This is a tiny bit off-topic insofar as it doesn't relate to the LST mod per se, but it's relevant insofar as it's a comment on how much it improves gameplay not to have vessels go down like a Blackpool girl with no taxi fare. I continue to be highly impressed with the sinking mechanics in OM. One thing that happens when boats sink by flooding, over a long time, is it forces you to agonise over whether to give it another torpedo, hang about until the escorts are clear so's you can finish it with the deck gun, or just let it go.....

I hit this one about an hour before the screenshot. I fired two eels in a salvo, and a miscalculation meant that they hit two different ships - I probably should have given them a narrower spread. Anyway, I went deep, put the escorts astern, got notification that one of the hits had sunk, and when I came back to periscope depth I saw this............

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7312/9...8504b6f5_b.jpg

It sank about 15 mins later with no further attention from me.

The longest I've personally experienced has been just over two hours between detonation and sinking. Racing to overtake the convoy for a second attack, I saw smoke on the horizon from a straggler. It sank as I moved in to have a closer look...

Anyway, if I could make the link work I'd download the mod. I don't think it's needed in OM, but I'd like something to replicate that sinking model in other mods....

I meant to ask some time ago: How does a tanker have a cargo of 'freight'? Unless 'tankers' are being used as a generic term for Bulk Carriers? (In which case, 'Bulk Carrier' would have probably been the better catch-all term, with fuel, oil, avgas or other volatiles as a special case cargo, rather than imaging a 'Tanker' carrying coal or iron ore.... Or have I got the wrong end of the Ship ID issue?)

Regards

Gryff

The cargo can be set to more or less anything, which is probably a bit unrealistic in the case of a single-purpose ship like a tanker.......

I agree, just how game was made.I went through RSRD and set nearly every tanker to fuel as cargo. Few that would perhaps be making a return trip do not. Too many did not have fuel as cargo though.Read so many accounts in various books of tankers going up in flames from one torpedo hit, the boom is pretty nice in the game.

Didn't they load Q-ships with wood with the same thought in mind?

This is starting to make so much more sense now. I could never figure why I've never had a tanker go BOOM. Even a recently unloaded tanker would not necessarily have been pumped with exhaust CO2 in those far off days, so would have been vulnerable to fume ignition.

(As an aside, does the game have the intelligence to adjust the draft depending on whether it is loaded or not? I've never seen a ship riding high showing a lot of anti-foul. Would be a nice touch for some crazy modder with time on their hands: or have I just not been paying attention?...)

Thanks, mates.

Gryff

Yep, I was wondering the same, esp in the singapore-japan lanes where tanker filled with oil and fuel would be prevalent.Not sure if lurker did it on purpose or it was an oversight. I took time to alter them(pain in the rear having to use notepad) and the convoys i added in the empty shipping lane(honshu-convoy college(luzon straits)- southwest to parcel islands/ east of hainan, east of indochina south to singapore) that carried the bulk of tanker traffic until that started running all convoys along the indochina/china coast up to tsushima straits in late 44.Much as it was, it becomes a bit of a shooting gallery in late 43 and through 44.

That's interesting. When I first installed OM [incorrectly] I was pretty sure I'd seen that. Encountering a large convoy, for the first time I was pretty sure that I could see the glow of flames from a couple of ships, which were also smoking more than their fellows - I thought at the time it was a nice touch to have the evidence of other U-boats at work. I hasten to add that I'm not doubting what you say, but it did look very much like fire. I didn't get close to the convoy, as I'd messed up the installation and my saved games weren't reloading, and I haven't seen it since.

It's not exactly on a par with the Marie Celeste, but it's definitely got me scratching my head a bit......

I have seen that before and not just with convoys. I one found a battleship smoking and dead in the water.

That's mine! Leave it alone! :arrgh!:

Gryff

Strangely enough, I made contact with a convoy yesterday that seemed to have some damaged ships in it and I grabbed some screenshots - but having said that I think I'll post them in a separate thread, since it's way off-topic for this one.....

hey vomitus,
I see your mod list and was wondering why you don't use RSRD mod with TMO ?