two bow squared off the front of the ship nicely. No life boats spotted.