I'd put two magnetics in each warship.

Steve

Wouldn't matter if the previous detail did not commute with the game engine.

Look at it this way....you see a ship approach, it has suffered heavy damage from an earlier attack from an AI sub and is ablaze, the weather is heavy and she is floundering, slowly but surely.

All damage points have yet to be expended otherwise she would not be underway, she would have sunk.

You come across her and give her the last rights with a few deck gun rounds or perhaps an eel.

The damage you have inflicted tips the balance ie: no more damage points....you get the credit for the kill.

I'm not sure, in my careers so far I've only gone after merchants and the odd armed trawler, notwithstanding my early/pre-war forays into Blyth/Dover to catch the warships on the quay. It would be nice to claim some warships, and the bigger the better, so the carrier it'd be.

But I'd miss, and then get hunted down in the shallows and DC'd with no sign of remorse :nope:

Sadly I've lost all my archives of old screenshots :wah: Have gone into Scapa a time or two and the fleet that was moored there just 1 day before Prien made it into there was all there: the Hood, a flat top, couple of London Class ships and a floating dock or two for easy tonnage. Was one of two times that I managed to sink the Hood with just 2 eels, both magnetic right under the #2 and 3 turrets. Some of the ships that the Brits just leave parked out in the open have blown my mind :haha:

Though the flat tops are undoubtedly the best strategic targets to go after, sinking the Hood, Rodney or Nelson is just satisfying knowing that the morale hit taken when a big like that sinks is enormously devastating to the enemy. Even before wwii had began Billy Mitchell proved that a battleship (actually a Dreadnaught at the time) could be sunk by a handfull of planes; too bad only ones that really took notice were the Japanese of this accomplishment and its signifigance. After Jutland there was only 1 more major naval engagement in conventional warfare where the big ships were the ones that duked it out (the Bismark withstanding).

Personally I think anything bigger than a DD or anti-submarine ship was gravely missued. Using naval artillery was a whole lot safer being able to fire salvo's 15-25 miles offshore than having to risk an entire artillery company when the targets were well within the ship's main battery's range.

Normally I'd say merchants first, because that's the job description. In this particular case I'd say warships, because in real life returning convoys are 'in ballast', i.e. they're technically empty, so you're not preventing anyone from getting anything.