Got the Nelson last night!
 

BF17, late 1939. One escort for the whole convoy, HMS Nelson in the center.

I put a full spread of 4 torpedoes into her side. Every one hit. I shot from 500m.

The escort never even pinged me.

It was a surgical strike!

I then did an end-around on the convoy and fired my last 3 torpedoes at targets in the convoy and missed them all!

Steve

Well done:salute:. I got her sister ship the Rodney about a month ago. It was pretty well the same, get in, strike, then get out undetected. It was my first battleship, have found around 5 more since. You find those battleships in harbors all the time, but I've never ran into the Nelson, i'd like to put her under also:)

Good work maillemaker :up:

Try Gibraltar. :yep:

Great job mate!

Now , I'd like you to go into Scapa Flow with a Type II-B and send one of those Tommies to the depths.

(Okay, not really possible as far as depth is concerned, considering that the seabed is dangerously low)

I did that , and by God..it was a nightmare retreating away from there. Oh yeah , do what Krashkart said as well :fff:

I nailed the Nelson in May 1942 of the Coast of Alexandria at night :arrgh!: 4 TI all hit and send her packing to the deep. I made three new friends that hang around for 5 hours trying to get me. Other then rattling my nerves and breaking some dishes they caused no damage to U-83 :D

How deep were you? I'm currently in mid 41' and I go to 160m and turn on the records and start counting the bangs:har:
Seems to be below there max depth which I guess to be around 140m at that time

I think I hit that rodney in a convoy but I can't remember but it seems that the two ships are very similar, and tough I think I put at least three into her

Nelson class battleships. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_class_battleship

I managed to get to 90m before the first DC run which was way off. I progressively worked my way down to 200m. Its a b**** with three DDs one makes a DC run while the other two drift an listen so you have no idea where they are you can't pick them up on the hydrophone until they start moving. Then they switch roles and so on. You never know which way to run to evade all three.

Yeah I had to evade afew about a week ago. I find that they have a limit of depth charges but I'm not 100% on that, somewhere around 50-75 in 39'-41'
But then again I may just be getting lucky and thats when they decided to leave so if anyone else knows about this better feel free to correct me:)

Wow the Rodney sunk the Bismark, I did not know that. Those are amazing ships

^^ Nice. :D

Found another cool link at that Wikipedia page:

http://www.ibiblio.org/maritime/medi...x.php?cat=1075
http://www.ibiblio.org/maritime/media/index.php

The first link covers the King George V and Nelson class battleships. The second link takes you to the MaritimeDigital Archive Encyclopedia, which is where the first link is located.

Nice work!

Congratulations on the fine job, these abominations need to go.

I sunk the Nelson in my current career, and until they hit I was afraid that my torpedos would do a 180° turn at the last moment: the class is just that ugly. Although I suppose you have to respect the 'We run from nobody' attitude they project.

Ummm go tell that to the Japs. They learned the hard way to run from US CV task forces early in the war. And run they did! Nothing can stand up to CV except another CV. It was the ultimate fighting platform on the high seas back then.

BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!! http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...ies/pirate.gif

Immelmann, this in in relation to other ships of the type.

Nelson and Rodney were woefully underpowered and couldn't run away even if they wanted to. Their entire main artillery, the biggest guns in the Royal Navy, faced forward. Armour stayed truer to the 'all or nothing' philosophy than most others. Add looks a mother might love if she is a warthog, the tendency to shake themselves apart by their own firing and the fact that they crammed an unreal amount of firepower into a treaty-compliant shell...

they may have been some of the most ungainly warships ever, but there is a certain badassitude about them.

Yeah she may have been ugly, but she sure got the job done. Look a the Warthog A 10 Thunderbolt II.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-10_Thunderbolt_II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Iz5M...eature=related

It is one of the "ugliest" plane designs, but it is your best friend when you are pinned down by armor! Trust me on that, hearing that big beast open up is something you do not forget!