Originally Posted by thebigJ_A (Post 1652441)

What on Earth or British S-class subs made out of?

I had just left Wilhelmshaven, when off the Danish coast I encountered a Brit sub. It was the middle of the night, so I got within 2000m and opened fire with my deck gun. The AI was having trouble hitting (perhaps because of the odd outline of submarines?) so I took over. I quickly knocked out their deck gun, so I only needed to worry about their flak.

They didn't sink until I had eight (8!!) rounds left! Granted, a significant percentage missed, but I stopped counting once I'd hit them 30 times with my 88. That was when I still had most of my ammo. I hit the thing below the water line, on the conning tower, forward, aft, everywhere! I even sprayed them with several hundred 20mm rounds. It was sheer stubbornness on my part that kept me going.

So I ask again, what super submarine hull technology did the Brits have in WWII that no one told me about? :hmmm:

Originally Posted by Fish In The Water (Post 1652883)

Sure was, and a very fortuitous shot at that...

They came in as low as possible to try and stay under Bismarck's AA fire, and then timed the release to coincide with the waves (so as to avoid having the torp thrown off course). Pretty tough to wait for the perfect moment when all hell is breaking loose all around you. One in a million shot...

Originally Posted by frau kaleun (Post 1652872)

Some planes were surely armed with torpedoes, wasn't it a torpedo fired by a Swordfish that borked the Bismarck's rudder?

Originally Posted by STEED (Post 1653224)

I bagged a few S-Class subs over the years and last week Bagged my first T-Class sub, did it feel good? Right on. :DL

Originally Posted by jimbuna (Post 1653272)

The Gato ain't a bad target either :DL

Originally Posted by Obersteuermann (Post 1653142)

Think of it this way. How much punishment can your u-boat take before she's destroyed? Not loss of hull integrity from going too deep whilst damaged, but outright shot to bits on the surface? How many times have you been clipped by aircraft MG fire or taken an unlucky strike from a freighter's gun?

Come to that, how many people have accidentally torpedoed themselves with Zaunkoenige and struggled back to base afterwards?

Exactly. If your boat can take all that punishment and still function, then you can bet the British boats will too.

Originally Posted by jimbuna (Post 1653211)

Rgr that...and here is the evidence :03:
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Originally Posted by jimbuna (Post 1653210)

The Bismarcks AA fire system was designed to track and engage much faster planes and was therefore not as effective against the Swordfish as some might believe.

Originally Posted by jimbuna (Post 1653211)

Rgr that...and here is the evidence :03:

http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/2...0921312617.jpg
http://img848.imageshack.us/img848/7...0921325503.jpg

Originally Posted by thebigJ_A (Post 1653451)

Did that actually happen in your game? Or is that one of the missions?

Originally Posted by Fish In The Water (Post 1653458)

Cool screen...

Cheers for the post! :up: