nerfed torpedoes with RuB? Uber Tankers?
 

I have noticed that my torpedoes are far more fickle since switching to RuB 1.45

The T2's are also bullet-proof. I have been avoiding shooting at them. Three torpedoes per T2 is usual.

Realism indeed....

I am not sure what you expect. A tanker was difficult to sink as it was designed to take fluids, put a hole in the cargo space and all your doing is filling it with water. Now water is heavier than oil, how much so I do not know.

I am not aware of anyone cracking the premature detonations ratio. If so, it should be up by about 30+ percent. Of course, cowboys like CB.. only wants what feels right, not what is fact :rotfl:

Just so you know, no adjustments have been made in RUb to either torpedo power or ship strength that I know of. :hmm:

OK - just wanted to know; my query has been answered. Thanks muchly.l

As to the resilience of tankers - horsepoo. They were floating bombs.

To quote Frankenstein's monster - "FIRE BAD!"

This is incorrect. You can set fuel on fire but it won't explode. Having fuel in water makes it even harder to set on fire. It's one of those movie effects that everyone believes to be true, like shooting a fuel drum. If you shoot a fuel drum, even repeatedly, it will just leak fuel, but it won't explode or ignite.

You could increase torpedo power using sh3 mini tweeker, but I dont know what to change

Don't mess with them. They are perfect as is.

ok, so if ye stand next to a barrel of fuel, and from a safe distance I shoot at the barrel... you will be totally safe yes? :roll:

I do wonder what form the oil was in that was on these tankers.
Was it ready to be put into airplanes as is, or did it need to be refined?
I'm sure that refineries were main targets for the luftwaffe.

Anyways, since ye don't have a phd in chemistry and work for shell oil, I have to doubt that a tanker wouldn't catch fire and/or explode when hit by a torpedo.

In SH3, sometimes they blow up KABOOM, sometimes they sink like bricks, and sometimes they don't sink at all...

Sometimes you get lucky, and sometimes you don't...


If anyone can't sink a tanker, then they were probably just unlucky. Most of the time, those things really go up like fireballs.

Ooooh I got one!

Sometimes you eat the bear. Sometimes the bear eats you.

Depends. Tankers can carry peanut butter as well as JP4. It all depends on what the customer needs.

Do you have a phd in chemistry and work for shell oil? I'm a merchant marine cadet, and sort of qualified to work on a tanker. They might explode, or they might not. It depends on many, many factors, some of them not even factored into the game, like temperature. So while a tanker going up in a fireball is realistic (And I've had it happen in-game), a tanker slowly taking on a list and chugging on toward home is also realistic.

The most explosive thing, as I've explained in a previous post, would be an empty tanker that hasn't yet been cleaned.

This has been discussed extensively already. There are different grades of fuel, some highly volatile (refined gasoline), some very stable (low grade crude oil, I think was mentioned).

I'd link to the old threads but the SEARCH function here has really gone kaput!

Boom!
 

Remember the PanAM Jet off New York? A a spark set off the fumes in the fuel tank. They are very explosive. The fuel in liquid state will burn if its flash point is reached.
irish1958

Re: Boom!
 

You mean TWA flight 800. :yep:

Pan Am? You're showing your age. :rotfl:

You're right, of course. That was probably a Freudian slip; I'm a Howard Hughes fan.
irish1958