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Dissaray · 04-12-10, 04:27 PM

I don't know of any charts out there that will show you the best places to hit, but I can describe them fairly well for you.

The best place to aim for, generaly speeking, is the engen room of the ship. Moastly beacouse it is in the center of the ship and that allows for more margin of error in your firing solution. The other benifits of hiting the engens is you stand a good chance of cripling the target even if you don't kill them outright; without working engens the target will just bob there for a while and you can move on to other targets and pick up the criple when you run out of other targets. There is alos a good chance to start a good old fasiond fire which will ruin their day in a hurry. The engens can generaly be found under the smoke stacks, the center one is you best bet in the case of a ship with multipul stacks.

Just forward of the engen room you will find the fule bunkers. For obvious reasons this is also a good place to shoot a ship you want dead.

A shot under the keel with a magnetic pistol can break the back of the ship and that is always fun. But it has the added benifit of being a dubble target zone. A clever captin can target the keel and the engen room at the same time and cause hellitious damage to a target, the fule bunker can be swaped out as well. The trick to that is to make your shot low enuf under the keel that it will cause the intended damgae there but close enuf to the ship that the explosion will damage the soft bits beond the keel as well. Generaly the "sweet spot" is .5-1.5m under the keel as described in the targeting manual in the game.

Another good spot to hit a target is in the bow. It is a gamble to be sure beacouse you are aiming way out on the end of the ship and may well miss the ship all together if your solution is off by a bit. The convetional wisdom with this spot is as the bow floods it will sink lower into the water and as it dose this the ship's engens will eventualy start to push the ship into the water, like a diving sub only not so water tight.

Another favorite spot of mine is the magazines on the war ships, where all the gun powder is stored. Generaly located directly below the main gun bateries these compartments aer well armord and not a garantee for a one shot kill. If, however, you crack the magazine the ship will fantasticaly explode and surely sink; looks realy neat at night.

The thing to remember is to match your intended target location to the situation and the target ship. Bad weather is not conducive to the keel shot and not all ships behave the same way when shot in the same compartments.

04-12-10, 04:27 PM	#2
Dissaray 中国水兵 Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 280 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	I don't know of any charts out there that will show you the best places to hit, but I can describe them fairly well for you. The best place to aim for, generaly speeking, is the engen room of the ship. Moastly beacouse it is in the center of the ship and that allows for more margin of error in your firing solution. The other benifits of hiting the engens is you stand a good chance of cripling the target even if you don't kill them outright; without working engens the target will just bob there for a while and you can move on to other targets and pick up the criple when you run out of other targets. There is alos a good chance to start a good old fasiond fire which will ruin their day in a hurry. The engens can generaly be found under the smoke stacks, the center one is you best bet in the case of a ship with multipul stacks. Just forward of the engen room you will find the fule bunkers. For obvious reasons this is also a good place to shoot a ship you want dead. A shot under the keel with a magnetic pistol can break the back of the ship and that is always fun. But it has the added benifit of being a dubble target zone. A clever captin can target the keel and the engen room at the same time and cause hellitious damage to a target, the fule bunker can be swaped out as well. The trick to that is to make your shot low enuf under the keel that it will cause the intended damgae there but close enuf to the ship that the explosion will damage the soft bits beond the keel as well. Generaly the "sweet spot" is .5-1.5m under the keel as described in the targeting manual in the game. Another good spot to hit a target is in the bow. It is a gamble to be sure beacouse you are aiming way out on the end of the ship and may well miss the ship all together if your solution is off by a bit. The convetional wisdom with this spot is as the bow floods it will sink lower into the water and as it dose this the ship's engens will eventualy start to push the ship into the water, like a diving sub only not so water tight. Another favorite spot of mine is the magazines on the war ships, where all the gun powder is stored. Generaly located directly below the main gun bateries these compartments aer well armord and not a garantee for a one shot kill. If, however, you crack the magazine the ship will fantasticaly explode and surely sink; looks realy neat at night. The thing to remember is to match your intended target location to the situation and the target ship. Bad weather is not conducive to the keel shot and not all ships behave the same way when shot in the same compartments.