Hmm... I simply prefer to learn those by practise. What you learn that way you'll probably never forget. Every time you shoot a X-type ship you do your best to spectate the results and you learn something more. The 100th time when sinking an X-type you will be completely sure that you know where it has its most interesting places. And then you can feel like real Kaleun that also was never told all that stuff before he tried on himself.

what crew number they use in those ships ??

it could be very dangerous be on the top of thousand tons of high explosives waiting for a torpedo hit...:doh: :dead:

Specifications:
Displacement 7,025 t.(lt) 10,600 t.(fl)
Length 482' 9"
Beam 60' 11"
Draft 20' 11"
Speed 13 kts.
Complement 289 <---------- Not a good job for these guys

Hehe, I just managed to do just that during my last patrol!!
A lucky shot from 1700m, at 40 deg. angle. 1m under keel.:arrgh!:
I was follow him at full speed(7knt), but she was steaming at 7 knt aswell so I thought that I could slow him down a bit.....instead she sinks...hehe.:rock:

/VV

I think it also depends on the direction they're traveling. Heading West They might be carrying something other than ammo, so no big boom. Traveling East or North towards GB I'd expect them to carry ammo and you'd see a "big badda boom". :D

I could try to mske up a story how I found out which part to hit, which would make me look really smart.:rotfl::arrgh!: But for a change I'm honest: I read about it in another thread.:88)

I one sank a pryo with two deck gun rounds and another with three! The second one nearly killed me, as I had taken my boat a little too close!:oops:

Aim just forward of the aft deck house and you get a big BOOM!:arrgh!:

:rotfl: There's always something!:oops: :damn:

But I bet they still didn't call them Pyros!
{said quietly as he crawls off to hide under a rock}

Pyro Ammunition Freighter
 

As you may have noticed, GWX merchants use generic names and the Pyro class was supposed to receive one as well - "Naval Auxiliary Ammunition." However, it appears that when this new generic name was added to Englishnames.cfg, someone forgot to delete the original name - because the original was first in the list, it still shows up. Therefore, it is an accident that the specific class name has been retained. Still sounds cool though, doesn't it?:p

Actually I don't see any reason why they wouldn't be called pyro's .. even if in slang. The example I throw at your feet is the sherman tank during this very same war. The british called them Ronsons, the americans called them Zippo's, because they used gasoline engines and if hit with a shell had a good chance of exploding from the fuel tanks being ruptured. they were given those names because they were brands of lighters.

diesel engines didn't pose much of a risk of exploding in flames so the german and the soviet tanks weren't as likely to burst into flames.

I doubt this has anything to do with why they were called pyro's but one can dream can't he :D

History lesson aside .. I assume it's because that's the class of ship, why would we call a Black Swan anything else?? I'm not about calling them "Dear god ALMIGHTY" are you? Black swan works just fine for me.

Wamphyri

I think at lower realism, you can target a Pyro and at the ideal (Green) angle of attack you can pull up the boats details, with four areas your WO can target with his solution ... As has been recommended, I put my Torps in the front under the masts, round there is a forward ammo bunker. I think there is also one in the rear but I'm always successful putting them in the front and haven't anything else

The Germans called the Sherman tank "The Tommycooker", with the british quote, they called the tank "Ronson, it lit first time!"

A bit more info
http://www.iomoon.com/ships.html

http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/...s-ae.html#pyro
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/...AE-1_Pyro.html

Yes, there was a built-in "cheat" in the original SH3 where if you clicked on those little boxes and fired your torpedo, a hit resulted in a guaranteed kill. If you just used them as a reference and aimed the torpedo yourself (either by autoaiming with the crosshair or doing the full manual targeting routine) there was a certain percentage chance of a critical hit, assuming you hit it at all, but it was only a chance, not guaranteed.

Thankfully, the "click on the box/guaranteed kill" part of this has been inadvertently broken by GWX. Kpt. Lehmann has stated they intend to remove it from any remaining ships it may still work with and I heartily agree with his decision.
As a caveat though, you can't use them as a reference anymore either, however. The new GWX ships never had their boxes accurately placed (designers just copied the boxes from old ships over to the new ones) and since GWX changed the compartments around on the original ships, the boxes may or may not be accurate on those as well.

The only negative effect of this is that we ( or at least nautically-challenged landlubbers such as myself ):) don't really have a clue where the compartments might be, especially on the new ships (like the questions people had about the Pyro above). Which is why I was wondering if there was some way to figure out a ballpark idea of the ships layout (or general guidelines like the "engine room under the smokestack" rule). I do the whole manual targeting routine and don't want ships exploding like an arcade gallery, but do like the challenge of aiming for a specific part of the ship for even a little possibility of extra effectiveness (even if I don't have a snowball's chance in hell of hitting it) :D