Depending if he is running stock or one of the super mods.

Pretty sure he's running GWX. I think I'm the odd one out in this thread as I use NYGM (and I've never actually fired at a warship!!).

[quote=Zatoichi]A condition that has caused embarrassment and shame in torpedoes for too long.
Now there's hope; with counseling and prescription "Spotonagra" every torpedo can
enjoy life without the embarrassment of Pre-Mature Detonation (PMD).
You or your torpedo can talk to your doctor to see what's right for you.

Spotonagra is not for everyone, talk to your torpedo's doctor or chemist before using Spotonagra.
Some side effects can be: enlarged ego, false sense of accomplishment and increase depth charging
due to pissed off DD escorts.

...Together we can make a torpedo happy.

SteelTrap,
I agree that the large war ships should been tougher to sink; they were, after all,
built for endurance and devastating offensive power and not for speed.
The escort ships, on the other hand, were built for speed and not as well armored.
In vanilla SH3 as-well-as GWX I tend to tear through the lighter class escorts with
one shot, I have even taken one out by being too close to the surface during a DC run
where he took keel damage from my tower.
(Didn't do me much good ether, but down he went, just the same.)
I imagine that all those nice sealed compartments don't amount to much if the
ammo and fuel stored there starts to go POP. I'm not running in there with a fire hose.
"I say, would you mind popping down to the munitions store and dousing that inferno? There's a good chap.":huh:
No thanks.
Ichi...

[quote=Zatoichi]:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I run GWX.

And I am quite serious about the number of shots it takes to down certain ships. I have sunk every merchant ship in one shot, even the big 20+k ton passenger ships.

Warships, again, anything 10K tons or less can be sunk with ease in one shot (this includes Southamptons, Didos, and Fidos).

Carriers and most of the BBs can be sunk in a single shot. I found this out when a shot of mine missed where I was aiming on a moving Revenge, nailing the BB in the back, right by the screws. Took 3 screws and her rudder, and within an hour in game, she was on her way to the bottom.

The biggest ships, the Iowa-class and the HMS Hood, I have yet to sink in 1 shot. I have sunk both in 2 shots. But I'd say that most of the time it takes up to 3 shots to sink.

Like I said, most ships CAN be one shotted, but that does not mean that that is the case all the time. Most ships around 15k tons can be one shotted pretty much all the time. The bigger ships can be done in with one shot, but it's nowhere near as certain with the smaller ones.

Again, this also assumes you are patient and not under major time constraints.

bernard is purchasable? is he only in GWX? i've been playing vanilla and haven't seen bernard :88)

To confirm what Brag has claimed, yesterday evening I bagged a Revenge-class BB with a torpedo hit to its bow.

What happened was that I was on my way back to Wilhemshaven with only 2 torpedoes left. I received an intel report about a slow convoy & since it wasn't far away I decided to intercept it, and sink the largest ships I could with my remaining torpedos.

Well, the largest ship I saw was the BB, so I aimed one eel under the forwardmost turret, and the last one under the smoke stack - I was hoping to hit the ammo storage and engine room respectively.

Unfortunately an escort got too close & started pinging. As a result the convoy started weaving which screwed up the targeting solution. The first eel missed just forward of the BB, but the second hit at the bow, roughly at the area where the ship's anchors are stowed.

The hit started a small fire, and the bow became lower and lower in the water until it submerged. At the end the ship went down almost vertically, in less than half an hour game time!

BTW this is my first ever capital ship victim in SH3 after numerous patrols, so as you can imagine I'm rather pleased with myself. :)