Early in the war I managed to run into her twice in one patrol and sunk both times with 3 magnetic shots, few patrols later found a pair of them docked in Liverpool. Was my most successfull patrol ever with 256,000 tons with my VIIB.

To sink her in 3 or less you're pretty much have to use magnetic settings. If it's rough weather you gotta spend all 4 and hope that there's enough critical hits to flood and sink it. 1 shot sinking was aimed right under the B turret, about a meter behind the center of the cupolla. 2 shot sinking aim each one to detonate between each set of turrets, and 3 shot sinking aim in the middle under the smoke stack.

Haven't come across it in awhile , but for magnetic aiming you need to set it a bit lower than usual. The shape of the keel is really strange, its concave. Had a spread of 3 set at 11.9 meters (think its draft was 11.1?) and the two turrets will detonate but the middle will bounce off the bottom. Need to lower it to about 12.1 to ensure all 3 explode at their proper places.

Battleships and heavy cruisers have a thick armor belt from just above the waterline, down a few meters. Impact torpedoes will not be very effective.

Two mag torpedoes will usually do the job. :know:

After a long time away from SH3 I just reinstalled with GWX. I just happened to be starting a patrol on April 8 1940 so I headed for Norway . . . so many task forces the biggest danger is getting run over :)

Came across the Nelson (well, actually it came up from astern and I barely had time to dive before I was spotted), put 4 torps into the side as it went by. That slowed it down to 8 kts and I managed to put one into the props before it got too far. Once it stopped one more under the turrets sank it.

That was half the battle. The other half involved the 9 escorting destroyers . . .

In fact what you need is LESS AIR inside the hull ;) It doesn't matter if the space is filled with water or with unexploded shells, as long as there isn't air -or anything lighter than water- anymore, it will sink. :know:

sank her tonight for the first time with two torps aimed under the forward turrets at 6m. lots of fire works....