I never expected this...
 

I'm currently in January 1941 (GWX 3) captaining a IXB out of Lorient. I was on my way back to port after a rather unsuccessful patrol and was about 500km off the coast of Vigo. At about 1845 my watch crew spotted a group of enemy warships doing 15 knots. I thought about immediately diving but I was curious to see who they were so I followed them at flank speed. I was shocked to discover that it was an Illustrious class carrier being escorted by a Southampton class cruiser and a few destroyers! I wasn't going to let this get away so I managed to get a good firing angle and the range was coming down to 3500m but the window of opportunity was small. I fired a salvo of 4 T1s in hope more than anything and got one hit towards the rear of the carrier! This is the strange bit....

It then exploded in a ball of flames and sank in less than 5 mins. :arrgh!:

I didn't think it would be this easy to sink a big warship or was it just a lucky hit?

22000 tons at the bottom. :sunny:

Based on my previous experience with carriers, that was one heck of a hit!:o

The one and only time thus far I've hit a carrier, got 2 hits on HMS Indomitable, one midships and aft section. It sunk many hours later. No spectacular explosions for me, and I almost didnt live to tell about it. According to commander, I had 2% hull integrity when I docked at home port. You can imagine what a mess my boat was:cry:

Nice shooting Kaluen!:up:

edit: Career 2, Patrol 6 if you're trying to find it in my personnel file

I've noticed that in GWX that if you score a rear hit by the screws from pretty much any angle, the ship will have a very high chance of exploding.

I'm not sure why this is, because the charts that show where all of the munitions, fuel, etc are show these to be a good bit further towards the bow. There must be some sort of damage model in GWX that reads this area as a vital area and makes it explode as opposed to simply blowing the props/rudder up. This doesn't make much sense to me because the propellers were connected to a large drive shaft going to the engineroom which was several hundred feet forward.

Not sure on why this happens, but it does.

In some instances large warships have been known to sink in less then 5 minutes. In R/L it took the HMS Hood three minutes to sink. In SH3 it all depends on where you hit the ship and what speed it is going. Heck once I managed to flip a British battleship by hitting it as far up the bow as possible to avoid the anti-torpedo bulges. Had to be the funnest thing I ever did in SH3.

That's exactly what I did to sink a Renown class with 1 torpedo (I sent the other 2 I had to HMS Hood), punch a hole forward of the bulge armor and let it's momentum and the water take care of the rest:D Indeed one of the funniest things to see!