Just go up and battle it up on the surface. If Mohr was playing SHIV he would go up on the surface affter 2 torps and give it 110 DG hits and its gone. it works for a revenge.:arrgh!: :know:

Yes I will be one to admit that I had a lucky hit. I dont plan on where the torpedos hit as that is to much to be left. I fired a a medium distance of about 2800 so where it would hit was just a guess. Maby the japanese Crew made some kind of mistake. Like in the battle of Jutland where the British saying is "There is something Bloody wrong with our ships today" It turned out the Crews were causing the problem. All I can say is that the Second Torpedo that hit foward caused a Cascade of Secondarys that started there and went back to the stacks. She Rolled to the port and went down in a matter of seconds. Just like when The Bismark hit the hood in the sweet spot. Didnt take long to send her down. It can take several hits or Just one very lucky hit to send one down. I too have had times that I tryed and tryed to sink a ship. Heck I once had to put 6 fish into a DD to sink it.

:p Oddly enough as it turns out, the only IJN battleship sunk by a US submarine was the IJN Kongo herself, and by at most 3 torpedo hits. The USS Sealion II did her in on Nov. 20, 1944 (Sealion II heard 3 hits, witnesses on the Yamato and survivors reported two).

It did take her about 2.5 hours to go down, and one of her 14" magazines sparked off right at the end to finish the job of the steadily porgressing flooding. it does sound like a combination of a couple of lucky hits (one in the bow and a couple of her boiler rooms also flooded by another), heavy seas (making the bow hit a bigger problem then it might have been in calm seas) and poor damage control.

Snake eyes, twice in a row, it's happened. Usually against me.

You are all going to hate me. After sinking the first Kongo I made it north as the Task force was headed south, southwest. After making my escape from the Fleet I surfaced and made a Dash to the West to try to do an end run. On my run west I heard a Unexpect Ship Sighted Call from on of the watch. I raced up to the Bridge and behold I saw the Sillouette of a Kongo Battleship and a DD. That Task force after loosing one ship decided to make a run for home, My luck has it that I had put myself back in the path of them and was setup ahead of the Second Kongo. I let them close the distance as they were zig zagging. I fired two torpedos at 1800 as the kongo made a swing to her Starboard which was to my port. They Missed. She then made a Turn to her port and I followed her with the TDC making manual corrections, So I fired another and it Hit her in the Bow ahead of the Turrets. The Forth Was a direct hit Midships and she went dead in the water. At this point I was at 1000 yards at her starbord side. I dove deep and started to reload torpedos. I also Decided since I had my Aft torpedos that I would pass under her and Hit her from the other side as I Could reaqure her. I came back up to parascope debth and fired Two Fish at her midships, Both Duds. I then Adjusted the run debth and Fired another. Direct hit Midships in the Engine room again. I then Proceeded to turn to the Starboard to alighn my Foward tubes with her. I got another Torpedo loaded adjusted to hit the bow.... Fired. Straight and true it hit under A turret. Smoke and fire came out of just behind the A turret and she was on fire. Had another reload and fired it just behind under B turret. She began her slow deth plunge. An Explosion rocked her aft and She started down.

Pictures as Follows hear are after the First Hit. She is dead in the water and listing to starboard.

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z...rstTwoHits.jpg

Here we can see her after I hit her With 7 torpedos Two were duds 5 were live and did there job.

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z...astMoments.jpg

I finally saw a Yamato last night as I was coming out of Tokyo harbor on a photo recon mission. She was in a task force with 2 other BB's, 3 CA's and I believe 7 DD's. I unloaded all 6 forward tubes into her and all 4 aft tubes then dove deep. Out of the 10 torps I fired I had 2 clean hits, 6 dud's and 2 misses (April '42). When I finally had the guts to come to periscope depth again (after severe flooding) I couldn't see any sign of any damage at all. I think all together I've been on about 30 missions or so on 5 different careers and this was the first time I've seen a Yamato and just my luck 6 dud's. Oh well, she looked pretty in my periscope at least.

Here is another shot Taken After I made the Fourth hit to the midships. The White puff is her firing on me as she spotted my Parascope. She is now upright as both sides of her engine rooms were flooded. Also down by the bow slightly as her Bow is also flooded. Shortly after this picture I Fired the last torpedo finish her off.

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z...goThirdHit.jpg

AFAIK no BB was ever sunk by a magazine explosion caused directly by a torpedo, its just not possible given the protection a magazine has. The Barham only exploded long after she had been hit. As she capsized her boilers exploded.

captiandon - are you running a stock game? I'm just curious, as I play with NSM installed, and that kind of thing just ain't happening with a more realistic ship damage model like NSM.

I have all the patches installed and I have RFB also installed. I Really think that it was a lucky hit. The second BB took more to sink it.

That doesn't always work. I blew the shafts off a pair of props under a heavy crusier and the props stayed in place and the ship kept making headway even though it was taking on water very quickly in the large holes I put in her hull.

hehe tempting isn't it. ;)

I just added NSM to my list of mods. I was still sinking way to much even with RFB. I use manual targeting and all but I am really good at guessing what to put in the TDC and I score a high Hit percentage.2 out of 3 torpedos I fire hit there target. I am like Mush Morton on my views about trying to use one torpedo per sinking. That figure includes duds.

It was a photo recon mission. We got good and close took the snap shots then fired two fore tubes. All we had left. We were turning to exit and setting up a solution for the stern tubes when the first torpedo hit.

Much to my supprise the flat top went up in a ball of flames at the first strike :hmm:

With NSM, you want to also be patient and not necessarily launch a second attack on a stubborn target. Some bigger ships, espeically warships, can just take a long time to flood and go down. The other night, I hit two Hiryu carriers in a task force headed for Java. I hit with four fish on the first, then with 3 on the second (I was working much faster with the stern tubes since out presence was pretty well known by then) - they both did go down, but took about 20 and 45 minutes respectively to sink (as I crept way at 1 knot).

With NSM, signs of a lethal hit(s) are drop in speed or stopping outright, clear list or bows down/stern down attitude setting in. Then save your fish and let the flooding take it's toll.