Heh, I wonder how many fishing ships were sunk by U-boats.

Elco torpedo boat as target practice:

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Cool, you hit him straight in the aft, but why do they fly in the air?:lol:

Because they aren't designed to come apart in the game, and if the torpedo does 500 tons damage and the boat only weighs 35 tons, then...:/\\x:

You guys are all sick b@$%#$!

That just happened to be one of "Mush" Morton's hobbies - once the "Wahoo" even took out a fishing boat with molotov cocktails b/c the AA guns jammed.

I have never used a torpedo on small craft. For the most part I usually leave them alone, since it doesn't seem to be worth the trouble. If I'm bored or haven't sunk anything for the duration of the patrol, then I might go after them (deck gun, AA guns, and ramming only).

those little bastards will call you in if they see you....Ill remain on course unless im spotted. Then, I just ram the sucker at flank. That usually sinks em, and rarely damages my boat....

I have only sunk 1 of them in five careers,normally I don't even bother with them and I only took that one out because I was on the surface in Southend harbour.

Morton also gunned down over 1,000 Japanese survivors of a transport once (on the same patrol, I think).:o "Military necessity." :hmm:

Anyway, this coastal craft idea seems like a lot of fun - maybe I will try it some time. I did torpedo a Tugboat once, but unlike the other coastal crafts, it was nearly the size of the Coastal Merchant so the effect wasn't as cool.

BTW - Iambecomelife, did you know that UBOAT234 made the other single-skinned ships in the game multi-skin capable? Are you going to try to make some new skins for the Tugboat? I don't wna to get too off-topic though, as this belongs in the SHIII Modding thread.

What were 1,000 people doing on a transport ship? Unless the transport was carrying people.... Oh, I see. A cruise liner. Unless it was one of the transports ferrying Japanese soldiers.... Oh, I see, an army transport ship. Fair game then... :arrgh!: