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rubenandthejets · 01-18-09, 06:43 AM

Lifeboats are worth hitting (1 ton to your stats) and make fine AAA practice. I've found the 20mm are better than the 40mm for this role. I also run them over. Mind you, now I only take out survivors from IJN ships or troopships going TO the front.

I justify this quite simply:
1: Its a game.
2: The treatment of POWs, the nationals of conquered countries and esp. women and children by the Japanese. You wanna play hardball, huh? No problem. Ever heard of Unit 731? How about Nangking? USS Panay? Changi?

We Australians were fighting for our lives in the Pacific. We got hit in Darwin, Broome and Sydney. By mid 42 we'd seen what happened to POWs and Convention or not it was touch and go if any Japanese soldier surrendering was shot. Not that we talk about it though......

For more incidents where survivors in lifeboats wre deliberately targetted, check out the Battle of the Bismark Sea. US and RAAF aircraft wrote off a convoy of troops headed for PNG and were ordered to finish off the survivors with strafing runs.

So, anyway, yeah, I take 'em out. I don't get penalised by the game mechanics and the big ones are worth a ton each. Less trained personnel going back into circulation. I've tried hosing downed pilots too (especially if they hit my ship) but it doesn't seem to work.

PS It's a GAME.

01-18-09, 06:43 AM	#70
rubenandthejets 中国水兵 Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 279 Downloads: 20 Uploads: 0	Lifeboats are worth hitting (1 ton to your stats) and make fine AAA practice. I've found the 20mm are better than the 40mm for this role. I also run them over. Mind you, now I only take out survivors from IJN ships or troopships going TO the front. I justify this quite simply: 1: Its a game. 2: The treatment of POWs, the nationals of conquered countries and esp. women and children by the Japanese. You wanna play hardball, huh? No problem. Ever heard of Unit 731? How about Nangking? USS Panay? Changi? We Australians were fighting for our lives in the Pacific. We got hit in Darwin, Broome and Sydney. By mid 42 we'd seen what happened to POWs and Convention or not it was touch and go if any Japanese soldier surrendering was shot. Not that we talk about it though...... For more incidents where survivors in lifeboats wre deliberately targetted, check out the Battle of the Bismark Sea. US and RAAF aircraft wrote off a convoy of troops headed for PNG and were ordered to finish off the survivors with strafing runs. So, anyway, yeah, I take 'em out. I don't get penalised by the game mechanics and the big ones are worth a ton each. Less trained personnel going back into circulation. I've tried hosing downed pilots too (especially if they hit my ship) but it doesn't seem to work. PS It's a GAME.