Oct. 1939, was I in the wrong to deck gun a little English 12ton Schooner?
 

It was Oct. 1939 and I saw a sail on the horizon. As I got closer, it turned out to be a little 12 ton, three sailed, English Schooner. It looked more like a pleasure boat than a cargo ship. As I got close she began to zigzag in a futile attempt at evasion. Anyway I gave my deck gun crew some practice and we sank it after 2 hits.

Was this bad form or a valid target?

Nope, i gun them all the time...:yep:

In real life you likely would have put a few shots across the bow, let the crew take to life rafts or a dinghy and maybe even given them some supplies before sinking their schooner or yacht. Maybe you would have gone aboard and scuttled it yourself.

But it's a game and there is no real crew, so you just sink it.

In real life you would just need to ram it! Or turn the flack gun on it.:arrgh!:

i sink schooners or pleasure boats only if it is obvious that they have spotted me.

otherwise, why sink a young tommy out on a sunday afternoon pleasure cruise?

Is small boats like this radioing your position in modeled in the game?

I don't know for certain. That would be the major reason I might avoid rather than engage such a small vessel.

Rambing it! Only option!

Ramming would not have been done unless in desparation.. even though the schooner is wood, a U Boat is not solid steel and would probably take damage. No Captain would risk that for no reason. You can bet it would damage you in game too.

I try to "role play" my decisions how a real Captain would make them. Good example is this; in the Pacific, I spot what comes up on my map as a small convoy. Look closely and it is a Sampan, a Big Sampan and a fishing boat. Looking through binocs I see what look to be female human models on the Sampans.. not gonna shoot them.. but wait.. fishing boat has 2 MG's and guys in Naval uniforms.. target! Needless to say the Sampans sailed on without their "escort". I try to use the same logic process to what I kill when I am in U Boats as well.

Where do I download the 'sunbathing female models' MOD?:D

So you fell for the ole "human female on the Sampan" trick eh?

That's just what they wanted you to do. :O:

I have always wondered this as well.

Normally, if I see them and feel I am not detected, I submerge.

Nope. Flying the Red Ensign? Legit target in 10/39. You don't want to waste an eto/ato on them, but the one or two 88mm rounds it takes are a valid expenditure.

They're either picquet boats or pleasure cruisers, and the only people who can afford to pleasure cruise in 1940s England, typically speaking, are the upper classes... and I just read Das Kapital for ****s und giggles. :O:

I suspect all enemy ships, so I always gun them down :arrgh!:

Sink the Damn thing!I hate those Blinking English toffy nosed snobs in they're cutsie little sailing boats:O: Don't they know there's a war on!:arrgh!:Blast them to kingdom come,and they can take they're stiff upper lip and cucumber sandwiches with them as well:har::rotfl:

I'd only expend AA munitions on such a miniscule target....keeping the heavier stuff for the bigger renown/tonnage http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...ies/pirate.gif

I'm sure they would say it's bad form. But they shouldn't be out there in the first place, should they.

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Just watch put for the Butler Pulling a blunderbuss on you if you get too close

Hi guys - be lurking for some time. Great forums!

Okey, I dont have detailed info as to how the KM adhered to the Laws of War in WW2. But sinking a non-military vessel that doesnt support the military effort in any way is as the main rule a war crime. A good example would be a leisure boat of any kind. A merchant or tanker during the war is of course by this rule a legit target.

Just my 2c, as you guys over there says.

If anyone else has any questions about the laws of war, I would be happy to answer them. (FYI; English is not my mother tongue)