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Nangleator 02-08-11 12:08 PM

Oh, yes. Not surprised I didn't sink the battleship. I don't know what I was thinking, distributing my torps to three different ships.

It's the Large Modern Tankers I'm surprised by. Seven torpedoes to sink?

razark 02-08-11 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Nangleator (Post 1593244)
It's the Large Modern Tankers I'm surprised by. Seven torpedoes to sink?

It's a tanker. It's a ship designed to be full of liquid. You put holes in it, and it gets filled with liquid. :D

Nangleator 02-08-11 04:01 PM

Heh. Good point. But it's ostensibly filled with a flammable liquid, and I'm hitting it with explodey things!

Hit number 6 awarded me with a large orange explosion cloud, and then a secondary explosion, with a big chunk of metal spinning off into the sea, in flames. And still the ship floated.

Ducimus 02-08-11 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by raymond6751 (Post 1593110)
You should try to get the patch for free from UBI. There should be no charge to patch your game.

Patch's up to version 1.4 are free. Patch 1.5 came intergrated with the Uboat Mission Add on. So there's no way to separate them.


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Originally Posted by Nangleator (Post 1593244)
Oh, yes. Not surprised I didn't sink the battleship.?

Expect to use upwards of 12 fish to sink the yamato.

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Originally Posted by Nangleator (Post 1593441)
Heh. Good point. But it's ostensibly filled with a flammable liquid, and I'm hitting it with explodey things!

Most, if not all, tankers in stock are empty of cargo. So there's nothing to ignite. They may as well be filled with ping pong balls.

Subnuts 02-08-11 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Nangleator (Post 1593441)

Hit number 6 awarded me with a large orange explosion cloud, and then a secondary explosion, with a big chunk of metal spinning off into the sea, in flames. And still the ship floated.

Even tankers filled with explodey stuff can be incredibly difficult to sink:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Ohio#Ohio_and_Pedestal

Nangleator 02-08-11 04:21 PM

Geez, they ought to make a movie out of that.

Nice cat, by the way.

WernherVonTrapp 02-08-11 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Ducimus (Post 1593450)
They may as well be filled with ping pong balls.

:har: Saki pong!

TorpX 02-09-11 02:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Subnuts (Post 1593226)
"The last test was carried out in 1939 on a full scale mockup of Yamato which was attacked by 400 kg charges. The holding bulkhead did not remain watertight but was not split open."

"Yamato's hull was divided into 1147 watertight compartments (WTC) which comprised 1065 below the armour deck (middle deck) and and 82 above."

Gawd.............................................. ........:o

It seems futile to attack it.




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